Exhibition of original watercolour and gouache artwork and sketches by Anna Shuttlewood from her picture book 'Walkies'.
Anna Shuttlewood's Walkies exhibition opens at The Salisbury Museum on 16 January 2027, and it'll be running through to 18 April. It's held in the Small Exhibition Gallery, so it's a focused show rather than something that takes over the whole building.
What you're seeing is the original watercolour and gouache artwork and the sketches from Shuttlewood's new picture book, Walkies. The book follows Samuel, a dog whose morning walk around Salisbury turns into a chase after something so exciting that he leaves a trail of tangled chaos behind him, passing recognisable local landmarks along the way. Having the original art on the walls lets you see the work that went into the book before it was printed, from the early sketches to the finished watercolours and gouache.
The museum itself is in King's House, 65 The Close, a Grade-I listed building that once served as a residence for cathedral staff and as quarters for members of the royal house in the early 17th century. It was founded in 1860 by the doctor Richard Fowler and moved to this spot in 1981. If you've got time to wander further, the Wessex Gallery, which opened in 2014 after a National Lottery-funded transformation, is the museum's strongest area for archaeology, with finds from Stonehenge and Old Sarum and the grave of the Amesbury Archer, one of the richest early Bronze Age burials in Britain.
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Entry to the exhibition is included in standard admission, so there's no need to book ahead. It runs from 16 January to 18 April 2027 in the Small Exhibition Gallery at The Salisbury Museum, The King's House, 65 The Close, Salisbury.
