Anna Lewis
Swansea
Anna Lewis’ work is largely inspired by the theme of memory. Her one off collections of jewellery and body pieces are hand constructed from white feathers, some feathers are uniquely printed with traces of imagery which are either layered or stand alone. The work evokes delicate and ghost like qualities and incorporates large special feather wraps and neck pieces as well as a range of jewellery such as rings earrings and necklaces. Anna has worked with Dai Rees, Helen Carnac and Carolyn Quartermaine. She has exhibited at Chelsea Craft Fair on two occasions and some of her jewellery has been purchased by model Elle Mcpherson.

Sara Moorhouse
Cardiff
Sara Moorhouse makes vessels with vivid colours and linear decoration. Having always been interested in landscapes, a tutor suggested she translate her interest in colour, texture and light onto bowls. She began using the bowls as metaphorical landscapes, using lines of colour in different thicknesses to convey physical features, evoking feelings experienced by her when studying the landscape. Her ‘Storm Series’ based on studies of the Black Mountains, in vivid, strong colours included her interpretations of heavy dark clouds against brilliant sunlight. The manipulation of line and pure colour are key themes in her work. She plays colours off each other to create an intensity of feeling, emulating David Hockney’s paintings by using colour to draw the viewer physically into the vessel.

Lynn Walters
Bridgend
Lynn Walters is a designer/maker of sculptural metal pieces, inspired by memories, people and places from her childhood. Valley houses and inhabitants have become an over-powering obsession. She uses a mixture of metal and wire which include anodised aluminium, mig and florist wire, mild steel, stainless steel, recycled tin and found objects, which are welded together using a variety of techniques. Her work is inspired by memories, .people and places from my childhood. Experiences good and bad have been depicted in a witty and energetic way, a kind of drawing with wire and metal.

Lowri Davies
Cardiff
Lowri Davies was brought up in Aberystwyth and educated at Carmarthen and Cardiff (BA Ceramics 1998-2001). Her Welsh heritage is a major source of inspiration in her work. Using both hand built and slip cast porcelain, she makes jugs and cups whose white surface is a background for delicate and witty drawings of flowers, domestic objects and popular welsh imagery. Her illustrations are affectionate references to the popularity of china displays on Welsh dressers and ceramic souvenirs. Her hand-built technique is created using porcelain clay and is formed by pressing small samples of clay into an etched plaster surface and brought together on a plaster ‘hump’. She uses the term ‘patchwork’ to describe this technique due to the way the pieces are assembled. She also adds simple transfers of her illustrations to these pieces. She uses a white earthenware slip for her slip-cast pieces, which acts as a surface for her illustrations that are applied using industrial transfers.

Amanda Notarianni
Chesire
Amanda Notarianni produces a range of modern hand blown designer glass. She works in partnership with fellow glass designer, Charlie Macpherson. The natural structures of miniature plankton skeletons are the source of inspiration for form and texture when developing pieces that are intended to capture celebrate and explore the magical qualities of glass.

Catherine Hills (RCA)
London
Since graduating, Catherine Hills’ jewellery has been seen in many major exhibitions (including a Solo Showcase at The Crafts Council @ Victoria and Albert Museum, London). Her work is at the forefront of British Contemporary jewellery design, with her production range including rings, earings, necklaces, bracelets, cufflinks and pendants for men and women. She also works to commission and makes large one off pieces of jewellery in silver and gold. "My work is a sensitive response to the demand for distinctive, affordable jewellery. The jewellery is inspired by natural forms and unites sensuous smooth shapes with highly textured surfaces, characterised by the contrasting use of different metal colours and finishes".

Charlie Macpherson
Chesire
Charlies work expresses the simplicity, harmony and balance experienced in the Japanese architectural aesthetic. He explores the qualities of glass as a material, using components and cane inclusions to change the piececes as the spectator moves around the work. He designs and makes oneoff work for interiors and galleries across Europe. All the work is hand blown by Charlie, manipulated in its molten form before being taken through six stages of polishing. This includes cutting the piece on a diamond saw, grinding it on a flat bed and using a cork wheel and a felt wheel to achieve a high quality polish. Finally the pieces are sand etched to achieve a frosted finish.

C J O’Neill
London
C J O’ Neil produces a range of products in translucent, slipcast, fine bone china. The pieces have a shiny glazed finish with a matt, unglazed rim, all forms are white. Her decorative bowls can be used individually or in groups, lit with candles or floated on water. The Solas Wall Lights are for domestic and commercial interiors and can be used individually or in groups, lit with standard or LED sources. Also available are Solas body neckpieces and earrings in silver and bone china.

Bob Crooks firstglass
Devon
The First Glass Partnership was set up in Clapham London in 1994 by Bob Crooks and Stewart Hearn making hand made functional and decorative glassware. In 2002, Stuart left to set up his own business while Bob relocated to Devon. What particularly concerns him is the relationship between dramatic large scale effects – expressed through bold organic forms and vivid colours – and the fine detail of concentric rings and criss-crossing threads. Crook’s responds directly to the plasticity of glass and explores its unique sculptural and optical qualities. "I am trying to push what I do to the limit" he says, "but because of his heightened sensitivity to the medium, I can harness its potential in an unforced and spontaneous way".

Diana Hand
Stirling
Diana Hand is an established textile artist who is also trained as a contemporary painter. Her ideas originate in her paintings, but she finds that she is able to work very freely with dye and fabric, and this spontaneity also illuminates the original artwork. She works with natural fabrics such as velvet, light- weight wool, and various weaves of silk. At present she is interested in the painting of the pioneering Russian abstractionist, Kasimir Malevich, and her current designs owe much to his work.

