Berwick Bridge 400

As part of a whole weekend to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Berwick Old Bridge, we’re running three workshops each day at Queen’s Garden, Tweedmouth.

10am – 1pm: Annie Lord, our Berwick Bridge 400 artist in residence, leads a pair of creative workshops. Free - no need to book.

1pm, 2pm, 3pm: Lucy Baxandall shows you how to make artisan paper using locally sourced materials. Free - please book using the link above.

10am – 4pm: Claire Beattie teaches the art of gyotaku (Japanese fish printing) alongside historical demonstrations courtesy of Berwick Museum and Art Gallery. Free - no need to book.

About the artists

Annie Lord is an artist and writer based in Midlothian. Her practice encompasses collaborative, socially engaged projects, visual artworks and creative non-fiction writing. She is fascinated by how we interact with the physical world – transforming plants, animals, and minerals into objects of artistic, scientific and domestic value.

Her living artwork The Neighbouring Orchard was commissioned by Art Walk Projects in 2020. As of February 2024, it comprises 200 apple trees grown by individuals across coastal Edinburgh and East Lothian. In 2023 she was shortlisted for the Nan Shepherd Prize in nature writing for her work-in-progress book: Morphoses: The Art of Nature’s Processes and Processed Nature.

Lucy Baxandall is a papermaker and book artist based in Berwick-upon-Tweed. From 2008 to 2010, she was artist in residence at John Mason School in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, and remained an art teacher until 2011. After returning to London from Oxford, she taught at the London Centre for Book Arts, and now teaches 2D and 3D papermaking at Morley College and West Dean College.

She also runs papermaking and book arts workshops at her studio in Berwick and around the UK, and occasionally translates for academic publications. The move north in 2018 has allowed her to open a bricks and mortar shop, Tidekettle Paper, alongside her studio at 16 Bridge Street, Berwick.

Claire Beattie was born in Ayrshire and grew up in Spey Bay on the Moray coast, before graduating with an MA in Fine Art from the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh College of Art with a distinction in painting in 1997.

Claire has exhibited her oil paintings throughout the UK since 2008. Her work, inspired by the Scottish Borders landscape where she lives and works, is in many private collections in the UK and worldwide, and has been shown several times at the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute. She has been a member of the Society of Scottish Artists and Visual Arts Scotland and has had several successful solo exhibitions since 2013.