SITselect trail 2015

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textiles & contemporary crafts

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➔ Two weekends of open studios & artist led exhibitions Saturday 9 – Sunday 10 May 11am – 6pm Saturday 16 – Sunday 17 May 11am – 6pm Please note that certain studios will be open by appointment in the week

photographs by Dan Haworth-Salter www.danhaworthsalter.co.uk

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Please note the office is not open to visitors SITselect is a not for profit arts organisation dedicated to the promotion of the arts with an emphasis on contemporary textiles and the applied arts/crafts.

Select is an innovative annual festival that takes place every Spring.

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Invitation

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It’s not every day that we are invited into the studios of

artist, materials and processes, the unravelling of their

contemporary craftspeople, but the Select Trail 2015 is

practice becomes clearer. The ambience of galleries and

doing just that. We are being allowed to experience an

workshops is contagious, talent and endurance

insight into the creative world of the designer-makers in

admirable, and the opportunity to watch how new work

Stroud and surrounding areas, an offer too good to pass

is created, will be a treat.

up. SITselect, a not for profit arts organisation dedicated to the promotion of the arts, is giving us a chance to see

Let’s celebrate this chance to experience some of our

where the inspiration and hard work takes place, long

talented craftspeople at work by visiting as many of the

before the finished artwork is wrapped and shipped off

studios, exhibitions and workshops on offer. Some of

to galleries and exhibitions around the world.

the venues can be visited on foot whilst some necessitate an undulating drive through the countryside and picture-

This invitation lays the craftsperson bare to the eyes of

postcard villages. These promise to be days to remember.

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individual and one which shows a strong belief in

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Jenny Bicat exhibiting in The Textile Studio The Textile Studio, SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA t: 01608 658676 e: jennybicat@bicat.co.uk www.studio-seven.net www.guildcrafts.org.uk

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Jenny Bicat trained in Fine Art. She puts colour into cloth drawing on her knowledge of painting. In her studio she develops, using traditional (non-digital) screen printing techniques, intricately engineered designs on silk, linen and calico – flat pattern pieces that she hand sews (then makes) into unique scarves, jackets and occasional decor pieces. She delights in combining the best traditions of twentieth century art and craft with the often sculptural experiments of modern fashion.

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The Textile Studio is in Stroud town centre in Stroud Valleys Artspace, up the stairs on the first floor.

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Liz Lippiatt The Textile Studio, SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA m: 07929 412246 e: textile@liz-lippiatt.com www.liz-lippiatt.com www.studio-seven.net www.guildcrafts.org.uk Liz Lippiatt follows the great tradition of working with

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cloth in the Stroud Valleys. Liz designs and screenprints on silk, velvet and fine linen, creating collections for

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fashion and furnishings. She is renowned for her fine devore silk velvets. In recent years Liz has worked on ‘textile-led’ projects in collaboration with Studio Seven, a group of seven textile artists. The group has staged pioneering ‘textile led’ performances and installations exploring unconventional ways of showing textiles.

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The Textile Studio is in Stroud town centre in Stroud Valleys Artspace, up the stairs on the first floor.

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Fionna Hesketh exhibiting in The Meeting Room The Meeting Room, First Floor, SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA m: 07817 111160 e: info@fionnahesketh.co.uk www.fionnahesketh.co.uk www.guildcrafts.org.uk Fionna’s jewellery reflects her interest in closely observed form and texture. Mark-making techniques are combined with vitreous enamel, precious and nonprecious materials. General themes and inspiration which run through the work are notions of delicacy, fragility and the strangeness of materials when seen up close and out of context.

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Stroud Valleys Artspace is in Stroud town centre.

The Meeting Room is on the first floor next to the

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Liz Valenti Sticky Paper Studio, 2B Slad Road, Stroud GL5 1QN m: 07855 128769 e: stickypaperstudio@hotmail.com www.stickypaperstudio.co.uk Liz has been a fashion designer and a lecturer in fashion design since the 1970s. Her knowledge and experience

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of research and design, pattern cutting, construction and finish (all working with cloth) have provided a rich background for her obsession of working with paper.

