John Callen

John Callen and his partner Pam Franklin and their two children have lived at Potato Town Swerford for ten years. John trained at the John Makepeace school for furniture design in Dorset. John designs and makes furniture to commission often combining timber with other materials such as glass and stainless steel

John Callen

He has recently set up a company called Doodlespace with fellow furniture designer Ashley Cartwright that builds environmentally friendly green oak garden rooms. e- mail: john@potatotown .co. uk Web:Doodlespace.co. uk

Charlotte Douglass - Artist in Glass

Charlotte Douglass has lived in Swerford since the spring of 1989. Her main focus is on kiln-formed glass. She is fascinated by the qualities of colour and light, the silvery glow of the bubbles and the paradoxically soft feel of the polished glass. All her current work is kiln-formed. Each piece is individual and unique, formed in a plaster and quartz mould in the kiln. Making the necessary moulds is a complex and time- consuming process, and firing is followed by intensive work polishing, finishing and presenting the final piece.

Charlotte Douglass Artist in Glass

Charlotte has exhibited several times in Swerford village hall mainly as part of Art Weeks, showing watercolours and photographs as well as glass pieces, and at Chasleton House for which she made a piece especially designed for the long gallery. email:charlotte. douglass@care4free. net

Pam Franklin - Pearl Abstract 1

Pam lives with her partner John in the cottage attached to the studios in Swerford converted by the Great Tew Estate in 1996 with a rural dvelopment grant. Following her MA in Fine Art at Coventry, she was taken up by the Bruton Street Gallery in London in 1999. Her work is unusual in that its source of inspiration is art history and the Renaissance period. The result is a form of abstraction that has great depth and richness.

Pam Franklin - Exhibition

Of late she has started to juxtapose her work alongside the original starting point as the image here shows. Recent work uses commercially produced flock wallpaper and paper cutouts. To see more of Pam's work visit her website or go to the Potato Town site. e-mail: pam@potatotown.co.uk web:pamfranklin.co. uk

David Mynett - A Winter's Walk

After practising law on the Oxford circuit, in 1971 David studied agriculture at Warwickshire college. His experience in farming has equipped him with an understanding of the two fundamental elements in landscape painting namely, the weather and the lie of the land. David travels widely but has lived in Swerford for the last ten years.

David Mynett - After the Harvest

When he first started painting he mainly used water colour, however over time he developed his love for pastels. Only quite late in his career did he change his medium again and found great interest in oils. He still finds great joy in using all mediums and loves the thrill of developing new forms of painting methods as well as building on his existing skills. web:davidmynett.com

Jeffrey Pratt - Nick Wiggins' sheep at Fox Hill

Jeffrey Pratt has lived in Swerford for fifteen years and simply loves to paint, travel and celebrate colour. A deep, deep desire to paint propels him despite families and financial distractions to create gardens, lakes, sculptures - anything and everything.

Jeffrey Pratt - Jeffrey's lily lake at Foxhill

To paint direct from life under the sky here and everywhere is his best link to the universe and leads him closer to a happy state of 'infinite interconnectedness'. To see more of Jeffrey's work either visit his website: jeffreypratt.com or telephone him to arrange a visit to his studio.

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