This past weekend, the Rossendale Art Trail for Spring 2026 took place. I took part with a painting series (acrylic on canvas) titled “Negative Creep”, shown at Ninja Coffee Bacup:
During the weekend, I was present at my studio at Valley Artists Rossendale to facilitate the communal canvas painting activity. This is a large canvas I made with materials mostly donated by others. It’s the first canvas I stretched myself! The canvas was up at my studio Friday evening and all of Saturday and Sunday, so visitors as well as artists at the studio could have a go. The youngest person who took part was 8, and the oldest 80. It turned out better than I could have imagined, and it’s almost done:
Finally, I took part in the group exhibition at Valley Artists Rossendale, for which I entered “Esmeralda”:
I took part in this art trail twice before, but this was before I had my own studio. Now having a studio means I can showcase more of my work as well as offer some kind of activity. The people who took part in the communal canvas were very excited about it, so I’d like to do something like it for a next art trail too!
This art trail is on twice per year (once in Spring, and once in Autumn). You can perhaps most easily contact them on Instagram if you’d like to be on an e-mail list or sign up to take part in the next art trail, or send an e-mail to: info@horseandbamboo.org .
