Come and join us TODAY for the final day of our Winter Open Studios 🎄✨
Open from 10am-4pm full of maker and Artist stalls, open studios, wood fired pizza and coffee & treats 🎁🍕☕️
Perfect place to start shopping handmade this Christmas right beside the Northumberland coast 🌊
It's Gillian Lee Smith here at @theoldbathhouse . Sharing a process clip of one of a series of small paintings I have been working on for our Winter Open Studios event which is this coming weekend.
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These paintings are lovely to create. I build up layers slowly. Adding paint, scraping back, dissolving, carving marks into the layers. Then I do more of the same, over and over until an image emerges. As much goes into these small treasures as some of my larger paintings.
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We hope you will join us this weekend, the 12th and 13th of November from 10am till 4om. We have our usual resident artists plus many regular and new visiting artists and makers. Plus food! Plus coffee!
Hello. This is Gillian Lee Smith here. It's wonderful to see all the art and inspiration from our resident and visiting artists and here is my contribution. We are so looking forward to this weekend and hope you can visit. Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th of July from 10 am till 4 pm.
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www.gillianleesmith.com
I’m Ellie Davison-Archer Art, an artist and print designer based at The Old Bath House Studios 👋🏻
All my designs start out as pen drawings, inspired by natural forms found along the nearby coastline and countryside. The designs are then developed into hand pulled screen prints. Printing on lengths of linen and plywood for various homeware products 🌿
My favourite product to make is the lampshade, there’s something quite magical about turning a flat piece of fabric into a three dimensional centre piece for your living space. I’ve even recently had some of these products featured in British Vogue ✨
I mainly showcase and sell my work through stockists, stalls and pop ups but you can find me at TOBH studios next weekend for our Summer Open Studios ☀️
www.elliedavisonarcher.co.uk
We LOVE to offer street food and drinks at our events so we have some great food and drink lined up at TOBH for our Summer Open Studios on the 23rd and 24th July!
We have Hummingbird bar cocktails and mocktails 🍹 Dou_h & Co with their fantastic gluten free pizzas 🍕 and The Guru Coffee Co. with their delicious coffee and sweet treats! ☕
See you NEXT WEEKEND! 👋
We would like to welcome for the very first time Enkel Ceramics to TOBH. Enkel Ceramics is Alys Dean who draws on inspiration from the simplicity of Scandinavian design to make hand built, minimalist, jewellery and homeware 👩🎨
Come and see her work NEXT WEEKEND at the Summer Open Studios!
Hannah Forsyth will be joining us for the very first time at TOBH Summer Open Studio Event NEXT WEEKEND! 🙌
Hannah, before discovering printmaking, studied sculpture and photography. Her work reflects the vibrancy of the North east and its coastline. Come and see more of her work and meet her at this very unique event 🐚
https://www.forsyth-studio4.com/
Forage Lifestyle is a concept store that has carefully and ethically sourced beautiful handcrafted products from many small businesses across the UK and further afield 🌿
Come and see what they have on offer for you and your home at TOBH Summer Open Studios on the 23rd and 24th July 🛍️
www.foragelifestyle.com
We would like to welcome for the very first time to TOBH Rebecca Charlton 👋
Rebecca moved up to Northumberland about a year ago with her young family and is fulfilling her dream of living and painting in the North East. Her background is rooted in large scale abstract explorations of nature and she is using this knowledge to create the places she loves in her new environment 🌊
Come and see her work at the Summer Open Studios!
Sarah Hopper Ceramics will be bringing more of her quirky ceramics along to TOBH for the Summer Open Studios on the 23rd and 24th July! 👏🏻
Come along NEXT WEEKEND and see what she has been up too!
https://www.facebook.com/SarahHopperCeramics
Sarah Piper is a ceramicist that is inspired by the North East coast. She creates decorative and functional ceramics 🍶
To see more of her work and to meet her come along to TOBH Summer Open Studios on the 23rd and 24th July!
https://sarahpiperceramics.co.uk/
David Smith joins us once again at TOBH Summer Open Studios on the 23rd and 24th July! 🪵
David's work involves woodturning enhanced with carving and pyrography. David sources British hardwoods and to date he has used over 14 different woods such as beech oak and ash. Come and meet him and see his work NEXT WEEKEND!
