Browse and buy unique pieces from these makers, designers and exhibitors during the Arts and Craft Festival.
Sara creates original hand printed cushions using original hand printed repeated pattern block techniques. She is inspired by birds that she draws in her allotment with vegetables and flowers at different times of the year. Sara studied printmaking at RCA and now combines printmaking with textiles to produce individual feather filled, piped, with concealed zip cushions. The reverse are batik patterned and hand dyed. They can be machine washable.
Sarah makes a range of simple shaped but highly textured porcelain that combines her love of clay, textiles and the domestic interior with wit and curiosity. They involve many processes from stitching patchwork, embroidering and upholstering textiles, making plaster casts of the textures and designing paper pattern templates to construct textured porcelain slabs into vessels designed to be used.
Sarah has been designing and making jewellery for more than thirty years combined with teaching short courses at West Dean. She has always combined precious metal with a variety of other materials including wood, stone and acrylic. Her recent work is inspired by marine plants and seaweeds. Sarah combines silver with polypropylene sheet which she cuts into delicate designs, dyes with translucent colours and forms with heat into exotic statement pieces as well as more easily wearable earrings and pendants.
Sue is an artist and relief printer working on large scale Lino boards. Her work is inspired by childhood memories of hedgerow ramblings and catching insects in the rose garden. Each lampshade is a unique piece of functional artwork. Colours are selected to create impact and atmosphere, so when you turn on the light, the work glows and provides an extra dimension of texture and colour to any living space.
Sylvaine is a French jewellery designer and maker based in Brighton. Her designs, often narrative, are inspired by the beauty nature, especially the small details which can be overlooked. She creates jewellery that tells stories with a feel of magic, dreams and spirituality, translating her visions in silver and gold combined with gemstones. Sylvaine also works on unique bespoke jewellery and personalised objects.