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Biscuit Canvas Art
We create handmade personalised name plaques and canvases. My background is Illustration, and I started making these canvases a few years ago after wanting something different for my walls at home. This then progressed into name plaques - an ideal gift for special occasions, like friends having babies! The Illustrations are all my designs and are printed onto natural cotton canvas, folded and attached to either thin wood (plaques) or a wooden deep edged frame (canvases).
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Cally Conway
My work is inspired by a love of the natural world, and an interest in folklore and fairy tales. The flora and fauna of the English countryside is a reoccurring theme and I like to draw creatures well known in the landscape and part of English folklore. I’m also slightly obsessed with pattern and decoration!
The process of drawing is important to me, all prints start life as hand drawn imagery in my sketchbook, which are then developed into one of any number of print processes … read more -
Clare Caulfield
I am a Saltaire based artist and printmaker. My work is inspired by my travels to some of the world’s most beautiful cities including Paris, Venice and New York. Working in a lively drawing style I aim to capture the excitement, life and vibrancy of each location I visit, documenting my travels through the use of sketchbooks and photographs. On returning to my studio I then produce mixed-media paintings, original screenprints & drypoints, limited edition prints and handmade cards. These are exhibited throughout the U.K. in regular solo and group shows.
Closer to home I have also produced a series of work capturing the rugged beauty and charm of Yorkshire’s much loved coastal towns: Whitby, Robin Hoods Bay and Staithes.
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Dionne Swift
I work from a lovely studio at the bottom of our garden; from here the expansive view across the Holme Valley is breathtaking and provides constant inspiration to my textile work.
I love to draw, print and stitch, building layers of depth into every artwork. I work in an abstract and intuitive way with no two pieces being exactly the same, this keeps the fabric surface fresh and exciting!
Wall based textile artworks are sensitively mounted in box frames creating unique, … read more
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Esme Cooper
Esme Cooper is a screen printer with a passion for colour. She has a lovely art room in her garden where she creates her range of hand printed goods.
If she’s not in the Art room she’s out walking the countryside and coastal paths with her collie dog, being inspired by the ever changing horizons and colour combinations of nature.
All of Esme’s products are all individually printed using coordinating stripes. Each pull of the squeegie produces a different effect, thus making … read more
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Faisal Khouja
I am self taught and create multiple plate Linocuts using a traditional letterpress at the Gloucestershire Printmaking Co-operative where I am a member.
I draw my inspiration for my work mainly from British flora and fauna. The style of work is strong and graphic and often references the Arts and Crafts movement which has rubbed off on me after living in the Cotswolds for a decade where the movement is in evidence all around.
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Hannah Sawtell
Through the mixed media illustrations I produce, I aim to capture connections between locality and community, where built environments are given meaning by the people who use and live in them.
I use a variety of media to produce mixed media limited edition illustrations, adding colour sparingly so that the line of the pen and the white space surrounding it remains intact.
I live in Nottingham with husband and two children, who often appear in some of the illustrations.
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Jen Moules
Jen Moules is a designer maker specialising in interior textile products and wallpapers using a range of design methods such as screen printing by hand, digital manipulation and traditional hand embroidery. Her work is available to buy directly from her website and is also available for commissioned projects.
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julia jowett
My illustrative practice explores the importance of storytelling and imagination. I draw with wire, pencil and stitch; intricately working dense areas of traditional embroidery and needlepoint stitches into metal gauzes and figuratively manipulated wire lines. I combine my hand embroidered wire work with observational drawing and screen printing techniques onto fabric and paper grounds to create contemporary art pieces. Drawing on folk tales, childhood stories and surreal … read more
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Katrin Moye
Katrin Moye is a nationally recognised award winning ceramic artist, specialising in decorative domestic slipware. Her pattern designs are based on memories of domestic items from her childhood in the 1970’s, such as picture books, soft furnishings and wallpaper.
Katrin’s still life range is based on her handmade tableware collection together with the decorative domestic studio pots made by other contemporary ceramicists. She is also making an ongoing series of studies of … read more
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Lucy Anne Harding
I am a milkgirl from Stoke-on-Trent. I have been milk delivering since I was 9 and the milkround has been in the family for at least three generations. I see first hand the rapid decline of the British Milkman and want to highlight that a milkman is a lifeline to a community, and not just a tradition through my textile art work.
I create bespoke, nostalgic textile illustrations inspired by my customers and the doorsteps I deliver to on a daily basis. I use screenprint, digital … read more -
Melanie Mayho
My collection consists of a range of colourful, decorative bespoke interior and fashion accessories. All designs are hand illustrated and hand-printed on to fine quality linen and cotton.
Using traditional methods of hand dying and screen-printing enables me to create an eclectic range of unique products.
Celebrating beauty in the ordinary and everyday!
My inspiration stems from a love of traditional crafts, colour, architecture, antiques, travel, cultures and the surrounding … read more -
Niamh Mac Gowan
I specialise in etchings and house & garden portraits. My etchings are very detailed and intricate with a quirky style. My source of inspiration is mostly old buildings (often historical) and waterside landscapes in both the UK and Ireland.
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perisandcorr
Peris and Corr is a textile and screen printing company run by Dyfrig Peris and Jennie Corr who both have backgrounds in Fine Art. With a passion for great design, screen-printing and the environment, Peris and Corr was born.
All our products are designed and hand printed in our studio located in the Snowdonia National Park in North Wales. We create a range of hand-made organic textile products and screen-printed greeting cards.
All our textile products are hand screen-printed using Permaset Inks that are solvent free water-based inks. All our textile products are made with organic cotton and / or hemp unless otherwise stated.
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Print Garage
Print Garage is the dark and dusty underground lair of Iain Perry: self-styled, swashbuckling squeegee warrior.
I create vibrant screen prints investigating the minutiae of my surroundings. I draw inspiration from old technology, tools and toys, cinema, record sleeves and the world of science. Originally trained in painting I have since discovered that screen printing is a million, billion, trillion (all the ‘illions’) times more fun - I have found there can be a real joy in … read more
