Exhibitor and Demonstrator Gallery
Browse and buy unique pieces from 50 makers and designers and exhibitors.
Mike Savage - Demonstrator
Mike Savage studied silversmithing at Camberwell School of Art and developed his sculptural work at the Royal College of Art in the late 1980s. Mike individually makes fish and birds in sheet copper or aluminium. Hammering, heat and verdigris patination creates vivid colour and texture to the metal, wax is applied to protect and enrich the surface. Mike’s work is represented in the Crafts Council Collection, and numerous private collections, both here and abroad. He regularly teaches at West Dean College.
Nant Designs - Exhibitor
Carole creates traditional sketchbooks, notebooks and journals alongside tunnel books and miniature installations. Her handstitched and bound books combine Caroles unique, designed and hand printed papers with a variety of bindings. Coptic binding transforms household objects into more unusual book forms. Tunnel books tell their own stories with hand painted birds and landscapes, enclosed in expanding books or vintage tins.
Penny Carter, Chilli glass - Exhibitor
Contemporary hand made glass beads by Penny Carter, each bead is created individually in a flame, they then grow into unique pieces of jewellery. She enjoys superposing the light of juicy transparent glass, and the deep pithy intensity of opaque colours. By peeling through these layers its possible to create edible fruit like seeds, including chilli pepper and pomegranate, kiwi and prickly pear, spikey gooseberry or peppery damson.
Ping And Lily - Demonstrator
Hampshire based designers Ping and Lily use freehand machine embroidery as an artist would use a paintbrush applying carefully chosen Liberty fabric for varying tone and pattern. Each piece is individually and intricately crafted, a unique and delicate work of art. Themes are drawn from nature and the countryside including flowers, birds and feathers. Working alongside each other they have been featured in Hampshire Life Magazine, Craft in Focus and in 2016 were chosen to exhibit in Country Living's Fair as new talent.
Sam Pickard - Exhibitor
Sam Pickard trained as a printed textile designer at Camberwell School of Art in 1985, and gained an M.A. Distinction in Textile Design at Bath Spa University in 2008. Inspired by the pattern and colour details in the Exmoor countryside, her screen-printed textiles are designed to bring a sense of calm and natural colour into the interior and built environment.
