A WINCHOCMBE gallery owner hopes to create the perfect home-from-home experience as she showcases her Crafts for Christmas exhibition in the town's high street.

Winds of Change gallery owner Jane Smoczynski is aiming to achieve a cosy front room atmosphere for an exhibition from a pool of artists.

“I wanted to create the feel of a warm family Christmas scene and the cosiness of a front room at Christmas with all the festive decorations. This is about celebrating British contemporary crafts - the hand-made which we all love. Ironically if I didn’t have the gallery, this would have been my front room. We moved in 13 years ago and allocated the space as a gallery and chose to live on the two floors upstairs,” said Mrs Smoczynski, who also organises Winchcombe’s successful outdoor sculpture exhibition at Charingworth Court and Art Trail as part of Winchcombe Festival of Music and Arts held in May; and regularly collaborates with various organisations including Sudeley Castle and Winchcombe Pottery.

“I have always wanted my gallery to be a place where people can feel comfortable and relaxed. Hopefully this latest exhibition will help potential buyers visualise how the work on show could look in a home environment.

“I suppose over the years Winds of Change Gallery has acted as a permanent open studio showing other people’s work in what happens to be my own home.”

The current exhibition includes three-dimensional paper-cut natural landscapes and intricate mesh bird sculptures by Lucy Large; acrylic representational landscapes by Lucy’s father, Roger Large; letter carving on slate by Caitriona Cartwright; ceramics by Kerry Hastings, quirky bird jugs by Alice Shepherd; rustic coloured lino cuts by Melvyn Evans and jewellery from Emma Rust.

Crafts for Christmas runs from November 17 until December 30.