Our Gallery... Our Story
Don Bryson Gallery Owner
Inspirations: The English country home. 19th and early 20th Century art, folk art, Pre-Raphaelites, Ruralists and Neo-Romantics. Vernacular architecture and design, particularly William Morris, Sir Edwin Lutyens and the Arts and Crafts Movement. Period homes and wild gardens; interior decoration, property renovation and preservation; antique and vintage furniture, rugs and fabrics. Old sports cars and rusty Range Rovers; spaniels, Malbec and country life in the North Cotswolds.
Ruby Dewberry (2009 – 2024) Consultant, Canine Collections
Never forgotten. Our sweetest, gentlest, most loving and loyal furry companion. Sleep well, Roob.
Special Interests: Eating, sleeping, rolling, tummy tickles, swimming, chasing things, general spaniel stuff. A life well lived.
In 2015, we stepped through the door of our original premises at the Old Saddlery, Moreton-in-Marsh and knew exactly what we wanted to create. The concept of Artysan Cotswolds was born and continues to grow here in picturesque Stow-on-the-Wold. A unique and inviting gallery that feels more like a cosy Cotswold home. Warm, welcoming and distinctly unstuffy; brimming with contemporary and vintage country-inspired art, attractively presented alongside antique and vintage furniture and decorative objects.
Mixing old and new in an eclectic decorative scheme, we share a taste of our Cotswold country house style.
Artysan Cotswolds is inspired by English country life and by the legacy of William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement. Morris taught “have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” Early last century, artists, architects, designers and craftspeople inspired by him came to live and work here. As many of us still do, they looked back to simpler times, before mass production. Instead favouring the sympathetic, sustainable use of natural materials and traditional skills in original design, to create beautiful handcrafted objects.
Hence “Artysan Cotswolds”, where today, our aim is to continue to inspire you with the art of country living…