Rachael Laisney – Crafty Badger
Rachael Laisney is a ceramic artist based in Southport. She runs a studio in Birkdale Village and loves to see the other artists at work and the creations they come up with. Her own pieces are...
View ArticleDavid Rycroft
David Rycroft’s work is ever-evolving, which he describes as stronger and more engaging than when he first began his creative career. However, the references, themes and influences from his earlier...
View ArticleStephanie Davies – Stephanie Cole Design
Stephanie Davies has been an illustrator and maker for eight years, now specialising in a range of stationery, home accessories, wooden and rope jewellery, all designed and created in her garden studio...
View ArticleKatherine Bennetton – Markat Designs
Katherine and Abi are a mother and daughter team with a passion for designing and making beautiful textile items. They use high quality novelty fabrics (the more animals the better, they say!) and are...
View ArticleThe Jones Boys
The Jones Boys are a pair of twins who believe there’s nothing better in this world than a cup of tea and doing what you love. Their design ethos involves taking first hand reference and photographic...
View ArticleJacky Thornton – Wooly Thoughts
Jacky Thornton designs and makes a wide variety of hand knitted accessories and gifts, including gloves and hats of all types and colours, as well as lace scarves. She is also well known for crafting...
View ArticleIan McLoughlin – The Talking Bee
The Talking Bee make and sell delicious jams, chutneys and preserves, all whipped up in small batches to ensure the quality and taste of each finished product. Wherever possible, Ian McLoughlin sources...
View ArticlePoppy Elmhirst – Clay Elm
Poppy Elmhirst creates handmade, wheel-thrown, functional and decorative ceramic pieces using stoneware clay. After studying for several years in New Zealand under Frederika Ernsten, she is currently a...
View ArticleJemma Taylor – Old Man and Magpie
Jemma Taylor crafts handmade furniture and small-batch, vegan friendly and cruelty free natural soy wax candles, using pure essential oils in recyclable amber glass apothecary jars. After the birth of...
View ArticleFiona Haines – Wise Fig Jewellery
Working as an eye surgeon by day and jeweller by night, Fiona Haines takes pleasure in designing and creating jewellery. All of her pieces are hand-made from scratch in her home workshop using...
View ArticleJean Emerson – Brown Bear Sews
Jean Emerson designs and makes children’s imaginative play accessories from her own home. All of her superhero sets, felt animal masks, unicorn and dinosaur capes, mermaid leggings, magic wands,...
View ArticleLyndsey Keppel-Green – Lyndsey Green Illustration
Lyndsey Keppel-Green’s work is inspired by her passion for animals and conservation and her love of fantasy and mythical creatures. After graduating from Manchester School of Art, she now works at A4...
View ArticleRebecca Woods – Rebecca J Woods Ceramics
Rebecca Woods is a ceramicist who believes in form and function, beauty and joy. She makes decorative wares for the home such as plant hangers, bud vases, bowls, butter dishes and more, mostly...
View ArticleJo Vickers
Jo Vickers is, in her own words, ‘an indecisive artist’ working in acrylics, ceramics, watercolours, printmaking and pencil. Most recently she has been working on a series of ‘cityscapes’. Embodying...
View ArticleJames Green Printworks
Whilst you’re shopping at the Winter Arts Market this year, don’t miss the chance to see the wonderful printworks of James Green. As a printmaker for the past 16 years, he specialises in linocut and...
View ArticleSarah Middleton – The Way to Blue
Sarah Middleton’s practice is rooted in the old photographic process of Cyanotype. Invented by Sir John Herschel in 1842 as a way of recreating notes and diagrams, cyanotyping is distinctive in that it...
View ArticleJanice Sharp
Janice Sharp began bookbinding after taking a course at the British Library. She is the first bookbinder to ever participate in the Winter Arts Market! For her first WAM Janice will have a stall...
View ArticleKatie Craven
Katie Craven is a luxury lifestyle brand, based in the Ribble Valley countryside. Katie intricately hand illustrates each of her beautiful, classic creations in her signature pen, ink and watercolour...
View ArticleHelen Smith
Helen Smith works in kiln formed glass, creating art pieces which draw inspiration from the landscape and light of the Dee estuary. As well as art pieces she makes a range of original fused glass...
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