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Robyn’s art practice is based around the medium of kiln formed glass.

Robyn creates her designs by layering sheet glass and powdered glass before fusing in a kiln.

Robyn makes glass bird gifts, artwork and some jewellery and sells wholesale to selected outlets.

For further information please email robyncoetzee@yahoo.co.uk or head over to her website www.robyncoetzee.co.uk

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Kate is a textile artist and her work is made with a mix of hand embroidery and freehand machine embroidery.

She makes pictures, lampshades, cushions and also sells cards and prints of her work.

Recently her work has focussed on textile maps and portrait commissions of people and pets.

Please email her at katetarling@icloud.com to arrange map and portrait commissions.

Tel: 07780 826 586
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Chitra Merchant was born in India and currently works as a Printmaker in Bristol , U.K. After completing a B.A Degree in Psychology, she left India to work for a year in an artist’s studio in West Africa. She came to England in the early nineties and completed a B.A (Hons) Degree in Illustration from U.W.E Bristol (’98). In 2001 she based herself at Spike Print Studio where she prints ,exhibits and works to commission on a regular basis.
Chitra experiments with print processes like screenprint, monoprint and digitally manipulated marks to arrive at images. These maybe in a series, an edition or unique images. Drawing is integral to her work.

WORK IS BEING HELD AT:
Brook Gallery, Devon, U.K
Spike Print Studio, Spike Island , Bristol, U.K
Smithson Gallery, Bristol, U.K
Fig Gallery, Bristol, U.K

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After almost 20 years as a designer in children's publishing, a short silver jewellery course in 2006 prompted a change in direction. The following year I enrolled on a part-time jewellery course and found a local studio where I could make and sell my work. I now have a workshop in the garden where I can sing along to the radio while creating personalised and one-off pieces of work for customers all over the world.

Influences include Rob Ryan's papercuts, the work of Tord Boontje, Lucienne Day's wallpaper, the repeated patterns of the Arts and Crafts movement, vintage lace and the birds and flowers that fill my garden.

Andy Mason has long been interested in wood and has been woodturning for over 20 years.  In recent years he has focused on artistic turning and carving. 

Over a similar extended period Andy has collected a stock timber. This often old and well-seasoned wood forms a primary source of material for his work.  Andy sees wood as a scarce and limited resource therefore in producing items accepts occasional knots, blemishes and cracks, which he endeavours to incorporate into his work.

His work includes: plain and fluted thin walled vessels, boxes - some with lining in a different wood, hollow-forms as well relief carving and wood jewellery. 

Japanese craft and design, particularly in their combination of sophisticated line and form accomplished with unsurpassed craftsmanship is a primary influence in his work. His work is also informed by an interest in classical and early ceramics and glass and he has travelled widely in the Mediterranean, the Levant and North Africa visiting sites and museums to study this early work.  Within the contemporary turning community the work of Bert Marsh, Binh Pho, Benoit Averly, and Marilyn Campbell have been particularly influential.

Andy has exhibited in several art galleries including recently at 44AD Artspace in Bath.  His work has also twice won the prestigious Felix Levy prize at the 'Wizardry in Wood' exhibition, held by the Worshipful Company of Turners in London. 

ANNA HARLEY is a local Fine-Art Screenprinter, working at Spike Print Studio, by the harbor in Bristol. Her work is rooted within the Northern European Landscape tradition, while Anna’s colour palette and the fabric textures that inhabit her prints are an echo of her Scandinavian Arts & Crafts background. Her screenprints are inspired by the landscapes she encounters while out walking, trees, mountains and water.

Anna has a Master’s Degree in Printmaking from UWE. She has recently shown her work at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, The Woolwich Contemporary and The RE International Contemporary Print Exhibition. One of her prints is currently shortlisted for this year’s 2022 RA Summer Exhibition.

The screenprint process suits Anna’s practice because it allows her to build images in fine layers of ink, printing layer upon layer. Using a combination of drawing, digital photography and direct exposure of objects such as fabric and leaves, she builds up these individual layers. Anna enjoys the ambiguity that this variety of mark making creates in her images, while the hand-pulled nature of the process creates slight variation between the prints in the edition, making each print unique.