Penicuik Open Studio Trail

Sat 25 and Sun 26 September 2021 11am – 4pm
Sat 2 and Sun 3 October 2021 11am – 4pm (except Valleyfield pottery, which opens at 12 noon on Sun 3 October)
FREE*

ALL STUDIOS:
Visitors will be required to comply with the Scottish government’s COVID restrictions, whatever they may be at the time, and will be required to wear masks and keep a distance, if that is still in place.
Weaving studio: Hand sanitizer supplied; a maximum of 5 visitors at any given time.
Garden studio: visitors can view and sit in the garden while waiting.

WHERE?
The Garden Studio, 20a John Street, Penicuik (see notes below).
“Carbon challenge” Exhibition of paintings in mixed media by Ulla Hipkin.
The Weaving Studio, 5B West Street, Penicuik.
Weaving by Christina Suter and ink drawings by Kalina Suter.
Valleyfield Pottery, 17 High Street, Penicuik.
Pottery by Jane Kelly

*please do not attend if you have any symptoms of Covid. To reduce public anxiety, please let the person on the door know if you are suffering from a chronic cough that is not infectious and not related to Covid.*

The Garden Studio – Ulla Hipkin

Ulla’s exhibition ties in with the Penicuik Carbon Challenge project –  it’s about ‘Life style & Carbon Challenge’. The paintings on the poster show the tree houses in Bilston Glen (on the way from our town to Edinburgh) which were occupied for some years in protest against a new road  planned to go through the Green Belt (which has not now been built on);  and two consumers  ‘Buy Buy Buy …’ mixed media/with print painting. There are also large paintings of flowering asphalt, cars and lifestyle, oil pollution in the North Sea, and a very large one of the Pentland Hills and climate change. Ulla hopes it is thought provoking!