SPRING '26 AT HUTTON STUDIO

 

Snowdrops are everywhere and the days are getting longer - finally... 

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THE NEW OPEN STUDIO - I spent Spring-Summer '25 building an application for and then being awarded a fellowship with Be Still Media in May and subsequently spent the last few months preparing to open with more products than originally intended and suddenly being able to build a new studio / micro-gallery space in the ground floor of my house, so that I can hold Open Studio days & create an extra little art-hub here in the Lake District, as part of the lovely community and art location we have here beside Up Front Gallery and Hutton in the Forests' art festivals and the studio is now complete and filling with works ready for opening. The garden room space and what we've nicknamed 'The Forest' room (our entrance hall) are fully decorated and have bare walls but soon we will start hanging works by artists that we love.

 

I’ve also been enjoying getting my first sculpture cast both traditionally and digitally, reproduced in 3D software by a great team, which has enabled us to start creating 3D printed affordable versions of my sculptures as well which I'm so excited for and which I’ll be sharing and starting to sell soon. Some first casts will be available in March. 

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Editorial art books - There’s so much that forms the incredible multi-faceted jewel that is dance and my 'visual language' has been designed and refined to communicate this with technical ability and in great detail and as such, curating the projects in to editorial art publications has become an important way for people to be able to view and even collect the projects. 

I’ve been extending the works from 2025's award winning project 'Odette - a study of Fumi Kaneko in Swan Lake' and putting the contents of it in to an editorial art book, we're finding binding issues are effecting the quality of the finished product, and I'm so passionate about ensuring this is high quality, so I'm continuing with sourcing and designing ways to present the content, possibly away from traditional binding.

Once established to a quality I'm proud to offer up, every set of works I create will be put in to this format as part of a continuing collection 🖤 🦢

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My socials have been dead as a door nail. This is partially because I have so much to do, but sadly also largely because my health is now worsened and I'm living with more severe symptoms than I used to. I've had to spend time and money on specialist care to understand this, and manage it. It's quite triggering to talk about, so I'll likely not mention it much going forward, but if anyone has wondered why my socials are silent as a graveyard, this is why.​

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JEWELLERY & LEATHER PIECES - I've also been working on a little range of OOAK leather bags in collaboration with my fiancé Elliot and my talented friend and jeweller Ruth Claydon - We currently stock a few exclusive pieces by Ruth in the JEWELLERY store, and will soon be adding the first leather pieces for sale. In the meantime, there are a few stunning pieces by Ruth available now, I recommend those seeking a unique jewellery piece, for yourself or as a gift, take a look and check out her own feed at @mothandmagpie

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LINKS & RECOMMENDATIONS​​​​

 

@mothandmagpie Unique up-cycled jewellery design.

@mick.wilson.artist - One of the best landscape artists I've ever seen.

@andrew.niblett.77 - Raku potter who's empathetic and precious works focus on peace through tangible, remembered history.

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SKETCHING IN CLAY - SCULPTING IN PENCIL - Read more about the work here 

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