Fusion (Antonio Arevalo)
London
Fusion Design studio in London, are pleased to introduce a new range of kitchen products called Fusion Cooks. They have been designed by the Fusion team, headed by Antonio Arevalo MA RCA. These are therefore, quality products with a strong design feel. Using a special magnetic catch, so that the gloves, tea towels or aprons attach themselves magnetically, they are unique in this area of merchandising.

Jane Keith
Fife
Jane Keith Designs produces hand printed textiles from studios in Edinburgh and North Fife. Using essentially silk, wool and velvet, each product is unique and entirely handmade to exacting standards. The designs themselves are drawn form mainly natural influences, such as the Western Isles of Scotland. She was one of only two Scottish designers to be selected for British Crafts at The New York International Gift Fair in January 2001.

Jill Fanshawe Kato
London
Jill’s ceramics are inspired by nature and travels in Asian countries, Brazil and to coral reefs. Tropical birds, exotic fish, animals and flora are used as decoration for her work. After graduating from Chelsea School of Art she went to Japan where she lived for six years and studied pottery intensively at the school of Bizen potter, Yosei Itaka and at Musoan Karatsu Pottery School in Tokyo. Now living in London, she produces functional pots for Japanese and English use and also creates architectural and sculptural ceramics. She has had exhibitions in Japan and has taught in Britain, France, Germany and the USA. She taught pottery at Goldsmiths College and lectures widely on Japanese ceramics.

London Glassworks (Stewart Hearn)
London
Stewart Hearn’s latest work is a significant milestone in his creative development. Professionally he has been involved with glass for almost twenty years and during this time, his practice has always been defined by skill, the understanding of a challenging material, the domination and control of its fluid language into strong shapes and largely symmetrical forms.
Over the last two years, during the establishment of his new workshop and partnership with Paul Devlin in London Glassworks, Stewart has been able to develop his emotional relationship to glassmaking and visual expression, which he has found liberating. This understanding has subsequently imbued the work with a tangible enjoyment that speaks still of skill, but balanced with new found inhibition. These qualities are expressed in subtle combinations of colour moving against and with each other but also encouraging the distortion of glass, both optically and in the composition of the asymmetric forms and surfaces.

Marmalade (Louise Bryan)
Birmingham
Louise Bryan established her business Marmalade in 1999, with the aim of producing funky products. Her current collection consists of energising PVC fashion accessories; bags, purses, key rings and jewellery, hand printed or embellished with light hearted and quirky monochrome images. The primary material used is a flexible PVC sheeting, which is tactile and fun. The main feature of the work is an image transfer technique which has been developed. This method is entirely unique to Marmalade and allows any image to be transferred onto any product, making the possibilities endless and ideal for personal commission.

Sally Wakelin
London
Sally Wakelin’s collection has eight ranges (Square, Circle, Rhombus, Spear, Arrow, Marquise, Lunar, Triangle). All are inspired by geometry and the use of repeating elements to create pattern and form. All the jewellery has very different characteristics depending on the geometric shape, making interesting shapes when viewed from different angles. Pointed ovals link to create a spiny bracelet design reminiscent of Art Deco, elements are often cast or made from domed sheets to form pillow,s and pairs of half moons are linked with rings and little tubes to make a series of related, very tactile pieces.

Sarah Packington
Brighton
My inspiration comes from experimenting with contrasting colours and bold pattern on simple geometric shapes using translucent plastics. I mix many dyes myself to create a wide range of exciting shades, and use resist dyeing techniques in stripes, checks and swirls. I use a lathe to turn many of my shapes, and include cast components in both acrylic and silver. I have also produced a range using laser cut plastics.

Sue Binns
London
Trained by Ian Godfrey in the 1980’s at the Montem School, Sue’s work is influenced by early Rye Pottery and Mediterranean designs. A wide range of functional, domestic stoneware is hand painted with cobalt on a mat dolomite glaze and fired to 1240 degrees centigrade in an electric kiln to produce the characteristic blue and white patterns. Stoneware pottery is very durable and is microwave and dishwasher proof. It is however usually better to wash individual pieces by hand.

Barley Massey
London
I produce contemporary textile pieces with a playful aspect. Traditional techniques are combined with an innovative marriage of modern ‘Techno’ materials such a reflective yarn, rubber and plastics with old recycled materials such as bicycle inner tubes, valves and profile cut metal sheets. It is important to me to incorporate as much recycled materials into my work as possible. I feel I have a responsibility to find practical and creative uses for the waste I find in my urban environment, which in turn hopefully encourages other makers and consumers to be more aware. Humour is also central to the work, both in the imagery used and titles given. For example, ‘Roadworks’ rugs, a series of rugs depicting road markings woven from wool, reflective yarn and recycled bicycle inner tubes.

Jane Adam
London
Jane Adam is internationally known for her innovative jewellery in anodised aluminium, which can be seen in shops, galleries, exhibitions, and on people, worldwide. She is currently Senior Research Fellow at the School Of Jewelleryin Birmingham, and is writing a book about her original techniques of colouring aluminium. She is Chairman of the Assosiation for Contemporary Jewellery, and was co- organiser of the ACJ international conference ‘A Sense Of Wonder’. She was selected for the shortlist of the Jerwood Prize for Applied Arts (Jewellery) in 2000. Jane Adam studied at the Royal College Of Art.

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