HP9 ART TRAIL

Our second ever HP9 Art Trail took place 17-18th May 2025 when nine professional exhibiting artists in HP9 opened their studios for two days. We were collectively delighted to invite the public to follow the Art Trail route (map available online and in many local shops and venues) and to see behind the scenes of local artists ‘doing their thing’.

The event was a huge success, with visitors often commenting what a lovely event it had been and that they’d really enjoyed going around meeting artists in situ, seeing their creativity in their own studio spaces and enjoying a relaxed welcoming atmosphere.

There are limited options in our immediate local area for the thriving community of artists to show their work. We usually toil away behind closed doors and can struggle to get our work seen, so an open studio event is a great opportunity to show off the results of our endeavours, and to meet interested people. Both Art Trails have been really well received and each year we try to have a few new faces.

What each artist shows will be different (there are painters – you’ll find figurative, landscape, portrait and nature-inspired work, ceramic artists and jewellers taking part) and most work will be for sale. Many visitors will be creative themselves and looking for inspiration, others will be local folk interested to see what neighbours or friends really get up to in their ‘day job’ and of course we hope some will be looking for the next original artwork to add to their collection, or as a gift for someone’s special birthday.