Love isn’t love until you give it away

Whilst researching for the new displays for the run up to Valentine’s Day it got me thinking about love of course so here is a little blog post of things I love that are now in Heart Gallery for you to love too …

Bear Hug – Julia Ogden

Original pencil drawings, giclee prints and cards based on Love, Friendship and Support by our very own super talented Julia Ogden.

‘And on’ partnership pair of silver rings with diamond

Diana Porter’s jewellery range includes her signature ‘and on’ partnership rings, ‘and on’ bangle and ‘I who is you who is I’ set of silver bangles.

close up of detail on the notebook case

Fabulous leather pieces concentrating on music lovers and bookworms by emerging local artist Rod Boyes.

Kindred Spirit

Andy’s etched glass work was a hit at Christmas and we are so chuffed with his new pieces. Perfect for homemade drinks such as damson gin, lemoncello vodka but these lab bottles work really well in the bathroom for shampoo and conditioner too.

Silver and 9ct gold heart rings

Karen’s popular silver and 9ct gold heart range now has a cute little addition of these rings.

Silk Scarf digitally printed from a hand-dyed original design

Sarita’s Reminiscence Collection of floaty scarves and lavender filled pouches and eye-masks will make a lovely gift not just for a Valentine but for a Mum too as Mothers’ Day is not that far away.

Ethical recycled silver jewelery

Ali’s ethical jewellery is inspired by her love of dancing and the dynamic lines of movements she creates whilst dancing.

Ceramic Hearts (can be personalised)

We love Laura’s ceramic hearts and they are certainly the perfect little love token at this time of the year. Our personalised service includes bridal favours matched to the wedding colours where possible with the wedding date stamped on as a great keepsake.

Ceramic Hearts (can be personalised)

And there you have it, a little snippet of new pieces we love and hope you love too….Love isn’t love until you give it away.

Speaking of love, I can’t end this blog post without an image from Kate Lycett though. A customer sadly lost her Dad recently and with a little bit of money he left her she really wanted something that reminded her of him and where he lived so every time she looks at this she will remember the years filled with love that they spent together:

Waterfront – Kate Lycett

Meet The Maker – Sarita Jepps

Sarita Jepps – Textile Artist

Sarita hand dyes and hand paints silk fabrics often inspired by nature. These fabrics form the basis for original repeat patterns that are digitally printed onto silk chiffon and satin. 

Silk eye mask

Silk eye mask

This collection is a glance back to fond memories of growing up in a small seaside town with candy colours, delicate floral petals and butterfly wings representing the emergence of Springtime…which is why she has called in the Reminiscence collection.

Silk scarf

Silk scarf

Her soft eye-masks are sheer luxury and her little pouches are filled with dried lavender. With the smell of the lavender in your home you can close your eyes and pretend you’re in the Provence for a little winter escape!

Silk lavender filled pouch

Silk lavender filled pouch

The gallery smells divine at the moment with all the lovely lavender floating round so it’s a big thank you to Sarita for her lovely work.

 

Meet The Maker – Cate Wood

Cate Wood – Textile Artist and Jeweller

Cate graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University in 1992 with a BA (Hons) in Fashion and Textile Design. It was there that she developed a passion for collecting objects and a skill for creating relationships between them.

Cate’s jewellery modelled

Her final exhibition was inspired by memories and found objects that can be held in the palm of your hand or hidden in a match box; old, worn, weather beaten things found in the streets or places she had visited. Her eye for detail and space made small, over looked objects, precious. Her new collection of jewellery echoes this.

Jewellery by Cate Wood

Her natural pull towards used, aged materials and a love of a time when things were hand crafted and bespoke is evident in the assortment of vintage clothes, accessories and furniture in her home. Her small terraced house in West Yorkshire is an organised clutter of intuitively found objects, bursting at the seams with an extraordinary mish mash of, crockery, clothes, accessories and other treasures picked up in her home town and on her travels.

