Lost in Art

Choughs
Choughs Crafty Upcycling is an interesting and popular shop. Bursting with arts and crafts all individually and uniquely produced by local people. It is also known for its upcycled, painted furniture, each piece having been rescued from the tip and brought back to life. We are stockists for Cornish Mineral Paint and Annie Sloan Chalk Paint.
https://www.facebook.com/ChoughsCraftyUpcycling/

Jacqueline Rappaport – Hagstone Pottery
Jacks established Hagstone Pottery in 2014 and makes contemporary slipware which is wheel thrown and altered and decorated with energy and brio. She uses a combination of slips, sgraffito and underglazes. Jacks also makes playful and original hand-built stoneware vessels, often inspired by the coastal landscapes close to her home in Cornwall.
https://www.hagstone.co.uk/

Meriel Chudleigh – Meriel Chudleigh Pottery
Meriel’s interest in clay began back in the 1990s and for the past 6 years she has been making functional and decorative earthenware in her home studio, more recently woodfired stoneware with local master potter John Webb. She uses red terracotta clay with cream coloured slip, experimenting with movement, opacity and mark making.
https://www.instagram.com/merielchudleigh/

Roberta Hopkins – Roberta Hopkins Studio
Roberta is an abstract artist working with acrylics, printmaking and mixed media, which is inspired by the colours and textures of the rocks and rugged coastline of Cornwall. She also makes collages from prints and unique cards, along with handmade sketch books.
https://www.lostwithiel.org.uk/business/roberta-hopkins-studio

Jane Marks – Jane Marks Pottery
Jane has been making pots for 50 years now. She makes brightly coloured pottery, mostly thrown but some is hand built. Jane often runs pottery workshops and displays her work at the Red Store in Lerryn on occasions.
https://www.facebook.com/JaneMarksPotterTeacherOfPotteryMosaicsAndPrinting

Elaine Foster–Gandey – Elaine Foster Gandey Art
Elaine is a visual artist and creative educator with a background in the fashion industry. Elaine has recently moved into the town and opened her own gallery. Elaine is joined in her gallery with the following artists: Denise Watts, Elaine Foster-Gandey, Jane Walker, Jo Hague. Lia Eden Lane, Nicky Harwood, Sian Cornish and Sue Spence.
https://www.elainefostergandey.com/

Barbara McMillan
Barbara trained at the Bath Academy of Art and ran the art departments in several schools. With her own work she has explore the Cornish landscape, from wild days up on the moors to the coastline around Fowey and St Austell Bay. As well as floral scenes from her garden and travels abroad. Barbara works with pastels but most of her work is in oil based on sketches made ‘en plieu air’.
http://barbaramcmillan.co.uk/

Sara Lamb – Lambs
Lamb’s gallery opened 2 years ago to support local artists and provide a range of exhibitions for locals and visitors to enjoy. Sara will be focusing on 3D work with experimental sculpture. Bringing together Lostwithiel artists and Plymouth University students to add extra interest and diversity. Work will be in metal, glass and stone. Sara will also display some of her own paintings.
https://www.lostwithiel.org.uk/business/lambs

Jackie Moore – Homefront
Jackie learnt how to make hand stitched curtains and roman blinds 15 years ago. She now makes bespoke curtains, blinds, cushions and lampshades for her customers. Homefront offer a personal service measuring at the customers home and offering a variety of fabrics and finishes, which you will be able to see today.
https://www.homefrontlostwithiel.co.uk/

Mark Cordory – The Mess Hall Courtyard
Mark has been working in the TV, film and festivals industries since the late 1980’s. His work includes 3 years as the Head of Department making props for Doctor Who along with working with people such as Iron Maiden. Mark’s work generally involves costumes, puppets, props and set dressing. He works in fabric and leather, plus a lot of up cycled materials, along with cast latex sculptured elements.
https://markcordory.com/
Come and see Mark demonstrating his skills.
Timings: 10am, 11am and 12am. Artist Talk: 1pm.

Sarah Preece – Sarah Preece Studios, in the walled garden beyond the Mess Hall Courtyard
Sarah is opening her studio and garden for exploration of traditional hand crafts with other local artists and makers. You can come along and watch, learn and get involved. Crafts will include block printing, green wood-working, twine making and leather working.
Timings: 10am, 11am and 12am.
Suitable for all ages but children must be accompanied.

