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South East Open Studios - Join over 200 artists & makers in their studios from June 2nd - 18th!

🎉 What a fabulous start to SEOS 23 …. Last

🎉 What a fabulous start to SEOS 23 ….

Last night we gathered in the @themickjaggercentre in Dartford for an evening of pure celebration.

Our artists produced wonderful drawings and paintings - the audience watched them go from blank canvas to mighty creation with wide eyes and absolute respect. Congratulations to @francesfeatherstone for winning the Judges prize!

The walls were adorned with unique paintings, prints, glass work and sculpture from around 30 Kent artists and makers.

Local councillors talked enthusiastically about the exciting future for the arts in north Kent - we can’t wait to see this area become a creative hub, and look forward to playing a supporting role going forwards.

Our own special guest and judge for the evening, Sarah Dance, Chair of the South East Local Enterprise Partnership and co-Chair of the South East Creative Economy Network reminded us that a world without art is not a world we want to live in!

Thank you to @sarahyouseman, our Area Coordinator in Dartford for all her work supporting local artists and makers, and all those who attended, including (pictured) @ruthg_howard , @sallylayne_salzart , @karensummersart, Jane Good, Claire Edwards, Eija Burrell, Jeremy Kite, Peter Smith and Linda Smith - and of course the wonderful models, Mr Micawber and Miss Havisham!

We wish all our members a successful and enjoyable event - make sure to visit them and show your support - 2nd to 18th June 2023.

Visit: www.seos-art.org to see all our artists and our online 2023 Guide.

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And wrapping up our lovely 2023 studio features...

And wrapping up our lovely 2023 studio features...

🎨 Studio: 165 - Emerson College
You can find Elisabeth den Boer in Wealden.
W3W: ///visa.prefer.umbrellas

Elisabeth den Boer - Elisabeth paints with pigments she makes from earth, plants, minerals and other natural materials. She uses local mediums and local grounds to create 100% locally sourced paintings. @studio_elisabethdenboer
View on our website at: seos-art.org/elisabeth-den-boer

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🎨 Studio: 164 - High Meadow You can find Gabrie

🎨 Studio: 164 - High Meadow
You can find Gabriel Knollys in Wealden.
W3W: ///utter.phantom.valley

Gabriel Knollys - Gabriel Knollys is a local oil painter who takes inspiration from nature and landscapes. She aims to capture the essence of a place within her evocative, atmospheric paintings. @gabriel_knollys
View on our website at: seos-art.org/gabriel-knollys

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🎨 Studio: 163 - Shouli Gate Cottage You can fin

🎨 Studio: 163 - Shouli Gate Cottage
You can find Shouli Gate Cottage in Wealden.
W3W: ///scarf.everybody.guru
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Julie Knight, Evoke Glass Art - Julie creates 2D & 3D art with stained glass. She uses traditional lead came, copper foil and appliqué to capture the beauty, colours & textures of glass. Each unique piece tells its own story. @EvokeGlassArt23jtk
View on our website at: seos-art.org/julie-knight

Samantha Butcher - Samantha’s ethos is to bring joy to your wall with her colourful and quirky acrylic paintings. She takes most of her inspiration from her garden and travel adventures. Commissions taken. @samj_smiles
View on our website at: seos-art.org/samantha-butcher

Patricia Buchanan - Patricia makes handbags in Harris Tweed and other wool fabrics and has a range of complimentary accessories. She takes regular commissions using her large choice of fabrics. @abeliahandbags
View on our website at: seos-art.org/patricia-buchanan

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🎨 Studio: 162 - Crowborough Community Centre Yo

🎨 Studio: 162 - Crowborough Community Centre
You can find Dee Harper Art Works in Wealden.
W3W: ///repaid.space.apart

Dee Harper Art Works - Dee Harper's work is mainly in watercolour/pastel/acrylic & ink depicting her love of landscape & nature. She uses high quality media to get the best results in the resulting images.
View on our website at: seos-art.org/dee-harper-art-works

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🎨 Studio: 161 You can find Jo McGilvary Illustr

🎨 Studio: 161
You can find Jo McGilvary Illustrations in Wealden.
W3W: ///reader.detective.thrillers

Jo McGilvary Illustrations - Jo's love of nature and wildlife inspires her watercolour paintings. Jo loves to experiment with new ideas and her style continues to develop. @jo.mcgilvary
View on our website at: seos-art.org/jo-mcgilvary-illustrations

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🎨 Studio: 160 - Ashdown Pottery You can find As

