Meet The CraftMakers

QEST Garfield Weston Foundation Scholar

Printed Textiles

Rosanna is a multidisciplinary artist, designer and maker who specialises in silk screen-printing, maximalist designs and hand painted commissions. Working from her studio and print room, she uses her signature style to create bespoke designs to be sold as one-off art, fashion or interior pieces. Rosanna previously worked in luxury fashion houses and has spent many years collaborating with a range of high-profile clients, such as Alexander McQueen, Fiorucci, JW Anderson and more.

With a passion for illustrative prints and curious narratives, Rosanna combines traditional processes such as silk screen-printing, hand painting and gold leaf gilding with unexpected materials and concepts to create unique pieces. Her work is playful in its attempts to question ideas of beauty, with previous collections discussing death, questioning taboos and celebrating the beauty in decay.

With support of a 2018 QEST Garfield Weston Foundation Scholarship, Rosanna completed her MA in Printed Textiles at the Royal College of Art.

MAKING

Rosanna is showing fabric wall hangings, latex lampshades and framed prints; and will be working on painting a leather chair and drawing new designs.

Website: www.rosannabishop.com

Instagram: @rosannabishop_design

Email: [email protected]

QEST Scholar

Mosaic Art

A fine artist by training, Hannah has a painterly approach to her mosaics, which she makes bespoke for public and private clients. Previous commissions have included wall art for colleges and hospitals, and domestic commissions such as floors, kitchens, bathrooms, tables and mirrors.

Hannah is inspired by diverse subject matter including African textiles, Moroccan pattern, Italian church floors, the crown jewels and hot red chilli peppers, and thrives on each new piece of work being unique.

A 2009 QEST Scholarship enabled Hannah to attend the ‘Master in Mosaic’ course at Orsoni, the famed producer of artisanal mosaics in Venice. Here, Hannah learnt how to work with smalti mosaics, which are made from beautiful handmade enamelled glass and cut with a traditional hammer and hardie.

MAKING

Hannah will be working on her series of Mosaic Bird plates. Inspired by Holbein’s portraits and Hannah’s passion for stunning vintage china, each piece features a different bird, meticulously made by hand by cutting glass and ceramic tiles, and framed within a vintage China plate.

Website: www.hannahgriffithsmosaics.com

Instagram: @hannahgriffithsmosaics

Email: [email protected]

QEST  Scholar

Letter Carving and Sculpture

Wayne has been a practising letter carver, typographer, sculptor, and glass engraver for ten years, and works from his studio in Hertfordshire. He has a natural affinity with materials, mostly working in stone, wood, metal, glass and print. His work has sold internationally and has included memorials, signage, ecclesiastical work, commemorative gifts, public art and work for exhibition.

Wayne’s most notable commissions include the memorials to C. S. Lewis and Sir John Gielgud for Westminster Abbey, and the memorial to WW1 nurse Edith Cavell for Norwich Cathedral. He is on the Fabric Advisory Committee for St Edmundsbury Cathedral, a Trustee of the Manchester Craft & Design Centre and a QEST Scholar Ambassador.

A 2011 QEST Scholarship allowed Wayne to complete his apprenticeship with master letter carver Pip Hall in Cumbria.

MAKING

Wayne will be carving and gilding letters on a variety of stones and pebbles.

Website: www.grandeysplace.co.uk/craftspeople/wayne-hart

Instagram: @waynehartstudio

Email: [email protected]

Building Arts Programme
Woodwork

Florence is a woodworker and traditional craftswoman who specialises in green woodworking, bowl turning and basketry. Using locally sourced British timbers, she produces beautiful and functional pieces of wooden ware, made to be used.

Florence works primarily with hand tools, often using traditional techniques from endangered British crafts. With a passion for keeping heritage crafts alive, Florence also teaches workshops in a range of skills, such as willow basketry, and pole lathe bowl turning. In 2022, Florence received a bursary from The Worshipful Company of Turners to help her further develop her turning skills.

In 2020, Florence took part in the Building Arts Programme. A collaboration between QEST and The Prince’s Foundation, the nine-month programme is aimed at students and practitioners whose practice or trade informs our built environment, and focuses on the interdisciplinary nature of architecture, building crafts and the decorative and applied arts.

MAKING

Florence will be turning greenwood bowls on her pole lathe and hand-carving bowls and spoons.

