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  • Firing up the kiln

    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. […]

    Becky Moore

    October 29, 2018
    Design@HEART Makers
    ceramics, Christmas shopping, craft fairs, headingley artists, kiln, Leeds makers, pottery, raku
  • Sarah Dunton

    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 […]

    Becky Moore

    October 22, 2018
    Design@HEART Makers
    Artisan fairs, Christmas shopping, craft fairs, Headingley artist, Leeds makers, Leeds University
  • “Everything begins with a pencil!”

    “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 […]

    Becky Moore

    October 15, 2018
    Design@HEART Makers
    Christmas, Christmas shopping, Craft fair, Handmade, Headingley artist, Headingley shopping, illustration, leeds artist, local artist, nature drawings, pet drawings, wildlife pictures, Yorkshire artists
  • Everyone Loves Bags!

    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 […]

    Becky Moore

    October 8, 2018
    Design@HEART Makers
    Artisans, craft fairs, Design@HEART, designer makers, Handmade, Harris Tweed, Headingley, Headingley HEART Centre, Leeds makers, Textile art
  • How To Choose A Good Fair

    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 […]

    Becky Moore

    July 12, 2018
    Art and Craft Businesses
    business advice, choosing craft fairs, craft businesses, craft fairs
  • Be Dispensable: the first rule of fair management

    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 […]

    Becky Moore

    June 26, 2018
    Art and Craft Businesses, Design@HEART
    contingency plans, craft fairs, Design@HEART, events management, Events organiser
  • Mei Tai, Bei Dai or Mei Dai? However you spell it, Tag Togs is the place to get them!

    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 […]

    Becky Moore

    June 4, 2018
    Design@HEART Makers
    Baby carriers, Baby clothes, Handmade, Headingley craft fair, Headingley Events, Headingley HEART Centre, Leeds Craft Fairs, Leeds Whats On, microbusiness, Shop local, small businesses
  • A Passion for Pattern

    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 […]

    Becky Moore

    June 1, 2018
    Design@HEART Makers
    Craft fair, Craft Fairs in Headingley, Headingley Events, leeds artists, Leeds makers, Pattern Passion, Saturday 9th June, Surface Pattern, Yorkshire makers
  • My inspiration is the beautiful Yorkshire countryside

    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, […]

    Becky Moore

    May 21, 2018
    Design@HEART Makers
  • I never intended this to be something for other people to see

    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 […]

    Becky Moore

    May 14, 2018
    Design@HEART Makers
    craft fairs, Headingley arts, Headingley HEART Centre, Leeds, Leeds arts, Mindfullness, Photography
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