Siân has been involved in aboriculture for over twenty years and planted different varieties of willow for basketmaking material at her then home in Pembrokshire.

Combining these colourfull homegrown withies with green and buff Somerset willow the basketware produced by Siân is both decorative and functional having many uses around the house and garden.

The range includes wastepaper, shopping and laundry baskets, table baskets for fruit, bread and plants and storage baskets for vegetables, toys, wools, etc. While using centuries old traditional skills Siân enjoys creating shapes and mixing colours to give her work an individual and modern appeal.

All of my work is hand thrown and spontaneously arrived at in both form and glaze finish. No two pieces are the same, not only in shape, since the 'Raku' method of glazing gives a unique finish every time. My approach to my work is simple, I have no pre-conceived ideas of what I want to make, but rather see where the clay and the mood take me. Influences range from natural forms and colours to Eastern art.
Prices start at £20.00, and mail orders are welcome

Riitta was born in Finland where she was first introduced to weaving by her grandmother. Her lifelong interest in textile crafts led to a college course in design and woven textiles in Finland. She moved to Britain in 1974 after marrying a Welshman.

Riitta produces a wide variety of work from rugs and linen tablecloths to free fibre art pieces. She is inspired by trees, reflections in water and the effects of light and shadows together with the local landscape. Most of her pictures are woven using inlay techniques to produce slightly abstract images which allow the viewer to interpret them in their own way. The colour and texture of the yarn plays a very important role in achieving the right effects. The majority of her work is woven in linen, using yarns that she has dyed and spun herself.

I work as a printmaker and painter in a studio overlooking the Cleddau river on the upper reaches of the Milford Haven. The rugged Pembrokeshire coastline, rough stone walls and lichen encrusted trees have heightened awareness of textures in my work and led to experiments in painting and printmaking to reflect this.

As a result of several visits to India, colour has become increasingly important to me, leading again to experimental abstract and figure work in this field.

Susan has exhibited widely both at home and abroad and having been a founder member of the Greenwich Printmakers in London, her work was selected in 1999 for the fifth time for the Welsh National Eisteddfod.

Whilst I await Steve's pictures, I've left you this image of Sara's to enjoy. Normal service will be resumed at some point, I'm sure.
Mick.

Trained as a woodwind instrument maker, Mick began to make bowls as a relief from the more rigidly defined activity of instrument making. Having lived in Lampeter for twenty years, by now most of the wood used comes from local sources.

The bowls are normally intended to be used, although occasional pieces that are purely for display creep in from time to time. As well as the turned form, bowls are often also decorated with burnt in stamps that were inspired by Saxon funeral pottery, encountered during a spell as a pole-lathe turner at West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village in Suffolk.

As well as his work as a woodturner, Mick is also active as a canoe instructor, making and repairing paddles and boats.

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