(18 September to 3 October 2021)
The annual Somerset Open Studios presents work from over 300 Somerset artists in over 200 studios and spaces across the English county.
Somerset is a county in South West England borders Gloucestershire Wiltshire, Dorset along with the Severn Estuary and Bristol Channel.
The Open Studios provides the chance to meet the artist and see the working process.
There will also be series of demonstrations, workshops, talks, films and visiting residencies as well as family friendly weekends with a range of activities for younger visitors.
A new app will provide venue details linking to Google Maps to take visitors 'straight to the studio door'.
A fold-out venue map and listings will also be available at cultural venues from August.
Among the highlights of the 2021 event :
East Quay in Watchet
East Quay, a major new harbourside arts venue and gallery in Watchet, will be welcoming visitors to its artist/maker studios.
Somerset Rural Life Museum
Contemporary textile artist Alice Kettle will be at the Rural Life Museum, near Glastonbury working on Thread Bearing Witness, which looks at themes of cultural heritage and displacement through the contributions of migrants.
Ancient sites from the air
David Abram's aerial photographs of Britain's prehistoric sites, from Neolithic tombs on Wessex chalklands to Iron Age crannogs in Hebridean lochs, will be on display at his studio in Frome.
Working with reclaimed materials
Aware of the need to reduce waste, several artists are now working with reclaimed materials
Emma Duke uses her creative design skills to develop individual pieces from driftwood at her studio in the Quantock Hills at Crowcombe.
And Woolavington based Nick Fraser offers A Load of Old Scrap using mostly scrap metal and salvaged materials to make sculptures ranging in size from a snail to a full grown man Also working with reclaimed materials, George Hider creates sculptures from scrap steel at his farm in Merriott.
Glass artists
Several glass artists will be opening their studios showcasing different practices.
Jane Reddington channels her skills into stained glass mosaics.
Siddy Langley has worked over 40 years as a glassblower and Lu Lloyd's uses fused glass to produce a range of art and jewellery from her workshop at Stoke St Gregory.
Pottery
Ceramicist Nicola Werner set up her own pottery back in 1987 and is now based at Fitzhead where she produces a wide range of domestic ware, one-off commemorative pieces, tiles and murals to order.
Working from his studio in Bruton, Richard Pomeroy will be showcasing a selection of his porcelain jugs, mugs and beakers.
Art at Barrington Court
A group of individual artists are based at the National Trust Barrington Court estate, near Ilminster, including landscape painter Katy Armstrong, mixed media artists Kate Norton and Sarah Trevithick and Jacob Trood whose work is all bees.