The Market Cross Craft Shop is a favourite destination for people looking for individually designed jewellery, ceramics, textiles, glass, wood, artists’ prints and cards for all occasions. It is the perfect place to find special presents or treat yourself to high quality contemporary crafts made by many of the country’s most innovative makers, both established and new.

We will be showing work from local printmaker, Jenny Portlock.  Based on Lewis Carroll’s, Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass, Jenny creates wood engravings with a fantasy and dreamlike quality.  She has a love of flowing lines and the influence of Art Nouveau is clearly evident in her swirling, rhythmic style.

To complement the Gallery’s The Beguiling...  fairytales, myths and witchcraft exhibition, we are delighted to bring work from Lincolnshire ceramicist, Kate McBride.  Kate produces work which is fresh with ideas reflecting current events:  ‘A modern version of Rococo, my work is a collage of clay and ideas, composed of both borrowed and original material, reflecting today’s throwaway attitude in which a broken object becomes immediately worthless and therefore discarded.’

The Autumn exhibition is ‘Leaning to Landscape’ and we will be stocking work from textile artist, Lindsay Taylor.  Lindsay’s creations grow from a base fabric layer, many techniques are added, overlapping one on top of the other and this is where the magic happens.  Her inspiration evolved mainly from her cottage garden and the pine forest that surrounds her home.

Christmas at the Gallery and Craft Shop will feature work by all your usual favourites and many more! 

Buy presents for those close to you, or treat yourself.  All items can be purchased using ‘own art’ the national interest-free credit scheme for works of art and craft.

Own Art interest free loans are designed to make it easy and affordable for everyone to buy original, high quality contemporary art.  You can borrow up to £2,000 or as little as £100 and pay back the loan in 10 monthly instalments – interest free*.

(*typical 0% apr)

jewellery Gail Klevan Kokkino Jessica Sherrif Ruth Prail Niki Guy Marlene McKibbon Lesley Strickland Cathy Newell Price Michael Peckitt Annabet Wyndham Julia Groundsell Sally Lees Zelda Wong ceramics Tanya Gomez Lisa Ellul Richard Baxter Lisa Hammond Helen Baxter Kevin Warren Dale Butroid Sue Binns Chris Keenan Julie Goodwin Ali Drew Guy Holder Stephen Parry Grahame Clarke

textiles Poppy Treffy Hope and Benson Michelle Holmes Lisa Skelton Prilly Lewis glass Stuart Ackroyd Bob Crooks LA Studios Loco Glass prints Susie Perring Lucy Clibbon Sarah Kirby Belinda King Lesley Bermingham Bill Yardley paper goods Marta Munoz Tail lucky bird lush spotlightON current Alice Highet