Exhibitor and Demonstrator Gallery
Browse and buy unique pieces from 50 makers and designers and exhibitors.
Sarah Dalton Art - Exhibitor
Sarah uses slip-casting and hand building techniques to create intimately sized ceramic pieces of delicate simplicity, each piece is bisque fired and then intricately hand printed using a variety of glazes and engobes. Sarah's aim is to bring the painterly touch of the brush to the quiet stillness of clay. Inspired by the loose and succinct quality of Chinese painting as well as the wild North Pennine Hills that surround her, Sarah experiments with layering, mark-making and colour diffusion to create artworks of clean, sculptural beauty.
Sarah Grove - Exhibitor
Simple forms meet rich textile textures in Sarah’s porcelain vessels. Using a range of fabrics and techniques from upholstered silk to delicate embroidery, she casts textiles in plaster to press and construct work that combine her love of textiles and the domestic interior with wit and curiosity.
Sarah Macrae Jewellery and Rachelle Plassard Jewellery - Demonstrator
Sarah has been designing and making jewellery for more than thirty years combined with teaching short courses at West Dean College. 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. Rachelle Plassard creates elegant designs using delicate patterns which are then cast and repeated to form jewellery that is beautiful to the eye and timeless in style. She is currently working in Hatton Garden expanding her knowledge and skills and has recently launched her first range ‘embellish’ a collection of decorative pieces inspired by a love of the spiral, a shape with strong feminine associations.
StephieAnn - Exhibitor
StephieAnn creates fashion and accessories inspired by poetry by Textile designer, Stephie Woolven. Stephie completes paintings and photography before transforming her artwork into digitally printed silk. Poetic inspiration includes, ‘She Walks in Beauty’ by Lord Byron where Stephie dripped black ink through white flowers and ‘Pleasure’ by Charlotte Bronte where Stephie uses mountain scenery to describe escapism. Products include socks, eye masks, scarves and tops made by Stephie in Sussex.
Sue Holman print.maker.artist - Exhibitor
I am an artist and print maker who creates relief prints set on abstracted backgrounds, producing unique mixed media pieces that I then hand roll to create lampshades. My inspiration is based on childhood memories of growing up on a farm and being immersed in nature. My work is often giant sized, giving a child perspective of how it was to peer into huge tulips and see the structures inside, or to see a lovely big ladybird creeping through the roses in the garden. I am also inspired by Elizabethan and Jacobean embroidery and wall paintings, William Morris and Samuel Palmer.
