Carry Farm
Knitted textiles are created by Fiona using yarn from her small flock of Hebridean sheep grazing at Carry Farm. Fiona’s approach to making conserves the local heathland and the ancient breed of the native sheep.
Colourful modern designs, with an enviable provenance, are hand crafted in the studio at Carry Farm and Hebridean sheepskins are organically tanned by Fiona using a centuries old technique. The process of shepherding the sheep, shearing and transforming the fleece into textiles, results in unique products rooted to Carry Farm.
DREY WORKSHOP
Drey workshop aims to make joyful objects for use in the home. Combining Karen McPhail Ceramics and the woodwork of Gregor Campbell.
Working in clay follows the process of hand building forms, throwing on the wheel, or press moulding. Karen uses red earthenware clay and decorates each pieces at the ‘leather hard’ stage before the bisque firing. Decoration is applied using coloured slip. The final firing to 11800 degrees matures the glaze and gives intensity to the colours.
Gregor sources hardwood from the local community forest overlooking the Kyles of Bute and enjoys the challenge of transforming a beautiful raw material through work on a lathe. Every piece is unique and is oiled to a tactile finish.
Eve Campbell
With an interest in creating surface pattern inspired by Scottish nature and architecture Eve creates printed wallhangings and ceramic tiles. Through paper stencilling and screen printing her prints capture the colours, shapes and patterns of nature on Scotland's West Coast.
Eve graduated in Textile Design from The Glasgow School of Art in 2018 before setting up a small print studio at Carry Farm. From there she creates her textiles and ceramics, interpreting nature in abstract form for homes and spaces.
Heather Nevay
Heather studied at Glasgow School of Art and has been drawing and painting professionally since graduating in 1988. Tighnabruaich has a long heritage of sailing on the beautiful west coast waters which surround it and it is here that Heather has had a house for over 20 years on the shores of the Kyles of Bute.
Around 6 years ago Heather was given a bundle of older, cancelled sea charts by a seafaring friend which she found enchanting to pour over. As a non sailor, it was a purely aesthetic pleasure. They held such adventures and promise, and made Heather want to explore further in her imagination. She remembered the beauty and magic of the ancient hand painted sea charts and maps on a visit to the Vatican museum and started to make her own worlds and creatures, at times taking guidance from the wording printed on the charts.