Studio Number: 1
What3Words: ///overheard.envy.commander
I write poems and make images inspired by my surroundings in East Lothian. I am inspired by linking my thoughts and feelings into seasonal changes through my observations of local wildlife and nature.
Collage & Mixed Media
Chloe Gardner is principally a collage artist working in feathers sticking down layers and layers of feathers to make animals. Favourites include penguins, elephants, puffins, a robin, a bear and a labrador. However Chloe also does work in flowers, leaves and paint and was the artist of the very first multicoloured highland cow picture. She also paints lots of lovely contemporary stripy stags and has a wide range of gift and homewares including the best mugs!
Illustration, Writing & Mixed Media
Rachel Stewart is a mixed-media illustrator, writer and community activist whose work spans children’s storytelling, creative community engagement and heritage crafts. She also runs the local community choir, The Aberlady Singers, which brings people of all ages together through shared voices and creativity.
Currently, Rachel is stepping outside her comfort zone to work on an adult novella drawn from personal experiences. When she’s not writing, she can usually be found experimenting with paper and exploring new ways to let stories take shape.
Rachel is the project lead for the Aberlady Wild Goose Chase Art Trail, a proposed permanent public art trail of ceramic tiles depicting geese. The trail will invite residents and visitors to explore Aberlady through playful discovery while celebrating the village’s natural heritage—particularly the Greylag and Pink-footed geese that gather at Aberlady Bay Nature Reserve.
The craft de-stash stall, held at The Old Aberlady Inn as part of the Aberlady Open Studios weekend, is raising funds to support this new community art initiative. Come along to find out more and thank you for your support.
