Monthly Archive for September, 2010
Interest Free Purchasing Scheme
We are pleased to be able to offer our UK customers the Arts Council ‘Own Art’ interest-free purchasing scheme. This offers up to £2000 interest free credit over 10 months.
As a customer at the gallery you can buy several items together in one transaction and we are happy to assist you with information about all the artists and makers as jewellery, metalwork or paintings are included in the scheme.
The process is very simple and takes about 10 minutes to complete. The scheme is run in partnership with Arts Council England and the HFC Bank and is only available in selected galleries. Two forms of identification are required and can be processed while you wait.
Matthew and Louise Dwyer undertake commissions for both metal work and jewellery.
Louise works in gold and silver with diamonds and other precious stones. Commissions are undertaken for individual designs from wedding bands and engagement rings to contemporary earrings, necklaces, cufflinks and brooches. Louise encourages people to come to the gallery to discuss design ideas for specially crafted pieces, which can then be made to meet your specific requirements. Louise is able to advise on ring sizing, re-sizing, adaptation of existing jewellery pieces and repairs.
Matthew undertakes metalwork commissions for the garden and home in domestic and architectural settings. He is able to work to your individual design requirements or alternatively can provide you with a initial design. Matthew produces a variety of pieces: gates, railings, curtain poles, wall brackets, bird feeders, weather-vanes, candlesticks, wall scones and hooks. Upon completion Matthew is able to install the work in your garden or home.
Louise and Matthew provides a free consultation and quotation service, please phone on 01439 770 881 or email louise@saltboxgallery.co.uk with inquiries. You are also very welcome to visit the gallery to discuss your design ideas.
Bespoke pieces by other artists and makers can also be commissioned through the Saltbox Gallery, please get in touch if you would like further information.
Monday to Wednesday: 10.00 – 3.45
Thursday to Saturday: 10.00 – 4.30
Sunday: Closed
Appointments can be arranged please contact
- Saltbox Gallery & Workshop
- 2 Castlegate
- Helmsley
- York YO62 5AB
Tel: 01439 770 881
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Scarves, bags, hats, quilts, cushions, lavender bags, jewellery and textile artworks.
Artists include Lindsey Tyson detailed scarves, Tessa Badcock hand-woven scarves, Hazel Clark rugs, hand made gifts by Sally Stone and bags by Show Pony.
Lindsey Tyson -Textile Designer
Lindsey is a textile designer with a first class honors degree, a specialism in jacquard weaving, and over a decade of industrial experience. After a lifetime of making and creating, Lindsey has finally set up her own business to create wonderful pieces of art and textiles, as well as teaching others how to express themselves through art and design.
Ceramics
When Chiu was little, it was with pen and paper that she felt expressive.. drawing and drawing without thought.. The feeling never left her, and Chiu graduated to paint, study and then ceramics..
She studied in Taiwan, where she was born and grew up, during the early stages of creating and developing her work she held her first exhibition in Taipei. The exhibition was successful and she received commissions for both private and business clients..
She loves the process of creating and also showing her ceramics and paintings but when people ask about her work it is a difficult process to explain, she has no deep meanings, not ones that she recognises consciously;
She produces from her heart, sensing it feels right. The creative process becomes all consuming and fluid, making her aware that what she is creating feels correct and she just loves expressing it.
Ceramics was an adventure into clay and glaze, and she studied hard to be able to create the feeling she wanted.
Ceramic
Eric works principally in raku where clay takes a spectacular elemental journey through fire, air and water to become ceramic. Random crackle glazes dress tightly controlled, thrown forms evoking aeronautical/spacecraft engines, seedpods, nuts and flowers. Decoration, where applied, is simple and geometric using tape or pre-cut paper shape “resists” counterpointing the crackle, which is the “signature” of raku.
He also uses the “naked raku” process where the bisqued pots have a layer of raw slip and sacrificial glaze applied, which is removed after the “smoking phase” of cooling the red hot pots to reveal the carbon patterning which has impregnated the pot body.
Ceramics – soda glaze.
Ruthanne was born in California, near Majave Desert and moved to England in 1968, it was her surroundings of the desert that formed the initial inspiration for making pots. She then went on to study at Goldsmiths College in London.
Ruthanne uses design techniques in which soda and sodium carbonate are strong features . Sodium vapour glazing emphasises her work making the details considered within the finished glazes,of shiny or matt textures, shadows and highlights. Spouts and lips are a feature of her work and have a strong functional aspect. Each of Ruthanne’s pots are an original piece and as she expresses have an “honesty and integrity”.
Ruthanne was recently awarded first place in the acclaimed Texas Teapot Tournament 2007. The work is now on show in the museum in Houston.
Horsechestnut
Still life in the true sense as these exquisite pieces of work are reflective ot the tromp l’oiel and early still life paintings of fruits and organic forms. Their detail is almost prefect in representational.
This stand- alone collection, established in 1984 by MA Ceramics graduates, Lorraine Taylor and Nicky Smart, is now considered the best in it’s field.
The attention to detail is paramount, each piece is individually considered, with several layers of glaze added to create both colour and texture, giving a ‘super-real’ effect and accuracy of finish.