Sat 3 & Sun 4th December 2022 Artisan Christmas Market & Open Studios with bonus group exhibition and pop-up cafe! 10-4pm daily
Yes, totally join us at Perth Creative Exchange artists’ studios and creative hub this weekend! We’ve been toiling mightily to bring you a lovely creative market with coffee and cake and a truly beautiful joint tenants’ exhibition, ‘Winter Exchange’…. that’s just on the ground floor! Upstairs there’s more! (yes we do have a lift!) Want to see what goes on behind the artists’ studio doors? Step this way to see a bit of pot throwing, sniff the turps in the painting studios, check out all the fascinating jewellery making tools and chat about the mysterious processes of printmaking and animation. And more…. we’ll have a few refreshments upstairs to keep you going.
Perth Creative Exchange Stormont Street PH1 5NW
Small peek inside some of the Creative Exchange Studios .Small sample of our guest market stallholders.
Please do come along and support your local small creative businesses this festive season!
4th, 5th, & 6th November Entry £4 & children free 75 of Scotland’s best craftspeople and food producers, all gathered in a magical setting!
Join me at Blair Castle, Blair Atholl, in the heart of Highland Perthshire for this magical, festive event! I’ll be bringing the Totey Vases (see below) of course, plus some new Christmas decorations and a range of ceramics, large and small for any purse.
Kicking off this weekend and it’s going to be a good one! Celebrating all things ceramic, this year Potfest comes to Penrith for the time in October. Get that Christmas shopping started early or treat yourself. You deserve it. If you love ceramics it’s the destination for you with over 100 potters showing their wares.
10-12th June 2022 – please join me at Potfest Scotland from this Friday 10th June in the beautiful grounds and gardens of Scone Palace! Potters and ceramic artists from all over will welcome everyone with an incredible array of work from mugs to sculpture and everything in between!
Book your tickets at https://potfest.co.uk/visit/potfest-scotland/ or pay at the gate. A truly wonderful day out for all the family with dogs on leads welcome… nay, encouraged (by me 😄).
My first event of the summer season is just around the corner: Open Studios at Perth Creative Exchange takes place over the weekend of May 21st & 22nd. Sixteen of Perthshire’s most creative and talented artists and makers will be opening their studios to the public, and it’s a fantastic opportunity to get a little insight into their process…and entry is free!
Click on the image above to find out more about Open Studios and more upcoming WASPS events. Looking forward to seeing you there!
🇺🇦 Prize Draw Fundraiser for the Disasters Emergency Committee in support of Ukraine. 🇺🇦
I haven’t found the will or words to post anything much these last few weeks, really. But while we watch helplessly on with this shadow over us, we would like to do the small something we feel we can at Perth Creative Exchange studios… so please do buy some raffle tickets for your chance to win a piece of our work.
My contribution is this white earthenware cushion pot which you know you want to have. It’s 6.5x10cm, wheel-thrown, sgraffito decorated and glazed.
Please buy as few or as many tickets as you can afford to… (please contact me if you have any problems) THANK YOU so much and good luck! 💙💛
How to enter: 1. Donate directly to the Disasters Emergency Committee at www.dec.org.uk . £5 buys you one entry, you may donate to the value of however many entries you would like. 2. Take a screenshot as proof of your donation and DM or email it to ceriwhitestudios@gmail.com 3. The prize draw will remain open for 1 week until Monday 14th March. Prizes will be drawn on Wednesday 16th March and winners will be contacted by DM or email to supply their postal address for shipping (UK only please). 4. Please like, comment or best of all please share this post to reach as many people as we possibly can, thankyou! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🇺🇦
Your entry will go into a general pot for the draw, unless you want to specify an artist (see pictures below for who’s who)… in which case it will be first come first served. 🙏🏻 Trying to keep it simple but fair!).
This is the final week to see Perthshire Through A Prism… this has been a lovely project to work on, finding the differences and commonalities of our take on Perthshire; myself, painter, Susan Hutchison and jeweller, Roberta Pederzoli (Quinta Essenza).
“Starting from the same source of inspiration, the beautiful Perthshire Landscape and its inhabitants, all three artists offer their own interpretation of the surroundings where they live, producing distinctive and original final works reflective of their own viewpoint on a common theme. Artists do not live in a vacuum but rather they filter and interpret the context of their surroundings through the lenses of their own culture, experience, education, personal taste and medium. The aim of this exhibition is not to emphasis the similarity but to play with the different viewpoints of the three artists through the prism of their experience and chosen media, whilst not losing sight of the common theme: Nature and culture.”
Roberta Pederzoli
Roberta Pederzoli from Quinta Essenza designs textured and tactile jewellery, recreating a sensation of fairy-tale elegance and enchantment by delicately brushing colours over her work: black, white and gold. Her jewellery is inspired by natural and organic shapes, in particular by lichens, wood and interesting forms she observes during her walks. The Scottish environment is an incredible and wonderful source of creativity; being born and raised in Italy, Roberta creates pieces where Scottish landscape inspiration and Italian style merge together. Every piece is carefully crafted with consideration of texture and colour to create a unique and timeless work.
My artwork is inspired by the natural world and in particular animal life forms. Based in Perthshire the rural environment has provided me with a diverse range of subjects large and small, wild and domesticated. And whether it’s a prize bull, a fox or a tiny field mouse I strive to capture the essence of each animal and its individual character. My artwork is both representational and quirky and I have developed my own unique style. In recent times my focus has turned to ‘man’s best friend’, and I have enjoyed painting a variety of dog breeds. The compositions that I create strive to reinforce the characteristics of the particular breed and celebrate our much loved canine companions.
From her studio in Perth’s Creative Exchange, Ceri White produces a confectionery of contemporary ceramics for the home. She specialises in hand-thrown earthenware vessels and planters, along-side which she has developed a range of delightful interior accessories including collectable tiny house sculptures and miniature vases. Every piece is unique and made using traditional pottery techniques, from the ball of clay thrown on a wheel, through various decorating processes and two kiln firings, to the finished item. Ceri is art school trained with many years of studio experience and continues to be influenced by a 1970’s suburban upbringing, the minutiae of nature, a lifetime habit of doodling and collecting, and a love and understanding of colour and pattern.
Ceri White Studios 