E8 Art & Craft Trail

Next Event: 2 & 3 Dec 2023

11am-5pm

Every June and December, this art and craft walking trail takes you to the homes and studios of artists and makers in London E8. Fine art, illustration, ceramics, jewellery and more; our trail invites you to spend happy hours browsing art and craft in this Hackney neighbourhood, meeting the artists who live and work here.

Follow the interactive map to find participating locations and check out the artists’ pages for details of their work.

If you are an E8 artist or maker who would like to join the trail, please get in touch.

Open Studios

Jim Boddington

Jim Boddington

Jim Boddington Ceramics 37 Parkholme Road, E8 3AG I make wheelthrown porcelain ceramics with an aesthetic influenced by mid-twentieth century modernist design. My work is characterised by simple modern forms
Hedy Parry-Davies

Hedy Parry-Davies

Hedy Parry-Davies Art and architecture 17 1/2 Cecilia Road, E8 2EP Art and architecture have a symbiotic relationship and mutual inspiration in my life. Having trained and practiced as an
Jane Smith

Jane Smith

Jane Smith Artist and Illustrator 56 Colvestone Crescent, E8 2LH Jane has been a London based artist and illustrator for 35 years; for most of that time in Dalston. Both
Rory Brooke

Rory Brooke

Rory Brooke Printer Rory will be showing work with Ben Kilburn at 71 Greenwood Road, E8 1NT In my art I am seeking to develop my own visual language with
Katrin A. Bohm

Katrin A. Bohm

Katrin A. Bohm Painting, Drawing, Printmaking 73A Navarino Road, E8 1AG I’m an artist and illustrator working with the notion of memory and introspection in a range of mediums. Through
Jenny Lewis

Jenny Lewis

Jenny Lewis Photography Jenny will be showing work with Ella Doran at Flat 6, Chessum House, Lansdowne Drive, E8 3GJ Jenny Lewis is an award-winning artist working across photography. Her
Gianluca Bonomo

Gianluca Bonomo

Gianluca Bonomo Fine Art, Illustration, Comics, Photography Multimedia artist Gianluca Bonomo unveils a poignant selection of photographs and digital art that explore the human experience of homelessness and neglect. 50%
Gail Bryson

Gail Bryson

Gail Bryson Screenprinter 26a Sandringham Road, E8 2LP I’m a London based screen printer, textile designer and colourist. I produce limited edition screen prints and printed textile products which I
Cal Smith Gallery

Cal Smith Gallery

Cal Smith Gallery Modernist and brutalist artworks 77 Shacklewell, E8 2EB During the E8 Art and Craft Trail Cal Smith Gallery will be presenting an exhibition of works by Peter
Triangle Ceramics London

Triangle Ceramics London

Triangle Ceramics London Ceramics Space Pop-Up129 Mare Street, E8 3RH Discover a curated selection of ceramic objects made by Hackney-based makers, artists and designers, and help to support local independent
m:m studio ceramics

m:m studio ceramics

m:m studio ceramics Ceramics Unit 7, Broadway Market Mews, E8 4TS m : m studio ceramics was formed many years ago by Marcio Mattos and Marilza Gouvea, working from their studio
Ben Davies

Ben Davies

Ben Davies Ceramics 17 1/2 Cecilia Road,  E8 2EP Inspired by his pottery teacher at school in York, Ben studied art at Foundation Level before taking a degree in Geology
Frances Steele

Frances Steele

Frances Steele Painting 39 Navarino Road, E8 1AD I paint the wild places and sometimes the ever changing seas that I discover on my travels. For me it is mainly about
Ella Doran

Ella Doran

Ella Doran Textiles and Artworks Flat 6, Chessum House, 10 Lansdowne Drive, E8 3GJ I am a textile designer who works across many mediums from photography, painting and printing to
Andrea Jones

Andrea Jones

Andrea Jones Painting/Drawing 77a Graham Road, E8 1PB I am a painter of people, places and plants, capturing in detail the energy and individuality of the subject. My main focus
Monica Boxley

