List of members in alphabetical order.
For more information, please click the link to the makers own website where applicable.
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William Andrews
Woodwork
Email: william@andrews8.freeserve.co.uk
7 Clapslaps View, Kilmarnock, KA1 3TN.
Tel: 01563 537443
"I design and make a range of products using both indigenous and exotic woods from proven sustainable sources. Also incorporating recycled materials to make boxes and decorative household items."
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Alison Bell
Textile Artist
Email: alisonfbell@btopenworld.com
Website: www.alisonbell.co.uk
"The methods I use are based on traditional textile techniques such as painting, printing, stitch and collage on fabric. The integration of textile crafting skills and wide format digital printing is opening up new worlds of expressin, which speak of time and place."
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Lise Bech
Basketry
Email: earthrite@gn.apc.org
Website: www.bechbaskets.net
Tel: 01290 661 082
"Lise has been making baskets for 20 years growing many different varieties of willow which add scent, colour and a sense of place to her sculptural asymmetric pieces, garden structures, table-ware as well as her recent range of willow jewellery."
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Maggie Broadley
Non-functional Ceramics
Email: maggie_broadley@hotmail.com
Address: 1 Braehead Cottages, Muirkirk Road, Lugar, By Cumnock, East Ayrshire, KA18 3LN.
Tel: 01290 424241 or 07738321446
"Hand built non-functional stoneware vessels. Controlled forms contrast with
rugged crater glazed surfaces, reflective of landscape and the seasons." |
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Liz Brown
Hand felted textiles
Email: info@heartfeltbyliz.com
Website: www.heartfeltbyliz.com
Address: 32 Mauchline Road, Ochiltree, KA18 2QA.
Tel: 01290 700 437 |
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Geoff Forrest
Basketry, living willow sculptures, furniture and turnery
Email: enquiries@sustainabledesigncrafts.co.uk
Website: www.sustainabledesigncrafts.co.uk
Address: Lamdoughty Farm, Loch Doon, by Dalmellington, KA6 7QE.
Tel: 0845 458 2638
"Geoff Forrest is a willow weaver, green woodworker and rustic furniture maker. He uses traditional skills to weave, cleave and shape wood to produce spoons, baskets, chairs, arbours and much more."
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Julie Gurr
Basketmaking, Willow
Email: juliegurr@cooptel.net
Website: www.willowweaver.com
Address: Silverburn Barn, Arran Nurseries, Whiting Bay, Isle of Arran, KA27 8QT (opp Whiting Bay golf course).
Tel: 01770 700388 or Mobile: 07973 508382
"Open most Wed/Thurs/Fridays 11-5pm (please check website for confirmation)" |
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Margaret MacDonald
Porcelain jewellery and decorative ceramics
Email: john.macdonald123@btinternet.com
Address: Cutstraw Cottage, Cutstraw Road, Stewarton, KA3 5HU.
Tel: 01560 482 501
"Margaret MacDonald is a well established Scottish potter, who from her studio in Stewarton, Ayrshire, has built a reputation for creating distinctive and highly individual ceramic designs. Margaret works exclusivly in porcelain, using its fine clay body to produce an extensive selection of glazed and lustered jewellry as well as a range of decorative ware."
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Anne MacFarlane
Pen and ink drawings and prints, coloured paintings, jewellery and silk.
Email: duncannemcf@hotmail.com
Address: 20 Ardlochan Ave., Maidens, KA26 9NN.
Tel: 01655 331 418
"Unusual textures, meduims and vibrant colours inspired the range of original paintings, hand dyed silks and contemporary jewellery. The traditional 'Fineline' pen and ink prints of Scottish scenes are available mounted and framed."
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Ruth Mae
Turned bowls in wood
Email: ruth.mae@bigwig.net
Address: Southbank Workshop and Studio, Southbank Farm, Shannochie, Isle of Arran, KA27 8SH.
Tel: 01770 820373
"Hand turned bowls from Scottish grown hardwoods from windblown trees or sustainable sources. Functional and decorative/sculptural contemporary woodturned items on a smaller scale to create vessels which are more accessible and can be held in the hand."