Alison Tutcher Milliner will be joining us at TOBH on the 23rd and 24th July for our Open Studios 👋
She will be bringing all those beautiful hats that she makes and with this weather we are having at the minute we all need a hat! 👒
https://www.alisontutchermilliner.com/
Multi disciplinary artist Almudena Rocca will be joining us at TOBH on the 23rd and 24th July for our Summer Open Studios. 👩🎨
Her work advocates mental well being and the importance of self care. Come and see her work and meet her NEXT WEEKEND! 🌿
https://www.almudena.co.uk/about
Eileen Heywood will be joining us for the first time at TOBH Summer Open Studios on July 23rd and 24th 🎨
She will be bringing along her beautiful, evocative paintings of the North east coast. Come and join us and meet her and see her work 🖌️
www.theoldbathhouse.org
Michelle Johnson (In the Silverroom) is a jewellery designer who makes beautiful contemporary and unique jewellery alot of which is based on the natural world and involves experimentation with texture and form 🌿
Come and meet her and see her work at the Summer Open Studios at The Old Bath House on the 23rd and 24th July 💍
www.theoldbathhouse.org
David Hall, artist and illustrator joins us once again at TOBH for the summer open studios on the 23rd and 24th July ✍🏻
He brings his beautiful prints and cards that express his interpretation of the natural world. Come and meet him and see his work!
www.theoldbathhouse.org
Cath Hodson is a screen printer based in Whitley Bay. Her images are bold, colourful and based on her life in the North East 🌊
If you would like to meet her and see more of her work come along to TOBH Summer Open Studios on the 23rd and 24th July where she will be exhibiting and selling some of her work!
www.theoldbathhouse.org
It's time to introduce our guest artists and makers joining us for our Summer Open Studios.. ☀️
Kirsty Adams Ceramics is an award winning ceramicist who has been making for over 20 years. Her work both functional and creative has a beautiful. aesthetic, spontaneous and delicate quality about it.
To meet her and see her work come along to our Summer Open Studios at TOBH on the 23rd and 24th July 🎨
www.theoldbathhouse.org
Here are a few snapshots showing the various stages of my most recent painting. For this piece I had a clearer idea than usual of the composition - a ship in peril and a smaller vessel put out to sea to come to its aid. I wanted to create the feeling of drama and movement and built up the layers over the course of a few weeks. You can see the various stages it went through.
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The title came to me as the awful news from Ukraine was breaking and I wrote in my journal 'We might be ships sailing in stormy seas, but all is not lost'.
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And so this painting found its title 'All is not lost' - Oil on board, 36 X 48 inches (2022)
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Gillian
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@gillianleesmithartist
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My last post today. One of my favourite beaches. The cold North East wind blowing, the salty, seaweed smell on the air, the sea carved rock sculptures. Hardly anyone out today. It is very cold! There is so much here, a lifetime of paintings. Where is your favourite beach.
Lori Handley Colours of Northumberland
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It’s my last post of the day so thank you for following along 🙌🏻
To finish off, here’s a little reel of me rolling and packing my sets of hand screen printed linen napkins that will be for sale NEXT WEEKEND at our Easter Open Studios! 🐣
North Sea Fish, Seed Heads or Wild Flowers - which design would you choose?? 🐟 🍂🌷
Ellie Davison-Archer Art
www.elliedavisonarcher.co.uk
It’s time to ‘Get a Close Up’ so thought this was a perfect opportunity to show you all my sketchbook ✍🏻
Each design starts life as an initial sketch, often starting as a pencil drawing before adding detail and definition with a fine black pen. The drawings you can see are the originals that make up my Seed Head collection - some made it into the final design, some didn’t make the cut and others remain unfinished 🌿
Ellie Davison-Archer Art
www.elliedavisonarcher.co.uk
Sheep are all fired and ready to pick up from our #internationalwomensday event, where we raised £500 for #newcastlewomensaid
Come and get your coasters from an #internationalwomensday workshop @theoldbathhouse in support of Newcastle Women’s Aid.
Nicola Stevenson Art
My favourite bit of equipment (and our pet sheep’s 😂) is my lovely big MABEF easel which I got a few years ago when I first moved into the Bathhouse Studios, it’s ginormous and can take anything I throw at it!! Definitely a keeper ⭐️
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Nicola Stevenson Art
This year has been all about exploring new mediums and ways of working and progressing my ‘plein air’ pieces on a much larger scale. I find it helps to work in miniature first and then develop these looser sketches later in the studio onto larger canvas.
Here’s a little video of some of my recent work which you’ll be able to see at the studio this weekend.
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A little mini tour of my messy studio! It will look alot tidier than this by our Open Studios weekend on 13th and 14th November.
Gillian Lee Smith Artist
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Gillian here again. My painting process is back and forth, adding and removing layers until the image emerges. My latest woodland paintings have layers of colour interspersed with layers of darkness. The light comes and goes but reappears somewhere along the line. Each painting can take months to feel done and even then... There is always more to add!
Second look at my watercolour process on a small painting of a fishing boat. Not long until the weekend and the Christmas Art Market at The Old Bath House!
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