Now joyfully released from the worlds of industry and education, she relishes the perversity of making clothes and fabrics which, by being made in paper as well as by being assembled behind sealed glass, are both inaccessible and unwearable.

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At the bottom of Gloucester Street, turn into Slad Road. From the Stroud end of the Slad Road, between Lloyds Pharmacy & the Co-op

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Sue Ratcliffe 27 Springhill, Stroud GL5 1TN t: 01453 765667 e: smratcliffe@btinternet.com

mixed fabric such as rich velvets, pastel cottons and rainbow wools to build up pieces having a myriad of colours and textures. Designs are built up in layers of graduating shades, tones and texture to create a mosaic from fabric. Sue is a fan of Rothko and enjoys emulating the colour phasing of his work. She has worked with schools and projects to create pieces including memory rugs. Member of the Waterways Craft Guild.

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On foot: From Slad Road walk through Park Gardens up to an opening in the wall at the top of the gardens.

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Go through the gateway and there is a complex of wooden houses to the immediate right which is Springhill Co-Housing. Walk into the car park, past the car ports on your left to the end and follow the path round to the right. You will see some wooden steps in front of you, go up and 27 is the right hand door.

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By Car: From Slad Road drive up Folly Lane and turn into Springfield Road which is the second turning on the right. Park on Springfield Road if you can but parking is limited. There is no parking in Springhill itself.

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Matthew Harris Uplands Cottage, 99 Slad Road, Stroud GL5 1QZ t: 01453 762539 e: mattjharris@homecall.co.uk www.matthewharriscloth.co.uk www.caa.org.uk Matthew Harris works with cloth, paper and thread to create drawings/collages and textiles. By a process of dyeing, staining, cutting, piecing, stitching and binding he constructs work that is primarily concerned with the translation of drawn marks onto cloth. He has exhibited widely in UK as well as Europe, Japan and USA. Represented by Erskine Hall & Coe.

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The studio is a short walk from Stroud town centre.

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from the Fountain pub, off the B4070 Slad Road.

Take the path to the right of the house and go up the narrow path as far as the small green gate on the left.

Note parking is very limited in Slad Road.

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Marion Hurst Mitchell Studio, 105 Slad Road, Stroud GL5 1QZ t: 01453 752063 m: 07958 949325 e: marion.mitchell6@btinternet.com Marion creates small, unusual sculptures using

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stoneware clay, stains, oxides and glazes. They are inspired by how she sees and interprets the natural world that surrounds her. Most of them are totally non functional, but hopefully they give pleasure and meaning to the heart and to the eye.

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Go through the gate up the path and 105 can be found

along from the the Fountain pub, on the left hand side. halfway up on the right.

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Tara Davidson Studio, 105 Slad Road, Stroud GL5 1QZ m: 07948 966957

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e: tara@tarajaneceramics.com www.tarajaneceramics.com Based in her studio in Gloucestershire, Tara loves the smooth delicate simplicity of porcelain and the way colour outlines the details of the antique lace she uses.

Each piece is formed by hand incorporating lace patterns from heirlooms and pieces found in antique shops, flea market and country fairs.

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Go through the gate up the path and 105 can be found

along from the the Fountain pub, on the left hand side. halfway up on the right.

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Sarah Burghard The Vatch, Slad, Stroud GL6 7JY m: 07766 927311 e: sarah@burgharddesigns.com Sarah Burghard is a design professional with an established track record of satisfied customers and a textiles heritage going back to 1830 when her great,

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great grandfather founded a textile factory in Derbyshire that still thrives today. Sarah Burghard Designs will identify the distinctive features of your setting and create individually designed fabrics for lamps, soft furnishing, chairs, upholstered pieces and wall decor, a unique style signature for you and your business.

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Follow the B4070 out of Stroud town and through Slad Valley. Take the right hand turn marked ‘The Vatch & Elcombe unsuitable for HGV’s’. Studio is the first house on the left. Please park as directed past the house in front of the garage.

