Meet the makers…
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Sarah Adby
Sarah is just potty about weaving willow. Based in Vowchurch, she grows her own stock and teaches a variety of techniques for beginners
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Helen Arthur
Helen is a printmaker and landscape painter who runs Skirrid Studio & Gallery, Longtown, and teaches in venues across Herefordshire
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Adrienne Craddock
Adrienne is a printmaker, painter and tutor based near Hereford. She specialises in bold and colourful work of landscapes and wildlife
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Jacky Edwards
Jacky is a glass artist who specialises in Pate De Verre and fused glass techniques and is based in Dulas close to the Black Mountains
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Ellie Garraway
Ellie's creativity sparks with the possibilities of artistic expression through handmade artist’s books, and the many techniques for creating content in them
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Ewyas Harold Craft Centre
Ewyas Harold Craft Centre is run by a membership community offering workshops, a gallery space and cafe. The organisation is a registered charity
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Longtown Art Club
The group have been meeting regularly to support each others’ creativity with leadership from Emma Thacker-Vuts and Jacky Edwards
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Natalie Seber
Natalie started growing her own flowers to dry because she’d rediscovered a love of floral arranging, sparked in her teens
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Emma Thacker-Vuts
The aim of Emma’s work as an art and design skills tutor is to explore a wide range of media and techniques to enable others
Free or low-cost crafting for kids & teens
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Sunday 26 October, Longtown Village Hall - something for the littlies (6 to 10). Explore colour and texture - a fruity painting session for 6 to 10 year olds, from 9.50am
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Drop into this welcoming centre and let your kids loose on a range of free sessions for kids - their grown ups can have a cuppa in the cafe and browse the exhibition space
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Sunday 26 October, Longtown Village Hall - using ink pen speed drawing, young artists (11 to 15) will learn and refine this technique. They will respond to their choice of harvest landscape source images. Adults to accompany.
It all began with a creative community
When Helen Arthur set up a printmaking studio in the area in 2019 she couldn’t help noticing just how many artists and makers live in the Olchon and Golden valleys, on the edge of Herefordshire.
She quickly developed valued creative friendships. So with collaboration in mind, she secured government funding to run two weekends of arts and heritage events for March 2025.
Helen won a second round of funding to run another diverse range of workshops in October 2025.