Meet the artists
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Emerging talents
Harriett Grist
Harriett is an interior knit designer specialising in knitted homewares and gifts. After graduating from Bath School of Art and Design in 2016, she set up her own business focusing on a new range, CHICKPEA.
The designs are inspired by stationery compositions such as graph paper and pen lids as well as architecture around Winchester; Harriett’s home town. The CHICKPEA range consists of scarves, hot water bottles, cushions and zip pouches, with product names curated from street names in her hometown of Winchester.
Rosie Wesley
Rosie is a metalwork designer and maker from the New Forest who creates dynamic sculptures, functional tableware and stunning jewellery for you and your home. Working with direct burn-out techniques to produce replica textures of bark, each piece is completely unique and crafted from a original piece of the forest.
Rosie is fascinated by the concept of taking something from our natural environment and transforming it or assembling it into something else; giving it a new life away from it’s original environment. Her textural objects and jewellery allow you to appreciate natural spaces everyday, and preserve a part of them forever.
Design stories
Handmade: If you weren’t a designer-maker, what would you be right now?
Isabelle: If I weren’t a designer maker I would hopefully be working in a different creative profession. After finishing my A-Levels I toyed with the idea of studying photography at art school.
Handmade: Describe your work in three wor...
Handmade: If you weren’t a designer-maker, what would you be right now?
John: Being a Designer Maker started off from trying to be an Artist and not happy with being a Carpenter, so perhaps an Artist, but I’ve always been drawn to gardening, ...
