This Weekend!!

Here I am, ready and waiting!

The time is nearly upon us, and here at Northlight we have been busy making the studio spick and span for visitors at the weekend 🙂

HEBDEN BRIDGE
OPEN STUDIOS WEEKEND

Friday 3rd, Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th July
10.30am-5pm

Here at Northlight  Studios you will find me and my Bookshelf Art, alongside: Kate BoyceToby CotterillEmma HutchinsonIzzie MayMelissa DavieRachel RedDon MyersEmma Wilkinson, and don’t miss visiting Katch Skinner and Jane Revitt downstairs, where you will also find the Northlight Art School Summer Show and the cafe bursting with delicious home-made cakes !!

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You can
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to check out all the other artists in and around Hebden Bridge 🙂

If you will be  exploring the artistic hub of Hebden Bridge,  or wherever you are, whatever you are doing, I hope you have a super weekend 🙂

Best Wishes,
Roo

Currently Reading: John of John by Douglas Stuart

‘Southern Lights’ oil on canvas 30x40cm
Roo’s Website Here 🙂

Frome Book Fair: Sunday 21st June

If you are in or around Somerset next weekend, do pop along to The Cheese & Grain in Frome for the PBFA Frome Book Fair, where I will be showing a selection of my Shelf Portrait paintings and selling bookish prints and cards, accompanied by the room full of bookish treasure troves that are the lovely PBFA rare and antiquarian booksellers offering thousands of rare, collectable and second-hand books, maps, manuscripts and ephemera.

The Story of Art Exhibition

‘Charles I’s Travelling Library’ Roo Waterhouse 2026 30x60cm oil on canvas

My two latest Shelf Portrait paintings will be on display at ‘The Story of Art’ exhibition at Byard Art in Cambridge.

‘The Observer’s Books’ Roo Waterhouse 2026 30x60cm oil on canvas

The exhibition runs from March 19th to April 19th.

Northlight Winter Fair

It’s almost time for Hebden Bridge Open Studios and the Northlight Winter Fair!

On Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th December you can visit a selection of Northlight artists in our Winter Fair and also a few studios will be open.

At the Winter Fair you will find Don Myers, Katch Skinner, Rachel Red, Annie Harrison, Rachel Heny, Kate Boyce and Izzie Boyce.

Plus tea, cake, mulled wine, an activity, a raffle and some Christmas tunes on a piano!

You will also be able to visit Toby Cotterill and Roo Waterhouse in their studios upstairs and Jane Revitt downstairs.

Inside the fair, Katch is having a studio clearance of cups, egg cups and allsorts and has no card reader so bring cash.

Don Myers will be selling his new ‘Square Circle’ watercolours, 2026 calendars, diaries, notebooks, fine art prints, cards and original paintings.

Annie Harrison will be selling gift bags made from vintage newspaper, alternative Christmas wreaths and decorations made from natural materials, and ceramic bits and bobs.

Ceramicist Rachel Heny will have her hand thrown bowls and cups, jewellery, Christmas decorations and pearl lined porcelain hanging shells.

Rachel Red will have original lino prints, screen prints, cards, calendars for 2026, wooden decorations and festive mini prints.

And Izzie Boyce will have her traditional prints, cards and illustrations.

Come and visit Roo Waterhouse upstairs at Northlight Studios to have a chat and a browse through Shelf Portrait oil paintings alongside a fabulous range of Bookshelf Art prints and cards – perfect gifts for the bookworms in your life 🙂

And last but not least, come to the studio of Toby Cotterill to see a range of work from everyday earrings and gifts to one-of-a-kind pieces of sculptural jewellery and silverware. You can see new work including Beetle Beakers, inspired by recent Arts Council funding, which are hand forged from a single piece of silver with over 50,000 hammer blows! These are made using traditional silversmithing techniques, raising, chasing and repousse, which have been used for millenia, including to create the Mask of Tutankhamun.

So it’s all going on, as you can see!

All Northlight happenings are just on the Saturday on Sunday.

Hope to see you then!

Yours,

All at Northlight Art Studios

Open Studios :-)

Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th December
11am to 5pm

Festive Open Studio!!

I’m looking forward to welcoming visitors into my studio Northlight as part of the Festive Open Studios Weekend in Hebden Bridge 🙂

Pop along to our wonderful Northlight Winter Fair, full of stalls and artists: including Rach RedKatch SkinnerAnnie HarrisonRachel HPete & Carol Leonard and more! Plus mulled wine, tea, cake and a raffle!
Then head on up the central stairs to find my Open Studio. Also opening their studios will be Toby Cotterill and Jane Revitt 🙂

Northlight Winter Fair

Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th December
11am to 5pm

Pop along to our wonderful Northlight Winter Fair, full of stalls and artists: including Rach RedKatch SkinnerAnnie HarrisonRachel HPete & Carol Leonard and more! Plus mulled wine, tea, cake and a raffle!
Then head on up the central stairs to find my Open Studio. Also opening their studios will be Toby Cotterill and Jane Revitt 🙂

Children’s, Illustrated & Detective Fiction Book Fair – 8th November

I’m very happy to be taking part in this year’s Northern Children’s Illustraed and Detective Fiction Book Fair in Harrogate on Saturday 8th November.

We hope you can join us as this book fair is the only one of its kind.  It provides an opportunity for serious collectors as well as general collectors in all three areas.

A great day out for all the family.  With it being held just before Christmas it is a great opportunity to search for a gift, be that a book or some Bookshelf Art!!

https://www.pbfa.org/fairs/northern-illustrated-childrens-detective-fiction-november-2025

8th November 2025, 10:00 – 16:00

Pavilions of Harrogate, Yorkshire Event Centre, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG2 8NZ

Oxford PBFA Book Fair – 18th October

This is a one-day book fair in Oxford, and, alongside me and my Bookshelf Art, there will be around 75 dealers offering rare, collectable and second-hand books, maps, manuscripts and ephemera.

https://www.pbfa.org/fairs/oxford-book-fair-october-2025

Open Saturday 18th October 10 am – 4 pm

Café on site 🙂

Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane, Oxford, OX3 0BP