Arts and Crafts

Arts Based Iniatives

Black Barn Gallery - The Ginger Piggery Boyton

The gallery is located in the heart of the Wylye Valley and housed in a beautifully restored barn at the Ginger Piggery in Boyton. More than 25 artists and crafts people exhibit their work, ranging from jewellery, glassware and ceramics, to sculpture, photography and painting.

Bull Mill Arts Crockerton Nr Warminster

Arts and Crafts studio. For details of classes, events and exhibitions of painting, sculpture, print making, jewellery, gilding, music and yoga, please call.

Bull Lane Crockerton Wiltshire BA12 8AY
Tel: 01985 212716

Jive Talking!

Learn to modern jive at the Nadder Hall in Tisbury. Beginners classes from 8pm every Tuesday night with freestyle dancing until 10.30pm. £5 on the door.

Contact: Alison 01747 871727
Email: info@phoenixtrainingonline.co.uk

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Craft Artists

Abbott Street Forge - Pamphill Wimborne

Traditional and contemporary hand crafted ironwork including gates, railing, garden furniture, sculpture and interior items. Tailor made to measure.

Location: Abbott Street Pamphill Wimborne BH21 4EF
Tel: 01202 888573
Web: www.abbottstreetforge.co.uk

Alison Ciantar - Textiles and Ceramics

After studying ceramics at Middlesex Polytechnic and Camberwell School of Art, I spent the following years exhibiting collage drawings and handpainted fabric in London. Moving to Dorset in 2000 resulted in a return to clay, inspired by the seabirds and marine life. For the past few years I have been exploring using felt as a base and sketching on it with a variety of mixed fibres creating subtle lines and shading of seagulls and chickens. Gentle impressions of a lasting nature.
Prices range from £25-450.

Telephone: 01747 812608
Mobile: 07811 102216
Website: www.alisonciantar.com
Email: ali@alisonciantar.com

Antaro Wind Chimes and Wooden Items for the Home

Producing wooden mirrors and clocks from often recyclable sources plus furniture, sculptures and windchimes from his studio in Brixton Deverill Antaro can work to individual commissions if required.

Tel: 01985 840085
Website: http://www.antaro.net/

Anthony Wilson Creative Sculpture

Using recyled materials Anthony Wilson creates awe inspiring sculptures for house and garden. Sometimes suspended in trees, or walking across a lawn these sculptures know no bounds and are entirely original. See his website for greater detail.

Location: Heytesbury
Warminster
Wiltshire BA12 0HL
Tel: 01985 840 223
Email: ant.wilson3@btinternet.com

Bull Mill Arts Crockerton Nr Warminster

Arts and Crafts studio. For details of classes, events and exhibitions of painting, sculpture, print making, jewellery, gilding, music and yoga, please call.

Bull Lane Crockerton Wiltshire BA12 8AY
Tel: 01985 212716

Johnathan Garratt Woodfired Pots

Jonathan Garratt has specialised in making distinctive and unusual terracotta pots for gardens for nearly 30 years and currently enjoys a reputation as one of Britain’s foremost garden artists. His passion for plants informs many of the innovative designs available only from the pottery and he produces a wide selection of shapes for specific plant habits. All the pots are made from local clay refined at the pottery and are fired exclusively with wood from the locality to produce subtle, natural colours on the finished work.

Open: Daily 10am to 6pm, please telephone first if travelling especially
Contact: 01725 517700
Website: www.jonathangarratt.com

Krukker Ceramics - The Ginger Piggery Boyton

Krukker ceramics is the brainchild of Vicky and Rob Whelpton, who in their varying techniques have managed to create stylish pottery that fits all needs.

Marnhull Leather Craft

Hand crafted leather hats, bags, belts and bellows etc
Tel: 01258 821451

Pauline Dawkins - Wire and Stone Sculptor

Pauline Dawkins is an artist living in Dorset. Trained as a sculptor and potter and who specialises in garden sculptures. The essence of her sculpture is simplicity – simplicity of line, form and fluid motion.

