Messums Studios is the educational branch of Messums West.

The Tisbury based pioneering multi-purpose gallery and Art Centre established Messums Studios in Chilmark in July 2021 as a teaching art studio. Its aim was to support life-long creative learning with the emphasis on the individual’s development of creative language through the tuition of making skills and material knowledge. Underpinned by the ambitious and eye-opening programme of art exhibitions, events and academic symposia, Messums Studios helps to foster a community of creatives of all ages, abilities, and levels of expertise.

Clay, pottery and ceramics was and remains the topic of primary focus. However, now in our third year we have expanded into drawing and painting and we seek to explore and grow our creative learning offer to other media and methods such as print and woodwork.

Contact Information

Messums Studios
Unit 1, Homeland Security
Chilmark
SP3 5DU

Refunds and Cancellations policy

We appreciate that things can change so if your booking is outside of 10 days a full refund may be requested on any course. Within 10 days there is a 50% refund.

Autumn/Winter Term | 19 September – 2 December

Autumn/Winter Term Dates: 18 September – 2 December

Half-Term Week – 23 – 29 October (No Session this week)

During the October half-term week, we are running printing on clay workshops and studio sessions for our regular students. During the half-term week we are also open to take a limited number of bookings for bespoke pottery and drawing/painting sessions, so why not contact us and organise a creative session just for you.

For costs, availability and booking, please contact us on creative@messumswiltshire.com or click here to visit our Bespoke Session page.

Weekly Pottery Classes

Drawing / Painting Classes

Young Artist’s Classes

Untutored Studio Sessions

Specialist Courses

Linocut on Clay with Mirka Golden-Hann and Francesco Poiana | 25 October

Lithographic Printing on Clay | 26 October

Drawing Masterclass with George Young | 8 & 15 November

Draw What You See: Artist/tutor led introduction to Life Drawing with Laura Rich | 8 & 15 November

Register Interest

In order to help us with future programming and gauging the creative interests of our community, please click the buttons below to register your interest in the following courses.

Basket Making Courses

Clay Life Sculpture Courses

Woodwork Courses

Getting Here

By Road From A303

At Long Barrow Roundabout, take the 2nd exit and stay on the A303
After the dual carriageway, turn left on to Cow Drove
Turn right onto Salisbury Rd/ B3089 then turn left
Turn left onto The Street
Turn right at the crossroads onto Beckett’s Lane
Follow Beckett’s Lane for approx. 0.9 miles
Turn left through the double gates into Chilmark Estates.

By Road From Salisbury

At St Paul’s Roundabout, take the 1st exit onto Wilton Rd/A36
Continue to follow A36
At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto Minster St/A30
Turn right onto West St/B3089 Continue to follow B3089
Follow black signs towards EHD Fonthill
Go past EHD Fonthill and then turn right into Chilmark Estates

By Train:

The nearest railway station is Tisbury. For train timetables and railway information, please visit www.southwesttrains.co.uk – we would advise anyone coming to the studio by train to get a taxi from the station as it is too far to walk. Click here for local taxi services

Creative Gifts

Messums Creative Gift Voucher

Sketchbook/Journals

Writing Wallet

Contact Information

Messums Studios
Unit 1, Homeland Security
Chilmark
SP3 5DU

Refunds and Cancellations policy

We appreciate that things can change so if your booking is outside of 10 days a full refund may be requested on any course. Within 10 days there is a 50% refund.

Making Introductions

Short films by Messums Productions to introduce artists and process.

It may sound obvious but creating art is a language as much as speaking or writing. Making Introductions was conceived in 2019 with seed funding from Jonathan and Lucy Wood to make those language of creativity more accessible and comprehensible.

If you have enjoyed the series register for updates and new updates

J O H N – W I L L I A M W A T S O N

duration: 1:03 minutes

Introducing John William Watson, one of our 4X20 Emerging Choreographer winners for 2023. See his performances at our Festival of Dance 2023 on Tuesday 18 July.

Chandenie Gobardhan

duration: 1:03 minutes

Introducing Chandenie Gobardhan, one of our 4X20 Emerging Choreographer winners for 2023. See their performances at our Festival of Dance 2023 on Tuesday 18 July.

