Celebrated artists all, some of the exhibitors use materials of humble origin in their work, e.g. willow, discarded objects, waste paper, clay, plant-dyed wool, scrap metal whilst others focus on homely comforts, wild flowers and minimally drawn landscape.
Bringing all harmoniously together in Yew Tree’s two gallery rooms is the sense of pleasure gleaned from familiar things, activities or viewpoints. No aspirations to a glitzy, ‘celeb’ culture are visible here!
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 |

Tree of Life |
Edwina Bridgeman |
mixed media
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Girl on a horse |
Edwina Bridgeman |
mixed media
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Stable |
Edwina Bridgeman |
mixed media
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Caravan |
Edwina Bridgeman |
mixed media
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In the garden |
Edwina Bridgeman |
mixed media
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Small Angel Holding the World |
Edwina Bridgeman |
mixed media
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Cradle |
Edwina Bridgeman |
mixed media
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Kennel |
Edwina Bridgeman |
mixed media
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Storm in a Teacup |
Edwina Bridgeman |
mixed media
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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.
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Lazy Bones |
Tracy Rees |
acrylic
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Sweet Dreams |
Tracy Rees |
acrylic
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Paradise Regained |
Tracy Rees |
acrylic
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Patchwork |
Tracy Rees |
acrylic
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The Rose Teapot |
Tracy Rees |
acrylic
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Guilty Pleasures |
Tracy Rees |
acrylic
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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.
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Woven wall-hanging |
Sue Marshall |
woven rug
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51" x 51"
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Zig-zag |
Sue Marshall |
woven rug
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48" x 34"
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Triangles and Stripes |
Sue Marshall |
woven rug
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Blue zig-zag |
Sue Marshall |
woven rug
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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.
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Golden Leaves |
Lizzie Farey |
willow wall piece |
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Swallow |
Lizzie Farey |
willow wall piece |
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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.
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The Encircling Hill |
James Campbell |
watercolour |
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The Bridge |
James Campbell |
watercolour |
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The Bay |
James Campbell |
watercolour |
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Headlands I |
James Campbell |
watercolour |
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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.
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Pierced bowl |
Magie Hollingworth |
paper |
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New bowls |
Magie Hollingworth |
paper |
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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.
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Floral longstem earrings |
Suzanne Potter |
silver |
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Snowdrop garland brooch |
Suzanne Potter |
silver |
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Cranesbill brooch |
Suzanne Potter |
silver |
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Cranesbill Chain |
Suzanne Potter |
silver |
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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.
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Engraved jug and mug |
Annie Hewett |
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Retro plate, cup & saucer |
Annie Hewett |
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Tall jug and cup |
Annie Hewett |
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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.
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Embrace I |
James Barnsley |
glass fibre, wood |
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Wave |
James Barnsley |
glass fibre, wood |
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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! |

Dragonfly |
Fiona Campbell |
mixed media |
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Bumblebee |
Fiona Campbell |
mixed media |
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Working with stoneware clay, JOHN MALTBY has become renowned for his figurative sculpture. He has evolved a particular style of imagery that reveals a touch of humour underlined by a certain poignancy - reflecting aspects of the human condition. His figures and birds have an enduring, timeless quality which is echoed in his treatment of the clay, incised marks standing out against dark red oxides or slate greys, giving the appearance of weathered stone or bronze.
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Bird on Cornish Rock |
John Maltby |
stoneware |
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Windblown Figure and Sea Wall |
John Maltby |
stoneware |
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Figures and a Tree |
John Maltby |
stoneware |
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Mounted Gardening Angel |
John Maltby |
stoneware/wood |
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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”.
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Green gorse bowl |
Charlotte Jones |
ceramic |
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Seaweed bowl |
Charlotte Jones |
ceramic |
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