Hello, It's lovely to meet you...
We are a small business with a huge heart.
Chimneyfields Arts & Crafts For All was born out of adversity and determination to never give up following the life changing, and at that time, career stopping diagnosis of our founder member. Formerly a successful professional commercial illustrator and art tutor, temporary blindness and one sided weakness amongst other things, meant that our resident artist Dawn was put on the scrapheap by the art and design world at the age of 28, losing her commissions and contracts overnight.
In a time before disability rights and being stubborn and unwilling to give in, Dawn began by threading beads and as her sight and strength returned began by working in a looser style. Whilst rebuilding her new creative path, she met many undiscovered but very talented creative people. It was then that Dawn decided to help others by deciding to not just create a store and website with only her own artwork, but that of other artists and crafters too. Hence Chimneyfields Arts & Crafts For All was born.
We support artists and crafters from all walks of life and particularly those who may otherwise struggle. It is our aim to be successful enough to eventually be open to the public and also to hold friendly and supportive, affordable, creative classes and creative space where all will feel welcome.
We pride ourselves in selling competitively priced art and craft materials and resources besides imagery and giftware for those who may not be so creative themselves but do appreciate the work of others.
We aim to support every creative, art and design based discipline, from architecture, painting, traditional arts and crafts, fashion design to body art, food craft, garden design and everything in-between. Our stock is ever growing and most is still to be added online so please do keep looking or feel free to ask if there's anything in particular you are interested in.
We are very grateful to Etsy for helping us to support our mission, and as we respect their selling policies we can only sell a limited amount of our stock on this platform, but our other items can be found on our main website at https://www.chimneyfields.com
And if you are wondering, our name is inspired by our very own Chimneyfields Farm where our retired, rescued and re-homed animals don't have to earn their keep. Sadly we do, hence another reason why Chimneyfields Arts and Crafts For All was born.
Please do come and join us at Chimneyfields, either as a valued customer, or as a fellow artist, craftsperson or animal lover, everyone is welcome. No matter what your age, social status, health or ability, we are
Chimneyfields Arts & Crafts For ALL.