Showing posts with label jewellery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jewellery. Show all posts
Monday, 16 June 2014
Wednesday, 19 February 2014
Exhibitor of the Month - February 2014
Newark was a great show again, I was able to go to this one and met up with many of the exhibitors. It was a great atmosphere and lovely to meet so many people I've been e-mailing over the past several months!
Because we didn't get the chance to interview everyone when we re-started the blog - though the option is still there if anyone wants - we decided to do a monthly feature on our exhibitors. Starting with ones we didn't get to interview.
To start with we're going to feature Lizian, a well established crystal and mineral seller. Lizian are regulars at our shows and lovely familiar faces. They sell a wide range of crystals, tumblestones, jewellery, incense, and oils.
They are meticulous in their sourcing, and offer a rethreading service which is a wonderful idea.
As well as our shows, they have a base in Nottingham at the Victoria Centre Market. Winner of the "Greenest Market in the Midlands" award in 2008.
If you can't get to Nottingham and want to visist them in between shows you can visit them online at www.liziancrystals.com
Because we didn't get the chance to interview everyone when we re-started the blog - though the option is still there if anyone wants - we decided to do a monthly feature on our exhibitors. Starting with ones we didn't get to interview.
To start with we're going to feature Lizian, a well established crystal and mineral seller. Lizian are regulars at our shows and lovely familiar faces. They sell a wide range of crystals, tumblestones, jewellery, incense, and oils.
They are meticulous in their sourcing, and offer a rethreading service which is a wonderful idea.
As well as our shows, they have a base in Nottingham at the Victoria Centre Market. Winner of the "Greenest Market in the Midlands" award in 2008.
If you can't get to Nottingham and want to visist them in between shows you can visit them online at www.liziancrystals.com
Thursday, 21 November 2013
Interview with Debbie & Peter Thorpe - Aurora Crystals
Today we have an interview with Debbie and Peter Thorpe of Aurora Crystals. Debbie and Peter attend the BSSK shows with their wonderful selection of crystals, jewellery and examples of Debbies' artwork. Many thanks to them for taking the time to do this for us and we look forward to seeing them at the shows next year.
To start with, could you tell us a bit more about yourselves?
Peter is a semi-retired Chartered Accountant, formerly Finance Head of Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, now consultant on a further Wildlife project "The Coastal Grazing Marshes in Lincolnshire". Having worked for conservation for the last 20 years of his life, his main passions are watching wildlife, especially in the wild places of Scotland, walking and working with crystals on our stall.
Debbie has been an artist since she was old enough to hold a pencil, has always drawn from imagination from being very young, was destined for art school but had to choose a "sensible" career of becoming a secretary and working in a well-known High Street bank, but then raising a family of 3 amongst a menagerie of animals, from domestic dogs and cats, to goats, chickens, sheep and horses and then moving on to her true spiritual path of being a healer and spiritual artist. For many years painted as a professional Wildlife artist whilst still working with horses, but then hung up her grooms boots to become a Crystal Healer and work at the MBS shows. Trained in the Crystal Diploma by the SVA, she is also a Reiki practitioner, has studied Aura Soma, Master Colour Healing and Quantum Touch. In the 45 years we have spent together, Peter has been the one who has enabled all these passions to come to fruition.
What treasures can we find on your stalls?
Everything, from natural specimens and clusters to beautiful Hekimer Diamonds, Master Crystals, working crystals for healers, beautiful carvings of animals and crystal skulls, polished specimen peices, spheres and a wide range of tumblestones to suit all tastes and purposes with written explanations prepared by Debbie from her long experience of working with them. Crystal jewellery from pendants to bracelets and original artwork as examples of what Debbie produces on a commission basis.
How do you source your crystals?
Crystals are sourced from a very wide range of suppliers in the UK, many specialists in their own fields and are all personally chosen by ourselves. We aim to carry a wide range of different crystals so that customers can choose something that is very personally pleasing , whether to work with or to place in their environment, to wear or just carry if they feel it will help empower their well being. If advise is sought then Debbie has prepared many explanations customers may take free of charge so that they may make a choice based on their own intuition.
What inspires your artwork and how do you feel you have evolved creatively?
