Artist statement
A wonderful and varied collection of work by 14 established artists and makers from across Devon in the unique setting of The White Room Creative Space.
Anne Jackson, Belinda Reynell, Esme Cooper, Jane Welsh, Joanne Roper, Hannah Oram, Matt Calder, Mandi Street, Nicky Barton, Owen Williams, Rosie Brewer, Sarah Holder, Simon Ripley, Steve Symes.
Extended Bio
14 Artists and Makers at The White Room Creative Space Devon Open Studios 2025
Anne Jackson
Knotted tapestry
Anne Jackson makes knotted tapestries exploring the history and folklore of witch trials & witch-persecution, mostly (so far) in the south of England. She has exhibited in the UK, US, Australia. and across Europe.
Email:
[email protected]
Phone: 01363 775824
Belinda Reynell
Painting.
Belinda is an acclaimed contemporary landscape artist who resides and works in Devon. She immerses herself in the landscape where she finds freedom and a love of space. Subsequently she works in her studio employing her sentiments and a sense of the place to create her art.
Email:
[email protected]
Website: belindareynell.com
Instagram: @belinda_reynell
Esme Cooper
Textiles and printmaking
I am a textile designer screenprinting onto natural fabrics using fabric dyes. I make my textiles into table runners, napkins, lampshades and table lamps.
Website: www.esmecooper.co.uk
Instagram: @esmecooper
Hannah Oram
Painting
Hannah paints with joy and to bring joy, striving to add to the canvas the poetry of life's special moments. She brings her positive energy to her work through colour, movement and her impressionistic style and paints predominantly in acrylics. This year she has created collections on the never-to-be-overlooked importance of sharing a cuppa.
Email:
[email protected]
Website: www.hannahoramstudio.com
Instagram: @hannahlouiseoram
Jane Welsh
Basketmaking
Jane Welsh is a professional basket maker based in Mid Devon, working and teaching throughout the South West. She uses the traditional 'stack and strand' method of basketry.
Email:
[email protected]
Website: www.janewelsh.co.uk/
Jo Roper
Printmaking
Joanne Roper is a printmaker in Mid-Devon who spends time in the natural world noticing little things and fascinating details about local wildlife. She brings the joy and energy of birds, plants and habitats into her bold and colourful linocuts and collagraphs.
Email:
[email protected]
Website: linktr.ee/joanne.roper.artist
Instagram: instagram.com/joanne.roper.artist
Mandi Street
Printmaking and painting
Mandi Street is a landscape artist and printmaker working from her studio at home in Exeter. Her work captures the light and energy of local landscapes, from the South West Coast Path and elsewhere.
Email:
[email protected]
Instagram: @mandi.street
Matt Calder
Stoneware Pottery
Hand thrown functional stoneware pottery. Wood ash glazed pieces giving an earthy, natural and calming finish.
I like my work to be perfect pieces to use on display, as well as for practical use.
Email:
[email protected]
Mobile: 07775774652
Website: www.mattcalder.co.uk
Instagram: @mattcalderpottery
Nicky Barton
Silver Jewellery
Nicky Barton is a jeweller living and working on Dartmoor, making jewellery inspired by nature, transposing these textures and surfaces into her jewellery making; reticulating, casting and hammering the surfaces of the silver and sometimes embedding semi-precious stones to reflect the natural colours of her environment. As an environmentalist she only uses recycled silver and gold and ethically sourced stones.
Email:
[email protected]
Website www.nickybjewellery.co.uk
Instagram: nickybartonjewellery
Facebook: nickybartonjewellery
Owen Williams
Painting
Owen Williams is a Devon-based painter and illustrator. He works predominantly in oils, portraying the beautiful landscapes of Devon and Cornwall from sketches created whilst walking along the lanes and coastal paths.
Originally from the North East, Owen feels completely at home in the countryside but is drawn to the juxtaposition of industrial buildings and machinery with hedgerows, lanes and rich red earth. Owen's focus is in shaping forms by painting the negative space around them while playing with limited colour palettes.
Email:
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Website: www.owenarts.co.uk
Instagram: www.instagram.com/owenarysunlimited
Facebook. www.facebook.com/owenarts
Rosie Brewer
Wood
From her Mid Devon studio, Rosie Brewer creates hand carved wooden kitchenware using a wide variety of locally sourced hardwoods.
Email:
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Website: www.rosiebrewer.com
Instagram: @rosiethebrewer
Sarah Holder
Mixed media, papier mache and ceramics
Designer/Maker.
I primarily make ceramics but my training and experience are an eclectic mix, having been trained in Textile Design and Fine Arts majoring in Ceramics and having worked in theatre props and wig making. My principal motivation is the making itself rather than the materials. The Inspiration from nature, the landscape and my garden remain a constant whichever medium I use. Currently I am experimenting with papier mache and mixed media.
Email address:
[email protected]
Website: sarahholderceramics.com
Facebook: Sarah Holder Ceramics
Instagram: sarah_holder_ceramics
Simon Ripley
Printmaking
Simon Ripley is a Director of Exeter’s Double Elephant Print Workshop. He uses the drypoint process using a variety of techniques to make colourful abstract prints.
Email:
[email protected]
Website www.simonripley.co.uk
Steve Symes (Hollocombe Woodworking)
Wood
I make pieces one-off items using both machinery and hand tools and techniques. I use local wood where possible, and other wood from sustainable sources, and I try to take the wood all the way from rough timber to finished article. I have been woodworking seriously for about 13 years. I sell at craft fairs and take occasional commissions. This will be my third year of taking part in Devon Open Studios at The White Room Creative Space.
Email:
[email protected]
Facebook: @hwworking
Group Members
Anne Jackson,
Belinda Reynell,
Esme Cooper,
Hannah Oram
Jane Welsh,
Jo Roper,
Matt Calder,
Mandi Street,
Nicky Barton,
Owen Williams,
Rosie Brewer,
Sarah Holder,
Simon Ripley,
Steve Symes.
