It is a lovely hot day in August and we’re gathered in the Families For All Hub for our weekly WOW (Wellbeing on Wednesdays) session. Running these sessions in August is part of my Artist On My Street residency, culminating in the creation of a big piece of art for a wall within the Centre. […]

The What We Wore Exhibition finishes on 29th September 2023. You can visit the exhibition in the Drapers Room at St Mary’s Guildhall as part of a visit to the Guildhall. At certain times you can also visit the exhibition for a fee of just £1. Check the St Mary’s Guildhall website for details. We […]

‘… a melancholy sea as I remember it. A tideless sea. I can recall, as a child, seeing pictures in English children’s books of boys and girls playing on the sand and making sandcastles- and I tried to play on my sand. But a Mediterranean beach is not a place for playing on. It is […]

Image/artwork by Rachel Doughty An enticing story needs a resolute narrator. Whether you, as reader, choose to believe them, is entirely up to the artistry and crafts(wo)manship of the faithful servant holding a pen or in a modern day décor, keyboard. The servant is I: Adélaïde Fontenit, soon to be graduated from Warwick University in […]

Jessica Timmis is currently our Artist-In-Residence for our residency opportunity in partnership with Art Friends Warwickshire. She has shared some words on her time at Eaton House so far, and where the residency is taking her creative practice…    ‘Inside the Red Room – Shruff End ‘   On the 6th of February 2023 I […]

The value of having a Studio Artspace hosted their first Open Studios at Eaton House in February. I think the vast majority of people who took part and attended the event would say it was a great success and it’s given me renewed appreciation for my studio. I thought it would be good to consider […]

It’s December and the end of the year… Whaaat?? How did that happen? I find it helpful to consider what’s happened in the year that’s gone – to look back for forward’s strength. It’s very easy to be overly critical, to regret things that haven’t quite worked out the way I wanted them to, but […]

Like us at Coventry Artspace, many people in Coventry and Warwickshire’s artist community were shocked and deeply saddened when 12 months ago talented local photographer John Whitmore died suddenly in his sleep at the age of just 44. At the time Tara Rutledge, another talented local artist and good friend of John’s, was working with him […]

Daya Illustrations was our second artist selected for  our artist commissions for the ‘Stories That Made Us’ project which celebrates the stories of people of South Asian heritage who now live in the UK. Here is her commissioned illustraion along with her personal account of why she chose to get involved in the project…   […]

Work in progress shot of ‘Eye Test (Orange)’ (2022) – paint on reclaimed polystyrene How do you gain or regain motivation? It is a question I have been thinking about a lot recently for myself and I don’t think I am alone as an artist in knowing how to push through barren periods of creativity, […]