Hi I’m Sue, and you’ll often see me at the studio. Tamalia and I work together running MADEbyTamalia events at Creativ.Spaces. I’m passionate about supporting local artists. Alongside my husband Graham we set up the Creative Locale artist community, which aims to help artists get better opportunities and be valued for what they do.

My creative career started out as professional photographer but during the first COVID-19 lockdown I embraced my passion for watercolour. My style is expressive, delicate and loose. My love of gardening and the flowers I grow, has inspired the bold colour palette I use in my work.

As well as teaching at the studio and running large creative and wellbeing events, I paint in my studio at home in Caversham.

Hi I’m Scarlet Page and I’m a photographer and silversmith jewellery designer. I have an extensive career as one of the world’s best-known music photography icons, having photographed legendary musicians such as The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Foo Fighters, Paul McCartney and Stereophonics for magazine covers including Q, Mojo, The Sunday Times and many more. Plus album artwork including Stereophonics ‘Performance and Cocktails’ James Blunt’s ‘Moon Landing’ and The Verve’s ‘A Northern Soul’

I absolutely love the countryside, which is a huge influence for my jewellery work. I am influenced from the world in which we live, organic shapes, form and structure. My pieces are originally sourced and inspired by the beauty of the natural form and found items. All my jewellery is crafted by hand from my workshop in South Oxfordshire.

Hi I’m Elaine, and I make beautiful stoneware pots thrown on a wheel at my home studio. After an ‘out of character’ decision to apply for The Great Pottery Throwdown resulted in a place on the show, I subsequently received an internship with one of the judges, Kate Malone which opened up an exciting time in my life.

In 2017 Lisa Hammond formed Clay College in the heart of the Potteries in Stoke on Trent and the two-year, full-time diploma allowed me to explore and develop my throwing, finishing and glazing.

My work focuses on simplistic contemporary forms that are both functional and decorative. I like to explore the interaction between mark making on the clay and how this enhances the glaze. I use a spectrum of simple white glaze that in combination with impurities in the clay, result in a chemical reaction which emphasises the nature of the body and glaze in both reduction and oxidation firing.

Hi I’m Ruth from Cucumber Wood Candles in Caversham. I’ve been making candles since 2016 and I hand-pour candles in small batches using simply natural soy wax and essential oils. I’m passionate about creating new and seasonal blends.

Caring for the environment is important to me, containers can be re-purposed, recycled or returned to me to be reused. Plus I use hand-stamped paper bags and offer calico bags for gift purchases.

In the lead up to Christmas you will find me at various markets. At other times, I am in my workshop at Field & Hawken in Reading, making candles and drinking tea! I live with my husband and 3 children and a menagerie of their animals!

Hi I’m Gaye. I grew up in an artistic environment, I spent many years drawing and painting, but it was several years later, in 1996, that I finished an art and music degree where I specialised in stone sculpture. However, after a few years’ gap my current focus is painting.

My work is vibrant, bright and representational working in acrylic. Inspired by landscapes and flowers, my paintings have echoes of Expressionism and Fauvism.

My studio is a former aviary and I look out over fields sometimes sharing the view with the cows on the estate and ladybirds who seem to like my paintings. In addition to painting on canvas I create murals on walls, doors, shutters or any permanent structure.

Hi I’m Katherine at Knots More Time. I live locally in Tilehurst and am an aspiring macrame fiber artist. I wasn’t previously known as a creative or arty person but it turns out there was an inner maker trying to find her way out through my mathematical mind. The pandemic gave me the time to explore this, and after some very poor attempts at crochet and felt animal making, I fell in love with macrame, the art of knotting. Tamalia has helped me to realise it’s the patterns and counting the knots that likely meant macrame was my calling.

I’ve been selling my work in a few local independent shops as well as through direct orders and Christmas markets. I have made large wall hangings down to small keyrings and a variety in between. I have always loved sharing skills and knowledge with people, whether in groups at training sessions in previous jobs or one-to-one tutoring and mentoring.

Hi I’m Anna a cake artist from Keighers of Caversham. I have always enjoyed being creative with whatever I can get my hands on. My education naturally followed the arts with a degree in theatre design from Central St. Martins.

It wasn’t until I had my 2 girls, I returned to my first passion of making crazy cakes. Over the past 6 years, I have honed my skills in sugarcraft and baking to launch my business in June 2021. Creating bespoke wedding cakes using modern techniques to create cake art for my wedding couples as well as decorated biscuit favours.

Hello, Sarah Salmon here. Rarely without a camera to hand since my teens I’ve always used the lens to focus my attention on the beautiful and curious details that catch my eye day to day, especially in nature where I feel most at home and connected to the purest essence of life.

Photography is a joyful, daily mindful practice for me and for which I now share with adults and children through mindful photography workshops and creative wellbeing sessions.

Hi I’m Frankie. After 20 years in marketing I left employment to build a brand based on my hobbies. In 2019 I launched ‘By Frankie’, making and selling handmade bath and body products with using natural ingredients and sustainable packaging. I have a passion for essential oils. As well as using this across my range I am also a trained Aroma Reflexologist!

I make my own tinctures, balms and infusions with a focus on the healing properties of nature. In my courses, I want to show you how easy it is to make amazing handmade products for yourselves, with natural ingredients.

I started my journey on becoming a glass artist approximately 7yrs ago. I was working in a job that was making very unhappy and stressed and my wonderful partner, Ruth suggested that I did something that would make me happy as life was too short. So, with her amazing support and encouragement, I took a leap of faith and bought a glass fusing kiln and signed up for a number of workshops. This enabled me to learn a number of skills that I honed and practiced until I felt competent enough to be able to teach these techniques myself. I now teach at my studio and at other venues and schools.