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Lesley Martin
Paintings in various media
Email: theoldchurch@talktalk.net
Website: www.lesleyjmartin.co.uk
Address: The Old Church, Glasgow Road, Muirkirk, KA18 3RN.
Tel: 01290 660045
Mobile: 07503001842
"Modern artworks in a variety of media specialising in working on large canvases. However I also work with smaller paintings in pastel and watercolours. The paintings are displayed within a spacious setting in a renovated church." Open by appointment only.
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Hilary McQueen
Green and seasoned woodwork
Email: hmcqueen@quilkieston.plus.com
Address: Quilkieston Farm, Stair, Mauchline, KA5 5HS.
Tel: 01292 591 302
"I use traditional tools and methods to create unique, aesthetically pleasing and functional pieces, whilst retaining the original shape and form of the wood."
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Sandy Mitchell
Jewellery in mixed media
Email: info@sandymitchell.co.uk
Website: www.sandymitchell.co.uk
Address: 20 New Cottages, Dunaskin, Patna, KA6 7JF.
Tel: 01292 531 320
"Contemporary sculptural jewellery from silver-plated and enamelled wire, glass beads and textiles."
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Janet Renouf Miller
Dyer and Fibre Artist
Email: jrmservices@tiscali.co.uk
Website: www.createwithfibre.co.uk
Address: 29 Dalton Avenue, Dalmellington KA6 7QR
Tel: 01292 550393 Mobile: 07712 575874
"Hand-dyed and hand made items including hand-dyed knitting yarns, woven rugs and felt. Dyeing, Spinning and Weaving workshops - course programme and catalogue on request. Spinning and Weaving commissions undertaken."
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Peinn Mor Pottery - Keith and Beryl Dawdry
Functional and decorative ceramics
Email: info@peinnmor.co.uk
Website: www.peinnmor.co.uk
Address: The Pottery, Pinmore, Girvan, KA26 0TR.
Tel: 01465 841 662
"Imaginative ceramics for all occasions." |
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Susan Roberts - Heart of Glass
Glass Art - Stained, fused and mosaic craft
Email: suse@marchmount14.freeserve.co.uk
Website: Coming soon... www.heartofglassstudio.co.uk
Address: Studio 30, Ritchie Street, West Kilbride, KA23 9AL.
Tel: 01294 829 860 or 07769 718 591 |
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Felicity Walker
Artist and Teacher
54 Main Street, Loans KA10 7EX
Tel: 01292 317894
"I teach and paint using the Ayrshire landscape and floral as my inspiration and produce colourful, expressive works in a variety of media."
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We Make Pots - Clare and Simon Dawdry
Functional ceramics
Email: info@wemakepots.com
Website: www.wemakepots.com
Address: The Pottery, Pinmore, Girvan, KA26 0TR.
Tel: 07789 348 477
"Thrown, functional stoneware and earthenware ceramics for contemporary and traditional settings."
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S. C. Wilkinson
Copper foiled stained glass, paintings and collage.
Email: scwilkinsonsketchbooks@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: 01294 277 282
"I work in my sketchbooks, out of doors, throughout the Scottish seasons. Back home in the workshop, I enjoy translating my drawings/paintings into small copper foiled stained glass suncatchers and panels.I undertake commissions for all occassions."
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Winifred Wright
Ceramics
Email: girvangallery@yahoo.co.uk
Website: www.thewavecraft.co.uk
Address: Girvan Pottery, 18 Hamilton Street, Girvan.
Also, The Wave Gallery, 4 Knockcushan Street, Girvan.
Tel: 01465 712897
"The Wave Gallery - exhibits original work by local artists (including other Ayrshire Makers), ceramics, fabric, mixed media, paintings.
Girvan Pottery - Workshop producing studio ceramics. Also individual and group tuition."
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Yungi - Brian Young
Woven & knitted textiles
Email: yungi@fsmail.net
Website: Coming soon... www.yungi.co.uk
Address: Holmes Farm, Drybridge, Irvine, KA11 5BS.
Tel: 01294 311 210 or 07932 112 639
"Contemporary/ classic knitted scarves, hats, gloves suitable for menswear and womenswear. All in 100% pure luxury lambswool. Yungi Gallery open next to studio with an open garden and plant sale for the weekend." |
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