Artelium’s Sussex Makers Market
Saturday, 22nd March
10 am - 4pm
Join us in the barn for our Spring Makers Market.
We are thrilled to bring together a community of likeminded makers, producers, and artisans for another unforgettable Makers Market, our contemporary showcase of local craft and produce - ideal for gifting (or self-gifting).
Join us as we curate a selection of the finest, luxury crafts and products, all under one roof. Discover unique, one-of-a-kind items, handmade with passion and skill by talented creators from across Sussex.
With a diverse range of items from ceramics and textiles to jewellery and homeware, our Makers Market is the perfect place to immerse yourself in the creativity and craftsmanship of our talented friends and discover the stories behind each and every piece.
We’ll have food and drink flowing all day, with complementary wine tastings taking place in our tasting room, keeping you fed and watered.
MEET THE MAKERS
ORIANA JEWELLERY
An independent jewellery maker from Lewes, specialising in hand-made and bespoke silver and gold necklaces, bracelets and earrings. Her designs take inspiration from nature and the life stories of those around her. Oriana understands that jewellery traverses a lifetime; a new story added with each wear. When making each piece, she imagines a whole lifetime of moments distilled into the metal. All her pieces are highly textured, so she works by hand, exaggerating hand-made, organic marks. Oriana says: ‘When we wear jewellery we build a relationship with each piece by touching it, holding it, wearing it, and that informs every blow of my hammer and every scrape of my file.’
As well as being featured in our Spring Makers Market, Oriana is teaching a number of jewellery making workshops as part of our FESTIVAL OF MAKING.
KEITH PETIT
Keith A. Petit is a sculptor and woodblock artist; both strands of his work are rooted in the natural world. His native Sussex, with its history and landscape of weald, woodland, chalk, farmland and coast, informs and shapes his pieces. Frequently working with found wood, Pettit immerses himself in a process of seeking and revealing forms and images. His most cherished artworks are those with substance, something with nature’s depths woven in. His urge to tell a story often finds expression not only in the properties of the wood but also in its intended site so that it feels almost like the environment has conspired to create the object, rather than having something imposed upon it.
As well as being featured in our Spring Makers Market, Keith is teaching a woodblock printing workshop as part of our FESTIVAL OF MAKING.
VICKY MAPPIN
Vicky Mappin is a botanical artist with a wonderful eye for the detail in nature. Her great love for the plants she finds in her beloved Sussex countryside and in her garden shines out in her work. Vicky completed a short workshop at the Chelsea Physic Garden and now combines painting with leading her own botanical art classes and workshops. Vicky is a Fellow member of the Society of Botanical Artists and exhibits with them at their annual exhibition in London.
As well as being featured in our Spring Makers Market, Vicky is teaching a botanical painting workshop as part of our FESTIVAL OF MAKING.
NANCY MEILAND PERFUMS
Nancy Meiland is a perfumer and trained nose who shaped her career designing signature scents for those coveting something highly individual and special. She believes that every scent you choose to envelop yourself with defines and redefines your space, helping project the image of you that you want to convey. Her inspirations take root in nature’s wildest landscapes, using natural botanicals to interpret a sense of space and time. She has created a scent universe with perfume expressions for every palette and an abiding sense of natural alchemy to their own homes.
As well as being featured in our Spring Makers Market, Nancy is running a workshop teaching you how to make your very own perfume as part of our FESTIVAL OF MAKING.
KATHARINE RABSON STARK
Katharine is an artist and ceramic maker from East Sussex. Using the pinch and coil method, she makes hand-built decorative clay vessels, inspired by the surrounding landscape and the gentle rhythms of everyday life. Katharine creates her vessels from dug Sussex clay and stoneware, smoke-firing them using materials gathered on walks such as bracken, thistledown and dock seeds.
She says of her process: “The shape of my hand, and the mood I am in, influence the finished pieces. I seek to capture the time that this slow method of making encapsulates.”
As well as being featured in our Spring Makers Market, Katharine is teaching hand-building ceramic workshops as part of our FESTIVAL OF MAKING.
THE SUSSEX BEE
The Sussex Bee is a small-scale apiary, nestled in the heart of Sussex, run by Lia, in partnership with over 1 million bees. Having tended to bees since childhood, Lia has learned the art of beekeeping from her father, who has cared for honeybees for over fifty years – and still does so to this day. Wishing to reignite fond beekeeping memories of her past, Lia established two colonies of her own in 2014 and now manages over 20 hives.
Lia’s traditional wooden beehives are located in ancient woodland, in the village of Ansty, overlooking two naturally seeded wildflower fields. The diversity of this flora is reflected in the flavour of The Sussex Bee honey. Each hand poured batch is unique in taste, showcasing seasonal variations of the Sussex countryside.
Alongside showing a selection of Sussex honey, Lia will be bringing her hand poured beeswax candles to the market.
