Favourite things

Favourite things (2nd September) — see our artists’ personal selection from the abundance of their best-beloved moments, experiences, endeavours, places, objects, people and animals. Perhaps they’re your favourite things too?

Browse the galleries below, or perhaps view today's flipbook.

Or, follow these links to explore all 30 Art Trails or start from Open Studios central

Colourful Hertford birds eye view illustration. A2 prints available from emmamarsdenart on Etsy. £52 (£10 to local charity)

Emma Marsden Art

Ceramics, Drawing, Illustration, Mixed media 3D, Mosaics, Mural painting, Painting, Sculpture

Arkley Water Tower, oil painting on canvas board, SOLD

Jayne Evans

Design, Painting - designing, Drawing, Graphic art, Illustration, Mixed media 2D, Multimedia painting, Mural painting, Painting

Homage to Stephen Hawking - Remember to look up at the stars...

Jonathan Checkley (Letters and Frames)

Applied arts, Calligraphy, Collographs/Linocuts, Computer arts, Design, Painting - designing, Graphic art, Mixed media 2D, Other, Printmaking

Gold Lights

Helen Robinson

Winter Bench. The walls of the ruined mill at Broxbourne were the inspiration for this winter scene.

Ruth Herbert

Applied arts, Design, Painting - designing, Drawing, Mixed media 2D, Textiles

Ammonite Pendant

Maureen Newell (Three Crows Jewellery)

Collographs/Linocuts, Jewellery, Other, Painting, Printmaking

purple ceramic poppy seed heads in planter

Anja Penger-Onyett/Ceramics Buy Anja

Ceramics, Mixed media 3D, Sculpture

Hand and machine embroidery with miniature objects

Frances Green textiles

Elf Distancing. Print. Original in Watercolour.

David J Waterman

Painting - designing, Drawing, Graphic art, Multimedia painting, Painting, Wood

Indian Summer

Richard Wheeler

River I : Collograph Print 27x37cm Unframed £85.

Julie Arnall

Drawing, Printmaking

Jo Chesney - Bewick Swan painted in acrylics on canvas

Jo Chesney

Design, Painting - designing, Painting, Textiles

River Walk Herons

Julia Fonnereau

Computer arts, Design, Painting - designing, Drawing, Illustration, Photography, Printmaking, Textiles

Autumn Woods - free machine stitching on painted textile

Jackie Uphill

Book binding, Painting - designing, Drawing, Mixed media 2D, Mixed media 3D, Multimedia painting, Painting, Textiles

Best friends. Pastel on prepared card

Cal Hoy

Drawing, Illustration, Mixed media 2D, Painting

Melting - on the edge Acrylic mixed media painting Petra Geggie

ARTEP Petra Geggie

Mixed media 2D, Painting

Depths, mixed media, 57 x 57 cms, £400

Anne Hignell

Drawing, Mixed media 2D, Multimedia painting, Painting

Rhiannon Maslen

Collographs/Linocuts, Photography, Printmaking

Unfettered 1, Mixed media on canvas, 30 x 30 cm, £200

Gill Ayre

Mixed media 2D, Multimedia painting, Painting, Printmaking

Lost Sheep Macraweave

Bernadine Makins (Bernadine's Creations)

Design, Jewellery, Other, Painting

Mellow Vibes

Maggie Barton - Snapper Glass

Glass, Mosaics, Other

Laughing Kookaburra

Jo Franks Jolocality Art

Ceramics, Design, Furniture, Illustration, Installation, Mixed media 2D, Mixed media 3D, Mosaics, Multimedia painting, Painting, Sculpture, Stone, Textiles, Wood

Hoopoe - needlefelted sculpture embellished with fabric and mounted on a wood base

Jackie Bennett

Zion Canyon, 100x150cm, mixed media

Helen Halliday

Ceramics, Collographs/Linocuts, Drawing, Mixed media 2D, Other, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture

'Current' 100 x 120 x 4.3 cm textured oil paint on canvas from the 'What Lies Beneath' series

HD Carew

Design, Painting - designing, Painting, Textiles

Floribunda 2, Acrylic on board 40 x 40 cm

Mitzie Green

Mixed media 2D, Multimedia painting, Other, Painting

Submerged in blue. Oil On Canvas 2020 4ft by 3ft

Sarah Gidden Art

3 swallows flying above water, distant hills beyond the water, screenprint and lino cut.

Anna Pye

Collographs/Linocuts, Painting, Printmaking

Blown Away, 30x30cm

Kathy Foster

Inspired by the garden designs of Piet Oudolf. Oil on paper; 57 x 59cm framed.

Gill Woods

Painting - designing, Drawing, Mixed media 2D, Painting, Printmaking

Window series large sheet using liquid acrylic paints

Glynnis Abraham

Painting - designing, Drawing, Illustration, Mixed media 3D, Painting, Papermaking

'Madonna & Child' by Tessa Verrecchia

Tessa Verrecchia

Sterling silver bangles

Debbie Armstrong (Fable)

Design, Jewellery, Metalwork

Three Cliffs Bay, Gower Peninsula

John Durham

‘Derbyshire Fields’ , hand printed limited edition collograph print

Sarah Broughton

Collographs/Linocuts, Illustration, Mixed media 2D, Printmaking

Hand Embroidered Textile Art

Nade Simmons

Applied arts, Drawing, Illustration, Mixed media 2D, Mixed media 3D, Multimedia painting, Painting, Papermaking, Printmaking, Sculpture, Textiles

Macrame Wall Hanging - Ivy - handmade, made to order or available ready made on my website.

Cathie George (Colour My Dreams)

Design, Jewellery, Mixed media 2D, Other, Textiles

Semi Abstract Acrylic on Paper in 16x12 inch mount. £60.00. Find in Works on Paper section of my website

Heather Miller

Multimedia painting, Painting

A touch of Turquoise. Mixed Media on Canvas

Karin Friedli

Mixed media 2D, Painting

Bamboo forest, acrylic on canvas approx 23"x23" without frame, sold with frame

May Cheung Grant

Painting - designing, Graphic art, Installation, Mixed media 2D, Mixed media 3D, Multimedia painting, Other, Painting, Printmaking

'TRANQUIL BLUE" acrylic on canvas

Susan Chester

Applied arts, Painting - designing, Drawing, Mixed media 2D, Multimedia painting, Painting

New small drop out bowls

Helen Curtis

"Paula" Whippet portrait oil on paper. Framed

Sean Royle Art

Painting - designing, Mixed media 2D, Other, Painting, Sculpture

Silver and Smokey Quartz Pendant

Jill Foster

Design, Jewellery, Metalwork

Liz Rogers Art

Mixed media 2D, Multimedia painting, Painting

Sunset over the water, mixed media

Gordon Andrews - Flash Art & Photography

Collographs/Linocuts, Painting - designing, Drawing, Mixed media 2D, Multimedia painting, Painting, Photography

Knitted, wired, beaded adjustable cuff

Elspeth Hector (Elspeth Jane)

Jewellery, Textiles

Four Seasons Tree of Life Original Fused Glass panel suitable for Kitchen Splashbacks or wall decoration.

Jane Ducarreaux (A Touch of Glass)

Glass, Jewellery, Other