Aliki: Alison Wynne-Powell and Christel Polglase: Individually designed Handbags
Alison and Christel use vintage and recycled materials and off-cuts, and traditional sewing methods, including hand stitching, machine applique and embellishing, to create individual handbags.
It all began when Cristel couldn't find the perfect bag and decided instead to convert a skirt she'd found in an Oxfam shop. As it turned out, Alison had donated that skirt, and the idea of Aliki was born. When Alison needed a special bag to accompany a wedding outfit, the friends worked together to create something stunning, and realised they could offer a unique design service to others who want something a little different from the usual high street fashion.
Angela Holland: Basketry and Greenwood Furniture
Angela studied basketry under Hilary Burns. She works largely with willow and green wood to make basketry, live willow work and decorative sculpture with an emphasis on funcionality. Her live willow works, including arbors, domes, bowers and fences, are set in gardens and public spaces in the West Country, and her decorative sculptures have been used at Glastonbury, Megadog and the Big Green Gathering festivals for processions and for site decoration. Angela also enjoys collaborating with other artists, and running workshops.
Elisabeth Cooper: Silver
After a career in fashion and a spell on a glossy magazine, Elisabeth now devotes her creative energies to her passion for silver, making a range of spoons, bowls, jugs and boxes, as well as simple jewellery designs, combining silver with pearls and semi-precious stones.
Christine East: Jewellery
Christine came to jewellery design through experimenting with textile techniques: she knits metal into bracelets, lacy necklaces, and has even made a crystal-decorated, flapper-style wedding headdress. Using handmade silver beads, crystals and shell, she creates inventive, attractive brooches and earrings.
Elaine McCarten: Ceramics, Jewellery and Aromatherapy Products
Elaine's love of cats shines through in her cheerful sculptures and models.
Elaine also makes her own aromatherapy products, and is a member of the British Complementary Medicine Association. Her products are environmentally friendly, contain no animal-derived ingredients, and are not tested on animals.
Inka Gabriel: Glass
Inka has worked with glass for the last 20 years, specialising in leaded lignts. More recently, she has gained a reputation locally for her tall, elegant lamps using the copper foiling technique. Starting with a sheet of white glass and pebbles found on the beach, each lamp stands on a solid oak base which brings a raw, natural edge to the clean lines of her work.
Jane Elder: Stained and Fused Glass
Jane is a professional stained glass artist, who carries out commissions and runs workshops from her Slapton studio. Recent works include a church window, windows for private houses, and a project with local primary school children to design and build a window for their school. Jane has recently added glass fusing to her repertoire, and designs a number of plates and decorative items.
Penny Carter: Glass
Penny is a glass artist and tutor, making use of kiln formed glass and hot glass techniques. She has taught and exhibited in the UK, France, the Netherlands and Japan.
Sheila Hansford & Ysabel Winzar: Ceramic Gifts, Decorations and Domestic Ware
A beautiful range of functional and decorative ceramics. Sheila and Ysabel's love of painting is reflected in their decorated ceramics, with earthenware bowls and domestic ware thrown on a wheel, decorated using coloured slip, underglaze colours, and sgrafitto, and later glazed.
Victoria Allen: Jewellery
From her studio in Modbury, Victoria uses freshwater pearls, semi-precious stones, shells, crystals and glass beads in her jewellery. She is also an exhibiting member of the Glasgow Society of Women Artists.
Victoria Benns: Paintings
Victoria's immediate surroundings in the countryside near Dartmouth play a large part in her inspiration, and she is currently investigating the eccentric and playful nature of animals in her lively, mixed media drawings and paintings.
Victoria Lammie: Handbags and Accessories
Victoria studied Fashion and Textiles at De Montford University, before becoming a senior ladieswear designer for some of the UK's largest high street retailers. Now settled by the seaside in South Devon, she runs her own design business. Love Lammie Bags came to life through Victoria's own love for handbags and accessories. All exclusively designed and hand made in Salcombe, each piece is a lovingly unique mixture of vintage and contemporary textiles.
Zoe Clough: Jewellery
Zoe's jewellery uses silver, vintage beads and African trade beads, as well as more unusual materials such as colourful felts. From her studio in Dartington, Zoe sells her work through the White Space Gallery in Totnes and Artworks in South Brent.
Wiebke Arends: Candles
Wiebke makes experimental candles, using additional materials such as sand, driftwood, stones and flowers. She sells her candles, lights and jewellery at Totnes Market, through houseparties, and at shops in Germany and Madrid.
