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Guest Exhibitors

Our guest exhibitors display their work in our large window for a month at a time. They are carefully chosen by our submissions panel from a range of talented local artists.

If you would like to be considered for an exhibition in 2026 please click here

March 1st to 31st 2026 - Liz Watts

Liz Watts  is an award-winning British ceramicist and sculptor whose distinctive porcelain work has earned her a strong and loyal following. Originally trained as a veterinary surgeon, she retrained in the early 1990s at l’Atelier des Beaux-Arts Henri Matisse in Creil, France, where she developed her sculptural practice and mastered traditional porcelain decoration techniques.

Porcelain lies at the heart of Liz’s work. She combines hand-built and sculptural forms with richly layered surface pattern, often using carved tools and freehand painting to create intricate, narrative designs. Her pieces range from expressive vessels to ambitious installations, each one entirely unique.

Liz has exhibited widely across the UK, and her work is held in both private and public collections. In recognition of her contribution to contemporary ceramics, she was elected a full member of the Society of Women Artists. Her work balances delicacy and strength, technical mastery and imagination — ceramics that reward close looking and invite lasting engagement.

March 1st to 31st 2026 - Lizbeth Spurgeon

Lizbeth Spurgeon is a contemporary British painter whose work captures the quiet emotional resonance of everyday spaces. Working primarily in oils, she creates luminous paintings that sit between observation and memory, often focusing on light, atmosphere, and subtle human presence.

Her compositions, whether intimate interiors or expansive landscapes, are marked by layered brushwork and a restrained, expressive palette. Figures, when present, are absorbed in private moments, reinforcing a sense of stillness and interiority.

Lizbeth’s work invites slow looking. Each painting offers not just an image, but an atmosphere, a space shaped by light, memory, and reflection.

Lizbeth has exhibited in galleries across the UK and has developed a loyal following of collectors who are drawn to the emotional depth and quiet strength of her work. Each painting offers not simply an image, but an atmosphere, a space in which viewers may find their own memories reflected.

Her studio practice continues to evolve, but at its heart remains a commitment to painting as a slow, thoughtful act of attention.

February 1st to 28th 2026 - Reza Riahi

Reza Riahi is a multidisciplinary artist based in Warminster, influenced by time spent in his native Iran as well as his travels abroad in his professional life. Reza’s practice engages with abstraction as a mode of attention, presence, and temporal experience. Working across acrylic painting and photographic forms, his work is shaped by repetition, movement, and the accumulation of gesture. Rather than resolving into fixed narratives, the works remain open, emphasising process, rhythm, and visual intensity.

Riahi’s practice privileges immediacy and making-as-thinking. Composition emerges through layering, erasure, and intuitive mark-making, allowing form to develop through sustained engagement with materials. Colour functions not symbolically but affectively, operating as a structuring force that produces tension, balance, and sensory depth. The resulting works invite viewers into a slow encounter, where meaning is generated through duration rather than interpretation.

Working between the UK and Europe, Riahi continues to develop a practice concerned with movement, openness, and the refusal of closure, situating art as an ongoing process rather than a completed object.

October 1st to 30th 2025 - Marion Deacon

Marion Deacon  is a vibrant mixed-media artist based in the UK whose work explores colour, texture and the expressive potential of paint. She creates striking, semi-abstract landscapes and abstracts using layered media — including collage, acrylics, inks, gouache crayons and mark-making tools — building depth and energy through multi-layered surfaces. Marion’s joyful, colour-rich pieces capture the spirit of landscape and emotion, bringing a sense of life and freedom into every work. 

September 1st to 30th - Claire Houghton

Claire Houghton  is a mixed-media textile artist based in the South West of England. Inspired by walks along the Cornish coastline and the Wiltshire countryside, she creates original textile scenes using a rich variety of fabrics and processes, including dyeing, painting, free-motion embroidery and embellishment. Claire often re-imagines vintage linens and lace, layering colour and texture in her home-studio compositions to make each piece uniquely expressive and tactile. 

August 1st to 31st 2025 - Julie Bolton

Julie Bolton is a soft pastel artist who is inspired by the beautiful Wiltshire landscape and her love of animals. A life long, mainly self taught artist, she loves to learn through experimentation and play with colour, mark making and texture. Her commissioned work of animals, pets and people requires realism and representation, so landscapes and seascapes are a place for exploration and expression. Julie has collectors around the globe and has exhibited in local galleries and open exhibitions around Wiltshire. She is currently accepting commissions for 2025/26.

July 1st to 31st 2025 - Sam Lindup

We’re excited to welcome Samuel Lindup as our inaugural exhibitor. His abstract work explores humanity’s impact on Earth - climate change, conflict, and more - by imagining distant, undiscovered planets. Through these romanticized worlds, he reflects on how alien civilizations might evolve and affect their environments, offering a powerful contrast to our own planet.