TRADITIONAL ART. CONTEMPORARY DESIGN. These beautiful textile accessories and jewellery were born from a Middle Eastern and mediterranean influence that’s inspired by the traditional art of knotting and Macramé. With the use of bold joy-evoking colour, the pieces aim to bring out the modern bohemian in you. Knottinger designs include simple everyday earrings to original …
Megan is a local surface pattern designer who creates a combination of hand stencilled and digital printed lifestyle products. All her hand printed designs are created using hand cut stencilling techniques in her West Yorkshire studio. She chooses to work to a sustainable ethos using eco-friendly printing inks and certified organic fabric. After printing, each …
Morag is originally from Glasgow and currently creates her textile art from her home and garden studio overlooking Kirkcudbright Bay in South-west Scotland. Morag has been creating textiles for nearly twenty years and works internationally and in her local community. Morag creates printed textiles in many ways including digitally, screen and mono-printed; naturally dyed and …
The pure materiality, plasticity and versatility of clay and glaze inspires and drives this ceramic work. Transformed by the heat of the kiln into practical vessels for use in the home. Inspired by a training in the Leach and Japanese tradition and developed over 50 years of practice.
Sara creates work to instigate healthy conversations and hopefully in turn insight positive societal change regarding acceptance and knowledge of neurodiversity and how we can all find our place together rather than apart or marginalised. The use of many different clay bodies symbolises the diversity of our society. The rabbit and sometimes other prey animals …
Ruth Hydes is an award winning freelance illustrator, painter and latterly printmaker, her delightfully decorative lino prints are an eclectic mix of loves, likes and passions. From Greek vases to angelic bodies her querky prints and cut outs will liven up your walls and decorate your mantelpieces. Using traditional printing techniques each design is individually …
Saima creates bright, playful hand embroideries that inspire joy. Her work has a strong graphic quality that translates well into limited edition prints as well as framed artworks. She has exhibited with Sunny Bank Mills and sold her work through Glassette and The Shop Floor Project. Saima also delivers talks and workshops where she loves …
Using a technique called inclusion fusing Tanja creates her own colours within the glass using metal powders, silver leaf, enamels and powdered glass frits. She aims to create work that is beautiful, contemporary and intimate, using organic elements to connect us back to the natural world. For her, glass is all about transformation, and is …
Caroline creates botanical casts from plaster using flowers and foliage. Casting preserves the natural beauty of plants enabling the form and structure of the different parts to be really seen and appreciated. Details are picked up by the clay into which she presses the plant material to create a mould for the plaster. She works …
Sarah is a handweaver recently graduated from Bradford College, where she completed a Foundation Degree in Textile Practice. She is passionate about making productive use of locally sourced, environmentally sustainable materials such as wool, and supports the Campaign for Wool. She weaves colourful cushions, throws and rugs with a mid-century feel in patterns inspired, among …