J A C K M C G A R R I T Y

duration: 5:21 minutes

Jack McGarrity trained at the Glasgow School of Art, close to where he grew up in the West of Scotland, before moving to London to study at the Royal Drawing School.

McGarrity creates new narratives that explore notions of the absurd, stillness and alienation in the modern world. His work relates to the great tradition of narrative painting while is also located within the revival of figurative painting in contemporary practice.

Originally exhibited as part of our Emerging Talents programme, McGarrity has a solo exhibition at Messums London in January 2023.

M A R T I N S M I T H

duration: 4:56 minutes

A key figure in British ceramics, Martin Smith is an artist who approaches clay with the mindset of an architect. He studied at Bristol Polytechnic Faculty of Art and Design and the Royal College of Art, emerging in the midst of the new ceramics movement in the late 1970s and becoming known for his multi-disciplinary approach to design and practice.

Smith is a Professor Emeritus at the Royal College of Art having been Professor of Ceramics and Glass at the school for 16 years.

T O M W A U G H

duration: 4:54 minutes

Tom Waugh MRSS is a British sculptor who works in stone and marble. He has been an associate member of the Royal Society of Sculptors since 2018.

With a background in classical stone sculpture, Tom Waugh uses traditional materials and techniques to create contemporary works of art. Stone and marble sculptures, carved in minute detail, depict waste objects, discarded in the wake of human consumption.

T H I É B A U T C H A G U É

duration: 5:29 minutes

Thiébaut began his career in 1976, training in France, Belgium and in England under Michael Cardew and Richard Batterham. Returning to France in 1981 he set up his first workshop in the Loire Valley and in 1984 built a new studio in the Vosges with a wood-fired kiln.

Thiébaut built a 6metre high kiln in the tithe barn at Messums Wiltshire in Spring 2023.

Series 1 & 2

F R A N C E S C O P O I A N A

duration: 10:31 minutes

We began working with Francesco in 2019 with his debut show following a residency at Messums Wiltshire as part of our emerging talents programme. Francesco trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome before studying fine art printing at the Albicocca workshop in Udine and then taking his masters degree at St Martin’s College of Art in London. He now attends the Royal Drawing School.

P E T E R B R O W N

duration: 10:17 minutes

Peter Brown, known as ‘Pete the Street’, has been capturing the urban environment in oil for most of his life. First becoming captivated by the distinct character of urban architecture in Bath in the mid-1980s he returned to the creamy-gold streets of this Georgian city, where he can be seen painting on-site whatever the weather. He now resides in Bath where he paints and lives with his family, who have lately become one of his main subjects.

T U E S D A Y R I D D E L L

duration: 9:49 minutes

Tuesday Riddell was one of the very first on our emerging talents programme. Tuesday studied at the Painter-Stainers Decorative Surface Fellowship at City & Guilds of London Art School – the only Fellowship in the UK that provides specialist training in the craft of decorative surface techniques to ensure that endangered skills are kept alive and vibrant in contemporary practice.

A N T O N Y W I L L I A M S

duration: 13:16 minutes

Williams works almost exclusively in egg tempera – a painstaking, exacting medium in which egg is used instead of linseed oil as the binding medium. While oil allows for a degree of flexibility and manipulation of the painted surface before it dries, many days after initial application, this technique does not easily allow for alteration. All his work is based on intense observation, particularly of human flesh, creating as a result a heightened sense of realism.

K E N N E D Y M U N T A N G A

duration: 11:37 minutes

Kennedy Junior Muntanga is a movement artist born in Ndola, Zambia where he resided until he was 7. The importance of dance was embedded in him through his African heritage and he began to study dance from the age of 12. Kennedy furthered his training and graduated in Ballet and Contemporary Dance at the Rambert School in July 2019. Kennedy performed at Messums Wiltshire in September 2021.

T Y G A H E L M E

duration: 8:15 minutes

Trained at Edinburgh College of Art and The Royal Drawing School in London, where she won the Machin Foundation Prize, Tyga uses nature as a metaphor for feelings of being overwhelmed. She couples minute observation of the teeming forest floor – where the emerald green of a bramble leaf sits in stark juxtaposition to an array of cold blue silver leaves – with the flux and movement of unceasing growth.

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