Meet The Maker – Elizabeth Terzza

Elizabeth grew up in Yorkshire and is currently based in Hereford; her interest and awe for the British countryside are instantly recognisable throughout her collections of handmade, contemporary jewellery.

In her studio, she surrounds herself with pinecones, sycamore seeds and all the botanical treasures she gathers from her woodland walks in Herefordshire.

Forever collecting and taking note of her rural surroundings, Elizabeth is drawn to the silhouettes and simplicity in nature; the smooth lines in leaves and subtle textures of tree bark.

She adopts these qualities and creates elegant, silver jewellery with an essence of tranquillity that rests softly against the skin of the wearer.

Since graduating from Hereford College of Arts in 2012, Elizabeth won a placement with Alloy Jewellers and she has exhibited and sold her work widely through galleries across the UK.

Elizabeth is currently exploring, designing and working towards producing new collections, watch this space!

Meet The Maker – Laurence Brand

Since graduating from Hereford College of Arts a year ago Laurence has been making elegant turned vessels and jewellery boxes from his small workshop in Lancashire.

Laurence uses striking native hardwoods sourced from trees he cuts and seasons himself. His work aims to celebrate honest and minimal design, elevate beautiful materials, and bring to light the rich process of making.

The relationship between wood and other materials excites Laurence: elegant and harmonious combinations such as rich English walnut and sumptuous burgundy pig suede, or ebonised young ash paired with warm, radiant brass provide endless inspiration.

Heart Gallery is proud to have been carefully chosen to showcase Laurence’s amazing work in 2016 and we hope that you will come to love his work as much as we do.

Just look at the detail in these gorgeous wooden boxes suitable to store your precious jewellery in x

Meet The Maker – Fi Mehra

Fi has been designing and making silver and gold jewellery for over 25 years.

She was based in Wiltshire for the 20 years but in 2015 moved to East Sussex where she now designs and makes all her own work from a beautiful, purpose built workshop.

After discovering her passion for making jewellery at evening classes Fi was accepted into the Birmingham School of Jewellery and trained there for 3 years.

She worked for trade jewellers in Sussex and Bath before eventually setting up her own workshop.

Fi loves designing jewellery as much as she loves producing it and her work has been inspired by her travels, the Wiltshire countryside, local history and, since moving nearer to the sea she has created designs inspired by the coast and her new surroundings.

Heart Gallery has stocked Fi’s work for well over 7 years now and it has been a pleasure to work with her and see her confidence and her collections grow.

Meet The Maker – Cath Ball

Catherine Graduated from Cumbria Institute of the Arts in 2004  and  now works from her own studio in Thursby Carlisle.

Catherine developed her unique design combination of slip-cast porcelain and stitch when she moved from West Yorkshire to Cumbria.

Catherine combines the two disciplines of ceramics and embroidery to create a finished sculptural piece with complimenting elements.

Each piece is hand crafted by Catherine Ball using fine white porcelain. Her Stitched ceramics collection challenges conventional ceramics through the development of an innovative technique and uses both stitching and buttons as a form of decoration.

Catherine’s work is clean cut and contemporary, ranging from stitched bowls and vessels to high-fired pieces with decorative detail.

Catherine was really pleased to be invited to showcase her signature range as part of our re-opening at the end of June as she knows how much we love her work.

I picked these stems on a lovely canal walk this week as I knew they would compliment Catherine’s vessels … what do you think?

I think they are simply perfect x

As September is our TENTH BIRTHDAY MONTH Catherine has kindly made us some ceramic hearts which we want to sell to raise funds for WATERMARK. This is a much needed scheme for Calderdale so please hop over to the blog to read more thank you. Here are Cath’s hearts but they are limited and only available throughout September at £6 each with the proceeds from the sale of these lovely pieces going to WATERMARK.

 

Meet The Maker – Anne Crowther

Anne creates individually hand crafted textile accessories and artworks from recycled fabrics.

Working in layers to achieve detailed embellished surfaces Anne draws, stitch by stitch, with her vintage wind-up sewing machine. Hand cut flower motifs, which are a feature of her work, are sewn onto the surface to create harmonious colour fields.

Working from a small home studio, Anne’s garden and the flora of the surrounding Pennine meadows are a constant source of inspiration. Her ‘Flower Garden’ and’ Meadow’ themed collections include: canvas and framed artworks, pin brooches, pocket mirrors, hand embellished prints and journals, greetings cards and felt flower posies.

As a textile artist, Anne has an established background in the field of textile arts, from designer and maker to inspiring and training others.Training at Central Saint Martins, London in the 1990s she graduated with a first class degree in textile design.

Between 1990 and 2008 Anne exhibited her woven textiles widely throughout the UK and was awarded Arts Council Research & Development funding, a Textile Fellowship and several major commissions and collaborations.

Following a period looking after her young family young family, Anne began creating embellished textiles under the name Daisy Florence Design.

