Autumn Exhibition
2025
Our Autumn 2025 Exhibition features artists from across the United Kingdom, delivering Ceramics, stained glass, prints and jewellery.
Contact us directly if you would like to find out more about our artists featured below or purchase one of their pieces.
Tamsin Abbott
For Tamsin the old world of Britain runs in her veins. The whole of her adult life has been shaped by a determination to live in the countryside and to discover its ancient magic.
Today most of Tamsin’s work has been influenced by the Herefordshire countryside around her home, the orchards, the hills, the woods and all the plants, birds and animals that grow and live about. For her the seasons provide an ever changing abundance of colour and sights. Even in winter when the short gloomy days can be depressing there is the beauty of the naked trees to admire and the moonlit night to enjoy as early as five o’clock!
Working with glass has really helped her appreciate and be inspired by these things.
Kim Carlow
Since completing her studies, Kim has exhibited nationwide. Having taught for many years in an art department of a Further Education College in Devon, Kim has returned full time to her own work.
In recent years Kim has been part of the Craft Festival events and was selected by journalist and author of “Craft Britain” Helen Chislett, as one of the top 5 makers at The Craft Festival in Bovey Tracey.
She has also recently exhibited at Make South West as well as being part of the permanent craft collection at The Burton Art Gallery, North Devon.
Kim moved from Devon to Pembrokeshire and her studio/gallery is open to the public in Tenby.
“I take great pleasure in translating the views about me into lino cut prints. It is all about finding patterns and the act of carving the block offers the opportunity to really flow and play around with different forms of movement. I live by the sea and enjoy the feeling of being on the coastal edge. Patterns, edges and how elements meet, have continued to inspire and drive the way I work”.
Mark Griffiths
Mark was born in 1956 in South Shropshire. An inspirational art teacher, a contemporary of Mick Casson who had trained with Mick at Harrow, encouraged him to take up pottery and a lifelong passion began. Mark got his first job working as a thrower for Colin Carr, a slab builder in Derbyshire.
Next Mark worked for sculptor Fritz Stellar at the Square One Design Workshop, near Stratford-on-Avon. Fritz was a charismatic entrepreneur. When Mark wasn’t throwing pots he worked on huge ceramic murals for the emerging new town centres. But it was the time spent with Russell Collins, one of the finest teachers and throwers and the most patient man Mark knows, that gave him the confidence to set up his first workshop in 1975 with the help of a New Craftsman’s Grant of £1600 from the CAC.
From there Mark moved to West Wales but it was the 1980s and tastes had changed again. Stoneware domestic pots were hard to sell and Mark made thousands of terracotta bird feeders and parsley pots for mail order firms which paid the mortgage and helped him move back to South Shropshire. There Mark rebuilt his workshop in a redundant village school where he continues to work today. He made terracotta garden pots for many years, undertaking big commissions for the National Trust and other estates until the physical toll of working on such a scale forced a return to high fired stoneware about twelve years ago. So Mark has come full circle, back to where he started forty years ago.