Website: www.florencehamer.com

Instagram: @flohamer

Email: [email protected]

2021 QEST Finnis Scott Foundation Scholar
Textiles & Design

Bethan is an artist and surface pattern designer based in London. She specialises in hand-crafting exquisite intricately detailed repeating patterns for luxury textiles, wallpaper, and home accessories. Quality, craftsmanship and attention to detail are paramount, with each element hand-drawn or hand-painted to offer the very finest finished artwork.

Taking inspiration from the landscape of her native rural North Wales, as well as the dramatic embellishment of the Arts and Crafts movement, Bethan aims to encapsulate the magic of the natural world.

In 2021 Bethan received her QEST Finnis Scott Foundation Scholarship which enabled her to attend a course in Botanical Illustration at Kew Gardens.

MAKING

Bethan will be drawing flowers for her upcoming collection.

Website: www.bethanwynwilliams.com

Instagram: @bethanwynwilliamsstudio

Email: [email protected]

Cockpit Studios

Alicia Rowbotham is a London-based designer and maker, who reimagines salvaged materials from the UK textile manufacturing industry into unique, thoughtfully crafted artworks and objects for contemporary spaces. Breathing new life into materials destined for landfill is at the core of Alicia’s practice, driven by the concept of showcasing the beauty and versatility of the materials forgotten as a by-product of industrial fabrication.

Alicia is currently a designer in residence at Cockpit Studios; London’s leading contemporary craft studio, with sponsorship awarded by the Clothworkers Company, one of the ‘great twelve livery companies’ of the City of London for her innovative use of materials.

MAKING

Alicia will be making a wall piece, showcasing finished wall pieces and small glass display dishes,  as well as examples of the waste materials she uses in her work.

Website: www.aliciarowbotham.com

Instagram: @aliciarowbothamstudio

Email: [email protected]

Cockpit Studios

Kamilah Ahmed’s embroidered and hand wrapped textiles merge digital processes with heritage craft techniques to create fresh and elaborate finishes that celebrate making traditions within contemporary interior and fashion contexts. The interdisciplinary approach to her work takes inspiration from jamdani which combines weaving with hand embroidery simultaneously on the loom.

Drawing on her experience as an embroidery designer for brands such as Christian Dior, Valentino, Attico, Dolce & Gabbana and Mourad whilst working in Italy, Kamilah has equally designed and made embroidery for London-based businesses such as McQueen, Victoria Beckham, Ralph & Russo, Alonuko and Annabel’s, joining Cockpit Arts, Holborn studios, as the inaugural recipient of The New Craftsmen Award in 2021.

MAKING

Celebrating contemporary and traditional crafts Kamilah will be demonstrating how she uses loom based Indian ari hook embroidery to work into her digital embroidery designs. She will also be sharing her process of hand wrapping yarns to create embroidered warps and highly textured surfaces

Website: www.kamilahahmed.co.uk

Instagram: @otherhouseembroidery

Email: [email protected]

Studio KH by Karen Henriksen
Cockpit Studios

Since graduating from the RCA in 2003, milliner Karen Henriksen has built an international reputation for her elegant, tailored interpretations of everyday hat styles for men and women. Now turning her attention to interiors, Studio KH is an exciting new direction. Her hand-crafted lightshades are made using millinery skills and materials, and are designed to enhance either home or public space. When sleeping, they are pieces of sculpture in their own right – diaphanous, refined, organic. Some are cloud-like, while others conjure thoughts of origami or foliage. Illuminated, they provide a gentle ambience or can create dramatic, kaleidoscopic shadows

MAKING

Karen will be working on a new lightshade design. This will include cutting and ironing pieces of banana fibre, then arranging, pinning and hand-stitching them in place.

Website: karenhenriksen.co.uk/studiokh-by-karen-henriksen
Email: [email protected]

Instagram: @kh_couture_home

Cockpit Studios

Hannah Galvin Horne is a London based artist specialising in decorative leather surface. She creates intricate leather marquetry pieces, cut, dyed and 23ct gold leaf tooling all applied by hand.

With a degree is Fine Art Painting and qualification in Leather Technology, her work takes inspiration from historic techniques including bookbinding, illuminated manuscripts and 16th century gilt leather wallcoverings, reinventing these processes in a contemporary context using modern finishing materials.

The series titled ‘Cathedral of Commerce’ will be on display during Craftmakers in Residence.

Website: www.hannahgalvinhorne.com

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: @hannahgalvinleather