The River House, Greenlands
An exciting, high quality exhibition by over 30 artists and makers: members of The Buckinghamshire Craft Guild, Turville Studios Artists, plus invited guest artists.
The venue can also be reached from Henley by Hobbs River Boat Ferry service - a magical way to arrive! Book ahead to enjoy afternoon tea & make the most of your visit. Find out more here
Opening Times
2nd - 4th May 10am - 5pm
Number of exhibitors
38
Parking
Main car parks at the Business School with a 2 min walk to The River House

























Meet the Exhibitors
Looking forward to meeting you to share insights into the inspiration and techniques that make the work so unique.





Suzy Tonkinson
I am a multi-disciplined contemporary painter who favours a bold, expressive and vibrant colour palette. I love to experiment with different styles and media but predominantly paint with acrylics.
My subject matter is varied but leans towards Faces, Figures and Fizz!





Susan Day
I work in porcelain, taking my inspiration from the landscape. Both the sweeping vistas of the hills and valleys of the Chilterns and the delicate patterns of individual leaves and flowers inform my work. I make vessels and lamps with impressed leaves and flower recording the season and place and sculptural vessels with abstract images drawn from the landscape.





Sue Tilbury
Sue is a portrait and still life painter and tutor based in Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire.
Working in oil on canvas, carefully layering colour and finishing with soft translucent glazes to add a depth & quality only oils can achieve.
Sue paints in a representational style mixing contemporary style with traditional technique.





Sophie Smith
Bright and colourful earthenware ceramics. I create different textures by cutting and mark making into wet clay and by using gloss, opaque and matt glazes. Each piece is finished with gold precious metal. My work is highly decorative with an emphasis on fun.





Richard Williams
I design and make contemporary bespoke furniture, using unusual timbers and modern and traditional cabinetmaking techniques. I make commissioned pieces, designing collaboratively with clients, and I also design and make creative pieces for exhibitions.
After more than thirty years growing my company, I have now returned to the bench solo to explore further avenues of creative design.





Rachel Wright
Working on a normal domestic sewing machine, I create land and seascapes, birds and animals using machine embroidery worked over a collage of carefully selected cut and pieced fabrics. I use the fabrics to create my background and the needle and threads to draw the details.





Rachel Wallace
Recently awarded a Silver Gilt medal from the RHS Botanical Art & Photography exhibition at Saatchi, London I work with a variety of cameras and techniques to respond to and illustrate my response to the natural world using different methods to interact with the print and image within the print. I am also Carbon Literacy Accredited working with sustainable materials.





Rachel Ducker
Unique sculptured wire figures expressing emotion, energy and movement





Paul Baleta
I am Paul Baleta of BALETA Handmade. I create handcrafted knives, tools and utensils that balance function, form, and elegance. Inspired by traditional craftsmanship and modern design, I focus on clean lines, refined proportions, and meticulous handwork. Each piece is made using time-honoured techniques and thoughtful material choices to produce tools meant to be used, kept, and appreciated.





Nadege Honey
I use polymer clay and sterling silver to create eye-catching jewellery, with vivid colours and bold patterns. Inspired by nature, architecture and my travels, I aim to create pieces that make the wearer both look and feel good.
My childhood memories of summers spent in Brittany and along the West Coast of France, inspired my signature Breton Collection.





Marie Robinson
My work is contemporary realism in oils, grounded in traditional painting techniques and supported by meticulous observational drawing. I utilise a representational style to capture the texture, material and essence of my subjects and enjoy creating portraits of often overlooked everyday items, arranging them in deliberately considered, often whimsical, compositions to evoke a sense of daily life, past or present.





Loretta Dwane
More than thirty years after opening my jewellery-making studio, I continue to gently develop my creative direction, inspired by both geometric forms such as spheres and circles, and irregular naturally occurring patterns and shapes.
I work mostly with silver, but also with 18ct white and yellow gold, and I often combine these metals with precious and semi-precious stones.





Lindsey Graham
Inspired by nature and the human face, I have evolved two distinct styles over the years. A minimalist approach to Linoprinting and an intricate layering of textures for Collagraphs, whether in the original platemaking, the printing with chine collé, gold, silver and copper or in the hand gilding and colouring of the final prints.





Linda Cavill
The built environment is a constant source of inspiration for my slab built vessels.
I create angular shaped vessels with castellated tops. Utilising various techniques
including sgraffito,inlay ,stencilling and printing I build up layers of colour and texture
To give a sense of place.





Katie Wilkins
I specialise in painting livestock, taking sketches and photographs and then working from them in my studio. I work in oils on thick boxed canvases which have several layers of gesso applied to them. More recently I have enjoyed returning to painting still-life with bread, cheese and fish particularly as subjects. These are painted in oil on clayboard.





Kate Wilkinson
I design and create contemporary silver jewellery made up of textured silver units that are often combined with materials such as semi-precious gemstone beads, vintage glass and silk, cork and climbing cord. My designs are inspired by the materials I use and the processes I employ. My collection is based primarily on earrings both small and large and statement necklaces.





Karen Musgrave Hill
Contemporary glass artist and award-winning botanical artist. RHS Gold Medal for Chrysanthemum Flowerheads in pen & Ink 2015. Glasswork uses my catalogue of drawings/paintings to produce unique glass pieces brought to life through intricate layered decoupage, reverse glass painting and gilding with gold and other leaf, and verre eglomisé. Every glass piece designed is unique.





Julie Brown
There is a strong sense of pattern and order, as well as the importance of colour, in my hand pulled original prints. I often gain inspiration from fabric and wallpaper designs from the past. I make collagraphs, drypoints and monoprints, as well as screenprints, and I often combine these techniques to produce both figurative and non figurative work.





