Glove Factory Studios is a unique workspace environment in Holt, Wiltshire, just 9 miles from Bath. Surrounded by acres of rolling countryside, the studios are set in a lovingly restored old industrial tanning and glove-making factory.
Complete with Wild Herb at The Field Kitchen café and Glove Dippers cold-water swimming club, Glove Factory Studios is a place that welcomes contrast, where rural meets urban, work meets play and old meets new. A mini rural rebellion made up of individuals who take to the countryside; not to slow down or escape, but to spread out, breathe freely and make good things happen.
Co-working, dedicated desk, private studios & workspace for thinkers, creators & doers
Sensitively designed workspace, flooded with natural light and set in glorious rural landscape, with all the modern benefits of an urban experience. Superfast broadband, plenty of car parking and health and wellbeing benefits including on-site wild swimming lakes. Reimagining our green and pleasant land.
Our workspaces
Leather factory
After years of planning and restoration consultation, we formed a partnership to bring the adjoining industrial heritage buildings into the Glove Factory Studios umbrella. We are carefully working our way to restoring the buildings to create a wider collection of studio workspaces with garden courtyards between the streetscapes that link the buildings. It is an exciting next chapter in our story.
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We so needed that rain!
Our neighbours @mulvanyandrogers ✨ captured the beautiful eerie mist that followed.
@emilyyoungsculpture ‘The Sun King Dreams of Peace (Bronze)’ looking ever so peaceful, almost sighing with relief as the ground thanked the skies.
Thank you for the 📸 x

Every Thursday, our Members Experience Manager @chloequetoday gathers any studio members who like drawing & painting; encouraging them away from their desks to spend a lunchtime mark making.
Her gorgeous watercolour sketch above is from yesterday’s session, and captures studio member @markellerbyarchitects
@markellerbyarchitects coincidentally won a commission yesterday, to design a neurodiverse inclusive library for a school in London. Huge congratulations Mark 🎉
Thank you Chloe, you introduced a truly wonderful thing for members to get involved with.

Wild & Well Wednesdays 🤸🏻♀️ 🧘
5:45pm Pilates beside the lakes with @kay.elizabeth.skinner
Contact @kay.elizabeth.skinner to book or call 01225 784080 to find out more.
It’s the perfect day for it!

THANK YOU! To everyone who joined us today. Well done to all the short & long-legged hunters who found all @wishingwoodsevents busy bunnies. We hope you had fun & that you indulged in the irresistible @wildherbatthefieldkitchen taco bar + other deliciousnesses.
Thanks to @far_call_records for a great mood 🎶
Until next year 🐰

Easter Bank Holiday Monday 21 April
10AM to 4PM
Join us this Bank Holiday Monday for our annual Easter Hunt hosted by @wishingwoodsevents who will set you off around the fields & lakes, to discover what busy bunnies do all day 🐇
There will be:
🤹🏻♀️ face painting
🎨 craft activities
🎶 easy listening vinyl DJ sounds brought to you by @far_call_records
🔥 sauna sessions with @blackswansauna
🌮 and a taco stand to bring a little Mexican flavour to the day.
@wildherbatthefieldkitchen will be open all day, serving scrumptious light lunches & tempting treats to enjoy with all the family.
TAG a friend to join you on an Easter Monday adventure
£7 per child, includes hunt card & egg
Tickets via glovefactory.eventbrite.com
& available on the day

Easter Bank Holiday
Monday 21 April
10AM to 4PM
Join us this Bank Holiday Monday for our annual Easter Hunt hosted by @wishingwoodsevents who will set you off around the fields & lakes, to discover what busy bunnies do all day 🐇
There will be:
🤹🏻♀️ face painting
🎨 craft activities
🎶 easy listening vinyl DJ sounds brought to you by @far_call_records
🔥 sauna sessions with @blackswansauna
🌮 and a taco stand to bring a little Mexican flavour to the day.
@wildherbatthefieldkitchen will be open all day, serving scrumptious light lunches & tempting treats to enjoy with all the family.
TAG a friend to join you for a fun Easter Monday adventure
£7 per child, includes hunt card & egg
Tickets via glovefactory.eventbrite.com
& available on the day
#eastertime #easterweekend #eastermonday #familyfun #ruralworkspace

Heartfelt thanks to Judith Lanyon for sharing a wonderful love story of a film in `No Holds Barred` The Life and Art of her late husband, Matthew Lanyon; a memoir Judith co-directed with Barbara Santi.
Judith installed a few of Matthew`s artworks around the Club Room on the Spring equinox last week and they seemed to magnetically lure the last rays of the day to them as Judith answered questions after the screening.
Judith shared a lasting phrase Matthew would use that epitomised his exuberant nature and optimism, "oh boy, another whole day of me!" deliberately reminiscent of 1950s and 60s comics but 50 years later, when he was fully alive, it was very much meant!
🎥 copyright @greentraveller

Last night, in perfect unison with a stupendous Spring equinox, these gems of Matthew Lanyon’s work seemed to draw the waning daylight towards themselves in the Club Room.
Judith Lanyon and Barbara Santi co-directed a film about Judith’s late husband. An incredibly moving piece which was an enormous privilege to screen at Glove Factory Studios to a delightful audience of creatives.
We were all struck by a man who held his own in spite of his family’s reputation, with strength and humour. Judith said he’d wake up and say “another day of me”!
And yes, we count ourselves lucky with a capital ‘L’ that we get another day of Matthew before Judith takes these works away with her later today.
Thank you Judith!
And thank you to studio member Mark Ellerby who suggested ‘No Holds Barred’ as a Vespertine Talk.
A seismically memorable event!
