Autumn 2020
Our Autumn 2020 Exhibition features 5 local artists, delivering Prints, Pottery, Jewellery and Wood
Contact us directly if you would like to find out more about our artists featured below or purchase one of their pieces.
JAN
FRYER
Jan has loved making things all her life. She started making jewellery when her daughters were small because she couldn't afford to buy the jewellery that she liked. Jan wants to be thought of creative and not just a jeweller.
Jan loves making china because it has a function, and to her eye at least, it's nice to look at. She see’s the jewellery as nice to wear and can even give happiness to the wearer.
ANN
DONNELLY
Ann Donnelly's kiln-fused glass designs are influenced by the wildlife in her garden. She makes free-standing glass bird sculptures which she mounts on locally sourced fruitwood branches or on blocks of English oak.
In contrast, she also produces delicate, hand-finished gravity-drop vessels and creates multiple images 'painted' in fine glass powder, that are fused together to form a kiln-cast picture block.
SUE
POWELL
Sue graduated with a degree in Fine Art at Cheltenham College of Art in 1996. She exhibited my paintings in Shropshire, Herefordshire, Oxfordshire, The RBSA in Birmingham, MOMA Machynlleth and The Greenstage Gallery Worstershire, whilst teaching art and design in a school in Herefordshire.
In 2010 Sue completed a short course in printmaking at Hereford College of Art. Since then she has been experimenting with printmaking and find my work has become more illustrative, imaginative and fun. Her preference for collagraphs is due to the wide range of materials one can use to create textures and tones. It also allows her to use different processes together; at present she is finding layering monotypes with the final intaglio print gives her the results that she is searching for.
Sue use’s plaster, carborundum, textured papers, card, paper, glue, chine collee and sand. In her recent prints she has used gum arabic transfer technique to include in her drawings seedheads, grasses and other natural forms found in and around the Longmynd Shropshire.
JACQUELINE
RAPPAPORT
Hagstone Pottery was founded five years ago by Jacqueline Rappaport in the grounds of Tews Farm, rural Northamptonshire.
Jacqueline uses traditional slipware techniques to create functional tableware and decorative pieces - some wheel thrown, some hand-built or hand-pressed - with a strong and distinctive contemporary flavour: everyday art which is tactile, bold and satisfying.
Jacqueline also produces a range of 'quieter' pottery, with spots and stripes harking back to the kind of traditional slipware which is synonymous with the English westcountry, but with a fresh feel and a strong tactile quality.
NICK AND GABI
WARD
Nick and Gabi Ward make earthenware pottery. Their work is handthrown and handpainted using stained engobes. They use the sgraffito technique to decorate their pots with images of birds, animals and flowers etc. They are now making a new range of splash decorated pottery available in various colours.
Nick studied at Harrow School of Art.Gabi studied at West Surrey college of Art and Design. They work together in their stone barn in Herefordshire selling through galleries and shows.