Rachel Reilly
Rachel’s passion and aspiration is to create striking and original pieces of jewellery. Her colours and forms are fluid, harmonious and above all ergonomic. The wearer is elegantly enhanced not dominated. Playing with colour, as a painter would, Rachel is often knitting with multiple strands, blending from one colour to another, subtly or dramatically. Colours have a taste, a temperature, a musical note to her. In mixing them, the flavours, degrees, chords, change…. there is such excitement when these shifts are sensed!
Rachel sculpts with her copper textile. The folding is uniform, regular and considered, having some reference to origami. A piece should embody a rhythm of pleats, curving and flaring, almost becoming a living thing. Her influences include Jazz, the ocean, shell forms and birds in flight.
“After all this time of working with wire, it’s still showing me new shapes and colour blends. So I shall continue exploring and having creative adventures!”
Jan Billings
Jan trained at Hornsey College of Art, now Middlesex University and The Royal College of Art studying Printed and Woven Textiles. Her life has revolved around all aspects of art and creativity.......decorating earthenware slipware, illustrating books and greetings cards,
painting silk for dresses and interiors, and now creating multi-media panels.
She was born by the sea in Swansea. Her love of this coastline has always called her back and it's influence on her creative work continues to be very powerful. Having painted Glastonbury Tor all it's moods in various media, she is now incorporating both her love of the sea and the local landscape into her Multi Media Mosaics.
Jan has dedicated her creative exploration to uncovering and revealing the mystical and magical qualities inherent in colour and form. Her current work combines mostly natural materials: sand, shells, slate, beach glass, gemstones and crystals, through which she tries to reproduce the natural movement of the ebb and flow of the sea and the forms of the local landscape of the Isle of Avalon, Glastonbury .
Jan lives in Glastonbury on the slopes of the Tor, where the surrounding mystical landscape has been her inspiration. Its influence is evident in much of her work. She has her home and studio in Berachah. It is a wonderful Guest House and Retreat Centre which offers a nurturing space to many visitors from all over the world. Her multi media panels and painted silk meditation pieces are displayed in all the Guest rooms.
Rachel’s passion and aspiration is to create striking and original pieces of jewellery. Her colours and forms are fluid, harmonious and above all ergonomic. The wearer is elegantly enhanced not dominated. Playing with colour, as a painter would, Rachel is often knitting with multiple strands, blending from one colour to another, subtly or dramatically. Colours have a taste, a temperature, a musical note to her. In mixing them, the flavours, degrees, chords, change…. there is such excitement when these shifts are sensed!
Rachel sculpts with her copper textile. The folding is uniform, regular and considered, having some reference to origami. A piece should embody a rhythm of pleats, curving and flaring, almost becoming a living thing. Her influences include Jazz, the ocean, shell forms and birds in flight.
“After all this time of working with wire, it’s still showing me new shapes and colour blends. So I shall continue exploring and having creative adventures!”
Jan Billings
Jan trained at Hornsey College of Art, now Middlesex University and The Royal College of Art studying Printed and Woven Textiles. Her life has revolved around all aspects of art and creativity.......decorating earthenware slipware, illustrating books and greetings cards,
painting silk for dresses and interiors, and now creating multi-media panels.
She was born by the sea in Swansea. Her love of this coastline has always called her back and it's influence on her creative work continues to be very powerful. Having painted Glastonbury Tor all it's moods in various media, she is now incorporating both her love of the sea and the local landscape into her Multi Media Mosaics.
Jan has dedicated her creative exploration to uncovering and revealing the mystical and magical qualities inherent in colour and form. Her current work combines mostly natural materials: sand, shells, slate, beach glass, gemstones and crystals, through which she tries to reproduce the natural movement of the ebb and flow of the sea and the forms of the local landscape of the Isle of Avalon, Glastonbury .
Jan lives in Glastonbury on the slopes of the Tor, where the surrounding mystical landscape has been her inspiration. Its influence is evident in much of her work. She has her home and studio in Berachah. It is a wonderful Guest House and Retreat Centre which offers a nurturing space to many visitors from all over the world. Her multi media panels and painted silk meditation pieces are displayed in all the Guest rooms.
