EDITORIAL
A sense of place is important to all creative people. Their surroundings provide inspiration and, in some cases, even the materials for their work. Ceramicist Florian Gadsby sums it up perfectly when he says, “It’s a way of incorporating where you live into what you make.” The other craftspeople we meet in this issue also talk about being influenced by the landscape around them. For Maggie Williams, a textile artist on the Isle of Skye, the greys and blacks of the volcanic beaches, colours of the wild flowers and blue-greens of the sea all appear in the cushion covers and blankets she makes, while Jane Withers uses the structure of the wild grasses and grain heads she collects near Sherwood Forest to inspire her sculptural lighting. Joe Hogan, on the…
