LEATHER, WOOD & WILLOW
COLIN AMOS
FIRESTONE STUDIO
LESTER DURSTON
The beauty of wood has always fascinated me and my journey with this medium has brought me from sail boats to band sawn jewellery boxes; from finely finished turned bowls with gorgeous grain to intricately decorated items. In some the beautiful grain patterns say it all, in others I may use texturing, colours, piercing and/or pyrography to create different effects.
LESTER DURSTON
FIRESTONE STUDIO
LESTER DURSTON
Somerset based artist Lester Durston makes marquetry boxes and coasters with precision and painstaking attention to detail. Lester’s work is beautifully made from hand-cut wood veneers, creating intricate patterns, designs and pictures.
FIRESTONE STUDIO
FIRESTONE STUDIO
FIRESTONE STUDIO
Paul Hayler creates beautiful leatherworks from his home studio, overlooking Firestone Copse on the Isle of Wight.
ANNA LIEBMANN
ANNA LIEBMANN
ANNA LIEBMANN
Nature and history pass through Anna’s hands as she weaves using willow she grows, cuts, sorts and prepares herself. She also uses willow that was grown elsewhere in Scotland organically or conventionally in Somerset. Every year in the early spring you will find Anna in the willow patch with friends, harvesting the year’s crop, hand weedi
Nature and history pass through Anna’s hands as she weaves using willow she grows, cuts, sorts and prepares herself. She also uses willow that was grown elsewhere in Scotland organically or conventionally in Somerset. Every year in the early spring you will find Anna in the willow patch with friends, harvesting the year’s crop, hand weeding and restocking for next year. The first crop was cut from the willow patch in 2005, the year her daughter was born. Anna grows eight types of willow in the patch, of different colours, hues and elasticity. Some of them are stout, making them ideal for a basket’s skeleton. Others are long and slender, and can be woven in and out of small spaces. Anna aims to contrast the dappled hues of the different willow barks within her work. Through the year, particularly as she is creating baskets and forms using her home grown willow, the affection for the material carries on through the work. The baskets are things of beauty; sturdy and precise.
DINAH WYATT
ANNA LIEBMANN
DINAH WYATT
Each of Dinah’s birds are meticulously hand carved from wood and beautifully painted with each bird becoming completely unique with it’s own personality.