North Yorkshire Open Studios: Winter Open Studios

North Yorkshire Open Studios returns on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 November, with artists opening their doors across the county. It's the final chapter of a year-long programme run by the artist-run collective, which is set up to celebrate and raise the profile of the region's artistic talent. The idea, as project manager Garth Bayley puts it, is about connecting people with the makers behind the work and buying a Christmas gift directly from the artist in the space where it was created.

That's the core of it: you're invited inside the creative sanctuaries of North Yorkshire's finest talent, exploring the hidden spaces where the art comes to life and meeting the creators along the way. The selection runs the length of the coast from Scarborough to Whitby, taking in a wide variety of styles, media and subjects across the county, designed to suit all kinds of visitor. If you're based in the area, it's a good excuse to spend a weekend drifting between studios you'd otherwise never see.

One of the participating artists is the award-winning mixed media abstract painter Lindsey Tyson, who works from a light and airy basement studio at Woodend Creative Workspace on The Crescent in Scarborough. It looks out onto green grass and trees and is jam-packed with paintings, sketchbooks and materials. If you're in town, it's a convenient spot to start or end a day of visiting.

With the studios spread from Scarborough through to Whitby, you can make a day of it and see several in one go, or just pop into one or two. It's a weekend of open doors, so you can see the work in the very place it was made and chat with the people who made it. The studios are open Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 November.