Welcome to The Harleston & Waveney Art Trail, or HWAT!

The Harleston & Waveney Art Trail Collective is a diverse and lively community of professional artists who live and work in the beautiful Waveney Valley, all within reach of Harleston, a small market town on the border of Norfolk and Suffolk. The Harleston & Waveney Art Trail has taken place every summer since 2005. Each year we open our studios and workshops for three consecutive weekends.

The Harleston & Waveney Art Trail 2010

26th-27th June, 3rd-4th July and 10th-11th July 2010

Brochures are now available from the Harleston Gallery, tourist information centres, libraries, and many other places in the Waveney Valley, or you can download a full colour PDF (1.8mb) of the 2010 HWAT brochure here (opens in new window).

For more information on the taster exhibitions and the Art Trail, you can also call the Harleston Gallery on 01379 855 366.

All studios will be open 11am - 6pm, over the three weekends.

About the Harleston & Waveney Art Trail

Entry to all studios and workshops is free, browsers are very welcome, and work can be purchased direct from the artists. All the studios are within ten miles of Harleston: you can tour by bike, on foot or by car (we hope the weather will be nice, and the roses out!). Two bicycles are available to hire from the Swan Hotel in the centre of Harleston. If you are travelling from outside the area or planning a holiday break in the Waveney Valley, click here to view some suggestions of places to stay.

The many artforms pursued by our artists include drawings, paintings, sculpture, textiles, photography, ceramics, glass and mosaics. In recent years we have invited guest artists, such as Clive Davies, an excellent potter of long standing in the district, who works in Bungay, and Derek Nice, painter and sculptor of boats and the sea, who lives in Somerset and Malta, but who grew up and is presently working in East Anglia.

The Harleston Gallery remains the physical hub of the Art Trail, hosting a special taster exhibition of artwork from all participating artists: you can peruse artist CVs and more detailed mini-guides as well as view the art over a snack or a drink - the Harleston Gallery and Cafe is open Tuesday to Sunday from 10am - 5pm.

There is also a smaller taster exhibition at the long-established Cork Brick Gallery in Bungay, and Derek Nice (one of our guest artists last year) exhibited alongside Parr & Lyne at the exciting Upper Waveney Sculpture Meadow in Brockdish.