Greg Kent

Your wood comes via local tree surgeons.  Do you give them a list of trees you are after, or is it a mystery delivery? I collect wood from wherever I…


Philip Walker

Explain the importance of both Qest and training with Alison Crowther. My scholarship funding from Qest provides an opportunity to have dedicated…


Patricia Shone

Your method is very manual and physical discuss.Forest Jar, 2021, height 23cm The feel of soft clay in my hands and between my fingers. Years of…


Frances Priest

Discuss the importance of detail in your work I have always been drawn to intricate things, providing a place for concentration focus and respite……


Laura Baruël

Your work is varied from origami, plant printing and large paper art. How and why have Nordic flowers played such an important role in this work? At…


Nigel Cheney

Your work is often full of storytelling – comment. I am driven by narrative. I tend to anthropomorphise to an unhealthy extent and from an early age…


Nigel Cheney

Your work is often full of storytelling – comment.   I am driven by narrative. I tend to anthropomorphise to an unhealthy extent and from an…


Paula Kovarik

Your most resent exhibition is titled, ‘Stitched Dissent'.  Discuss the title and why you feel personally, the need to use art in relations to the…


Eva Ennist

Can you explain about your residency at Tartu? Your personal background with Estonia Your mother’s working gloves How these two aspects influenced…


Norm Sartorius

You comment, “It’s (a spoon) an instrument, a tool of nurturing that is universal, or very close to universal, in the human experience.” Discuss.…


Reiko Miyagi

East meets West and Reiko Miyagi produces new ceramics Zoneone Arts brings Reiko Miyagi to you…   Can you explain about your pottery training and…


Deborah Kruger

Deborah Kruger, Chapala, Mexico Deborah Kruger’s inspiration is taken from bird migrational patterns.  Kruger’s work is a story, interwoven with…


Eleanor Bolton

Sailors, Scouts and Girl Guilds all know about knots, now Eleanor Bolton uses historical knotting and coiling techniques to make contemporary…


Sidhart Sodhani

How did the Dye School coming into being?  I have been running a natural dye manufacturing and retail business over the past four and a half years…


Samantha Bryan

Your comment, ‘I find myself preoccupied with everyday life, but not my own – that of the fairy’ can you expand on this?  Somehow I became a ‘fairy…


Mary Fox

You comment that your work is ‘original art work to inspire functional wares to enhance your eating experience’, enhance on this comment. To me,…


Claire Molloy

You combine two techniques in your pottery, horsehair and saggar firing.  Can you take one piece and explain both the combinations and techniques? I…


Roger Bennett

Discuss the use of colour in your work. I colour my work with water-based wood dyes, and I finish with three applications of Danish oil which…


Matthew Chambers

When did you first begin to add layers to your work? The layering technique I use now began just after I left college in 2004. I have been way more…


Anne Covell

You make a very different comment to many other artists; you are interested in the capacity of the artist to physically shape the environment.…


Tina Puckett

You call your work ‘Woven Art’ can you expand on this choice of words?  My mother gave me a gift of a class on weaving an Egg Basket in the fall of…


Velma Bolyard

You make paper from many different natural sources discuss two very different papers and discuss the comparisons and differences between the two.…


John K Brown

Can you give a short timeline as to how you became involved in sculpture using salvaged materials? I’ve always wanted to be an artist. As a child I…


Lauren Collin

Is your work always created out of one layer of paper? Yes, it’s always one piece of watercolor paper and I carve into the thickness of the sheet.…


Evie Milo

You began your journey with a box of vintage buttons - tell us briefly about this creative journey?  I say that and it is partly true but in…


Kristy Kun

Can you please comment on the statement, ‘Harnessed by the warmth and touch of her hands, wool emerges in a new dimension?’ I really can't stop my…


Joe Ganech

I first came across your work with Winston Churchill staring out at me.  Expand on several of your works where you have used famous people? I like to…


Amber Cowan

“I rework objects currently relegated to the aesthetic dustbin of history.  I reincarnate them into ornate abstractions.” Discuss this statement in…


Anne Sorensen

You have been fortunate in having a mentor, discuss how this came about and how important it has been in your artistic career? In 2013 I was…


Mark Noble

John Constable understood Turners vision as golden visions, glorious and beautiful.  Can you discuss your own feeling related to the visions around…


Amy Cooper

Expand on how you decided to return to University with the primary goal to set up your own business and how this unfolded? I had done years of…


Outi Martikainen

Your work has changed greatly since you completed Textile Art and Design in 1999. Can you point out several of the milestones? The whole way through…


Massimo Leotardi

Before I ask you questions about your art work can I ask about gourds? Where did they come from originally? Gourds are hard-shelled plants, belonging…


Nicole Aquillano

What lead you to leave your former career and take up a full time career in ceramics? I realized that life was too short to not love what I do…


Jo Davies

You began your art education at Cardiff School of Art and Design in 1999 by 2002 you had specialized in ceramics what made you take up ceramic above…


Alain Mailland

You are an active member of the French Association of Artistic Woodturning, discuss how this membership has assisted in your career and……


Valdis Harrysdotter

Please discuss your vegetable paper bowls? Inspiration  design My inspiration is the material in itself.  Handling the vegetable paper and thinking…


Lynne Meade

Before we discuss all the changes in your work can we take a quick look at the past?You did your art training majoring in ceramics, when did you…


Shannon Weber

Discuss how your work, had to be self-taught? When I first started making objects while living in a remote area along the Rogue River in Oregon, I…


Christine Atkins

You work in three mediums, textiles, sculpture and jewellery can you discuss the integration you have between them? Early in my career there was very…


Deborah Smith

Can you discuss the importance of movement in your work? When I collect a piece driftwood that I’ll use for my work, I find myself imagining the…


Pamela MacGregor

Explain how you were introduced to felt and the possibilities it presents to you artistically? I was an art teacher for 28 years in a public school.…