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.
Jo Barry
Jo Barry is a printmaker from the New Forest producing landscape etchings. Her early work consisted of detailed pencil drawings of landscape close-ups, grass, hedges and trees. She later moved on to etching as this gave her a greater scope of marks and colour. Each one of her etchings is personally hand inked with all the colours applied at once. The surface of the plate is then cleaned, and the etching is printed on damp paper to take the shape of the plate. Because she is not a machine, each etching will therefore be subtly unique. Her work is inspired by the New Forest which she feels is a magical place, changing constantly with the light and the weather and the seasons.
Paul Batchelder
Paul is a woodworker from Lyndhurst in the New Forest. Paul found his strength in woodwork and maths during his school years. This led him to train as a woodwork, metalwork, technical drawing teacher. After spending 40 years in school workshops in Hertfordshire and Norfolk Paul retired to the New Forest allowing him to finally be able to set up his own workshop. This gave him a great opportunity to practice his life-long interest and develop his woodworking skills further. Happy to try anything using wood Paul really enjoys turning and particularly, when available, turning oak. Paul offers some of his pieces of work for sale at Chalk Gallery.
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.
Lucy Bramley
Lucy Bramley is a fused glass artist from the New Forest creating artworks, ornamental forms and jewellery. She uses a kiln to slowly melt layers of sheet and powdered glass, sometimes incorporating silver foil and metallic enamels, techniques that lend themselves well to create this collection for the ‘Golden Hour’ exhibition at Chalk’s. Lucy draws inspiration from the colours and textures of the unique environment of the New Forest. Lucy creates one off pieces, avoiding mass production and strives to live a low-consumption, sustainable life, which is reflected in her working practices. Her jewellery findings are made mostly from recycled sterling silver. Lucy’s work is perfect as something to treasure or give as a special gift.
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.
Holly Butler
Holly is a contemporary artist living on the south coast in Bournemouth, where the sea and skies are her constant source of inspiration. Their shifting light, quiet stillness, and bursts of energy all find their way into her work. Through her paintings, she hopes to share that sense of calm and connection—something reflective, grounding, and a little bit meditative. Holly’s work leans into abstraction, combining textured layers with a mix of soft and vibrant colours. Painting intuitively, she lets each piece evolve through play, exploration, and emotion; creating art that invites you to pause, take a breath, and maybe see something new each time you return to it.
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.
Konrad Cox
Konrad is a self-taught photographer from Hampshire and is captivated by the immersive potential of 360-degree spherical panoramas. Since 2012, his exploration of this medium has evolved into a passionate pursuit, primarily focused on the enchanting landscapes of the New Forest. Drawn to gnarled trees and hidden wonders, Konrad’s images invite viewers to step inside his unique perspective, encouraging a deeper exploration beyond conventional vision. His award-winning work has been exhibited internationally, showcasing his ability to reimagine familiar environments through the captivating lens of spherical photography.
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.
Debbie Earth
Debbie is a ceramicist from Aldershot in Hampshire and is the designer behind Earth Kissed Ceramics. For Debbie, ceramic making is intentionally slow and meditative, like the calming style of yoga. Both disciplines are a space to pause and breathe and act as an antidote to an increasingly busy and technology driven world. Calm and relaxation is to be found in her little home studio too and she hopes that those who handle her finished pieces will feel this. Debbie finds clay as a material fascinating and enjoys experimenting with shape, function, texture and design. Debbie designs jewellery as well as functional items but mostly focuses on purely decorative pieces that are exciting to look at and touch. Debbie enjoys bringing something unique to life in a thoughtful and meditative way and hopes that it will add something special to the daily life of its new owner.
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.
David Hitchcock
David is a jeweller from Alton in Hampshire. Having always been a photographer at heart it gives him great pleasure to bring this to his jewellery designs. With a 25-year career in nature conservation, helping scientists study species from whales to wasps, nature was always going to be the inspiration for his jewellery designs. David’s stunning Photofinish Jewellery designs are all handmade and embody the beauty and colours of nature. Made from photographs transposed and sealed into recycled aluminium and fitted with recycled sterling silver findings. Many of the photographs used in his jewellery are from Hampshire and the surrounding Surrey Hills. He has worked with the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Kew Gardens, Painshill Park, National Trust and many leading galleries.
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.
Caz Larcombe
Caz is a ceramic artist based between the South Downs and the Solent. She creates small batch, wheel-thrown stoneware ceramics inspired by nature and a grounded, handmade lifestyle. With a background in graphic design and interiors, she discovered pottery through a college course and quickly fell in love with clay. Her work focuses on functional forms with a calm, organic feel—pieces made to be used and enjoyed everyday. Caz also hand-builds and decorates slab-formed ceramics featuring stylised botanical designs drawn from her own garden. A keen gardener, she draws colour inspiration from the soft, shifting tones of the seasons that surround her rural Hampshire studio.
