Participants 2026
Artists A - C
Art for All - Community Group
10 local artists portraying a variety of styles and mediums, plus a display of silk painting. Special tribute to Paz Clee past member.
Refreshments served, proceeds to Methodist church windows.
Art for All is a community group which meets every Tuesday 10am to 12.00 at Warden Methodist Hall. Anyone can come along and practise art in whatever medium they choose and at whatever level. Tuition is provided if required. The cost is £5 per week and all are welcome. Contact Kay Yendole: kayyendole@rocketmail.com for more information.
Venue 1 - Methodist Chapel, 1 Scottleton Street, LD8 2BN
Carolyn Amos - Jewellery
Carolyn's work is inspired by early 20th-century design movements, particularly Bauhaus and the abstract compositions of Kandinsky. Her jewellery celebrates simplicity of form, vibrant colour and strong contrasts. Using traditional silversmithing techniques, she creates unique, hand-finished pieces that are both contemporary and expressive. Her love of colour is central to her practice, hand-mixing pigments and resins, and hand dying aluminium, to create bold wearable art. Today, she continues to explore new materials and techniques, creating pieces that reflect both her artistic influences and her passion for design and colour.
Venue 4 - Mansion House, 42 High Street, LD8 2BE
Carolyn Black - Multidisciplinary Art
Until recently, my practice centred on the River Severn. Since relocating in 2025 to a village near Hay-on-Wye, my work responds to this landscape, often viewed through the studio window.
Recent works explore the relationship between image, text, and material through film, cyanotype, projection, and monotype. These include films about writing, cyanotypes made from film stills, projected images on objects, and origami forms shaped through performative folding and creasing.
Venue 21 - Mark Richards Studio, 4 Artisan Row, Broadaxe Business Park, LD8 2BQ
Rosamund Black - Jewellery & Collage
This year’s exhibition 'Talisman' includes pieces exploring the use of amulets and protective symbols. Rosamund's jewellery-making practice combines hand-worked and textural silver with semiprecious stones and natural materials, an intuitive process dictated by the materials selected. The use of natural materials continues to feature in a collection of small collage works which explore shape and colour.
Venue 6 - The Old Shop, 47 High St, LD8 2BE
Suzanne Boak - Painting and Drawing
Working in fine pen, Suzanne creates beautifully intricate drawings of historic British architecture. Many pieces are inspired by the ageing charm of buildings in and around the Welsh Marches, a region steeped in rich, borderland history. Her meticulous process captures every detail, exploring the relationship between architectural style, time and ownership. She pays homage to the building's history and unique adaptations made over many years, quietly celebrating the stories held in bricks and beams, rooftops and windows. Each illustration serves as a visual narrative, preserving the enduring legacy of Britain’s architectural heritage for art lovers and historians alike.
Venue 14 - The Judge’s Lodging, Broad St, LD8 2AD
Jason Braham - Pottery
Apart from an attempt, aged nine, to turn clay from our Dorset garden into a pot, using a wind-up gramophone as a wheel, I first threw in 1972. For the next thirty-five years I potted alongside a career in teaching. Since 2007 I have been working full-time in the studio we built at our mediaeval house in the Radnorshire Hills.
My work is inspired by European country ware and by the traditions of Bernard Leach and Michael Cardew. I fire on wood and oil in a large catenary kiln in the pole barn alongside the studio.
Venue 4 - Mansion House, 42 High Street, LD8 2BE
Julienne Braham - Painting
We live in the Radnorshire Hills, where the local landscape is a constant source of inspiration. I work in the field in oils in all weathers and develop paintings (often from sketches in other media) in the attic studio at Far Hall.
Before moving here, when we were in London, a large part of my practice was with the figure, interiors and portraiture. I keep my interest in these alive and every week join with a group of fellow Border artists for sessions of life drawing. Regular journeys to the Hebrides and to Italy and Spain feed my sketchbooks.
Venue 4 - Mansion House, 42 High Street, LD8 2BE
Bim Burton - Furniture Design
Bim has been making furniture since he was 16 years old, mostly from European hardwoods. He ran a workshop in London until he moved to Presteigne five years ago. He enjoys the variety of work he has made for local clients and has collaborated with glass blowers Axelle and Sacha on a variety of works. He designs and makes with a mixture of practicality and magic.
Venue 20 - David Colwell Designs, 3 Artisan Row, Broadaxe Business Park, LD8 2BQ
Terry Browne - Furniture maker
Chairs, in various guises, have been in existence for 1000s of years but it is only since the 6th. century that country chairs have become the style recognised today.
As a woodworker, the uncluttered, simple design of Celtic country chairs persuaded me to try my hand at making them. Now, 40 years on, I am still making them.
I make my chairs from three hardwoods, Oak, Ash and Elm, using traditional hand tools, then finish with an eye to detail, ensuring comfort with authenticity.
The trinket boxes are a decorative way of showing the richness of various exotic woods
traditionalhandmadechairs.co.uk
Venue 19 - Presteigne Youth Centre, 44 Hereford St, LD8 2AT
Ann Catt - Multidisciplinary Art
My work is an exploration of colour, line and pattern, and the natural beauty of the Welsh Marches. Through oil and acrylic painting, various printing techniques, and collage, I create distinct works that reflect the landscape and the vibrant energy of life.
I began making handmade greeting cards many years ago; the joy of colour and playful, abstract design was my main inspiration. Recently, life drawing has expanded my practice, adding a fresh dimension of movement and vitality. Through all my work, I hope to convey the beauty of my local landscape and the fun, colour and energy that life brings.
Venue 3 - Upstairs @ The Salty Dog, 14 High Street LD8 2BA
David Colwell - Furniture Design
Maker of batch-produced modern chairs and tables committed to exceptional comfort and posture, conviviality, sustainability and timeless good looks. Made from steam-bent local ash.
Also public and private commissions:
Auditorium Seating Worcester College, Oxford
Public Reception Desk Scottish Parliament
Design Passive Solar Buildings, Artisan Row, Presteigne
Day Sailing Boat
Venue 20 - David Colwell Designs, 3 Artisan Row, Broadaxe Business Park, LD8 2BQ
June Coveney - Painting
I classify myself as an "observer". I like painting what I see - people, animals, birds, landscapes. I started at age 7 when I first got paper and pencil. My sister and I would memorise what we saw, then put it on paper when we got home. This led to us being good at drawing, which showed up at secondary school.
We got pushed on to Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen. After graduating and getting married, I lived in Germany, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Syria. In Passau, Bavaria, I painted the town for four years and got to sit in at orchestra rehearsals. Attracted to capturing movement led me to musicians, circus performers, horses, and birds. I previously thought I wouldn't want to do abstract. Now I've had a go. It's fun!
Venue 13 - 1 Chapel Cottage, Harpers Lane, LD8 2AN
Isobel Craggs Alferoff - Painting
Pre-Raphaelite painters, fairytales, and autobiographical experience make up most of my source material.
The settings in which my paintings are constructed are based on my upbringing living rurally on the border of Wales.
Using oil paints or watercolours to blur the line between figure and scenery, my work draws on memories of playing as a child in a gender-agnostic household, in the natural landscapes of Wales, and the lack of shame I held in my naked body at that time. Using my adult body or the bodies of my peers, I seek to reclaim that comfort.
Longlisted for the Cass Art Prize 2025.
Venue 21 - Mark Richards Studio, 4 Artisan Row, Broadaxe Business Park, LD8 2BQ