SIT select trail 2017 select by Karen Blaylock

free guide

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craft at its origin

Saturday 29 April – Sunday 28 May

select trail Saturday 6 – Sunday 7 May Saturday 13 – Sunday 14 May please note that certain studios will be open by appointment in the week

SIT select

t: 01453 751056 / 07767 763607

please note the office is not open to visitors SIT select 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 Festival is an innovative annual festival that takes place every Spring.

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Welcome

craft at its origin

I moved to Stroud over 18 years ago to discover only

developments and ideas and a time for the public and

later, what an extraordinary and exciting creative place

other artists to see and comment on the latest works.

this is. I keep discovering professional and part time

As a maker it is really important to get direct feedback

visual artists as well as film-makers, writers and

through conversation and observing how people react

performers working on small local projects as well as on

to our work, which in turn informs us how the creative

a national and international level. More recently a new

process can progress. The Select Trail is also an

wave of young makers have moved into the region from

opportunity to buy and sell work directly. Whether from

the cities, which adds another fresh energy to this mix.

local studios or invited participants from further afield,

The Select Trail and Select Festival are an important aspect of the local visual arts scene. In numerous studios across the 5 valleys people are making and

we have taken years to hone our craft, developing a skill, and a brand that is completely unique. Enjoy this free Select Trail brochure which is full of

getting ready to show their pieces to the public over the

beautiful images and information enabling you to seek

festival season. Creating an exhibition, clearing the

out these extraordinary artists.

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Cleo Mussi artist/maker showing at Frogmarsh Mill

studio, opening our private spaces is a deadline and a pause for us makers to take a look at recent

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Noemi Gregoire

Jane Vernon

Matt Harris

Marian Mitchell

Val Jordan

Chris Beckett

Bus Station

Jackie White

Footpath

Tessa Tyldesley

Footpath & Cyclepath

Annie Hewett

Pedestrianised area

Ursula Jeakins

Tourist Information

Moira Buckley

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Canal Visitor Centre

Cleo Mussi

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Toilets

Susan Early

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Tom Knowles Jackson 36

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Nicki Schmeigelow

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Barbara Spence

Sophia Russell

Katerina Gibb

Helen Taylor

Lucian Taylor

Elaine Day

Bridget Williams

Gill Hackett

Lizzie Mabley

Sue Gregor

Sarah Davies

Jill Watton

Stroud college

Sue Ratcliffe

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Harriet St Leger

Kristian Pettifor

Tim Blades

Daniel Bristow

Clare Walsh

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Liability The organisers and venues cannot accept liability for any damage, injury or loss sustained by any member of the public visiting any of the open studios

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Liz Lippiatt

cloth couture The Textile Studio, First Floor, SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA m: 07929 412246

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e: textile@liz-lippiatt.com www.liz-lippiatt.com Liz Lippiatt Is a textile designer and traditional printer of fine cloth. She is renowned for her Devore prints for fashion and has recently developed a range of fine linens and satins for bedcovers and curtains. Recent work has been influenced by winters spent on a remote farm in Western Australia where her design Treelace was inspired by the petrified Eucalyptus trees standing like sculptures, silver-grey, against the brilliant bluebird skies! Member of the Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen.

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From the four clocks in the centre of Stroud, opposite the Ecotricity premises, turn left up John Valleys Artspace.

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Street. The Textile Studio is on the left in Stroud

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Jenny Bicat

textiles exhibiting in The Textile Studio The Textile Studio, First Floor, SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud GL5 2HA t: 01608 658676 e: jennybicat@bicat.co.uk

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www.studio-seven.net www.guildcrafts.org.uk Jenny Bicat designs and prints fabrics that she uses to make garments, fashion accessories and dĂŠcor pieces. She comes from a background in Fine Art and has wide experience as a designer for performance. Using non-digital screen printing and direct painting techniques, she puts colours into sheer silk fabrics with reactive dyes. On heavier cotton fabrics she uses pigment inks. She is also experimenting with warp printing silk scarves. Jenny exhibits with the Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen in Cheltenham.

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From the four clocks in the centre of Stroud, opposite the Ecotricity premises, turn left up John Valleys Artspace.

