Welcome to Chew Valley Arts Trail Website

The next trail will take place on the weekend of Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th October 2012. Application forms from eligible artists should be in by 30th May 2012 at the latest.

Thanks to everyone who visited us on the trail last year and to the venue hosts and artists for their hard work.

Please note that the details of the 2011 participants will stay on this site until September 2012 when it will be updated with full details of those taking part in October 2012.

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The Chew Valley Arts Trail is an annual privately run, weekend event showcasing the creative abilities of people who live or work in a beautiful rural area only a few miles south of Bristol.  As well as being very close to the famous Chew Valley and Blagdon Fishing Lakes, it is near to Bristol Airport, the Heritage City of Bath and also not far from the City of Wells and the Cheddar caves.

Thirty three venues opened for the weekend of 8th and 9th October 2011 where visitors were able to meet over ninety artists.  They included painters, illustrators, printmakers, cartoonists, potters, sculptors, bookbinders, photographers, jewellers, vintage textile and candle makers.

We hope visitors enjoyed a very versatile weekend when they went to studios, homes, outbuildings and village halls. There were opportunities to watch people at work and to discuss their styles and techniques, browse or buy and also to enjoy the countryside of the Chew Valley.

If you visited and wish to send feedback please email: Sandy Bell on tintinna@aol.com - please put Chew Valley Arts Trail feedback in the subject box.