Exhibitor Gallery
Browse work from over 100 of the exciting artists and makers exhibiting at the Design and Craft Fair.
Sasha Kagan -
Pattern, colour and texture are key to Sasha's mission to promote hand-knitting and crochet as contemporary, collectible art forms. Her highly individual collection of timeless, wearable pieces, in a range of 100% natural fibres, are inspired by her location, and are hand-knitted in the UK and finished by Sasha in her Welsh studio. Sasha has authored seven books on handknit and crochet design, and gives lectures and workshops worldwide. Individual commissions are a speciality.
Shelley Thomas -
Shelley's jewellery is bold and dynamic; inspired and informed by three decades of working as a blacksmith. She is generous with her use of gold, silver and beautiful gem stones. Much of her work is made from old, broken precious jewellery; upcycled into something new and adventurous.
Simon Tozer -
Simon creates visual stories, the subjects of his screenprints can include animals, people and machines, but all suggest in different ways how it feels to be alive and what it’s like to be a person. As a printmaker he is influenced in particular by British printmaking and graphic art from the early and mid 20th century.
Sophie MacCarthy -
Sophie makes slip-painted earthenware ceramics. All her work is thrown except for the oval dishes which are press-moulded. She applies a range of coloured slips in combination with stencils, paper cut-outs and wax resist. Sophie is inspired by the colours and textures of the natural world and the urban environment. She also aims to create a sense of scatter and flow, rhythm & movement in her work.
Stuart Jenkins -
Exploring precious metals natural qualities, and how it reacts to different techniques, has been the source for many of Stuart's ideas. By letting the material have a life of it's own, shapes and ideas can be suggested through the making process and followed through to their natural conclusion. Contrast is used to create a visual palette, rough/smooth, texture/polished, black/white, the metal becomes a painterly/sculptural material. Forging techniques prepare the section used, and shape the object, in which the surface retains all marks of the creative act.