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Toto Design Collective

mixed media Atelier, 1st Floor, 19a Lower Street, Stroud GL5 2HT t: 01453 885036 m: 07976 509553 e: isabel_lyster@hotmail.com www.instagram.com/totodesigncollective Toto is a collective of designers and artisans who have come together to form a complimentary ensemble of products for the home. Showing hand thrown Japanese ceramics and indigo hemp and linen. From soft furnishings using antique textiles, to minimalist stone carved sculpture and innovative lighting solutions. We hope to provide inspiring and high quality design to lift everyday life. All artists and crafts people take care to hand craft or fairly trade everything you will see.

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Atelier Textile Studio is on Lower Street in front of Piccadilly Mill. Our entrance is a double door at the back of the building.

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Noemi Gregoire: Nimpy Clothing

upcycled clothing Atelier, 1st Floor, 19a Lower Street, Stroud GL5 2HT m: 07876 643230 e: nimpyclothing@yahoo.co.uk www.nimpyclothing.wixsite.com Noemi Gregoire is the creative force behind Nimpy Clothing. Noemi designs a selection of handcrafted clothing for both women and children. She began in 2005 after finishing art studies. She has developed her unique techniques over many years. Each of her pieces is individually crafted and reconstructed by hand with great sense of ingenuity. Sustainability is very important to her â&#x20AC;&#x201C; environmental and social ethics are an integral part of her lifestyle as well as her work. Noemi is also running workshops around the country and will teach a Reconstruction of Linen workshop at Atelier as part of the Select Festival 2017.

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Atelier Textile Studio is on Lower Street in front of Piccadilly Mill. Our entrance is a double door at the

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Jane Vernon

textiles and ceramics Derry Garth, London Road, Stroud GL5 2AY t: 01453 7632590 e: jane@clothandclay.co.uk www.clothandclay.co.uk “I am an artist working mainly in textiles and ceramics. My ceramics work is mostly wheel-thrown tableware decorated with simple, fluid designs or sometimes precious metal and coloured lustres but all made by a foodie and intended for everyday use. My textiles work is inspired firstly by colour. I like to use a variety of techniques including silk-painting, hand and machine stitching and incorporating photographs. I also make colourful accessories and greetings cards.”

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From Stroud take the A419 London Road towards Cirencester. At the traffic lights by The Bowbridge Arms pub turn left into Bowbridge Lane for main entrance to house and parking, or on foot there is a London Road entrance also.

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Matthew Harris

textiles Uplands Cottage, 99 Slad Road, Stroud GL5 1QZ t: 01453 762539 m: 07776 098133 e: mattjharris@homecall.co.uk

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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. Matthew is represented by Erskine Hall & Coe, London.

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The studio is a short walk from Stroud town centre. Uplands Cottage is in Slad Road, five houses along from the Fountain pub, off the B4070 Slad Road. Take the path to the right of the house and go up the Please note parking is very limited in Slad Road.

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Marion Hurst Mitchell

ceramics 105 Slad Road, Stroud GL5 1QZ t: 01453 752063 m: 07958 949325 e: marion.mitchell6@btinternet.com Marion uses oxides, glazes and coloured slips to create ceramic sculptural pieces and vessels often based on the ebb and flow of tides and marks that are left in the sand. Her work is fired to 1250Â°C stoneware and adds an original touch to any environment.

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The studio is a short walk from Stroud Town Centre. Uplands Cottage is in Slad Road, five houses along from the Fountain pub off B4070. Take the path that is to the right of the house and go up as far as 105 on the right. Please note parking is very limited in Slad Road.

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Valerie Jordan

painting & textiles Cockshoot Cottage, Sheepscombe GL6 7QY e: valerie@valeriejordan.co.uk www.valeriejordan.co.uk Valerie layers, superimposes and repeats details from studies of shimmering water and marine life, fish, shells flowers, within structures that echo both Eastern carpet design and formal grid of the city. She regards these “landmarks”, natural and man-made as equally transient. “In 2016 I collaborated with Michael McEllin, with mathematical transformations of original images, which both introduce and break symmetries, and resonate with themes in my work”. This collaboration resulted in Digital Prints on Glass, Perspex, Canvas and Paper, and Video pieces.

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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 is no road name sign).