During the last 5 years Anne has exhibited at The Knitting and Stitching Show London, The Makers’ Fair Saltaire, Settle Stories Settle, Crafted by Hand Masham, ‘MAKE’ Art Fair Wakefield, Art in the Pen Carlisle, The Arts Market Holmfirth, Yarndale Skipton, Artisans in the Palmhouse Liverpool and Just Makers at RHS Harlow Carr. Anne has also showcased her creations at Heart Gallery for the last 5 years and they always bring joy to our customers as they bring the outside in! x

Meet The Maker – Evie Leach

Evie is a Yorkshire based jeweller working in Sterling Silver with semi-precious gemstones.

She takes her inspiration from geometry found in architecture and nature to create her angular silver jewellery designs.

She uses traditional silversmithing techniques and accompanies her designs with semi-precious stones and beads to create an organic contrast to the lines of her silver shapes.  

Evie followed her creative passion by studying Jewellery and Silversmithing at the Birmingham School of Jewellery where her basic knowledge, learned from her jeweller parents, transformed into traditional skills.

Since graduating in 2010 Evie has done odd jewellery jobs while working in retail but in 2015, after starting her job as a technician on the evening jewellery classes at the Leeds College of Art, she decided to take the plunge and make jewellery her main focus.

Evie now work mainly from her workshop in the centre of York. Here at Heart Gallery we love Evie’s collection for us and hope that you enjoy her geometric collection in silver, oxidised silver and semi-precious stones she has made us.

Meet The Maker – Amy Wilkinson

Having graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2004, Amy designs and makes jewellery in Studio One in The Manchester Craft & Design Centre.

Amy hand-makes jewellery using precious metals in which she draws linear and simplified shapes that also create interesting voids of space.

Inspired by the baroque style, she has incorporated the lavish leaf like curves and curls often found in sculptures and bordering frames.

The layers and asymmetrical shapes give the pieces volume whilst also sitting flat and elegant when worn.

Amy also uses her metalwork skills working as an armature maker at Mackinnon & Saunders making stop-motion animation puppets – seen in films such as The Corpse Bride, Fantastic Mr Fox, Frankenweenie and children’s programs, Postman Pat, Twirlywoos, Toby’s Travelling Circus and Strange Hill High. The armature is a steel, skeleton structure designed and made to give the puppet maximum movement for the animator.

Heart Gallery is proud to be stocking Amy’s work once more after working with her a few years ago; it’s great to see her collection growing.

Meet The Maker – Jane Booth

Jane makes unique, functional ceramics in delicious colours. Her pots have a vintage feel but are made in contemporary shapes. She strives to make work which is gorgeous to look at but also suitable for everyday use.

Pieces are hand thrown and decorated with coloured slips, glaze and ceramic transfers. No two pieces are exactly alike.

Jane uses terracotta clay as she likes the warmth and richness of the colour and the effect that is created when the clay breaks through the softly coloured slips.

Jane is inspired by the colours and patterns of some of her favourite things – from vintage fabrics and ceramics and 18^th century paintings, to ice cream and macarons.

Jane’s unique Story range is inspired by her love of illustrated children’s literature and invokes nostalgia and happy memories through evocative storytelling.

Story pieces feature vintage illustrations and text. Sometimes Jane uses quotations from the actual books and sometimes she will match illustrations and quotations (or her own words) that she feels simply fit well together.

Heart Gallery quite often has small batches of Jane’s work throughout the year and we have a small collection with us at the moment which is proving really popular with references to Wuthering Heights and the Brontes.

Meet The Maker – Hannah Bedford

Hannah’s jewellery designs explore texture and form using the traditional process of granulation.

Working in precious metals, Hannah creates a range of women’s jewellery, from intricate necklaces to bespoke engagement and wedding rings.

Collections are inspired by organic growth patterns in the natural world. Hannah uses granulation to create raised, textured surfaces that entwine each piece.

Fine granulation encaptures precious stones and interlaces between surfaces, linking bangles and weaving across rings.

The work is often led by these technical explorations, using them to play with scale, form and contrasting precious metals to create aesthetically beautiful forms.

Each piece is carefully handcrafted in her London studio, and her jewellery collections are exhibited nationally.

Hannah also works with clients, to create beautiful bespoke commissions so do ask us about this service.

 

Meet The Maker – Sarah Lawrence

Sarah confesses to being a bit of a neat freak and this latest collection from her takes inspiration from that impulse to organise things! She enjoys sketching up ideas on graph paper as she loves the neat lines and squares.

Sarah had great fun arranging these small rectangular pieces of tube and found it a refreshing change to the jewellery she has been making in the last few years. The pieces have an art deco feel to them and this inspiration gives her lots of scope to develop the collection further.

After two decades of making jewellery, teaching jewellery and selling jewellery Sarah admits that her favourite place is to be tucked away in her studio at her work bench where she considers herself extremely lucky to be doing something she loves.

This stunning new collection is handmade entirely in sterling silver with every rectangular section of tube being individually positioned and soldered into place.

The pieces are very wearable and range from a tiny cluster of two or three rectangular tube sections to a more complex arrangement of 30 or more.

This variety with the designs allows Sarah to make some very affordable smaller pieces as well as the more detailed and expensive ones so they can fit any budget and makes them ideal as a gift or treat for yourself.

We are the only Gallery Sarah has carefully chosen for this art deco inspired new jewellery collection and it’s proving a popular choice with many of our customers.