Alan Stones and Rebecca Payn Open Studio
Glen Cottage
Blencarn
Penrith
Cumbria
CA10 1TX
Tel: 01768 88688
www.alanstones.co.uk
www.rebeccapayn.co.uk
Open every Thursday and Saturday between 2pm and 5pm throughout the year, and at other times by appointment.
Alan Stones and Rebecca Payn have well-established painting and print-making studios where they make oil paintings, drawings and original lithographs using stone and plate lithography. Visitors are given a warm welcome and an opportunity to see work in progress, to view work on display, to browse and also to buy directly from the studio.

Artware
4 Queen Street
Penrith
Cumbria
CA11 7XD
Tel: 01768 891488
Fax: 01768 899278
Art material suppliers and framers.

Beckstones Art Gallery
Greystoke Ghyll
Penrith
Cumbria
CA11 0UQ
Tel: 017684 83601
niki@beckstonesartgallery.co.uk
www.beckstonesartgallery.co.uk
Open 10 - 5pm 7 days a week March 1st - December 1st. 10.30 - 4.30pm Fri, Sat, Sun Dec, Jan, Feb.
One of the best in the country, if not the best, Beckstones is a specialist art gallery exhibiting a high standard of original work by up to 40 of the nation's top artists. Over 300 paintings in a variety of media cover a wide range of subject matter by artists, many with national or international reputations, carefully handpicked from all parts of the UK as well as the Lake District, selected on merit as the best at what they do.

Courtyard Gallery
32 Boroughgate
Appleby
Cumbria
CA16 6XG
Tel: 017683 51638
info@courtyardgallery.co.uk
www.courtyardgallery.co.uk
Tuesday - Saturday 10 - 5.30pm Sunday 10.30 - 5pm.
Courtyard Gallery sells a high standard of work solely from the British Isles. The gallery is hidden in a courtyard half way up the main street of Boroughgate, in one of the most charming corners of Appleby-in-Westmorland. On entering the gallery by the courtyard steps, you will find a collection of original paintings and etchings, ceramics, (both local and from other parts of the country), glass, a selection of designer jewellery plus other craft items and greetings cards. Tea and coffee can be enjoyed whilst browsing.

Foldgallery
3 Walton's Yard
Kirkby Stephen
Cumbria
CA17 4QT
info@foldgallery.co.uk
www.foldgallery.co.uk
During exhibitions only - Thurs, Fri & Sat 10 - 4pm, other times by appointment.
Foldgallery is a nonprofit making organisation that exists to promote access to contemporary art in the rural environment. The gallery has an exhibition programme of innovative and sometimes challenging work by rural visual artists from across the UK and beyond. Exhibitions are held both in our 4m cubed gallery space, or in the surrounding countryside. All exhibitions are simultaneously displayed on the website together with details of associated education programmes and events.

Greystoke Gill Pottery
Greystoke Gill
Penrith
Cumbria
CA10 0UQ
Tel: 017684 83123
b.park@virgin.net
www.greystokegillpottery.co.uk
Open Easter to Christmas 7 days 10am - 5pm Christmas to Easter Wednesday to Sunday 10 - 5 pm
We make an extensive range of mainly wheel thrown unique and individual stoneware, using several glazes intermingled on each piece to produce rich colourful surface decorations. Also a full range of practical and useful domestic stoneware. You are welcome to wander around the workshop to see the various processes of pottery making. Most of the work is fired in a wood burning kiln to 1280°C. We sell our work at the pottery and through exhibitions. On most days in the summer you can make your own pot, with individual tuition. Disabled access to pottery and shop. Car park, toilet and picnic area.

Greystones Coffee House and Gallery
Glenridding
Ullswater
Cumbria
Tel: 017684 82392
www.greystonesgallery.co.uk

High Head Sculpture Valley
High Head Farm
Ivegill
Carlisle
CA4 0PJ
Tel: 016974 73552
highheadvalley@aol.com
www.highheadsculpturevalley.co.uk
Open 10.30am -5.00pm, last entry is 4.30pm (closed Wednesdays). Situated halfway between Carlisle & Penrith, parking is free. Admission charge for outdoor sculpture exhibition. Disabled access to most areas. The gallery area displays a changing exhibition of traditional and contemporary sculptures, paintings, photography and ceramics.

Insideout
Bluebell Bookshop
Angel Square
Penrith
Cumbria
Tel: 01768 866660
Small gallery within independent bookshop, which also sells classical CDs

James Reynolds Sculpture and Gallery
Lime Grove
Tirril
Penrith
Cumbria
CA10 2JE
Tel: 01768 895330

Jonathan Trotman & Alison Critchlow
The Studio
Towngate Barn
Threlkeld
Keswick
Cumbria
Tel: 017687 79172
jonathan@blencathraart.co.uk
www.blencathraart.co.uk
By arrangement only.
Both are painters of the surrounding landscape and places recently visited. They paint in both oil and acrylic. Visit their website to see some of the latest results.

Little Salkeld Watermill
Little Salkeld
Penrith
Cumbria
CA10 1NN
Tel: 01768 881523
Fax: 01768 881047
njbj@aol.com
www.organicmill.com
Monday - Friday 10.30 - 5.00
Knitting and weaving by Ana Balfour - Hand knitted, natural dyes - hats, jerseys, glasses, scarves, hangings and cushions. Watercolours by Nick Jones - Landscapes and seascapes.

Lowood Art Gallery
Nr Armathwaite
Carlisle CA4 9RB
Tel: 01768 896636
lowoodgallery@msn.com
Open 10.00 - 6.00 Tuesday to Sunday Closed January/February
Opened winter 2002 by Jeremy & Meredith Latimer, the gallery aims to bring the best of British art to Cumbria with three exhibitions a year planned.

