Twenty-six artists will be opening their working spaces to art enthusiasts during the upcoming St Ives September Festival.

The Open Studios event will include several locations which are usually inaccessible.

It will include bigger venues such as White’s Old Workshops on Porthmeor Road and the Gaolyard Studios on Dove Street.

Artist Shelley Thornton (Image: St Ives September Festival)

Individual artists will also welcome visitors to their home and garden studios.

Eight artists will be participating at White's Old Workshops, along with six potters and ceramicists at the Gaolyard Studios.

Both venues will hold special events. There will be open evenings at White's, where visitors can 'meet the artists and enjoy drinks and nibbles' on September 20 and 21.

Kat Wheeler at Gaolyard Studios (Image: St Ives September Festival)

Gaolyard Studios will also welcome guests to its annual Cup Sale and Drinks event from 5pm to 7pm on Wednesday, September 18.

This year, Anne Bowsher's Zigzag Cottage joins the list of venues where the artist will be showing her oil, watercolour and acrylic mixed media pieces inspired by the coastal landscape around St Ives.

Sally MacCabe at White’s Old Studios (Image: St Ives September Festival)

Ceramic sculptor Tamsyn Trevorrow is inviting art-lovers to visit her nearby Chez Nous Studio in Canonstown, Lelant.

Other artists including Susan Thomas, Juliet Middleton-Batts, and Diana Forrest, known as Gazelle, will also open their doors to the public.