FECKENHAM ARTISANS

•  Feckenham Artisans are a network of artists and designer makers who produce original work by hand in the Worcestershire village of Feckenham.
• Creative disciplines include Painting in different media, Photography, Printmaking, Woodwork, Felting, Tufting, Embroidery, Floral Displays, Calligraphy, Hand stitched miniatures and others.
• Our aims are to create a mutually supportive network where we can share and grow our creative experience and knowledge,  and leading to opportunities to exhibit and sell our work using the benefit of the Group Identity.
• Our group was set up to bring together makers in our village to create a network that encourages its members to make and sell, as well as sharing experiences and developing as artists. 

DAVID ROWE

Calligraphy

I have become more and more interested in the calligraphic interpretation of poems combined with illustrative effects, sometimes in a literal way, sometimes in an abstract way. My experiments have involved varying letterforms, scale and colours. Examples shown here are poems by Omar Khayyam, William Blake and Langston Hughes using inks and gouache on Canford paper.

Jewellery in Mineralised Resin

I have been developing a new range of signet-style finger-rings in mineralised resin. They involve a significantly greater amount of hand-shaping than my conventional circular rings that are hand-turned on a lathe. Like the conventional ones they can be made to order to any size and in any of the colours I offer.