My artwork is inspired intuitively on a spiritual level for each individual client and is drawn from my love of portraiture and animals. It has evolved from working as a professional Wildlife artist for many years to a deep intuitive/spiritual level. I owe much to my early training in "A" level art to my wonderful teacher Miss Oyler, who insisted on many hours spent life drawing and sitting outside drawing scenes around Lincoln Cathedral (the school being very close by) I feel honoured and privileged to work on commissions for customers and hope that what I bring forward both makes them happy and empowered in their own spirituality.
Which writer/thinker has influenced you the most?
Debbie: As an avid reader from childhood, the list would be too long, but it ranges from Tolkiens' Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit read many, many years ago, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, Keats, Tennyson, W.B. Yeats, R.D. Blackmores Lorna Doone, Bomber by Len Deighton, to Kenneth Grahames Wind in the Willows.
Later on my spiritual path it would be Lao Tzu (Chinese mystic) Sue and Simon Lilley on the Crystals, the life of Frank Fools Crow by Thomas E Mails, Caroline Myss, Harry Edwards and Melody - Love is in the Earth.
What is the best advice you've been given?
First crystal teacher, Cassie "Many answer, few are called." From that I tried to learn to listen so that I may perhaps help someone find, through their own intuition, the path their inner teacher is trying to tell them to follow.
Lao Tzu "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."
W B Yeats from Cloths of Heaven "...tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
Can you name your Desert Island books/films?
Debbie:
Moulin Rouge
Dark Crystal
Anya Seton Katherine
Standing with Stones DVD - a Journey Through Megalithic Britain Rupert Soskin
Lord of the Rings Trilogy Tolkien
Portrait of the Master (St Francis of Assisi) James Twyman.
To start with, could you tell us a bit more about yourselves?
Peter is a semi-retired Chartered Accountant, formerly Finance Head of Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, now consultant on a further Wildlife project "The Coastal Grazing Marshes in Lincolnshire". Having worked for conservation for the last 20 years of his life, his main passions are watching wildlife, especially in the wild places of Scotland, walking and working with crystals on our stall.
Debbie has been an artist since she was old enough to hold a pencil, has always drawn from imagination from being very young, was destined for art school but had to choose a "sensible" career of becoming a secretary and working in a well-known High Street bank, but then raising a family of 3 amongst a menagerie of animals, from domestic dogs and cats, to goats, chickens, sheep and horses and then moving on to her true spiritual path of being a healer and spiritual artist. For many years painted as a professional Wildlife artist whilst still working with horses, but then hung up her grooms boots to become a Crystal Healer and work at the MBS shows. Trained in the Crystal Diploma by the SVA, she is also a Reiki practitioner, has studied Aura Soma, Master Colour Healing and Quantum Touch. In the 45 years we have spent together, Peter has been the one who has enabled all these passions to come to fruition.
What treasures can we find on your stalls?
Everything, from natural specimens and clusters to beautiful Hekimer Diamonds, Master Crystals, working crystals for healers, beautiful carvings of animals and crystal skulls, polished specimen peices, spheres and a wide range of tumblestones to suit all tastes and purposes with written explanations prepared by Debbie from her long experience of working with them. Crystal jewellery from pendants to bracelets and original artwork as examples of what Debbie produces on a commission basis.
How do you source your crystals?
Crystals are sourced from a very wide range of suppliers in the UK, many specialists in their own fields and are all personally chosen by ourselves. We aim to carry a wide range of different crystals so that customers can choose something that is very personally pleasing , whether to work with or to place in their environment, to wear or just carry if they feel it will help empower their well being. If advise is sought then Debbie has prepared many explanations customers may take free of charge so that they may make a choice based on their own intuition.
What inspires your artwork and how do you feel you have evolved creatively?
My artwork is inspired intuitively on a spiritual level for each individual client and is drawn from my love of portraiture and animals. It has evolved from working as a professional Wildlife artist for many years to a deep intuitive/spiritual level. I owe much to my early training in "A" level art to my wonderful teacher Miss Oyler, who insisted on many hours spent life drawing and sitting outside drawing scenes around Lincoln Cathedral (the school being very close by) I feel honoured and privileged to work on commissions for customers and hope that what I bring forward both makes them happy and empowered in their own spirituality.
