Darren Allsopp
Darren is a metalwork sculptor from Romsey in Hampshire. Following a 26 year teaching career, Darren has spent the last 5 years developing his art full time. He combines hard unyielding, reclaimed stainless steel with a wide variety of foraged organics to create a truly unique juxtaposition of things natural and manufactured. The stunning combination in each of Darren’s sculptures serves a dual purpose, visual art when placed indoors, ‘wildlife friendly sculpture when place outdoors, designed to support a variety of insects and birds. Darren describes his work as ‘Inspired by nature – for nature.
Sian Appleyard
Sian Appleyard was an established fine art printmaker creating beautiful hand inked images in small editions. Her highly textured collagraph printing plates were created by both cutting away and adding to the surface layer using anything from porridge oats to sand collected while walking on the beach. Richly coloured oil based inks are applied using rollers, cloth and paint brushes allowing for wonderful “happy accidents”. This also means that although prints are similar across a print run, each one is unique in various ways. Her work features scenes and landscapes of the south coasts and the New Forest area. At Chalks we enjoyed many years working with Sian. After her sad passing in 2023, we continue to stock Sian’s work at her request, with proceeds going to Oakhaven Hospice.
Raina Atelier
Raina Atelier is a textile artist from Chiswick, London. Her handcrafted luxury accessories feature original hand printed pieces of graphic art inspired by the beauty of our natural world and its majestic, magical flora and fauna. Using original hand carved linocut for blocks, multi-colour and unique metallic gradient printing techniques, with eco friendly inks, Raina prints onto luxurious cotton velvet. Each impression from the hand carved block is an original artwork making every item unique and a piece of everyday art. These sustainable earth-friendly unique finds are created with wellbeing and self-care in mind and with a hope that they will stimulate your spiritual life and mindful living through art and textiles. “Raina Atelier” luxury accessories are perfect gifts that will add a little more luxury to your every day and hopefully inspire you to take better care of yourself and each other.
Pamela Mary Bell
Pamela Bell is a printmaker from Southampton and is the designer behind PB Prints. Pamela works largely in Lino print but also enjoys using gelli print techniques, needle felting and mixed media collage. Pam’s is drawn to bold colours, simple shapes and strong contrasts, all of which are evident in her work. She enjoys expressing music through her artwork and is especially drawn to ‘The Earth Has Music For Those Who Listen’ by George Santayana.
Mike Braisher
Mike is a self-taught ceramicist from Lyndhurst in the New Forest. Since taking early retirement from teaching many years ago this has become his main occupation. He enjoys making very large, hand thrown stoneware storage vessels, chargers, bowls and pitchers and jugs with beautiful luxurious glazes. He spends several months each year in New Zealand whenever possible, visiting potters groups and numerous potter friends. He has done many demonstrations around the country and spent time as an Artist in Residence at Driving Creek Railway and Potteries in the Coromandel. He is a Life Member of Southern Ceramic Group and is also an Academician of the South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts.
Judith Brown
Judith Brown has been working with wire for over twenty years. She began hand stitching with wire; a technique inspired by her degree in Embroidery at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her most recent jewellery collections, Foliage and Fiori, are inspired by the flowers and plants she’s learned about on many walks around the Staffordshire Moorlands where she lives. She uses silver wire, and stitches, loops, twists and wraps to create intricate, delicate jewellery. She exhibits around the UK in galleries and at contemporary craft events. She works from her studio in Leek, North Staffordshire, where she also runs workshops.
Scott Buckwell
Scott is a woodturner from Ferndown, Dorset. Scott started woodturning as a hobby in 2018. Although he has always enjoyed making “plain” wooden bowls, he soon started to include resin in his creations, to develop unique one-off pieces. Scott’s repertoire includes pens, bowls, platters, sphere desk clocks, vases and lidded ring pots. Most of Scott’s work utilises either wood sourced locally or wood that has been cut and left in hedgerows. He likes to use the kind of wood most “normal” woodturners would throw away or burn, giving his work a quirky yet beautifully finished quality.
Lindsay Buck
Lindsay Buck is the artist behind Slumbermonkey Designs and is based in rural North Dorset, where she works from her little garden studio. Originally from Norfolk she moved to Dorset eight years ago and she designs and makes a wide range of work which always incorporates colour, pattern and quirky details. Inspiration comes from the countryside around her, the birds, flowers, animals and plants that can be glimpsed in the garden and beyond. Also evident is a love of the Mid-Century aesthetic. Lindsay’s work aims to make you smile, to brighten your day and instil a sense of childlike curiosity and wonder.
