Becky Mann Illustration
Becky creates fun and colourful illustrations and translates them into lino, screen and risograph prints and greeting cards.
Programme: Makers Fair May 2023
Kalei
Kalei is a small-batch polymer clay jewellery brand based in Saltaire. Born through the love of design, each piece really is a little piece of art for your lobes. Kalei aims to add pops of colour into your life through the playfulness, classic patterns and unique shapes of the jewellery, that can be worn anytime, …
Loomiere Weaves
Vinca Brown, the founder of Loomiere Weaves, creates one-off handwoven scarves in vibrant, stunning colour combinations designed in modern patterns using vintage 4-shaft looms. She is fascinated by the mathematical nature of weaving and the meditative feel the process gives her. Vinca enjoys exploring the endless possibilities that the tonal range of hand dyed yarn …
Shipley College Art & Design: In the Making
Final year, level 3 Art and Design students at Shipley College have been creating work across a wide range of media – including print, illustration, ceramics and textiles. Pots that draw on the Yorkshire moors, prints that celebrate Shipley’s architecture, handmade idiosyncratic characters and objects. Whilst pursuing their own ideas and processes as individual makers, …
Studio Milena
Helen of Studio Milena brings her contemporary handwoven textiles to life with off-beat colours and captivating textures. Inviting you to take a closer look. Temping you to touch the tactile nature of her weaving. Studio Milena collections evolve slowly using thoughtfully selected natural materials: locally sourced merino lambswool, silk fashion remnants, and organic cotton. Each …
WatsonFlexen
Glass artist Louise and furniture designer John are independent makers who work to commission with neighbouring workshops in a former Yorkshire woollen mill. They have joined their talents to produce a selection of highly crafted furniture and lighting for the contemporary interior under the collaboration WatsonFlexen. Working in their chosen disciplines, these Yorkshire-based makers beautifully …
The Print Lass
The Print Lass screen-prints her bright, mid-century-inspired art and home accessories in her home studio in Oakworth, West Yorkshire. A lover of 1950s & 60s illustration and graphic design, her work often embraces the simple graphic shapes and textural hand-drawn elements of that period. She finds joy in exploring materials, folding and cutting papers to …
Sue Bibby Embroidery
Taking inspiration from seventeenth-century raised work embroidery and traditional needlework techniques, Sue creates detailed, characterful birds using reclaimed fabrics, stitch, wire and found materials. Each piece is individually made, working from close observational drawings and colour notes. Sue has developed a range of cards, badges, notebooks and accessories alongside her free standing miniature sculptures.
Stuart Brocklehurst Printmaker
A multi-disciplinary printmaker, making mezzotint, wood engravings and linocut prints. He goes for a walk with a sketchbook and makes drawings of anything that he finds interesting, then back in the studio uses these sketches as the basis for his prints. His work is naturalistic and representational, in the tradition of British topographical landscape, influenced …
Saima Jewel
Saima Jewel represents traditional craftsmanship and bespoke contemporary design. The collections are influenced by the heritage behind the brand. Inspiration has been taken from the intricate pattern from India and are a contemporary perspective on traditional Victorian filigree jewellery. A combination of layers, repeated fluid shapes and ornate henna patterns are used to create three-dimensional …