🎨 Studio: 160 - Ashdown Pottery
You can find Ashdown Pottery in Wealden.
W3W: ///pounce.speeded.gushes
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Ashdown Pottery - Anthea continues to develop her ceramics with an experimental approach pushing clay to its limits. She makes tableware, Raku pieces along with colourful stoneware totems for home and garden. @ashdownpottery
View on our website at: seos-art.org/ashdown-pottery-a

Ashdown Pottery - Bill explores the psychological and spiritual effects of colour, inspired by Mark Rothko, applied to thrown stoneware functional and large sculptural vessels inspired by Batterham and Bayer. @ashdownpottery
View on our website at: seos-art.org/ashdown-pottery-b

Charlie Todman - Charlie Todman left Maths teaching in 2021 to pursue her love of pottery. She enjoys working with different types of clay, experimenting with colour, form and a variety of firing methods. @charlie_todman_ceramics
View on our website at: seos-art.org/charlie-todman

Bea Ramsay, Transform your Treasure - Experienced goldsmith specialising in transforming old, unworn jewellery into something new. Inspired by lichen & landscape - uniquely personal jewellery infused with meaning, story and emotion @transformyourtreasure
View on our website at: seos-art.org/bea-ramsay

Amanda Sumpter - Amanda Sumpter is a contemporary stone carver and painter whose work explores the possibilities of line and form. The fluid forms of her sculptures hint at an energy within the stillness of the stone. @amanda.sumpter.artist
View on our website at: seos-art.org/amanda-sumpter

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🎨 Studio: 158 - Lyonshall You can find Jo Hudso

🎨 Studio: 158 - Lyonshall
You can find Jo Hudson in Wealden.
W3W: ///passions.sundial.tribal

Jo Hudson - Jo is a professional watercolourist and watercolour tutor. Her work is influenced by her rural surroundings, and she explores watercolour techniques and textures in her paintings. @johudsonpaint
View on our website at: seos-art.org/jo-hudson

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🎨 Studio: 157 - South Studio, Emerson College Y

🎨 Studio: 157 - South Studio, Emerson College
You can find Richard Heys in Wealden.
W3W: ///mobile.buckets.loopholes

Richard Heys - Richard Heys creates vibrant abstract paintings, aiming for presence and driven by colour and the infinite variety of feeling and mood that it conjures up. @richard.heys
View on our website at: seos-art.org/richard-heys

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🎨 Studio: 156 You can find Susie Koren in Weald

🎨 Studio: 156
You can find Susie Koren in Wealden.
W3W: ///materials.users.shares

Susie Koren - Textile paintings that capture emptiness beauty fragility of our planet using muted palette of earth pigments in natural binder & expressive hand stitch as drawn line/texture. Studio visits welcome DM @susiekoren
View on our website at: seos-art.org/susie-koren

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🎨 Studio: 155 You can find Jennifer Grant, NoHo

🎨 Studio: 155
You can find Jennifer Grant, NoHoldsBarredTextiles in Wealden.
W3W: ///promoting.enough.conga

Jennifer Grant, NoHoldsBarredTextiles - Jennifer’s textile work is an all-encompassing mass of techniques. Inspired by just about anything but always with a love of stitch and fabric. @NoHoldsBarredTextiles
View on our website at: seos-art.org/jennifer-grant

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Posted @withregram • @themickjaggercentre 📣 IT'S SOUTH EAST OPEN STUDIOS LAUNCH DAY! 📣

Tonight at The MJC from 5pm-7pm registered participants can take part in an exciting live competition, enjoy fantastic members’ wonderful work, meet fellow local creatives, have a drink, chat to local dignitaries, champion the visual arts, and help us to kick-off SEOS23 in style.

If you haven't registered for a space at tonight's launch then please DM @seopenstudios for last minute availability.

Good luck to everyone taking part!

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📢 A reminder about our exciting launch event TO

📢 A reminder about our exciting launch event TOMORROW!

South East Open Studios 2023 is launching with an exciting LIVE art competition at The Mick Jagger Centre (Dartford, DA1 2JZ)! We want YOU to come and take part on Tuesday 30 May 2023 from 5-7pm.

Miss Havisham and Mr Micawber from the Rochester and Chatham Dickens Fellowship have kindly agreed to sit for us as models, dressed in full regalia, while friends, art lovers, local dignitaries and press observe the proceedings. The wonderful Sarah Dance, strategic consultant for the culture and creative industries, will award a prize to the artist who creates a piece of artwork that 'speaks to her the strongest'.

