This week’s Friday Feature is the lovely Natasha from Tish Tash Designs. Natasha’s colourful, bright, and fun illustrations are inspired by over a decade working in early years. She creates a range of products from greeting cards to mugs, and hopes to expand her range in the future. Let’s get to know more about the creative woman behind the small business… What inspires your creativity? My background is in early years. I have worked in that field for over 10 years and it is something which I am very passionate about. This has been a big influence on the style of illustrations I create. When I first started my business

Holly from Holly Booth Studio | Photo: Chris Seddon If you’ve followed our blog for a while, and taken note of the photo credits, you may well recognise this week’s Friday Feature… it’s the very popular Holly from Holly Booth Studio. Specialising in brand and product content, Holly is a creative photographer for independent designers, makers, and shops (and she is the photographer behind quite a few of our small business Friday Features and Create It Yourself Features). Now joined in the business by her husband, Pete, together they offer a range of visual-media services – helping other creatives tell their stories through photography and videography. Let’s get to know

Our Friday Feature this week is the lovely Kat from Ceramics by Kat. Having grown up in a creative home, Kat had the inspiration and confidence to study Fine Art and Art History at university… and it was there that she found a passion for clay. Fast forward a few years and Kat now makes unique, wheel-thrown, hand-decorated pieces. Let’s get to know more about the creative woman behind the small business… Have you always been creative? I grew up in a creative household – music in the background, and my mum always making something with her hands. She’s one of those people who’d rather mend, stitch, or build it

This week’s Friday Feature is the wonderful Jennie Fynn. After pursuing a career as a pharmacist, Jennie’s childhood love of creativity returned during the Covid pandemic when she started painting again for her wellbeing. She now creates accessories and homewares with her colourful, bold, and joyful patterns. Let’s get to know more about the creative woman behind the small business… Have you always been creative? Yes, I think so. I learnt how to knit and crochet as a child by my talented mother who was always crafting and making something. I think this rubbed off on me. As a teenager I also loved drawing and painting pictures of figures wearing

Charlotte Riley in her art studio A warm welcome back to our Friday Features after the summer break. First up we have the ever so lovely Charlotte from Charlotte Riley Art. With a background in nursing, Charlotte’s calm, caring, and gentle personality comes out in everything she creates – from her landscape-inspired artwork to her content on social media. Let’s get to know more about the wonderful woman behind the creativity… Do you feel being creative is a part of your identity? Such a  great question – it’s something I have only come to discover about myself in later years. I was an academic at school, who then went on

Our Friday Feature this week (and the last one before our summer break) is the lovely Carly from Olivin Designs. Carly handmakes stylish and fun wire art – from joyful flowers and bookmarks to personalised words and ‘ear jackets’. Let’s get to know more about the wonderful creative woman behind the small business… What’s your first memory of being creative? I’ve been creative from a very young age, as a child you would find me building my own doll houses out of cereal boxes, using different papers to decorate each room and building small pieces of furniture to put inside. I was also a big fan of programmes like art