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.
Free or low-cost crafting for kids & teens
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Longtown Village Hall, Saturday 15th March, 10am to noon - free drop-in sessions
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Low-cost pottery workshop - kids sculpt their own monster, £12 Sat, 26th March, Craswall Village Hall
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Saturday 22 March, Ewyas Harold Craft Centre, free drop-in activity from 10am
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Free activity supporting 10- to 20-year-olds to try their hand at traditional woodworking
Meet the makers…
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Corisande Albert, Cabalva Ceramics
Corisande is a ceramicist working in variety of clays. She runs a range of ceramics courses from her pottery studio on the Cabalva Estate, not far from Hay on Wye
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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 monoprints and collagraphs 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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Tif Hunter
Tif is a passionate photographer, whose career is into its 4th decade. He is based in Black Barn Arts, his studio in Longtown, and shares his love of tintype
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Roger Ings
Roger has a passion for working with wood and is sharing this in workshops at Jamie’s Farm where he works across all aspects of the farm-based charity