All details for this years Welcombe Open Studios are now online – click here!

we are taking part in this years Art Trek Open Studios, as part of the North Devon Festival, which sees artists all across North Devon opening their studios to visitors for two succsssive weekends. We will be open from 10.30am to 4.30pm on the 19th, 20th & 21st and then again on the 26th, 27th & 28th june.

We will have lots of furniture including our beautiful oak edge & cornish slate dining table and a range of accessories: mirrors from £15, lanterns at £10 & £12.50, clocks from £60, our very popular bread boards from £15 and a couple of pieces of furniture at reduced prices especially for the open studio event.

We live and work in an old converted barn in Welcombe on the coast at the border of North Devon and North Cornwall – Welcombe Mouth beach is just down the track, there are beautiful woodland and coastal walks, and our great local pub, The Old Smithy Inn, is 150 yards from our house, so perfect for lunch or dinner if you come to visit us. Paul Jenner’s photography studio will also be open in Welcombe, so don’t forget to visit him too.
And Welcombe Pottery is right opposite The Old Smithy Inn, just up the track from us. There will be plenty of signs to find us.

The pub is having a Country Fayre on the 20th with pony rides for kids, a bbq and live music from 3 bands – so come and see us at the studio and then join us at the pub from 6pm.

hope to see you soon, sammy & glenn.

open studio: well barn, well farm, welcombe, near bideford, devon, ex39 6hg
19th, 20th & 21st and 26th, 27th & 28th june – 10.30am to 4.30pm.

 

we will be at the Exeter Craft Festival this friday & saturday (12th & 13th june) on the Cathedral Green. We are stand number 96, next to the lovely Laurel Keeley again this year – her work is beautiful and her stand always looks so good. There will be about 100 makers from Devon at the show, with entertainment for kids too. Wish us sunshine & come and see us.

sammy & glenn
pachadesign

www.exetercraftfestival.co.uk

pachadesign: we are busy making work for our next show, The Contemporary Craft Fair at Bovey Tracey. It’s on from this friday 5th to sunday 7th of june and showcases 165 of the uk’s best designer makers of ceramics, jewellery, furniture, textiles, mixed media, fashion, silver, leather, metal & much more.

as well as being able to buy direct from the makers at the show there will also be workshops & demonstrations, a childrens craft tent & entertainment, masterclasses & lectures, great food and live music!

this year we will be showing our oak edge and cornish slate dining table with benches, so if you have always wanted to see one (or buy one), now is your chance.
the pieces of cornish slate that were cut from the local quarry for us to be used for this table & benches are really beautiful, a deep blue/black colour with streaks of quartz and tiny flecks of fools gold.

we will also be selling new work – beautiful oak mirrors & our oak & ash chopping/serving boards, as well as reclaimed cornish slate mirrors, clocks, our delicate leaf lanterns and more.

we hope to see you at the show, sammy & glenn.

the contemporary craft fair, mill marsh park, bovey tracey, devon
5th – 7th june open daily 10am to 5pm
www.craftsatboveytracey.co.uk

organisation for this years Welcombe Open Studios is underway (there is going to be alot going on this year with new artists & exhibitions too).

we have added a new page “open studios” to the menu bar above so you can click on that to get all the info you need for visiting this years event.
it will be updated as soon as all the artists are confirmed – so please check back soon!

new furniture on our website – click here

Check out some of the latest photographs taken by Stuart on the ‘My Right Eye’ blog.

More information about 7th Wave Photography can be found here

we thought we would show you some images from our spring open studio – the space is usually our workshop but we take everything out and turn it into a little showroom for while the open studio is on.

thanks to everyone that came to see us in Welcombe and for visiting the other studios aswell. The spring open studios were successful for all of us so we will probably do it again next Easter and hopefully get some of the other artists in Welcombe involved too.

If you didn’t get a chance to visit us this time we will be having 2 open studios in June and again in August for the Welcombe open studios – details on our website soon.

thankyou to everyone that came to the love factor exhibition in Appledore over the Easter weekend – it was a great success and all the makers involved had lovely feedback from visitors.
we had organised the exhibition between the five of us and had great support from Sandy Brown who kindly let us use the Glove Factory for the show.
our work looked perfect in the beautiful white space with her colourful ceramics and paintings interspersed here and there.
thankyou Sandy for all your advice and support and thankyou also to Mr & Mrs Cannon of The Portledge Estate for sponsoring the exhibition.

images of the new work we made for the exhibition will be on our website soon.
for details of all the furniture makers involved please visit
www.lovefactor.wordpress.com
and for Sandy’s details visit her website at
www.sandybrownarts.com

this Easter 3 artists in Welcombe will be opening their studios to the public from the 15th to the 19th of April.
pachadesign make contemporary furniture & accessories from locally sourced reclaimed and natural resources and will have a range of work for sale including new pieces for 2009, their usual collection of mirrors, clocks and lanterns and some old stock at reduced prices – for more details please click here.
Paul Jenner’s photography studio will be open where he produces and sells beautiful box canvases in a range of sizes as well as prints and cards.
David Westcott produces a wide range of functional and decorative earthenware at Welcombe Pottery and will also be open for the 5 days.
Our great local, The Old Smithy Inn, will be open for lunch from 12 to 2.30 serving great food, good wine and real ales.
Welcombe lies on the coast inbetween Bideford and Bude, just off the A39 – all studios will be signposted.

We hope to see you this Easter.