Eden Artisans

Introduction

Eden Artisans is a group of Artists and Craftspeople who have joined together to form a co-operative with the objective of displaying and selling their work. Together they are involved in a number of exhibitions and fairs throughout the year including the Appleby Fair. The group all live close by Kirby Stephen in the Upper Eden Valley in Cumbria, and have a collective commitment both to keeping craft skill alive, and to producing arts and craft works of the highest quality using locally sources materials wherever possible. For more information about Eden Artisans see http://www.cooperatives-uk.coop/live/cme795.htm

To further these aims Eden Artisans rent a studio space at the Farfield Mill in Sedburgh. This provides a focus for the group’s activities and an important outlet for sales. The studio is occupied by one of the group throughout the time that Farfield Mill is open to the public. Here individual members of the group produce work, inter-act with the public visiting the Mill complex and sell the works made by members within the group – all at the same time.