H-Art Outing

We managed to get out for half a day today and went to Presteigne.  Visited a fabulous gallery called The Workhouse Gallery & Cafe.  Will be going there again.  Also found Christopher Rowlatt at The Presteigne Bindery, somewhere I have been wanting to visit for ages.  He talked about his bookbinding and demonstrated his marbeling techniques.  Fabulous.  He also had a very nice garden behind his bindery.

These cymbals were one of the quirky items in amongst the floorbeds and sheds.

We then went on to the Sidney Nolan Trust.  Here there were prints and book art on display. The setting for this studio is exceptional and there were ducks and chickens running around in the yard,

In one of the outbuildings we met Elizabeth Morison, the sculptor-in-residence throughout H-Art, and she had some very interesting work she has been doing with fabric (mainly stitched into tubes) filled with wet slip then left to slowly dry out.  She had been studying at the Hereford College of Art.

One of the art books