We are very pleased to be part of the Green Man Festival again this year. There will be all sorts going on at the Tithebarn Workshops this Saturday as part of the festivities, so come on down and spend a fabulous day around Barton Farm.
As well as all the studios being open there will be food stalls, a bar, music, dancing and all round great fun!
This time next week we should hopefully be arriving in Rochester (M25 permitting!) and setting up in the Corn Exchange, for a weekend of Art Fairing! It promises to be a busy weekend as the Fair coincides with the Sweeps Festival which brings big crowds to the town. Serena is busy putting the final touches to the last few works and we’ll be ready to go.
Our gallery is going to remain open over the weekend while we’re away, as the lovely Martha and Dominic (Bramble Moon) are taking the reins at SerenArts. They are bringing in their magnificant selection of home propagated house plants and crystals and setting up a little pop-up shop within a shop!
We will be back and ready for the first bank holiday on 6th May… unless we sell out of paintings at Rochester!!
A big thank you to everyone who contributed towards making yesterday’s Spring Fling such a great success. There was a fantastic atmosphere in the much needed sunshine and we must have got more vitamin D than from the rest of the whole year put together!
Already looking forward to the next event at the Tithebarn Workshops.
THANK YOU! 😊
Those of you passing by or visiting the Tithebarn Workshops will notice our new signage is popping up around the garden. This is all part of the updating and new look for the Workshops which reflects the energy of the resident artists and vibrant colours of the studios.
Just a little reminder about this weekends Spring Fling in the garden here, which all kicks off at 10am…
With just a couple of weeks to go now until the Tithebarn Workshops Spring Fling, we thought we would share some of the promotional images that have been created to advertise this event…
The team at the Tithebarn Workshops now includes…
In addition to these lovely people, we would also have live music, art stalls in the garden, food, a bar and much more…
We hope to see you all very soon for some flinging in the garden!
Just a quick heads up to let you know about another fun event taking place at the Tithebarn Workshops next month. More details will follow but you can pop 20th April into your diaries if you like. It would be great to see everyone here again.
The final last few touches are being added and the last few paintings being framed, because this time next week we will be open for business at the Bath Art Fair 2024.
Serena completed this lovely charcoal drawing of a highland cow yesterday and he will be alongside a couple of other charcoal images at the Fair. As you know, Serena has a very diverse style of painting, covering many subjects and media. This will be reflected in the eclectic range of works we are taking with us to the Pavilion.
We very much hope to see you there over the weekend of 24th / 25th February.
With temperatures in the negative you would think we might not be quite so happy with our lovely gallery… even with the door wide open! However, we really are lucky to have this beautiful space to come to each day. The sun is shining and the ice on the inside of windows is melting!
A busy day too, on the road outside the front of the gallery!…
It’s all go here! If you can cope with pace of life, why not pop down for a coffee and a wander around the Tithebarn Workshops and Barton Farm?
Only 37 sleeps until this years Bath Art Fair, which will be held again at the splendid Bath Pavilion.
Things have been moving on a pace with the preparations and we’re really looking forward to exhibiting again after such a successful time last year. For anyone who hasn’t been to the Fair, we would thoroughly recommend it. With a collection of over 90 artists, sculptors, glass artists and other clever people, it is certainly a great way to feed the creative soul.
This time our stand number is 35. It is actually in the same spot as last year, but just renumbered! Opening evening is on Friday 23rd February and if you hurry, you can still get tickets. For Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th February there are still tickets available and these can be obtained here.
Serena has been very busy creating lots of new work which you can have a sneak preview of on her Instagram.
We hope you’re able to come along and say hello!
We are back up and running at SerenArts Gallery after the floods of last weekend. A good team effort from the Tithebarn Workshops Family!
This amazing photo, taken from a video posted on Spotted in Bradford, shows the extent of the flooding around Barton Farm. We were lucky to get away with the amount of flooding we did get this time. It could’ve been a whole lot worse.
There is always a lot of talk after an event like this happens. We remember the big plans that were discussed after the 2013 floods, which were worse for us. Eventually after much consulting and planning, very little was done apart from the Bullpit flood defence wall. After being deployed only a handful of times, this was then dropped as a bad idea due to a number of reasons including health and safety.
Perhaps this time around a firm flood plan can be put in place and maybe some assistance for those worst hit, as Wiltshire Councillor Tim Trimble suggested in an article on the BBC News website this morning.
Hopefully this doesn’t come over as whiny as we knew the risks of being next to the river when we moved to the Tithebarn Workshops over 15 years ago. We are extremely lucky to have our beautiful gallery in such a superb setting and we accept the highs and the lows (literally!). Good luck to all those clearing up.
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