Sladers Yard in West Bay is celebrating Christmas all month this December with a dazzling display of unique giftware all individually handmade by top British artists, designers and craftspeople. Top of the bill is Alex Lowery the acclaimed painter from Charmouth with his distinctive and beautiful paintings of West Bay and Portland alongside Petter Southall’s inventive oak furniture made in the Bride Valley.
The new exhibition, entitled Sea Light, shows painters of the coast including the super-real oils of Stephen Jacobson RWA, brother of Booker Prize winning novelist Howard Jacobson, with Jeremy Scrine, winner of this year’s Dorchester Open Prize, whose softly coloured semi-abstracted paintings show industrialised coastline. In the Yard Gallery are Rufus Knight-Webb’s romantic and painterly wheeling gulls and waves.
Sladers Yard’s Christmas Evening Market is on Friday 3 December from 5 – 8pm with free entry for local food and craft makers’ stalls including Five Penny Farm’s Real Food Bus with hampers, plus Fiona Neylan’s hats, Tracy Oldfield’s throws, beeswax products, cheeses, chocolates and more. The Gold Award Winning Cafe will be open serving mulled wine and mince pies plus winter mezze, hot soups and cakes.
The gallery will be open upstairs with a full array of giftware including hand blown glasses, a range of ceramics, hand sewn leather bags, printed lampshades and cushions, woven silk and wool scarves, throws, purses and automata all made by leading craftspeople in their field, including jewellery by Bridport’s Jocelyn Pardoe, textiles by Harriet Wallace Jones from Netherbury and other local makers.
Sladers Yard,
West Bay,
Bridport,
DT6 4EL
t: 01308 459511
