Makers

Lisa Dear

51 Golf Drive, Brighton, East Sussex, BN17HZ Biography

I am based in East Sussex making traditional and contemporary functional baskets with willow and other coppice materials.

Trained in Fine Art and spending many years living in and working the land,I combinine this and a love of working with natural materials to create textured, beautiful items.

I am mainly woodland based, selling at events,markets,fairs,exhibitions and by commission.I regularly teaching beginners basketry in a special Sussex woodland which is carefully managed for nature and at other places in Sussex and the South of England.

Interests
  • Basketry
  • Contemporary
  • Hedgerow
  • Natural Fibres
  • Rush (Basketry)
  • Traditional
  • Willow (Basketry)