On Sunday 24th August
at The Cheese and Grain in Frome
I will be joining a gaggle of booksellers for the Frome Book Fair
open from 10am to 3pm
Art Events
Harrogate PBFA Book Fair
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Affordable Art Fair Battersea
A selection of my latest paintings will be exhibited at the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea Park from 12th-16th March
With a Private View on Wednesday 5-9pm
and opening
Thursday & Friday 11am-9pm
Saturday & Sunday 11am-6pm
You will find my work on display with Nicholas Bowlby Gallery at Stand A7
‘Southern Lights’ 30x40cm oil on canvas Roo Waterhouse 2025
You can get yourself a complimentary (that’s FREE!) ticket
for the Affordable Art Fair HERE!
‘Poetry Please’ 30x40cm oil on canvas Roo Waterhouse 2025
Northlight Winter Fair :-)
Northlight Winter Fair
It’s our annual Winter Fair event!
Our fabulous studio holders* will be hosting stalls to showcase their artistic goodies and gifts 
You all get to come and visit, eat mince pies, buy locally made Christmas presents direct from the makers, win a raffle prize perhaps, drink some mulled wine, make a crafty something and enjoy a little festive feeling!
Saturday 7th December 11am-5pm
& Sunday 8th December 11am-5pm
stallholders including:
Roo Waterhouse Art (that’s me!)
Rach Red Designs
Red Mouse Design
Katch Skinner Ceramics
Jane Revitt Mapworks
Don Myers Painting
Toby Cotterill Jewellery
Annie Harrison ceramics & textiles
and more….
Yay!!
#hebdenmakeschristmas Open Studios!
On Saturday 30th November and Sunday 1st December I will be joining other artists all around Hebden Bridge and my fellow artists here at Northlight Studios by taking part in the #hebdenmakeschristmas Open Studios weekend 🙂
I’m looking forward to chatting all things bookish and artish with anyone who cares to pop in to my studio 🙂
I’ll be there from 10.30 until 4pm on the Saturday and Sunday
Derby Book & Craft Market
Derby Book and Craft Market
Saturday 23 November | 10:30am – 4pm
Free – no need to book tickets, drop in any time! 
Venue: Museum of Making, DE1 3AF
I’ll be there with a range of my Bookshelf Art prints and gifts, and with the
Roo Waterhouse Bookshelf Art Calendar 2025 !!
Open Studios This Weekend!!
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Spine[less]: Rebinding The Portico
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I’d like to tell you about an exciting project I am working on in collaboration with the Portico Library in Manchester. When I first walked into the Portico Library I was immediately drawn to the most damaged books: the ‘spineless’ books in the collection, with their scuffed
leather tones and fascinating array of under-papers, held together with cotton ribbons. These hidden under-layers, of the centenarian books standing exposed along the shelves: hand-written accounts ledgers; scraps from newspapers; advertisement flyers; lines of script; all assumed by the original book-binders to never see the light of day. Looking along the library shelves we get a glimpse into hidden histories…
I had gone in to the library originally to see if they might like to stock some of my art cards in their shop, but they were SO enthusiastic about my work and I was SO enthusiastic about their books, that our ideas grew into a painting project 🙂
This collaboration celebrates the importance of the Portico library as a home of
literature, history and learning.
In September this year the paintings will be displayed in the library, and on September 14th there will be an evening event ‘Spine[less]: Rebinding The Portico’ where there will be presentations from the Portico’s Collections Manager and from myself 🙂
You can book tickets for the event here: https://www.theportico.org.uk/event-calendar/spineless-rebinding-event
From Thursday 12th October 2023 – Friday 26th January 2024, the paintings will be part of an exhibition in the library promoting the Portico’s Adopt-a-Book scheme, highlighting the importance of preservation, restoration and the need for rebinding books. Members of the library are invited to Adopt-a-Book and pay for it to be rebound: to be brought back into use: to be reborn! The finished paintings will be for sale,with 25% of the sale price going to the Portico Library 🙂
In progress in my studio at the moment are the two Portico paintings: one of a shelfful of the exposed ‘spineless’ books, and another of a collection of ornately bound books from the Portico’s collection. It is such a joy to delicately translate these ornate and battered spines into paint across the canvas, relishing all the little handwritten details and worn edges.
I can’t wait to unveil the finished, framed paintings at the library when we set up the display next week!!
You can find out more about the Portico Library and their Adopt-a-Book scheme:
https://www.theportico.org.uk/
https://www.theportico.org.uk/adoptabook
…and more about me here: https://roowaterhouse.art/about-roo-waterhouse-shelf-portrait-artist/
Open Studios Tomorrow!! Online shop closed 10th July to 4th August…
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Open Studios with New Science Fiction!
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