Inspiring: Barbara Gilhooly {maker/artist}

small biz, surface design, the crafted object

Barbara Gilhooly’s work is seductive in its multilayered colours, its bright patterns and flowers, its hints of mid-century style. And she amazes with her variety of mediums and breadth of skill – painting, printmaking, wire and wood sculpture, just to...

Inspiring: Elly MacKay, TheaterClouds

illustration, the crafted object

I can’t get over how delicate and lovely these images are from Elly Mackay, the artist behind theaterclouds. They glow like warm memories of childhood, viewed through a magical peephole.     Elly is part craftsperson, part theatre-designer, and part...

Inspiration : Laurie Poast {ceramics}

the crafted object

Laurie Poast grew up in a little farming village in Wisconsin, dreaming of the far-off places of her ancestors and pondering the magic of craftsmanship in the workshop of her father, the master luthier Ron Poast. It was the architecture of her heritage in...

Inspiring : Ruchika {ceramics}

the crafted object

    Ceramicist Ruchika Madan learnt to say no the hard way, but it was one of the best realizations she ever had. “I was initially so eager for work, I found it very hard to refuse projects that I didn’t want to do, or wholesale production...

Inspiring : Whimsy Milieu {craft}

the crafted object

  Jacqueline Chan finds inspiration everywhere, from the curiosities of the natural world to delectable French patisserie and everything in between. Wooden rings with painted diamonds, colourful leather concoctions of necklaces with names like “Sweet...