Author: Rosy Naylor

If you are an artist living or working in the Forth Valley we would love to hear from you! Applications are now open until 31st January to participate in our 2020 event.

We plan to introduce a number of new elements to our next Forth Valley Art Beat:

• A new participatory art public commission will be introduced (pending funding)
• Cycling routes will be included to connect up many of the more rural locations
• Our maps will be redesigned to show more detail and to highlight sustainable travel links

Whether you wish to open up your working space or studio, or host an exhibition elsewhere do get in touch. The event usually stretches from Alloa, Falkirk & Polmont areas in the East; Stirling, Bridge of Allan & Dunblane in the Central region; to Drymen & Buchlyvie in the West. Wherever you are based across the Forth Valley we would welcome your application. We look forward to bringing together another eclectic event that encompasses all the regions of the Forth Valley, celebrating creativity, community and collective working.

The FVOS Showcase exhibition opened last weekend and runs until the end of July.

Thanks to Jane Cameron and Sarah Bromage at the University of Stirling for hosting the event.

Lys Hansen, chair of Forth Valley Open Studios, will exhibit in Austria later this year after a European curator visited her studio during last year’s Forth Valley Open Studios.

Lys gave a talk recently on the work of Open Studios to members of the Tillicoultry branch of the Scottish Women’s rural Institute.

She spoke about the growing demand on the part of artists to take responsibility for both showing and selling their own work and said that this was reflected in the fact that more than 150 artists will be taking part in this, the fourth year, of the event from 8-16 June.

Angela Learoyd Jewellery is doing a voucher promotion to win £100 of gift vouchers to spend on any jewellery in the gallery. There are lots of ways to enter the draw. See below.