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Spring Fling starts soon, running from 23 to 25 May and we're excited for our biggest year to date! Visitors can explore 111 studios on six routes across Dumfries & Galloway.

Catch a glimpse into the working lives of artists and makers across the region as they throw open their studio doors. It's a chance to see how work is made, have conversations, and experience the depth and diversity of practice here.

Alongside Open Studios, this year’s programme expands further, with exhibitions, participatory projects and live work unfolding across multiple locations.

You can plan a full weekend or take it slowly. Follow a route, discover new places, and spend time with the people behind the work.

Start planning your visit through the link in our bio.

#SF2026 #OpenStudios #DumfriesAndGalloway #VisitSouthWestScotland

Spring Fling starts soon, running from 23 to 25 May and we're excited for our biggest year to date! Visitors can explore 111 studios on six routes across Dumfries & Galloway.

Catch a glimpse into the working lives of artists and makers across the region as they throw open their studio doors. It's a chance to see how work is made, have conversations, and experience the depth and diversity of practice here.

Alongside Open Studios, this year’s programme expands further, with exhibitions, participatory projects and live work unfolding across multiple locations.

You can plan a full weekend or take it slowly. Follow a route, discover new places, and spend time with the people behind the work.

Start planning your visit through the link in our bio.

#SF2026 #OpenStudios #DumfriesAndGalloway #VisitSouthWestScotland

Spring Fling starts soon, running from 23 to 25 May and we're excited for our biggest year to date! Visitors can explore 111 studios on six routes across Dumfries & Galloway.

Catch a glimpse into the working lives of artists and makers across the region as they throw open their studio doors. It's a chance to see how work is made, have conversations, and experience the depth and diversity of practice here.

Alongside Open Studios, this year’s programme expands further, with exhibitions, participatory projects and live work unfolding across multiple locations.

You can plan a full weekend or take it slowly. Follow a route, discover new places, and spend time with the people behind the work.

Start planning your visit through the link in our bio.

#SF2026 #OpenStudios #DumfriesAndGalloway #VisitSouthWestScotland

Spring Fling starts soon, running from 23 to 25 May and we're excited for our biggest year to date! Visitors can explore 111 studios on six routes across Dumfries & Galloway.

Catch a glimpse into the working lives of artists and makers across the region as they throw open their studio doors. It's a chance to see how work is made, have conversations, and experience the depth and diversity of practice here.

Alongside Open Studios, this year’s programme expands further, with exhibitions, participatory projects and live work unfolding across multiple locations.

You can plan a full weekend or take it slowly. Follow a route, discover new places, and spend time with the people behind the work.

Start planning your visit through the link in our bio.

#SF2026 #OpenStudios #DumfriesAndGalloway #VisitSouthWestScotland

Spring Fling starts soon, running from 23 to 25 May and we're excited for our biggest year to date! Visitors can explore 111 studios on six routes across Dumfries & Galloway.

Catch a glimpse into the working lives of artists and makers across the region as they throw open their studio doors. It's a chance to see how work is made, have conversations, and experience the depth and diversity of practice here.

Alongside Open Studios, this year’s programme expands further, with exhibitions, participatory projects and live work unfolding across multiple locations.

You can plan a full weekend or take it slowly. Follow a route, discover new places, and spend time with the people behind the work.

Start planning your visit through the link in our bio.

#SF2026 #OpenStudios #DumfriesAndGalloway #VisitSouthWestScotland

Spring Fling starts soon, running from 23 to 25 May and we're excited for our biggest year to date! Visitors can explore 111 studios on six routes across Dumfries & Galloway.

Catch a glimpse into the working lives of artists and makers across the region as they throw open their studio doors. It's a chance to see how work is made, have conversations, and experience the depth and diversity of practice here.

Alongside Open Studios, this year’s programme expands further, with exhibitions, participatory projects and live work unfolding across multiple locations.

You can plan a full weekend or take it slowly. Follow a route, discover new places, and spend time with the people behind the work.

Start planning your visit through the link in our bio.

