barley & mabel

Bristol

Floristry for Any OccasionBarley & Mabel is a professional florist providing beautiful arrangements for weddings, funerals and occasions as well as fun and creative workshops. We are based at our shop in the bustling North Somerset village of Backwell. Our floral designs are often influenced by the world around us, whether from watching the seasons change, or admiring the textures and colours in our surroundings. We also take inspiration from our client’s ideas and themes for their important or special event.

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poppy ceramics mobile studio

Bristol

Poppy Ceramics is a mock independent ceramics studio. The studio explores organic elements with a strong belief in the necessity of good design and concepts of longevity and sustainability. The branding behind Poppy Ceramics plays with natural textures, colours and shapes to enhance the purpose of sustainability and organic materials.

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kathryn delve master florist

Cleeve

I am an independent florist who loves to guide people through the wonderful array of flower varieties, colours and floral design styles. I specialise in creating unique wedding and event flowers, personal and bespoke funeral tributes, along with fun and informative seasonal workshops. I work from my studio in Yatton, Somerset, but I am happy to travel to the surrounding areas such of Bristol, Bath, Devon and Gloucestershire.

anna jones ceramics

London

Anna makes small collections of functional ceramics that blend elegant forms with complementary colours. All pieces are hand made by Anna to create premium and sustainable homewares that are made to last a lifetime. Her drinkware collections are crafted from slipcast porcelain, a high quality clay that is both refined and strong. Known for it's whiteness, porcelain provides the perfect canvas for Anna's hand-painted 'Splatter' glazes and dyed clay bodies. In contrast, Anna's homeware collection of bespoke architectural planters are hand-built using heavily grogged stoneware clay which gives a textured surface to the simple forms. Anna is the co-founding member of Clay Collective, a 12 member ceramics co-operative based in London. Anna is currently living and working in Bristol.

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bath aqua glass

4.7(71)

Somerset

Bath Aqua Glass is proud to be an independent glass production company specialising in beautiful lead-free handmade fused glass jewellery, unique gifts and glassware decorations, tableware and art glass, and custom stained glass commissions. You can watch us at work in the studio and we have a range of activities (like Bauble Blowing which kids love), Bauble Making and Stained Glass Making courses. We also run Hen Party craft activities and have a lovely Wedding glassware collection. We are based in Southwest England in the historic and beautiful city of Bath. Occupying two central locations, our "Theatre of Glass" Studio & Factory Shop is in the artisan quarter of Walcot Street and the sister shop is situated next to the Ancient Roman Baths and the awe-inspiring Bath Abbey. Our online shop has an abundance of wonderful treasures on offer, including handmade glass vases, glass bowls and ornaments in a wide range of colours and designs. Our signature colour is aqua blue, reminiscent of the healing aqua waters synonymous with Bath. Our shops are some of the most interesting Bath shopping experiences and you can watch us work at the studio. We employ traditional methods to make our beautiful glass products and do not use moulds to create our glassware produce. This means that our glassware is unique and more personal from craft to gift. We also offer glass engraving allowing for bespoke messages on glass baubles, wine glasses and a range of our custom made glassware. Handmade stained glass windows, door panels, sun-catchers, lampshades and many more items can be commissioned through our stained glass studio, where we also undertake many restoration projects. Our stained glass artists are extremely experienced in producing high-quality glass designs, influenced by all eras of glassmaking. For full details please visit our stained glass section. Glass trophies and corporate giftware can be made to order as single pieces or for repeat events. Custom glass pieces may be commissioned with your logo or business colours into the design where possible. Please contact us to discuss your full requirements and to request a no-obligation quote. Memorial keepsakes. Our exclusive collection of Cremation Ashes into glassware creates a touching sentimental memorial to those now passed. We have over 20 years of experience at lovingly putting ashes into Bath Aqua Glass and have a range of unique designs to choose from, with engraving options, helping you to create an even more personal treasured piece. To view our range and examples of past work please visit our dedicated Ashes into Bath Aqua Glass website. It includes details for ordering and you can request a free order pack. We also offer 10% off for Forces with a Military Discount Card. In addition, we also lovingly encapsulate beloved pet ashes into beautiful glass memorial keepsakes. ► Follow, share and engage with us on social media: Click here for our Facebook page ► Pin beautiful gift ideas for later: Click here for our colourful and popular Pinterest site ► See our master glassblowers in action: Click here for our YouTube channel

