June Pop-up North Wales Contemporary Craft Fair

“Feelings of aloneness and isolation encompass my work. This is not an uncomfortable or unhappy place, but merely the sense of place I am when constructing composition. As a painter/printmaker, I spend much of my time reflecting and challenging my visual language. My paintings and prints are gentle and quiet, reflecting aloneness. I work with oil on canvas and linen as well as paper lithograph and mixed media printmaking”. – Caroline Race

“I am a painter print maker from North Wales making figurative and abstract work reflecting the atmosphere and visions of the Alps and North Wales landscapes”. – Susan Cantrill-Williams

“I am a self taught artist from North Wales with a passion for nature, old rambling buildings and woodland areas. Lately I have been particularly drawn to the sea, which has inspired my latest work.

Using acrylic paint on wooden surfaces and the aim to key as much of the rustic feeling alive, recycled wood is often used as a canvas or to frame my paintings. My aim is to create a magical atmospheric feeling that sometimes gets missed, and to bring out the beauty in the ordinary. From a rusty old gate to a lonely old rock at sea, something will captivate me and inspire me to create”.

“I work with various medias including fabric and stitch, inspired by the welsh rural and wild landscapes and the sense of belonging and feeling of home / cartref”.

“At Hazel Bay, I create homewares and jewellery from foraged hardwood, paired with vibrant resin to highlight the natural character of the material. Each piece preserves the wood’s unique grain and form, combining organic textures with bold colour.

Rooted in the landscape of North Wales, my work transforms raw materials into functional, contemporary objects. Every piece is handmade with a focus on craftsmanship, sustainability, and everyday use”.

“Here at Fonted we travel across the UK photographing the signage on hotels, pubs, shops and iconic buildings. As a result we have generated a vast image bank of letters in a variety of typographic styles. From these, we create unique word-art in the form of pre-designed words and phrases”.

Isobel Lewis aka ‘The Kelpie Press’ is a book artist and printmaker who makes one of a kind and limited-edition artist books and prints which reflect her love of pattern and colour.

Isobel is obsessed with paper and how it can be transformed, she uses folding techniques, letterpress and mixed media to create both her books and prints.

Books by Isobel can be found in the British Library, Bodleian Library, the National Library for Scotland and various other private collections. Isobel was artist in residence at Maine Media workshops in the USA in 2017. Isobel is a director of Aberystwyth Printmakers.

“I am a jewellery artist working in silver and gold, creating contemporary pieces shaped by elemental symbolism and the dialogue between material, form and meaning. By blending traditional metalsmithing with innovative silver clay techniques, I create sculptural, organic designs that evoke both ancient ritual and modern expression.

My work has been exhibited in the UK and internationally, and I have been featured in Metal Clay Today magazine”.

Jo Bull is a jewellery designer and lapidarist. One of her signature designs is jewellery incorporating milk sea glass from the North-East of England. Unlike typical translucent sea glass, milk sea glass appears in soft white and pastel tones, shaped naturally by the sea. Jo hand-selects, shapes, and polishes each piece, celebrating its organic form, erosion, and texture. Her work embraces irregularity, resulting in one-off designs that highlight the individuality of every fragment.

Walter & Doris is an Anglesey based independent business producing greetings cards, prints, papercut designs, giftware & apparel. The business is run by Laura, who has background in Art and Design, her work has a graphic design clean-line style. Many of her design influences come from the beautiful coastal and countryside surroundings of Anglesey and the North Wales coast.

Oliver utilizes colour, playfulness and humour within his ceramic work.
He admires beauty and is inspired by nature, mythology, historical characters, and architectural
features. He likes to bring joy to his work through the use of colour representing optimism and
positivity.

His work is based around his illustrations on flora, fauna, and caricatures. He enjoys representing
facial expressions, a sense of humour that can be projected in his clay pieces with attention to
detail that makes a difference. He prefers to create pieces with beauty and style but functional
always considering proportions and size.

Oliver represents his illustrations in his pieces creating a fusion of historical and contemporary
styles. The pieces are hand built and made from terracotta and stoneware clay, layered with
coloured slip, and utilizing the sgraffito technique. His work combines function and decoration to
create pieces for interior use.

Oliver has a vibrantly made and decorated range of products from small oval plates to large slump
mould plates, bowls and a range of mural tiles all covered in generously various coloured slips
with superb individual characterization.

Inspired by the natural world and in particular the colours and forms of the landscapes around her in North Wales, Rachel uses earthenware and stoneware clay to create functional pieces with simple forms and organic shapes.

She both throws and hand builds then applies a base layer of slip to leather hard pots adding dynamic freeflowing decoration using brushes and slip trailers before firing and then glazing.

Working in Tony Davies’ Bredon pottery early on in her clay journey and attending recent courses with Nigel Lambert and Jem Steward have enabled her to make the transition from teaching to setting up her own studio and following her passion for clay.

“I am a printmaker and mixed media artist working from Stiwdio Ci Du on Mynydd Bach in rural Ceredigion. My work explores nature and animals through form, silhouette, pattern and texture, centred around the form and character of whippets. I work primarily in linocut alongside other printmaking processes, as well as cyanotype, eco-printing and mixed media, producing original artworks and printed cards, alongside a small selection of handcrafted textile and mixed media pieces”.

“I studied Fine Art printmaking at Staffordshire University and I have been a member of the Cardiff print work shop, and am currently a member of the Borth Arts group and Aberystwyth printmakers.

I often look to try and capture familiar places from a new perspective. I have been developing my lino printing work over the last year and have enjoyed spending time drawing and finding inspiration in my local area.

I have always worked on paper and am very interested in colour and take inspiration from travels in this country and abroad and enjoy developing sketchbooks as a visual record of that journey and have been working on developing my way of working into print

My work is often a response to a particular place although it may be a memory of somewhere I have visited in the past or a moment in time. I particularly like the space where land meets sea, a high tide, harbours and houses on the coast”.