Alison Clement
Alison Clement is a mixed media artist from Basingstoke in Hampshire. She completed a BA Hons Degree in Printed Textiles in 1983 at West Surrey College of Art and Design Farnham. In 2008 Ali’s love of arts and crafts enabled her to open a successful and busy shop in Basingstoke. In 2016 after enjoying a ‘Creative Weekender’ in St.Ives, Cornwall, her love of art was rekindled! The sea, combined with a love of beachcombing turned these passions into creating one of a kind, unique artworks. Working in mixed media, mainly Brusho, watercolour, collage and pen to build her pieces, she then applies the beautiful sea glass she has collected, adding a unique dimension to her work.
Gillian Connor
A walk along the beach is not just a walk along the beach for Gillian Connor. It is a treasure hunt! She never knows what she may find or what it will eventually become. She has worked from her Hampshire studio since 2001 where she is surrounded by piles of driftwood, boxes of plastic, glass, rusty metal, old rope and fishing floats. These are all materials that inspire her to create all kinds of boats and some very strange sea creatures! She does it because she loves it, its eco friendly and makes people smile! Her hand tools become an extension of her imagination and she can spend endless hours looking for that perfect piece of glass or just the right rusty nail. Her work has been in many galleries and exhibitions.
CStar Design
CStar Design is a sister duo based in Winchester. Cathy and Lisa work together to design and create original fusion glass pieces. Through their glass work, they explore the colour vibrancy and translucency that glass offers, incorporating natural lines and forms from within nature. Their Kaleidoscope range reminisces childhood memories of sunny days and the magical images created within a Kaleidoscope. In the same way that a Kaleidoscope forever changes its unique forms and colour patterns, they too have developed a technique for creating this in each of their glass pieces. No two creations will ever have the same colours and shapes. They use a range of glass fusion techniques, creating layers and embellishments within their work.
Kate Freemantle
Kate is a ceramicist from Christchurch in Dorset. She creates ceramic flowers in stoneware and porcelain inspired by her allotment of dahlias and love of garden roses. Rather than creating exact replicas, Kate enjoys making gentle interpretations, shaped by observation, memory, and the feel of the clay in her hands. Kate loves to explore ceramic flower forms in many different colours and designs that can hang on a wall, stand on stems, or sit happily on a dining table. Her pieces work both indoors and outdoors, and each one is made to be tactile, individual, and quietly uplifting
Pete Gilbert
Pete Gilbert has lived a busy life with many career changes including advertising, restaurateur and night club owner, but has always found the time to paint, exploring and developing his own style. His style and approach ranges from the very precise skills needed as an airbrush artist and illustrator to the strong brush strokes and bold colours of his New Forest landscapes. He now makes his living as an artist, painting mainly contemporary landscapes of the New Forest or the Coast from Cornwall to the Scottish Western Isles.
Emma Hiles
Emma Hiles is a ceramic artist from Laverstoke, Hampshire but grew up in Christchurch Dorset surrounded by the sea and coastline. She has worked in design for nearly 20 years specialising in designing Holograms for brand and currency. 5 years ago she started a pottery class in her local town for a few hours a week and got completely hooked on clay. She finds that clay is an amazing medium for experimentation, and she has loved playing with clays and glazes over the last couple of years. Opening the kiln is always a surprise and a huge lesson in patience and resilience The glass used in the Bombay bowls is from Bombay Gin bottles from the distillery which is based a mile down the road from where she lives.
Annabel Hocking
Annabel Hocking is an emerging painter and illustrator based in Surrey. Inspired by travel, gardens, and the quiet details of everyday life, Annabel develops daily observations into emotive landscapes, patterns and designs. Her signature palette - drawn from earth, sea, and sky - is deeply personal and evocative. These colours are a swim in the sea, the shade of a beautiful old tree, delicious food, the warmth of the sun and a bright blue sky. The smell of a mastic tree, eating olives and exploring gardens with loved ones. Trained in architecture, Annabel has exhibited across the UK and was shortlisted for Surrey Artist of the Year in 2025.
Caroline Hodgson
Living in the stunning landscape of North Wales, Caroline’s practice is rooted in the natural world and the rhythm of the seasons. Through her art she aims to capture a fleeting moment of nature and make it timeless. To record the smallest intricate details of the natural world or capture the light and essence of a landscape. To bring awareness that nature creates the most exquisite things which can be found in the most unassuming places. Cyanotypes have an inherent elegance, and she portrays nature with a poetic and ethereal quality using this ancient process.
