Discover more about the creatives featured inside FAIRE : Issue 8
Jannik Abel
Jannik Abel is a Norwegian contemporary artist who moved to a forest in 2017 to make a home and art. Inside their forest atelier, Jannik creates functional objects and artwork using only fallen wood, their hands, and hand tools. Jannik’s art practice is focused on providing, not solely producing. Jannik lives to create things that make you remember who you are. Three years ago, Jannik set off on a solo pilgrimage in the heart of winter, a journey carved from grief but one which set them on a path of self-discovery and healing. This past winter, they retraced their steps to reconnect with nature and themselves. Jannik shares their experience here.
Photography by Jannik Abel
For more information, follow Jannik on Instagram and on her website
Odile Bouscarat
Raised in Paris but living in the South of France for over 30 years, Odile Bouscarat is self-taught artist who paints with found objects. She takes 18th-century textiles and hand-painted wallpaper remnants, wire, crystals, and unexpectedly poetic scraps and restores, repairs and transforms them for the next generation to cherish.
Photography by Ruth Ribeaucourt
For more information, follow Odile on Instagram
Bérengère Desmettre
Bérengère is a writer, visual artist, journalist, and photographer living in the countryside outside of Paris. Her passion for literature, music, and theatre led her to a successful career in writing for major magazine publishers, where she has become a much-loved specialist in travel, savoir-faire, and the art of living. Since 2010, Bérengère has dedicated much of her creative time to an ambitious art project through which she hopes to share her everlasting desire to discover the world’s cultural, poetic, and human wealth.
Photography by Corinne Schanté-Angelé
For more information, follow Bérengère on Instagram and on her website
Rebecca Desnos
Rebecca Desnos is a British creative and passionate advocate for natural plant dyeing and harnessing nature solutions for healing and nourishment. She documents her personal experiments to her avid Instagram following and wrote and published her first independent book, Botanical Colour at Your Fingertips, in 2016. In the years since Rebecca has fallen in love with self-publishing and she has created and published several books and magazines focused on natural plant dyeing.
Photography by Nat Aubry
For more information, follow Rebecca on Instagram and on her website
Sarah Espeute
Sarah Espeute is a French artist-designer who left Paris in 2018 to set up her own design studio in Marseille, creating poetic, decorative homewares that she calls oeuvres sensibles(‘sensitive works’). Using tromp-l’oeil, Sarah embroiders stories of everyday imagery onto antique and vintage linens using both traditional handmade embroidery and Cornely machine embroidery.
Photography by Kate Devine
For more information, follow Sarah on Instagram and on her website
Jeni Glasgow
‘Jen is often considered in the same space as food, and what she brings to that table is indeed a feast, both literally and metaphorically. But that’s only one element of her genius. Everything about Jeni comes back to her impulse to create. Her home is her studio and stage, an entire creative biosphere. A hunter, a gatherer, an assembler, a disassembler, a maker, a curator, a thinker, a sartorialist, and a dancer. Her situational art- the way she lives her every moment - prompts us to see our own living space as if it, too, were a narrative base. She shows that the real art of the matter is here at home and in the everyday rhythms and rituals of our days.’ - Doreen Kilfeather.
Photography by Doreen Kilfeather
For more information, follow Jeni on Instagram and on her website
Kate Hill
Kate Hill is a published author, professional cook, teacher, mentor, coach and a self-described modern elder and Gascon fairy godmother. Thirty years ago, she bought an old farm called Camont lying in ruins alongside the Canal de Garonne and has spent three decades transforming the home into a beloved cooking school. This year, a new phase begins as Kate transforms her beloved Camont to a creative residency programme.
Photography by Kate Devine
For more information, follow Kate on Instagram and on her websites here and here
Old Hope
Old Hope is the studio on the edge of Romney Marsh where artist and printmaker Darren Pilcher works with wax stencils and woodblock printing techniques. He describes his work as primitive, preferring to use inexpensive, natural materials and aiming to create work that shares with others a deep sense of belonging.
Photography by Dean Hearne
For more information, follow Old Hope on Instagram and on his website
Sarahbeth Larrimore
Sarahbeth Larrimore is an apparel designer turned teacher, teaching slow fashion through the lens of sustainability and teaching about dancing out the handmade life, listening to the muse’s call.
Photography by Chelsea Lane
For more information, follow Sarahbeth on Instagram and on her website
Lu Mason
From her studio in York, self-taught artist Lu Mason works across many different mediums, from cut paper and recycled fabrics to Perspex and spray paint. She creates vibrant, storied rag rugs, mobiles, murals, installations, and bold jewellery. An avid fan of jumble sales and an early adopter of fashion upcycling, Lu uses her rag rug art to draw attention to the immense untapped resource of discarded fast-fashion textiles.
Photography by Aloha Bonser-Shaw
For more information, follow Lu Mason on Instagram and on her website
Isabelle Pierrés
Isabelle Pierrés is a leather designer based in Nantes in north-west France. In 2010, she created the Atelier St Loup brand to specialize in luxury handmade leather goods that marry traditional savior faire and excellence in craftsmanship with contemporary design using only French and European materials. Isabelle has a cult following of clients who adore her signature cloud palette and dedication to clean, sustainable, luxury design.