Monica Boxley

Monica Boxley Printed textiles 57 Colvestone crescent, E8 2LJ My passion for exploring materials and processes has led me on a thirty year exciting journey. I have worked with precious
Phil Abel

Phil Abel

Phil Abel Limited Edition Books 57 Colvestone crescent, E8 2LJ Phil Abel prints and publishes illustrated, letterpress, limited edition books from his workshop in Shadwell. He’ll be showing and selling
Fiona Fouhy

Fiona Fouhy

Fiona Fouhy Prints & drawings 31 Colvestone Crescent, E8 2LG Fiona Fouhy is an artist who predominantly uses monotype techniques in her work; she also animates her prints and drawings,
Calvin Richards

Calvin Richards

Calvin Richards Painting / Drawing 77a Graham Road, E8 1PB I’m a figurative artist living and working in London I like to tell stories and draw. Which comes first isn’t
Anna Maria Velardi

Anna Maria Velardi

Anna Maria Velardi Ceramics 70 Wayman Court, Eleanor Road, E8 3NN I make ceramics on my kitchen table and I am currently exploring wheel thrown tea bowls and teacups, using
Nicola Hepworth

Nicola Hepworth

Nicola Hepworth Painting and Printmaking 42 Lansdowne Drive, E8 3EG I am a painter and a teacher of Art and History of Art. in My role in education informs my
Ben Kilburn

Ben Kilburn

Ben Kilburn Collages/Paintings 71 Greenwood Rd, E8 1NT I am an architect and artist living in Hackney with my family. I work with tablet sketches, collage and acrylics. My art
The George, Parkholme Road

The George, Parkholme Road

The George, Parkholme Road 40 Parkholme Rd, London E8 3AG Women on the Edge Virginia O’Dwyer, Rebecca Wilson Painting, Printing Virginia and Rebecca are part of a women artists group ‘Women
Graham Stone

Graham Stone

Graham Stone Sketchbooks and other works 34 Cecilia Road, E8 2ER ‘I like to draw, some work out better than others and I find that persistence and struggle are part
Laura Hamilton

Laura Hamilton

Laura Hamilton, Bird in the Hand Ceramics & hand printed Linen 50D Amhurst Road,E8 1JH I am a multi disciplinary artist, I make ceramics, mostly on the wheel and functional
Studio Forest

Studio Forest

Studio Forest Paper based design Studio Forest is going to be showing with Nicola Hepworth at 42 Lansdowne Drive, E8 3EG After working as a commercial illustrator for many years
Michael Marriott

Michael Marriott

Michael Marriott  Furniture & Homewares 11 Ramsgate Street, E8 2FD I work mostly with wood, and some metal. Occasionally other things too. I come from a furniture background, and design
Bryan Poole

Bryan Poole

Bryan Poole Botanical etchings Studio opposite, 30 Wilton Way, E8 3EE Dr Shirley Sherwood, who holds a number of Bryan Poole’s works in her renowned collection, wrote: Bryan’s work is
Alexis Bamforth

Alexis Bamforth

Alexis Bamforth Multidisciplinary Shacklewell Green, E8 2EB Showing a selection of works frommy recent exhibition at Saatchi,plus prints and small quirky stuffyou might not want for Christmas. + Cecilia Rd
Adam Forman

Adam Forman

Adam Forman 2d drawing / painting / printmaking Adam Forman is going to be showing work at: 37 Parkholme Road, E8 3AG Taking photos as source material I make drawings.
#SaveRidleyRoad

#SaveRidleyRoad

#SaveRidleyRoad Public Art Wall, Film Screening and Afterparty 51- 63 Ridley Road E8 2NP Public Art Wall and Afterparty – Ridley Road Come to Ridley Road Market to see #SaveRidleyRoad’s
Penny Fowler

Penny Fowler

Penny Fowler Ceramics 84 Middleton Road, E8 4LN As a London based ceramicist my work reflects 21st century living and the city in which I live.The ideas for my work