Mia Houghton
Mia is an artisan jeweller crafting nature-inspired pieces from her studio in Salisbury, Wiltshire. She creates exquisite jewellery pieces that celebrate quality, luxury and unique design. Working with recycled materials, she creates sustainable, contemporary collections that capture the beauty of natural forms and patterns. Mia uses recycled silver, enamel and gemstones to create jewellery to be loved for generations.
Rebecca Jackson
Rebecca is a goldsmith based in the beautiful market town of Romsey, Hampshire. Growing up in a little seaside town in Devon and now living on the edge of the New forest Rebecca's jewellery is heavily inspired by the beautiful surroundings of the new forest and the coastlines of her childhood. All Rebecca’s pieces are handcrafted in her studio in Romsey. Her collections are delicately created using carefully sourced materials, inspired by nature and made to last a lifetime.
Linda Lovatt
Linda grew up on a smallholding in Shropshire, surrounded by fields full of wild flowers and quizzical animals, which she loved to paint and sketch. She trained as an illustrator and now lives at an old watermill in the Scottish Borders with a large and unruly garden. While digging her garden, she kept finding all these beautiful pieces of pottery, old keys and bottles hidden in the soil like pieces of buried treasure. This together with growing up in a family of engineers inspired her to create a range of copper assemblage and jewellery..
Emma Jane Lovell
Emma Jane is a creative artist from Christchurch. Since studying a BA (Hons) degree in ceramics and fine art at Bath School of Art and Design in 1991, Emma Jane has gained a wealth of experience in ceramics and teaching and now lectures in fine art at Bournemouth & Poole College. Emma Jane has worked as a freelance artist for mural and display areas, as well as for set and costume design. Emma Jane’s work is inspired by the coast and countryside. The beautiful wood she sources determines what and how she creates individual pieces and each piece of art is unique. Each item is lovingly handmade and created using reclaimed wood and paints that other people have thrown away.
Cathy McCarthy
Cathy McCarthy is a jewellery designer/maker based in Hampshire. She has been making beautifully hand-crafted jewellery for over 20 years, creating both ready-to- wear ranges and commissioned pieces. Cathy’s inspiration comes from her love of wild gardens, summer meadows and forest walks. Her Sterling silver designs capture an essence of nature and a sense of calm, combining simplified shapes with eye catching detail. Cathy completed a HND in 3D design at Portsmouth University and a National Certificate in Jewellery making & Silversmithing and was awarded the “Steven Betts Jewellery Award” for her achievements during her studies. Cathy’s work is included in the book “Narrative Jewellery - Tales from the toolbox” by Mark Fenn.
Jo Middleton
Jo Middleton is a ceramicist who lives and works in rural West Sussex. She graduated from Falmouth College of Arts in contemporary crafts. With a love for nature and working in porcelain she went on to start Wild Hare Ceramics. Drawing inspiration from her time spent in Cornwall, her love for animals and living in the beautiful countryside of the South Downs she creates a range of sculptures and whimsical ceramics. These are carefully hand built using a variety of techniques in porcelain, paperclay and stoneware.
Jane Mitchell-Finch
Jane Mitchell-Finch is a textile designer from Suffolk working in free machine embroidery, hand stitching and paint. Her work is influenced by the Suffolk countryside, nature and admired artists and inspired by slices of colour and views from walks in the Suffolk countryside. From her graphic design roots, textiles has taken over from paper and print to create artworks, and wearable handcrafted brooches. Her pieces come to life using paint, felted fabrics, vintage linens and recycled scraps, blending felt and fibres to gain the correct mix of colour and texture. She then uses hand stitching to create depth and vibrancy. With the eye of a graphic designer, Jane is drawn to detail and quirky or unusual designs which is prevalent in her pieces.
Lynn Nicholls
Lynn Nicholls is the ceramicist behind Southsea Mudlark and started her career as a set designer for the B.B.C before teaching in several Hampshire colleges. Lynn is a member and studio holder at ArtSpace Portsmouth and exhibits with the Southern Ceramics Group. She makes functional, thrown or slab built decorative earthenware. The surface is loosely worked in layers of colour then reworked before using freestyle drawing to create abstract decorative imagery. Southsea Mudlark ceramics are eco and vegan friendly.