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Take the right off this road, just before Beech Lane, the Trail sign indicates the turn off the Longridge Road. There is a quarry pull-in above the Cottage.

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Chris Beckett

glass The Old Farmhouse, Rodborough Lane, Butterow GL5 2LH t: 01453 762657 m: 07918 507857 e: crispy-noodle@hotmail.com “I am a glass artist that creates works for both indoors and outside from home. Although I studied art as my major, I have been a teacher for many years, only recently returning to a new art form that has inspired me to create again. My love of drawing and patterns, the qualities, colours and textures of glass and the many techniques of combining them, captures and fires up my imagination. Initially, I work by capturing images of natural forms on camera. Once printed, I am then free to explore how to form light capturing views of the natural world.”

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From Stroud, take the A46 towards Nailsworth. Turn left just before The Clothiers Arms and come up Rodborough Hill as far as The Prince Albert public house. Turn left into Butterow West and continue

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along nearly to the end of Rodborough Lane. You will find The Old Farmhouse on your right, above a high stone wall with wooden trellising. The entrance is around the side and up about six steps.

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Jackie White

ceramics guest exhibitor showing at Chris Beckett’s studio The Old Farmhouse, Rodborough Lane, Butterow GL5 2LH t: 01242 575864 e: hello@jackiewhiteceramics.com www.jackiewhiteceramics.com “My work is hand built. I like the sculptural process. I work in stoneware and earthenware but love to work mainly in porcelain. It has a wonderful, fine translucent quality. Some pieces are made as a vehicle for painting and others the form is more important. Occasionally the two come together. There is an eclectic mix to my ceramics of practical or purely decorative reflecting my varied inspirations from textiles, nostalgia and humour.”

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From Stroud, take the A46 towards Nailsworth. Turn left just before The Clothiers Arms and come up Rodborough Hill as far as The Prince Albert public house. Turn left into Butterow West and continue along nearly to the end of Rodborough Lane. You will find The Old Farmhouse on your right, above a high

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stone wall with wooden trellising. The entrance is around the side and up about six steps.

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Tessa Tyldesley

jewellery joint artist-led exhibition at Frogmarsh Mill Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester, Stroud GL5 5ET t: 01453 882647 e: tessatyldesley8@gmail.com www.tessatyldesley.co.uk Tessa designs jewellery using semi-precious stones, sterling silver, glass and resin. Her approach to making is influenced by her experience as a painter. She combines colour and texture to create pieces with implied movement. Her work is shown in a number of galleries

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On the A46 halfway between Stroud and Nailsworth. Woodchester turning. Ample parking. There is a regular bus service from Stroudâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Merrywalks Bus

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Annie Hewett

decorated domestic slipware joint artist-led exhibition at Frogmarsh Mill Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester Stroud GL5 5ET t: 01452 741236 e: ceramics@anniehewett.co.uk Annie’s work combines her enthusiasm for plant forms with her love of letterforms and calligraphy. The clay surface, coated with slips and oxides, offers, a blank and enticing canvas for decoration and pattern-making. All the work is completed whilst the clay is in its raw

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state and then fired with a transparent glaze. She does feel that it is important that her work can be used on a daily basis, is tough and resilient and can be washed in the dishwasher if required. Annie is a member of the Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen.

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On the A46 halfway between Stroud and Nailsworth. regular bus service from Stroud’s Merrywalks Bus Station: numbers 35, 63 & 63A

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Ursula Jeakins

bookbinding joint artist-led exhibition at Frogmarsh Mill Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester, Stroud GL5 5ET t: 01452 883403 m: 07514 126182 e: starsmeadbooks@gmail.com www.starsmeadbooks.co.uk www.guildcrafts.org.uk Ursula is a traditional stationery bookbinder, making books and albums of all shapes and sizes, as well as binding private press publications. She has a personal love of English patterned papers, from the 1930s onwards, but also imports and collects hand-decorated papers from other countries, and makes her own hand-decorated paste and marbled papers. Member of the Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen.

