Sian Appleyard
Sian Appleyard was an established fine art printmaker creating beautiful hand inked images in small editions. Her highly textured collagraph printing plates were created by both cutting away and adding to the surface layer using anything from porridge oats to sand collected while walking on the beach. Richly coloured oil based inks are applied using rollers, cloth and paint brushes allowing for wonderful “happy accidents”. This also means that although prints are similar across a print run, each one is unique in various ways. Her work features scenes and landscapes of the south coasts and the New Forest area. At Chalks we enjoyed many years working with Sian. After her sad passing in 2023, we continue to stock Sian’s work at her request, with proceeds going to Oakhaven Hospice.
Julia Ayers
Julia is a painter based in the New Forest. Originally from Pembrokeshire in south/west Wales, she moved to Lymington with her family in 1993. Her paintings constantly evolve to produce a range of contemporary abstract and semi -abstract work including subjects such as still life, as well as sea and landscapes. She is passionate about colour and texture and her constant drive to generate something new and fresh is always present in her work. She is a member of Lymington Palette Club and has a enjoys spending time by the sea, boating, paddle boarding and beach combing.
Maja Barker
Maja, a Sarajevo native and 1992 graduate of the University of Fine Arts, now resides and works in Dorset. Her art is renowned for its bold, confident use of colour, reflecting her subjects—fresh fruit and vegetables—with vibrancy. Using acrylic paints for their speed and intensity, Maja aims to infuse everyday life with an uplifting touch. Her paintings are held in private collections throughout the UK, Europe, the USA, and Japan.
Sara Berry
Sara Berry is a jeweller from East Devon. All of her jewellery is made from 100% recycled silver and brass. Sara’s work is modern and geometric in design, but created using traditional jewellery making techniques. Crisp lines and minimalist structures are Sara’s calling card - with inspiration being taken from her rural musings, industrial dilapidation and historical pattern trends. Sara’s designs are made to last a lifetime, be easily and simply worn and can be dressed up or down.
Mike Braisher
Mike is a self-taught ceramicist from Lyndhurst in the New Forest. Since taking early retirement from teaching many years ago this has become his main occupation. He enjoys making very large, hand thrown stoneware storage vessels, chargers, bowls and pitchers and jugs with beautiful luxurious glazes. He spends several months each year in New Zealand whenever possible, visiting potters groups and numerous potter friends. He has done many demonstrations around the country and spent time as an Artist in Residence at Driving Creek Railway and Potteries in the Coromandel. He is a Life Member of Southern Ceramic Group and is also an Academician of the South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts.
Toby Brown
Toby Brown is an artist from Plymouth who specialises in vibrant, bold and expressive illustration and paintings. He completed an Illustration Degree at the University of Plymouth after which he has continued to develop his own unique style of painting, applying an exuberant approach to his work. Each piece is crafted using a variety of mediums, blending watercolour, ink and acrylics to bring his imaginative visions to life and capture the essence of his unique hand painted illustrations. His work reflects a passion for colour and creativity, designed to evoke emotion and joy from everyday objects. His distinctive artistic touch ensures that each item is not only eye catching, but is also a celebration of individuality and creativity.
Lindsay Buck
Lindsay Buck is the artist behind Slumbermonkey Designs and is based in rural North Dorset, where she works from her little garden studio. Originally from Norfolk she moved to Dorset eight years ago and she designs and makes a wide range of work which always incorporates colour, pattern and quirky details. Inspiration comes from the countryside around her, the birds, flowers, animals and plants that can be glimpsed in the garden and beyond. Also evident is a love of the Mid-Century aesthetic. Lindsay’s work aims to make you smile, to brighten your day and instil a sense of childlike curiosity and wonder.
Caroline Buckman
Caroline is a Dorset-based Printmaker, producing hand printed still life botanical and nature-themed lino prints to interpret the world around her. Fascinated by the relationship between the solid shapes of man-made vessels versus the organic line and pattern found in the natural world, she creates simplified still life compositions mixing the two, arranging them to work in harmony to inspire a sense of calm and simplicity. Caroline uses carefully mixed colours to give her prints a light, modern aesthetic, and enjoys allowing colour and pared-back simple design to speak to the viewer. She uses a mixture of single, multi block and reduction printing methods to create her small editions of prints, and revels in the technical challenge of achieving near identical prints within an edition.
