Rebecca Savage
Studied A-Levels in: Art, Art History & Photography at Weymouth College, achieving also both a Diploma and Foundation Diploma in Art & Design. Followed by a BA Honours in Constructed Textiles at Middlesex University. More recently she studied Digital Marketing with the Skills Network to give a boost to her small business … changes are being made and will be completed soon!
Upon graduating she received a few local commissions – painting murals in bars, creating events fliers, as well as both painted and textile art private commissions. She also exhibited in Colchester.
She now multi-tasks creating embroideries, prints, and woven tapestries alongside a myriad of other items; running the Emporium and a working a part-time Clerking job. She lives in a small house in Dorset, with her partner, son, and two crazy small dogs. Rebecca is the, small but mighty, creative force behind Beguiling Bees.
Rebekah Quantrill-Tozer – (Kitchen Artist)
Started a new life in Norwich over seven years ago with her creative husband Nigel and their youngest son George. A big step into a new adventure. Having previously lived in Suffolk for 18 years where she was known as a visual community arts worker, using creative multidisciplinary skills to work alongside youth and community groups, multi-sector organisations and events teams across Britain. Her initial training in art and design, fine art, youth work, and sustainable environments has given her a wide ground to stand on and a great attitude to projects and creativity.
Norwich has now become an inspiration with its vibrancy, culture, history, stories and woodland threaded throughout her work. She has been on a creative journey creating lanterns, designing colouring books and making props for films. She exhibited her paintings last year at Anteros Gallery, and was the creative director for BeeSaviour Behaviours 2019 Lord mayors entry.
She is still dreaming up a million ideas. One of which was creating her own range of mugs (to make the print-maker within happy) she hopes you enjoy her range of products.
Michelle Clarke
A very talented mixed-media artist and painter, she lives in and works in Wales, where she creates abstracts and semi-realist pieces, alongside coloured pencil realist animal portraits; whilst completely modernising and making over her new home and surrounding land with her partner.
Rachel Hall – Fusiology Glass Art
Rachel has a passion for colour, pattern, shapes, nature and has always been creative. After years of working as an archaeologist, after having her own family and being settled back in her home county of Dorset, she decided to start her own fused glass business. Fusiology Glass Art began in 2017, after a days course of fusing glass and two years later after various craft fairs and commissions she added Silver Clay jewellery to her line. She recently treated herself to a “beast” of a kiln, where she can now make larger items which she is looking forward to featuring on these pages where they will be available to buy.
She hand cuts and designs unique fused glass jewellery and often combines them with silver clay to make unique pieces of jewellery. She also makes fused glass items such as bowls, soap dishes, nightlight holders and more using bullseye and other accessory glass. All of her jewellery is completed with sterling silver findings and come in gift boxes.
Jennifer Midwinter
Jennifer is our newest, and current youngest designer. This young entrepreneur loves Art, Nature & Drama – and as you can see is also a budding actress in a theatre group. She hopes you like her designs, she is saving towards her future career aspirations; which we are very happy to support!
Carole Fenwick – Maggiemagoo Designs
Carole Fenwick is a surface pattern designer living and working in Leeds in the UK. She designs a wide variety of beautiful products that she sells online, at craft markets and fairs, and through independent shops around the world – one of which is Beguiling Bee’s Emporium!
Her work is colourful and decorative, with lots of pattern, which customers have described as a riot of colour that brings joy! She states it is important that her designs bring happiness, as well as being useful and beautiful.
She is inspired by nature, folk art and everything vintage. A love of plants, flowers and insects can be found throughout her designs. She feels very lucky that she gets to spend her days drawing, sewing, painting & creating patterns. She has a degree in Surface Pattern Design, and her designs can even be found in many online and physical shops.