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..
Briony Maple
Briony is a Dorset based glass artist creating pieces full of texture, light, and movement. After studying Contemporary Crafts at Falmouth University Briony returned to live and work in Dorset where her work is inspired by her material, its temperamental nature, and endless possibilities as well as her beautiful and iconic surroundings and water. Briony’s work is made using warm glass methods including combinations of fusing, slumping, draping and casting to capture texture and movement in each piece. Her work often includes copper elements to add colour and material contrasts using hand cut foils and copper clay sculptures.
Frances Mason
Frances is a painter from the New Forest working in mixed media, acrylics and print. Frances’ work is rooted in the landscape, history and colours of the beautiful New Forest, where she has lived for most of her life. The hues, light and atmosphere influence her work, which also is a response to the heritage and imagery of the forest. Graduating in Fine Art from Southampton Institute in 1994, she spent a year printmaking and gained a Cert Ed teaching adults art in 1996. Frances has exhibited mainly in the South of England and has taken part in Hampshire Open Studios since its inception. She has work in private and public collections.
Fran McCaskill
Fran McCaskill was born in London and trained as a graphic designer. She is now a glass artist living and working in Surrey. Working using fused glass methods, she uses recycled window glass to create her work. Nature is a recurring theme in her pieces, adding her unique graphic twist, making her work recognisable and unique to her. All her pieces are hand painted using techniques developed over years of experimenting with different fired paints to achieve a variety of effects. Her pieces are then fired in a kiln to 800 degrees.
Gillian McCormick
Gillian is a glass artist from Dorset. After studying drawing and painting at Edinburgh College of art she went on to study decorative glass in Glasgow. Here she learnt the traditional skills of painting and staining glass plus acid etching, and fusing. She takes her inspiration from the walks she takes through the atmospheric woods and fields of Dorset and the sense of connection she feels with those that have gone before and the creatures that have made this landscape their home. A deer leaping through the woods, a badger emerging from the ferns or a fox skulking along the hedgerows, all make there way into my painted stained glass.
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.
Mark Munroe-Preston
Mark is a photographer from Sussex. Mark studied photography at Wolverhampton Polytechnic before moving to London, where he worked in still life photography, digital illustration and CGI, and later as a children’s illustrator. After moving to Surrey he rekindled his passion for landscape photography, particularly in Ashdown Forest and the South Downs National Park. By 2017, he began transforming these photographs into artwork for his first exhibition. He now exhibits widely in the UK and beyond. His work blends photography, painting, and collage to create atmospheric pieces inspired by nature. Focusing on trees, Mark captures their complexity and importance to ecosystems. His art often incorporates themes of windswept landscapes and interconnected natural systems. Each piece is titled with GPS coordinates to encourage viewers to visit and experience the locations firsthand, with works presented as limited edition prints on brushed aluminium.
Sally Ovenden
Sally is a ceramicist from the New Forest who works from her studio in Walkford. After studying ceramics at Falmouth and running a small studio in Cornwall, Sally returned to her home in the New Forest. Although having not practised ceramics for several years, creativity has always played a big part of Sally’s life. The local environment and bounty of wildlife has been the main inspiration for Sally’s work, which is constantly evolving and changing, much like the seasons. Sally is currently exploring the patterns and textures of the landscape and coastline in her work as well as the surrounding environment.
Anton Page
Anton is a ceramicist from Romsey in Hampshire. A largely self-taught potter, Anton began by making traditional, practical pieces and although there is still space for traditional glazed ware, his work has evolved to include more sculptural pieces, something that can be seen as 3-dimensional art and the bigger the better! His pots are heavily influenced by traditional unglazed pottery from around the world (Pompeii, Zimbabwe, Hong Kong) and also by the many standing stones found in the UK, giving an earthy, rustic and textured finish to his work. Anton prefers the raw surface of heavily grogged, gritty clays such as crank or raku for his sculptural work. These are then finished with oxides, wood ash, metal powders and even road salt to add to the rough-hewn weathered appearance. Occasionally the finished pots may get a splash of glaze or the addition of a complimentary material such as coloured glass or gold leaf to give the pot a lift and make a real statement piece.
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.
Eva Pollard
Eva is a glass artist based in Stroud. Eva creates glass art, homeware and jewellery under the brand Eva Glass Design. Her work is informed by the Japanese concept of MA – the importance of the spaces around and between things. Eva utilises principles of balance and proportion in her design processes with the aim that finished pieces should have a harmonious feel. Her work is designed to interact with natural light to add colour and sparkle to interiors or the body. Eva’s chief inspirations are nature, line and colour which she explores through a variety of kiln-forming techniques and glass palettes.