Scott Buckwell
Scott is a woodturner from Ferndown, Dorset. Scott started woodturning as a hobby in 2018. Although he has always enjoyed making “plain” wooden bowls, he soon started to include resin in his creations, to develop unique one-off pieces. Scott’s repertoire includes pens, bowls, platters, sphere desk clocks, vases and lidded ring pots. Most of Scott’s work utilises either wood sourced locally or wood that has been cut and left in hedgerows. He likes to use the kind of wood most “normal” woodturners would throw away or burn, giving his work a quirky yet beautifully finished quality.
Danny Byrne
Danny Byrne is a painter from Ringwood in the New forest. Art has been his lifelong passion, beginning his career as a Graphic Designer & Visualizer, working for advertising agencies such as Saatchi & Saatchi. He then worked as a political and social cartoonist at Mirror Group. Over the last 15 years Danny has spent time refining his skills in fine art, developing a range of art works, including landscapes with a contemporary edge as well as figurative, portraiture and equestrian paintings. Danny has received numerous awards and commendations, including the Chalk’s Peoples Choice Award at St. Barbes Open Exhibition 2024. He has appeared on Sky Arts Portrait of the Year, 2020 and has exhibited in leading National exhibitions and competitions.
Isil Campanella
Isil Campanella is a ceramicist based in the New Forest, Hampshire. She creates handcrafted ceramics inspired by the natural beauty of the region. Her work is characterised by its simple lines, organic shapes, and earthy colours. Isil trained with renowned ceramicist, Mustafa Tuncalp in Izmir, Turkey where she grew up. After graduating from university, she moved to the UK to pursue her passion for ceramics and now works from her own ceramics studio in Hampshire. She uses traditional methods to create her pieces, including hand-building, wheel-throwing, and glazing. She is committed to using sustainable materials and practices in her work.
Helen Clifford
Helen is a Fareham-based artist specialising in colour pencil drawings. She finds inspiration in the patterns, textures and colours of the natural world. The aim of her work is to share a delight in the beauty to be found in the small and often overlooked details all around us - in the repeating patterns of plants and flowers, the roughness of tree bark, the glowing colours of a carpet of fallen autumn leaves, the twists and knots of old roots, in rock, stone and water.
Gillian Connor
A walk along the beach is not just a walk along the beach for Gillian Connor. It is a treasure hunt! She never knows what she may find or what it will eventually become. She has worked from her Hampshire studio since 2001 where she is surrounded by piles of driftwood, boxes of plastic, glass, rusty metal, old rope and fishing floats. These are all materials that inspire her to create all kinds of boats and some very strange sea creatures! She does it because she loves it, its eco friendly and makes people smile! Her hand tools become an extension of her imagination and she can spend endless hours looking for that perfect piece of glass or just the right rusty nail. Her work has been in many galleries and exhibitions.
Esme Cooper
Esme is a textile designer working from her studio in the garden of her Mid-Devon home. She designs surface patterns which she screen prints by hand onto natural fabrics, making these into furnishings, lampshades, fashion accessories and household textiles. Esme has always been inspired by the shapes and colours found in the natural world, taking the details found in everyday forms into her work. Living in the West Country gives her access to such varied landscapes and coastlines where she gathers objects. These are often just a catalyst for her designs and then she lets her pen take her on a journey to a finished design. Being a textile designer, when looking at objects she’s always visualising them in some sort of repeat and she can see pattern in almost everything she studies, from plant form through to man-made items.
Georgia Croucher
Georgia is a Lymington-based artist who grew up in the New Forest, two of her grandparents were artists and much of her childhood was spent drawing and painting at their dining room table. Working from her home studio, Georgia creates abstract still life paintings in acrylic, with the aim of bringing playful pops of colour to people’s homes. In contrast to this, Georgia also produces pencil sketches of pubs, she started with pubs in West London where she used to live and has more recently, since returning to the New Forest, been working on a collection of local New Forest pubs.
