Interviews

Jeweller Helen Duncan from Silver Nutmeg on her inspiration, the tale behind the name, why winter is her favourite season and how lockdown has affected her creativity.

Lorna Gilbert is a potter inspired by those moments you can’t put into words: sweeping horizons, vast open spaces, the beauty of a fern slowly unfolding. But for Lorna, clay is also therapy. Read her story in our Meet the Maker interview.

Meet Nell Swift from Hem: Handwoven, who works on a restored 100-year-old loom, making scarves, blankets and cushions inspired by the North Yorkshire coast and the Peak District, mathematical sequences and, more unexpectedly, the tonal palette of Hollywood movies.

Meet Elly Rowbotham, a printmaker based in Cornwall, who creates hand-printed linocut originals and limited-edition cards printed on her small printing press in St Ives.

Meet Leisa Howes, a jewellery designer and metalworker whose work combines the influences of British folklore, Norse mythology, ancient landscapes and the sea with hand-engraving and metal stamping techniques, in a distinctive, pictorial style.