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Shelagh Spear

Sculpture has been a life long interest for Shelagh, and since she completed her Studio Ceramics degree in 2000 has used clay as the medium for her artwork. Her work is widely collected. Her pieces have a timeless, narrative quality. Individual figures stand alone, deep in thought, or are joined by a cast of other participants: people, animals and birds. She says: “ My work is evidently influenced by old English ceramics and folk art from everywhere, but I especially love the figures drawn in medieval illustrated manuscripts. I hope that I manage to capture an echo of their spirit in my work”. In keeping with her Cornish heritage, she uses clay dug and prepared in Cornwall, and lives and...

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Rachel Edwards

Rachel Edwards creates unique, hand crafted, modelled, carved and illustrated ceramic pots and sculptural pieces with inspiration from nature and fairy tales.

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Michelle Foote

Michelle Foote grew up in St Ives and always enjoyed making art, but after moving away to Devon as a teenager, she followed a different career path. It was only after having children and then returning to live in St Ives that Michelle rediscovered the joy of creating art and has since spent the last few years delighting in exploring different creative mediums to find her own artistic ‘voice’. Fascinated with repeat patterns and inspired by Scandiniavian folk art, Art Nouveau and nature, Michelle works from her garden studio to make wheel thrown and hand built pottery from local Cornish clay. She uses a variety of methods including sraffito (scratching the clay through coloured slip), inlaying, painting and stamping (using...

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Julia Crimmen

Born and brought up on the Cornish coast, Julia Crimmen has always had a love of art and design. With the encouragement of her husband and two daughters Julia took a Foundation Diploma at Falmouth College of Art, followed by Ceramics at Truro College. Now, working from her garden studio, Julia uses glass and porcelain to produce simple pots, decorative wall pieces and textured fused glass, inspired by the Cornish countryside.

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Jess Berriman

Jess Berriman creates a range of handmade porcelain jewellery, decorations and gifts. Inspired by the tonal Cornish landscape that surrounds her home, Jess produces beautifully minimal designs that would be admired by anyone. 

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