11.00am – 5pm

The Private View of the Suffolk Open Studios’ Showcase Exhibition 2012 will be held on Friday, 25 May from 7.30pm until 9.30pm at Blackthorpe Barn, just outside Bury St Edmunds, (A14 Junction 45). For your free invitation to this event where you will see the work of over 100 Suffolk artists, please contact Tom Lund Lack on email: [email protected].

Exhibits range from water colours and oil paintings, sculptures, wood carvings, drawings and prints, photography and jewellery, ceramics and glassware, through to textiles and mixed media.

Independent judges will select the best exhibit and a prize will be presented to the winner. Then from Saturday 26 May – Monday 4 June the exhibition will be open daily to the general public between 11.00am and 5pm.

Visitors can collect a free copy of the SOS full colour pocket directory which gives full details of each member and their particular type of work. Take your time to view the exhibits, identifying and highlighting those that particularly attract or inspire you. Then mark out those artists you would like to visit during June when they will open their studios. Here is your chance to see where they get their ideas from and to ask them about their creations. And if you wish, you can also pick up an original piece of artwork to treasure. Full details of times when individual studios will be open along with their locations and contact details appear in the SOS Directory.

Blackthorpe Barn has ample free parking, a café and disabled access.