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12 - 17 August 2008

10am - 5pm


Victoria Benns

Inka Gabriel

Angela Holland

Victoria Lammie

Penny Carter

Building on the success of last spring's Contemporary Living Fair, five Devon designers, whose work has been shown in exhibitions, galleries and boutiques across the West Country, bring their collections together for a special summer event in the gallery.

Inka Gabriel: Stained glass and lamps in the Tiffany technique

Inka has worked with glass for the last 20 years, and is becoming increasingly well known across the South West for her trademark lamp - tall and elegant in opaque white glass, embellished with crystals, shells or pebbles, and standing on a solid oak base. Clean, simple lines of glass contrasting with organic shapes and textured wood combine in a lamp equally suited to the modern or traditional environment.

www.inkalights.com

Victoria Benns: Paintings

Victoria trained in design and taught Art for a number of years. Now living in rural South Devon with a young family, natural forms play a large part in her inspiration and she is currently investigating the eccentric and playful nature of animals. Her mixed media paintings capture a vibrant and humorous glimpse of her animal subjects, in a direct, confident and warm style. Each piece is influenced directly by the character of the subject, from the precise and sedate to the energetic and excitable. Victoria paints in her home studio and works with mixed media from sketches and photographs taken on location.

www.victoriabenns.com

Victoria Lammie: Bags and accessories

Victoria studied Fashion and Textiles at De Montfort University, Leicester, before becoming a Senior Ladieswear Designer in London for some of the UK's largest High Street retailers. In 2003 she relocated to South Devon, and continues to work as a designer. Love Lammie bags came to life through Victoria's own love for handbags and accessories. The bags are all exclusively designed and hand made in the Love Lammie studio in Salcombe, each piece using a unique mixture of vintage and contemporary textiles.

www.lovelammie.co.uk

Angela Holland: Basketry, live willow work and decorative sculpture

Angela's baskets encompass both the traditional and the experimental, with a strong emphasis on functionality and the beauty of practical designs and natural forms. In contrast, her decorative sculptures, which have been used at Glastonbury. Megadog and the Big Green Gathering festivals for processions and site decoration, consist mainly of open willow structures and lanterns clad in colourful paper and illuminated from the inside.

Angela's live willow works have a life of their own, planted as arbors, bowers, domes and fences in gardens and public spaces in the West Country, and allowed to grow and evolve with the passing of the seasons.

Penny Carter: Art Glass

After studying three dimensional design in Farnham, and working in Holland and France, Penny returnded to South Devon to set up her own workshop, Chilli Glass. She makes jewellery and lighting using hot glass flame worked elements, and creates a vibrant colour palette by overlaying transparent and opaque colour, and by slicing and polishing into the layers to form windows which let in the light.

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