Black Swan Guild

01/03/2020

Proud to be part of such an thriving community arts centre - our next show is in the Round Tower Gallery in May, we can't wait!

We are open today 10am-3pm for The Frome Independent. This is such an important monthly event for us where we open our doors for free on a Sunday to welcome record numbers of visitors across our marvellous town. All our artists, makers, cooks and volunteers rely on selling their work, the more you buy, the more they thrive - we are committed to providing the vital support for our community ensuring creativity is at the heart of our local business economy.
So come explore, chat to artists and buy quality, hand-made, unique gifts today. Make someone’s day by buying local and supporting our incredible, independent, inspirational people. 👌👏

FIFTY BEES: The Interconnectedness of All Things (Do not miss this, just one week left! upstairs on first floor in our Long Gallery, lift available)
Philip Needham (in the around Tower Gallery at the end of the building overlooking Cattle Market car park, the Frome Library and the The Cheese and Grain)
Maxine Gourley (in the second room of The Black Swan Cafe)
Fosse Beads & Friends (at the front opposite the shuttle bus Park & Ride)
JO JOOF Designs in Studio 1 (congratulate her on Frome Window Wanderland!)
Badger House Leather in Studio 2
Hiraeth Studio Pottery in Studio 3
Discover Frome in Studio 4, next to the historic Round Tower (local info & maps available)

Our café has delicious breakfasts, brunch and lunch (vegan, veg, GF options), home-made cakes and hot/cold drinks, warm up inside or enjoy fresh air in our secluded courtyard - we are dog friendly too!

www.blackswanarts.org.uk

26/02/2020

Please come join us for the launch event of the marvellous Frome Window Wanderland here in our Black Swan Arts café Friday 28 Feb from 5pm. Everyone is welcome, hot food and drinks available to eat in or to takeaway all night until 8pm. Celebratory photo call at 6pm to say thank you and for the wandering to commence...! 🍾✨

Massive THANK YOU to all our sponsors and supporters. Frome Window Wanderland could not happen without you!

⚡️Frome Town Council
⚡️Persimmon Homes
⚡️Cooper And Tanner, Bath St and The Bridge, Frome
⚡️Ames Kent Solicitors, 26 King St, Frome
⚡️The Rose Garden https://www.facebook.com/williamroseandcompany/
⚡️Black Swan Arts, Bridge St, Frome
⚡️Frome Children's Festival
⚡️The List Frome - https://www.facebook.com/TheListFROME/

17/02/2020

This a big 'shout out' to all 8-19 year olds who are wondering what to do this half term. Why not create an amazing art work and enter our Young Art Open competition 2020? You will get the chance to have your piece exhibited in our professional gallery. Winners will have the opportunity to have a workshop with a professional artist aswell as prizes kindly donated by Westway Cinema, Studio Prints Hunting Raven bookship, Choc et al Postscript, Cafe la Strada, Book and the River House . Deadline is 28 February so don't delay. For more information and to enter please go to our Black Swan Arts website. Please spread the message far and wide! Tell all your friends and family.

29/01/2020

Well done Charlie. This is what it is all about. The Young Art Open competition inspiring creatives in all mediums - even plastic bottle tops.

Young Art Open 2019 winner Charlie "The first time I entered the Young Open competition at The Black Swan arts I was 13 years old. I was ecstatic to be told that my photography work was going to be in the exhibition. I had just fallen in love with Photography and Art so being very new to it all, it was so unexpected. I felt so proud to see my work on display and it gave me the confidence to keep working especially as I don’t have a naturally artistic talent, I have to really work at it.

For my next years entry I decided to be very brave and enter my art work the area I’m not as confident in. I might not have really strong drawing skills but I am very creative so I combined two things that are very important to me and wanted to get a message across through my art. For my pieces I made an octopus out of plastic bottle tops to represent the plastic being discarded in our oceans. I then took the famous Great wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai and made it out of plastic and rubbish again depicting the plight of our oceans.

I was so excited to hear that these two pieces had not only been chosen to be displayed but that I was a 12-15 age category winner! I went along to the preview exhibition with my family to except my award. It was a brilliant event and I was just blown away by the level of talent in the pieces of work displayed. I think the Young Open competition is a brilliant event giving us young people a chance to show what we can do. For my prize I got to go on a one-to-one sculpture workshop with a local artist Toby Holmes. We had a brilliant day using our creative ideas to make a piece. Getting to work with Toby and have him share his knowledge with me has inspired me to work more with sculptures.

I am still relatively new to art and photography having only got into it three years ago so I’m learning new things every day and enjoying all these amazing opportunities. Thank you Black Swan Arts for giving me this opportunity I’m looking forward to seeing this years entries at the exhibition."

29/01/2020

Jane's wonderful "smoke decorated" vessels.

Jane Sheppard Ceramics

23/01/2020

You might want to pop along to Eleanor Christine Jewellery to enter this giveaway!

It's back - The Eleanor Christine Jewellery Valentine's Day Giveaway - and this time it's a Monstera one!!

I will be giving away a Sterling silver Monstera Leaf pendant with matching stud earrings worth over £100 (full details of these pieces are on: https://www.eleanorchristinejewellery.co.uk/)

If you would like a chance to win these pieces, you must be a follower of my page, you must like and comment on this post and you must share this post on your own page.

This competition will also run on my Instagram feed - you can enter as many times as you like. The winner will be chosen on Valentine's Day.

Good luck everyone!

23/01/2020

Jane's been working on some big uns / urns!! Rev Jane Sheppard ceramics and ceremonies

23/01/2020

Jade's incredible cast glass Jade Pinnell Glass

23/01/2020

Big and bold and peacock blue! Eleanor Christine Jewellery

23/01/2020

With our very own Daniel Musselwhite Jewellery!