Jan 27, 2022
In this week's episode of The Capital of Craft, Sarah James from Craft Festival and Find a Maker talks with ceramic artist, Paul Wearing.
We discuss his two year long project, Material Matters, an Arts Council of Wales funded project that originated from an invitation from Ruthin Craft Centre to deliver a solo...
Jan 20, 2022
In this week's episode of The Capital of Craft, Sarah James from Craft Festival and Find a Maker talks with willow grower, basket maker and Find a Maker member, Justine Burgess from West Wales Willows.
Justine is based amongst the mountains near Brechfa in deeply rural Carmarthenshire, West Wales.
She grows a variety...
Jan 13, 2022
In this week's episode of The Capital of Craft, Sarah James from Craft Festival and Find a Maker talks with woodcarver and Find a Maker member, William Barsley.
William is a second career woodcarver, intensively trained at the highly acclaimed Historic Woodcarving and Gilding course at the City and Guilds of London...
Jan 6, 2022
In this week's episode of The Capital of Craft, Sarah James from Craft Festival and Find a Maker talks with shepherdess and maker Katie Allen from Loopy Ewes.
We discuss how Katie developed her passion for growing her own vegetables and rearing her own animals into becoming a farmer. This lead to diversifying into...