Union Street Stroud
Meet the artists of Union Street
Textile artist
Clemency Calkin
Clemency Calkin is an artist working currently with textiles, creating contemporary patchwork that combines traditional techniques, global influences and bold colour palettes.
Jeweller
Heidi Hockenjos
Heidi's jewellery collections are intricate yet wearable daily jewels. A second skin of gold accents you’ll never want to take off.
Painter
Lucy Inder
Lucy is a landscape painter whose paintings are full of colour and pattern. Using both oils and acrylics, her recent work records the beautiful hills and valleys surrounding her home town of Stroud, celebrating the colours and textures of the countryside.
Ceramicist
Lorraine Robbins
Lorraine designs and makes in a very intuitive way. New domestic ware pieces often start as quick sketches in her notebooks. For other work destined for the gallery, Lorraine combines historical research with contemporary experience to create meaningful, tactile pieces.
Sculptor
Jim Pilston
Using papier-mache and mixed media, Jim explores folklore and legend – both local and European.
Jim draws upon many sources such as stories, pictures, films, children’s television and of a who's 1970s Cotswold childhood.
Illustrator
Tom Sears
Tom is predominantly an illustrator, animator and writer. He works from a studio in the magnificent Centre for Science and Arts, Stroud.
Tom works in a whole bunch of different ways, he's all about storytelling with a slightly wonky, handmade, human feel.
Textile Artist
Nomad Design
Nomad Design champions a slower approach to living, a responsible conscious choice to live a wholesome holistic life surrounded by beautiful well made furnishings and objects.
Jeweller
Loren Lewis Cole
Loren is a compulsive creator, no wall, surface or space is safe from her obsessive desire to decorate and adorn. "I see Art as medicine in a profound way. It's psychic medicine, working on a level that supports all other levels, jewellery blends many worlds"
Textiles