cranborne chase woodfair

our first show this autumn is Cranborne Chase Woodfair
at the beautiful Larmer Tree Gardens in Dorset.

the show is this weekend - saturday 10th & sunday 11th october
and is open from 10am to 5pm both days.

you can find us in the shopping marquee where
we will be showing a range of our furniture & accessories
including coffee tables, mirrors & clocks, lamps & lanterns,
chopping boards & more.

we have never been to Larmer Tree Gardens before but from
the images we have seen, they look stunning
(fingers crossed for lovely sunshine).

there should be lots and lots to see at the show from furniture makers
to green wood workers, sustainable living exhibitors to basket makers,
conservation & wildlife groups to local food producers
and, of course, beautiful handmade work from makers & artists.


for more details visit www.woodfair.org

hope to see you there.


images 1, 3, 4 & 5 from larmertreegardens.co.uk

another busy week

It's feeling very autumnal around here which, as long as
the sun stays out, is fine and always looks beautiful here in Devon.

we've had another busy busy week and now it's the weekend
and that beautiful autumn sunshine has turned to wind and rain.
let's hope the sun returns for next weekend as we will be at a show
(more about that in the next post).

we got lots done this week:
we finally got all our gallery deliveries done,
took some of our furniture & accessories to another magazine
photo shoot -again in the Cotswolds
(more about that when the mag comes out),
and met up with the Love Factor gang to discuss another exhibition.

Glenn has been getting work ready for the show and I have been
making lanterns and getting our autumn & winter mail outs ready.
And we managed to clear a space at the back of our barn
ready for our winter wood stack (thanks to jackie & andy).

hope you are all having a lovely weekend.

inside cornwall magazine

inside cornwall magazine
have featured our reclaimed cornish slate mirrors
in the october issue (out now)


there is a little teeny tiny misprint:
our small cornish slate portrait mirrors pictured in the mag
are actually £40 (includes p&p to mainland uk), not £44.



thanks to Angela at the mag for contacting us about the article
and Kathy for writing the piece.

www.insidecornwall.co.uk

claire loder

Claire's new website is online and we think it's very cool.
click here to visit it


and we can't wait to get a copy of her new book - available soon



Claire will be exhibiting at Origin:
stand M6, week 2 - 13th to 18th october



www.claireloder.co.uk
www.claireloder.blogspot.com

yew tree gallery

sea pool and rose headland by michael sheppard

on our sort of day off, on thursday, we also popped into one
of our favourite galleries in Cornwall, the Yew Tree Gallery.

the road out of St.Ives toward St.Just is beautiful and the gallery
is just past Morvah, with sea views on one side and
the stunning Penwith Moors on the other side.

the gallery is a lovely space and the exhibitions are always good.

we totally fell in love with Michael Sheppard's beautiful paintings which
had been framed perfectly in slightly worn looking gold frames.
(I wish I could have bought one).

His next exhibition is at the Open Space Galleries in Penryn
which opens on the 9th october to 3rd november.

porthmeor artists studios

whenever we go to St.Ives, we always walk along Porthmeor beach
and look at this amazing building and dream about what it's like inside.
it houses Porthmeor artists studios, the St.Ives School of painting and
the local fishermens cellars, but we had never been inside .....
until thursday.

we had just missed all the other open studios but one was still open,
so we had a really nice chat with artist Iain Robertson who
shares one of the studios with his wife Clare Wardman.

image by Paul Massey

lust for life oil by Iain Robertson

the studios are beautiful but decaying and desperately need to be saved
from falling into the sea, basically. 3.7 million pounds is needed and
the artists, fishermen and the architect are interested in
restoring the buildings rather than altering them.

Clare Wardman's studio

we didn't get to take any photo's of inside so I have included a couple
by photographer Paul Massey and check out the video link below too

image by Paul Massey

there was an exhibition in one of the other studios that we visited too
in which all the resident artists had given a piece of work to raise
money for the restoration.
the buildings have been here for over 150 years, used by both
fishermen and artists such as Ben Nicholson and Francis Bacon
and it would be such a shame if they weren't saved.

for more info about the restoration, please visit: www.bsjwtrust.co.uk
there is also an article by Emma Thomas you should read - click here
and some great little videos about the studios - click here