This weekend is my annual outing to Combenteignhead, it’s a lovely little village just up the river Teign from Shaldon.
The Great Northern Contemporary Craft Festival 17th - 20th October 2024
I’m just getting ready for the GNCCF at Victoria Baths in Manchester. It’s preview night by invite on thursday evening and then open from 10 -5 on the friday and saturday and 10-4 on the sunday. It’s a gorgeous venue and I’m very happy to be coming back for my second year. I’ll be turning off my website shop for the weekend so I dont accidently sell anything twice. I’ll be in one of the pools. the stand number is easy to remember C02.
June 7th - 9th 2024 Contemporary Craft Festival at Bovey Tracey
This weekend I’m incredibly happy to be part of the 20th contemporary craft festival in Bovey Tracey, it’s a fantastic event and happily a little cooler than last year. I have shut my website shop and will reopen it early next week. Do come and say hello if you visit, I’m in stand C28.
2024 Goldsmiths' Craft and Design Awards
In October last year someone suggested I enter a piece of work into the Goldsmiths’ Craft and Design Awards. I’ve looked at the awards before but never considered entering as it is a very formal and prestigious event and I usually avoid anything uncomfortable, like suspense or judgement, anyway I made a little face on the first of January that I was particularly pleased with, and looked at it for a week and then made a setting for it just in time for the deadline for the GCDC and sent it off.
A couple of weeks later while I was on holiday I got an email saying I had won an award and was invited to attend the award ceremony. I spent the next three weeks worrying about appropriate shoes and a dress, getting lost etc. On Monday I went up to London, navigated the Tube, found Goldsmiths’ Hall and was delighted to recieve a Bronze award. This is a picture of the piece I entered taken by a professional photographer (Richard Valencia)!!
feb 2024
I’m taking a few days off and have closed my shop. Back soon. x I had a lovely holiday in the Sahara Desert, somewhere I’ve always dreamed of going to but never imagined for a minute that I would.
Green Maker Initiative seconds sale 13 january Make Southwest.
I’m very happy to say here will be another of GMI seconds sales on saturday 13th of January 2024. It will be in the Gallery at Make Southwest in Bovey Tracey. I will have all my ends of lines and one offs and single earring studs, as well as any new practice pieces. See you there, the last one was great fun way of spending any chrismas money and I got lots of amazing bargains.
Green Maker Initiative craft fair 9th September
I will be at the Green maker initiative craft fair in Bovey tracey, at Make South West in the riverside mill on Saturday from 10-4 with lots of other lovely green makers. Nourish festival is also on in the main street and there is a craft event at the methodist hall further up the road.
Contemporary Craft Frestival June 9, 10, 11, 2023
I will be at the Craft Festival in Bovey Tracey again this year with lots of new jewellery. It’s going to be warm and dry and I am looking forward to it immensely. This year I’m positioned near the doorway from MarqB to MarqC. Stand B42. Come and say hello.
Test plates
nothing much going on at the moment, I’m making test plates for new colours.