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Firing up the kiln
If you have visited Design@HEART before you may well have seen Lindsay Thomas’s work. Lindsay is a potter, producing eyecatching home decorations using the ancient method of Raku, and incorporating her other love of textiles into her new work. Here she is talking about her work and methods: I have been making pots since 1995. […]
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Sarah Dunton
Sarah Dunton’s work went down very well last Christmas, so we’re having her back! Here she is talking about her work: I am a painter, potter and plant grower – and maker of small objects. I always drew as a child, and went on to study fine art at Leeds University. My influences and inspirations […]
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“Everything begins with a pencil!”
One of many new faces at Design@HEART this December is Shaun Vickers, artist and illustrator. Here, we have a look at his background and his current work, which is sure to strike a chord with many of our shoppers. Shaun has always worked within the creative sector, initially trained in Graphic Design in Leicester he […]
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Everyone Loves Bags!
Sue Turrill of Nuthatch Designs will be back at Design@HEART this December with her beautiful tweed bags. Here she is talking about her work: When I was a small child I would spend weeks in the summer with my two siblings staying with our Grandmother and her two sisters. That was when I really started […]
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How To Choose A Good Fair
For Artists and Makers By Becky Moore, and with thanks to Alice Chandler and Jane Kay of Sunny Bank Mills Gallery, Anna Urwin of House of Bats and Shaun Vickers for their contribution to this document. I know it seems a long way off, but now is the time when stallholders are getting their Christmas […]
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Be Dispensable: the first rule of fair management
By Becky Moore As some of you know, I’m not just a fair organiser, I’m also a designer-maker myself. I think that gives me an insight into what our stallholders need and expect from fairs. They’re looking for a well publicised, well organised, well attended platform from which to sell their products. It sounds like […]
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Mei Tai, Bei Dai or Mei Dai? However you spell it, Tag Togs is the place to get them!
Amanda Green of Tag Togs is taking over the blog today to talk about her business making babywear and accessories. From a young age I have always sewn things, when I was very young I use to get any scraps of fabric from my mums sewing projects and cut and hand sew them into clothes […]
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A Passion for Pattern
Preeti Gupta is bringing Pattern Passion back to Design@HEART next week and we can’t wait to see what new designs she’s got in store. She’s taken over the blog this week to tell us more about her company and work. Pattern Passion is the home of hand painted and hand drawn patterns inspired by nature […]
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My inspiration is the beautiful Yorkshire countryside
Artist Lucy Tomlinson takes over the blog today to talk about her first forays into art and how she came to be a professional artist. I am a self-taught artist, living in Rawdon, and surrounded by the beautiful Yorkshire Countryside, which is where I get most of my inspiration, particularly when out walking my dog, […]
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I never intended this to be something for other people to see
Photographer Kelly Marsh takes over the blog this week, ahead of her first appearance at Design@HEART in June. I’m a self-taught photographer. I never intended this to be something for other people to see. It’s always been something I have primarily done for myself. But then it turned into a business! I guess you could […]
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