FEATURED ARTISTS
JUNE 2023
Sarah Amatt, Shannon Donovan, Andrew Eastwood and Liz Huppert
Sarah Amatt
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Sarah is a suminagashi artist and maker. A preference for simple, elegant, pared-back images and a love of paper and ink has inspired her work with Japanese marbling. She trained as a bookbinder then researched and taught herself Turkish paper marbling which became a successful business. After a career detour as a counsellor she now works with various washi and Western papers, crafting both traditional and contemporary designs some of which end up as lampshades, others as framed prints and the rest make their way to the workshops of bookbinders and artisans. |
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Shannon Donovan
Shannon Donovan is a ceramicist and printmaker who thinks of her artistic practice as a process of visual translation. Her sculpture and functional ware reinterpret ordinary and overlooked features of urban and rural life.
Since earning a BA(Hons) Design from the Glasgow School of Art in 2006, Shannon has had three solo exhibitions and her work has been featured in over 30 juried exhibitions. In 2018, she was awarded first prize in the h.Art Prize Exhibition. In 2022 she curated two special exhibitions for h.Art: Industrial Pastorale (Made in the Marches, Kington) and The Shield of Achilles (Aardvark Books, Brampton Bryan).
Andrew Eastwood
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Andrew's unique handmade sketch and notebooks are made using medieval and other traditional binding techniques with combinations of wood, leather and textile boards and spine. |
Liz Huppert
After graduating in BA Ceramics from Bath Academy of Art in 1989, Liz was introduced to the medium of stained glass by a friend. She was struck by the way that light illuminates glass and sends coloured patterns dancing onto walls.
Since then, she has established herself as a successful Stained Glass Artist, producing ornate glass artworks that can been seen hanging in homes all over the world.
She now works and teaches from her Worcestershire studio. Using traditional glass painting methods, such as sgraffito, and the Tiffany technique, Liz produce panels featuring British flora and fauna and the countryside around her home.
Since then, she has established herself as a successful Stained Glass Artist, producing ornate glass artworks that can been seen hanging in homes all over the world.
She now works and teaches from her Worcestershire studio. Using traditional glass painting methods, such as sgraffito, and the Tiffany technique, Liz produce panels featuring British flora and fauna and the countryside around her home.
