EDWINA BRIDGEMAN conveys the poetry in the everyday.  Her narrative constructions from wood and multifarious found objects bring new life to unwanted things.  They highlight the joy of simple delights and the endurance of the human spirit

TRACY REES allows family pets supremacy in the home.  Their idiosyncrasies often ape those of their human owners in her amusing paintings.  Comfort is the peak of their desires.  The duality of their wildness and polite domesticity is visible in many of the paintings.

The rich hues of natural dyes give SUE MARSHALL’s woven rugs and blankets a sensuous appeal.   Her designs owe much to her Scandinavian background as well as to traditional Peruvian and Navajo imagery. Plants and lichens picked around her Cornish studio are used to dye her Swedish wools and linens.

LIZZIE FAREY uses locally sourced materials for her willow wall sculptures.  An impressive tally of awards and exhibitions, both national and international, give due recognition to the unique quality of her work.  She treats her material with respect and empathy, never distorting or forcing the willow into alien forms.

A sense of space pervades JAMES CAMPBELL’s new watercolours and pastel drawings.  The essence of land- or sea-scape is expressed in broad sweeping brushstrokes which somehow envelope the onlooker. The emptiness invites one in.   His are peaceful and meditative images which transmit calmness.

The most commonly discarded material - paper - is transformed by MAGIE HOLLINGWORTH into bowls of delicate beauty.  Working with paper for 30 years, Magie has invented many methods for creating different effects -  from deeply textured platters, wall panels incorporating plant material, decorated, gessoed bowls to the feather-light translucent vessels with pierced decoration in this exhibition.

SUZANNE POTTER works mainly in silver.  Most of her imagery comes from observation of wild flowers such as buttercups and cranesbills, honed to the simplest of shapes in necklaces, long-stem earrings and bracelets.  Unexpectedly, a few of her designs incorporate brightly coloured felt - to great decorative effect.

Stylised motifs of leaves and plants engraved through a cobalt slip carry the assured skills of a graphic designer in ANNIE HEWETT’S ceramic tableware.  This illustrative quality is equally expressed in her ‘retro’ range where the soft colours hark back to the post-war days of refreshing new work from artist-designers of the ‘50s.

Outside in the gardens are glass fibre and wood sculptures by JAMES BARNSLEY which explore new forms and relationships with space, whilst others are designed to sway in the wind.

FIONA CAMPBELL’s larger-than-life Dragonfly and Bumblebee created from scrap steel and wire stalk through the vegetation of the walled garden giving rise to the thought that myriads of such creatures abound around us!

CHARLOTTE JONES uses clay in a very different way. She hand-builds bowls from local clays, blending their different hues into an abstract depiction of the landscape and shorelines around her Cornish home. Rather than glazing, she burnishes the vessels with a pebble, producing a surface that “echoes wind-polished geology”.