1st May 2026

Craft Festival Bovey Tracey: Spotlight on Local Designer Makers

Craft Festival Bovey Tracey returns this June for its annual 3-day celebration of craft, creativity, and community. As more people are looking to step away from their digital lives and immerse themselves in real life activities, Craft Festival offers a welcoming atmosphere and an abundance of analogue options from talks to demonstrations, workshops to yoga.

Dubbed 'The Glastonbury of Craft', the event has grown from a small local idea into one of the UK’s most respected and beloved craft fairs, welcoming 200 designer makers across all disciplines, silversmithing, woodwork, ceramics, printmaking, textiles and more and has built a reputation for championing outstanding making.

Amongst those 200 exhibitors are 40 Devon based makers. Here we highlight just a few of those local artisans showing and selling their work at Craft Festival Bovey Tracey this June.

Alex Finberg

https://alexfinberg.co.uk

Alex is an award-winning traditional craftsman based in South Devon. Using age old techniques, he carves wood into beautiful functional woodenware from wind fallen and sustainably felled trees. Alongside making, Alex is a tutor, providing a range of workshops and courses on all aspects of spoon carving in locations such as Totnes and Darmouth; from an introduction to spoon carving to advanced workshops on spoon design to carved decorations and log to spoon carving. He is the founder of Woodcrafters and hosts the Woodcraft for Wellbeing initiative. 

Angus Wood

www.anguswoodblacksmith.co.uk

Angus has set up his forge and workshop in a recently restored farm building nestled in the Devon valley of his family’s cider farm. From a very young age, Angus had a fascination for tinkering with fire and metal, with his obsession for metalwork developing during his early years at school behind the lathe in the tech department. After approaching a local blacksmith for some part time work, Alex quickly realised that this was the trade for him.  Alex uses an array of mixed metals and materials to manufacture ergonomic and eye-catching pieces and commission based work; functional home and kitchenware pieces, alongside architectural ironwork and furniture.

Bonnie Mustoe-Whitehill

www.bonniemustoewhitehill.com

Bonnie is a jeweller based in Plymouth, Devon. She creates pieces in precious metals inspired by the quiet beauty of the natural world, drawing inspiration from the landscapes around her, exploring organic form and texture through considered design and careful craftsmanship. Her work combines traditional jewellery-making techniques with a contemporary aesthetic, resulting in designs that carry memory and a sense of place, intended to be worn and cherished over time. Made by hand in small batches, each piece reflects a balance between simplicity and detail, with an emphasis on timeless design, quality, and longevity.

Clover Robin

www.cloverrobin.com

Clover is an artist, illustrator and surface pattern designer specialising in cut paper pictures. She works from her studio in Teignmouth, Devon. Her work is inspired by nature, a theme that runs through her personal and commissioned work. She pays close attention to the materials she uses, the companies she works with, and the practices she employs. Clients include Paul Smith, The National Trust, Nosy Crow, Little Tiger Books, Le Monde newspaper, Penguin, V&A, Walker Books and Hampton Court Palace. When Clover isn’t working, you might find her on the coast path, on the beach, or in Mamhead Forest with a good cup of coffee and snip kit to hand.

Elin Hughes

www.elinhughes.co.uk

Elin is potter based at Kigbeare Studios on the edge of Dartmoor, Devon. She creates wheel thrown stoneware pieces decorated with high iron slip and shino slip Originally from North Wales, she was recipient of the National Eisteddfod of Wales Young Artist Scholarship in 2022, and in 2023 received an Arts Council Create Grant to spend 18 months apprenticing with wood-firing potter Simon Levin in the US. Since graduating, she has shown work in multiple exhibitions around the UK, including London Craft Week, Collect Art Fair and Circle Contemporary Gallery. Elin also runs regular classes for children and adults at the studios.

Chloe Morter

www.chloemorterdesign.co.uk

Chloe lives near Honiton in East Devon. She creates embroidered textile collage artworks inspired by the birds, beasts and quiet details of the landscape around her. Chloe’s work combines the intricacy of machine embroidery with the looseness and intuition of collage. Each piece begins on a linen or cotton ground with an embroidery design developed from drawings and photographs. This is stitched on a dedicated embroidery machine, then overworked with free‑motion embroidery or hand stitch. Re‑using materials is of great importance to Chloe; there is so much textile waste in the world, and working with rescued pieces as her backgrounds means Chloe is drawing from a resource that will never run out.

Emily Dooley of Bracken and Sole

www.brackenandsole.co.uk

Bracken and Sole Shoemakers began as a passion to preserve the endangered craft of traditional footwear making. Founded by Emily Dooley, a trained artisan with over a decade of experience, Bracken and Sole has grown from a small Dartmoor workshop to a welcoming shop in Okehampton. Emily’s ethos is to create pieces in leather that are as comfortable as they are durable, crafted with premium materials and sustainable methods. Bracken and Sole create shoes, bags and leather accessories for people who appreciate thoughtful craftsmanship in their everyday essentials. Emily believes in repair over replacement and offers expert shoe repairs and leather accessory restoration.

Alison Braybook of Glass Shed Studio

https://www.glassshedstudio.com/

Glass Shed is a creative business that is committed to sustainability and repurposing. Founded by friends Alison and Gabriela, Glass Shed Studio sources used fabrics and turns them into functional bags and clothing often using original details to become design features. Based in Totnes, Devon, Glass Shed Studio design and make a selection of bags; from large weekend carry alls to small washbags, each as individual as the other by virtue of the fabric and material used to make them. They have also introduced a unisex workwear jacket ideal for creatives, outside workers, or people who just want to style one up!

Emma Hogbin of Princetown Press

https://princetownpress.co.uk

Princetown Press is a letterpress and wild ink workshop in the heart of the Dartmoor National Park. Emma and her business partner Jon, make fine art and teach workshops that help people engage with the natural world around them. They do things the hard way. Nothing is efficient, and only the lights are powered by electricity. Princetown Press uses heritage craft techniques, hand-powered printing presses, and recycled papers to create printed ephemera. Emma and Jon produce stationery, chapbooks, and posters with information about Dartmoor and offer a retreat on Dartmoor with participants foraging botanicals and pigments, documenting the landscape, then translating their observations into printed pieces.

Alex Webster of Bills Yard

https://bills-yard.com/

Bills Yard is a small workshop and lumber yard set just outside the village of Cornworthy near Totnes. Alex and his team provide a tree to finished item service, building traditional furniture with a modern rustic twist. The timber used is sourced locally from along the Dart valley, mainly through a network of landowners and tree surgeons, each item being a little part of Devon. As well as furniture, Alex designs and makes a range of smalls, such as lamps, bowls and boards and often collaborates with clients on bespoke pieces. Alex shares his skills by running workshops to facilitate participants making their own items of furniture such as stools and chairs.