GREEN Door return to the arts trail with artists and makers from a wide range of disciplines opening their studios to the public.

This weekend (March 28/29) more than 50 members of the popular creative collective and seven galleries will be taking part in the tenth trail which includes venues from Shap down to Carnforth and across to Cark in Cartmel, with participating galleries including the Tinners’ Rabbit in Ulverston and the Beach Hut at Kents Bank.

Nine artists gather at Lower Holker Village Hall in Cark where they will do their best to recreate a studio atmosphere by demonstrating how they create their work and the Green Door studio will open its creative doors in Kendal’s Market Place. Visitors will be able to see painters, sculptors, printmakers, ceramic artists, textile artists, jewellers and glassmakers at work, talk to them about how they create their work and buy directly from them.

“The art trail is a brilliant way of seeing artists and makers in their workshops,” says Green Door chairman Keith Shorrock, who will be showing his wooden furniture and boxes in his Cark studio. “As a craftsman I thoroughly enjoy talking to visitors about what I am making. The conversation is not only one way, I get ideas from the discussions which can influence my work.”

“This will be my first year exhibiting as part of the Green Door Art Trail and I’m excited at the prospect” adds photographer Eric Pye. “I'm looking forward to being part of something involving so many artists and in particular about sharing the exhibition space at Lower Holker Village Hall with others. I hope to be showing some new work from one of my current projects, The Quiet Wood, a series of smaller, more intimate prints from a local woodland. They are quite a departure for me in that they are looking at the small details at our feet that we often walk past without noticing".