Amy Wardell "Lamp"

Amy Wardell "Lamps"
INSPIRED BY NATURE
1st August - 31st October


A showcase of jewellery, ceramics, glass and mixed media lighting by a group of contemporary makers who look to nature for their inspiration.

There are 12 designers taking part in the showcase who all look to natural forms for their inspiration. Each designer takes a different reference point and fulfills their ideas through a variety of media and techniques.
Kirsty Guise "raku vessels"
Kirsty Guise "Raku vessels"
Mixed Media
Amy Wardell makes sculptural and domestic lamps fabricated with paper, resin and specially selected inclusions. The incluisions tend to be leaves, flowers and small natural items found on Amy's trips to places such as Asia, India, Turkey and Nepal.
Sarah Tanner "Ceramic vessels"
Sarah Tanner "Ceramic vessels"
Ceramics
Inspiration is taken from the natural surroundings of the Gower Peninsular as a starting point for the ceramic vessels of Kirsty Guise. Kirsty either casts or hand builds using smooth clay and decorates with a raku glaze and gold or silver leaf.

Sarah Tanner uses the interplay between land and sea as a basis for her work. She looks at the rhythmical motion created as the sea washes in and out, and tries to capture these traces of movement in the liquidity of plaster as it is spun wet in a manner akin to throwing.

Glass
Mandy Clapson works with hot glass to create delicately coloured free blown forms. Her work will be displayed alongside the free blown glass of Ingrid Pears who creates organic pieces developed from rock formations and the sea.

Tanja Ufer "Ring"
Tanja Ufer "Ring"
Jewellery
The seven jewellers taking part, Fiona Cameron, Gail Harding, Rebecca Ricard Elbek, Gillian Blum, Lucy Sylvester, Sarah Henrys and Tanja Ufer,look to items such as plants, trees, seed pods, sea creatures and ice crystals for inspiration alongside places such as the garden, the sea and the beach. In order to create an exquisite coillection of feminine organic jewellery with a textural quality using precious metals, raw diamonds, cold enamel, rubber, pearls and semi-precious metals.
Gail Harding "Necklace"
Gail Harding " Necklace"
   
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