Alice Crowe
Alice Crowe is a potter based in Southsea, Hampshire. She works from a garden studio creating small batches of pottery and running wheel throwing workshops from her studio and raku firing workshops in local woodland. Alice’s ceramics are made in the hope that they will used in people’s homes everyday. From an upbringing rooted in the rituals around cooking and eating together, she believes that the food we eat and the vessels we eat from deepen a connection and consideration into how things are made and where they come from.
CStar Design
CStar Design is a sister duo based in Winchester. Cathy and Lisa work together to design and create original fusion glass pieces. Through their glass work, they explore the colour vibrancy and translucency that glass offers, incorporating natural lines and forms from within nature. Their Kaleidoscope range reminisces childhood memories of sunny days and the magical images created within a Kaleidoscope. In the same way that a Kaleidoscope forever changes its unique forms and colour patterns, they too have developed a technique for creating this in each of their glass pieces. No two creations will ever have the same colours and shapes. They use a range of glass fusion techniques, creating layers and embellishments within their work.
Julia de Klerk
Julia de Klerk is a designer-maker based in Hampshire. Julia studied Design at Goldsmiths University and practised in various media alongside her exploration into jewellery work. In 2018 she refined her style to produce an art inspired jewellery collection using solely frosted acrylic and sterling silver. Her work is recognised for using a mix of modern techniques such as laser cutting with traditional jewellery techniques, creating retro inspired designs with lively surface texture via her hand drawn illustrations that she laser etches onto the surfaces of her jewellery. She is inspired by a love of vibrant colour, vintage bakelite, graphic illustration & abstract art. She stocks her jewellery to shops, museums and galleries throughout the UK and internationally, including: Tate Galleries, The National Theatre Bookshop and Cincinnati Art Museum.
Jennie Gilbert
Jennie Gilbert is a ceramicist whose workshop is in converted farm buildings at Manor Farm in Fifield Bavant in the Chalke Valley near Salisbury. Jennie makes functional pottery. Food is the inspiration for almost everything she makes, the preparation, serving and consuming of food, which is enhanced by handmade pots, that feel good in the hands, each piece is individual, with it's own character. The pieces are stoneware, fired in a gas kiln to 1280'c
Pete Gilbert
Pete Gilbert has lived a busy life with many career changes including advertising, restaurateur and night club owner, but has always found the time to paint, exploring and developing his own style. His style and approach ranges from the very precise skills needed as an airbrush artist and illustrator to the strong brush strokes and bold colours of his New Forest landscapes. He now makes his living as an artist, painting mainly contemporary landscapes of the New Forest or the Coast from Cornwall to the Scottish Western Isles.
Emma Hiles
Emma Hiles is a ceramic artist from Laverstoke, Hampshire but grew up in Christchurch Dorset surrounded by the sea and coastline. She has worked in design for nearly 20 years specialising in designing Holograms for brand and currency. 5 years ago she started a pottery class in her local town for a few hours a week and got completely hooked on clay. She finds that clay is an amazing medium for experimentation, and she has loved playing with clays and glazes over the last couple of years. Opening the kiln is always a surprise and a huge lesson in patience and resilience The glass used in the Bombay bowls is from Bombay Gin bottles from the distillery which is based a mile down the road from where she lives.
Sigi Hill
Sigi is a glass artist from near Alton in Hampshire who exhibits widely in the Southeast of England. For Sigi Hill, the first encounter with glass as a creative medium, revealed its potential for different approaches and moments of intervention. Its versatility fascinated her. Judging the degree of melt is key; success depends on petrifying the glass at just the right moment, arresting the viscous glass mid-flow. In different bodies of work Sigi exploits colour and no colour, frosty and shiny surfaces, rippling textures and those where distinct globules seem to float, holding together in organic arrangements like soap bubbles, capturing a moment in time. Sigi belongs to Hampshire and Berkshire Guild of Craftsmen, Society of Designer Craftsmen and Surrey Sculpture Society and Contemporary Glass Society.