Morceau
Above & Within Just Sew
Poets Walk
Penrith
CA11 7HJ
Tel: 07747 043666 or 01768 483388
yvonne@morceau.co.uk
www.morceau.co.uk
Exhibition Open 9.30am -5.00pm Monday - Saturday (closing at 4.00pm on Wednesdays)
Morceau patchwork & needle centre is run by Yvonne Bodecott who also runs regular courses in textiles, patchwork and dressmaking from 9.30am -2.30pm, telephone for details.

The Pennine Pottery
Alston
Cumbria
CA9 3NG
Tel: 01434 382157
lascelle@fish.co.uk
Open 9.00 - 1.00 and 2.00 - 4.00 April-October (closed Wednesdays)
Situated 2.5 miles from Alston on A686 towards Hexham. Potter: Peter Lascelles.
Picnic area with majestic views, car park and toilet.

Penrith Museum
Robinson's School
Middlegate
Penrith
CA11 7PT
Tel: 01768 212228
museum@eden.gov.uk
www.eden.gov.uk
Open Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00 and Sundays (April to Oct only) 1.00 - 4.45
Penrith Museum is situated in an Elizabethan building converted by Eden District Council in 1990, adjacent to Penrith Tourist Information Centre. The Museum also has a gallery with a year-round programme of exhibitions of both historical and contemporary arts.

Red Barn
Melkinthorpe
Penrith
Cumbria
CA10 2DR
Tel: 01931 712767
info@redbarngallery.co.uk
Situated in the small hamlet of Melkinthorpe, approximately 4 miles south of Penrith, just off the A6. Red Barn, formerly Foster's Barn, has been converted to provide two exciting gallery spaces. The Upper Gallery is devoted to painting and sculptural pieces. The Lower Gallery concentrates on applied arts: glass, ceramics and jewellery.

Stokoe House Ceramics Gallery
Market Place
Alston
Cumbria
CA9 3HS
Tel: 01434 382137
sylmacro@supanet.com
10am - 5pm Easter to October Daily. Nov - Dec Weekends only (winter occasional opening phone first)
Ground Floor - shows the work of Syl & Ray Macro - Syl specialises in ceramic wall panels, vase forms & bowls using a technique of coloured clay assemblage. Ray makes tall elegant pierced wall lights inspired by growth patterns of trees, using a technique of hollow extrusion. Upper Gallery - 4/6 changing exhibitions each year featuring different potters & ceramic artists.

The Lion Gallery
5 Little Dockray
Penrith
Cumbria
CA11 7HL
Tel: 01768 867229

The Scar Art Gallery
Ravenstonedale
Kirkby Stephen
Cumbria
Tel: 015396 23308
davidandcaroline@ravenstonedale.org
Fridays 2 - 5pm and Saturdays 10 - 5pm Mid April to end of October.
The Scar Gallery shows the work of David William Morris and Caroline A Metcalfe-Gibson (with some work by other artists living locally). David's paintings (mostly in oil, but some also in acrylic, watercolour and pastel) are often intuitive explorations of figures and landscapes, sometimes abstracted and usually colourful. Caroline's work is based on sharply observed drawing, often in pen and ink of places of buildings characteristic of the area. Her watercolours are more freely applied, but none-the-less derive from close observation.

Upfront Gallery
Nr. Hutton-in-the-Forest
Penrith
Cumbria
CA11 9TG
Tel: 017684 84538
Fax: 017684 84633
john.f.parkinson@btinternet.com
www.up-front.com
To find us from the M6, exit via Junction 41 and take the B5305 towards Wigton. Upfront gallery is sign-posted on the left past Hutton-in-the-Forest.
Upfront gallery is located in a rural setting in a beautifully converted 17th Century barn. The gallery presents a changing programme of exhibitions, in four individual gallery spaces, each exhibition lasting for around six weeks. (Workshops and an associated series of events accompany the exhibitions). We also have an associated shop area where you can indulge in a range of goods including work by local makers and various cards.
A work of art is a unique wedding gift so why not visit the gallery, enjoy a lunch of Vegetarian whole food, or afternoon tea and homemade cakes, and browse the gallery and shop to find the perfect present.
The nearby House and Grounds of Hutton in the Forest are open to the public and make an ideal combination with a visit to the Gallery.

The Village Bakery
Melmerby
Penrith
CA10 1HE
Tel: 01768 881811
chriscurry@village-bakery.com

Wetheriggs Country Pottery
Clifton Dykes
Penrith
Cumbria
CA10 2DH
Tel: 01768 892733
Fax: 01768 892722
info@wetheriggs-pottery.co.uk
www.wetheriggs-pottery.co.uk
Open 10.00 - 5.30 Easter to end of October, 10.00 - 4.30 November to Easter
Situated three miles south of Penrith, off the A6, Wetheriggs Country Pottery is the oldest remaining steam powered pottery in the UK, established in 1855. Wetheriggs is still a working pottery with "Pots of Fun" studio for hands-on creative fun, and artists working studios:
Interlude Ceramics: Tel: 01768 899909
interludeceramics@hotmail.com, www.interludeceramics.com
Mary Chappelhow - made on site, handmade pottery, including unique contemporary ranges of stoneware
Super Cool Liquid Glass Studio: Tel:01768 210345
Jane Apperley & Kathryn Pearce - Traditional glassblowing techniques are used in the creation of contemporary forms
Watermark Studios: Tel:01768 210090
Ron Ablewhite landscapes & wildlife paintings and prints