Jewellery by Cate Wood

Cate’s brand new collection of Jewellery continues this theme. She falls in love with obscure, interesting and charming things, findings picked up at local markets and trinkets that are part of the local heritage: hearth brushes worn by years of use, colliery tags that have been smoothed by the hundreds of hands they have passed through, vintage buttons removed from dresses and uniforms.

Jewellery by Cate Wood

Cate is curious about their past lives, the people they once belonged to and in the stories that are lost. Cate deconstructs and reconstructs these findings into unique pieces of jewellery. The bristles of a brush become tassels. A leather watch fob and a button become the fastening of a bracelet, old lost keys become jewels.

Jewellery by Cate Wood

Buttons feature heavily in her work and are symbolic for buttons are the fastenings that hold things together.

Jewellery by Cate Wood

Jewellery by Cate Wood

The use of words and messages is a recurring theme and they are used as a dark, playful reference to modern life, opinions and memories. Her colour palette is dark, Dickensian, and a nod to the surrounding streets and buildings that have been tarnished by decades of soot.

Cate’s jewellery modelled

Many of the materials that she crafts appear discoloured and marked.

Jewellery by Cate Wood

Jewellery by Cate Wood

Heart Gallery is proud to have been approached by Cate recently to be her stockist in Hebden Bridge and we look forward to introducing her work to you in 2013 and working closely with her for her Valentines Day collection for us.

Jewellery collections by Cate Wood

Jewellery collections by Cate Wood

Meet The Maker – Lauren Crawford

Lauren Crawford - Textile Artist

Using luxury silks and woollen fibres, sourced from traditional Scottish mills, Lauren designs and produce 100% hand made fabrics for those who love something unique and special. 

Reflection Corsages

Her fashion accessories are suitable for all occasions and include scarves, skinny scarves, corsages, brooches and wedding garters. 

Skinny Scarves

Available in rich colours and styles, fabrics are woven on a 16 shaft dobby hand loom, before being machine felted, air dried and hand finished.

Lambswool Corsages

Accessories feature innovative double sided woven structures and textures, inspired by Venetian opulence and architecture.

Skinny Scarf-Burgundy

All fabrics are woven in her workshop in Staffordshire and Lauren is also available for collaborative projects and is happy to receive commissions for custom pieces.

Brooch

Heart Gallery is proud to have been selected by Lauren to showcase her gorgeous scarves and corsages.

Skinny Scarf-Teal

Heart Gallery is Five!

Heart Gallery has been open for five years!

This little post about our birthday celebrations is really late so I must apologise for that … it’s all to do with  the ‘time’ thing and how it can play tricks on you! I actually can’t believe it is five years since I first opened the amazing doors of Heart Gallery to you all; it really doesn’t seem that long! In the same respect I thought our party to celebrate five years in business was only last week…..it wasn’t!

Beautiful packages from Lisa Murdoch

Lots of thought and careful planning goes into an exhibition at Heart Gallery and the Birthday one was such a celebration of achievement it had to be right so the contents of these little packages from Lisa were just perfect. Lisa cut, snipped, stitched and styled the bunting then delivered it wrapped like a birthday present and I was over the moon with it.

Happy Birthday Bunting

Happy Birthday Bunting

Happy Birthday Bunting

The weather the week of our party wasn’t that great and the theme for FIVE AND FABULOUS was a Garden Party! However, we kept our spirits up with positive thoughts and were blessed with a dry afternoon and evening in the end so we were all happy bunnies….the Makepiece models for the fashion show were happy little sheep!

Makepiece fashion show at Heart Gallery September 2011

Makepiece fashion show at Heart Gallery September 2011

Makepiece fashion show at Heart Gallery September 2011

We celebrated with pink fizz, cake pops, frozen yogurt and the perfect music provided by two members of professional local string quartet Ariana.

Pink Fizz

Srawberries and Cream - Cake Pops baked locally by Sarah at Perfect Baking

Pink Gerberas bought from The Willow Garden in Hebden Bridge

Ariana - enchanting music for a special occasion

We all got glammed up.

Some might say this is our best side!

Alison and Bart

Alison, Julia, Mandy, Cathy, Nicolette and Heather

We chatted to customers and some of our makers.

