Programme: Open Village 2026

Mick makes sculpture from steel, often using scrap elements to create unique pieces for the garden and the home, sometimes with a touch of humour.

Ian paints in oils and makes drawings using pastels, charcoal and inks. The paintings are more detailed whilst the drawings are loose both however use large blocks of colour. The subject matter is mainly coastal and concentrates on working people and industrial settings.

Rochelle Ikin is a conceptual artist whose work blends figurative painting with experimental textiles. While her work tends to be rooted in personal experience it also extends to explore the broader human condition. For Rochelle, painting is a form of expression and a means of sharing in communion with others. Her paintings emerge from reflection, …

An exhibition of work by students of Foundation Degree in Textiles Practice, Bradford School of Art (Bradford College). Each student has taken their own individual direction to explore the projecttheme of ‘Wool Stories’. Starting from a visit to Salts Mill based H Dawson, students were inspired by the incredible properties of wool fibre, its versatility …

Debby Wilder’s practice explores memory, identity, and material culture through graphic design and printmaking. She works with found mementoes – small, mass-produced objects that carry traces of growing up in the 1970s, a period shaped by rigid ideals of femininity that she experienced as both pervasive and unsettling. Books, music, and popular culture offered early …

Yarn Studios is a creative hub in a Grade II listed building by the canal in Shipley, offering studio spaces for small businesses, artists, makers, designers and creatives, as well as a welcoming coffee shop and event space. The following resident artists will be opening their studios over the Arts Trail weekend, between 10am – …

Ben creates bold cyanotype prints of urban landscapes from photographs he has taken around West Yorkshire using this historic exposing technique. His focus is on the unseen or misrepresented, showing details in places that are often overlooked. From mixing his own chemicals, and hand-coating watercolour paper, he exposes and develops each print individually. The finished …

Aleema is a Bradford-based artist with a background in architecture, so her art draws inspiration from geometry and architectural forms as well as the optical illusion work of Victor Vasarely. While she works predominantly with acrylic paint on canvas, she occasionally introduces embroidery thread into her paintings to add another dimension and a textural element. …

Nerissa’s work explores juxtapositions of structure and colour: the contrast of nature and stone; particularly coastal textures often depicting the lichens and limpets that envelop eroded rocks. Nerissa blends recycled fabrics using an embellishing machine to build up subtle variations in tone and texture; augmented with embroidery to produce her signature textiles. Her three-dimensional work …

Bradford is Britain’s cloudiest city. Living and work in Saltaire, Al is surrounded by static chimneys and changing sky. It can be drab and grey, often it is drab and grey but… But sometimes, at dawn, streaks of pinks and orange can pick out the telecom towers over Wind Hill, then faint clear blues and …