Winter Open Studios back across Scarborough, Filey and Whitby for Christmas shopping

Taking place across the county from November 7 to 8, Winter Open Studios gives visitors the rare chance to explore the hidden spaces where art comes to life, meet the creators and discover one-of-a-kind Christmas gifts.

Organised by artist-run collective North Yorkshire Open Studios (NYOS), it will showcase a wide variety of styles, media and subjects, as well as locations, with the event designed to suit all types of visitors.

Garth Bayley, Project Manager at NYOS, said: “This weekend is a fantastic opportunity to explore our stunning region, meet incredibly talented makers and find truly unique pieces that you won’t see anywhere else.”

Participating artists across Scarborough and Filey are:

Lisa Skelton – Gallery 33, 33 Newborough, Scarborough YO11 1NF: A textile artist specialising in wild animals and pets, Lisa uses fabric and embroidery to recreate images of birds and wild creatures set in their natural environment.

Janine Baldwin – 19 Gladstone Road, Scarborough YO12 7BQ: an award winning landscape artist using pastels, paint and collage focusing on gestural mark-making and texture to depict the weather and atmosphere of the Yorkshire landscape.

Adam King – Gladstone studio 2-4, Gladstone lane, Scarborough YO12 7BP: Painting and exhibiting for most of his life, Adam’s colourful and bright work responds to his environment by the sea.

Lindsey Tyson, Woodend Creative Workspace, The Crescent, Scarborough YO11 2PW: An award-winning mixed media abstract artist, exploring elements and textures using encaustic wax, paint, and drawing media.

Matt Machouki – Studio 1, The Old Parcels Office Railway Station Car Park, Scarborough YO11 1TU: Inspired by a range of natural, industrial, architectural and geometric forms, Matt explores scale and texture, making large stoneware pots constructed by stitching or weaving tiles together.

Lou Bass – Beeforth's Hive, Esplanade, Scarborough YO11 2BA: A visual artist whose vibrant paintings are both playful and poignant. She explores relationships and situations with help from her friends, Bandit Cat, Donkey, Crow, Fox, Dog and Angry Man.

Michael Atkin – Byways, Low Street, Scalby, Scarborough YO13 0QW: Michael creates limited edition etchings, wood engravings, lino prints and fine art books, using traditional methods with five antique printing presses from the 19th century.

Lorraine Kathryn – 256 Overdale, Eastfield, Scarborough YO11 3RE: Lorraine sculpts unique, dynamic shapes, lamps and animals, applying decorative filigree to her sculptures.

Shirley Vauvelle – Lebberston Hall, Manor View Road, Lebberston, Scarborough YO11 3PB: Fascinated by nature, Shirley’s work moves between hand building sculptures in stoneware and porcelain to painting with mixed media and oil, embodying nature.

Gillian Martin – Lebberston Hall, Manor View Road, Lebberston, Scarborough YO11 3PB: An established illustrator influenced by modernism and post war abstraction, aiming to create a balance between line shape and colour.

Fiona Clibbens – The Old Bakery, 28A West Road, Filey YO14 9LP: With a passion for strong design, clean lines and bold colours, many of Fiona’s copperfoil pieces are designed to foster a sense of joy. Each piece of glass is carefully selected for colour, transparency and texture.

Julie Kelly – 93 West Avenue, Filey YO14 9BG: Julie uses paint, inks, fabric and found objects to create sculptures, wall hangings and artwork that reflect her observations. Her inspiration comes from being out in nature, walking, listening and learning about her surroundings.

Artists across Whitby and surrounding areas are:

Aphra O’Connor – Groves Hall Studio, Groves Hall, Woodlands, Sleights, Whitby YO21 1RY: Aphra allows audiences into her life through her work, articulating how she interacts with the world after her AuDHD diagnosis. Recent pieces explore the relationship between material and neurodiversity and what it is to exist inside a creative brain; investigating the stresses and pressures of making through ceramic processes.

Numi Solomons – Groves Hall Studio, Groves Hall, Woodlands, Sleights, Whitby YO21 1RY: Numi is inspired by Brutalist and primitive architecture as well as Paolozzi, Kandinsky and Miro, reimagining their textures, forms and colours in her ceramics.

Ailsa Nicholson – 24 Iburndale Lane, Sleights, Whitby YO22 5DP: Inspired by the North Yorkshire moors and coastline, Ailsa creates fused glass using kiln-formed layering techniques, exploring the patterns of the landscape and the interplay of light and colour.

Maria Bennett – Eskdaleside Barn, Grosmont YO22 5PS: A contemporary landscape which explores themes of rural decay, structures and the openness of the moorland areas through layered acrylics, oils, and wax mediums. Texture and abstraction are central to her practice.

Louise Garrett – Dale End Farm, Green End, Goathland, Whitby YO22 5LJ: Louise paints and draws from life using a variety of materials and subjects.

Ian Burke – Stonegate Mill, Stonegate, Lealholm YO21 2AB: A painter, printmaker, and former art teacher. He has a Colombian press at one end of his studio and large canvases for oil painting at the other.

Kit Hemsley (Kit Designs) – Stowe Lodge, 56 Ellerby Lane, Runswick Bay TS13 5HS: A ceramic artist, Kit creates work deeply rooted in the coastline’s timeless beauty and its ever-changing forms, using the interplay of textures and colours in the natural landscape to inspire every piece created.

Visit nyos.org.uk/winter-open-studios to learn more about participating artists.