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On the A46 halfway between Stroud and Nailsworth. Woodchester turning. Ample parking. There is a regular bus service from Stroudâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Merrywalks Bus Station: numbers 35, 63 & 63A

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Moira Buckley

jewellery joint artist-led exhibition at Frogmarsh Mill Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester, Stroud GL5 5ET t: 01453 753483 e: puckshole@hotmail.com “As a ‘maker’, I use a variety of materials and techniques; this is a non-restrictive way of working and does not bind me to a particular discipline. Recently I have rekindled my love of bones, their beautiful texture and sculptural shape, and I have been making silver cast jewellery influenced by this. I continue to explore many other themes, striving to make interesting and engaging pieces.”

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On the A46 halfway between Stroud and Nailsworth. Woodchester turning. Ample parking. There is a regular bus service from Stroud’s Merrywalks Bus Station: numbers 35, 63 & 63A

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Cleo Mussi

reclaimed ceramics joint artist-led exhibition at Frogmarsh Mill Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester, Stroud GL5 5ET m: 07791 653208

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e: mussimosaics@gmail.com www.mussimosaics@hotmail.co.uk Cleo Mussi is a modern day folk artist, reworking china and ceramic waste into strange and humorous characters. Beautiful and functional ceramics are juxtaposed with ugly and pointless ceramic pieces. Nothing is wasted – waste not; she combines everything to create a mosaic narrative.

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Susan Early

willow joint artist-led exhibition at Frogmarsh Mill Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester, Stroud GL5 5ET t: 01452 812067

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e: susanearly@btinternet.com www.guildcrafts.org.uk Susan Early weaves traditional and functional baskets as well as decorative pieces using different varieties of English willow, bark and hedgerow materials. She uses English, Irish and French techniques and a range of different weaves. Susan combines established and non-traditional techniques to create sculptural pieces.

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Tom Knowles Jackson

pottery Little Kestrels, St Chloe, Amberley GL5 5AS m: 07507 069566 e: tom@tkjceramics.com www.tkjceramics.com “My work is wheel thrown and slab built. I love clean shapes, simple objects and utility and remain ever captivated by the transformation of clay where craft and science jostle in infinite possibility. Participating in the BBC’s The Great Pottery Throw Down in 2015, has broadened my appreciation for and anticipation of those possibilities. Today I continue on the inexorable path of discovery as a potter. I tutor at the New Brewery Arts Centre in Cirencester, continue to apprentice to Paul Jessop at Barrington Pottery and work from my studio at home.”

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From Amberley, drive down Culver Hill past the Amberley Inn. Half way down the hill turn right up a short steep hill immediately after the Scout hut. Park in front of Little Kestrels, the last house on the left.

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Nicki Schmeigelow

knitted textiles Whitemoor, Amberley GL5 5JG m: 07967 484920 e: info@nickischmiegelow.com www.nickischmiegelow.com Nicki makes textiles using a manual knitting machine. She knits most of her fabric using 100% lambswool, and then felts it gently with rainwater and organic soap, resulting in a soft, robust material, which she uses to make scarves, cushions and other items for the home. She also knits with silk, cotton and viscose mixes to create lighter items for the summer months. Her work is all about pattern and colour, inspired by both the natural and built environment. Nicki will be presenting The Knit Garden during the Trail. A selection of knitted and stitched textiles located in the garden surrounding her studio – practical and re-purposed, figurative and fanciful.

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From Stroud, take the A46 towards Nailsworth. Just past Brown’s timber yard turn left up Culver Hill

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right just after the cattle grid. Take the second right Whitemoor is located directly opposite the church.

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Barbara Spence

jewellery guest exhibitor showing at Nicki Schmeigelow’s studio Whitemoor, Amberley GL5 5JG m: 07906 963580

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e: barbaraspence@hotmail.co.uk www.barbaraspence.co.uk Barbara creates modern jewellery inspired by astronomy. From planets held in orbit to the motion of waves: she explores the simplicity of shape, curve and rhythms that occur naturally between bodies whether creating space or collision. Working principally in silver, Barbara uses traditional silversmithing and forging techniques to create three dimensional forms. Each design is structured to capture a fleeting moment of dynamic motion and to be a wearable piece of contemporary jewellery.