#SF2026 #OpenStudios #DumfriesAndGalloway #VisitSouthWestScotland

There’s something really special about seeing Studio 102 taking shape on the Red Route. Not just another studio space, but somewhere that’s been built slowly and carefully by hand somewhere conversations, making and community will naturally happen.

Sonah is one of this year’s @upland_cic Emerge recipients, and it feels completely in keeping with @sonah_chaudhry_jewellery practice that the studio has come together in this way too: thoughtful, resourceful and deeply connected to people and place. Turning a shipping container into a creative space feels especially important at a time when affordable spaces for artists are becoming harder to find and hold onto.

Through Emerge, artists receive mentoring, financial support and a place within Spring Fling Open Studios creating a really meaningful bridge between developing a practice and opening that work up to the public. It’s support that invests in artists for the long term, helping people build sustainable creative lives here in Dumfries & Galloway.

And that’s what Spring Fling Open Studios is really about at its heart, people opening doors and inviting others into the reality of creative life. Not just finished pieces, but the tools, conversations, experiments and ideas behind them too.

There’s something very hopeful about Studio 102 and it feels like exactly the kind of place people will naturally gather around. We really can’t wait for people to experience it. Come say Hi 👋to Sonah on the Red Red Route this May!

@sonah_chaudhry_jewellery @upland_cic
#springflingopenstudios #dumfriesandgalloway #visitsouthwestscotland

Another beautiful weekend of wild sauna at @themoffatdistillery 🔥🥃

When you join us for a sauna session at the distillery in Moffat, you're now helping to contribute to nature restoration efforts on the land, so thank you!

We’re grateful to be able to bring the sauna here and share this wild space with you all, your visit now helps keep it thriving! 🌿💦

We'll be back at Moffat Distillery on the 23-24th May, to celebrate the @springfling festival! 🎨

Bookings are now live on our website 👇🏼🔥

www.wilddooksauna.com/book

Another beautiful weekend of wild sauna at @themoffatdistillery 🔥🥃

When you join us for a sauna session at the distillery in Moffat, you're now helping to contribute to nature restoration efforts on the land, so thank you!

We’re grateful to be able to bring the sauna here and share this wild space with you all, your visit now helps keep it thriving! 🌿💦

We'll be back at Moffat Distillery on the 23-24th May, to celebrate the @springfling festival! 🎨

Bookings are now live on our website 👇🏼🔥

www.wilddooksauna.com/book

Another beautiful weekend of wild sauna at @themoffatdistillery 🔥🥃

When you join us for a sauna session at the distillery in Moffat, you're now helping to contribute to nature restoration efforts on the land, so thank you!

We’re grateful to be able to bring the sauna here and share this wild space with you all, your visit now helps keep it thriving! 🌿💦

We'll be back at Moffat Distillery on the 23-24th May, to celebrate the @springfling festival! 🎨

Bookings are now live on our website 👇🏼🔥

www.wilddooksauna.com/book

Another beautiful weekend of wild sauna at @themoffatdistillery 🔥🥃

When you join us for a sauna session at the distillery in Moffat, you're now helping to contribute to nature restoration efforts on the land, so thank you!

We’re grateful to be able to bring the sauna here and share this wild space with you all, your visit now helps keep it thriving! 🌿💦

We'll be back at Moffat Distillery on the 23-24th May, to celebrate the @springfling festival! 🎨

Bookings are now live on our website 👇🏼🔥

www.wilddooksauna.com/book

🔴 RED ROUTE

✨ Ancient landscapes. Open studios. A feeling of mystery.

Discover the Red Route ❤️

This year, our artists shared the places that inspire them mostand the Red Route takes you deep into the landscape of Eskdalemuir.

“Eskdalemuir has a unique abundance of ancient sites. Visiting them alongside the valley’s open studios can give a real feel of how rooted in the land the artwork is.” Shen Chokyi

Wide skies, quiet roads, hidden histories and deeply personal creative spaces make this one of Spring Fling’s most atmospheric journeys.

