How to Enter the Art World after a late start ,
a first career, illness, raising children, a crisis of confidence, leaving it in disgust...
Book your place for an After Session with Hettie Judah at The Hide Artist Retreat
Thursday July 9th 2026: 11am - 1pm
Tickets £5 - £7.50
(limited spaces so book early)
an introduction to How To Enter The Art World After a late start, a first career, illness, rising children, a crisis of confidence, leaving it in disgust… by author Hettie Judah
Artists’ presentations about recent work and projects:
Presentations are followed by a Circle Q&A where you can ask Hettie questions in an informal mentoring-type session. There will then be time to meet and talk to one another and continue conversations that started during the Q&A.
Hettie will be selling and signing copies of the book after the event.
Doors open 10:30pm, please allow time to walk from parking (parking info below). No entry after 10.50am.
The event closes at 1pm and the invitation is extended to bring your own picnic and enjoy The Hide scenery with a picnic on the terrace. Doors close at 2pm.
Parking/Access/Transport:
Free access parking on gravel drive for two cars, booking by email ahead essential.
Please note there are 5 steps down to the property and one doorstep, property on one level inside.
Parking for all other cars in bay on common, 5 minutes’ walk away.
Trains to Stroud station and taxi.
Driving directions to The Hide, Pinfarthings GL55JJ
We suggest you locate Beaudesert Park School on the sat nav as we are just below this:
Beaudesert Park School, Minchinhampton, Stroud GL6 9AF.
Drive alongside the school on the flat with the long stone school wall on your left and the common on your right, direction Amberley. The road drops gently down.
Park in the parking bay on the right.
Drop pin for parking
Walk from the bay down to the Pinfarthings sign and turn left.
We are the wooden clad bungalow down on the right.
The electric button to the solid wood gate is in on the left.
The gate closes by itself.
GATHER at The Hide for International Women's Day
An art networking event with guest speaker - Jo Harrison
We invite you to GATHER with us
For International Women's Day, 8th March 2025
Come and enjoy a relaxed networking event, 2-4pm
With guest speaker - Jo Harrison
Jo will give a presentation reflecting on her personal experience building a career in the art world and how it has been impacted by her gender and becoming a parent.
This will be followed by an introduction to The Art Working Parents Alliance,
a UK based network for people working in the art world, co-founded with Hettie Judah in October 2022.
https://artworkingparents.wordpress.com/
There will be Q&A, conversation, coffee and cake.
Tickets through: link.outsavvy.com/gather-iwd25-jo-harrison
Gather, International Women’s Day, March 2024
“I felt Alice created an inclusive, relaxed, informative and thought provoking session.
Alice provided the emotional space for people to offer their experiences and thoughts around care in relation to how it affects their art practice.
It was good to feel comfortable in the company of a group of women who seemed to understand and accept differing perspectives. Kari was excellent, so articulate, caring and intelligent.
It was sobering thinking about any care that any of us might need in the future. For me, caring experiences can focus the creative mind. Caring for oneself to feed creativity can open up caring for others more effectively, lessening the sense of it being a burden.”
- N James, Gather 2024
“It was a delight to gather with such women, thank you for bringing us all together in such an accepting way, and you have created a beautiful space to enable this to happen”
- A Hodge, Gather 2024
Gather, International Women’s Day, March 2023
