folk art

Meet Carol Barwell from Pooks Studio – maker of beautiful, intricately detailed folk art dolls for grown-ups inspired by fairytales and the stories of the Lancashire witches.

Meet artist and maker Annie Stothert, who creates delightful decorative pieces inspired by folk art, folklore, heritage crafts and the seasons, all made using traditional paper mache techniques.

Meet Bee Brown, an illustrator with a passion for folk art who creates beautiful, sustainably made stationery and prints from her home studio on the Warwickshire border.

Artist Sheena Spacey’s folk art ceramics and paintings are an antidote to the high-speed world we inhabit. They’re innocent, simple and reassuring. Sheena tells us more about her folk art and inspirations.

Shelagh Pickford is the creative force, storyteller and self-proclaimed ‘messy to the point of being dangerous’ maker behind Flossie Limejuice. Her textile creations have a folk art spirit, character and humour. We caught up with Shelagh to discover how it all began…