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After qualifying in Health and Social Care, Karen spent her early working career in social work but then along came a husband who serves in the Royal Navy and two children. Maritime life took them to some fascinating countries and they didn't stand still for 20 years. 

Throughout this itinerant time though, pottery became a constant in Karen's life, starting with a part time three year Creative Pottery course at Highbury College of 2000 and then taking any opportunity to place with clay thereafter. 

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Arguably the most motivating experience of working with ceramics was during her time in Portugal under the tutelage of the highly inspirational, nationally renowned Helena Brizido. Helena gave Karen the confidence to take the leap forward to build her own workshop with a drive to design, create and fire her own functional and decorative stoneware. 

Each piece is completely unique: hand thrown on the wheel and trimmed before twice firing to very high temperatures with reactive, lead free glazes that produce a never ending array of beautiful finishes. No two pieces will ever be the same. 

Meg is a felt artist/wildlife illustrator living in the Forest of Dean, designing and handmaking everything herself. 

Meg is passionate about wildlife, the environment and the issues facing both. It is important too Meg that she can spread awareness through her art and creations. 

Using natural materials and fibres including bamboo, cotton, wool, wood and recycled card & paper. Meg always prioritises sourcing materials from other small local businesses wherever possible and keeping her impact on the planet as low as possible. The best thing about the materials used is that they can all bio degrade, be felted or shaped into something new, or pulled apart to be used as nesting material for wild birds. 

Each of Meg's sculptures are made by felting wool or bamboo fibres together. Barbed needles are pushed by hand into the fibres to weave them together tightly, shaping or attaching pieces together. A wire armature is used for larger animals to help keep them sturdy or posable. This process is very time consuming, and many hours or days can go into creating them. 

Meg especially loves making wild animals but also takes commissions for 2D pictures, 3D pet portraits or any custom request.

Abigail is a textile designer that specialises in digitally printed linen fabrics for the home. 
Digital print enables Abigail to fully translate her painterly and colourful floral and geometric drawings onto fabric. 
Fabrics are suitable for curtains, blinds, upholstery and cushions. 
​Abigail also designs a selection of embroidery kits.

From Ross-on-Wye, Rhys has always had a keen interest in the arts. Since gaining a degree in Fine arts at University College Falmouth he has gone on to show work in various locations around the country, including group and solo exhibitions in London. However, he chooses to stay rooted in the countryside exploring his environment to create paintings, drawings and his new venture, printmaking all from his home studio.

Rhys’ work focuses and aims to describe the rural environment he loves so dearly. 
He has a specific interest in surface, light, shade and colour. He enjoys experimenting with different mediums and has most recently taken up lino cutting, looking primarily at British wildlife. This is a much more controlled and thoughtful process, which is a great juxtaposition to his paintings.

His love of printmaking started whilst studying at university and he has since gone on to a unique linocut process. The process of lino cutting is one that takes a lot of care and precision; bringing focus to shapes, lines, mark making, and positive and negative space with rewarding results. After graduating in 2012, Rhys set about building a small independent business from his home studio, where he spends most days dividing time between his two passions; painting and printmaking.

Birds and the wildlife found in the hedgerows are evident in his printmaking practice. Each image is printed by hand with great care and attention to detail, most of the cards have their own unique characteristics because of this. They posses a tactile quality that can only be achieved from printing by hand, this is something that is very important to the bespoke quality of the final product.

We are Scott and Julie and we live in Garway, Herefordshire with our daughter Daisy and dog Martha.  

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Scott makes beautiful unique, tactile pieces from locally sourced wood.  He is currently making quirky shrink pots, feathery fan birds and stylish cutting boards and platters.  Julie makes cro-shades - light and lamp shades crocheted using wire covered in paper.

Owner of Livinloom Home, Gaby runs Livinloom Woven. From her home studio in the Forest of Dean, she weaves bespoke small-batch fabrics by the metre, creating homeware for the shop in Ross-on-Wye and supplying interior designers and other shops.

Primarily using wool, Gaby sources her materials from mills in Yorkshire and Donegal, Ireland.