There’s even an accompanying film to explore before your visit:
🎥 The Eskdalemuir Art and Mystery Trail
📸 Image credit: Shen Chokyi / @illustrationsbyshen
❤️ Experience the Red Route.

#SF2026 #OpenStudios

🔴 RED ROUTE

✨ Ancient landscapes. Open studios. A feeling of mystery.

Discover the Red Route ❤️

This year, our artists shared the places that inspire them mostand the Red Route takes you deep into the landscape of Eskdalemuir.

“Eskdalemuir has a unique abundance of ancient sites. Visiting them alongside the valley’s open studios can give a real feel of how rooted in the land the artwork is.” Shen Chokyi

Wide skies, quiet roads, hidden histories and deeply personal creative spaces make this one of Spring Fling’s most atmospheric journeys.

There’s even an accompanying film to explore before your visit:
🎥 The Eskdalemuir Art and Mystery Trail
📸 Image credit: Shen Chokyi / @illustrationsbyshen
❤️ Experience the Red Route.

#SF2026 #OpenStudios

From the 23-25 May. Come down for a wee adventure and a pizza! Type in 'Nate's Fork' on Google maps to find me or look up in the @springfling brochure. There will be lots of other artists in the area to visit as well!
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#whatsgoingon #dumfriesandgalloway #glasgow #edinburgh

Don't miss our wonderful Emerge 2026 recipients photographer Trinity Coombs and jeweller Sonah Chaudhry at this year's Spring Fling over the weekend. You can find their studios in Thornhill and Moffat.

Emerge is a programme of mentoring and a bursary for emerging artists or makers who have a strong connection to Dumfries and Galloway. Emerge recipients are mentored by professional experienced artists and makers over a six to nine month period, awarded a bursary of £1000 to create new work and take part in Spring Fling Open Studios. The programme also offers funding towards Go & See Trips, enabling the mentor and mentee to attend relevant events such as exhibitions, conferences, workshops or classes.

Visit their virtual studios via the link in our bio.
@trinitycphotos @sonah_chaudhry_jewellery

#SF2026 #OpenStudios #DumfriesAndGalloway #ArtistDevelopment

Don't miss our wonderful Emerge 2026 recipients photographer Trinity Coombs and jeweller Sonah Chaudhry at this year's Spring Fling over the weekend. You can find their studios in Thornhill and Moffat.

Emerge is a programme of mentoring and a bursary for emerging artists or makers who have a strong connection to Dumfries and Galloway. Emerge recipients are mentored by professional experienced artists and makers over a six to nine month period, awarded a bursary of £1000 to create new work and take part in Spring Fling Open Studios. The programme also offers funding towards Go & See Trips, enabling the mentor and mentee to attend relevant events such as exhibitions, conferences, workshops or classes.

Visit their virtual studios via the link in our bio.
@trinitycphotos @sonah_chaudhry_jewellery

#SF2026 #OpenStudios #DumfriesAndGalloway #ArtistDevelopment

Meet some of the fascinating artists taking part in this weekend's Spring Fling open studios event - when the whole of Dumfries and Galloway becomes a gallery. ITV Border News https://www.itv.com/watch/news/catch-up-on-itv-news-lookaround-from-wednesday-20th-may/47tff6g

Be sure to swoop into FLOCK at Spring Fling, from 23 to 25 May!

FLOCK is a Dumfries and Galloway–wide ceramics project engaging young people from 57 schools and settings across the region. Led by ceramic artist @francesrossmakes, and supported by artists @claredawdry and @ruth_elizabeth_jones. Funded by the @holywoodtrust and @creativescots, the project gives children and young people the chance to experience the grounding properties of clay while supporting classroom learning and a sense of place in their home of Dumfries & Galloway.

Lead artist, Frances Ross, will also be on site in her own pop up studio.

@barwhillanty (Parton DG7 3NS)
23-25 May 2026, 10.00am to 5.30pm each day
FREE - Disabled access & Parking - No dogs (except assistance dogs)

Images: Ruth Elizabeth Jones

#SF2026 #DumfriesAndGalloway

Be sure to swoop into FLOCK at Spring Fling, from 23 to 25 May!

