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Wednesday, 7 October 2015

Linda Lovatt
                                                    
Beastie Assemblage
WOW!!
What a colourful person!

Linda Lovatt came into the classroom wearing a green dress, green tights, pink cardigan and yellow shoes. With her small petite frame she very much reassembles the look of a magical fairy, something I later found also reassembles her working life and art.
Linda is the owner and creator of a little studio in the town of Jedburgh, Scottish Borders. She specialists in making whimsical jewellery assemblages from copper, brass and other fragments she finds interesting from the past. Such as china, dug up from her own garden. A lot of her inspiration does come for the garden and nature.
After studying a BTEC for 2 years, then going onto doing a degree in visual communications, she went freelance. Working for a company mainly illustrating characters such as Winnie the Pooh and Beatrix Potter. However, she felt they was very little self-expression in her work. After 20 years working for others she decided to open her own shop/studio. Beastie Assemblage was opened and she also attended craft fairs, which then led her to be approached by galleries looking to display some of her work. 
The ornaments she makes are very small and delicate. Using a solar iron method to mould most of her pieces together. This is a very cheap but affective way of working, and keeps cost and space minimum. Her workload doubled and she ended up having to expand her business and take on more staff. She did stress though that it was important to keep her output small as she doesn’t want to go globe or her pieces to become to available.
Overall, I think Linda has gained knowledge over the years and if I took something away from her talk it was that, to be open to what you are good at! Being one-minded isn’t always the correct or only route to take but also that mistakes or learning can bring up different ideas and understanding!  Its an ever changing world and research and being up to date is essential, as well as a good trustworthy team behind you.


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