Monica has been running my own small business for almost twenty years. During that time she has been designing and making jewellery, women’s accessories, women’s unique stylish clothing, and passing her skills onto others by running workshops from my studio…

Representation: Wildlife is Araminta’s primary inspiration, wild animals, badger, pheasants, hares, owls, rabbits. They give her so much to work with in their fantastic colours, lines and patterns, attitude, body language and energy. She does like to capture a sense…

Sarah designs ranges of scarves and blankets on a dobby loom in her workshop – hand weaving a large piece of each design & colourway as a sample. She then calculates yarn quantities for production, have yarns dyed and produces…

Bronwen makes wearable statement jewellery from repurposed and recycled industrial plastics.  She is interested in the relationship between nature and plastic and is inspired by shapes and textures created, over time, by the forces of the weather and the sea. …

Tannish trained at the Birmingham School of Jewellery, achieving a BA (Hons) in Silversmithing and Jewellery.  She loves making jewellery from a variety of materials and particularly enjoy using aluminium because it’s lightweight, versatile and above all, potentially colourful.  At…

Su creates modern, clean-lined jewellery in silver and resin in her studio in Bath, Somerset. Enjoying the traditional precision of working with silver Su combines this with the challenges of alternative materials and techniques such as resin: ‘Resin is such…

Sasha lives and works in the shadow of the beautiful Malvern Hills, a place which gives her constant inspiration. Sasha makes bold an delivery prints of birds and animals using simplified images to express character and movement. Each of her…

Sarah Nicol and Peter O’Neil work together on these functional decorated ceramics from their home and studio at Earls Croome House. Peter set up his first pottery in 1993 in Cornwall; he works mostly in white earthenware, which Sarah decorates,…

Sally has been creating jewellery for 30 years using many materials; polymer clay, beads, lead crystals, pearls, semi-precious stones, threads, fabric and wire.  Often a unique piece – be it cabochon or bead – will set her off on a…

Working in porcelain, Ruth Gibson combines a love of photography, printmaking and ceramics, to evoke a sense of place; in particular the Shropshire landscape and the Welsh Coast. With a love of the outdoors, these two passions intertwine through her…

Rachel will be at the market on Saturday & Sunday. www.rachelceramics.org

Rachael enjoys both the freedom and the challenge of transforming, upcycling and recycling everyday materials and found objects into quirky mixed media pictures and decorations. A certain shape, texture or colour will spark off an idea of how Rachael can…

After achieving an MA with distinction from Buckingham University, Peter began his furniture-making career working within the confines that come from using planed, seasoned wood. After he returned to his native Devon in 2003, he started to explore a more…

Marietta started out with drawing, and she has always been an artist. Marietta trained in ceramics in Cornwall but these days, she divides her time between gardening, painting, and running art classes and workshops at her Forest of Dean, garden…

Tumbled, battered, burnt, lost, found, stranded pieces of ephemera gathered on the tidelines of beaches, on the hinterlands where the sand meets the land… each piece has journeyed, travelled over waves, through storms, bobbed, floated and drifted onto the strandline…

Kim originally studied languages and worked abroad as a translator for many years. After returning to England she was able to revisit her creative interests and now works as a designer/maker, selling her pieces under the name Wilde Works. Drawing…

Kate is an artist and illustrator specialising in contemporary layered watercolours and mixed media. She grew up in Herefordshire and now works from her home studio, in rural Worcestershire. Her work combines the use of contemporary watercolour techniques with cut…

Award winning glass artist Julie Fountain has been making stunning and original glass bead jewellery from her Malvern studio since 2007. She creates intricately detailed beads inspired by the sea and teams them with beautiful handmade silver to make heirloom…

As a Herefordshire based jeweller, Julia is proud to have completed my BA (hons) in Contemporary Applied Arts at Hereford College of Arts. A love of antique scientific instruments led Julia to explore the workings of Orreries and their movement.…

Jill has been working as a print maker and designer for over thirty years after studying printed textiles at Manchester Polytechnic. All of Jill’s work is hand made to her original designs from printing, stitching and finishing the final pieces. Jill’s work…

Helen is very proud to share my passion for handmade ceramics through individual one-off small run editions of both functional and sculptural ceramics. She has been creating in clay for 20 years now and is as passionate about making with…

Gracie is a Herefordshire based contemporary jeweller, working predominantly in silver, with some gold additions. Gracie’s work takes influence from architectural structures mixed with organic shapes, clean lines and textured surfaces and uses inspiration from her love of collections and…

Fi’s work used to be about colour, fabric and textures but since she started working with silver and precious stones the necklaces have an element of this but her silver work is more toned down. Fi’s inspiration comes from ancient…

Emma is a printmaker and painter. She produces beautiful stylised designs, from her studio based in Birmingham. Living in the city she is inspired by both nature and architecture, and is always looking to create pattern and engaging artworks. Either…

Danielle was born in the rural, market town of Ludlow, Shropshire. Her keen love for woodland walks, has greatly inspired her connection with the natural elements. In turn, informing her three dimensional, material explorations throughout her studies at Ludlow College…

Clare Wainwright has been working with glass for almost 20 years beginning at an Adult Education class she learnt the Tiffany method (copper foiled) stained glass work consisting of 4 stages, cutting, grinding, copper taping and soldering. After spending many…

Clare lives and works in the market town of Frome in Somerset.  She loves to make beautiful things and for as long as Clare can remember, she has always made ‘stuff.’ Clare has always been completely obsessed with colour and…

Born at R.A.F Cosford, Catherine grew up in Worcestershire and now lives in The Black Country. She studied at Bournville College of Art and has a degree in Printed Textiles from Loughborough College of Art and Design and a P.G.C.E…

Based in rural Worcestershire and inspired by the wildlife and landscape of home. Cariceprints creates beautiful, timeless pieces of useful and wearable art. A winter walk through stubbly fields often results in armfuls of dried out seed heads. Think teasels,…

Unique handmade natural wood sculpture As a youth Ben helped raise funds for his local Young Farmers Club by picking cider apples and perry pears at the weekends from the ground to be processed. As it turned out he was…

One of the main reasons for Becky creating her wire art work is to bring joy and a smile to people. Becky loves drawing with wire and recreating scenarios that she comes across in my daily life with her daughter,…

Andrew makes hand carved wooden bowls, spoons and stools. He started whittling spoons and bowls simply for relaxation, switch off “me” time, looking for a creative escape in an increasingly digital world. Design is driven by the materials and tools he uses. Andrew draws inspiration from a talented community of green woodworkers but spoons, bowls…

Inspired by the designs of the sixties and the Art Deco period, I make a colourful range of ceramic jewellery using the Japanese firing technique, Raku, a technique I practised and studied over two years (1993-1995) whilst working alongside potter…

Nature and wildlife around Alix, especially feathered friends, inspire her to create contemporary linocuts and detailed drawings, focusing on the detail, pattern and texture that can be found within their feathers, fur and skin while engaging with the character of…

The next Blue Magpie Contemporary Craft Fair will be Saturday 16th November & Sunday 17th November. 10:30am-4:30pm daily. Aline designs and produces bespoke statement chandeliers and lightening to commission. This new take on ambient lightening can be viewed as installation…