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Earlier this year Alice Anna Ford started Unthing Press, an Australian artist-run publishing house dedicated to experimental fiction and creative practice. Taking part in Open Studios for the first time, the event marks the launch of her first publication, The Pigment Pictures, alongside her design drawings for the Big Blue House.

An interdisciplinary artist with a background in architecture, Anna works across drawing, painting, publishing, film and installation, and her practice explores how artworks can act as value-recalibrating machines.

Meet Anna, peruse The Pigment Pictures and artworks within it, and discover the Big Blue House, a home and studio designed with a 9x9m footprint. The house sounds fascinating; companion to a 200-year-old marri tree, the design draws from the artist’s favourite spaces and the couples’ previous homes: a blue house, a studio cabin, and a former church. “The structure is intentionally incomplete. Its framework is designed to be edited, reworked, and adapted from within over time and as the couples needs change.”

📸 @aliceannaford

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. Discover an abundance of creativity when you visit Margaret River Region Open Studios this spring.

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

"In a world of mass-produced noise, my work offers a return to the slow, the sacred and the handmade — a reminder that even a falling leaf is a blessing."

Inspired by 13th century mystic Rumi, Jillian Somerville sees her creative practice as a tactile meditation on the intersection of the physical and spiritual. "Through the ancient alchemy of felt making, stitching and botanical contact eco printing, I translate these silent messages into soulful textiles, works on paper, wearable art and pieces for the home that serve as a bridge between the wild earth and the human spirit."

Taking part in Open Studios for the first time, Jillian invites you to observe her process, chat about her inspiration and perhaps even buy something beautiful and handmade to take home.

Discover an abundance of creativity when you visit Margaret River Region Open Studios this spring.
🎨 Jillian Somerville @jilliansfinch
🕰️ 12-27 September 2026
📍 The Margaret River Region
🎨 155 artists to visit and meet

"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

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

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