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Visual Arts 20 ‘MYSTERIES OF THE FAMILIAR’ 10 and 11 May Hours, 10 Colston Yard, BRISTOL, BS1 5BD. 11am - 5pm. 07766 054659 / hours-space.com . “Sandy Creighton records the everyday in a way that reveals hidden strangeness, beauty and signi fi cance. Digital drawings of urban street scenes, video, sound, and mixed media.” Wylye Valley Art Trail “The Wylye Valley Art Trail turns 25 this year. At the dawn of the new millennium it was a twinkle in its founder and co-ordinator Nick Andrew’s eye, and now it’s one of the brightest and best open studios events in the country, let alone Wiltshire. The award-winning Wylye Valley Art Trail boasts 82 venues across southwest Wiltshire, featuring over 250 exhibitors. There’s so much to see and enjoy: there are open studios and workplaces, galleries, exhibitions by art groups and student groups, virtual exhibitions, hands-on activities, demonstrations, workshops and talks. There really is something for everyone on the Trail: for those who like more traditional things there are exquisite portrait, landscape and still life painters taking part, while for those who like their art more contemporary in feel there are explosive abstract painters, digital, installation and video artists, as well as those using recycled materials. There are craftspeople working in ceramics, leather and textiles, there are jewellers, furniture makers, glass artists, and sculptors. Think of a category of art or craft and there’s probably somebody on the Wylye Valley Art Trail doing it. Wylye Valley Art Trail guides are available at Tourist Information Centres, arts centres, libraries and many other venues throughout the region, the Trail app is available through the Apple App Store and Google Play, and the website can be found at wvat.co.uk .” 3 - 11 May: Various locations, WYLYE VALLEY, Wiltshire. wvat.co.uk . STONEY PARSONS ‘WINTER BARN’ (60 x 80 cm) DAWN THOMSON: ‘THROUGH THE GARDEN GATE’ 14 - 20 May The Gallery, Shaftesbury Arts Centre, Bell Street, SHAFTESBURY, SP7 8AR. Monday - Saturday 10am - 4pm. 01747 855243 / shaftesburyartscentre.org.uk . Above: ‘Electric Garden’ (Oil on canvas, 2025) ‘SQUARES OPEN’ 14 May - 1 June Sou’-Sou’-West Gallery, Manor Yard, Symondsbury Estate, SYMONDSBURY, Bridport, DT6 6HG. 10.30am - 4.30pm. 01308 301326 / sousouwest.co.uk . “Annual open competition and unselected show of square artworks.” ‘CREATIVE PERSPECTIVES’ 16 May - 2 June The Gallery Upstairs, Upton Country Park, Poole Road, POOLE, BH17 7BJ. 10am - 4.30pm. 01202 775304 / pedas.org.uk / thegalleryupstairs.org.uk. “New work by members of Poole and East Dorset Art Society (PEDAS).”