The ground floor Gallery shop will be open between 11am & 2.30pm for customers who have booked a table at the Sunday Brunch or anyone wishing to enjoy some relaxed shopping whilst listening to great live music!

Professional Finishing Techniques Thursday 23rd February – EVENING

Tips and techniques for finishing off your knitting.

Cable Knitting Friday 16 March – DAY

Improvers’ Workshop Tuesday 3rd April – EVENING

For knitters who are confident with the basics, and want the know-how to move on to more advanced projects.

Knitting “in the round” Wednesday 11th April – EVENING
Learn to knit on four needles, for seam-free knitting!

Learn to Knit Friday 13th April – DAY

A workshop for would-be knitters; learn the basics and begin yourfirst knitting project.

If you would like to book up for one of the courses or want to know more, please go to www.borntoknit.co.uk

Chess Mclean – Pen, ink & watercolour

Johanna Kennedy-Wall Acrylic on Canvas

Claire Wiltsher – Oil on Canvas

Josephine Summer – Print

Christine Shorney - Oil on canvas

Robin Moorecroft – Collograph

Deborah Poole – Feltwork

Gina Hawkshaw – Acrylic

Sarah Ross-Thompson – Collograph

Upcoming Exhibitions in 2012

The Stiby family exhibition

Friday 28th April – Saturday 5th May 2012

Foundation degree art show

Friday 18th May – Saturday 26th May 2012

Out of the Wood

1st June – Friday 29th June 2012 A diverse mix of work portraying the beauty of wood in different forms.

“There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations” Washington Irving

The Main Gallery will be closed during the following times:

Friday 10th February

Friday 17th February

Friday 23rd February

Friday 24th February

No disabled access on the first floor

The Main family dominate Fisherton Mill’s history and the building itself is an important part of Salisbury’s heritage as the only industrial building left in the city centre. William Main chose Fisherton Street as the location for his Mill as at the time it was situated directly on the Market House railway siding which ran from the station to the Market House, now the City Library. The Mill had several functions which included the bulk cleaning of seed corn and crushing of other grains together with supplying the company’s shop in Salisbury’s market square, today the Nationwide Building Society. These goods were transported by horse and cart; the stables in the courtyard are now Fisherton Mill’s thriving studios housing independent businesses.

As the building was passed down through the Main family, social change made its mark. When William Main died, the business was inherited by his son, Leonard.  The business was interrupted from 1914 to 1918 when the Mill was requisitioned by the War Department as bonded warehousing for the Australian Army. It then flourished between 1920 and 1950, but when Leonard’s son, Ronald, took over in the 1960s, mechanisation and great changes to farming methods forced the family to diversify into horticulture and by 1984 the decision was taken to close the business.  The historic building has since been a carpet warehouse and an illegal rave venue, but in 1994 Michael Main, the great grandson of the original owner, rescued it and opened The Gallery.

Michael Fox & I successfully ran the Gallery Cafe alongside and then, in 2005, bought Fisherton Mill from the Main family and developed it into the popular and thriving business it is today.

Great gifts for loved ones!

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