Summer Exhibition
2024
Our Summer 2024 Exhibition features artists from across the United Kingdom, delivering Ceramics, Jewellery, natural collage and prints
Contact us directly if you would like to find out more about our artists featured below or purchase one of their pieces.
Jane Bevan
On her daily walks in South Derbyshire Jane collects all the small natural materials that catch her eye, including feathers, twigs, seedheads and acorn cups depending on the seasons.
Back in her studio Jane then uses these materials to create objects, vessels and collage which are stitched, tied and assembled together. Her work aims to embrace and celebrate the natural world for the unexpected beauty of the detail and all the tiny irregularities.
Jane runs a full programme of art workshops in galleries and the community encouraging others to observe, notice nature and benefit from the peace and tranquillity it offers us.
Rachel
Brown
Rachel is a self-confessed doodler and mark maker, she loves the textural qualities of graphite, both in pencil and powder form. Her jewellery designing starts as exploratory drawings focussing on spontaneous and random marks and patterns. These sketch ideas are then translated onto the surface of the enamel, graphite powder mixed into resin or textures and patterns embossed onto silver to produce unique pieces of jewellery. Rachel loves that the enamel pieces particularly capture the hand drawn nature of her work, often her own fingerprints can be seen giving the wearer a direction connection to the process.
Although her signature palette is monochromatic there are hints of gold and pops of red throughout the collections.
Because of the nature of Rachel’s techniques each piece of jewellery is a unique and so will differ slightly to the images shown. Any pieces that contain more than 7.78g of silver or have gold elements will be hallmarked at Sheffield Assay Office.
Layla
Khani
Layla grew up in an artistic family amongst musicians and writers. Her earliest memories are all intertwined with songs, poetry and stories and she can remember drawing while listening to her family’s music or go to sleep with a poem that was written by her father. Layla was raised in a busy part of Tehran, which she describes as a massive metropolitan beast that everyday devours all kinds of colours and stories to produce one constantly changing picture. A landscape of struggle between an ever present glorious past made out of blue domes and red clay bricks, and an electric modern city full of lights and skyscrapers. She believes later on, experiencing this duality had a great impact on her art and expanded the frame of every picture that she creates. It has brought a multi dimensional quality to Layla’s understanding of the surrounding world and has resulted in a deeper appreciation for the simplicity with which extraordinary ideas come to fruition. For most of her teenage years she found herself perfecting her drawing skills and playing the piano. Layla tried her hand in pretty much every style of painting and with that learned great lessons from studying the masters of each school.
Anne
Morgan
Anne has always loved the imperfect elements of her discipline. She enjoys silver’s potential for texture and her practice explores the relationship between 'look and feel' in the materials she uses. Anne’s specialism is to use a technique called reticulation, and her creations proudly show off their origins through workshop experimentation.
This is what makes her reticulated silver surfaces particularly unique: each marks a precise moment in which she withdraws her flame from part-liquefied silver. The form as well as the technique have always taken inspiration from nature, and the contrasts of texture and shape that can be found there.
The asymmetry that is found within the landscape of the surrounding coastline, the erosion that naturally takes place, all influence her designs alongside the carefully selected gemstones that accompany them.
Kim
Donaldson
Kim has developed her unique style for many years, hand building her functional pots using slab rolling techniques. The asymmetric shapes are covered with beautiful decoration using the tin glaze majolica process. There is a retro feel about her stylised floral pattern , resulting in distinctive and original work.