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Jules Jules was formed in 2005 by Jules Miller.
After a career in graphics she found a new way to express her creativity and began making and designing jewellery. Due to the ever increasing popularity of her fused glass pieces she has put aside the jewellery and the business has grown to include her partner Charlie.

Together they design and handmake art glass gift items focusing on supplying the small independent retailer with new and fresh collections with prices at an affordable level.

Barbara enjoyed drawing and painting from an early age, but it was not until she met her husband, Marc Sewell, that she began serious art study. It was under the guidance and encouragement of David Holmes that Barbara learned how to combine colours and experiment with them. Her latest work shows the results of this learning curve.
Barbara draws her inspiration from nature. Her work reflects her spontaneous emotional response to her surroundings. She has been influenced by the works of Keith Vaughan, Peter Lanyon and the French painter, Pascal Magis, but she has certainly managed to find her own style and voice.
Having moved back to The Borders, Barbara’s work reflects an emotional response to the beautiful landscape and colours that surround her in Innerleithen.

Margaret was born in Dunfermline, Fife, and qualified as a primary school teacher where an ability to draw and paint was extremely useful. After her marriage to Mike and the birth of their two children she returned in earnest to her artistic work, concentrating on watercolours, with landscapes and flowers being favourite subjects.
She first exhibited in Cyprus where the family lived for 3 years in the’70s, and Mike’s subsequent Army postings around the world gave her opportunities to paint and exhibit in Hong Kong and Germany – she even staged an exhibition for the expatriate community in Canton in China in 1985, just as that country was re-opening to the west.
When Mike retired from the Army the family moved to Edinburgh, and the main inspiration for her present work is the Scottish landscape and its ever-changing light, weather and seasonal colours. In recent years she has branched out into pastel, mixed media and printmaking, mainly using linocuts.

From making our own clay to the finished product, each piece is handmade and decorated by a small team of craftspeople in Lochinver and Ullapool, Scotland. It takes time to create our products. Each item is hand painted. The artists are encouraged to innovate and develop designs, so no two pieces are the same. Individual pieces are signed by the artist. As each piece is different and will vary from the photographs.

Robyn Kinsman-Blake. After graduating from Edinburgh College of Art’ Jewellery and Silversmithing degree in 2009 I now work from my studio as part of the Kinsman Blake family gallery.

I love stories and try to infuse there life and movement into my jewellery, capturing characters as small as a starling and as dazzling as a trapeze artist full of circus magic.

I am aware of the environmental impact of the jewellery trade and where possible uses recycled and ethically sourced materials.  Increasingly I am being commissioned to create new jewellery from old pieces. New jewellery designed personally for the customer yet retaining the history and sentimental values of the original piece.

Gordon Finch has been turning wood since he can remember

Susan Mitchell Local Artist to Peebles

Darren Woodhead was born in West Yorkshire in 1971, but has lived in Scotland since 1996. He is a graduate of the Royal College of Art in London. All his work are watercolours, produced outside on location and drawn directly in brush.

By working direct from life, he aims to retain the freshness and energy that working outside gives, and revels in working in often extreme weather conditions.

Recently he published his second solo book ‘Up River, The Song of the Esk’ bringing together three years work from an appointed Artist in Residence position in the Scottish Borders. His first solo book ‘From Dawn Till Dusk’ published by Langford Press in autumn 2005 celebrated the wealth of natural history found along the forth as well as the Lammermuir Hills and the west coast. His paintings and drawings also feature in Drawing Birds by John Busby (2004).

Abi fell in love with the whole felting process immediately – getting soapy with wet felting or the precision detailing of needle felting. Fairly soon our house became full of felted objects as I experimented with my new found skill.

I’ve always loved creating unique presents for my children and family. One of the gifts I have made for my girls, was a pair of felt fairies which they loved. Whenever they were invited to a party, they would always ask me to make more of these as presents for their friends.

The reaction from both the children and their parents was so positive that I was encouraged to start making them to sell, and the idea for red cat was born!

About Michael James Hunter

Since starting as a trainee glass blower at Wedgwood Glass in 1974, Michael has exhibited internationally and has work in both private and public collections across the world.

He has demonstrated and given presentations of his work across UK, in Cologne, Germany as well as New Jersey, Chicago IL, Texas, Oklahoma, New England, Tacoma WA, Norfolk VA, Dearborn & Flint MI in the US, where he has been a regular visitor since 2006.

I specialise in wheel-thrown porcelain.

I attended Art College as a student but I never quite found my place in the usual artistic range. Something always seemed to be missing. I eventually chose a different path, closer to nature. I discovered my passion for clay by pure chance, and I have now come full circle, to a material as ancient as the Earth, and to a place that feels like home, behind a potter’s wheel.

I’m incredibly passionate about ceramic – I pour my heart and soul into it. For me it’s both a meditative process and a constant challenge.

I would define my work as minimalist. I favour shapes that are simple yet sophisticated, with clean lines and a quiet but powerful presence that works in any decor.

George Young is a potter. He went to art college in Dundee and taught pottery at Peebles High School before setting up his own pottery.

The problem with pottery is that when you’re buying a pot, you’re buying a piece of time. It’s not like a machine that you can turn the knob up and make it go faster, it’s not like a warehouse where you can just go and get another box off the shelf if people want more things. Each thing takes a specific amount of time.

It’s totally labour intensive. And especially when you do everything… I mix the clay, I mix the glazes, I make the pots, fire them, decorate them, glaze them. All the processes, each one of those takes a certain amount of time.