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Valerie Jordan Cockshoot Cottage, Sheepscombe, Stroud GL6 7QY t: 01452 814441 e: valerieolsen@btinternet.com www.valeriejordan.com Valerie comments that, “As a practitioner my roots are in the tradition of landscape and still-life painting. My recent work has involved drawing painting, printing and sewing in direct response to the landscape of Miami and the Cotswolds. I layer, superimpose and repeat details from studies of shimmering water and marine life, fish, shells, flowers etc within structures that echo both Eastern

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carpet design and formal grid of the city. I regard these ‘landmarks’, natural and man-made as equally transient.”

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From Stroud take the B4070 through Slad to Bulls Cross, there take the Sheepscombe Road, this road is called Longridge, (but there are no road name signs).

Take the right off this road, just before Beech Lane, the Select sign indicates the turn off the Longridge road.

There is a quarry pull-in above the Cottage.

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Liz Brooke Ward Slad Cottage, Stokenhill, Whiteshill, Stroud GL6 6ED t: 01453 751305 m: 0787 5007674 e: stokenhill@hotmail.co.uk www.lizbrookeward.com www.facebook.com/LizBrookeWardstichedtextiles

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been a regular artist in residence at Nature in Art,

towards Whiteshill for 1 mile. Turn right at Whiteshill

Twigworth, Gloucester, exhibits and gives talks about

Church. Continue down the lane for 200 yards taking

her work. She creates large textile wall hangings and

first track on left at field gate. Slad Cottage is a few

intricate embroideries. Liz develops inspiration from her

yards along this track. There is limited parking and

immediate environment especially lichens on limestone

turning for four carefully parked cars. There is parking

walls, elements from memory, mood and fragments of

on the road by the church and a car park further on

remembered verse and writing.

past The Star Inn at the playing field/village shop.

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From Stroud Museum in the Park, turn right onto

at The Star Inn and take the short scenic walk down

Stratford Road, A4171, past Stroud College for ¾ mile.

Stokenhill with views across the Painswick Valley

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From Stroud Museum in the Park, turn right onto

Slad Cottage, Stokenhill, Whiteshill, Stroud GL6 6ED

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Church. Continue down the lane for 200 yards taking first track on left at field gate. Slad Cottage is a few

Annie Hutchinson works from her garden studio in a

yards along this track. There is limited parking and

village outside Stroud. She develops various notions

turning for four carefully parked cars.

with a view to capturing an atmosphere of the nature all

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around her, of times past and an essence of tales told in

park further on past The Star Inn at the playing

childhood. Using vintage and recycled materials, Annie

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makes her Anthropomorphic characters with a blend of needle felting, hand and machine sewing techniques.

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Adrian Bates 39 Bowbridge Lane, Stroud GL5 2JN t: 01453 759830 e: manofclay@icloud.com www.adrianbatesceramics.com Adrian makes stoneware sculptural vessels for home and garden. These are built using a combination of throwing on the potter’s wheel, coil and slab work.

The shapes, which are sinuous and sensual, are refined before and after low temperature firing, glazed and then high fired. All are waterproof and frost resistant.

A member of the Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen, The Craft Potters Association, West County Potters (Magazine Editor) and Northern Potters Association, Adrian has exhibited in many exhibitions including Handmade in Britain (London), Art in Clay (Farnham) and Contemporary Craft Fair (Devon).

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Moira Buckley joint artist-led exhibition at Frogmarsh Mill Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester, Stroud GL5 5ET t: 01453 753483 e: puckshole@hotmail.com www.moirabuckley.co.uk www.guildcrafts.org.uk Moira combines ideas, materials and techniques from various disciplines to produce work that is enquiring and challenging. Some inspirations materialise into items of jewellery; other notions grow into larger creatures with story-like qualities.

