Biography

Jack has worked as a printmaker for many years, focusing primarily on copper plate etching. Having first discovered etching while studying sculpture at Camberwell College of Art, Jack has since developed a large portfolio of works and co-owns the Market Place Print Studio in Cockermouth on the edge of the Lake District National Park.

Prints

Jack’s artwork revolves around the kinship between humans and the natural world, combining representational drawings from life with his imagination and memories of being in nature.

Printmaking is the main element of his practice, predominantly intaglio on copper plates, and in recent years drawing directly from the landscape onto copper plates outdoors in a bid to capture the magic and aura of a place. Inspiration from myths, folk tales and scientific discoveries can also act as starting points for his prints.

“I enjoy how the images drift in and out of existence throughout the process of etching; from person to paper to plate to print. Along this process the image evolves as accidents, mistakes and new ideas occur taking the image in new directions. Taking time to draw and the process of etching allows space for development”

Biography

Born in Kenya, Kirsten first trained and worked as a chef and then changed to work in the film industry for ten years, from restoring costumes to assistant costume designer.

Kirsten has been doing freelance sewing work for stylists since 1994. Many at the World of Interiors design magazine to make up many and varied pieces for photographic shoots. Working as a stylist herself, her work also includes design consultancy and resourcing for interior design projects.

Fabrics

Distinctive and individual, Kirsten’s work is a combination of modern and antique textiles, with her own hand dyed fabrics and hand embroidery which are used to create a wide range of interior soft furnishings and wall panels.

Biography

Ned Elliott is an artist born and raised in London. He graduated from the Royal Drawing School’s Drawing Year in 2023 having previously studied History at University of Bristol. Recent group shows include the London Art Fair, 2025, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, 2024, Social Tapestry, Chilli Art Projects, 2024, Drawn Together, Royal Drawing School, 2024, Works on Paper 6, Blue Shop Gallery, 2024, Transparency, Bankside Gallery, 2024, A Curious Cloud, Soho Revue, 2024, RBSA Print Prize, RBSA Gallery, 2024, The Very Hours Pass Unnoticed, Warbling Collective, 2024, Best of the Drawing Year, Christie’s, 2023.

Prizes include The Janie Roberts Prize for Excellence in Drawing (Royal Drawing School, 2023), and The Young Artist Award (Royal Watercolour Society, 2024). In 2023 he was awarded a residency at Rhode Island School of Design in the USA. His work is held in the Royal Collection.

Ned’s creative approach blends observation and abstraction with the ethereal quality of dreams and hallucinations and aims to capture the transience of existence and the cycle of life and death.

Prints

The image of the moth is recurrent in Ned’s work. It’s one example of a fascination with the ephemeral, fragile nature of existence that has long captivated him. In these drawing and prints moths take centre stage, drawn at huge scales their worlds become tangible, tragic, and comprehensible.

Biography

Having spent many years as a photographic stylist sourcing beautiful objects made by others; Pip had a yearning to create some of her own, she began by experimenting with plants from her garden, then went onto forage natural materials from further afield, before completing the two-year basketry course at City Lit.

Group shows include Collect at Somerset House March 2023, The New Craftsmen ‘Plant Explorations’ May 2022, Ruthin Craft Centre ‘Rhythm, Renewal & Reinvention’ 2021-2022, Hanbury Hall ‘Making in the Moment’ 2021, Bell House ‘Sculpture Park’ 2021, Hanbury Hall: ‘Basketeers’ 2020, Espacio Gallery: ‘Twist and Turn’ 2019, Gallery H: ‘Transformation’ Chelsea Fringe Festival 2018, and Bell House: Dulwich festival 2018.

Baskets

Pip creates delicate sculptural baskets, using plants she forages locally and grows in her own garden, that express the movement and freedom of the plant world using traditional weaving techniques to bind them. Through the rhythmic, meditative act of weaving, Pip explores the transformative moments when raw plant fibres transition into finished vessels.

“I find motivation in the form, colour and texture of trees with their combination of strength and fragility.”

Biograph

Tom Crowley is an artist and a curator with an academic background in archaeology and critical heritage studies.

Drawings

His drawings are rooted in the area of suburban Cambridge where he lived for five years. Now a sleepy, slightly scruffy zone of semi-detached houses and industrial estates, it was once the site of a sprawling medieval fair. Tom started these drawings at the end of a relationship in the aftermath of covid, he’s worked meticulously on them over the last four. Whilst located in a contemporary setting the drawings connect to a fantastical medieval world, suffused with the supernatural.

Stourbridge Visions, 2021 -25, Crayon, Indian Ink, watercolour, Reckitt’s Blue, brass leaf.

Biography

The inspiration for Coban Rugs came to Vedat more than 20 years ago during a visit to Turkey, where a striking rug on a friend's floor stirred childhood memories of his native Black Sea region. It reminded him of the traditional goat-hair rugs, once a cherished part of a woman's dowry and a vital element of Turkish rural culture. Handwoven with great care, these monochromatic rugs, though simple in appearance, held deep cultural significance.

As rural communities migrated to cities in search of work, the ancient craft of weaving these rugs all but disappeared. Younger generations favoured the vibrant, mass-produced textiles of the late 20th century, leaving the traditional weaving to fade into obscurity. Determined to revive this disappearing art, Vedat travelled to a remote village where a few weavers continued the craft. Though production had slowed and the pool of skilled artisans was shrinking, he discovered exquisite examples of the old designs.

Rugs

Motivated to support the survival of this unique heritage, Vedat founded Coban Rugs and set out to reintroduce these remarkable pieces to a modern audience. By partnering with the finest weavers, who still use traditional heavy wooden looms, he refined the designs while staying true to their origins, creating rugs that honour the past while appealing to contemporary tastes.

Made from undyed natural yarn, hand-spun from the shearings of cashmere goats, these bespoke rugs and runners come in natural shades of cream, ecru, grey, black and brown. They are now shipped worldwide and are known not only for their unique aesthetic but also for their durability.