After Jan Tillett exhibited with other craftsmen and women last year at a Christmas fair, things were so rushed coming up to December 25, there was not a lot of time for anything else. Most people need more than one fair a year so she decided she would organize her own craft fair which is on today and tomorrow at the Jubilee Hall in Chagford.
LV JewelleryPrices begin at pounds10 and visitors here with not be disappointed with a most unusual range of ideas, combining a great deal of originality with a practicality needed in today's high-tech world. For example, Jan Tillett's wonderful soft felt handbag is practical, but Pauline Lee's version is equally appealing, only this one is a ceramic.
Pauline's aim is to make enjoyable and beautiful pieces with a little mystery. Most pieces here are fun and agreeable, especially the Wallets And Pouches Replica work of Tati Dennehy, a ceramic sculptor who made the beguiling Acrobat Pot in raku, only 9in (23cm) tall for pounds76. This self- taught sculptor exhibits here and the USA, and likes the idea of sculpting for the garden, offering plant pots, dishes, candle holders and the like from pounds3.50 mainly with a definite figurative logic.
The human form has also been uppermost in April Doubleday's mind when crafting jewellery in silver, although Peter Vernon's artistic woodwork would appear at home anywhere in the home, so
embroidered patches gentle and smooth are these outlines. Combining memories of Bermuda and Scotland, Jo Haldane has taught and painted for many years and is always aware of the importance of light and colour in her watercolours.
Doors open on both days at 10.30am and today close at 5pm but tomorrow they shut an hour earlier.
Here will be the latest fashionable ceramics, textiles, jewellery, hats, bags, woodwork, pictures, glass, furniture, photography, sculpture and a range of hand made knitwear by Lucy Croose, which includes some charming children's bonnets.
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