Jenny Penney Artist
Jenny Penney
Local Makers Shop & Gallery
Venue: Mangerton Mill, Mangerton, Bridport DT6 3SG
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OPEN: Wednesday - Saturday; 10am - 4 pm
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As an entirely new venture for me, the shop/gallery poses a tremendously exciting opportunity to support local artists/crafts people to exhibit their fabulous hand made items at a unique venue just outside Bridport. The aim is to create a shop/gallery with a well varied display of unusual and attractive, well made and affordable gifts made by our many local talented artists. So far this is looking promising. I opened properly on the 30th March this year and have had many favourable comments about the fabulous space and unusual and beautiful artworks for sale here.
Let me introduce you to what we have on offer.
From May their has been a guest artist once a month at the Local Makers shop/Gallery. I would like to thank: Tara Harland Viney, Wendy Hermelin, Ingrid Ellis, Pam Philip and Bill Crumbleholme for their extraordinary and unique exhibitions this year.
& NOW EXTENDED to OCTOBER 2025 !
Guest artist for SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER 2025 is
BILL CRUMBLEHOLME.
Master Potter
living, working & teaching ceramics in the village of Upwey for many decades, his distinctive and renowned style of contemporary stoneware is inspired by ancient pottery; Neolithic bowls, Bronze Age urns & beakers, Iron Age & Roman jars & bowls inform the designs, with surfaces decorated by impressing tools such as combs, bones or sticks into the clay to form repeating patterns.
Bill is a pyromaniac who really enjoys heating clay and glazes in many different ways to see what happens. He uses a variety of techniques each giving unique properties to the finished pots including wood-firing, raku and pit firing.
With a passion for ancient pottery, Bill is a member of the Ancient Wessex Network, undertakes experimental archaeology and works with museums and archaeologists exploring pre-historic techniques.
Bill was instrumental in the creation of this collective of potters who have grown from his class students to a group of individual artists sharing their love of ceramics, resources and knowledge.
More information and an archive of Bill's work can be seen at:
November is an opportunity for myself to get back on the walls. So if you would like to see more of my work, please come.
Meet The Artists
Jenny Penney: You will have seen some of my work here on my site. Please come and see it "in the flesh" at Mangerton Mill (Wednesday - Saturday). You cannot get the perspective of the works until you do so!
Naya works mainly in porcelain creating beautiful sculpted seed-heads and plant hangers for your garden. She also makes very slim vases and bowls imprinted with natural grasses and flower heads that she grows in her garden and fossils collected from the seashore.
To be confirmed
Nick Jackson uses white stoneware to create the most beautiful mugs, bowls, oil drizzlers, jugs and much more. He works on the wheel and often uses a technique called Raku, an ancient Japanese firing method in his final glazing. He says "The flames and smoke react with the glaze to create amazing, unique, and unpredictable crazing patterns. The crazing itself is very random and this gives each piece its own unique character."
Rupert Andrews creates highly colourful and unique crazed glazed mugs and vases. He has worked on his glazes for over 30 years and they have become a collectors item for many who behold them. Importantly for the buyer, not only are they very affordable, but they are also dishwasher proof.
John Rigby's metalwork garden structure are created with love and labour. He uses both stainless steel and mild steel to create flowers on stalks "that will rust and create a contrast in colour and texture". Each flower can then be planted in your garden, without worry about feeding or blight!
Penny Ireland is a character sculptor of wildlife. She creates a whole range of "Tableware animals" such as the : pine martin, Tawny Owl and here a Koala.
Strawsilk Art : Intensely colourful and beautifully designed glassware is made by hand by Tim Lees using natural strawsilk paper. Each piece is unique and produced in a variety of forms.
Based in Dorset, Gillian McCormick creates incredible stained glass pieces of birds and animals of the UK. She also makes very collectable fused glass birds on wood. Every piece is stunning positioned in front of light, both artificial and natural.
Georgia Piggott is a local author who specialises in historical mystery novels . She sets her scene in a local fictional village of Dorset during the 17th century. Georgia has now published 3 books in the series : Just Causes, A Hazardous Game and Stolen Lives. Don't miss her 4th book in the series. It is out this month - August!
from november - JAYNE BURTON
Hilary Bradt sculpts small animal and dishes in ceramics. She uses a whole range of hand sculpting techniques, as she does here with her adorable "Time for a hair cut" sculpture of a dog.
Contemporary Aluminium Jeweller
JEWELLERY
ANCIENT BRONZE STYLED JEWELLERY
Caroline Parrott creates printed aluminium jewellery for one off bespoke pieces. Each piece is light and attractive and can be worn at any occasion. Her colourful creations include, earrings, necklaces bangles and even broaches.
Stephanie Mogg is a highly skilled jewellery maker working in silver, gold. She says her "beautiful, attractive pieces are created using gemstones, colour, texture and love".
Mark Vyvyan-Penney has spent many years researching the ancient methods of Bronze Castling, well before our time!! Having perfected these arduous methods which have required him to make his own bellows, build his own crucibles and cast his own bronze, his jewellery is highly skilled and unique. Some has been based on artefacts found on bronze age sites in Dorset and around the world.
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