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12-27 SEPTEMBER
2026

Australia's largest open studios

Art in Abundance

Discover a wealth of creativity this spring. Join our mailing list for updates.

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12 - 27 September 2026

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Meet 155 Artists this spring

155 artists will take part in our 13th Open Studios event. Browse their listings and start planning your art adventure.

Meet the 2026 Artists

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Jewellery shines at Margaret River Region Open Studios

Among the 155 participating artists are eight jewellers whose work reflects a diverse range of techniques, materials and inspirations. Jeannie Carroll works primarily with solid gold and ethically sourced gemstones, including Australian-mined sapphires and opals from small family-run operations. “During Open Studios, visitors are invited into my working jewellery space — an eclectic, lived-in studio […]

Artist videos, take a peek

Enjoy a preview of Open Studios 2026 with these six new videos.

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"I create jewelry that resists definition. Each piece is made slowly by hand, without boundaries."

Lisa Cloud was raised in Oklahoma and left home as a young adult to live a minimalist lifestyle across the Western United States. Working at a bead store sparked a lifelong love of jewelry, and Lisa became a self-taught silversmith. For nine years, she worked in winemaking while creating jewelry on the side. And in 2021 took the plunge, leaving winemaking to focus on her craft.

See how Lisa hammers the metal, sets stones and designs each handmade piece of jewellery during Margaret River Region Open Studios this spring.

🎨 @feralcloud 📸 Cleo Codrington
📍 @margaretriver

🎨 Margaret River Region Open Studios is free to attend, and runs 12-27 September 2026
📖 Pick up an event guide or browse 155 artists at the website.

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"I create jewelry that resists definition. Each piece is made slowly by hand, without boundaries."

Lisa Cloud was raised in Oklahoma and left home as a young adult to live a minimalist lifestyle across the Western United States. Working at a bead store sparked a lifelong love of jewelry, and Lisa became a self-taught silversmith. For nine years, she worked in winemaking while creating jewelry on the side. And in 2021 took the plunge, leaving winemaking to focus on her craft.

See how Lisa hammers the metal, sets stones and designs each handmade piece of jewellery during Margaret River Region Open Studios this spring.

🎨 @feralcloud 📸 Cleo Codrington
📍 @margaretriver

🎨 Margaret River Region Open Studios is free to attend, and runs 12-27 September 2026
📖 Pick up an event guide or browse 155 artists at the website.

Dariya Gratte’s delicate porcelain vessels have evolved over the years of Open Studios, from lace-like bowls to brighter and bolder forms, painted with wildflowers or bearing exquisite animals.

“My work is formed using a potter’s wheel then trimmed as finely as possible. I use multiple techniques to decorate my work such as carving, etching, sgraffito, and painting. Each piece takes many hours to complete which is then dried slowly over several weeks and fired to 1290 degrees.”

Meet Dariya, Francois and Nicholas Payet at Payet Gallery, where the brothers create beautiful jewellery to be treasured and enjoyed.

Working with metal, gemstones and pearls, Francois finds inspiration in nature. “You need to only open your eyes in the part of the world where I live to find inspiration. A battered coral tumbled in the ocean, sculptured and chipped by the force of nature, in its perfect ugliness, I find my treasures.”

🎨 Dariya Gratte @dariya.ceramics
🎨 Francois and Nicholas Payet @payetgallery

Make sure your springtime adventure in art makes it out of the group chat and into your diary ❤️

❤️ @margaretriverregionopenstudios
🕰️ 12-27 September 2026
🎨 155 artists to visit and meet

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Dariya Gratte’s delicate porcelain vessels have evolved over the years of Open Studios, from lace-like bowls to brighter and bolder forms, painted with wildflowers or bearing exquisite animals.

“My work is formed using a potter’s wheel then trimmed as finely as possible. I use multiple techniques to decorate my work such as carving, etching, sgraffito, and painting. Each piece takes many hours to complete which is then dried slowly over several weeks and fired to 1290 degrees.”

Meet Dariya, Francois and Nicholas Payet at Payet Gallery, where the brothers create beautiful jewellery to be treasured and enjoyed.

Working with metal, gemstones and pearls, Francois finds inspiration in nature. “You need to only open your eyes in the part of the world where I live to find inspiration. A battered coral tumbled in the ocean, sculptured and chipped by the force of nature, in its perfect ugliness, I find my treasures.”