Rachel Palmer
Rachel is a ceramicist from Lymington. She enjoys the elements and processes required to create unique pieces and loves the fact that there is always something new to learn. She has a studio at home and divides her time between working and potting and relishes the expectation and surprise when it is time to open the kiln. Rachel creates functional pieces and sculptures of natural objects taking inspiration from plants, fruits, seeds and the forest floor. She is currently working on garlic, chilli and spice sculptures, sycamore and acorn sculptures, bud vases and garlic jars. Rachel is a member of New Forest Marque Inspired.
Georgia Palmer
Georgia is a Lymington-based artist who grew up in the New Forest. Two of her grandparents were artists and much of her childhood was spent drawing and painting at their dining room table. Working from her home studio, Georgia creates abstract still life originals and prints with the aim of bringing playful pops of colour to people’s homes.
Helen Polden
Helen Polden is a mixed media artist living and working in Romsey, Hampshire. She has fond memories of drawing flowers and animals with her Grandmother from a very early age and this love of art and nature has never left her. Exploring colour and light, Helen takes her inspiration from the natural beauty of land and sea, from the Test Valley and the New Forest to the South Coast and the Mediterranean. Her technique involves the layering of tissue, wrapping paper and magazine cuttings to create form and texture. From this she applies inks and acrylics to create woodland, forest and coastal paintings in an illustrative style, quite often with the addition of quirky wildlife.
Samantha Robertson
Samantha crafts vibrant terracotta planters for indoor spaces, inspired by the plants she grows and the natural forms she encounters on countryside walks. Working with terracotta clay enables her to explore the warmth and depth of coloured slips and underglazes, finished with a transparent glaze for added richness. Her designs draw on the heritage of English country slipware while incorporating contemporary influences from printmaking and textiles. Through layered motifs and repeated patterns, Samantha creates surfaces that celebrate the beauty of nature and bring a sense of the outdoors into the home.
Sarah Robinson
Sarah is a printmaker from Shaftesbury in Dorset. Sarah has been a practicing artist since graduating from Bath Art College with a degree in graphic design and illustration in the early 1990s. After attending an inspirational and immersive weekend course learning the art of linocut a few years ago, she now mainly focuses on printmaking. She is passionate about the countryside and creates decorative prints with nature providing the reference for the designs; mainly plants and animals but also wider views and subjects with rural themes.
Nicole Revy
Nicole Revy is an illustrator and printmaker from Bridport, Dorset. Working primarily in the medium of linocut, Nicole creates mysterious, thought-provoking and emotionally engaging linocut prints. Within her work she examines the connections between people and place; often dealing with the female experience, that weave together themes of nature, climate, and the human connection we have to our environment. Her style is a fresh and modern twist on traditional printmaking techniques. She creates small batch limited edition prints in both monochromatic and reduction linocut, and products printed with her unique designs. She creates all her work in her home studio in Dorset and prints on a Gunning etching press. Nicole has worked on many commercial illustration projects for big name brands and exhibits around the world.
Nikki Ryce
Nikki Ryce is a glass maker from the New Forest. She creates glass art inspired by the countryside, particularly wild flowers and natural landscapes. Having grown up in rural Devon and living in the New Forest, she draws from deep connections with wild nature. Her work captures profound feelings experienced while observing these environments, translating emotional responses into glass pieces. She chose glass specifically for how light interacts with the medium, the changing natural light throughout the day becomes part of the artwork itself, allowing viewers to share in the reverence and inspiration she finds in the natural world.
Kate Southward
Kate Southward is a textile designer from Bath. With 14 years as an Embellishment Designer for brands like Rebecca Taylor, J.Crew, and Tory Burch, Kate launched See+QUIN in 2011 in New York City. Specialising in embroidered and beaded concepts for fashion and home, the brand evolved in 2016 to focus on chainstitch, using my vintage pink Singer machine. Blending traditional techniques with a modern twist, I create bold pieces that bring fun to everyday moments. With a commitment to ethical practices and craftsmanship, each item is made with love and care. See+QUIN celebrates creativity and the beauty of handmade design.
Sparkletastic Glass
Sparkletastic glass is run by a husband and wife team based in Fordingbridge. Amanda makes dichroic glass cabochons by layering dichroic and bullseye glass and fusing it in her kiln. Some of the more complex pieces are then cut from mosaic glass slabs before they have a final fire polish in the kiln. Amanda and Mark also make many of the silver findings and setting using eco-silver (recycled sterling silver) and traditional silver-smithing techniques.
