On Saturday 7th May, Treeby & Bolton will be hosting a ‘Design Debut’ as we launch our exclusive Moorcroft vase, Ashness Bridge by Nicola Slaney.
Nicola will be in attendance, armed with a special gold pen to add her signature to each exclusive piece. She will talk about how she came up with the eye-catching design for the five-inch Moorcroft vase.
Also joining us will be BBC Antiques Roadshow veteran, Eric Knowles, who will give a talk on arts and craft in the Lake District, along with meeting guests.
Eric is a ceramics specialist and ambassador for Moorcroft who has been part of the furniture on the Antiques Roadshow since 1981. The Lancastrian had originally joined Bonhams Auctioneers in London as a porter just five years earlier. He is now one of Britain’s best loved antiques experts, currently presenting Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is and fellow BBC TV show Antiques Master.
This is a great opportunity to view and acquire new Moorcroft collections. Refreshments will be served.
Win Nicola Slaney’s original watercolour of the Ashness Bridge Vase
Everyone who purchases an Ashness Bridge Vase will be entered into a prize draw to win a framed original watercolour signed by Nicola Slaney. Nicola will draw the prize winner on the day.
Spaces for the talk with Eric Knowles are now limited to standing room only. Please contact the gallery to reserve your place or to order your Ashness Bridge vase.
Ashness Bridge Vase
The Ashness Bridge Vase 7/5 is an exclusive Moorcroft numbered edition vase featuring a special ‘Treeby & Bolton’ backstamp. Ashness Bridge is perhaps the most photographed packhorse bridge in the Lake District. From this traditional stone-built bridge, visitors can enjoy breathtaking scenes of Derwentwater with Bassenthwaite Lake behind and Skiddaw rising above the town of Keswick. Nicola focuses on this special viewpoint through clusters of ancient trees and stones worn down and smooth from the thousands of people whom have stood admiring the views before them. Ashness Bridge sits central to the design with each stone painted individually and the cool flow of Barrow Beck running underneath.
About Nicola Slaney
Nicola Slaney is perhaps best known for her design, Anna Lily, a best-selling range still in production today after fifteen years, lovingly freshened-up with new shapes for 2016. Nicola’s reputation continues to grow by the year. Nicola achieved a high designer profile when Moorcroft witnessed a sell-out in six weeks of her millennium 50-piece limited edition, Jerusalem, at a retail price of more than £11,000!
After the huge success of Nicola’s design, Peacock Parade for Moorcroft’s centenary in 2013, we see the range in this year’s catalogue along with the ever-popular range, Blue Heaven.
Meanwhile, Talwin, also offering stylized birds and flowers inspired by Talwin Morris, is her evolving contribution to an outstanding annual catalogue. The expanding range has received great praise and admiration as a fine Arts and Crafts themed quartet, but also on its firm grounding as a contemporary artwork.
For 2016, Nicola has designed two lovely new collections, Londinium – capturing iconic buildings impressively in her highly stylised vision of London – and Trefoil, depicting clover flowers swaying in the breeze awaiting to be pollinated by bumblebees.
Innovative, surprising, gifted, Nicola continues to bring to Collectors’ her very best work, year on year.
About Treeby & Bolton
Situated in the picturesque market town of Keswick in the heart of the English Lake District, Treeby & Bolton have been a very special china shop for over 100 years. In this time, the store has expanded and now also houses a fabulous selection of contemporary art and glass, unique bronzes and design-led interiors across the three floors of its beautiful building. With a varied and up-to-date selection of Moorcroft, our shop is an unavoidable destination for any Moorcroft collector visiting the Lake District.