You can join our exciting live competition, enjoy our fantastic members’ wonderful work, meet your fellow local creatives, have a drink, chat to local dignitaries, champion the visual arts, and help us to kick-off SEOS 2023 in style. If you would like to attend, please drop us a message on here with your email address or contact us at info[at]seos-art.org.

We can't wait to see you there! 🥂

@themickjaggercentre

SEOS 2023
2 - 18 June

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🎨 Studio: 154 - Lymeside Studio You can find Ly

🎨 Studio: 154 - Lymeside Studio
You can find Lymeside Studio in Wealden.
W3W: ///haggle.belong.inflating
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Richard Pert - Richard uses watercolour and acrylics to create landscapes and abstracts from his imagination.
View on our website at: seos-art.org/richard-pert

Ann Lisney - Ann works in pastels, producing landscapes and portraits - both human and animal.
View on our website at: seos-art.org/ann-lisney

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🎨 Studio: 153 You can find Yasemin Adam in Weal

🎨 Studio: 153
You can find Yasemin Adam in Wealden.
W3W: ///gems.drilling.twist

Yasemin Adam - Yasemin Adam is a semi-abstract landscape artist in Herons Ghyll, East Sussex. Her work is inspired by forests and coastlines using layers of recycled media like charcoal, chalk paint and tea bags. @yasadamart
View on our website at: seos-art.org/yasemin-adam

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🎨 Studio: 152 - Tarnhurst You can find Tarnhurs

🎨 Studio: 152 - Tarnhurst
You can find Tarnhurst in Wealden.
W3W: ///forge.scooped.easels
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Chris Schneider - Working in acrylics, Chris captures the atmosphere of moments in her abstracted landscapes which are mainly inspired by Sussex. Chris’ work is both abstract and representational. @chrisschneider.art
View on our website at: seos-art.org/chris-schneider

Jan Beesley - Expressionist photography inspired by the landscape. Jan uses the camera as her paintbrush and creative tool, aiming to capture her thoughts and impressions. @jan.beesley
View on our website at: seos-art.org/jan-beesley

Jayne Luscombe - Jayne creates one-off pieces of jewellery from silver, enamel and gold. She loves to experiment with textures and is inspired by the blues and golds of sandy beaches and oceans around the world. @jayne_luscombe
View on our website at: seos-art.org/jayne-luscombe

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🎨 Studio: 151 - The Piggery Barn at Apple Tree

🎨 Studio: 151 - The Piggery Barn at Apple Tree Cottage
You can find Robert McKellar, A Retrospective in Lewes.
W3W: ///wove.extremely.stitching

Robert McKellar, A Retrospective - Robert McKellar - A Retrospective. Rory McKellar hosts an exhibition of still life, abstract landscapes and drawings by his father, the acclaimed fine artist and local art tutor Robert McKellar. @northcote_gallery
View on our website at: seos-art.org/robert-mckellar

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🎨 Studio: 150 - Kiln and Home Studio You can fi

🎨 Studio: 150 - Kiln and Home Studio
You can find Karen Easter Ceramics in Wealden.
W3W: ///earlobe.tumblers.memory

Karen Easter Ceramics - Karen Easter has been a ceramist and artist for 12 years. Based in Heathfield, East Sussex. Karen specialises in Stoneware and porcelain. She has a love of texture and organic style. @kareneasterceramics
View on our website at: seos-art.org/karen-easter-ceramics

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🎨 Studio: 149 - Labyrinth Stained Glass Studios

🎨 Studio: 149 - Labyrinth Stained Glass Studios
You can find Isobel Brunsdon, Labyrinth Stained Glass Studios in Wealden.
W3W: ///downs.reminds.shatters

Isobel Brunsdon, Labyrinth Stained Glass Studios - Isobel Brunsdon is a professional stained glass artist, designing and fabricating windows and autonomous pieces to commission. Working in traditional and contemporary style. @labyrinthstainedglass
View on our website at: seos-art.org/isobel-brunsdon

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🎨 Studio: 148 You can find Deborah Tompsett in

🎨 Studio: 148
You can find Deborah Tompsett in Wealden.
W3W: ///count.sundial.variances

Deborah Tompsett - Winner of Chaiya Art Award 2018. Ceramic sculptures, hand thrown pottery and paintings on paper and wood. @deborah_tompsett_art_
View on our website at: seos-art.org/deborah-tompsett

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