Botanica - An exhibition of flowers, pottery, mixed media and textiles

Tuesday 18th to Sunday 23rd June 2024

Tuesday to Friday 9am - 4pm, Saturday 10am - 4pm, Sunday 10am - 3pm

The Setting Gallery, Three Storeys, Nailsworth, GL6 0JE

Lizzie Mabley – Printmaker and Fabric designer

Lizzie uses lino cut printmaking to design her fabrics. Inspired by nature and gardens – wild and curated, she often hand prints her fabrics. Others are scanned and printed digitally. Lizzies designs are fresh, vibrant and joyful!

Sophie Learmont – Starling Pots

From hand-decorated trinket dishes, inlaid side plates, single stem vases and decorated garland serving platters, Sophie designs and makes everything by hand, here in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire. Careful glaze choices add depth, surface interest and practicality to this functional stoneware tableware (It is food and dishwasher safe too!).

Gemma Pitman – Mixed media artist

Gemma has a lifelong passion for nature and the countryside. She is a self-taught artist and grew up experimenting with paint and clay in her mother’s home studio. As a mixed media artist, she uses inks, acrylics and pastels as well as monoprinting repurposed papers (often maps) for her collage artworks. Gemma works from her studio on the edge of Minchinhampton Common.

Claire Taverner – Artist

After graduating from Falmouth College of Art, Claire worked within a variety of creative roles and industries from photographic studios to marketing and branding agencies.

Her true passion has always been for drawing (ideally with traditional pen and paper!) and this has allowed her to develop the distinctive style which she showcases throughout her portfolio.

Joanna Dawson – Ceramics

After and eclectic career, Jo has returned to her first passion in the creative space.Post pandemic Joanna made it her mission to teach herself to throw clay on a wheel and now works predominantly from her studio in Box, Minchinhampton exhibiting locally and in some regional galleries.

Jo mainly works in stoneware clays and likes to create individual pieces with unique glazing, texture and form.

Frances Gibbs – Ceramics

Frances came to pottery later in life, throwing for the last 6 years and, in her work, tends to favour brighter colours rather than traditional murky ones. She produces whatever shape comes to mind and is not a lover of mass production. Frances’ work is simple but useful, not overly decorated but, she believes, a pleasure to have and hold.

Victoria Keble-Williams – Amberley Meadow Floral Art

Victoria works as a florist using her garden, cutting garden and meadow flowers to create naturally inspired floral arrangements for clients. Her love of nature, an acre gardenand her background in art, photography and styling have helped to influence her work. Victorias style is a relaxed one, using sustainable techniques, inspired by colour, texture and the seasons.

Kathy Clare – Ceramics

Working from her home in Amberley, Kathy slip-casts or hand builds in porcelain, with careful timings key to achieving a thin delicate layer of porcelain to gain the most translucency allowing light to illuminate the piece. The pieces are then hand finished in ceramic pigments and lustres.

Botanica - An exhibition of flowers, pottery, textiles and mixed media