2025 Summer of Festivals – Artists at Home

Image: Visitors at the studio of one of the artists who took part in Artists at Home 2424; Photograph Anna Kunst

New artists join Artists At Home to show off their work over the weekend June 13-15

Eleven new artists join Artists at Home – bringing the number of artists opening their homes and studios to the public this summer to 100

Artists At Home is one of the best things about living in Chiswick – a weekend in June where you can wander round, guidebook in hand, finding artists’ studios (of which there are many) marked on the map and visiting local artists who open their doors to sell their work from Friday evening until Sunday afternoon.

The tradition has been going for more than 50 years and each year there are new artists taking part, as well as ‘old’ artists doing new work and taking new directions.

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This year over the weekend of 13 – 15 June there will be 100 artists to choose from over an area which includes Chiswick, Shepherd’s Bush and Hammersmith, whose work covers a range of styles and media, including painting, ceramics, textiles, mixed media, sculpture, photography and jewellery.

Image: Artists at Home; Photograph Anna Kunst

Kathy Coulter

Among the new artists taking part this year will be Kathy Coulter, a potter who works in stoneware, using reflective glazes, oxidation, and reduction firing to create beautiful functional ceramics. Her work is inspired by the aesthetics of Japanese ceramics and the British Studio pottery tradition.

Her work will be on show at Studio 9 on the Artists At Home map, in Marlborough Crescent in Bedford Park.

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Images: Ceramics by Kathy Coulter

Ana Verdun

Also new to Artists At Home this year is jeweller Ana Verdun, whose studio is described as ‘a true alchemical laboratory’, where she transforms raw materials from the earth – precious metals and gemstones – into refined, elegant works of wearable art.

Her work will be on show at Studio 11, off Dukes Avenue’

Pictured below are her ‘Ophelia Gumnut Flower Necklace’, made from oxidized sterling silver with 22ct gold plated details and citrines, and ‘Orianna Pendant & Florentine Handmade Chain’, made from oxidised sterling silver, 18ct solid gold, white topaz and diamonds.

Images: Jewellery by Ana Verdun

Jennifer Griffiths

Photographer Jennifer Griffiths is also taking part for the first time. Regular readers of The Chiswick Calendar will be very familiar with her work, as her pictures of Chiswick are all over our website and she has taken part in the last two exhibitions The Chiswick Calendar has held at the Clayton hotel.

Jenny has travelled widely, and her pictures explore the beauty of the natural world but also examine humanity with humour.

Her work will be on show at Studio 30, off Chiswick Lane.

Image: ‘Barcelona Beach Bums’ – Jennifer Griffiths

Sally Grumbridge

Among the ‘old’ artists taking their work in new directions is printmaker Sally Grumbridge, who is celebrating 21 years this year taking part in Artists At Home. She finds inviting people into her home over the open studios weekend hugely enjoyable, “though my husband wouldn’t agree,” she told The Chiswick Calendar.

(I feel a bit sorry for the artists’ families, airbrushed out of the picture and banished from their living rooms for the duration while people they don’t know drink their wine).

“The networking, meeting other artists and being involved in the community have been massive for me and it’s also been good for my self-confidence as an artist.”

This year she is working on a new theme, inspired by a project she has been working on with three other artists at the Askew Rd studios.

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They decided they would celebrate the women who worked in the laundry industry around Starch Green and south Acton in Edwardian times and Sally looked at ways of using starched laundry as her printing plates.

“Rather than cute little linos and wood cuts, I’ve been using fabrics as the basis of my printing.

“I started researching what were the kinds of clothes that needed to be starched – collars and headdresses, nurses’ aprons, and I’ve been doing a lot of washing, ironing, starting and folding, putting clothes through my etchings press – a big Edwardian thing like a mangle.”

Sally’s work will be on show in Studio 39, at Cleveland Avenue, at the Hammersmith end of Chiswick High Road.

This year’s booklets listing all the artists and showing their studios on a map will be available around Chiswick soon. To see more of their work and who else is taking part this year, go to the Artists At Home website:

artistsathome.co.uk

Image: Artists at Home; Photograph Anna Kunst

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