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Susan Early joint artist-led exhibition at Frogmarsh Mill Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester, Stroud GL5 5ET t: 01452 812067 m: 07791 618575 e: susanearly@btinternet.com www.guldcrafts.org.uk Susan Early makes traditional baskets and sculptural forms using English Somerset willow and hedgerow materials. She uses mainly English, Irish and French

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techniques when making her baskets and vessels alongside a variety of weaves. Her work is both decorative and useful.

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Annie Hewett joint artist-led exhibition at Frogmarsh Mill Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester, Stroud GL5 5ET t: 01452 741236 e: ceramics@anniehewett.co.uk www.guildcrafts.org.uk www.studiopottery.co.uk Annie makes domestic earthenware for everyday use.

She uses white clay for the engraved cobalt ware and red clay for the ‘Retro’ designs. These materials allow Annie the freedom to paint, draw and cut through layers of coloured slip to create a spontaneous design on the surface. Each piece is unique.

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Ursula Jeakins joint artist-led exhibition at Frogmarsh Mill Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester, Stroud GL5 5ET t: 01452 883403 e: starsmeadbooks@gmail.com

Ursula hand-sews and binds writing books, sketch books and albums. She covers them with traditional English and Japanese papers, and hand-decorated papers by contemporary designers in the UK and Europe. Recent work includes collaboration with Dutch artist and illustrator Marjolein Varekamp, using her subtle charcoal drawings of animals. Associate member of the Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen.

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Guest exhibitor: Tracie Peisley: Peisley Originals m: 07813 932620 www.traciepeisley.com Peisley Originals source lies in Tracie’s fine art work.

Describing them as ‘floral armour’ she collages a vibrant combination of vintage and designer fabrics to create show-stopping art wear.

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Shireen Morris joint artist-led exhibition at Frogmarsh Mill Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester, Stroud GL5 5ET m: 07979 746074 e: themorrisclan@aol.com Shireen enjoys painting bright, lively and colourful paintings using mixed media. By working mainly from still life she arranges flowers, fruit and interesting vessels to create an almost edible subject, full of life and vitality, inspiring her to begin her work. By incorporating soft beautiful unison pastels, tissue paper, found old bits of paper (unfinished work) until colour, tone (from mono prints that she produces) and vibrancy have been reached.

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Cleo Mussi joint artist-led exhibition at Frogmarsh Mill Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester, Stroud GL5 5ET m: 07791 653208 e: mussimosaics@homecall.co.uk www.mussimosaics.co.uk Cleo Mussi’s mosaics are reconstructed from ceramic discard. She recycles marks, glazes, pattern and

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functional forms to produce beautiful, strange and humorous pieces. These mosaics have tales to tell from genetic engineering and environmental issues as well as china tales from our own family histories. Cleo has created many major commissions and has exhibited nationwide with a series of touring installations. She has work in private collections. Member of Contemporary Applied Arts and The Devon Guild of Craftsmen.

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Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester, Stroud GL5 5ET t: 01453 882647 e: tessatyldesley@tantraweb.co.uk www.tessatyldesley.co.uk Tessa designs jewellery using semi-precious stones and silver beads. Her approach to designing is very much influenced by her ‘painter’s eye’ and an empathy with colour. The combination of colour and texture creates implied movement. Her work can be seen in galleries and shops in Gloucestershire. Commissions are welcome.

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Lucy Birtles: Ceramics Upper Steps, Horsley Road, Nailsworth GL6 0JW t: 01453 836635 www.lucybirtles.co.uk Hand built sculptural pieces in porcelain and stoneware.

Lucy works in a variety of sizes for interior and exterior

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use. Her large pieces are designed to enhance a courtyard or garden setting, and will survive all weather work for everyday domestic use.

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From the A46 Bath Road out of town, turn right towards Horsley, B4058, just past Ruskin Mill on the left, take the first steep turn to the right and the house and workshop are on the right hand side.

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Elaine Day is a Jeweller and Silversmith. Working with sterling silver, gold, precious and semi precious stones, she employs traditional techniques to produce unique ‘one-off’ pieces. Her work reflects the flora and fauna she encounters above and below water, in a personal and sometimes humorous way. Elaine has exhibited in galleries around the UK and with the Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen.