LilyBoo
LilyBoo is a craft shop situated in the centre of Lostwithiel. Run by Hayley Toms who is passionate about the impact crafts and making can have on your wellbeing. Having spent 24 years as a nurse Hayley set up LilyBoo just over 2 years ago. The shop is only a small part of the business, with craft workshops running most days, LilyBoo also runs Craft Fayres, has their own Craft kits and is launching Craft Retreats and Craft subscription boxes. They will also be exhibiting work from Ken Robertson and Lily Toms.
https://www.lilyboocornwall.co.uk/

Moleworth and Bird
Molesworth and Bird have recently opened in Lostwithiel and create pressed seaweed art. The space is their new studio, website and storage stock space. They create unique seaweed pressings from the British Southwest Coast. Molesworth and Bird have a love of nature and the outdoors which inspires their work.
https://www.molesworthandbird.com/

Jo Hague – Jo Hague Designs (based at the Earl of Chatham)
Jo officially started her work in January 2021 after completing a degree at Falmouth University. Jo designs and makes 3D sculptural wall and hanging artworks for indoor and outdoor spaces. She repurposes industrial plastic waste and at times will combine plastics with 100% organic wool felt.
https://www.johague.co.uk/

Samuel Winterbourn – A Tale of Nature Designs
Samuel is a creative artist, designer, illustrator and stylist. Working with illustrative design has allowed him to collaborate with other artists and designers and he has created his own textile range with Ulster Weavers. He has also designed for Poppy Treffry and the Woodland Trust. Sam’s work is inspired by his immense love of nature, taking inspiration from the wild flora and fauna. His work includes watercolours and fine line art.
https://www.ataleofnature.co.uk/

Jane Walker – Jane Walker Studio
After over a decade living and working in Singapore, Jane’s studio is now based in Lostwithiel Cornwall. After five seasons in her gallery, Troy Town Gallery in Fowey, Jane returned to art school at Arts University Plymouth in 2021 for her MA in Painting. Jane focused her research on abstract figurative oil painting and painting from the unconscious, responding to the themes of The Human Gaze, The Beauty Myth and creating presence in painting.
https://www.facebook.com/jane.walker.965

Vicki Carver - Choughs
Vicki has been crafting for over 10 years and is the co-owner of Choughs, on Fore Street (number 1 on the trail). Vicki will be exhibiting and demonstrating her decoupage work. This will include decorative furniture and objects with pictures.
https://www.facebook.com/ChoughsCraftyUpcycling/

Lita Elliot - Choughs
Lita has been crafting for over 10 years and is the other co-owner of Coughs in town. Lita is going to be demonstrating how to make lampshades on the day as well as exhibiting her work.
https://www.facebook.com/ChoughsCraftyUpcycling/

Natalie Toms - Natalie Toms Wildlife Artist
Natalie is a Cornish wildlife artist and has been drawing since a very young age, becoming a self-employed artist in 2016. She draws inspiration from Cornwall’s diverse countryside and coast, which has shaped her connection to the natural world. Natalie works from her garden surrounded by wild hedgerows, fields and woodland.
https://natalietoms.com/

Bodmin and District Wood Turners
The Club has been in existence for some 20 years and it promulgates the art and craft of woodturning. The club meets twice a month with a demonstration on a Thursday evening and a training session on a Saturday. Members make wooden objects, such as lamps, stools, bowls and candlesticks.
https://www.bdwt.co.uk/

Belinda Latimer – Belinda Latimer Designs
Belinda has been creating her own art pieces since 2015, having been a secondary school teacher for 14 years. Her work is in a range of media in 2 and 3D, from paintings to wire, textiles to printmaking. All of Belinda’s work is filled with colour and texture, inspired by her wonderful surroundings and its inspirational energy.
https://www.facebook.com/BelindaLatimerCreative/

Alison Lamb – Ali’s Cards
Alison began making cards within the past 12 months as she found it extremely relaxing. She works with card and paper and finds that she is drawn to side scene cards as they can be more expressive than a flat card.

Ginny Norris – Seaview Crochet
Ginny makes crochet garments from jumpers to cardigans, socks to scarves. She started making for herself about 10 years ago and for others with the last 3 years. Ginny loves colour and a good quality of yarn which are from natural fibres and recycled.
https://www.facebook.com/seaviewcrochet

Rosie Wiscombe – Jeanie & Me
Rosie makes contemporary bags and garments from recycled jeans and second-hand garments. She loves the playful and colourful fabrics with a focus on subtly recycled details. Rosie’s work focuses on sustainability and an eco-friendly ethos.
https://www.jeanieandme.co.uk/

Angela Richards – Jewel Box Art
Angela has been creating her artwork for the past 6 years. Creating pictures and cards from recycled and some new jewellery. Her work is unique with her own designs captured in colour and sparkling jewels.
https://www.facebook.com/angela.richards.94214508

Margaret Fraser – Wobbly Pottery
Maggie commenced her making of pots about 2 years ago having previously worked with stone wear clay. She now hand builds her work and concentrates on small items.

