This exhibition brings together a collection of contemporary artists with bespoke, handmade lighting at the centre of their craft. A variation of materials and prices are used by each using different materials to achieve their selection.
Hannah Nunn
After exhibiting her work in our craft gallery for many years, Hannah’s limited edition lamps were the starting point for this exhibition. Her handcut exquisite designs have been popular not only with our customers, but with many across the country. Her work is on display in several galleries throughout Britain and in her own shop Radiance, based in Hebden Bridge. Her inspiration comes from the tiny details in nature.
Penny Seume
Penny Seume is a textile designer using site specific imagery from the urban landscape as inspiration for atmosphere, texture and colour. By marrying traditional fine art techniques and contemporary digital print, she creates bespoke and limited edition high quality fabrics and products for interiors. Living and working in Bristol, her unique designs reference the original location in a subtle way and capture some of the inherent mood and magic.
Harriet Caslin
Design led porcelain lighting and functional tableware are handcrafted in small batches from Harriet’s boat house studio on Mersea Island, off of the Essex coast. Influenced by her Scandinavian roots, Harriet’s designs focus on simple form, linear patterned design and soft contrasting colours to invite a tactile approach to her work.
“My work is all about appealing to the senses. I love the idea of someone using one of my designs and enjoying these details; how
comfortable the cup feels in their hands when drinking tea, how the colourful light transforms a room when it’s turned on. To me this
is what creates an enduring and enjoyable relationship between the person and the functional objects that they use every day…”
Colin Chetwood
“Living in the Wye valley, an area lush with plant life and with sharply changing landscape, my work is inspired by natural elements. The river often floods covering the trees with flotsam; the sky above the Black Mountains changes from day to day sending clouds and winds scudding towards my home. The energy of this landscape permeates my work.”
Colin Chetwood is a designer and maker of handmade metal furniture and custom made lighting for office and home, based in Herefordshire. Inspired by shape and structures found in the natural world, Colin’s sculptural, contemporary furniture and lighting uses a range of materials including burnished, beaten and forged metals, glass, paper and wood.
Laura Slater
Since graduating from The Royal College of Art in 2008 Laura has been based in West Yorkshire. From her studio all designs are created through the initial drawing process and then translated through hand printed processes. Laura’s bespoke textile designs are all hand printed.
Sarah Lock
“Born out of a need to make use of some very large pieces of waste timber from a furniture making business, I have been making table lamps on a lathe in one corner of a triangular workshop in Brighton for quite some time. Today I still make use of waste timber such as oak and walnut and if I am lucky sometimes cherry, but most of my lamps are turned out of lime wood which has a grain which makes it suitable for sophisticated turning and allows me to finish it to a very fine finish ready for painting.
I turn them on an old Union Lathe, the idea to paint them while they are still on the lathe suggested stripes and a delight and joy with colour followed and has developed over the years to a very sophisticated level, as can be seen in the very fine stripes on my recent lamps. Eventually I felt the need to turn the lathe off and paint vertical stripes, which was very peace-full! Shapes change and evolve through the search for harmonious forms and though designs are repeated many times, each lamp will ultimately be unique in form and colour. The height of the lamps ranges from 40-60cm and are taller with shades.”