Victoria Horward
Victoria launched Coffee Pod Creations several years ago after reading some truly staggering statistics. Did you know that 29,000 coffee pods are disposed of every single minute? In a society overwhelmed by mass production and throwaway items, Coffee Pod Creations stands out by encouraging us all to appreciate life's simple pleasures through thoughtful jewellery. Each piece is unique and upcycled in Victoria’s Hampshire studio. Her work goes beyond just reusing materials and instead transforms them into something new and beautiful. Victoria chooses to prioritise quality over quantity and although it takes longer than conventional methods, Victoria is passionate about what she creates. Each piece tells a story.
Angie Holland
Angela is a painter living in Dorset, close to the ancient and stunning Hengistbury Head. The ever-changing sea in all its moods and the beautiful New Forest, provide unending inspiration. She works mostly in oils. Brushes are rarely used as she prefers the more expressive marks made by palette knives, rags and fingers to “push” the paint around. Capturing light to convey a sense of atmosphere is the aim, be it a stormy winter sea, dappled sunlight in the forest or a glorious sunset. A former ceramic designer (Wedgwood), she has a strong sense of design and colour.
Andy Lean
Andy is an artist and teacher with over 20 years of experience who enjoys many different mediums. He specialises in painting with acrylics on wood. Andy is inspired by the British sea and wildlife which he illustrates on locally sourced reclaimed wooden boards. Each board has been sanded to enhance its natural characteristics before paint is applied. This process gives each piece originality and uniqueness all of its own. Each piece has different layers of acrylic paints applied to create shades and tones and to develop depth within the image. To complete the final layers of the image, metallics and iridescent paints are added altering the painting when observed from different angles bringing the paintings to life in a natural light.
Briony Maple
Briony is a Dorset based glass artist creating pieces full of texture, light, and movement. After studying Contemporary Crafts at Falmouth University Briony returned to live and work in Dorset where her work is inspired by her material, its temperamental nature, and endless possibilities as well as her beautiful and iconic surroundings and water. Briony’s work is made using warm glass methods including combinations of fusing, slumping, draping and casting to capture texture and movement in each piece. Her work often includes copper elements to add colour and material contrasts using hand cut foils and copper clay sculptures.
Jessica Mitchell
Jessica Mitchell is a jewellery designer based in Dorset who creates a whole world of cute miniature earrings. Her designs are endless and often created in collections throughout the year to follow the seasons. Mostly inspired by sugary snacks and drinks, her pieces are often tiny scrumptious versions of your favourite seasonal foods!
Rachel Palmer
Rachel is a ceramicist from Lymington. She enjoys the elements and processes required to create unique pieces and loves the fact that there is always something new to learn. She has a studio at home and divides her time between working and potting and relishes the expectation and surprise when it is time to open the kiln. Rachel creates functional pieces and sculptures of natural objects taking inspiration from plants, fruits, seeds and the forest floor. She is currently working on garlic, chilli and spice sculptures, sycamore and acorn sculptures, bud vases and garlic jars. Rachel is a member of New Forest Marque Inspired.
Fran Penny
Fran is a handweaver based in Cirencester, Gloucestershire. Fran loves weaving bold geometric designs, often using double cloth techniques, and weaves all her fabrics on a table loom at home. As much as possible she uses natural fibres in her work and incorporates recycled yarns into many pieces. Inspiration comes from many places; the wildness of the natural world and the orderly nature of patterns and maps. Fran turns her handwoven fabrics into a range of products including cushions, scarves, needle cases, purses and table linen.
Ping & Lily
Ping and Lily both have strong backgrounds in the creative arts. Ping did a Fine Art degree and then went on to make haute couture handbags. Lily did a degree in Cabinetmaking, making one-off bespoke wooden furniture. They live near Winchester, Hampshire and met over 14 years ago at antenatal classes with their first children and have been friends ever since. They both have a strong interest in craft and design and produce their unique style of textile design using freehand machine embroidery. They meet up weekly, to work alongside each other and to discuss ideas. Each piece is individually handcrafted with careful thought given to materials, effect and finish. Their inspiration comes from their love stories, nature, and dog walking.
