Kirkcudbright Art & Crafts Trail 2012 (9th Year)
Friday 3 August - Monday 6 August

Telegraph Shed of the Year
The Beach Huts on Fisher's Green featured on this year's bookmarks have been entered in the Telegraph's Shed of the Year competition. There are already 1758 entries so good luck to us.
- check it out - click here.

Raffle tickets are now available

Why not help support the 'Trail' by selling/buying raffle tickets. Tickets are £1 each with prizes ranging from £50 to £10 plus other assorted prizes. Books/tickets available from Pauline or Vivien or from many of this year's participants.

2012 Bookmarks (available now from Pauline, Viv or Colin)

2012 Brochures will be available around the 20th April.

Get a flavour of the event by looking at the 2011 Brochure which is still available as a PDF
(Click here to see the 2011 brochure)

Details for those who took part in the 2011 'Trail' are included on the following pages

There are now four videos posted on Facebook (click here)
Note: 185 photos now added to Facebook (search Kirkcudbright Art & Crafts Trail).
(click here)

The Kirkcudbright Girls return for 2011

Another successful 'Trail' which, once again, attracted thousands of visitors to Kirkcudbright. This year we were blessed with many hours of glorious sunshine and, unfortunately, the occasional unwelcome period of rain - Saturday being particularly hot and Sunday particularly wet. The extension to four days gave visitors the opportunity to visit many more venues which, judging by comments received, was greatly appreciated.

The photos above are from this year's 'Trail' - Allan Ross's popular wooden toys and Ruth Sandiford playing Scottish Harp whilst enjoying the shade on a very hot Saturday. Also thank you to Ann Holmes for her two framed 'works of art'. Many more photos to come but please continue to send in your masterpieces (see below).

The following seven photos by Colin Saul

The 9th Kirkcudbright Art & Crafts Trail :
- Friday 3 August until Monday 6 August 2012
- book your holidays now.

The 'Wishing Tree' - Birds on the washing line and the Wee Kirkcudbright Entertainers

During this year's 'Trail' we were fortunate to be offered the use of the Meeting Room in the Town Hall where we held a 'silent auction' and sale. Being in the same building as the well attended 'Glasgow Boys' exhibition this has proved to be a great success. As part of the event artists and craftspeople taking part in the 'Trail' were asked to produce a 20cm square canvas of any subject relating to Kirkcudbright. The result was a wall of small canvases which the public were allowed to purchase for £10.

The Small Canvases (Squares) all had a theme related to an aspect of Kirkcudbright.

Following six photos by Jim Bell

Dolls at the Scout Hall Jane Gibson at Cornerways

Andy Breen at Greengate Pipers at the Harbour

The Wee Kirkcudbright entertainers in the High Street Sami Thorpe at the Parish Hall

Jean & Ruthie Redden at work in Rhubarb basement.(Photos by Ruthie)

Floral arrangements in Greyfriars House (Photos by Ruthie)

Stewart Baillie & Linda Porritt exhibited in Greyfriars House (photos by Stewart)

The following four photos by Carl Dania

Do you know what it is yet Andy? Kite making with Anthea

Custom House People's Picture Palace at the Royal Hote

The following photos have been sent in by Sandy Cowan

^ Fanfares for Fredwood and Sandy.

Adele's Garden

                       A piano duet by Mary Mann & Hazel Laurie at Broughton House and Pipers
                       outside Greengate entertained the visitors.

Newspaper Dress on the line, Kite Making at Greengate and Knitted Dress on the line

Willow by Lizzie Fairey, Wood and Pottery and Maverick Angels at Greengate

About the 'Trail'

As part of Kirkcudbright's 'Summer Festivities' programme the Art & Crafts Trail, which has been running successfully now for seven years, takes you into hidden gardens, artists' studios and homes, not normally open to the public, where you will be able to talk to some of the artists and find out what makes Kirkcudbright special for them. Trail venues are open daily from 11.00am until 5.00pm
Catch the 'Free Trail Bus' to venues outside the centre area. The route is shown in the brochure.

This four day event is a family friendly event with lots of 'fun' things to do. Who needs the Trafalgar Square Plinth - have a go on the Moat Brae Plinth.

Why not send a 'Message in a Bottle' , pose on the Plinth, have a go at 'Washing Line Art' or maybe even 'You've Been Framed'. The choices are endless.

Take the opportunity to visit around 70 different venues and meet some of the 180 or so participants as you wander around the picturesque harbour town nestling on the River Dee Estuary..

Sugarcraft Carved Furniture

Pottery Glassware Silver Jewellery

Kirkcudbright is steeped in history and has been the home of many famous artists over the years including E A Hornel and the 'Glasgow Boys', Jessie M King and her husband E A Taylor, Charles Oppenheimer, William Robson and David Sassoon to name a few - walk in their footsteps and visit some of the venues where they lived and worked.

In addition to the artist/maker venues many of the local galleries and art/craft related shops open in the town. For a list of these and other sponsors of the 2011 'Trail please click here. 2012 brochure will be around the 20th April.

Photo Opportunities - Please continue to send in your images if you joined us on any of the 'Trails' and took some great photos - we may even include it on the websiteor in the brochure. Photos should be standard 4"x6" (landscape) or digital (minimum 1200x900 pixels) and can be emailed to photos@artandcraftstrail.co.uk

Kirkcudbright from The Stell

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