Easter Exhibition
2026
Our Easter 2026 Exhibition features artists from across the United Kingdom, delivering ceramics, natural dyed scarves, stained glass, prints and A Theatre of Brooches.
Contact us directly if you would like to find out more about our artists featured below or purchase one of their pieces.
Holly Aldridge
Holly Aldridge is a predominantly self‑taught stained‑glass artist from Brecknockshire whose work is deeply inspired by wildlife and the quiet beauty of the countryside she calls home. Drawn to the bright colours and luminous qualities of glass, Holly was captivated by the medium after a one‑day workshop in 2016. Since then, she has nurtured her craft through curiosity, experimentation, and patience—gradually building her home studio and refining her skills.
From childhood, Holly had a strong affinity for animals and often expressed this through pencil drawings. Today, this passion continues to influence her work, particularly in her painted glass pieces, where delicate detail and natural themes shine through.
Working from her home studio, Holly views stained glass as both a creative pursuit and a personal sanctuary. She embraces traditional methods throughout her process—cutting glass by hand, painting in multiple layers with vitreous paints, firing each layer in a kiln, and assembling her designs with lead came before soldering, cementing, and polishing the final piece. Her creations range from small decorative works to fully crafted stained‑glass windows, each one unique and made with intention, care, and a genuine love for the craft.
Charlotte Baxter
Charlotte is drawn to the natural world around her and the dynamic nature of the landscape, in particular the places where water meets the land, finding the contrast between these two elements deeply captivating.
She works primarily with relief printing methods, and the printmaking process itself greatly influences her work, as each stage brings its own exciting opportunities. She works intuitively on the block to add texture and pattern using the natural marks made by the tools, often using the printed woodgrain to form key elements of her design.
Tim Lake
Lives and works in Cilycwm, Carmarthenshire, Wales
Tim Lake creates opportunities within his working practice to allow variation andserendipitous possibilities to happen in the making and firing. Tim introduces rogue elements such as raw, unrefined local materials into his clay bodies and places specific pots in particular areas of the kiln to take advantage of the flame path. These determined areas and use of materials embrace the brunt and force of the flames as they flow throughout the kiln during firing. The pieces emerge from the kiln marked with the individual story of each firing and making. The introduction of the local, unrefined, found materials inevitably link the pieces to the place they were made.
“I make pots. Pots to be used, pots to be looked at and most of all pots to be enjoyed.I look to impart vibrancy and life into my pots, always trying to bring the softness and suppleness of the material through to the end of the processes. This combined with the alchemic adventure of taking a base material and transforming it into objects of use and beauty is the satisfying goal. Hopefully pots that are both vital and vibrant whilst maintaining a quiet presence.
Sian Lester
Siân Lester is a Welsh freelance textile artist and educator. Working from her studio in West Wales, she focuses on ecology and themes around acts of care, the environment, and sustainable approaches to practice. Since graduating in textiles at Chelsea College of Art, London in 1997 and gaining a distinction on the MA Contemporary Dialogues – Textiles at Swansea College of Art, UWTSD in 2022, she has worked on many national and international exhibitions, projects, and commissions.
Specialising in botanical dyes and the philosophy of biophilia, her work is an ongoing journey of discovery, exploring and extracting the hidden hues from the surrounding plant landscape that she finds herself in. Siân makes time and season-based work; interested in site specific responses to our innate interconnection to the natural world. She links this to her global and Welsh roots where locality, belonging and heritage inform the dialogue. Observing the intimately entangled, yet fragile relationships between human, land and plant within art and craft, she attempts to unfold the many layers of material construction and deconstruction that dip in and out of worlds, dye pots and conversations.
Bethan Jones
Bethan is a ceramicist working from her pottery studio nestled on a rural organic farm in East Devon, UK. After earning a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Ceramics, she relocated to Devon and spent time working alongside an experienced studio potter, refining her skills and developing a deep appreciation for functional, beautifully crafted tableware.