Catherine Rodgers
Catherine is a Hampshire based printmaker influenced by birds in their habitats, local landscapes, and still life. She enjoys watching and drawing the more common and often overlooked birds, such as pigeons and seagulls, which have adapted to living around humans. Most of her prints are therefore bird related! She works mainly with reduction lino and Japanese vinyl, although she likes to experiment with different types of print and collage making. Collage making allows her to reuse prints that haven’t quite worked! Her printing press lives in the shed at the end of the garden, where she can often be found. Catherine is a member of Cowprint Artist Group.
Kate Southward
Kate Southward is a textile designer from Bath. With 14 years as an Embellishment Designer for brands like Rebecca Taylor, J.Crew, and Tory Burch, Kate launched See+QUIN in 2011 in New York City. Specialising in embroidered and beaded concepts for fashion and home, the brand evolved in 2016 to focus on chainstitch, using my vintage pink Singer machine. Blending traditional techniques with a modern twist, I create bold pieces that bring fun to everyday moments. With a commitment to ethical practices and craftsmanship, each item is made with love and care. See+QUIN celebrates creativity and the beauty of handmade design.
Sparkletastic Glass
Sparkletastic glass is run by a husband and wife team based in Fordingbridge. Amanda makes dichroic glass cabochons by layering dichroic and bullseye glass and fusing it in her kiln. Some of the more complex pieces are then cut from mosaic glass slabs before they have a final fire polish in the kiln. Amanda and Mark also make many of the silver findings and setting using eco-silver (recycled sterling silver) and traditional silver-smithing techniques.
Faye Stevens
Faye lives in Rotherwick, North Hampshire, and makes wheel-thrown pots from white stoneware clay. She likes to make functional pieces of work such as mugs, jugs, vases and dishes that are both useful and beautiful. The designs on the pots are inspired by Hampshire’s many beautiful landscapes, including fields, trees, plants and wildlife. These are created by using coloured slips (liquid clay), oxides and underglaze colours. They can be applied using various techniques such as slip-trailing, painting and paper-resist or using sgraffito (scraping away) to create a design.
Vicky Swift
Vicky Swift is the designer and maker based in Stubbington, Hampshire. She uses a combination of vintage cutlery, driftwood, and reclaimed stained glass to hand craft collections of unique eco friendly up-cycled sculptures, including her range of handmade upcycled cutlery birds, fish and dolphins. Sustainability has been at the heart of Vicky’s work for over 20 years.
Jeanette Walpole
Jeanette is a ceramicist from near Winchester in Hampshire. Jeanette began her journey with clay whilst living in Spain. Now working from her garden studio, she continues to draw inspiration from the simplicity and beauty of the natural world. She strives to create pieces that capture the essence of nature, from subtle textures to vibrant colours. Utilising both modern and ancient firing techniques, she creates decorative and functional art that brings joy, inviting a touch of nature into everyday life.
Harriet Wesley
Harriet Wesley is inspired by the surrounding New Forest, archaeological finds and ancient ceramics. Her work has a textured and organic exterior; the inside is often, by contrast, smooth and glazed, as are the rims of vessels, making them fully functional items. She often creates work that bridges the gap between functionality and sculpture. Her current pieces are hand built stoneware, using a cross between coiling and slab building techniques and are decorated using a mixture of coloured clays and slips, stains, oxides, glazes and metal leaf.
Rosie Wesley
Rosie Wesley is a metalwork and jewellery designer based in the New Forest. With a focus on texture and form, her sculptural works and jewellery are individual, site-responsive pieces to locations in the New Forest and are made using burn-out casting techniques to create replica textures of tree bark or other natural materials. Rosie transforms her pieces into metal objects that you can keep forever and often works on commission pieces which are perfect for remembering loved ones, encapsulating unique experiences or commemorating special moments.