
Caroline Walsh-Waring's The Parade of the Copper Beech entertains Clive's Creative Imaging as part of Windows on Art in Trowbridge© Caroline Walsh-Waring
If Trowbridge Museum seems a traditional starting point for this art trail around the Wiltshire town of Trowbridge, then Fabric Magic, on Silver Street, a branch of the Coventry Building Society and two empty units within the Castle Place Shopping Centre and Market are perhaps less expected.

Ken Steadman's Faces are at Castle Place Shopping Centre and Market© Ken Steadman
“It’s an opportunity to wander around the town appreciating art out of context,” says Exhibition and Arts Officer Sarah Jane Kenyon. “We want people to look at art in a new light and consider who should be able to view it.”
It’s a safe bet that the environs of Bath Midway Litho Limited have rarely welcomed fishes, a turtle and a dolphin before. But Sally Evans, an experimentalist who has settled on the “constant challenge” of watercolours for her works there, is bringing a glimpse of marine tranquillity to window shoppers.
“Its translucency lends itself beautifully to capturing light and the beauty of the natural world,” she says.
“Art has been a passion of mine for many years. Wildlife and water are some of my favourite subjects, as people can see from my Windows on Art display.”
Quilter Carole Stevenson makes a good match for Fabric Magic, and the empty shopping centre units receive Dali-inspired acrylics, abstract collages and engraved glass, as well as sculpture courtesy of art and design students from the town’s Wiltshire College.
- Visit Windows on Art online for full details. Trowbridge Arts Festival runs September 14-30 2012. Follow @trowbridgearts on Twitter.
More pictures:

Ken Steadman, Apple of my Eye© Ken Steadman

Dorothy Hague takes her Birds to one of the empty Castle Place units© Dorothy Hague

Sally Evans dreams of a Dolphin© Sally Evans

Pretty Maids all in a Row, by quilter Carole Stevenson© Carole Stevenson

A Paul Workman acrylic, WHAAM, blasts into the Civic Centre© Paul Workman