Re-discover the South Hams Arts Trail 2025!

Get ready for a journey through creativity and inspiration with the South Hams Arts Trail 2025!

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The Arts Trail 2024 featured over 60 talented artists exhibiting in 24 unique venues across the picturesque South Hams region.

The South Hams Arts Forum (SHAF) proudly presented the Arts Trail 2025, running from Saturday 11th to Sunday 26th October. This annual event celebrates our vibrant artistic community, offering a platform for local residents to showcase their talents, creativity, and passion for the arts.

Highlights of the 2024 Arts Trail:

• Over 50 Artists, 20+ Venues: Explore a vast array of creative expressions in beautiful locations such as Kingsbridge Market Hall, Avon Mill Café and Devon Studios in Loddiswell, and Newton Ferrers Yacht Club.
• Meet the Artists: Engage with artists in their own studios and homes, gain insights into their creative processes, and even see them at work.
• Unique Purchases: Find that perfect piece of original art to take home and enjoy.
• Workshops: Participate in artist-led workshops to learn new skills and unleash your own creativity.

This year’s Arts Trail introduces many new makers working in a mix of disciplines, alongside beloved returning artists showcasing new and exciting works. From painting and sculpture to textiles, ceramics, and more, there’s something to captivate every art enthusiast.

Being in the heart of the South Hams, most venues are situated near stunning walks, beaches, and award-winning pubs. We encourage visitors to enjoy the opportunity to visit artists’ studios and exhibitions, whilst having a great day out.

Experience the Trail: Visitors can easily follow the Trail using the distinctive yellow signs with black arrows situated around exhibiting venues, guiding visitors through the South Hams, including Dartington, Totnes, Ivybridge, Plymstock, Kingsbridge, and Thurlestone.

The Arts Trail brochure, available for free from Tourist Information Centres, local businesses, pubs, hotels, and restaurants, or downloadable from the SHAF website (www.shaf.org.uk), provides essential information on each artist and venue, including location, opening days, and hours.

Don’t miss this extraordinary community celebration of local artists! Plan your visit to the 2024 South Hams Arts Trail and immerse yourself in the vibrant artistic community of the South Hams. Don’t forget to share your route or favourite artist with #Artstrail2024 or tag us @southhamsartsforum.

Follow SHAF on social media for continued updates on what's on during the event. 
For any Arts Trail enquiries, please email artstrail@shaf.org.uk.

The map below shows all 23 Venues who will be exhibiting in the 2024 Arts Trail. 

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Check out the new 2024 Brochure!

The SHAF Arts Trail provides an opportunity for visitors to view and buy work directly from the makers. Visitors discover paintings, ceramics, sculpture, jewellery, lampshades, mosaics, hand-turned wooden items. Furniture, felt, paper and textile art, photography, basketry, printmaking and so much more.

SHAF artists taking part in the Trail work and exhibit in a wide variety of venues: some work on their kitchen tables, others in purpose-built studios; some work alone, others in an artists’ collective. Visitors will find artists exhibiting in their homes and studios, in galleries, exhibition halls, hotels and pubs. Following the Arts Trail provides visitors with a wonderful opportunity to explore the glorious South Hams and discover places they never knew existed.

The 2023 Arts Trail Brochure provides ‘at a glance’ information to help visitors plan their route: a map of the area shows where all participating artists may be found, and venues are listed for easy reference; Venue Opening Dates and Times are listed, as well as artists by name, their venue and the page on which they appear in the brochure. This enables visitors on the trail of specific artists to locate them easily.​

Following the Arts Trail enables visitors to discover the latest works of their favourite artists, find new artists and artwork to add to their ‘favourites’ list.

SHAF hopes all visitors to the Arts Trail will have a wonderful time and will take the opportunity to drop in for a delicious lunch or cream tea at one of the cafes, hotels, pubs and restaurants advertised in the brochure.

Workshops & Demonstrations during the Arts Trail 

*Note: Please contact artists individually to book workshops or demonstrations. 
If you are planning to host Workshops or Demonstrations During the Arts Trail please be sure to update us at artstrail@shaf.org.uk.

South Hams Arts Forum would like to thank South Hams and Devon Councillors for supporting the Arts Trail 2024.  

Your participation keeps our events alive and thriving. We want this year's Arts Trail to be a celebration of Art and communities coming together supporting one another, a Community Celebration!

The Arts Trail owes its success to the dedication of our volunteers and the amazing artists that take part each year displaying their work and opening their studios. We extend our gratitude to our supportive South Hams and Devon Councillors who continue to support the Arts Trail through Community Grants, locals businesses who advertise in our brochure, and help promote the event. The talented team at Freeway Projects for their invaluable contributions with the painstaking task of bringing all the information together to create our amazing brochure.

Do you want to be part of the Arts Trail next year?

If you would like to take part or promote your business next year in our brochure please get in touch. Don't miss out on this great opportunity to promote your business throughout the South Hams at an affordable price, reaching over 6000 individuals. For more information contact us on artstrail@shaf.org.uk.