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It is located next to Lavender Bakehouse and opposite Hallidays Mill. Parking is available on the roadside and in the layby on the Stroud side of the building.

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Cate Fox Victoria Works Studios, London Road, Chalford GL6 8HN m: 07759 950200 e: clevercate@btinternet.com www.catefox.co.uk Cate works from her studio in Wotton-under-Edge producing pieces she would loosely call embroideries.

She uses hand stitching and fabric combined with materials such as mirrored glass, metal, mother-of-pearl and wire to explore her love and enjoyment of pattern, texture, colour and light. Cate also likes to incorporate re-used materials wherever possible.

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Victoria Works Studios is on the A419 at the junction for Chalford Vale between Stroud and Cirencester.

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Katerina Gibb The Upholsteress, Studio 3, Victoria Works Studios, London Road, Chalford, Stroud GL6 8HN m: 07767 777038 e: katerina@theupholsteress.com www.theupholsteress.com Katerina’s upholstery projects incorporate traditional techniques, using tools passed down through generations, along with contemporary creative elements. By using materials sourced locally and some from further afield, Katerina provides a bespoke upholstery service specialising in antiques and fine furniture as well as adapting period upholstery styles to contemporary pieces. These specialist techniques are also shared in the upholstery classes she teaches.

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Kate Montgomery: Clever Monty Furniture Victoria Works Studios, London Road, Chalford, Stroud GL6 8HN m: 07791 129718 e: clevermonty@gmail.com www.clevermonty.co.uk Furniture with a story to tell... Kate is a writer with a passion for beautiful furniture. To create perfect heirlooms, Kate writes unique pieces of fiction and hides them in secret panels inside beautiful re-furbished 27

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pieces of furniture. Buyers can keep a copy of the story

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create collectable items for people to enjoy for generations. Commissions are welcome

Anna’s interest in the senses stems from her synaesthesia-a neurological condition in which different

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evoke colours. People often form a deeper connection

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one. A memory jerked through scent or a comfort found

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Anna Simson: Ceramics Victoria Works Studios, London Road, Chalford GL6 8HN m: 07970 224470 e: anna@giraffe-view.com www.facebook.com\AnnaSimsonCeramics Taking inspiration from the shapes around her, in our homes and in nature, Anna creates beautiful objects for

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practical and decorative use. Anna fuses plain and patterned celadon and turquoise glazes together with coloured glass to create tea-pots, mugs, bowls and vases. Alongside these items, she makes tactile ceramic representations of seed-pods using creative as well as traditional, firing techniques.

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Jill Watton Studio 8, Victoria Works Studios, London Road, Chalford GL6 8HN m: 07891 249900 e: jillwatton@hotmail.com Jill makes wheel thrown ceramics in stoneware and

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Helen Taylor Victoria Works Studios, London Road, Chalford GL6 8HN m: 07528 857598 e: hctaylor2002@aol.com Helen sculpts and ‘paints’ with wool using needle-felting and wet-felting techniques. Rare-breed fleece and plant-dyed fleece add a natural quality to her portraits of animals and birds. Her sculptures and wall-hangings have a light textured form that paradoxically captures nature’s fine detail but soft edges. Collections for 2015 will include a study of Hares and wall hangings inspired by the River Severn. The Textile workshop will be open from 10am both weekends and from 10am – 2pm during the week.

