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Meet Jan Scott12th September 2019Working from her studio in Lancashire Jan Scott creates a range of functional and decorative ceramics inspired by urban and rural landscapes. Her subjects involve population, decay, regeneration and the passage of time. Jan's `people'... -
Meet Jeweller Abby Filer22nd August 2019Abby is a contemporary fashion jewellery designer/maker. Abby works in silver, printed aluminium and precious stones to create fun, feminine and easily wearable pieces of jewellery. Abby's inspiration comes from her love of the bold and...
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Meet Heather Everitt and her embroidered butterflies12th August 2019Heather Everitt is inspired by nature with a particular fascination in bugs, butterflies and moths. She has an honours degree from Manchester Metropolitan University in fashion and textiles, with a chief study in embroidery. Heather...
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Valérie Wartelle - a contemporary fibre artist6th August 2019Valérie Wartelle is a contemporary fibre artist whose main fascination lies within the manipulation of fibres and textiles as an expressive art form. Taking the rural environment as her inspiration, she explores long-term interests of...
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Meet designer/maker Jayne Middlebrook4th August 2019Jayne Middlebrook designs and makes contemporary lace anchored in a long tradition of Nottingham Lace-making. Jayne responds to changing demands of the interiors and fashion world, as lace-makers always have. Her original work includes...
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Meet self taught artist Lucy Brasher3rd August 2019'The cat in the shoe' is the creation of Lucy Brasher a self taught textile artist. Working from her studio in Dorset, Lucy's work focuses on the animal form incorporating the human element. Her work...
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Meet Fine Artist Marna Lunt18th July 2019Marna Lunt is a fine artist that has changed mediums from oil paint to thread, inspired by the landscape from her childhood home on the North Yorkshire Moors. She uses thread in thick layers as...
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Meet Yorkshire Artist Rachael Singleton10th July 2019Rachael is an experimental textile and mixed media artist. She has explored many fields such as ceramics, art journaling, landscape watercolours and the more traditional areas of embroidery and textiles which inform her current work....
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Meet Textile Artist Barbara Shaw9th July 2019Barbara Shaw creates art in textiles by ‘painting’ with fabric. Being self-taught, Barbara's work has developed a unique, distinctive, Impressionist style. Her pictures are built up with many layers of carefully selected scraps of material,...
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Meet Artist Jemima Fisher30th June 2019Jemima Fisher has been a practicing artist since graduating from Falmouth Art College in 1995. She studied a degree in Fine Art Sculpture where she learned a large range of skills and techniques. From there...
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Meet gentle soul and artist Lucy Pendrick18th June 2019Lucy Pendrick was a child that dreamt amongst the leaves and ached to feed her bare warm toes in cool mud. Nature was her ever-generous treasure chest, gifting her sweet finds of nibbled nuts...
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Claire Louise Mather - Contemporary Artist9th June 2019Claire Louise Mather is a Yorkshire based contemporary artist who creates stitched drawings and threaded paintings. Claire's work focuses on exploring the transformative nature of exhausted materials through ascribing them a new status. Old maps and...