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Sophia Russell: Hestia’s Flame

hand made candles guest exhibitor showing at Victoria Works Studios Victoria Works Studios, London Road, Chalford GL6 8HN m: 07970 578821 e: sophia@hestiasflame.com www.hestiasflame.com Luxurious aromatherapy candles, pure soy pillars and tapers hand poured in the Cotswolds from 100% soy wax and pure essential oils only. Unlike many ‘scented’ candles which are often made from mineral (paraffin) wax and synthetic perfumes, Hestia’s Flame candles are non-toxic, ecologically sustainable and therapeutically valuable. We are pleased to undertake bespoke orders if there is a scent you particularly desire or an area of your wellbeing you would like to enhance. You are most welcome to come and see us at work at our studio shop which is open for the duration of the Select Trail. At other times please make an appointment or shop online. We run workshops too, please see our website. Wholesale enquiries welcome.

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Victoria Works Studios is on the A419 at the junction for Chalford Vale between Stroud and Cirencester. It is located next to Lavender Bakehouse and opposite Halliday’s Mill. Parking is available on the roadside and in the layby on the Stroud side of the building.

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Katerina Gibb

upholstery The Upholsteress, Studio 3, Victoria Works Studios, London Road, m: 07767 777038 e: katerina@theupholsteress.com www.theupholsteress.com Katerina upholsters decorative and fine furniture by hand using traditional techniques. Hand stretched webbing, hand tied springs and hand-sculpted and stitched stuffing, combine to create the true shape of a seat and one that will last for many years to come. She uses tools passed down through generations of upholsterers and traditional materials such as jute webbing, horsehair stuffing, hessian, twine and unbleached calico. Katerina works to commission, restoring fine furniture, family heirlooms and well-loved upholstered pieces to their original condition. She also runs upholstery classes where traditional techniques are taught in a relaxed and friendly environment.

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Helen Taylor

felted needlepoint Studio 19, Victoria Works Studios, London Road, Chalford, GL6 8HN m. 07528 857598 e. hctaylor2002@aol.com www.facebook.com/Taylored.Felt Helen sculpts and ‘paints’ with wool in her studio in Chalford, using needle-felting and wet felting techniques. She is particularly inspired by the nature found in the Stroud valleys, along the banks of the Severn in Gloucestershire and on the islands off Wales and Scotland. Rare-breed fleece, plant-dyed Cotswold fleece and alpaca wool add a natural quality to her portraits of animals, birds and wildfowl. Collections for 2017 will include rare-breed sheep inspired bags and pictures celebrating Stroud’s Woollen Mill heritage. Helen’s studio will be open from 11am – 2.30pm during the week in addition to the weekends.

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Lucian Taylor

silver & mixed metals Studio 6, Victoria Works Studios, London Road, Chalford GL6 8HN m: 07779 124982 www.luciantaylor.co.uk Lucian’s work treads a precarious line between happy accidents and instructive failures. An attention to the possibilities of material and process is informed by themes of abundance. He uses silver and other metals to create vessels, implements and items of jewellery. On a material and process level, his work is an exploration of alternative means to create the hollow-ware ‘skin’: skeuomorphic borrowings from leather and textiles; handmade CAD meshes; extrusions of profiles. Conceptually his work is informed by preoccupations with luxury and abundance; the divide between beauty and ugliness; perfection and sterility; playfulness and seriousness.

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Elaine Day

jewellery Victoria Works Studios, London Road, Chalford GL6 8HN t: 01453 834130 e: elainejuneday@me.com www.elainedayjewellery.co.uk www.guildcrafts.org.uk 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’ finely detailed pieces. Her work reflects the flora and fauna she encounters above and below water, in a personal and sometimes humorous way. She is best known for her interest in insects. Elaine has exhibited in galleries around the UK and is a member of the Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen.

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Bridget Williams

ceramics showing at Victoria Works Studios Victoria Works Studios. London Road, Chalford GL6 8HN t: 01453 883565 m: 07891 165654 e: bridgetannewilliams@gmail.com www.bridgetwilliams.co.uk www.guildcrafts.org.uk Bridget makes wheel-thrown domestic ware using red earthenware clay. Her pots are produced as a vehicle for decoration, the surface acting as a canvas on to which she applies coloured slips under a transparent glaze. She uses a variety of techniques including sgraffito,

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paper resist and slip trailing in a range of designs. She also makes one-off sculptural pieces. These have both thrown and hand built elements, loosely based on to firing and some undergo a further sawdust firing in which they absorb patterns created by the smoke. Bridget’s workshop in Brimscombe will also be open all week, please call her to arrange a visit.

