Exhibition

Vicki Ambery-Smith

Vicki will exhibit a range of her jewellery and silverware pieces based on London’s iconic architecture. Alongside will be a selection of her working drawings and jewellery tools. Vicki will invite you to join in and design a brooch or a ring, with the opportunity to discuss its potential with her, exploring how it would work and how it could be made.

Monica Boxley

Monica is a textile artist working with a variety of processes, and is currently involved in an ongoing Outreach programme at Submit to Love studio, working with a group of artists living with brain injury, using Batik as an art form. She will be exhibiting her latest stitched and batik work and will be demonstrating her methods, encouraging visitors to ‘have a go’.  

Charlotte Cory

Charlotte will show storytelling works from her Visitorian world, along with toy theatre constructions and maquettes, fashion colouring books, and wallpapers. Charlotte will also exhibit her latest book, a colouring version of ALICE, complete with illustrations and wittily revised text. Visitors will be invited to join Charlotte in colouring in the copies on display.

Jane Cox

Jane Cox, will be showing a range of her slip decorated earthenware ceramics, demonstrating how these designs are created. Rhythm, flow, and reflections in water inspire her unique ceramics which are collected for their vibrant bold use of colour.

Based in the southeast of the Isle of Wight, and inspired by the island’s natural beauty, Jane’s work evokes the rich colours and textures of her coastal environment.

Sean Evelegh

’Sean has been making bespoke pieces of furniture from his workshop in the beautiful Kent countryside since 2020. Each piece he makes is a testament to his commitment to quality, combining traditional woodworking techniques with innovative design and technology.

Sean will be exhibiting his Hawthorn chair; crafted from ash, it’s standout feature is the continuous bent lamination that seamlessly forms both the back and armrests, offering aesthetic elegance and ergonomic support. Also on show will be his Two-log table; crafted from rich walnut and warm oak, the beautiful end-grain growth rings flow between both species, highlighting the unique grain patterns and colours.

Marianne Fox Ockinga

Marianne draws and paints from observation; scenes of people at work in North London, landscapes in Holland, and Italy. She works to create woodcuts, etchings, and paintings and drawings in a variety of media. She will be demonstrating her technique and the tools she uses, and some objects that have inspired her. 

Emily Jo Gibbs

Emily will exhibit work created whilst Artist in Residence at Trinity Buoy Wharf in 2025.
Over the period of a year, she made a 6m-long embroidery about the people who work at the Wharf, with a particular interest in depicting people who were Makers or work with their hands. Delicately stitched in her signature style, the appliqué features many workers including the SS Robin restoration crew, English National Opera prop makers, and apprentice engineers on Thames Clippers, offering a unique glimpse into the area’s creative community. In places lively tacking stitches remain, speaking to the many layers of hidden work Craftspeople undertake.

Jonathan Gibbs

With a block, tools, inks, and paper Jonathan will draw an image, engrave a block, and then make a print by hand burnishing. He will explore the language of drawing, observation, imagination, and composition.

Carolyn Gowdy

Carolyn is an artist and illustrator, renowned for her distinctive, narrative, almost fairy-tale images. Her paintings and drawings are usually populated by a cast of idiosyncratic characters that reflect her innocent, quirky humour, and her interest in humanity. She will be exhibiting a selection of her etchings, monotypes, and prints. 

Nicholas Hughes

Nick will exhibit a selection of his newest handmade wallpapers and demonstrate how they are printed. He will present a selection of the original hand carved blocks used to print the designs and demonstrate the technique he uses to design, carve and form repeats. Alongside will be an exhibit of tools and ephemera from his studio, giving more insights into his process. There will be the opportunity to ’have a go’; getting a feel for the tools by carving, or by taking a rubbing from a small block.

Margaret Jones

Margaret Jones will be showing and demonstrating tapestry weaving, an ancient craft that has not essentially altered since its inception. Earliest fragments found are from the Byzantine Empire, but tapestry techniques were probably around long before that.  

Margaret weaves in her studio in West Sussex, and never having been a one for sketchbooks, most designs materialise in her head and with the help of digital media and drawing, her designs are translated onto paper and then into tapestry. 

Colour is an integral part of her work and Margaret dyes yarns to a bespoke palette for each tapestry. Margaret also weaves at the Professional Tapestry Studio at West Dean, near Chichester. 

Bobbie Kociejowski

Bobbie’s work is entirely hand-woven and hand-finished and as such continues a tradition that has spanned many centuries in many different cultures. At a time when evervthing is based on speed and quantity, Bobbie values the slowness of the hand-woven process and the individuality of each piece she weaves.

Working on a traditional floor loom, she weaves textiles with a contemporary feel.
Bobbie will have a table loom set up, demonstrating how she samples new ideas and, on a small scale, what she does on her larger looms - providing an opportunity to observe and understand the processes involved in the role of a designer/maker.

Ruth Martin

Ruth creates limited edition hand printed artist books using hand carved rubber stamps.

Join her for a demonstration on how she carves the rubber stamps and prints with them, and have a go yourself.

Alan Micklethwaite

Alan will exhibit a single piece of sculpture from his current workshop practice, specially made for the event. He will be demonstrating his craft, showing the process behind the making of a work.

Jeremy Nichols

Jeremy Nichols, a saltglaze potter and former Chair of the Craft Potters Association, will be showing his open-handle teapot designs together with a selection of other drinking, pouring, and lidded vessels. He will also demonstrate throwing and constructing components for his work.

Loraine Rutt

Combining cartography and ceramics, Loraine’s palm-sized Pocket Globes are made to a scale of 1:170 000 000. Using NASA survey data, the major mountain ranges have been modelled by hand, and then detailed with the longitude and latitude grid, which enables the careful placement of tiny islands and coastlines, all inscribed into the clay with purpose-made tools. When the porcelain is bone dry, she paints in the details with an ultra fine brush, which sucks the ceramic oxides into the fine clay surface. Loraine will be demonstrating the various stages of making a globe, and the cases which house them.

Jane Smith

A display from historical hat maker Jane Smith – who creates hats for stage and screen, recreating styles from 400AD up to the 21st century. She works in felt, straw, buckram, plastic, fabrics, and designs for commercials and re-enactors, also creating cocked hats for mayors and civic dignitaries of all kinds. She will focus on demonstrating creating hats with natural wheat straw and cellophane, as fashionable in 1950s Italy and America. She will also have a selection of hats available to try on and for sale.

Carolyn Trant

Carolyn will be demonstrating her woodcut prints, taking us through her process, exhibiting her notebooks, tools, and woodblocks to show how she arrives at the finished product.
She will show work from her new project Emblems for End Times in the form of scrapbooks and Tarot card packs made using her own woodcut images, adapting and recutting existing works of art and printed over current newspaper images; forming a new visual language, bypassing a stale and divisive verbal language which has been dividing us. - a new alphabet of images stressing our common humanity and the importance of nuance and empathy, rather than shouting across political and ideological barricades. Just as in a tarot reading, the audience is as important as the artist.

Harriet Vine

Come and meet Harriet Vine from renowned duo Tatty Devine and look inside their 25-year journey into creativity and art jewellery. Harriet will exhibit a curated selection of drawings, paper prototypes and pre-production samples, alongside finished pieces, illustrating the evolution of creative concepts into unique wearable art. This intimate opportunity will provide a deep insight into the design process that defines Tatty Devine’s innovative spirit. Additionally, they will showcase an exciting new collaborative project with artist Dame Zandra Rodes, for their collection, which will launch in September.