Claire Cerysanne Groves is a mixed media artist who combines her love of texture, colour, and the animal kingdom to create unique, realistic pieces that draw in you and make a personal connection between you and the animal subject. Working with oils, canvas, handmade paper, glass, and wood, she produces a wide range of original and printed items that brighten your everyday life.

Jennifer of Clay Blanca ceramics makes beautiful stoneware and porcelain ceramic pieces from her studio based in Farsley - Leeds. All pieces are carefully handcrafted and inspired by nature, floral patterns and textiles. Working with a combination of different decorating techniques to make each piece stand out, no two pieces are the same.

Crafts in the Pen takes place each November at Skipton Auction Mart. The event has rapidly grown into a wonderful crafts market the whole family can enjoy. As well as over 230 stalls, Crafts in the Pen is home to a twinkling 'Starlight Cafe' for the grown ups and a free grotto for the kids.

Crafty Crow Studios is Jen’s creative outlet which sells a range of nature inspired products focussing on natural materials, and a neutral and minimalist colour scheme. From her signature floral filled digital art, to monochromatic nature photography, to a sprinkling of sewing, everything celebrates Jen’s love for the British countryside and crafting. Her product range includes tote bags, wall hangings, cards, prints, bookmarks, keychains and more, all of which are made and designed in Yorkshire.

Victoria Bowater trading as Daisy Louise Jewellery, loves making unique pieces of jewellery from vintage cutlery and coins.
She loves sourcing unloved items that already have a history and making them into beautiful pieces of jewellery to be treasured.
Designing and making spoon jewellery is Victoria’s favourite, Spoon rings where first made in the 1600’s, when a servant would steal a silver spoon from their master’s home to make a wedding ring.

Dales fabrics. Fabric sellers based in the Yorkshire Dales village of Clapham. Now selling some of our own printed designs to create our unique cushions. All individually cut and sewn, these cushions really are a cut above in style and quality.

Darrell Milnes produces functional and decorative ceramics, wheel thrown, and hand built, use a blend of his own clay. All pieces are fired to high temperature stoneware in a gas kiln, decorated with handmade glazes.

In 2018 Dawn appeared as a wild card on Landscape Artist of the year and in 2021 made my way to a pod, where I was down to the last 3 in my heat.
And was nick named:
“THE GOD IN THE POD”
Her biggest achievement to date was painting a portrait for NHS heroes for a paramedic who lost his life to COVID.
Although Dawn is a figurative oil painter and has been for a few years, in 2024 she discovered gouache paints and at the beginning of the year, decided to grow her You Tube channel. She created and documented her work, after traveling to the Yorkshire coastal towns and painting the fantastic Yorkshire sites with gouache. Her videos can be viewed on her YouTube channel.

Deb Cooper is a Mixed Media Textile Artist who creates artworks with fabric, papers and stitch. Deb regularly uses recycles fibres, old book pages and vintage textiles to extend their use, often dyed with plant materials and rusty objects. As well as framed art works –she sells hand crafted sewing notions, books and hand dyed ephemera.

Shaun Jeffrey, the artist behind Deshca Designs, breathes life into copper by creating decorative items for the home and garden. Inspired by nature, he handcrafts sculptures from delicate dragonflies to bold geometric forms. Whether helping nature with bird and bee baths or decorative in the form of flowers or fish, he fashions a range of products and one-of-a-kind statement pieces.

Designs by LD was created in 2021 by a young architect who lives and works in Skipton. This small business offers high quality hand drawn graphical art prints, with bright, bold colours, and hundreds of designs to choose from including local landmarks, food and drink and all things sport! Designs by LD seeks inspiration from all aspects of daily life, including the creator’s enjoyment of walks in the local area and his passion for sport.

Diane is an established Designer/Maker working with various methods of textile print and embroidery, expressing her joy of colour, pattern, light, rhythms and silhouettes found in the natural environment.
Products created from her exclusively designed fabrics include etched velvet scarves, framed prints and collages, book covers, cards, lavender bags, glasses cases and decorative items.
In addition, she runs silk monoprinting workshops for secondary schools and adult creative groups

Nestled in the heart of Snowdonia National Park, Eleanor's Attic have been making bags and accessories for over 15 years. Specialising in working with pvc coated cotton, all of their bags are vegan friendly and handmade in their workshop in Dolgellau using quality materials, all sourced from British manufacturers.
Their, often vibrant, fabrics are constantly being updated ensuring a fresh selection of colour combinations throughout the year and maintaining the individuality of every bag.

Elizabeth’s work combines two qualities that she has always loved; Rustic, natural pottery and brightly coloured hand painted ceramics. She has strived for years to combine these two qualities to produce a range of pottery she is proud of. This current collection is hand thrown on the potters wheel then hand decorated with underglazes, transfers and line piping. She loves the speckled quality of the clay combined with abstract rainbow designs.

Ellen lives and works in the Lake District National Park.
Her deep connection to nature provokes constant inspiration for her creative work. Ellen’s pottery subtly ‘domesticates’ themes from the natural world. Invoking tonal landscape forms and soothing colour combinations, her contemporary tableware aims to bring the outside, inside.
Rich visual and tactile representations of the natural landscape perform as functional objects that enrich everyday life.

Ellie is a Skipton based artist and illustrator whose main focus is British wildlife as she loves to capture different creatures’ personalities in her work. She has produced artwork for a gold award winning RHS Gardener’s designs and her work has featured on the Bolton Abbey Estate and in their shops. Ellie loves to create her own colourful world of illustrative animal art and is constantly trying to challenge her abilities and creativity.