Rachael Plassard
Rachael Plassard is a jewellery maker from Petersfield in Hampshire. Her work reinterprets traditional ornament, taking inspiration from highly decorative styles throughout history. Within each piece Rachael weaves personal narratives and symbolism, creating magical jewellery evoking memories and connection. Rachael often works intuitively, marking out and piercing by hand, with a maximalist approach to working. Rachael layers up decorative surfaces, combining a mixture of techniques (etching, roller printing, keum boo, gold plating and oxidising). These combinations result in a richness and opulence, and what at first glance might look like a Greek headdress, or a baroque frame, on closer inspection is imbued with a contemporary aesthetic. It is only at the end that the piece comes to life, when Rachael lifts, twists, and forms the metal, in a delightful and satisfying process of experimentation and discovery.
Jo Richards
Jo is a jewellery designer that grew up within walking distance of the sea on the Dorset Coast. She now calls the city of Winchester home and enjoys the beautiful countryside, rolling hills and chalk streams that surround her. The sea, water, and natural world often feature in her work. You will also find designs inspired by travels with her family, visits to art galleries and organic architecture. Since 2006 Jo has specialised in working almost exclusively in Silver Clay – a product made from recycled silver. This medium has helped her develop the feminine, romantic, and organic style that she is now recognised for. Jo’s jewellery is not only unique and beautiful, but impeccably made; an enduring piece of wearable art that can be treasured and enjoyed for years to come.
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.
Dais Scott-Bennett
Dais Scott Bennett is a Southampton based artist whose heart belongs to birds and the wild places they inhabit. Living aboard her narrowboat Mallard, she draws and hand-embellishes with gold, bringing each feathered subject to life. With a background in animal conservation and museum studies, she blends art and science to celebrate the beauty and fragility of the UK’s native birdlife. Driven by a mission to draw all 628 of the UK’s bird species, with 75 of these already completed. Dais invites viewers to pause, connect, and rediscover the nature fluttering at their doorsteps.
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.
Faye Stevens
Faye is a ceramicist from Hook in Hampshire. Her pots are influenced by her love of nature. She hopes to provide the user with something that is both useful and beautiful in making functional items such as mugs, jugs, vases and dishes. She loves to develop new designs inspired by Hampshire’s many beautiful landscapes, including fields, trees, plants and wildlife. Faye’s pots are made on the wheel using white stoneware clay with clean lines to let the designs stand out. All her designs are created using coloured slips in a combination of techniques. These include sgraffito (scraping out a design), slip-trailing for more fluid decoration and painting for finer details.
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.
Julie Tritton
Julie Tritton is a fibre artist based in North Hampshire. She’s spent the past three decades working as a creative director in the TV industry. Now, she’s focusing on her passion for yarn, texture, and colour. She designs and makes crocheted accessories and is exploring new mediums and techniques including weaving and knitting. She loves hand-dyed artisan yarn and spends hours searching for the softest wool, silk, and cotton for her work. She pairs them together with high-quality glass beads to create vibrant colour palettes inspired by nature.
Roger Ward
Roger is an artist from the New Forest working in wood. Having worked in architecture and running a building company, he has developed a passion for creating. His deepest passion has always been in woodwork, so setting up a small workshop at his home, he now creates decorative, useful woodcraft items with a particular interest in wood turning. Every item is handmade individually and each is a one-off piece, made either from locally sourced sustainable timber, or waste offcuts.
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.
Denise White
Denise runs her mixed media art business "Driftaway " from her garden studio close to the back water of Poole Harbour. The beautiful harbour and wildlife gives wonderful inspiration for her art. Denise's work reflects her love of nature and Dorset's diverse wildlife. She takes many walks collecting interesting natural materials from the coastline that then become part of her art. She is also a big advocate of saving items from landfill and will occasionally combine these items into her work. A favourite medium of Denise's is driftwood which she uses to create rustic decor and wildlife. This can be left in it's natural state or handpainted in acrylic paint to give a more lifelike feel. Her art can be seen in galleries in and around Dorset and Hampshire.
Ben Winter
Ben is a full-time professional artist based in Poole, Dorset. The sea, the forest, and the sky above them, are constant sources of inspiration throughout his work. He attained his degree in Fine Art at Central St Martins College in London. Returning to Dorset, he continued to paint his surrounding environment, exhibiting locally, nationally and internationally, whilst bringing up his family. He has always been preoccupied with simple picture making concerns. Colour relationships and layers, composition, form and, particularly the play of light, are all elements of importance, to one extent or another in his work.
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.
Alex Wright
Alex is a photographer from Fordingbridge in the new Forest. Alex often discovers moments of time in his photographs, alive with the beauty of the natural world, finding a transitory grace in the effects of the rising and setting sun on his scenes. Within his exquisite landscapes the allure of the coast and countryside is dynamically revealed in a luminous richness of light and shadow. A powerful peace and tranquillity emerges through these images, as he captures fleeting seconds of spiritual and emotional wonder. All prints and canvases are made by Alex on a Canon printer using 12 archival quality pigment inks for vibrant multi-tonal colour and great longevity.