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Gill Hackett

papier maché vessels guest exhibitor showing at Victoria Works Studios Victoria Works Studios. London Road, Chalford GL6 8HN m: 07976 596045 e: gillian.hackett@btinternet.com www.facebook.com/gill.hacketts.pots Gill creates vessels that are both decorative and functional. Using materials destined to be discarded her work is inspired by her garden and textures in nature. The vessels are tactile, attractive and robust.

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Lizzie Mabley: My Blue Shed

printed textiles Studio 13, Victoria Works Studios, London Road, Chalford GL6 8HN e: lizzie@myblueshed.co.uk m: 07801 784173 www.myblueshed.co.uk Lizzie loves pattern, colour and repetition. This is conveyed in her textile designs. She draws her inspiration from nature, her garden and love of the coast. Lizzie always begins her designs using lino block prints which she then transfers to silk screens for a cleaner, more solid print that still tells the story of its handmade origin. Printed products include a range of homewares from cushions and lampshades to napkins and tea towels. Short lengths of fabric can be printed to order.

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Sue Gregor

jewellery guest exhibitor showing at Victoria Works Studios Victoria Works Studios, London Road, Chalford GL6 8HN t: 0117 9803528 e: hello@suegregor.com www.suegregor.co.uk Sue Gregor’s work is individually handmade using real flowers and leaves to create the designs. The wild plants and weeds that grow in front gardens and wastelands, in hedges and along paths are a rich source of material. She collects, dries and presses the leaves and flowers and then use them to create the designs using a process she developed which she calls ‘fossilized’, as the fine detail – even the veins of the leaves – show on the embossed surface of the acrylic. The result is beautiful and individual acrylic jewellery. Her work is a celebration of the organic and the industrial.

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Sarah Davis

stained glass guest exhibitor showing at Victoria Works Studios Victoria Works Studios, London Road, Chalford GL6 8HN t: 01453 890083 e: sarahdavisglass@btinternet.com

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www.sarahdavisglass.co.uk www.facebook.com/sarahdavisglass Sarah Davis is a glass artist who trained at Bristol School of Art and now works from a studio in Slimbridge, in the Severn Valley. Her glass-art uses traditional and modern techniques, with designs often following natural themes from the Gloucestershire countryside. Sarah’s work uses the colours and textures of glass, decorated and enhanced with glass painting, sandblasting, kiln carving, fusing and inclusions. Pieces range from small glass hangings to large stained glass panels for installation in windows, or as garden

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decorations. Sarah will work to commission for clients.

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Jill Watton

ceramics Pottery Studio 8, Victoria Works Studios, London Road, Chalford GL6 8HN

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m: 07891 249900 e: jillwatton@hotmail.com Jill makes wheel thrown ceramics in stoneware and porcelain. The functional everyday objects convey her love of throwing and the materials themselves are celebrated through surface quality and glaze interactions. Recent work includes more playful pieces for the table with a look at historical porcelain. Having studied fine art at Camberwell, Jill established her ceramics practice in London in 2003.

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Stroud College Textile Students

textiles: second year Victoria Works Studios, London Road, Chalford GL6 8HN t: 0800 0567253 e: info@sgscol.ac.uk Students on the Foundation Diploma in Art and Design in their second year of study on the Extended Diploma in Fashion and Textiles at South Gloucestershire and Stroud College. The exhibition is their personal response to the study trip to Naples that they had at the beginning of the year and the development of their ideas from initial concepts through to final swatches of fabric or garments. Level 3 Extended Diploma in Fashion and Textiles is designed to expand students’ creative skill base and introduces a wide range of skills and techniques including printmaking, pattern cutting, experimental shape-making, sewing skills, fabric manipulation, surface design and textiles. The course philosophy is to nurture innovation and originality; skills which are valued in any trade – alongside the development of an business relevant tool-kit of essential skills.

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Sue Ratcliffe

rag rugs 1 Cobden Villas, Walkley Wood, Nailsworth GL6 0RT m: 07879 493443 www.raggytaggyrugs.co.uk e: smratcliffe@btinternet.com Sue works with a range of colours and textures to create tactile and beautiful rugs and wall hangings from recycled and reclaimed materials. There will opportunities to have a go creating a rag rug.

