William Smith
William Smith
Shelly Perkins
Shelly Perkins
Jill Crowther
Jill Crowther
Harbour by Lorenzo Gavarini
Lorenzo Gavarini
Catherine Van Giap - fish panel
Catherine Van Giap

 h.Art  Sat 6 to Sun 14 September 2025 

Take your time to feel uplifted and inspired by Herefordshire's creative people. 

Enrich your homes and lives with their wonderfully varied art and craftworks.

h.Art is a not to be missed early Autumn treat.

Hundreds of artists across the County and close borders.

9 days of joyful inspiration, unique finds, and the chance to buy direct from the creator. Meet them in their creative habitats, pop up shows in lots of unexpected places and galleries. Many artists only open their work spaces once a year, giving you a rare insight into their creative lives and their individual practice. You can chat, just browse, buy, or commission direct.

Artists and galleries update their pages throughout the year, so you can check out what’s new with them and follow your favourites until the end of the year.

 

This year's participants will start to appear on site in early February and be populated by mid March. 

 

 

How to explore - 

You can choose to explore by artist, artform, gallery, location or venue.

Each venue page has a link to the artists showing there and to 'what three words' and google maps.

Download last year's h.Art County, City & town maps here. This year's maps will be available later in July.

Download last year's 2024 h.Art guide, go to the top navigation bar and click on GUIDE. This year's downloadable and printed guide will be available later in July.

 

We'd love you to hold onto your guide, you can use it as an artist directory to get back in touch. 

The 2025 guide will be available to download and pick up around the County from late July. You will find them in libraries, Tourist Info Centres and the local pick up points as well as h.Art venues who are open regularly. If you are out of county you can pick them up within a 50 mile radius of the County at libraries, Tourist Info Centres and main tourist attractions. Contact h.Art for a full list of pick up points outside the County or request a paid postage guide here.

 

Artist and Venues taking part - scroll down on this page to the Artist Notice Board for participant information and updates.

Taking Part  -  Information on how to take part and forms can be found in the Take Part section of this site. Taking Part forms OPEN on 4 Feb and CLOSE 4 March. 

 

 

 

 

4 February

Take Part forms OPEN
All artists & galleries complete Profile Form 1

One person from each venue completes Venue Form 2

Help to answer your queries from both the h.Art Organiser and The Advisory Group

4 March

Deadline for Taking Part
Both forms close

May - June

Advisory Group members contact Venue Organisers

Support for participants to discuss and exchange ideas with neighbouring venues

15 & 16 July

Publicity Pick Up
for participants.
Check for updates on
Artist Notice Board

h.Art Week

Christmas Open Studios

Last Nov weekend
First Dec weekend

Artist Notice Board

Are you looking for artists to join you at your venue, or searching for a great space to show at next year?

If anyone is looking for anyone/anything specific and you want me to put out your request on the Artist Notice Board and in the next ENewsletter. Please let Mel know.  Be specific about what you are looking for and what you are offering and include relevant contact details.

Something along these lines, e.g., from a venue -

Joe Bloggs - I have a barn five miles from Hereford which I think would be a fantastic venue for sculptors, but I would want the artists to organise everything, but I will contribute X percentage of the Venue fee payment. See my venue here/link Contact Joe at X to chat informally.

 Something along these lines, e.g., from an artist -

Johanna Bloggs - I work in watercolour but on a large scale and I’m looking for a small friendly group to show with, preferably in the South of the County. See my work here/link Contact Johanna at X

 

2025 Artist seeking others:

Emily Hare & husband Matt Dixon looking for a group to join together. Ideally no further than 40 mins from Craven Arms, even better if it's closer! (That's where we are based). Emily works in watercolours and concentrates on fantasy, folklore and fairytales and Matt paints digitally creating enchanting and whimsical robots. You can see our work here: www.emilyhare.co.uk & www.mattdixon.co.uk 

 

2025 Venues seeking artists:

Oil & Oak - A Gallery and Makers Shop in Hay-on-Wye: We are looking for artists to take part in a collaborative exhibition for next year’s h.Art. We would like to showcase a variety of disciplines and have space for up to 6 artists (size dependant). You can view the space here: www.oilandoak.co.uk or pop into the shop yourself. Please contact Abi via abioilandoak@gmail.com if you're interested or have any questions.