SKELTON WORKSHOPS
Artelium wine estate is home to Skelton Workshops, whose roots have their origin in the life of celebrated sculptor, letter carver and educator John Skelton (1923-1999). His talent and skills have been passed through his daughter Helen Mary Skelton. Stone carving classes have been taught continuously since the millennium, and students of all ages and back grounds, bring enthusiasm for a hands on experience. Working at benches, with chisels and mallets on a range of stones, with the guidance of expert and friendly tutors, students learn the tradition of hand carving and the skill of letter cutting.
The Skeltons will be showing a series of pieces made by students, vouchers for workshops, along with demonstrations of stone and letter carving workshops throughout the day.
CODMAN & BELTER
Codman & Belter founder Giles creates hand-crafted leather products including belts, wallets, bags and pet accessories. He uses high quality leather, sourced from reliable, UK based tanneries in Northampton and Devon. Giles begins his process by cutting his material using traditional saddlers’ tools before hand-stitching each of his designs. Each piece’s edges are then sanded, bevelled and burnished using a range of natural finishers, responsive to the type of leather. For accessories such as leads and belts, Giles sources the metal hardware from one of England’s last remaining foundries, the Abbey Foundry, where each buckle and detail is individually cast. This commitment to exceptional materials and hand-processing results in beautifully crafted designs that last.
JUBAL PREVATTE
Jubal Prevatte creates wood-turned sculptural objects. For Jubal, trees have a deep yet silent presence in all our lives. He says: ‘everyone will have a connection to a tree. Maybe it’s one in their back garden, on the corner of the street, or one they used to climb. They might not realise how much of a presence it has until one day it falls and they feel like they have lost a friend.’ Jubal honours the importance of the tree and the story it holds with his work. The wood he works with is ‘green’ or ‘wet’ so it moves and shifts after he has turned it on his lathe. He relishes witnessing the material’s onward journey, changing and responding with it: encouraging its organic shapes and fixing cracks with splints or waxed yarn.
ELENA LONDON
Elena London was founded with one simple frustration—so many times, she had bought a diffuser or other home fragrance products, only to find they barely filled a space or faded within days. Elena knew she could create something better.
Elena took a leap and turned her passion for fragrance into a brand built on quality, longevity, and luxury—without the luxury price tag. Every product is hand-poured by Elena in Sussex, using only vegan, eco-friendly, and non-toxic ingredients, ensuring a safe, stylish, and long-lasting home fragrance experience Her products have been featured in Tatler magazine.
EMMA PURCELL
Emma Purcell has been exploring basketry for over a decade. She was drawn to creating forms using one material, and the alchemical process of turning sticks into utilitarian vessels.
Emma grows and harvests willow here in Sussex, so has an intimate relationship with the whole journey of the material, whose glossy hues and textures that are celebrated in the work. Emma is keen to uphold the heritage of basketry as she continues to use age-old traditional techniques alongside more contemporary aesthetics.
BRYONY MAE FLOWERS
Bryony Mae Flowers is a creative floral design studio, specialising in natural, romantic wild-style flowers for weddings and events.
Bryony’s style is loose, natural and a little wild, celebrating flowers which are full of joy, colour, texture and fragrance. She uses British flowers wherever she can, sourcing from local Sussex flower farms and growers near Hassocks. Her arrangements are inspired by the Sussex countryside, and she is always on the look-out for wild treasures on her walks to add into her evocative bouquets.
360 BOTANICS
360 Botanics creates 100% Natural Skin Care & Wellness Products that harness the therapeutic healing power of pure Essential Oils and natural plant based ingredients. Their formulas blend organic & natural botanical ingredients together to create a product range that balances & heals both the body and mind.
Enjoy the incredibly beneficial properties of Aromatherapy & Plant Based ingredients, from Cleansing Oils, through to Exfoliants, Pink Clay Masks and Super Serums along with our Wellness products; Soy Wax Candles, Therapeutic Bath Salts and Essential Oil infused Aroma Mists.
Coming from a Holistic Aromatherapist background, founder Pip de Villiers has been formulating and blending for over 20 years and is proud that all 360 Botanics products are 100% Vegan & Cruelty Free. All made with love at the 360 Botanics HQ in Lewes, England
BILL’S WORKSHOP
Bill’s Workshop started out life in a small shed and has slowly grown into a blacksmithing business with an enthusiastic and ambitious outlook on the material of metal. In the world of obsolescence, owner Billy Goodworth strives to produce generational objects, lasting centuries not seconds. In recent years Bill’s workshop has focused this mindset on forged stainless steel cookware, ordained with copper or brass accents to not only create functional goods but beautiful ones too. This cookware range has now grown to containing a range from lades to BBQ skewers as well as Bill’s signature coffee scoops. As a traditional blacksmiths forge, Bills Workshop undertakes bespoke commissions from gates to open fire grills as well as being a leading provider of blacksmithing and metalwork courses in their home county of Berkshire.
As the days grow longer and signs of spring emerge, the estate hums with anticipation. The start of Spring marks a time of balance and renewal – a moment when nature tips forward into growth.