h.Art Week

It's h.Art week starting today, and there are lots of studios open around Hay this year. There are a lot of very talented people in Herefordshire!
Up Cusop Dingle, Tim Rawlins has his studio at the Old Stables, where he works with bronze.
Also up Cusop Dingle is Sartori Gallery, where Andrea Sartori and Omar Majeed are exhibiting oil paintings and sculpture.
In Hay itself Ty Tan has two artists exhibiting (opposite the Blue Boar). Jeremy Stiff is a sculptor and portraitist - the busts of people, and a cat called Arthur, are his. And round the walls are paintings by Menna Angharad.
The Table on Lion Street is full of pictures of Welsh country cottages by Simon Dorrell, and some raku fired ceramic Welsh houses by Amanda Banham.
At the Old Electric Shop, Toose Morton is exhibiting sculpture and drawings.
At Ty Glas on Gipsy Castle, just past the church, Deborah Gillingham is exhibiting her paintings and drawings.
At Church Terrace nearby, Lizzie Harper is exhibiting a collection of her botanical and natural history illustrations, and The Woodee is showing fire pits and all the accessories you need to make a roaring wood fire. They will be demonstrating every day, showing how to light a wood fire and how to cook foraged foods - for which some of the books that Lizzie Harper has illustrated will come in useful, when she collaborated with Adele Nozedar on Foraging with Kids and The Hedgerow Handbook.

Near to Hay, there's also an exhibition at the River Café in Glasbury, of food paintings by Alice Straker, and at the Chapel on the Green in Glasbury Susan Adams and Jo Mazelis have created an installation formed of drawings, video and a giant sculpture making the Tivoli Fish Bar.

There are artists exhibiting throughout Herefordshire, in towns and down narrow country lanes. They are painters and sculptors and ceramicists and work with bronze and glass and textiles, and make jewellery and baskets and furniture.