Christmas Exhibition
2021
Our Christmas 2021 Exhibition features artists from across the United Kingdom, delivering Prints, Pottery and Jewellery
Contact us directly if you would like to find out more about our artists featured below or purchase one of their pieces.
Shelagh
Popham
Shelagh studied at St Martin’s School of Art and the West of England Academy. She now lives near Hay on Wye.
Her paintings are a reflection of private rejoicings and unexpected incidents. If living is a process of coming to terms with our surroundings, then she sees her paintings as an interpretation of this process by means of inquiry or celebration.
Shelagh works from small sketches, colour notes and detailed observations which later become reworked and combined in her studio into paintings, drawings,etchings and wood engravings. Her taxidermy collection provides her with models for her more elusive subjects!
“ I paint what I see, what I enjoy and what I remember”
Bethan
Jones
Bethan has been a studio potter for the last ten years and lives in beautiful Devon with her partner, two young children and studio cat Kenny.
Previously, Bethan worked for potter Lisa Hammond MBE, following her graduation in Contemporary Ceramics BA(Hons) and has since used these skills to produce quality, functional tableware.
Bethan’s range of simple, handmade tableware is made utilsing her passion for craftsmanship, combined with the mood colour can evoke in the home. Bethan uses a mixture of quiet, earthy tones and bright, energetic colours to reflect the changing seasons of the inspiring coast and countryside of Devon.
Bethan’s ceramic range is designed with a timeless aesthetic; to make the everyday that little bit more special. By bringing quality handmade craft into the home she hopes her ceramics are part of your daily life.
Sarah
Packington
Sarah makes Perspex jewellery in clear, bright colours and bold contemporary shapes. The textures and patterns in her designs are achieved by laser cutting, hand etching, dying and polishing back certain areas. She lives and works in Brighton, where she graduated in Wood, Metal, Ceramics and Plastics in 1991.
Clean Perspex jewellery gently using a 'silver cloth' or soft cloth and mild detergent. Avoid contact with perfume, hairspray and alcohol based cleaning fluids. Do not overexpose to bright sunlight and keep stored in its box.
Carole
Moreton
Carol has lived near Leominster, Herefordshire for over 22 years. After a long career in social care she is now able to work in her own studio and continue an earlier passion for jewellery making. Carol has also spent time living and showing her work and delivering jewellery workshops in Andalusia, Spain over the years. The contrast and difference in the two landscapes and colours has been hugely influential on her work.
She works primarily with polymer clay for its flexibility, durability and recycling/ remodelling potential; blending and adding texture and pigment inks in layers to add depth and tone.
Many of her pieces take inspiration from landscapes and changing seasons; slate, rocks, lichens, leaves and the many jewelled treasures found in the Welsh hills and Herefordshire lanes. In particular, the organic, irregular shapes and textures which reflect the effects of weathering or seams of colour exposed through ageing and renewal.
Due to the process of blending and layering each piece is unique and cannot be replicated. All fittings are sterling silver and each piece is protected with a Matt varnish. Most necklaces have sliding knots to allow for different sizes and preferences.
Pauline
Zelinski
Pauline trained at West Surrey College of Art and Design in the 70’s after which she combined teaching in various art schools with making her own Ceramics for a few years, eventually concentrating entirely on developing her own work.
Pauline settled on using a palette of underglaze colours which provided a brilliant range of vibrant hues and colours when used on a white earthenware background. The intensity of the underglaze colours is then revealed through the transparent glaze.