🎨 Dariya Gratte @dariya.ceramics
🎨 Francois and Nicholas Payet @payetgallery

Make sure your springtime adventure in art makes it out of the group chat and into your diary ❤️

❤️ @margaretriverregionopenstudios
🕰️ 12-27 September 2026
🎨 155 artists to visit and meet

See sparks fly and sculpture come alive in Wayne Smith’s Yallingup workshop at Open Studios this September, while inside Julie Smith creates painting, felting and ceramics.

“When you come to visit you can wander around the garden and see my sculptures. I really enjoy meeting everyone, including artists, and rabbiting on about steel sculpture and welding techniques”

🎨 @waynesmithsculptures and @julieannsmithart
📍 Margaret River Region Open Studios
📅 12-27 September 2026

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See sparks fly and sculpture come alive in Wayne Smith’s Yallingup workshop at Open Studios this September, while inside Julie Smith creates painting, felting and ceramics.

“When you come to visit you can wander around the garden and see my sculptures. I really enjoy meeting everyone, including artists, and rabbiting on about steel sculpture and welding techniques”

🎨 @waynesmithsculptures and @julieannsmithart
📍 Margaret River Region Open Studios
📅 12-27 September 2026

Creativity meets science in Kate Wood`s pottery studio, where her wheel-thrown vessels are inspired by nature and the changing seasons.

"I have been curious and engaged with a wide range of art throughout my life, but have only explored and discovered a love of ceramics and pottery relatively recently. I particularly love that pottery creates art that is functional for everyday use. To drink a daily cup of tea from a favourite hand crafted mug is quite magical," says Kate.

Meet Kate during Open Studios next month, find out how she harvests wild clay, uses foraged items such as plants and makes ash glazes to decorate her pottery.

🎨 Kate Wood @kw_clay
📍 Burnside, Margaret River

It`s an extraordinary generosity to open one`s home, and we`re grateful for the 155 artists opening their usually-private spaces for Open Studios. Please enjoy the opportunity to meet the artists, find out about their practice and perhaps even buy something special to take home ❤️

❤️ Follow @margaretriverregionopenstudios
🕰️ 12-27 September 2026
🎨 155 artists to visit and meet

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Creativity meets science in Kate Wood's pottery studio, where her wheel-thrown vessels are inspired by nature and the changing seasons.

"I have been curious and engaged with a wide range of art throughout my life, but have only explored and discovered a love of ceramics and pottery relatively recently. I particularly love that pottery creates art that is functional for everyday use. To drink a daily cup of tea from a favourite hand crafted mug is quite magical," says Kate.

Meet Kate during Open Studios next month, find out how she harvests wild clay, uses foraged items such as plants and makes ash glazes to decorate her pottery.

🎨 Kate Wood @kw_clay
📍 Burnside, Margaret River

It's an extraordinary generosity to open one's home, and we're grateful for the 155 artists opening their usually-private spaces for Open Studios. Please enjoy the opportunity to meet the artists, find out about their practice and perhaps even buy something special to take home ❤️

❤️ Follow @margaretriverregionopenstudios
🕰️ 12-27 September 2026
🎨 155 artists to visit and meet

Jacqui Brown first picked up a surfboard at age 12 and spent her school holidays catching waves in Perth’s northern beaches. She competed in Victoria and Queensland at age 16, and was a state champion in the ’80s.

Jacqui now paints beautiful, big canvases and recycled surfboards, inspired by her beloved surf.

“The ocean is a big theme in my work,” says Jacqui, who surfs and swims any chance she gets. “I love Margaret River, the seascape and the Leeuwin Ridge. It’s such a beautiful place to try and put down on a canvas.”

Make sure your springtime adventure in art makes it out of the group chat and into your diary. Book accommodation through one of our generous sponsors, and mark your calendar: Open Studios is on 12-27 September 2026. ❤️

🎨 @jacqui_brown_art
📹 @tillspielhoff

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Jacqui Brown first picked up a surfboard at age 12 and spent her school holidays catching waves in Perth’s northern beaches. She competed in Victoria and Queensland at age 16, and was a state champion in the ’80s.

