Havant Arts Centre

Pete’s ceramic boats have slipped into harbour in the showcase cabinets at The Spring and they will enchant and amaze you.

Faerie-tale kits by Freya Perry
With an element of fun and a sprinkling of faerie dust, Freya Perry has created enchanting faerie-tale art. With a self confessed passion for colour, she combines fabric, words, paper, paint and thread and invites you to dare to dream. Come along and buy a kit to help those long hot days of summer holidays fly by and allow you and your child to produce a pair of faerie wings or a faerie or a tooth faerie purse together.

Jewellery has always interested me, but originally to look at and sometimes buy. But when I visited my sister in British Columbia in 1990, I was inspired by the beautiful things she was creating using semi-precious stones and beads. She showed me how to weave patterns in to the necklaces to highlight the stones and beads.

My first trip to a specific rock & crystal shop was a specialist store in Spokane, Washington, where my sister bought many of her materials. I bought Lapis Lazuli, Amethyst and Malachite. Since then I have found delight in discovering similar shops all over the world. I have semi-precious stones, glass and ceramics beads and other materials I bought while in Las Vegas, South Africa, New York, Arizona, Barcelona and, of course many very good shops here in England. I also like using very old beads from antique shops and lamp glass beads too. The internet has increased the choice for me and so I sometimes buy from there as well. My favourite places so far are Las Vegas and New York - lots of choice and the beads are different shapes to anywhere else.

I choose a colour and then work on a pattern which I repeat four times. It all has to balance in size and colour. Some people ask me for a certain gemstone, stating that it has certain therapeutic properties. I haven’t experienced any specific healing effect but if it helps others then that’s good.

Part of the fun is travelling around to get the beads, part of the fun is making the jewellery and part of the fun is knowing people like the work enough to pay for it. It’s such a relaxing and satisfying hobby. ”

Jane Chant specializes in beautiful high quality earrings. She Uses Millifiorie beads and Swarovski crystal with silver wires as well as other original beads. She will join Annabel Munn and her ceramics, Bev Harris with her hand felted corsages and Helen Lee and her amazingly complex beaded necklaces as one our regular corps of makers.

After taking early retirement Helen took up silk painting and beading as hobbies. She has had considerable success at craft fairs and then taught craft at an adult education college. Having limited vision she prefers close work, so beading and designing are ideal and she now has fifteen years of experience. Her choice of materials is delicate and seed beads along with bugles and gemstones. Gold and silver ear wire is used for the earrings.

Annabel is a local ceramicist who makes beautiful mugs and bowels. She makes her mugs in a variety of sizes from expresso to normal.

Beverley Harris
As one of our regular exhibitors Bev continues to show her fabulous work
Beverley specialises in textiles such as reverse appliqué, fabric manipulation, machine embroidery and feltmaking. Her work is currently in felt which she uses to make wall hangings, bags, brooches and handmade cards.Beverley finds inspiration from other cultures such as Aboriginal, Indian and African, as well as nature and surface pattern.