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MacGregor and Michael

leatherwork 37 Silver Street, Tetbury GL8 8DL t: 01666 502179 e: info@macgregorandmichael.co.uk

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www.macgregorandmichael.co.uk www.leathercourses.co.uk Neil MacGregor and Valerie Michael have an international reputation as designer/makers of high quality, hand-stitched leather goods. They are also training providers, keeping skills alive and relevant by encouraging the bringing together of contemporary design with traditional techniques. They use no and the quiet rhythms of the workshop. They make a range of bags and cases for men and women, luggage, small leather goods and trunks, as well as working to commission, designing and making bespoke items.

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Harriet St Leger

jewellery guest exhibitor showing at Silver Street 37 Silver Street, Tetbury GL8 8DL t: 0117 9246113 e: info@herrietstlegerdesigns.co.uk www.harrietstlegerdesigns.co.uk Harrietâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work is mainly inspired by natural forms: buds, pods, leaves and seaweeds. She uses enamel to produce colourful and striking designs stylizing the forms and shapes that she finds in nature. She makes wall enamels and jewellery for men and women. The jewellery is often enameled and may also incorporate stones and pearls. Harriet enjoys working to commission to produce special pieces for birthdays and weddings and can also recycle and redesign old jewellery. Her wall enamels can also be commissioned so that subject and colours will fit in with their surroundings.

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Kristian Pettifor

contemporary furniture guest exhibitor showing at Silver Street 37 Silver Street, Tetbury GL8 8DL m: 07922 878899 e: kristianpettifor@gmail.com www.kristianpettifor.com Kristian’s work is based on the re-imagination of functional everyday objects, through innovation, well considered design and exceptional craftsmanship. Creating bespoke pieces from a workshop in the cotswolds, client commissions are diverse, ranging from small batch products to large interior projects. Kristian’s pieces consistently display a purity of form and incorporate an ongoing exploration in surface quality, light, shadow and texture.

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Tim Blades

jewellery guest exhibitor showing at Silver Street 37 Silver Street, Tetbury GL8 8DL t: 01666 880311 e: tim@bladesworks.plus.com www.bladesworks.com Tim carves the patterns for his jewellery in a special hard wax under a microscope. He has had to develop his own tools and techniques to do the fine detail. He then casts and finishes each piece in his own workshop. Most of the work is in silver, but he will happily do one off commissions in silver and gold. New this year are designs incorporating carved gemstones in moonstone and jade, an exciting departure into a new technique. Member of the Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen

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Daniel Bristow

stringed instruments 54 Long Street, Tetbury GL8 8AQ t: 01666 503946 e: bristowviolinstetbury@yahoo.co.uk www.bristowviolins.co.uk For Daniel, the experience of cutting and seasoning his first tree 30 years ago has turned violin making into a lifetime’s journey. “It’s always a thrill to hear the results of your work and feel the life come back into the timber as you shape and thickness it.” Starting on the 1st January Daniel has been making a matching quartet of instruments from this ‘first’ tree, in celebration of 30 years making, for a performance in Tetbury’s new art centre, the Goods Shed, at 7.30pm on Saturday 13 May. An exhibition of his work will be on display at his shop and on the evening of the concert.

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Clare Walsh

textiles Felbrigg, 39 Long Street, Tetbury GL8 8AA t: 01666 500904 e: enquiries@felbriggdesign.com www.felbriggdesign.com artist contact details: m: 07896 055999 e: clarewalsh84@yahoo.co.uk Contemporary foiled cushions and cosmetic bags with stunning linings printed directly from the beautiful plants, flowers and herbs of the Cotswolds. Each item is unique, hand printed and sewn in Tetbury by Clare Walsh

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Atelier will host a daily pop-up café and bar along with

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Margaret Benton Lulu Guinness OBE Felicity Aylief Editor Lizzi Walton Festival Director Design Chris J Bailey Published by SIT select Print Tewkesbury Printing

SIT select – what we do We aim to broaden the perspective for textiles to other art forms and to link to the applied arts and crafts. SIT select now embraces all the applied arts with textiles still very much at the heart of our world.

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