The Treve Show started in 1995 run by Bronnie Cunningham, her son Euan and daughter in law Sally Cutler for a weekend show from home with a photocopied invitation and enough visitors to count on your 2 hands.
Since then it has grown to encompass a large gathering of local, national and international artists and has hundreds of visitors each year enjoying the beautiful surroundings, high quality of art and opportunity to meet and purchase from the artists directly.
Bronnie was a writer and textile artist and came to live at Treve in the early 1960s with her husband Sandy, a printmaker and painter, and they raised their family of 3 sons here.
Sandy's purpose built Printmaking Studio is now one of the artists exhibition areas called The Old Studio. Two of his printing presses can still be seen in the room today and note the taller height of the surrounding display ledges as Sandy was 6'3" tall. The handwritten height chart on the wall records not only his stature but that of the growing family and is updated to this day with each new addition to the Cunningham family.
Euan is the youngest son and is a furniture designer, illustrator and painter.
His studio was originally used by his father and can be found at the end of the garden in the Woodland Walk.
This studio has had a few travels. Originally sited in its current position, at some point it was moved to where the current Barn is located. When building work commenced for the Barn it was decided to attempt to remove it back to it's original location rather than demolish it. This took all members of the family, the local farmer and a telehandler to achieve. It must have been well built because it survived the journey and is still in use today.
His partner Sally is a printmaker.
Her studio, in the cottage, was formerly Bronnie's Silk Workroom, now converted into a Printmaking Studio for Sally's linocuts and collographs.
The floor in this room was lowered in the 60's to increase head room this explains why you can now see an ancient fireplace that appears to start from the centre of the wall!
Their studios are part of the show and you can see Euan painting and Sally printmaking at points throughout the exhibition.
Since then it has grown to encompass a large gathering of local, national and international artists and has hundreds of visitors each year enjoying the beautiful surroundings, high quality of art and opportunity to meet and purchase from the artists directly.
Bronnie was a writer and textile artist and came to live at Treve in the early 1960s with her husband Sandy, a printmaker and painter, and they raised their family of 3 sons here.
Sandy's purpose built Printmaking Studio is now one of the artists exhibition areas called The Old Studio. Two of his printing presses can still be seen in the room today and note the taller height of the surrounding display ledges as Sandy was 6'3" tall. The handwritten height chart on the wall records not only his stature but that of the growing family and is updated to this day with each new addition to the Cunningham family.
Euan is the youngest son and is a furniture designer, illustrator and painter.
His studio was originally used by his father and can be found at the end of the garden in the Woodland Walk.
This studio has had a few travels. Originally sited in its current position, at some point it was moved to where the current Barn is located. When building work commenced for the Barn it was decided to attempt to remove it back to it's original location rather than demolish it. This took all members of the family, the local farmer and a telehandler to achieve. It must have been well built because it survived the journey and is still in use today.
His partner Sally is a printmaker.
Her studio, in the cottage, was formerly Bronnie's Silk Workroom, now converted into a Printmaking Studio for Sally's linocuts and collographs.
The floor in this room was lowered in the 60's to increase head room this explains why you can now see an ancient fireplace that appears to start from the centre of the wall!
Their studios are part of the show and you can see Euan painting and Sally printmaking at points throughout the exhibition.