Yep, it’s that time of the year again… the time I realise I haven’t actually started preparing for my Herts Open Studios and it begins next week.

Cue frantic shopping for refreshments, brochure distribution (which can handily be done simultaneously… or at least some supermarkets put them up on their community noticeboards) and slathering nearby street furniture in fluorescent yellow signage.

This year there are a few other artists in the vicinity, so I’m hoping we might encourage visitors to tour us all…

Additional details, plus the online brochure with the most up-to-date info, are on the Herts Visual Arts website (my page is here), including a handy interactive map with which to plan your visits. There is also a Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/hertfordshirevisualarts

So yes! Come to Herts Open Studios, and take a look! There will be artwork! There will be tea and shortbread! There may also be passionfruit cake… unless it ends up like my last attempt at passionfruit cake, in which case, well, there will just be tea and shortbread.