Pam Middleton – Pamsky Knits
Pam creates handknitted items for babies and children. Having knitted her whole life, she commenced Pamsky Knits 3 years ago. She designs all her work to create colour clothes for youngsters. Pam’s garments are one of a kind.
https://www.facebook.com/pamskyknits

Lorna Tremayne – Lorna Tremayne Art
Lorna has been painting her whole life and has been a full-time artist for the past 3 years. She creates locally inspired landscapes and abstracts as well as sea glass jewellery. Lorna will be exhibiting original artworks and fine art quality framed prints. Lorna works in mixed media, but mostly in acrylics.
https://www.lornatremayne-art.com/

Linda Moffatt – Lorna Moffatt Art
Linda has always loved painting and creating and on retiring in 2021 she has been painting on a regular basis. Linda is self-taught and mostly paints in watercolours in a loose and colourful way. Using bold brushstrokes and mark making, this type of painting allows Lorna greater freedom to express her love of colour. She also creates botanical plaques and colourful abstract coasters. https://www.instagram.com/lindamoffatt_art/

Debbie Martin – Cornish Paper Cut Art
Debbie has been making for the past 10 years. Her work is a collection of vibrant, quirky and original paper cut art, inspired by the sea. Debbie uses colour repeat art which includes boats, crabs, swimmers and lobsters, along with using repurposed vintage maps which include hand cut rolling hills and sea vessels.
https://www.cornishpapercutart.co.uk/

Alan Goatman
Ever since Alan was a child, he had a fascination with wood and it became a passion at the age of 12, when he bought his first lathe and explore the possibilities of woodturning. He spent his teenage years making and creating turned products. Alan’s hobby was put aside for most of his life due to working as a self-employed carpenter. Now Alan has some spare time due to retirement he has rekindled his passion for turning and making wooden objects and introducing different mediums such as resins.

Ruth Taylor – Ruth Taylor Art
Ruth has always been drawing from her earliest memory. She enjoys drawing people predominantly in pen and line but also works in watercolours, pencil, oil, chalk and fabric. Ruth is inspired by people watching and buildings and has always drawn towards humour and the absurd.
https://www.facebook.com/ruthtaylorartistcornwall

Lucy Reynolds – Lucy Reynolds Illustrations
Lucy’s work is mostly with watercolours and fine liners, which enable her to create quirky colourful illustrations. Lucy commenced her creative work as a child because she loved drawing, painting and model making. She will be exhibiting framed and unframed prints, greetings cards, tea towels, sketchbooks and bookmarks.
https://www.ldr-illustration.co.uk/About

Richard Bennett
Richard has painted all of his life having previously having his own gallery. His work now is exhibited in a number of galleries around Cornwall. Richard now works in oil paint and has become captivated by ‘plein-aire’ painting, which he wishes he discovered years ago. Richard’s works focuses on areas he visits from Cornwall to Yorkshire and Devon.
https://www.richardebennettpaintings.co.uk/

Margot Hartley – Margot Hartley Jewellery
Margot commenced her handmade jewellery business in 1986. She uses copper brass, sterling silver, gold, stones and beads, along with authentic Cornish gems. Her inspiration comes from flora architecture and simple form. She works from her own drawings.
https://www.margothartleyjewellery.com/

Helen Parrott – From Acorns to Oaks
Helen’s work is all about the shapes, forms and colours of nature. She loves using pigment rich, waxy pencils to build up rich layers of colour with careful blending. Helen teaches many forms of mindful flow creative activities. She will be exhibiting her own work and the work of her group ‘Colouring for Calm & Connection’.
https://www.fromacornstooaks.co.uk/

Helen Jones – Boosey and Jones
Helen’s work focuses on screen printing fabric, which she uses to make accessories for the home. All her designs are hand drawn, taking inspiration from the countryside and coastline around Cornwall. Helen hand dyes her fabric and block prints. Helen will be showing the process of dyeing fabric on the day.
https://www.booseyandjones.co.uk/home

Mike Poole – Springer Woodturning
Mike commences with sourcing wood from a Cornish supplier and devotes as much time as needed to each piece to get the best result he can. Mike produces bowls, platter, pepper mills, vases, light pulls etc, some being functional and others for the joy of making them.

Richard Squires – St Austell College
Richard will be joining us for the day displaying students work from the College. We may also be lucky enough to have students popping by. There will be a range of work from watercolour, acrylics to sculptures.
https://www.cornwall.ac.uk/locations/cornwall-college-st-austell/

Julia Squires – Freddie’s Fibre Friends
Freddie’s Fibre Friends is a Community Interest Group set up in 2021 to offer sensory fibre craft to children with special educational needs and those who are struggling with their wellness. The sensory activities give children a break from their busy lives and a chance to relax and have fun.
https://www.freddiesfibrefriendscic.co.uk/

Eleanor Russell–Hsieh
Eleanor is an artist and printmaker based in Cornwall. Experimenting with various mark-making techniques, from delicate scratching of dry point to the looser monotype method. Eleanor loves her work to evoke a sense of intrigue, inviting the viewer to consider what each image represents.
https://www.eleanorrussellhsieh.com/