Photography by Karen Hilmersson
For more information, follow Isabelle on Instagram and on her website
Cara Wassenberg
Cara Wassenberg is a British sculptor, based in West Sussex, whose work is a distillation of her two passions: a love of process and of outdoor wild spaces. Cara creates sculptures in glass, copper and steel by combining multiple craft processes such as casting, forging, welding and polishing in different ways.
Photography by Sarah Sheldrake
For more information, follow Cara on Instagram and on her website
Ruth Steadman
Ruth Steadman is a writer and storyteller. She authors the column for ‘Stories of Salt and Starlight’ for Faire Magazine. Ruth has also been published in Oh Magazine, while her poetry can be found in the anthology Poems For The NHS, and Popshot Magazine, as well as in a variety of poetry journals. She is currently working on her first non-fiction book, and building a performance storytelling practice.
Photograph by @gary.eason
For more information, follow Ruth on Instagram and on her website
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Our Contributors
Nat Aubry
Photography for Rebecca Desmos
Nat Aubry is a French photographer based in the UK. Her love of photography came from analogue and film photography, and probably spending time in the dark room her scientist Dad set up in her grandparents’ attic. She mixes analogue and digital format for makers and interior shoots. She has a soft spot for rustic cottages and the colour green - and everything handmade.
www.nataubry.photography | @_nataubry_photography
Aloha Bonser-Shaw
Photography for Lu Mason
Aloha Bonser-Shaw is a UK-based photographer. Her work explores themes such as craftsmanship, family and relationships, and her love of the natural world. She has been published with multiple magazines and shot for publishers such as Pavilion books and Bloom Magazine, as well as shooting for independent companies.
Kate Devine
Photography for Sarah Espeute and Kate Hill
Kate Devine moved to Paris from Nashville, TN to complete her doctoral degree in Women & Gender Studies examining 21st-century autofiction. Today, hybridity and storytelling remain paramount in her work as a photographer and set designer. Her images play with the relationship between light and dark, presence and absence. Primarily working with interiors and still life, Kate approaches photography as a meditative medium through which to locate the extraordinary in the everyday.
Dean Hearne
Photography for Old Hope
Dean Hearne is a UK based photographer, he lives in a clifftop village near Hastings, with his partner Jeska, and their two tabby cats. A deep appreciation for nature, people, travel, and the stories which connect us as humans are what inspires his photography.
Karen Hilmersson
Photography for Isabelle Pierrès
Karen Hilmersson is a French creative and lifestyle photographer based in Belgium who shoots primarily in natural light. Karen’s visual signature is soft colour combinations, nature and textures, moody pockets of light, people and strong emotions.
Doreen Kilfeather
Photography for Jeni Glasgow
Doreen Kilfeather is a portrait and editorial photographer based in Dublin, Ireland. Inspired by a sense of narrative and beautiful light, Doreen is drawn to youth, innocence, humour, melancholy, vulnerability, beauty and simplicity. Her portraits often feature children and young adults and she strives to portray not necessarily a picture of what the subject looks like at a certain point in time, but rather a sense of who they are – that evanescent element that reveals the subject as well as the moment.
Abigail Labranche
Photography for ‘Stories of Salt & Starlight’
Raised on the wild, rocky coast of Maine, Abigail has always seen the beautiful details of life that surround us in the everyday. Early manifestations of her passion for styling included dollhouses turned- showhouses with her interior designer father’s wallpaper and fabric samples. Her studies at the Art Institute of Boston opened her scope of sight and imagination even wider. Now, bringing those details of life into focus for the viewer has become a passion. Abigail currently resides in the perfumed South of France with her husband, their little love and a cat named Albert.
Chelsea Lane Bollhoefer
Photography for Sarah Beth Larrimore
Chelsea is a Western North Carolina native who enjoys working with people who love this region as deeply as she does. Chelsea is a photographer capturing understated yet charming photos of people in the moments that light up their hearts; branding and wedding photography are her speciality. When away from work, she loves to be a homebody in Asheville or travelling whenever she can.
Corinne Schanté-Angelé
Photography for Bérengére Desmettre
Corinne Schanté-Angelé is a photographer and journalist who lives on the edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau in France. For over 20 years, she has been photographing features for interiors, travel, and lifestyle magazines. She especially enjoys photographing craftsmen and designers and discovering their manufacturing secrets.
Sarah Sheldrake
Photography for Cara Weisenberg
Sarah Sheldrake is a UK-based French & German-speaking photographer & writer working commercially and editorially. Her work explores identity and authenticity across various fields. Storytelling artists’ process and practice, collaborating with creatives from other disciplines and remaining curious in the learning throughout are favourite aspects of her commissions. She enjoys the human connection in each of her roles; in the visual capture of making a photograph and the expression of conjured words. She has four fully grown children and is appreciative of their tireless patience over the many years where lenses were pointed in their direction.