 

The Lion Ballroom is a Grade Two Listed ballroom off Broad Street in Leominster is looking for a selection of new artists to join our Pop-Up art venue in 2025.

https://lionballroomleominster.co.uk/

We are looking for potters, weavers, textiles, jewellers, photographers, sculptures, glass blowers, metal workers, plus painters and will consider other talents too.

It will be £90 plus two days stewarding. Please email info@lionballroomleominster.co.uk or call 01568 612277 Ext 4 to discuss further.

 

h.Art Emerging Artist Bursary

Emerging Artist Bursary

h.Art is pleased to offer up to two bursaries to emerging professional artists with the aim of supporting those who have chosen to live and work in the county and who wish to take part in h.Art.

The bursary is for the value of £225, it’s a non-cash prize.

 

Bursary applicants can choose how they want to take part:

1 - You can open your own studio, with a 1/6-page event entry in the printed guide and your Artist Sign Up fee covered. 

2 - You can be part of a group of your choice.  Your proportion of the group event entry fee will be covered, up to the value of £185 and your £40 Artist Sign Up fee will be covered.

 

Important:

If you are successful in getting a bursary - and have already registered as an open studio, or as part of a group and paid, you and the venue organiser will each be given a refund totalling £225.

If you are unsuccessful in getting a bursary - but you have gone ahead with registration for any event and paid, your commitment will still stand and you/the venue organiser will not be offered any refund.  

 

Criteria

  • Applicants must live or have an established studio address within the Herefordshire county boundaries.
  • Applications from artists and makers working in any media are welcomed.
  • Applicants must be new to semi/professional arts practice, and been in business for no longer than 24 months.
  • Successful artists are required to take part in publicity in connection with the bursary.
  • Applicants must not have received the h.Art bursary before.

 

How to apply

Please request an application form by emailing: info@h-art.org.uk

The application must be submitted with up to ten images of your work. Images should be printed or emailed as jpegs files. Applications can be posted or emailed.

Applicants who refer the Advisory Group to a website or any social media site to see their images will not be considered.

Deadline for the receipt of applications: 5pm, 4 March

 

Selection

The h.Art Advisory Group will consider applications on 18 March.

Bursaries will be awarded based on the quality of artwork and application.

Up to two bursaries awards can be made, though the Advisory Group may decide to make no awards. The decision of the h.Art Advisory Group is final.

Winner/s of the Bursaries will be informed by phone or email on 19 March.

If a refund applies to a Bursary Winner, this will be paid via bac’s payment by 20 March.

Unsuccessful applicants will be informed by email no later than 20 March.

To TAKE PART in h.Art SIGN UP between the 4th Feb and 4 March

Information on how to Take Part in h.Art can be found on the navigation bar or click on Taking Part. The Artist, Gallery Profile and Venue forms can be found at the bottom of the Taking Part page.

Every artist taking part needs to create or update their online Artist Profile for the site first. Click on the Artist Profile box and then create or update your information and add up to 8 images for your page. All Galleries also need to create or update their Gallery Profiles. Profile pages go live on site 24 hrs after you have completed the form. Check out how they look on site and continue to edit and update them as often as you like until the end of the year. You can use them for anything related to your practice, they don't just have to be for the h.Art event. Visits to the site tend to grow from April onwards. 

Then a nominated person from each venue or group completes the Venue Form on behalf of each venue. If you are showing alone in your own studio or work space you would complete the Venue form for your space. Information and the image/s you choose to go in the Venue Form are used to create the printed h.Art guide, which will be available for venues to collect on the 15 and 16 July. 

Please see the Take Part page for more detailed information. 

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