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, Philip Webb, Charles Voysey and the Arts and Crafts Movement. Liberty furniture, Eastern rugs and fabrics. Period homes and wild gardens; interior decoration, property renovation and preservation; Old sports cars and rusty Range Rovers; spaniels, Malbec and country life in the North Cotswolds.

Ruby Dewberry (2009 – 2024) Co-Founder. 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 evolve and 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; filled 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.” In the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, artists, architects, designers and craftspeople following his inspiration began to come to live and work here. As many of us still do, they looked back to simpler times, before mass production and commoditization. Instead favouring the sympathetic, sustainable use of natural materials and traditional skills in original design, to create beautifully crafted objects.

Hence “Artysan Cotswolds”, where today, we aim to inspire you with the art of country living…