Arnold Lowrey
Arnold Lowrey was a gifted artist and teacher, who shared his love of painting and considerable talents with his students for over three decades. He sadly passed...
Sue Roddis
Sue Roddis was raised by a craft-loving mother, and grew up surrounded by fabrics and wools. She took up cross stitching, then enrolled on a creative embroidery...
Katrina Witten
Katrina Witten is the embroiderer, designer and inspiration behind Rowandean Embroidery, a small family company designing and making some of the finest hand-stitched...
Cristin Morgan
Cristin Morgan is an accessories designer turned contemporary embroidery artist. Inspired by nature, colour, texture and graphic design, Cristin believes that embroidery...
Rachel Pinheiro
Rachel is a London based sewing blogger who specializes in sewing stylish street style garments. She has developed a strong following through blogging and social...
Pauline Ineson
Pauline Ineson was a teacher and designer of courses for creative sewing machine techniques. Her 'heirloom' quilt won two first prizes at Quilts UK and an honourable...
Dawn MacDonald
Dawn MacDonald was born in East Providence, Rhode Island, in the US. Her love for art and illustration began at the age of 6, and she has been practising ever since....
Jonathan Newey
Jonathan Newey is an award-winning artist with extensive experience in many drawing and painting mediums including coloured pencil. He comes from a long line of...
Eva Dutton
Eva Dutton is a professional artist and qualified riding instructor (BHSAI) and stable manager (BHS). She studied fine art at Norwich School of Art and has spent...
Yishan Li
Yishan Li is a professional Manga artist who lives in Shanghai. Yishan has been drawing Manga since 1998 when she was in high school and she has subsequently been...
Susie Hodge
Susie Hodge MA FRSA has written over 150 books on art history and practical art. Many of her books are bestsellers and award winners, and she has taught art...
Paul Bryn Davies
Paul Bryn Davies has been a professional artist and illustrator all his working life. He was originally an advertising illustrator/designer, but moved into publishing...
Janet Whittle
Janet Whittle is a professional artist and qualified teacher who specialises in flowers and landscapes in watercolour and pastel. She exhibits regularly at the Westminster...
Denis John-Naylor
Denis John-Naylor studied natural history illustration at Bournemouth College of Art and wildlife painting, printmaking and life drawing at Swansea Institute. Denis...
Sharon Hurst
Sharon Hurst dreamed of dragons as a child, and now, as an adult, she paints them! Inspired by vinyl record album art and the imagery in Tolkien’s Lord...
Debbie Tomkies
Debbie Tomkies has designed for many major knitting and crochet magazines including Knit Now, Simply Knitting, Knitting, Let’s Knit, Yarn Forward, and Inside...
Mandy Shaw
Mandy Shaw runs Dandelion Designs, a craft design and kit company based in Hailsham, East Sussex. She teaches weekly quilting classes and lectures and demonstrates...
Jan Horrox
Jan Horrox’s career began in 1973 when she gained a Diploma in Fashion/Textile Design from North East London Polytechnic (now the University of East London)....
Sue Quinn
Sue has been designing and making teddy bears and other animals since childhood. After moving to Scotland she developed her range and sold to small shops in the...
Judy Balchin
Judy Balchin studied art at Cardiff College of Art. Following this, she specialized in graphic design at Kent Institute of Art and Design in Maidstone. After working...
Sara Naumann
Sara Naumann has been teaching, designing, and developing products, ideas and projects in the craft industry for over 20 years. She is the author of two books (How...
Fraser Scarfe
Born in Lincoln in 1986, Fraser Scarfe grew up in Lincolnshire and, after completing a foundation course in Art and Design, began his career as a landscape painter,...
Joe Dowden
Joe Dowden turned professional in 1982 and has since written many successful books. He has sold out at numerous 'one man' shows and has exhibited his work throughout...
Jeremy Ford
Jeremy Ford studied graphic design at the Southport College of Art, and Illustration at the Harrow College of Art. He has been a freelance illustrator, artist, demonstrator...