Online Shop of the Week

• Maxine Sutton
• Ramp
• Jake Phipps
  
• Jeff and Betty
• Glimpse
• Shop Floor Project
  
• Pedlars
  
• Loop
• Caroline Swift
• Donna WIlson
• Abigail Brown
• Mibo
• Manos
• SkinnyLaMinx
• Dutch Door Letterpress
• Gooseflesh
• Irregular Expression
• Inkdesigner
• Rob Ryan
• Christmas shopping with Etsy
• Etsy - Alyssa Ettinger

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ARTIST OF THE WEEK

• Katkin Pringle
• Sam Lock
  
• Rod Macintosh
• Angela Lizon
  
• Carole Sheldrake
  
• Becky Blair
• Andrew Mockett
• Annie Mcmanus
  
• Ali Yanya
• Andrew Mockett
  
• Rhoda Baker
• Paul Debois
• Chris Knight
• Irene Marot
• Stephen Davids
• Steve McPherson
• Richard Heeps
• Kitty Shepherd
• Dawn Stacey
• Sam Chivers
• Clay Sinclair
• Stephen Campbell
• Louise Balaam
• Charlotte Hardy
• Penny Green
• Perdita Sinclair
• Maxine Sutton
• Sasha Bowles
• Richard Corbett
• Rachel Spring
• Philippa Karakashian
• Peter Greenhalf
• Kate Walters
• Graham Carter
• Dan Bennett
• Christopher Noulton
• Angela Charles

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Maker of the Week

Ceramics
Katie Mac

Jewellery - Precious Metals
Edward James Mahony
Alexis Dove
Syann Van Niftrik
Zelda Wong
Emily Nixon-Ixo Jewellery
Laura Marsden

Jewellery
Louise Miller
Katherine Bree
Andrea Eserin
Loukia Richards
Barbara Macleod
Islay Splading

Textiles
Paola McClure
Lucie Prichard
Shirley-Ann Dixon
Lorraine Linton Into Knitted Textile Design

Wood

Ceramics
Natsu Nishimoto
Ulrika Jarl
Sophie Woodrow
Claire Palfreyman
Victoria Kershaw
Christiane Kersten & Alison Milner.
Carys Davies
Rachel Dormor

Glass
Lucy Mutter
Amanda Glanville

Leather
Sonia Guzzo

Other
Fiona Howard
Anna Tilson
Abigail Brown
Corrina Rothwell
Meabh Warburton
Hannah Nunn

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Diem Chau

Diem Chau combines common materials and means to make accessible, beautiful items for story telling.
She combines embroidery and porcelain, crayons and carving for tactile, illustrative work.
A vietnamese refugee, she came with her family to Seattle, eventually studying art and has since exhibited her work extensively in the US.


She will carve a crayon for you. Just get in touch.

http://www.diemchau.com/

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Etsy Shop of the week - Dutch Door Design

As part of my one man campaign for "proper printing", because I like people who are so stubbornly swimming against the litho and computer print stream (and because I have a garage full of metal type woodcut card blocks and an old arab treadle press oiled and ready to go) and because the result looks so good - I like to buy cards and prints from letterpress printers.



We came across Dutch Door Designs in 'Greenwich Letterpress' shop in New York before Christmas and bought a few, then realised they sold their cards and prints internationally through their Etsy shop so should stock up my 'card drawer'.


This San Fanscisco based letterpress printing company describes themselves as

"two friends, two antique printing presses, a bunch of ink and a whole lot of paper....


Mara Murphy and Anna Branning, friends and co-workers for many years established dutch door press, a design & letterpress studio, in 2006 in a beautiful victorian house in San Francisco. we named our press after the entryway to our studio- none other than a dutch door.

With an affinity for rich color, vintage patterns, natural forms and symmetry we create unique and boldly colored designs for our greeting cards, posters, and invitations. all of our designs are printed by hand on our antique chandler & price platen press or our equally lovely vandercook simple precision 15 proofing press."


PS if anyone has an unused letterpress proofing press like a Vandercook (hand operated but self inking) standing unused in the studio or garage I'd be happy to relieve you of it!

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CraftScotland

Visiting the Collect exhibition the other week, I came across a lot of fantastic makers and galleries which I hadn't seen before and will try and write up over the coming weeks, one of the most interesting was CraftScotland which is the official showcase for Scotish Craft. There is something about Scotland which seems to foster exciting makers and a browse around their website did make me look into the price of flights to Edinburgh as we haven't managed to get to Scotland for years. . CraftScotland is, amongst other things, a comprehensive website with details of makers, galleries, exhibitions and events.

Some of the Makers I saw at Collect that made an impression were -

Anna King - who was exhibiting coiled forms made from feathers which though beautiful and original were to me slightly unsettling with a touch of the surreal.



Hannah Louise Lamb - was exhibiting a group of brooches influenced by her cockatoos and home!


Grainne Morton - a jeweller who uses found objects to create trees and storybook landscapes

Deirdre Nelson - was exhibiting at Collect pierced plastic spoons inspired by convict love tokens We came across Deirdre Nelson in a fascinating and moving textile exhibition 'In the Raw' in Glasgow several years ago. She is an artist working with textiles and interested (I think) in historical themes of work, trade, and emigration.

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Xenia Taler Tiles

Xenia Taler are partners Xenia Taler and Steven Koblinsky. Xenia designs the tiles, Steven crafts the clay and glazes in their Toronto studio.


The tiles are unusual, painterly and enchanting. A feature on your bathroom wall, they aim to make something that you want to save when it comes to redecorating.

http://www.xeniataler.com/

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