Big Black House Design Co.
Contemporary ironwork and wood furniture, sculpture and gifts designed and handmade by artist-blacksmith Maxine Hunt.
Discipline: Metalwork
Laura Baxter Fine Jewellery
Laura Baxter handcrafts silver and gold jewellery inspired by botanical forms and unusual gemstones. Her work is well known for its graphic and stylised interpretations of plants. The intention of her work is to create wearable pieces of nature. Her work is informed by a love of gardening, horticultural tools, botanical illustrations, plants and flowers. …
Isabella Anne Kelley
In her independent practice, Isabella meticulously studies the built environment, skillfully manipulating its elements into distinctive patterns for adorning exquisite silver jewellery and tableware. Each creation reflects a seamless harmony of architectural inspiration and innovative design, demonstrating her unwavering commitment to craftsmanship and individuality.
Sophie Victoria Anderson
Sophie handcrafts small-scale metal forms and contemporary jewellery, adding texture and detail with playful enamel mark-making. Her work explores the tactile quality of objects, creating beautiful yet unusual pieces that are designed to be handled. She gathers inspiration mostly from rugged rock forms and textures using photography as a reference, but also likes to allow …
Jill Stewart
Jill Stewart lives and works in rural Northumberland and handmakes jewellery and clocks, also sometimes small metal birds and animals. She works in mixed metals- silver, brass and copper with blue titanium, to use the contrasts produced by the different metal surfaces. Etching and surface marks add pattern and texture, and heat effects heighten the …
Colinmeltstuff
Colin works in mixed media metals, always with an eye on experimentation and the use of found objects and fine metal. His work focuses on recycling and reuse, creating one-of-a-kind or series pieces. The pieces use simple shapes but with the extraordinary contrasting colours of metal patina and enamels
Ralph Shuttleworth
Ralph is a contemporary sculptor and designer working in wood and metals to create pieces with intriguing textures and form. His material led design process forms sculptures which push the materials to new areas, using bending and casting techniques he has developed. Ralph’s work is inspired by the making processes, and how this can influence …
Stephanie Hopkins
Stephanie creates one of a kind metalwork including hand raised copper vessels, jewellery and decorative hangings. Patination is her main discipline, combined with traditional metalsmithing techniques including saw-piercing, forming, and soldering. Stephanie has a broad range of inspirations in her work including nature and Art Deco influences. After graduating from Wolverhampton University in 2012, Stephanie …
Judith Brown Jewellery
Judith Brown has been working with wire for twenty years in 2024. Her most recent jewellery collection, Foliage, is inspired by the details in wild flowers. She uses silver wire, and stitches, loops, twists and wraps to create intricate, delicate jewellery adding glass beads for subtle colour and texture. She also makes a collection of …
Adele Taylor
Adele makes 2D multimedia landscapes, jewellery and small objects. She values practical skills when creating her work and enjoys working by hand whilst letting the material influence how the pieces evolve during production. She’s become interested in pattern and texture after a trip to Iceland. The linear texture in the vastness of the dramatic volcanic …