Jacqui now paints beautiful, big canvases and recycled surfboards, inspired by her beloved surf.

“The ocean is a big theme in my work,” says Jacqui, who surfs and swims any chance she gets. “I love Margaret River, the seascape and the Leeuwin Ridge. It’s such a beautiful place to try and put down on a canvas.”

Make sure your springtime adventure in art makes it out of the group chat and into your diary. Book accommodation through one of our generous sponsors, and mark your calendar: Open Studios is on 12-27 September 2026. ❤️

🎨 @jacqui_brown_art
📹 @tillspielhoff

We love it when artists share a studio, making it twice as tempting to visit... This year, Heidi Emma Mullender joins Stephanie Stokes in her sunlit Dunsborough pottery studio. Heidi captures light in her oil paintings with such finesse, and Stephanie creates superb collections of hand-thrown pottery in graceful shapes and glazes.

They both capture the quiet beauty of everyday life in their work ~ and invite you to see how they see, paint and throw vessels on the wheel.

It`s an extraordinary generosity to open one`s studio, and we`re grateful for the 155 artists opening their usually-private spaces for Open Studios. Please enjoy the opportunity to meet the artists, find out about their practice and perhaps even buy something special to take home ❤️

🎨 @heidi_emma_fine_art and @stephaniestokespottery
📍 @stephaniestokespottery in Dunsborough

🕰️ 12-27 September 2026
📍 The Margaret River Region
🎨 155 artists to visit and meet

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We love it when artists share a studio, making it twice as tempting to visit... This year, Heidi Emma Mullender joins Stephanie Stokes in her sunlit Dunsborough pottery studio. Heidi captures light in her oil paintings with such finesse, and Stephanie creates superb collections of hand-thrown pottery in graceful shapes and glazes.

They both capture the quiet beauty of everyday life in their work ~ and invite you to see how they see, paint and throw vessels on the wheel.

It's an extraordinary generosity to open one's studio, and we're grateful for the 155 artists opening their usually-private spaces for Open Studios. Please enjoy the opportunity to meet the artists, find out about their practice and perhaps even buy something special to take home ❤️

🎨 @heidi_emma_fine_art and @stephaniestokespottery
📍 @stephaniestokespottery in Dunsborough

🕰️ 12-27 September 2026
📍 The Margaret River Region
🎨 155 artists to visit and meet

“We use two different mediums on the same background. We go out and take a photo, then each work from that image.” - Moira Fearby

While Moira paints the whole image with household enamels, Heloise Roberts uses conti chalk and pencil on plywood tiles, each in their own studio. Then they come together and merge the two, mosaic-style, to form large-scale landscapes.

“People are fascinated with the process - they’re always interested in the story of how we collaborate and what that entails” - Heloise

Meet the artists and watch their artworks come together at Open Studios in September.

🎨 @heloiserobertsart and @moira_fearby

Discover a wealth of creativity this spring, as 155 artists of the Margaret River Region throw open their studio doors and invite you to be inspired.
📍 Margaret River Region Open Studios
📅 12-27 September 2026

📹 @tillspielhoff

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“We use two different mediums on the same background. We go out and take a photo, then each work from that image.” - Moira Fearby

While Moira paints the whole image with household enamels, Heloise Roberts uses conti chalk and pencil on plywood tiles, each in their own studio. Then they come together and merge the two, mosaic-style, to form large-scale landscapes.

“People are fascinated with the process - they’re always interested in the story of how we collaborate and what that entails” - Heloise

Meet the artists and watch their artworks come together at Open Studios in September.

🎨 @heloiserobertsart and @moira_fearby

Discover a wealth of creativity this spring, as 155 artists of the Margaret River Region throw open their studio doors and invite you to be inspired.
📍 Margaret River Region Open Studios
📅 12-27 September 2026

📹 @tillspielhoff

“Open Studios is a great event. I love that it builds the community around artists, and the connections between artists themselves. It also highlights the beauty of making again, the beauty of handmaking.”

Step into Sarana’s working studio this spring at The Farm Margaret River, see her works in progress and how she creates, and discover a community of artists at Open Studios this spring.

🎨 @saranahaeata
📍 Margaret River Region Open Studios
📅 12-27 September 2026

📹 @tillspielhoff

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