FLOCK is a Dumfries and Galloway–wide ceramics project engaging young people from 57 schools and settings across the region. Led by ceramic artist @francesrossmakes, and supported by artists @claredawdry and @ruth_elizabeth_jones. Funded by the @holywoodtrust and @creativescots, the project gives children and young people the chance to experience the grounding properties of clay while supporting classroom learning and a sense of place in their home of Dumfries & Galloway.

Lead artist, Frances Ross, will also be on site in her own pop up studio.

@barwhillanty (Parton DG7 3NS)
23-25 May 2026, 10.00am to 5.30pm each day
FREE - Disabled access & Parking - No dogs (except assistance dogs)

Images: Ruth Elizabeth Jones

#SF2026 #DumfriesAndGalloway

CROWD is part of this year’s Spring Fling programme - it's work that invites interaction and participation.

Photographer Kim Ayres will be creating a scene full of people, but taking photos of each person individually. Participants will be asked to pose as though interacting with others in the room, even though they're on their own. But when the photos are edited together later, it will look like a crowded room full of activity.

All who take part will get a free digital copy of the final image.

Taking place at @thecrichtontrust
@kimayresphotography , Studio 83
#SF2026 #OpenStudios #DumfriesAndGalloway #Photography

Have you planned your Spring Fling visit yet?

This year's event is almost here - join us from 23 to 25 May at artist studios across Dumfries & Galloway. Use our Virtual Studios and map to explore artists and locations across the region that you'd like to visit.

Some people plan a full weekend, others take a slower approach. There is no right way to do it.

Bus tours are available if you would prefer an easier way to travel between studios.

Start planning today: https://www.spring-fling.co.uk/

Have you planned your Spring Fling visit yet?

This year's event is almost here - join us from 23 to 25 May at artist studios across Dumfries & Galloway. Use our Virtual Studios and map to explore artists and locations across the region that you'd like to visit.

Some people plan a full weekend, others take a slower approach. There is no right way to do it.

Bus tours are available if you would prefer an easier way to travel between studios.

Start planning today: https://www.spring-fling.co.uk/

Have you planned your Spring Fling visit yet?

This year's event is almost here - join us from 23 to 25 May at artist studios across Dumfries & Galloway. Use our Virtual Studios and map to explore artists and locations across the region that you'd like to visit.

Some people plan a full weekend, others take a slower approach. There is no right way to do it.

Bus tours are available if you would prefer an easier way to travel between studios.

Start planning today: https://www.spring-fling.co.uk/

Have you planned your Spring Fling visit yet?

This year's event is almost here - join us from 23 to 25 May at artist studios across Dumfries & Galloway. Use our Virtual Studios and map to explore artists and locations across the region that you'd like to visit.

Some people plan a full weekend, others take a slower approach. There is no right way to do it.

Bus tours are available if you would prefer an easier way to travel between studios.

Start planning today: https://www.spring-fling.co.uk/

Explore Spring Fling by busthis weekend (23-25 May) 🚌

It's a simple and relaxed way to experience multiple studios without needing to plan routes or drive - a good option if you are visiting from further afield or want an easier way to get around.

Find full details and book through the link in our bio 🔗

You can also add your journey to our travel map — it helps us understand where visitors are coming from and build a picture of Spring Fling as it grows (see link in bio)

#SF2026 #OpenStudios

Spring Fling artist Gail McGarva is creating a site responsive art trail called From Tree to Sea in the gorgeous gardens of Galloway House, which lead down to the beach at Rigg Bay in Garlieston.
She is placing three of her traditional fishing boats among ancient trees in the coastal gardens of the great house as a way of highlighting the link between the wood used to build them and the oceans they are designed to ply.
The final part of it, The Ghost Ship, will be like the skeletal remains of a boat. It’s a lament for all those wrecked and abandoned boats that line the coast of Scotland, gradually fading into the sea and disappearing from our world. See https://www.spring-fling.co.uk