We’re delighted so many of our artists are taking part in this year's Bath Open Studios exhibition in support of the Art at the Heart project.
In the central ground floor corridor of the Royal United Hospital, artists from all seven of Bath’s art trails and open studios have come together under the banner of Bath Open Studios to show their amazing artwork!
We know how brilliant the established and emerging artists are in Bath and how hard they work to make their annual art trails the great community events they are. Showing this success in the RUH to a wide range of hospital staff, visitors, outpatients and inpatients is a privilege, with one third of sales supporting Art at the Heart.
​Martin Hobday

This autumn, in the acrylic class, we have been painting using sponges and doing small paintings, about A5 size.  This stops us fiddling with unnecessary detail.  Using a sponge on larger paintings covers the ground very quickly, although it does use quite a lot of paint but you can get quite a bit of texture.

In this painting the background was done using just a sponge and the trees and the reflections were done with a piece of old credit card which is very useful for making straight, sharp lines.

This is only a quick sketch to find out the effect of the tools used.  I will try it out on a larger, more detailed painting.  This shows that you can paint with other tools apart from brushes and get effects which are not possible with just brushes.

Rosalind Darby