Five and Fabulous Exhibition Heart Gallery September 2011

Five and Fabulous Exhibition Heart Gallery September 2011

Five and Fabulous Exhibition Heart Gallery September 2011

Five and Fabulous Exhibition Heart Gallery September 2011

Five and Fabulous Exhibition Heart Gallery September 2011

Five and Fabulous Exhibition Heart Gallery September 2011

Five and Fabulous Exhibition Heart Gallery September 2011

We showcased work from new and emerging UK makers alongside new ranges from our ‘old faithfuls’.

Lasercut Gardens Of Delight by Katie Heeks

Ceramics by Rachel Foxwell

Textiles by Rachael Taylor

Oxidised silver corrosion bangles by Shirley Smith

Parakeets, Budgerigars and cockatiels by Cathy Miles

Violet Monkey Ring by Helen Noakes

We lit the lanterns that we had made and hung them from the trees in the garden when it started to get dark.

Hanging out the lanterns at Heart Gallery

Heart Gallery lanterns trimmed with butterflys

Heart Gallery lanterns

We all had a jolly good time at Five And Fabulous Exhibition and after 5 hours on my feet it was time to call it a night and head off home.

Tired feet!

I really want to say a big thank you to all those who came along to celebrate with us and a big sparkly hug to Sarah Mason at Zebra Photography for doing a fab job capturing the magic of the day ❤

Meet The Maker – Cathy Edwards

Cathy Edwards - leatherworker

Catherine Edwards uses bold, architectural forms that allow leather to be shown at its natural best. They are practical and durable pieces that will gain character as they age.

Catherine Edwards - leather bag group

The four collections, satchels, men’s, contemporary and tableware are made using the finest British and Italian leather hides. Each item is hand cut from individual selected panels; hand stitched and finished using a sound combination of traditional techniques.

Catherine Edwards - selection of coin purses

A residency as shoe maker at the Royal Armouries, Leeds, led to a collaboration with a saddler, from which came the inspiration for her current collections.

Catherine Edwards - Axel Giant

Catherine Edwards - leather wallet

Heart Gallery currently stocks Catherine’s leather wallets, purses and a small collection of bags but commissions and one off pieces are welcome, as are interior design and furnishing projects.

Meet The Maker – Gail Myerscough

Gail Myerscough - Textile Artist

Gail is a designer/maker with a passion for felt.

Flow corsage

Gail creates fashion accessories from wool mix felt with her inspiration coming from 60s and 70s design and colour; in particular the designs and colourways of 1960s Scandinavian ceramics and mid century design.

Loopy Corsage

Gail studied Surface Pattern Design but gradually became more interested in textiles.

Spring/Summer 2012 Flow Corsages

Spring/Summer 2012 Flow collection in brights

Gail is a designer/maker living in Lancashire, England. She creates fashion accessories from wool mix felt as she wanted to use felt in a sculptural way.  She thinks textiles must be in her blood. In tracing her family tree she discovered her ancestors worked in the textile mills of Lancashire as far back as 1800 and probably beyond.

Loopy Headband

Loopy Ring

Gail loves making stuff, drinking tea, vintage fashion, 60s/70s interiors and design, modernism, music, books, film, bargains and jumble sales. Heart Gallery is proud to showcase Gail’s colourful pieces and hope you enjoy wearing them as much as we enjoy showcasing them here at Heart Gallery.

Selection of Loopy Corsages

Makepiece A/W 09 arrives at Heart Gallery

Carapace dress £258

Epiphany | Autumn Winter 2009

stunning shapes, redolent with romance, unexpected knits, rich colours and winter softness ethically made in the UK from British wool.

Roses grow out of winter dresses, while dramatic ruching creates warmth and stylish silhouettes. Filmy layers of open knits add glamour with chunky scarves for substance.

Our drained down dusk palette is warm and deep, perfect colours for winter nights.

Frieldhurst Edgeway

Makepiece is not just a designer label – it’s part of a landscape, which has for hundreds of years been shaped by the wool industry, from the dry-stone walled pastures to the packhorse tracks across the moors which took wool from farm to market.

