Deemouth Artist Studios Alumni

Ceramic Maker / Facilitator

Amy Benzie is a ceramic maker and creative facilitator curiosity lies in the alchemy of glaze recipes and firing. The element of unpredictability that comes from working with her materials, and the exchanges between art and science greatly inspire the otherworldly forms and textures of her work. This has led to innovative and unorthodox methods of pattern application for which she was awarded the Potclays Graduate Award.

Artist

Angela is a writer and painter. She takes inspiration from everything she sees, hears, and feels; every day is different.

She loves a splash of colour and enjoys using acrylic paint to explore colour and texture to capture the shape, movement, and atmosphere of a scene or form.

She often works intuitively in both her painting and writings, at times even combining the two.

Textiles

Launched in 2016 by Lucy MacDonald, Arra Textiles has become known for colour, complex woven design and connection to place.

After completing a degree in Design for Textiles at university in Scotland and Finland, Lucy's textile practice has developed to encompass design, sustainability, digital design techniques and a strong message of environmental protection.

Lucy blends a self-taught heritage tapestry weaving style with contemporary digital woven design, creating an image within an image with complex structures echoing throughout the woven landscapes.

Commissions | Workshops | Art

Jeweller

With over 20 years experience designing jewellery Aubin is now based here at Deemouth Artist Studios. She creates contemporary vibrant jewellery collections with a strong focus on colour and the use of alternative materials. Designs are often inspired from natural or structural forms found in her everyday surroundings which are reduced to the simplest of shapes and patterns. Using traditional jewellery making methods and hand skills she creates one-off designs and small collections often with limited or off cut materials. She describes her process as playful and makes work in an intuitive way, finding that the challenge of combining unexpected materials together harmoniously, such as leather with pearls or perspex is the most exciting part of the creative process.

Printed Textiles, Handstich & Workshops

Camban Studio is a Scottish studio specialising in sustainable, circular, slow designed, hand crafted, and meaningful textiles.

Sourcing dead stock and offcuts from the best Scottish textile producers, we take their finest quality sustainable cashmere and wool, alongside beautiful silks, organic cottons and linens. We then apply our print designs to create a unique and precious range of textile products that are small batch produced by social enterprises in Scotland. We then keep our products in circulation through service offerings including repair, upcycle, trade-in and recycling.

Maker/Art Facilitator

Elaine Grant is an artist, designer, maker and creative facilitator, based in Aberdeen.

Working with textiles, she creates one off designs and limited edition collections of colourful characters, playful jewellery, homeware accessories and bespoke commissions. Her work is inspired by themes of childhood and nostalgia and often incorporates narratives from her own memories of growing up and raising her children. Embracing opportunities to work with others, Elaine also works on a wide range of creative projects that encourage creativity and support wellbeing.

Artist

I have always been passionate about ART. As a child, I loved to draw, doodle, paint and create.
I enjoyed a career in Advertising for many years where my artistic skills were put to good use but after the arrival of my second child, I decided I had to do what I loved best………………….paint!!

I refreshed my painting skills and knowledge by attending a course at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, where I found my confidence to paint once again and felt truly inspired to start producing artwork after a lot of years.

I’ve never looked back!

I exhibit my work at local galleries and I’m always delighted when I’m asked to exhibit at art events, such as the Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen Art Fairs.

My inspiration comes from the gorgeous scenery that surrounds my home and I’m constantly inspired when travelling around the world. I love the changing seasons and the colours and textures they bring. Artistic inspiration on tap!

Jewellery & Silverware

Megan is an Aberdeen based jeweller and silversmith who creates collections of silver and gold jewellery, handcrafted silverware and bespoke commissions from her workshop at Deemouth Artist Studios. Each piece Megan makes, is handmade using both traditional and contemporary methods and is finished to the highest professional finish.

Designer/Ceramicist

Mhairi McBeath is a designer & maker who, after graduating from Gray’s School of Art’s 3D Design course in summer of 2023, has set up her practice focusing mainly on Ceramics as well as folded art and lighting.

Mhairi’s main focus is Ceramics, creating functional and colourful homewares by blending traditional wheel throwing and 3D printing as a method to create tools and stamps, ensuring consistency and a refined finished product.

Throughout university Mhairi focused on using paper folding as a problem solving method for her design work, this then fed into her designs and can be seen most clearly in her folded light shade designs which are crafted by laser cutting and folding polypropylene plastic into bespoke handmade shades.