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Nicky Bidmead & Peter Simpson

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Chalford, GL6 8NR t: 01453 889626 m: 07812 128922 www.manouche.org Nicky and Peter make sculptures, mirrors, mosaics, clocks and curiosities from predominantly recycled materials. They have a love of upcycling items, adding to the creation of their work. Manouche means gypsy jazz in the style of Django Reinhardt which is inspiration for their work. Their pieces are colourful, vibrant, lively and sparkly, each displaying a melodic genre and all being improvised, just like the music! They have a

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Bella Peralta Sherra, Tunley, Nr Cirencester GL7 6LP t: 01285 760259 e: 4belladesign@gmail.com www.bellaperalta.com www.guildcrafts.org.uk Bella is focusing on continuing a body of work using the open weave technique she developed a few years back to express emotions (painting with threads). The pieces are in the form of large as well as small wall panels, diptych and triptych. They are woven from the finest archival Chinese silk, Irish linen and genuine gold and silver strands, all hand woven on the old ‘Sherra’ floor

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Sarah Beadsmoore Studio 10, New Brewery Arts, Brewery Court, Cirencester GL7 1JH t: 01285 640403 e: sarah@beadsmoorewoventextiles.co.uk www.beadsmoorewoventextiles.co.uk

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Sarah is a handloom weaver using a traditional floor loom. She makes mainly scarves from silk which she hand dyes in her studio at the New Brewery Arts in Cirencester. Celebrating 30 years of weaving and using only high quality yarns, Sarah produces scarves with a soft drape and lustre, each being an exclusively created, handmade garment.

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Louise Parry Studio 10, New Brewery Arts, Brewery Court, Cirencester GL7 1JH t: 01285 657501 e: info@louiseparry.co.uk www.louiseparry.co.uk Louise makes individual timepieces and jewellery in gold, silver, platinum and palladium. Whether a silver and gold gem set clock or a pair of sapphire cufflinks from her limited edition range, her covetable works are often treasured as family heirlooms. Louise is constantly exploring new shapes and forms whilst maintaining a contemporary identity, clean lines cut into hand forged pieces, followed by precise positioning of gemstones.

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Dorothy Reglar Studio 8, New Brewery Arts, Brewery Court, Cirencester GL7 1JH t: 01285 641109 e: dorothyreglar@aol.com www.newbreweryarts.org.uk The garments Dorothy makes are of natural fibres and natural dyes with an emphasis on ethical sourcing. She works with weavers in North East Thailand and Laos.

The experience she gained throughout her career in fashion has been put to a practical and beneficial use.

Her studio is full of collected texts, costumes, artefacts and books which are inspirational, contributing to the atmosphere she likes to work in. Member of OTAG, Oxford Asian Textile Group and the Textile Society.

Exhibition Treat To celebrate working with weavers in South East Asia for twenty years, Dorothy will have an exhibition of traditional textiles which she has collected on her travels. This will be in addition to her open studio on the Select Trail.

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SITselect – what we do We aim to broaden the perspective for textiles to other art forms and to link to the applied arts and crafts.

If you are new to SITselect, we have rebranded. Stroud International Textiles is still there as smart undergarments, but SITselect now embraces all the

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applied arts with textiles still very much at the heart of our world. We are passionate about profiling the handmade and the joy of making.

SITselect makes a significant contribution to prosperity and economy of the region through our annual festival

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and year round events. 2014 has seen exciting developments which have included talks at Heal’s in Sold in outlets nationwide, it can be downloaded to your

ten thousand hours A Sense of Place: Wycliffe Stutchbury reveals his sources Back to the Future: Laszlo Beckett talks tools, both ancient and modern Bespoked: images from the workshop of bike maker Phil Taylor Life Stories: tales from the studio of Natasha Kerr

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London and the launch of our biannual Selected Journal. mobiles and tablets to read on the move.

On 23 -25 October 2015 we are launching a new event

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Select Trail Bus Tours Mini coach tours to the Trail Studios

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Saturday 9 May & Saturday 16 May Sit back, watch the countryside and let the driver take the strain as you enjoy visiting the Select Trail artists.

Tickets are ÂŁ10 per person for each trip Contact SITselect to book tickets: www.sitselect.org

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Thank you to Arts Council England Renishaw plc Stroud District Council

Patrons Professor Simon Olding Mary La Trobe Bateman OBE Jilly Edwards Margaret Benton Lulu Guinness OBE Felicity Aylief Editor Lizzi Walton Director Design Chris J Bailey Photographs Dan Haworth-Salter Published by SITselect

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