They take natural yarns, raised sustainably, spin them as locally as possible, knit in our community, using the minimum chemical processes possible to produce a finished product that can be treasured for years. It’s part of a story which knits a community with a landscape.

Carapace Gauntlets £47

Like you, Makepiece want beautiful clothes and…

HUMAN RIGHTS…  they know they can trust their farmers and the mills where we live to produce yarn to a very high standard – and to look after the people involved in production.

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY… they’ve chosen to use wool and mohair from British farms and their own sheep because they know how the land is farmed, and fibres such as hemp, bamboo and tencel because they can easily be grown sustainably.

FEWER CHEMICALS…  each collection contains undyed and naturally dyed clothes along with some azo-free dye colourways dyed to european environmental controls.

A SMALL CARBON FOOTPRINT… they want their clothes to travel very few road miles before they’re worn so all our spinning, dyeing and manufacturing is done in the UK.

NO LANDFILL… they design their clothes to last – but when they’ve finally been worn to shreds, they can be composted.

Saltway Shawl £36

‘If you think of what you’re wearing and you find it’s been round the world before you put it on for the first time, was manufactured out of cotton dripping with pesticides or sewn by people in shoddy conditions, it suddenly doesn’t feel half as glamourous.

Style is about expressing who we are. Most of us don’t think of ourselves as cheap and shoddy but if we’re not careful that’s what our clothes say about us.’ Nicola Sherlock, Makepiece designer.

Carapace Scarf £33

Makepiece was founded in 2004 by Nicola Sherlock and Beate Kubitz to produce beautiful clothing that is sustainable, low-impact and eco-friendly.

Briar Rose Shrug £120

Heart Gallery has a large selection of Makepiece A/W 09 now in stock so we look forward to seeing you down in Hebden Bridge soon xXx

Rose Dress

 

Foxglove Dress and Carapace Ruff

Makepiece Spring Summer 09 launch

spring summer 09

If you missed the launch tonight then this is a really small taster of what you missed at Heart Gallery in Hebden Bridge … hope to see you soon xXx

Heather Wilson’s amazing new work

 

One of Heart Gallery’s Resident Artists, Heather Wilson, has branched out into making Mad Hats and embellishing corsets.

It all started with a red mini top hat, which she decorated with feathers, velvet, beads, and netting, (which she even set fire to!) – and named it the Twisted Firestarter Hat. 

Twisted Firestarter

It is part of an Elements theme, and the Water element came next, decorated with soft, floaty, bluey green chiffons, netting, beads…and a small shark. That one is called Shark Hattack, and has a matching neck piece with, you’ve guessed, sharks on it! 

Shark Hattack

 

From seeing Heathers Mad Hats visitors to the Gallery have shown much interest, and Heather has already been commissioned to make two fascinators, for a mother and daughter, for a November Wedding. These are available to see in her studio, as they are being kept safely in a display case until needed. 

Wedding Commission

 

Ideal for Weddings, Special Events and Festive Parties, Heather makes these to order. Prices are from £25.00 for the fascinators, and from £50.00 for the mini top hats.

 

Keeping to the theme of glamour and sparkles, Heather also decorates ready-made corsets. She takes a basic satin overbust steel boned corset, and adds beading, ribbons, and any decoration to suit an outfit. To be in time for the Festive Party Season, please come and see a sample of Heather’s work in the studio. She can also do these  for Weddings, evening wear, or simply a treat to make you feel totally glamorous! 

Beaded Corset And Choker

Close up Of Beading On Corset

 

Prices for the corsets will vary, depending on the amount of detail, but start from £175.00

 

As an extra note, Heather would like to remind anyone wanting to place an order for a Name Picture for Christmas, to please see her as soon as possible, to avoid disappointment. She will need as much time as possible to complete your paintings, as orders will be mounting up over the next few weeks.

 

If you would like to contact Heather, please call Heart Gallery on 01422 845845, or her mobile phone 07841 400 542.