Festival Exhibition
2026
Our Festival 2026 Exhibition features artists from across the United Kingdom, delivering Jewellery, Ceramic and Metal sculptures and mixed metal boxes.
Contact us directly if you would like to find out more about our artists featured below or purchase one of their pieces.
Cornelius van Dop
Cornelius’s detailed copper, silver and gilded jewellery boxes and brooches are inspired by wild creatures, natural forms and childhood memories of landscapes, skies and moonlight.
His beautiful boxes using different metals - silver, gold, nickel, copper, bronze etc. Pieces are cut-out, soldered, hand-fabricated, textured, assembled and polished.
Cornelius's work is influenced by life's experiences and the surrounding countryside and is influenced by Japanese metal work. The scenes and landscapes he creates in metal include incredible detail, and humour.
Sue Hanna
Sue creates hand-built ceramic vessels, sculptures, and wall pieces, from intimate handheld forms to larger works. After completing a Foundation course in Cardiff she went on to study sculpture at St Martins School of Art in London. Sue’s work is deeply inspired by tribal art and African textiles, and the surfaces carry rich textures and rhythmic patterns drawn from textiles she has encountered and collected during her travels, often using slips made from wild clays gathered in West Wales. After an initial electric kiln firing, Sue’s pieces undergo saggar or raku firings, giving them atmospheric depth.
Rachel Higgins
Rachel makes animal sculptures in non ferrous metal.
Rachel studied Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University, where she learnt metalwork skills in the sculpture department. Rachel was influenced by Alexander Calder's 'Circus' made from found materials, Muybridge photos of movement and The Cabaret Mechanical Theatre.
She grew up on a Warwickshire farm, and the farm animals and wildlife influenced the wire, perforated and sheet metal animal sculptures she created.
Sue is still influenced by the wildlife that surrounds her in Warwickshire, along with other wildlife encountered on trips and wildlife in the media
Zsuzsi Morrison
Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1988, Zsuzsi has created individual and one off enamel pieces by hand. Her original desire to study fine art has greatly influenced her work. Her painting and want for colour in her jewellery led her to specialise in the field of enamelling. Using traditional enamelling techniques to express modern concepts, her work has a distinct avant-garde personal language.
Zsuzsi's jewellery is imbued with a joyful exuberance. The jewel-like intensity she achieves in her colour palette is re-invented through this ancient process in her hands. Zsuzsi's exquisite detailing on even the reverse sides of her pieces is testimony to the meticulous care in the hand making and finishing of every piece that leaves her studio. This subtlety and attention to detail might be a tiny heart motif or kiss on the clasp of a chain, a bright gestural fleck of intense colour dancing across a surface, or an unrepeatable drawn line pressed into the surface of the gold and silver which acts as the canvas she paints on. Poised somewhere between jewellery, sculpture and paintings.
Zsuzsi’s work could be described as modern day talismans or amulets, each piece an individual work of art. Her pieces are in many private collections and exhibited in galleries and design shops both nationally and internationally.
Bronwen Tyler Jones
Bronwen studied at Birmingham School of Jewellery gaining both a BA and MA in Silversmithing and Jewellery. Since leaving in 1996 she has been making her Metalwork Inventions range and Jewellery from her workshop in Hereford. It was the same year Bronwen began running the Small Metals workshop at Hereford College of Arts and 26 years on, she is still happily doing both!
The inspirations for Bronwen’s pieces are taken from a diverse range of influences including comedy, mechanical components movement and text - words and narrative play an essential role in the thought process and construction of her pieces - one word can spark a whole range of ideas. Bronwen works in both precious and non-precious metals and enjoy the diversity the range of materials gives her.