Which writer/thinker has influenced you the most?
Debbie: As an avid reader from childhood, the list would be too long, but it ranges from Tolkiens' Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit read many, many years ago, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, Keats, Tennyson, W.B. Yeats, R.D. Blackmores Lorna Doone, Bomber by Len Deighton, to Kenneth Grahames Wind in the Willows.
Later on my spiritual path it would be Lao Tzu (Chinese mystic) Sue and Simon Lilley on the Crystals, the life of Frank Fools Crow by Thomas E Mails, Caroline Myss, Harry Edwards and Melody - Love is in the Earth.
What is the best advice you've been given?
First crystal teacher, Cassie "Many answer, few are called." From that I tried to learn to listen so that I may perhaps help someone find, through their own intuition, the path their inner teacher is trying to tell them to follow.
Lao Tzu "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."
W B Yeats from Cloths of Heaven "...tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
Can you name your Desert Island books/films?
Debbie:
Moulin Rouge
Dark Crystal
Anya Seton Katherine
Standing with Stones DVD - a Journey Through Megalithic Britain Rupert Soskin
Lord of the Rings Trilogy Tolkien
Portrait of the Master (St Francis of Assisi) James Twyman.
Sunday, 22 September 2013
Interview with Peta Garnaut of Serene Spirit Jewellery
A wonderful interview today with Peta Garnaut who is giving a workshop on Singing Bowls and Tingsha at the Monastery on Sunday 6th. Petas' website serenespiritjewellery.com is a source of beautiful jewellery and artwork and we'd like to thank Peta for taking the time to answer our questions. Although her extremely popular workshop is fully booked at Manchester in October she also has a stand at the event. As ever, pop along and say hi!
1 - To start, could you tell us a little bit about yourself please.
2 - Travelling all over the world to source your artefacts, which is your favourite place to visit and why?
That is a difficult question to answer, so I will answer with 2 locations. Sri Lanka is my favourite shopping destination for textiles and paraphernalia. It is also so rich in culture and intriguing historic monuments. I visited the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy which was such a peaceful and reverant building where the sacred relic of the tooth of Gautama Buddha is housed.
My other favourite is Indonesia, because of the diversity and high artistic integrity of the artisans. They are people whose requirements are simple but they love to do business and share their culture. The people of Ubud are especially the warmest hosts and I have friends and artists who I visit every year.
3 - You've been painting since childhood, how do you feel you've evolved as an artist?
My interest in Buddhist goddessess and Angels has inspired much of my recent artworks. The Green Tara and White Tara are quite formal in posture but as they care for all beings I can picture them with animals and birds and have fun with the artwork. Angels are not so formal, but they are very insistent on how they are painted. I start with something in mind and over the hours and days the image will change and develop and then quite unexpectedly it will be finished. I actually believe they Angels guide my hand.
4 - You're doing a workshop in Singing Bowls and Ting Sha at the Monastery, how did you first get into them and could you tell us a bit about the workshop.
I visited Kathmandu many years ago and visited the village where singing bowls are made and bought my first. I used it before meditating. As Serene Spirit Jewellery grew into not just jewellery I saw that good quality Tibetan singing bowls would be an authentic addition. Children and adults love to feel the vibration of the bowls and the hypnotic sounds which are so helpful to focus, relax and empty the mind.
The workshop is not just a demonstration of how to play a singing bowl but there will be bowls available for visitors to try. There is a technique to getting it right and once you have it mastered it is very satisfying to then experiment with the different tones in one singing bowl.
The Tingsha are an easy alternative and much more portable. The chimes are gently "clanged" together and the sweet sound lingers. They have some very practical uses too. When the family comes together for dinner use the Tingsha to "clear" the space and enjoy each others company.
5-Which writer/thinker has influenced you the most.
6- What’s the best piece of advice you’ve been given.
Never, never, never give up
7- Would you name 6 “Desert Island” books or films (ones you would like if you were stranded on a desert island - for young ones who don’t know about Desert Island discs!)
Films -: The Big Chill. - The Usual Suspects. - Bridesmaids
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