Visit the studios of fifteen local artists and craftspeople working in traditional and contemporary arts and crafts including: ceramics, sculpture, painting, woodworking, furniture restoration and glass.
Stowford Manor Farm is an Elizabethan farm and manor house situated by the River Frome in beautiful Wiltshire countryside. Work will be available to purchase and cream teas from 2pm at the main house.
OPENING TIMES: Sat 14 & Sun 15 June, 10am – 6pm
Stowford Manor Farm, Wingfield, Wiltshire BA14 9LH
2 miles from Bradford-on-Avon and Trowbridge. A short drive from the A36. Parking on site.
Katrina Beattie – Glass
Katrina Beattie has been making glass for over thirty years and her practice involves a crossover of glass disciplines including kiln forming, glass blowing and lamp working.
Sue Burns – Painting & Drawing
Sue Burns is an artist working in a range of mediums including watercolour and drawing. She also runs courses as Sue Burns Art School.
Amy Casto – Glass & Jewellery
Amy Casto is a multidisciplinary artist specialising in glass. Since graduating in 2015 she has worked as a glassblower, modelmaker, freelance illustrator, jeweller and engraver.
Kerry Collison – Stained Glass
Traditionally trained in stained glass, sculpture and contemporary art foundry practices, Kerry Collison is equal parts craft person and conceptual fine artist. Her personal work illustrates mischief and anarchy confined into controlled glass material. Kerry is a Founding Father of Furnace Building Society and a graduate from both Carmarthen School of Art and Swansea College of Art.
Clara Hazleton – Ceramics & Surface Pattern
Clara Hazleton is a ceramic artist and a surface pattern artist who loves vibrant colour. She is currently focussing on the technique of marbling and uses bright colours for her effects.
Sonja Kuratle – Ceramics
Sonja Kuratle is a ceramic artist based in Wiltshire, creating vessels inspired by nature. After completing a BA in ceramics, she continued making and exhibiting her work as well as teaching in the community.
Lexa Laurance – Wood Fired Ceramics
Lexa Laurance is a ceramic artist specialising in wood-fired, salt and soda glaze techniques using hand-built kilns, which she fires together with colleagues for 12 to 23+ hours. Having trained under Paul Barron and Henry Hammond at West Surrey College of Art (now UCA) in the Bernard Leach studio pottery tradition, she subsequently worked with potters in Malawi, Nepal and Tanzania before setting up her workshop at Stowford Manor Farm.
Tel: 07913 706739
Keith Newstead – Sculpture
Keith Newstead is an abstract sculptor working across a range of mediums including stone, plaster and wood.
The Glass Hub – Glass School
The Glass Hub is an established glass school running one-day, weekend and longer courses in glassblowing, fusing, lampworking and kiln working plus many specialist glass techniques. There are courses for all abilities, from beginner to master, taught by experienced tutors and visiting glass artists.
Patricia Volk RWA FRSS – Sculpture
Patricia Volk is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors (FRSS), West of England Academician (RWA) & Member of Bath Society of Artists. Her sculptures in painted clay are playfully abstract and instinctive. Their language is one of contradictions and juxtapositions of form, line, and often vibrant colour.
Matt Waite – Ceramics
Matt Waite throws with a Cornish stoneware clay and makes a range of tableware alongside individual and larger pieces. He uses Oriental-style glazes in copper reds, iron rich tenmoku, shino, kaki, blue jun and a cream coloured chun. Other glazes make use of ‘found’ materials such as wood ash and local clays. After completing a degree in ceramics at Bristol, Matt worked for potteries in Bath and the Hebrides before setting up a studio at Stowford Manor Farm.
Sasha Wardell – Ceramics
Sasha Wardell has over forty year’s experience in the world of bone china and porcelain, having studied in two centres of excellence; Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom and Limoges, France. She has taken elements of this industry and adapted them to a studio environment with her own production which includes bespoke vases, bowls, lighting and tea ware.
Abigail Wilderspin – Glass & Painting
Abigail Wilderspin has studied, exhibited and worked as a multidisciplinary artist. Commissions have ranged from portraiture to church ceiling mural restoration before moving into kiln formed glass. After a diagnostic art foundation at Central Saint Martins, she graduated from Wimbledon Collage of Art with a BA in Painting, followed by an MA from the Royal College of Art.

Stowford Manor Farm
Stowford Manor Farm is a family run farm situated in the Frome valley. The farm has a range of interests including a campsite, a cafe, arable crops, livestock, swimming club, schools, artists studios and workshops.
The cafe serves cream teas from Easter to the end of September and pizzas are sold in evenings during the summer months. The campsite gets very busy in the summer and it is advisable to book well in advance.