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1 Biggiesknowe PEEBLES EH45 8HS. Scotland
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.
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.
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.