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Create brings you unique gifts and artworks lovingly made by artists and makers from the Kelso area

07884 048199

shop@createkelso.co.uk

Discover Unique Artworks at Create

Create is a collection of artists and makers from the Scottish Borders and Kelso area. All our products and artworks are designed and made by ourselves. We aspire to make Create a go-to destination for distinctive gifts and exceptional service, showcasing the creativity of the Scottish Borders community.

Find out more about our talented makers below!

Anne Somers

Anne fuses glass ornaments from her studio in Kelso. 

She uses a special type of glass to create a variety of pictures, ornaments, bowls, jewellery, lights and sculptures. She loves to experiment, try new things and generally just have fun with glass, finding it very versatile and colourful. 

Stephen Lennon

Stephen has been running his small business umbellifer.co.uk since 2018, selling his botanical and nature inspired artworks and cards to gift shops, galleries and gardens throughout the UK. He works in pencil and ink and adds colour by painting digitally to create his distinctive style.

Fiona Morris

Fiona's work emerges from her fascination with intricate and flowing organic forms, linked to the sea and seashore. Beginning with close observation drawings, she uses hand-building techniques - slabbing, pinching and coiling - and a variety of clays to create decorative and/or functional pieces in 3D or relief.

Denise Playfair

Denise has 10 flocks of rare breed sheep and does her own shearing and grading of the fleece. How each fleece handles decides what it will be used for, either felted, woven or as stuffing for cushions. The fleece is made entirely by Denise into woven or felted rugs, cushions or scarves. 100% ethical, traceable, renewable and sustainable.

Rachel Meehan

Rachel trained as a Fine Artist (Printmaking) and completed her post graduate studies at Glasgow School of Art. Her current work primarily involves two mediums: scraperboard and lino. Rachel utilises her designs in cards, prints, fabrics, coasters and decorative papers. Her garden is her biggest inspiration and she enjoys the process of selecting specimens, sketching them, developing the design and capturing the colours. She lives and works in Birgham in the Scottish Borders.

Karla Pearce

Karla's love of weaving natural materials started with plant supports in her own garden. She has studied with renowned basket makers in the UK, Ireland, Spain and Denmark and has trained at Westhorpe College in Shropshire. She now teaches, runs workshops and accepts commissions from her studio in the Scottish Borders.

Deborah Fallas

Deborah studied clothing and business worked in the clothing industry and craft making before returning to painting, something she had done since childhood, ten years ago. She paints landscapes and flower studies in acrylics and loves bright, bold colours in quick, expressive brushstrokes. Deborah sells her work online, in selected galleries and at art fairs and events in the Scottish Borders.

Clair Norris

Clair has been working with ceramics for over twenty years having graduated from Nottingham Trent with a decorative Arts degree. She loves to make in slightly unconventional ways and enjoys introducing other materials into the ceramics making process: paper fibres, old lace and fabrics. Working mainly with white earthenware Clair's work ranges from the large scale “Lasting Impressions” mosaic at the Margaret Kerr Unit to decorative hand painted tiles and colourful horizon vessels.

Pat Young

Pat makes unique and organic jewellery, employing lost wax casting and fabrication techniques, often combining gold and silver with precious and semi-precious gemstones and beads.

Guest Artists and Makers

Create is committed to showcasing some of the best artists and makers in the Kelso and Scottish Border area. Our shop will have regular guest artists whose work is of the finest quality.

Joining us for October 2026!

Catriona Bradshaw

Catriona honed a passion for working with textiles after studying

Textile Design at the Heriot Watt University in Galashiels

then went on to be a knitwear designer/product developer and freelancer in the cashmere knitwear industry for many years.

Now as an artisan, still based in The Scottish Borders, she designs and produces her own luxury knitted gifts - these are hand-frame knitted using natural yarns - then felted and sewn with tweed, cashmere, satin, leather, velvets and faux fur. Inspirations come from ‘Fairisle’ and wildlife such as The Owl, Deer and Wolf.

You can see more of Catriona's work at www.caitrhionascotland.com

or on Instagram @caitrhionascotland

Janis Embleton

Janis is a designer and hand weaver of luxury fabrics, selling direct and on-line, working on private commissions and teaching a new generation of weavers.

“ I love the hands-on aspect of my work and the fact that you cannot hurry the process; there are many steps to fabric weaving, all of which have to be done in order, with great care, to ensure that once weaving does commence, every single thread is doing exactly what it is meant to do.”

Janis’s range includes scarves, shawls, fabric covered notebooks, zipped purses, cushions, throws, DIY weaving kits and myriad other small items to suit all budgets.


Dates for forthcoming workshops and other events can be found at www.flight-weaving.co.uk

Janet Cleghorn

Janet loves colour and pattern!

Her still life paintings feature “treasures” - textile samples, embroidery, lace, china, old bottles collected over the years. Fruit and flowers placed with these give freshness to the groupings. These arrangements are looked upon from an ariel perspective and she works quite methodically from the base working one “level” at a time.

“The importance of the fabrics and their construction within the paintings reflect my past in textile design. The arial view allows the shapes and patterns to be flattened and refined and traditional subject matter takes on a quirky more contemporary feel.”

Find out more at janetcleghorn.artweb.com

Instagram @janetcleghornart

Watch this space, or join our mailing list below, to find out who will be joining our community in the coming months!

How to find us

Create is located in the centre of Kelso on the historic Woodmarket

Address: 22 Woodmarket, Kelso TD5 7AX

Tel: 07884 048199

Email: shop@createkelso.co.uk

OPENING HOURS

Monday - Tuesday
10:00 - 17:00
Wednesday
Closed
Thursday - Friday
10:00 - 17:00
Saturday
10:00 - 16:00
Sunday
Closed

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