----- Stourbridge, the Villages & Beyond Calendar-----

The 6th Stourbridge Calendar is here, with a little twist!

With a baby on the way, this year's calendar takes a different approach, bringing together and reusing some of my favourite images from the 2023–2025 Black Country and Stourbridge Calendars.

Thanks to your lovely suggestions, I'm calling this special edition "Artist's Pick" - a best-of collection of my favourite work over the years!

Mixed media drawings by Stacy Hammond.

----- DETAILS -----

A4 Wire-o-bound Hanging Calendar.

- Silk printed pages for easy smooth writing

- 250gsm heavyweight FSC® certified paper throughout

- Dated including the main holidays

- Printed using superior quality vegetable-based inks on sustainably sourced paper

- Pages can be reused by framing the illustrations next year

- CarbonNeutral UK printing company

January -

February - 

March - 

April -

May - 

June - 

July - Mary Stevens Park 

August -

September -

October -

November -

December -

(Please note colours may vary due to screen settings)

----- More about the Illustrations -----

My Illustration style consists of promarker pens, coloured pencil and ink giving each drawing depth and texture for a realistic story book feel.

----- Why I chose Stourbridge as my subject -----

Following the success of the last four years of the Stourbridge Calendar I knew I needed to bring it back, and my reasons for those calendars are still as true as they were four years ago.

Stourbridge town has fascinated me since I did a project for college many years ago where I went around taking photographs of the streets and buildings. It was then that I started to look up and see clues from the past. Stourbridge is ever changing at eye level - new shops, new fittings. But the Stourbridge that exists above eye level remains nearly the same as it was over 100 years ago.

When recalling shops from the past, it’s fascinating to see how different generations describe the same buildings as different shops. For example, in a family discussions describing where the new and delicious Soffia Lounge is, to me and my Husband it’s where Co-op used to be, but to our parents it will always be Quick Save.

Similar to the expression by ‘the Fish’ - I wonder how many people from Stourbridge know that one!

Our childhood memories are shaped by where we live and the buildings and architecture around us, and it’s comforting to know these memories will outlast even ourselves and even more so in this calendar.

A town to many, a town that lives through

A town that’s seen so much

And means so much to you.

Hand drawn in The Black Country by Stacy Hammond.