Welcome to the 3rd newsletter of 2006.
I have now enlarged the 'Buy British made gifts online'
section which can be found on the home page. You will find that
we have some exciting new additions.
However, not all members have online stores, and as we move
closer to Christmas I would encourage you to have a look around
the site where there are some very good British made gifts.
I said in the last newsletter that I would try to be more
organised with publication dates.
The intent is to publish once every three months during the last
week of the month - at the end of March, June, September and
early to mid December.
If you would like me to include any promotions that you are
running please contact me two weeks prior to these dates and I
should be able to include them.
As usual any feedback you can give me on the newsletter is always very welcome - is there anything you would like to see added or removed for that matter?
Anyway enough of my ramblings - on with the newsletter.
Kevin Barry Crystal Ltd. - Stourbridge, West Midlands.
KEVIN BARRY The Glass Cutter
Kevin Barry began glass cutting at Royal Brierley in 1976,
following in the age old tradition of apprentice learning in one
of England's oldest manufacturing crafts. In the early 1980's
Kevin moved to Stuart Crystal, where he spent twenty years as a
master cutler specialising in intaglio and sand engraving,
although additionally turning his hand to all the traditional
cutting methods. In this, Kevin followed in the footsteps of
earlier generations of craftsmen who were both specialists and
innovators, testing and trying out techniques across a range of
procedures in search of new and innovative design.
In 2003 Kevin established his own Studio at the Ruskin Centre
where he developed and continues to develop his own designs on a
wide range of locally sourced crystal glass using every possible
cutting technique. His work demonstrates a range of styles simply
not encountered in factory showrooms; contemporary and
traditional, minimalism alongside high Victorian
extravaganza.
Kevin offers off the shelf pieces, a design service and
undertakes bespoke commissions. He will make an individual piece
for an individual customer, something that could never happen,
except by special command, with factory cut glass. A Kevin Barry
commission offers customers the chance to enter a design
partnership with a master craftsman, combining individual
requirements with dedicated craft skill. Kevin Barry's glass is
unique. His pieces are not anonymous objects produced to conform
to some distant designer's dictate of taste and style, but
genuinely hand crafted works that speak loudly of satisfaction
inherent in their creation.
Kevin Barry's studio is open Monday to Friday 9.00am to 5.00pm
and Saturday 9.00am to 4.00pm.
Kevin Barry Crystal,
Ruskin Glass Centre,
Amblecote,
Lye.
Stourbridge
West Midlands
DY8 4HF.
Tel: 01384399468
Fax: 01384 399401
Email: kevinbarrycrystal@blueyonder.co.uk
web:
Kevin Barry Crystal
To have your profile published here please email me: syd@britishproductsdirectory.co.uk
Several new members have recently joined and just in case you haven't spotted the more recent ones, I've listed them below.
Nicola Hurst Jewellery -
Contemporary designer jewellery. Nicola Hurst hand crafts her
designs in her own studio and specialises in the combination of
gold and silver.
http://www.britishproductsdirectory.co.uk/southwest/sw_arts.htm
Made in Shropshire - Made
in Shropshire is a collaboration of artists, designer makers and
craft producers who live and work in Shropshire
http://www.britishproductsdirectory.co.uk/westmidlands/wm_directories.htm
Belvoir Vale Studio - I
should have mentioned in an earlier newsletter that Belvoir Vale
Studio now have a new web site- a large selection of house signs
including wildlife studies by artist Steven Burrows:
http://www.britishproductsdirectory.co.uk/southeast/se_gardenproducts.htm
Supported by:
http://www.dhconsulting.com/