welcombe open studios 2011

our last event of the summer this year is Welcombe Open Studios 2011 {12th - 14th august}.
we will be opening our studio {follow signs to studio 1} for 3 days & will be having a little sale of our furniture and accessories - 20% of all accessories at the studio {mirrors from £28, slate sushi plates from £24 a set, oak chopping/serving boards from £12, oak & slate lamps from £156, & more}.
we will also be reducing all furniture shown at the studio during the 3 day event {see image for details and prices}.

Welcombe Open Studios, now in it's 6th year, has 8 artists & designer makers opening their studios for 3 days. Come & see where they create their work and buy directly from them or commission a special piece, from ceramics to paintings, furniture to textiles, photography to poetry, and more.
And for the first time, this year the event has a hands on art for families day {friday only, 11am - 3pm} at Welcombe Mouth Beach, hosted by the National Trust.
Most studios are within walking distance of each other but all have parking facilities if you do intend to drive - all studios will be signposted from the A39 & around the village.
Detailed leaflets with a map to find all studios will be available in Welcombe.
For more details of the event please visit the website here.


we hope to see you at our studio.

pachadesign open studio {studio 1}
12th - 14th august {10.30am - 4.30pm}
well barn, welcombe, near bideford, devon, ex39 6hg

tomorrow at the cabin

our exhibition at the bucks mills cabin opens again tomorrow for another 3 days only. we hope you can come along - the exhibition will be open 11am - 3pm friday, saturday & sunday. we have really enjoyed putting together this exhibition with the National Trust and we were delighted that designer makers RAMP and Sam Pickard wanted to get involved with the project too.
we have all been so inspired by this tiny little cabin that artists Judith Ackland & Mary Stella Edwards once owned and lived in and it's been a real privilege to be able to spend time there and to put our own modern day interpretations in amongst their personal belongings for our exhibition.





we've had lovely compliments about the exhibition and some nice press too.
thanks so much to Emile for the piece he did on his blog Treasure Hunt, National Trust Collections {here}. thanks also to Sarah & Katie from madebyhandonline for putting it on their what's on pages {here} and to everyone that has blogged or tweeted about our exhibition.




the bucks mills cabin: a modern take
an exhibition by pachadesign, RAMP & Sam Pickard
in association with the National Trust
15-17 and 22-24 july 2001 {11am - 3pm daily}
the cabin, bucks mills, north devon, ex39 5dy
more info {here}

a sneak peek & press

we thought we'd show you a little sneak peek at our exhibition at the bucks mills cabin. thankyou to everyone that has visited so far and for all your lovely compliments & feedback.
the cabin is rarely open to the public and we've had lots of visitors that have always wanted to see inside it. if you haven't been to see the exhibition yet, it's open tomorrow and then next friday, saturday & sunday only {11am - 3pm daily}.


ceramics by RAMP

lamp by pachadesign, ceramics by ramp

mirror by pachadesign

curtains and chair by sam pickard, table by pachadesign

table by pachadesign, textiles by sam pickard and ceramics by ramp

textiles by sam pickard

view from the cabin

thanks to jago from proof magazine for her lovely review of our exhibition {here}, and to selvedge blog {here} and the crafts magazine {here} for kindly advertising our exhibition.

the bucks mills cabin: a modern take
15-17 and 22-24 july {11am - 3pm daily}
bucks mills cabin, bucks mills, north devon, ex39 5dy

the bucks mills cabin: a modern take opens tomorrow

we had the loveliest day setting up our exhibition at the bucks mills cabin today - it's looking so lovely inside with a collection of our furniture & accessories, beautiful textiles by Sam Pickard and lovely ceramics by Roop & Al {ramp}, all in amongst the pieces that have been left inside the cabin for many years.
the exhibition opens tomorrow from 11am - 3pm - hope to see you there. for more info click here.


the bucks mills cabin: a modern take
15-17 and 22-24 july {11am - 3pm daily}
bucks mills, north devon, ex39 5dy

the bucks mills cabin: a modern take

in conjunction with the National Trust, Devon based designer makers pachadesign, Sam Pickard & RAMP explore a modern take on the everyday objects left inside the artists cabin at Bucks Mills, a picturesque village on the North Devon Coast.

the cabin was owned by artists Judith Ackland & Mary Stella Edwards and is an evocative time capsule of their lives together - left today as it was in the 70's and now owned & carefully preserved by the National Trust.

this new group of artists will select some of the simple, everyday objects that Judith & Mary owned & used whilst living there and replace them with their own modern day interpretations.
{pachadesign: furniture & accessories, RAMP: ceramics, Sam Pickard: textiles}.








Hannah Jefferson from the National Trust says "The project with pachadesign, Sam Pickard & RAMP is a great way to bring the cabin to life in 2011. Involving local artists who are inspired by the same coastline as Judith & Mary, a modern take exhibition is the perfect opportunity to open the doors of the cabin to the general public, and get people talking about contemporary craft & design, in a setting which is lost in a different era".

the exhibition is open 15th - 17th & 22nd - 24th july 2011 {11am - 3pm daily}.
free entry & free parking at the top of Bucks Mills village, which lies on the North Devon Coast between Clovelly & Bideford.
postcode for sat navs: EX39 5DY








for more info & designer makers details:

pachadesign {website}
RAMP {website}
Sam Pickard {website}
the National Trust {website}

sun

© pachadesign

the last day of our open studio was yesterday and was lovely and warm and sunny. it felt like how summer is supposed to feel .... but today went back to grey and mist and rain. we want more sunshine please.

thanks to everyone that popped in to see us at the studio over the weekend. it was nice to see friends and meet some new people too. details about more summer shows coming up soon.

1 day left

the sun is shining today, at last .... one day left of our june open studio, we'll be open until 4pm so we hope to see you here.



© pachadesign



© pachadesign


pachadesign {website}

our june open studio

we open tomorrow from 10.30am - hope to see you this weekend.

© pachadesign

pachadesign {website}

contemporary craft fair update

thankyou to everyone that visited us at this years Contemporary Craft Fair at Bovey Tracey. despite the awful weather on the sunday, we still had a good show and it was nice to catch up with you all.
no pictures of our stand this year unfortunately ..... we left it until last thing on sunday to take some photographs and realised we'd left the battery for our camera at home.

so we thought we'd share a photograph we took of this lovely little pot that we bought at the show by maker Lucianna Gallucci. Lucianna's work and her stand at the show looked beautiful - her website will be online soon.
as always, there was lots of beautiful work at the show - we'll do a little collection of our favourites next week.

© pachadesign

pot by Lucianna Gallucci {website}

this weekend

we hope to see you this weekend at The Contemporary Craft Fair
{10th - 12th june, open daily 10am - 5pm}
click here for info

the contemporary craft fair 2011

The Contemporary Craft Fair at Bovey Tracey is this friday, saturday & sunday {10 - 12 june}. we will be exhibiting new work there so we hope you can make it along to the event - we are stand A29.

The event showcases 165 of the uk's finest designer makers from many disciplines including ceramics, glass, textiles, furniture, jewellery, metal, fashion, mixed media and more. there is also workshops, demonstrations, children's craft tent, entertainment, great food & live music over the 3 day event.




our little selection of some of the lovely work you can see at the show (including our new work): top left - pachadesign, top right - cleo mussi, bottom left - adam buick, bottom right - tanja ufer


for more info: The Contemporary Craft Fair {website}