Meet the Makers
Ruby Flowers
Ruby Flowers brings a little joy to your home and business, providing her seasonal hand ties and has a definite knack for distinctive work both with wedding and event styling.
Kye - Kat Rulach
Under the name 'KYE' Kat Rulach creates sustainable and ethically produced printed textiles. Kat hand block prints all of her pieces in her Glasgow studio using Soil Association approved inks. For the collaboration with Nicolls Kat sourced beautiful Scottish linen and created a pattern design inspired by the architectural details of the Nicoll's space. The result is a limited edition set of colourful table napkins unique to Nicolls that would complement any table setting.
Peter Kelly
An Artist and musician from Glasgow, my work is created spontaneously and without a clear objective in mind. I start with simple mark making and then apply layers of colour and texture until something catches my eye which I will then develop.
House of Rothach – Niki Munro
House of Rothach is a candle and home fragrance company based in Ayrshire, Scotland. Their founder Niki works from her home studio where she plans, designs, and creates their products whilst keeping focused on using sustainably and ethically sourced ingredients where & when possible. They have a beautiful range of timeless and classic scents as well as their own unique outdoors inspired fragrances, all born from memories of places visited in and around Scotland. Their elegant style brings a natural presence to any décor to sit effortlessly in your home. They were recently recognized as one of Britain’s most inspiring small businesses, by being awarded a place on 2020’s #smallbiz100.
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Siobhan Morton - Crèadh
Crèadh means clay in Gaelic - a nod to my heritage and my great grandfather, who was from Uist.
Graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2001- BA Hons Design- Ceramics, thereafter setting up a small studio up north after moving to the Highlands, working as an artist, making and selling ceramics and prints for a couple of years before moving back to Glasgow and taking a studio space in Fireworks, where I continued making ceramics and taught workshops in clay. I then trained as a Secondary teacher, returning to my studio practice in 2019. I find inspiration in nature, in shape and pattern and love using glazes that are very tactile. I use a range of making techniques, from traditional throwing, to hand-building and slip casting.
Roddy MacNeill
Roddy MacNeill is a visual artist based in Glasgow. His practice is driven by surface, pattern and how time can affect both. His surfaces are often bleached, sanded, burnt, drenched and scored. Graphic elements and a loose grid system are employed, combining to create unique yet recognisable imagery.
In the same manner that erosion and decay are processes that manifest in random ways, Roddy MacNeill's experimental practice often cultivates the most unexpected results. He says, "It is freeing not being fully interested in the result but more the process”
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Caurnie Soap
The Caurnie Soaperie in Kirkintilloch first opened in 1922. The aim was simple: to create Scottish natural skincare products from organic herbs and essential oils. The business met with instant success. Today, Caurnie is a byword for the best in natural soap and fresh herbal body care. The Soaperie has a unique quality with customers remarking that it has an "Old Curiosity Shop" feel with its hand made and authentic 1920s equipment, granite floor, and soap splattered rafters while soap cutting tools give a faithful adherence to a tradition worth conserving.
Kenny Inglis - Hearing with my eyes
Hearing With My Eyes is the photographic pseudonym of Glasgow based multi award-winning film & tv composer, Kenny Inglis.
His photographic work is both a reflection of the music he has written throughout his 26 year career, and a visual starting point for many of his new sonic ideas.
Ishbel Murray
My work is inspired by the landscape, language, history and culture of the Outer Hebrides. In collaboration with Nicolls this piece illustrating a Glasgow tenement ‘Tea Picket’ celebrates the women of Glasgow’s triumph in defying the efforts of landlords to evict tenants from their homes during the Rent Strikes of the 1st World War. Many of the women would have been Gaelic speakers descended from Highland crofting communities who fought against the same injustice only half a century earlier. The Gaelic saying, “Chan Òrdugh Bat’ Aig Bàillidh” (A Bailiff’s Staff Is Not A Decree) is a Celtic expression of rebellion against authority imposed without the recognised right.