ART enthusiasts will have the opportunity to discover a dazzling range of artwork over the next wo weekends.

More than 90 artists, including painters, printmakers, sculptors, jewellers, photographers and furniture makers, are opening their doors to take part in the York Open Studios 2015. Among them will be David Campbell, David Patrick and Jane Duke.

Every studio offers something a little different and visitors will discover new work from artists opening their studios for the first time this year, including Emily Stubbs’ brightly coloured ceramics and Helen Drye’s silver and glass jewellery inspired by natural forms.

Printmaker Gerard Hobson will be showing how he creates his charming lino prints of birds and animals when he gives artist demonstrations at his studio during the event.

Richard Barnes’ dramatic and colourful landscape paintings will enrich your experience of North Yorkshire’s wild moorland. Or contemplate the quieter expression of emotions in Sudeshna Chattopadhyay’s contemporary paintings and drawings, which she describes as pages in her diary.

Established artists Mark Hearld and Emily Sutton will open their home, a work of art in itself, and filled to the brim with the intriguing collections of ephemera that inspire their paintings, prints and collages.

Many artists live in villages around York including award-winning jeweller Sarah Cilia.

Journey Out To Warthill and be inspired by the paintings and ceramics of Ann Decker and Tim Pearce or fall in love with Ruth King’s beautiful ceramics at Shipton by Beningbrough and Chris Rymer’s tactile wood vessels at his Haxby studio.

 

MOTHER and son student artists Cheryl and Jake Colley will exhibit their final-year BA (Hons) Contemporary 3D Crafts work at the Briar House Resources Club Chambers in Museum Street, York, over the two York Open Studios weekends.

Both are studying at York College, where Cheryl, 59, makes vibrant and colour-fused glass panels and pictures created from new and used materials, inspired by recycled fabrics and patchwork designs from India.

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Jake, 31, will be showing a range of interior lighting units that bring traditional materials and contemporary design practice together through craftsmanship and modern design thinking.

Out of the 90-plus artists featured in this year’s event, more than 20 of them study or work at York College or have done so. “York Open Studios provides a wonderful, inspiring opportunity to celebrate the artistic talent in the city,” says Helen Ventress, the college’s head of division for art & design. “It’s fantastic to know that a large proportion of the work on display has been nurtured by our art & design division. Our students and staff produce really excellent work and I’m delighted their expertise is recognised as part of this year’s event.”

 

YORK Open Studios portrait artist Hannah Ostapjuk has a surprise in store.

“Those who follow my art work, portraits and oil paintings on social media sites will have seen me mention a ‘surprise’ for all who visit Julie Lightburn and myself at Studio 14, The Bull Centre, during the Open Studios weekends,” says Hannah.

So what will be Hannah’s surprise. “It’s a unique opportunity to see me working on my latest portrait painting, Colonel Edward York, previous Vice Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire,” she says.

“You can see the quality and time that goes in to my work and watch the portrait build up over the two weekends and you’re welcome to visit us more than once!”

The Bull Centre is next to Dean’s Garden Centre in Stockton-on-the-Forest.

 

York Open Studios takes place tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday and again the following Saturday and Sunday. The studios are open tomorrow from 6pm to 9pm, and on both Saturdays from 10am to 6pm and Sundays, from11am to 5pm.

For more information go to www.yorkopenstudios.co.uk or phone 01904 706123.