Pauline will do commissions or you can purchase from her range.
Tel: 07792 199431
Email: paulinedawkins@tiscali.co.uk
Web: www.paulinedawkins.co.uk

The Juniper Company Stained Glass

Using traditional methods of stained glass the Juniper Company produces stained glass windows and custom art pieces to clients wishes. They also make garden stained glass panels which can be colour designed alongside a small range of jewelry and the ever popular squashed bottle which is kiln fired. Workshop appointment by prior arrangment.

Contact: 01425 657768
Web: www.junipercompany.co.uk

The Original Game Company

The first game The Original Game Company produced was a derivation of shove ha’penny, but played from both ends; this new version has proved highly popular and an excellent gift. Particularly as it is supplied with six original ships’ happenings. The majority of boards are now made in English Oak from the Stourhead Estate in Wiltshire.

Contact: 01985 840973
Web: www.originalgame.co.uk
Email: bernardharvey@btinternet.com

Trevor Harries - Walking Stick Maker

Walking & thumb sticks, market sticks & crooks

22 Gold Hill,
Shaftesbury,
SP78HB.
Tel: 01747 854677

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Craft Courses

Bull Mill Arts Crockerton Nr Warminster

Arts and Crafts studio. For details of classes, events and exhibitions of painting, sculpture, print making, jewellery, gilding, music and yoga, please call.

Bull Lane Crockerton Wiltshire BA12 8AY
Tel: 01985 212716

Dorset Centre for Rural Skills - Iwerne Minster

Dorset Centre for Rural Skills (D.C.R.S) is an established training centre based in the beautiful Dorset countryside. The Centre is also home to the Sustainable Building Resource Centre.

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Furniture Producers

Abbott Street Forge - Pamphill Wimborne

Traditional and contemporary hand crafted ironwork including gates, railing, garden furniture, sculpture and interior items. Tailor made to measure.

Location: Abbott Street Pamphill Wimborne BH21 4EF
Tel: 01202 888573
Web: www.abbottstreetforge.co.uk

Matthew Burt Showroom - Hindon

Our furniture showroom displays Matthew Burt’s designs, with an ongoing selection of imaginative hardwood works for sale. Bespoke commissions welcome.

High Street Hindon Salisbury SP3 6DR
Tel: 01747 820511
Web: www.matthewburt.com

Vince Large - Contemporary Furniture Maker

Converted barn set in picturesque farm location. Sustainable contemporary furniture in temperate hardwoods. A range of small and larger items of furniture for sale and in development. Low volume batches and commissions.

Location: St. Algar's Yard, West Woodlands, Nr Maiden Bradley
Tel: 01985 845278
Website: www.kambium.co.uk

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Galleries and Exhibitions

Black Barn Gallery - The Ginger Piggery Boyton

The gallery is located in the heart of the Wylye Valley and housed in a beautifully restored barn at the Ginger Piggery in Boyton. More than 25 artists and crafts people exhibit their work, ranging from jewellery, glassware and ceramics, to sculpture, photography and painting.

Bull Mill Arts Crockerton Nr Warminster

Arts and Crafts studio. For details of classes, events and exhibitions of painting, sculpture, print making, jewellery, gilding, music and yoga, please call.

Bull Lane Crockerton Wiltshire BA12 8AY
Tel: 01985 212716

The Summerleaze Gallery - East Knoyle

Established twelve years ago in the beautiful Wiltshire countryside, conveniently close to the junction of the A303 and the A350, the Summerleaze Gallery presents six exhibitions a year, focusing on contemporary painters and sculptors, both local and national.

The Walnut Tree - Arts and Crafts Gallery

The Walnut Tree Gallery offers a colourful and varied selection of arts and crafts from specialists around the region. Run by artist Brady Turner, the shop is a showcase for artists and makers of good quality handmade items and includes a large selection of greetings cards.

Address: 52 The High Street Sixpenny Handley
Open: Mon - Sat 10am - 5pm
Contact: 01725 552836

Walford Mill Contemporary Arts Centre

A contemporary arts centre offering superior exhibitions from regional crafts people. There is a silk weaver, embroiderer and stained glass artist on site, as well as a licensed Bistro by the river