Late Summer Exhibition
2022
Our Late Summer 2022 Exhibition features artists from across the United Kingdom, delivering Stained glass, Pottery and Jewellery
Contact us directly if you would like to find out more about our artists featured below or purchase one of their pieces.
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.
Jana
Gilfillan ( Gilliflower Pottery)
Jana lives and works in rural Cornwall, from her home studio surrounded by their apple orchard.
Pottery allows Jana to express herself creatively in a way that feels meaningful and purposeful. She is inspired by the birds and plants in the garden and countryside around her, but also by thoughts of past and future meals, to share with friends and family. Jana’s hope is for her tableware to make us mindful of our daily rituals whether they are shared or solitary, and to help us find joy in those everyday experiences.
Jana works in stoneware from the local clay pit in St. Agnes and has chosen to use an electric kiln to limit her environmental impact. She uses home-made slips to finish the surfaces of her pots as she likes the freedom this allows.
Jane
Littlefield
Jane’s work consists of stained glass panels that have multi – layered, painted glass images that are inspired by the Peak District, its nature, history and folklore.
"I use images of creatures, landscape features and organic motifs to create these glass panels."
The glass is hand painted using traditional stained glass paints and translucent enamels, often using many layers and textures, that are fired in the kiln. They are assembled using lead and solder.
Lucy
Spink
Lucy’s work manifests her sympathy with nature and her understanding of its fragility. It is beautifully handcrafted, textured jewellery which speaks of the details of our natural environment and the deeply rooted human connection to landscape. Each piece feels as precious as that pebble you curl your hand around and slip into your pocket as a reminder.
“I have spent the majority of my life in big natural landscapes, moorland and parks, mountains and coastlines. The outdoors is my get away and my sanity. It is the place where I find clarity and calm. I have become more aware of the growing separation of society from the rhythms of nature and have chosen to express this through jewellery.”
Using her Granddad’s old workshop tools, each piece she makes shows the marks of process and the beauty of form, reflecting the patterns of nature – the outline shapes of rocky outcrops, the surface patterns made by hammers like the texture of stone, small spurs of silver and gold to replicate the growth patterns of lichens.
