Festival Exhibition
2023
Our Festival 2023 Exhibition features various artists from across the United Kingdom, delivering Pottery ,Prints, stained glass and jewellery.
Contact us directly if you would like to find out more about our artists featured below or purchase one of their pieces.
Carry
Akroyd
Carry works as both a painter and printmaker, her focus is mainly on arable landscapes, with wildlife living on the margins of agriculture.
An appreciation of the unspectacular has given Carry a sympathetic connection to the nineteenth century poet John Clare; she has illustrated three books of John Clare’s poems (“The Shepherd’s Calendar”, “This Happy Spirit” and “The Wood is Sweet”). In her own books (‘natures powers & spells, Landscape Change, John Clare and Me’, and “Found in the Fields”), many images echo Clare’s poetry in observing of how man affects nature, two hundred years ago and now. After 25 years of making images relating to the poetry of John Clare, in 2016 Carry was invited to be President of the John Clare Society.
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.
Daniella
Wilson Dunne
Daniella began her love affair with Stained Glass in 1988 working as an apprentice for a large studio in Buckinghamshire, gradually progressing to design studio manager before opening her own studio at New Brewery Arts in 1995.
Ninety percent of Daniella’s work is commissioned.
When there is time between commissions she likes to immerse herself in creating her own pieces.
Daniella works predominantly with hand made glass, building images over many days, weeks or months, layering paint and enamels by hand and kiln firing in between. She then assembles the panels using traditional leading techniques which have been employed for centuries.
The wonderful thing about stained glass is its ability to be functional as well as adornment. She loves how glass differs greatly from other art forms in that it transmits light, as opposed to reflecting it. Stained Glass has the extraordinary capacity to affect the atmosphere of a room, and therefore the human spirit.
Angela Soulier
Jewellery is very personal, but rather than a jeweller, Angela considers herself as a creator of wearable objects. These pieces are created with silver, a wonderfully malleable metal which she sometimes works on its own using different techniques to produce forms and textures or she may add a piece from a collection she has collected over the years in different countries or venues - this could be a stone, a shell, bone, glass, wood or fabric, whatever best suits the idea she wants to create. The value isn’t important, it is the shape, texture or colour that Angela wants to introduce. Angela is not interested in creating just a pretty piece, there must be a “raison d’être”, but of course, beauty is very important to her, as too, movement, the juxtaposition of textures and wearablility. Angela wants to make a statement!
She originally learnt her craft with silversmiths from Taxco, a silver-mining town in Mexico, later complemented with various short courses in London and elsewhere. Living in different countries and environments has undoubtedly been a great influence, as too, working as a costume designer for theatre and film - there is often a theatricality in her work.
Nadege
Honey
Nadege works from her studio in Northampton where she creates colourful and quirky jewellery in polymer clay and sterling silver. Nadege is self taught and since 2008 has developed a unique style and refined the various techniques required to create her jewellery.
Nadege’s inspiration is varied. For instance, her distinctive BRETON Collection is inspired by the memories of her childhood holidays spent in Brittany. A love of classic design from various eras is also a strong influence in her work. Fascinated by the Mid-Century and Art Deco styles in particular, some elements of these periods are often echoed in her work. Above all, Nadege aims to create pieces where colour, pattern and texture are centre stage.
Cornelius van Dop
Cornelius is dedicated to the portrayal of rural acadian vistas and inhabitants in various metals such as brass, bronze, copper, silver and gold.
Cornelius is influenced by Japanese metalwork and the use of combined colour metals , whether base or precious, to depict their iconography. He has also spent a lifetime looking in wonder at various world artefacts in museum display cases which has shaped his affection for the decorative and ornamental in small scale pieces.
