In April, Edward Wild, Hester Berry and Edward Crumpton had the chance to visit the Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon to look at a collection of the museum’s archival artefacts. Each artefact demonstrated the skills of gilding, tile making or copper smithing. The museum has a large collection of items and a selection was picked by the artists, with the ...
In March 2022 Edward Crumpton and Jess Pearson travelled to The Copper Works Newlyn in Cornwall to visit Michael Johnson in his workshop for Edward’s learning experience. Here are Edward’s notes from his experience of visiting the copper works. I spent the week learning Coppersmithing from owner Michael and his associates Adam and Harry. With my limited ...
Our first heritage craft workshop took place in late February and was between skilled gilder, Danni Bradford and furniture maker, Edward Wild. Danni took Edward through the many processes of water and oil gilding. Jess was there to photograph and film the workshop. Here are some words from Edward Wild describing his experience of learning gilding from Danni ...
Welcoming in the new year we introduced our artists to our skilled practitioners. During each meeting, the excitement of the artists grew as they realised the potential of the project and its ability to influence their practice. Newlyn Copper Work Day Trip Jess and I travelled down to The Newlyn Copper Works to meet and discuss the project with ...
In early October I was thrilled to receive funding from Arts Council England for a new and exciting 14-month project which highlights and evolves North Devon heritage skills, intending to inspire their revival through new and exciting art and craft. The project will see myself, painter Hester Berry, www.hesterberry.co.uk and furniture designer and maker Edward ...
In a New Light Project was successful in its Arts Council bid and is going ahead. Content for this exciting project, based in North Devon, will be added each month leading up to the exhibition at Barnstaple Museum in Autumn 2022. -Ed
May 18 – July 31, 2021 Cost: Free Inspired by the weird, wild and wonderful tales of the Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon this exhibition brings together eleven celebrated artists including Edward Crumpton, Hester Berry and Peter Kettle with the poetry of Jade Angeles Fitton. The wonderful collaboration of poetry and artwork, brings to life the mythical, ...
Barnstaple Museum is reopening on the 18th May 2021 with a fantastic exhibition of artwork and poetry inspired by artefacts and folklore from the Museum’s archive chosen by the talented poet Jade Fitton. I have one of my wood engravings, Winsford in the show as well as friend artists Hester Berry & Peter Kettle. There is a book that accompanies this ...
Since 2015 I started thinking about a sculpture that would encapsulate the history of the Mayflower and the Pilgrims who left England to America. I came up with many concepts and resided on making three pieces, each describing a different part of the story. Below you can see my proposal and photos of the maquette I created for this project. Even though the ...
Over the Summer term of 2019, I was invited by Mountjoy School to create a sensory collaborative sculpture that would engage the students in the techniques and skills of rope making and knots. It is a special educational needs school which helps students from the age of 2 1/2 to 19. The school wanted to involve as many students from the school as possible and so ...