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Luke Shepherd (Sculpture) works as a bronze portrait sculptor. He is not interested in photographic realism or trying to imitate in a different material. Bumpy bits in the clay excite him. For him, surface marks show history and the materials must be an equal partner and offer their own unique qualities to the finished piece. The traditional art of the portrait sculptor is both an art and craft combined and Luke sees himself falling squarely between these two camps.

Stuart Low (Glass) designs and makes contemporary stained glass art, stained glass installations and stained glass windows for the built environment. Stuart works with stained glass on public art, ecclesiastical and secular stained glass projects. Stuart will be starting the New Year with the fabrication of a balustrade and corridor glazing scheme for Salisbury Children's hospital.

Harriet St Ledger’s (Jewellery) inspiration comes mainly from natural forms and Harriet particularly loves seed pods and unusual leaf shapes found in Botanic gardens and deep sea algae studied at the Natural history Museum. Her latest work has been inspired by projects with large scale enamels, where she has been experimenting with various techniques and unusual colourations caused by the reaction of enamel with copper.

Michelle Wilcox (Mosaic) is a self-taught mosaic artist with a background in painting and printmaking. Her fine art background has been invaluable as her work involves a great deal of careful drawing out before the mosaic process begins. She particularly enjoys the meticulous nipping and shaping her materials which are mainly ceramics and glass.

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7 July 2011 - Guild Members

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Susan Brown (Photography) Sue started her interest whilst living in Bristol and as a member of Bristol Photographic Society, during this time she had a successful Licentiateship and then Associateship of the Royal Photographic Society. She moved to Milton Keynes and worked essentially alone for sometime and had a successful Fellowship Application. More recently she made the difficult transition from darkroom to digital which she now loves. Since living in Devon, she has renewed her interest and love for the light and the coastal regions.

Christian O’Reilly (Furniture)  Christian takes great care resolving each design, focusing on proportion, line and how light plays on every surface, to give each piece a distinctive identity. When designing, he draws his inspiration from shapes or lines which catch his attention. It can be anything from the shape of a pebble on the beach to the lines and form of a Citroen DS (a car for which he has somewhat of a weakness). He is also influenced by architecture and the space in which a piece is to sit.

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Nick Orsler (Glass) After various apprenticeships in small studios in England, Nick traveled to parts of Europe and on returning to England Nick set up a small studio in London with the support of a Crafts Council award. Stockists of Nicks glass have included Harrods International Glass Department, London, Libertys One Off Department, London, The Designers Guild all branches, Next Interiors all branches. Nick is particularly keen to continue with his love of experimenting with colour and form.

Tracy Satchwill (Mixed-Media/ Paper) Theatrical collages are created by photographing real-life models and travelling around the country photographing various objects, textiles and scenes, which are carefully collaged together with illustration and print, producing contemporary historical images.  The work is displayed either two-dimensional or three-dimensional in boxed frames.

5 November 2011 - Guild Members

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Jackie and Jill Abbeysmallcombe - Built Environment.  Jill and Jackie have been collaborating as one artist for over ten years as Abey Smallcombe. They work with cob, earth plasters and other natural beautiful, sustainable materials. Cob is a mixture of subsoil, straw and water. It is a unique material and has traditionally been used for building. It has fantastic qualities - colour, texture, solidity... and allows them to realise and express their ideas in many ways. They have discovered that this material really suits the way they work, their approach, their personalities and their creative style.

Claire Armitage - Textiles.  Claire specialises in designing and making bespoke silk dresses and scarves, printed with imagery from her illustrations and sketches. She has worked as a freelance costume designer for nearly a decade and is a lecturer in both fashion and textiles at University College Falmouth. Her dresses and scarves are designed and made in Cornwall. The textile prints are inspired by the Cornish landscape.

Hugh Dunford-Wood - Printmaking. Hugh started his interest in printmaking in 1989 as an Artist-in-Residence with the Royal Shakespeare Company. As an already existing Member at the Guild in Wallpaper he has in recent years re-discovered his passion in printmaking which he calls Collino prints. These one-off narrative prints are made up of small separate linocuts.  They are worked around a themed series, not telling a story, but creating a mood more like poems than illustrations. The nature of the medium seems to isolate the individual components of each print giving them an abbreviated economy, both in execution and in interpretation.

Sam Pocock (artists name Sam Photic).  Jewellery Sam’s work is inspired by postmodernist theory and results from observing an increasingly homogenous global environment. The question ‘Where was that made and who exactly made it?’ has become increasingly complex. Jewellery is bound up by practicalities and he seeks the limits of form whilst retaining functionality. It is a great challenge for me to present sculpture and free ideas within the practical constraints of jewellery.

Amanda Richardson - Mixed-Media Amanda is an internationally acclaimed artist. Her work is representational in style but exploratory in medium. Her work has always been individual, rather than following an accepted school or genre. A sense of place is strong in the artist’s work, which often describes details of landscape.  Her work reflects a particular fascination with plants as they grow, both in gardens and their native environment, and with rock shaped by wind and water.