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pizza workshop (whiteladies road)

Clifton

From a small but beautifully formed space in North Street, Pizza Workshop was born in 2015. It was the result of a long-term love affair with making pizza in our hand-built pizza oven at home for many years. Today, we have two thriving community restaurants in Bristol, each with its own loyal following. Our spaces are modern and fresh, just like the food we serve. The design of our spaces was inspired by the pizza that would be served: simple, premium ingredients with great presentation. And the craftsmanship is telling: bespoke fittings, vibrant colours and top-quality materials that reflect the pizza being served – simple and premium. We have a wonderfully diverse team of chefs and front of house staff from across Europe, many of whom have worked for us for since day one. Their dedication and loyalty have made Pizza Workshop the successful business that it is today.

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eloiseschoeman.art

Bristol

Eloise Schoeman is Fine Artist specializing in realist painting. Born in Bristol, United Kingdom but has lived in South Africa from 2008 until recently. She studied Fine Arts at Tshwane University of Technology where she was mentored by the renowned Dr Jan van der Merwe. After completing her degree Eloise relocated to Plymouth, United Kingdom to complete her Masters in Painting at the Arts University Plymouth. From the beginning, Eloise has seen a clear link between her photography and painting, the one not being complete without the other. In her practice, she starts by taking photographs of scenes or moments that feel familiar to her and then through the editing process she manipulates the images into compositions. Her final stage of editing a photograph is painting the work, in this way she dissects the colours, tones and details, considering where to put emphasis or lack thereof. She creates her artworks on large scale canvas using acrylic which allows her to create works fast and not overanalyze her instinctive decisions. The scale of the artworks is purposeful; Eloise wants her paintings to be immersive.

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jenni stuart artist

Bristol

Jenni's work incorporating a bigger sense of the abstract, self expression and a little bit of the landscape. The abstract comes from love of the outdoors, the sea, her Cornish upbringing and Jenni’s dyslexic tendencies. With being so visual I carry this with me and find a need to put it somewhere which is down in a creative way.Jenni often finishes her work with thicker heavier lines and this is a nod towards the line and text she finds so difficult to make sense of when reading. Jenni sees in pictures and finds that gathering information from her surrounding is easy to implement into her painting. The narrative here explains that colours are the confusion, often when its overwhelmingly busy and ‘noisy’. Jenni declares ‘it is often misunderstood, the amount of brain power needed to stay focused, it is exhausting, art is natural to me and defuses that struggle and expectation of something that comes easy to others, reading. At other times Jenni likes to take her work right back to her routes and her childhood experiences. Her memories in colour, source materials from trips out, family time and conversation. Often starting two or three pieces are a time, mainly works in acrylics applying oil bar drawings on top of space and colour.

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ilsa fatt

Bristol

I was smitten with beads from the first time I walked into a bead shop in Palo Alto in 1997. For quite a while I made conventional beaded jewellery. Then, a few years later, I opened a book about woven beadwork, and realised that tiny glass beads could be used to create not just pretty jewellery, but expressive artworks. I taught myself the techniques and developed my own organic, freeform style, inspired by oceanic life forms and the art and architecture of Gaudi and Hundertwasser. I became increasingly intrigued by the medium of glass itself, and in 2006 took my first glass bead-making class. At first I was mainly interested in making my own glass buttons for use on my woven beadwork creations, but then obsession with glass took over. My work currently is a mixture of my own lampworked beads with woven beadwork using seed beads, and wire-work. I like to use swirling organic shapes, and either a lot of glitter, or blending, transparent colours. My work has been exhibited at the Bristol Designers' Guild, Bristol Architecture Centre, Northampton Museum as part of an exhibition of contemporary beadwork, and in Lyme Regis as part of a collaboration with Lyme Regis museum.

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