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Silver and Stone by Helen Drye
Back in April we featured Helen Drye on our blog, talking about her work and influences. She’s popped back to give us a bit of an update about her current work. We can’t wait to see the new collections. I started Silver and Stone Jewellery in July 2012. I did the classic, turning a hobby…
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Heart of Glass
Sarah Wade of Garage Glass Studio is back this December with her charming fused glass products. We asked her about her making process and how she got started. My interest in fused glass developed from my interest in stained glass which I did as a hobby for a number of years. At one course I…
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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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