Charlotte Simmonds
Charlotte Simmonds is a printmaker and textile designer from Bournemouth. She creates handmade lampshades and textiles in her studio in Dorset using bold repeat patterns inspired by her love of mid century colour and print. Captivated by repeat pattern, Charlotte loves to use motifs and simple silhouettes to create modern design statements for the home which evoke a warm sense of nostalgia. All Charlotte’s designs start life as a lino print, the prints are then digitally crafted to create the unique patterns and colour combinations with a mid-century modern aesthetic. Inspired by nature in the local wooded chine which surrounds her home as well as the urban landscape she grew up with, each motif has story to tell.
Vicky Swift
Vicky Swift is the designer and maker based in Stubbington, Hampshire. She uses a combination of vintage cutlery, driftwood, and reclaimed stained glass to hand craft collections of unique eco friendly up-cycled sculptures, including her range of handmade upcycled cutlery birds, fish and dolphins. Sustainability has been at the heart of Vicky’s work for over 20 years.
Abby Thurston
Abby Thurston is the jewellery designer behind Green Grove Designs, which has been running for 4 years. Abby creates nature inspired jewellery using polymer clay. Abby loves to make use of the seasons and the natural world to inspire her work, opening her up to a beautiful scope of subjects to capture into jewellery. Each of her designs are on hypoallergenic surgical steel ear wires, which are also tarnish resistant. Polymer clay is a lightweight material, allowing you to wear your jewellery in comfort all day long.
Gill Usher
Gill Usher’s ceramics are handmade and entirely original, created using real leaves, flowers, and feathers gathered from her garden or from Epping Forest. Each impression captures delicate textures like a timeless fossil held in suspension. Glazed in jewelled, earthy tones, the pieces take on an ethereal, captured quality, ensuring no two are ever alike. Working with natural materials pressed directly into clay, she forms functional ware that is hand-painted with oxides to create a soft, watercolour-like effect. Each piece is then finished with her own handmade glazes in organic shades, resulting in thoughtful, expressive work rooted in the landscape around her.
Jeanette Walpole
Jeanette began her journey with clay whilst living in Spain. Now working from her garden studio near Winchester, she continues to draw inspiration from the simplicity and beauty of the natural world. She strives to create pieces that capture the essence of nature, from subtle textures to vibrant colours. Utilising both modern and ancient firing techniques, she creates decorative and functional art that brings joy, inviting a touch of nature into everyday life.
Gosia Weber
Gosia Weber is a self-taught designer/ maker with experience in using many types of material and fabric. Due to the fact that Gosia is not a traditional leather worker means that she has a individual approach when it comes to using such materials and as a result, has a very unique quality and finish not found elsewhere. The materials used in her products are collected from discarded and found fabrics. Due to nature and limited amount of materials available – her products are often one of a kind. Gosia’s pieces focus on bright colours and strong patterns in an aesthetic often described as classic/retro design with a modern twist.
Harriet Wesley
Harriet Wesley is inspired by the surrounding New Forest, archaeological finds and ancient ceramics. Her work has a textured and organic exterior; the inside is often, by contrast, smooth and glazed, as are the rims of vessels, making them fully functional items. She often creates work that bridges the gap between functionality and sculpture. Her current pieces are hand built stoneware, using a cross between coiling and slab building techniques and are decorated using a mixture of coloured clays and slips, stains, oxides, glazes and metal leaf.
Rosie Wesley
Rosie Wesley is a metalwork and jewellery designer based in the New Forest. With a focus on texture and form, her sculptural works and jewellery are individual, site-responsive pieces to locations in the New Forest and are made using burn-out casting techniques to create replica textures of tree bark or other natural materials. Rosie transforms her pieces into metal objects that you can keep forever and often works on commission pieces which are perfect for remembering loved ones, encapsulating unique experiences or commemorating special moments.
Sue Woodger
Sue Woodger creates original painted paper cut artwork that is inspired by nature from her home studio in Surrey. Fascinated by the patterns and movement found in the natural world, Sue’s work most regularly features swarms of paper butterflies, shoals of fish, and flocks of birds. Sue cuts a silhouette from hot pressed watercolour paper and paints each piece with a highly vibrant watercolour. Every picture has depth, movement and variation. Sue’s work is available in a wide range of frame sizes, and Sue often works to create custom commissions.