Jenny Zolkwer
Jenny is an intuitive potter, letting her hands shape the curves as she works on the wheel in her studio in Turville. The shapes are simple, balanced and made to be held, used and enjoyed. The glazes tend to the earthy. It’s always about the curves, be they of mugs, bowls, jugs, platters or more.





Jenny Hoole
I make modern fused glass for the home and glass jewellery. My inspiration comes from vibrant colours, textures and patterns which combine to make contemporary, bright glassware. Living in the Chilterns influences the enamel painted panels and bowls, drawing from the local landscape, translating the ideas into abstract pieces. Member of the Buckinghamshire Craft guild and Contemporary Glass Society





Jeannelise Edelsten
The constant theme in my work is 'the line'. The line creates a connection between my past and present and my working method has been developed out of necessity: very little time and family required a way of working with periods on and off. As the years have passed, I now spend time developing ideas still underpinned by the line.





Janet Edmonds
My work is based on walking in the countryside, organic subjects mainly trees in all their forms, mainly three dimensional but including 2D. Surface stitching explores surface.





Hilary Audus
I specialise in animal sculptures, built from stoneware clay, and I use my experience from The Animation Industry to add quirky Character to the pieces. In some pieces I use the technique of scrffito – drawing directly into the slip before the first firing. I then paint coloured glazes into the drawn line before firing again.





Helena Ross
work with fused glass, designing flowing “colourwaves” from fine strands of coloured glass carefully placed side by side.
My work explores how colours shift, interact, and reveal subtle gradations in each creation.
From a distance, bold colours draw the eye; up close, gentle variations and unexpected highlight colours emerge, giving every creation a distinctive presence in any interior space.





Graham Lester
Paper sculpture is a medium I have worked with for some time to express creative ideas; I like the clear crisp graphic effect that can be achieved with paper. My turned art is making something beautiful from discarded materials, old books into paper bowls and offcuts of Corian, acrylic and plywood, laminated and turned on the lathe into colourful decorative pieces.





Fred Bennett
I paint what surrounds me, jugs, bottles, flowers, and fruit from the garden. For me oil painting best captures these everyday subjects but I also work in acrylics, pastels and charcoal. I use my paintings as a source for Art Prints and Greetings Cards




Ewa Wawrzyniak
Ewa creates sculptural glass works using kiln‑formed and sand‑cast techniques, blending precision with organic form. Her practice is shaped by the contours of landscape and the structure of architecture, allowing her to explore how natural and built environments interact. Through this fusion of method and inspiration, she produces pieces that evoke depth, balance, and a strong sense of place.





Elizabeth Bond
I’m a leather worker who enjoys using different surface decoration techniques, e.g. marbling, painting, or digital printing, on the products I make. I enjoy creating products that are unique and practical, allowing the wearer to express their own creativity and style. I also teach leather work and undertake commissions.





Diggs Pottery
Diggs pottery is handmade pottery produced either on the wheel or built by hand. I use specialist clays and handmade ancient recipe glazes to create layers of textures and depth of colour. Some of the glaze compounds are made from the produce of my garden. All work is thoughtfully made to be functional but at the same time a lot of care and attention has gone into the aesthetics too, with many creations being influenced from the places I have lived, like the Canary Islands, the Peak District and Buckinghamshire.





Deborah Hopson-Wolpe
Letter forms, lettering and drawing have always been part of my work. I make thrown ware with impressed and resist inscriptions and prints with
lettering and drawn images.




David Rodgers
I am passionate about wood turning using traditional tools and techniques, creating various forms, such as my lidded containers. I love working with timber due to both it's tactile nature, and appreciating the varying texture and characteristics within the grain of each piece of timber. Member of Society of Designer Craftsmen, and Buckinghamshire Craft Guild.





Christina Taylor-Smith
I make colourful contemporary relief prints inspired by the sea, trees and nature.
Some include metal leaf and strong embossing giving a very interesting tactile quality to the finished print. My work is inspired by the Japanese aesthetic trying to capture the essence of things.





Cathy Timbrell
I specialise in using vitreous enamels in my jewellery and vessels, using contemporary designs to bring colour to my work. I use mostly silver but incorporate gold, precious and semiprecious stones into my pieces. The results are often vibrant. My unenamelled jewellery also tends to be bold, but simple, using geometry and architecture as my inspiration.





Beverley Matchette-Downes
My work is process led; I enjoy the alchemy of the varied printmaking processes. Latterly waterless lithography has dominated my practice. I make my pieces using multiple plates My inspiration comes from glimpses of the natural world around me. However this figurative starting point ultimately becomes more abstract in form, colour and texture to make it a visually exciting experience.





Audrey Hammett
I was inspired by the paintings of Giorgio Morandi to explore the powerful meanings held by seemingly ‘quiet pots’ in still life groups. I hope my work inspires calm and contemplation for the viewer. As a chemist, I have always been interested in how materials combine so my work involves many experiments , pieces often incorporate wire or other materials.





Annet Stirling
I studied lettering at the City and Guilds of London Art School with Berthold Wolpe and learned lettercutting from Richard Kindersley.
In my Amersham studio I make exhibition pieces alongside memorials and commercial commissions, which have included designing and carving lettering for The National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Royal Opera House and the Festival Hall amongst others.





Anna K Baldwin
I design and make contemporary jewellery in silver and gold with an organic, tactile feel,
and love creating beautiful, elegant, wearable pieces. I make each piece by hand, incorporating hammering techniques to provide movement and texture. I gain inspiration from many sources, including light, texture and natural and fluid forms.
I am a member of the Buckinghamshire Craft Guild.


