SPECIALTY ITEMS...
Food Books Music Origami Soap Candles Wreaths
Michael Hock
Moretown artist Michael Hock has been collecting, repairing and restoring vintage tubular lanterns for more than a decade. His series of electrified lanterns - designed for folks who don't want to mess with fuel and fire - begin as rusty relics and are cleaned, painted or refinished, and are fitted with Edison era fixtures including bulbs with hand wound tungsten filaments. Many of the lanterns feature rare colored glass globes. Each lantern comes with an information sheet that includes production dates and bits of lantern lore and history.
Michael keeps shop at the Gallery on Tuesdays.
SteampunkPro by Gerry Conlon
Gerry Conlon of Williston creates steampunk lamps from black iron pipe fittings, and he also uses brass and chrome. He repurposes gears, gauges and other materials to make each lamp a one-of-a-kind statement piece. The lamps are turned on and off with unique switches, hose valves as well as white those white porcelain hot and cold tub knobs. Each lamp has a generous electric cord and an authentic Edison bulb.
Grace Potter
Carolyn Guest
“Carolyn is a celebrated Vermont paper-cutting folk artist, educator, and a former president of the Guild of American Paper Cutters. Based in St. Johnsbury Center, Vermont, she has dedicated decades to preserving and sharing the intricate craft of traditional paper cutting.
Raised in rural Lyndon, Vermont, Guest's childhood environment deeply influences her subject matter. Her unique style blends local rural imagery with international folk traditions, most notably the Polish Wycinanki (paper-cutting) style, which she fell in love with during a six-month 4-H youth exchange program in Poland. She has since traveled extensively to study with other master cutters across Switzerland, Germany, and China.
Guest is highly recognized for her mastery of two distinct techniques:
Large Rural Scenes: She intricately pieces together vast landscapes using hefty 13.5-inch sheep shearing sheers.
Live Portraits: She works quickly with small scissors to cut freehand silhouette portraits of individuals in under five minutes.”
The Paper Crane by Miya Kline
I credit my Japanese ancestry for getting me involved with paper folding at an early age. Many hours of my childhood were spent turning sheets of paper into animals, toys and folded gum wrapper chains. The Japanese people have a great reverence for paper, and over the years I have discovered a beauty and strength in washi paper, as it supports me throughout my life. All of the pieces I make are hand folded in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont from beautiful Japanese Washi papers, using a technique called origami. Origami is the ancient Japanese art of folding paper, “ori” meaning to fold and “kami” meaning paper. I buy this paper in large sheets directly from Japan, and then cut them into specific sizes (some as small as 1 1/2 inches square). By following specific patterns, I then fold this paper into all the mobiles, ornaments and jewelry.
Sylvan Floral by Kelly Fairchild
Kelly Fairchild is a designer who works with flowers, plants and other foraged materials from the wild. She creates from her home studio near Montpelier, Vermont. She enjoys discovering simple and complex natural wonders and turning them into uniquely arranged designs. In the fall and winter Kelly crafts festive holiday wreaths in dynamic styles. In the quiet months, she creates with a variety of dried botanicals, fashioning them into crowns and forever wreaths. Kelly has studied graphic arts as well as floral design. When not in her studio you can find her paddling a canoe, x-country skiing or playing with her two cats. Kelly has called Vermont her home for 28 years.
Green Village Soap
Our Philosophy:
Green Village Soap provides products that are truly natural and made from scratch. Every ingredient in every product is chosen with a specific purpose in mind. Our skin is our largest organ and it absorbs what we put on it. This is the driving force behind ingredient choices. Why put something on your body that doesn’t benefit it, or worse why put something on it that harms it?
Green Village Soap products are safe and effective, created by us and handcrafted in small batches to ensure the best quality. Each batch of soap, shampoo, deodorant and skin care product is thoughtfully researched and tested by family and friends only. Food grade ingredients and organics are a must.
Ingredients like organic carrots, avocado, homemade organic yogurt, wild harvested plantain, organic colloidal oatmeal, French red clay, organic fair trade shea butter, local honey, organic cocoa butter, local and raw organic milk, activated charcoal, organic fair trade coffee, organic lemongrass, organic kelp and organic herbs like calendula, St. John's Wort, comfrey, hops and chamomile are used in making these gentle and effective soaps. They are scented with pure, therapeutic grade essential oils derived from plants, synthetic fragrances are NEVER used.
Minimal packaging, recyclable and reusable containers are ALWAYS used. Nature is the key, it provides what we need.
Happy showering :)
Wild Blossom Designs by Cheryl Summa
BOOKS
Nina Carr
Books have always held an almost magical allure for my family – a captivating pull that enchanted all of us. They promise wisdom and knowledge, but also spark imagination and wonder. Most valuable are those books that are handcrafted, where their appearance itself tells countless stories.
Bookbinding became a hobby when I started creating my own journals. It grew into a true passion when I began to bring new life to well read books of my childhood by mending torn pages and broken spines or rebinding them altogether. Whenever I bind a book, nature is often my inspiration and so the written word fuses, in one way or another, with the local flora and fauna.
Belinda Norris Mary Kathleen Mehuron
Woody Jackson
Chris Gluck
Sketchbooks by Carol MacDonald
Jessica Polanshek
FOOD
Floodwoods Maple
Geordie Richards and his family craft organic maple syrup from their sugarbush in Waitsfield, VT. Available in 3 sizes - 8 oz, 16 oz, 32 oz, and several grades.
Purinton Maple
Family Tradition- Chase Purinton moved to Vermont in 1803 settling on a hillside farm. For generations, the Purinton family produced maple syrup on their farms in Lincoln and Bristol, Vermont. Peter Purinton (descendent of Chase) fell in love with being outside and had a genuine passion for making maple syrup as he learned the process from his father Robert. In 1962, at the age of six, Peter tapped eight sugar maple trees with his older brothers. Little by little, Peter kept growing and advancing his sugaring operation.
The Farm- In 1979, Peter moved to Huntington where he purchased a sugarbush from the Jaques family. Peter transformed the 10,000 bucket operation into a tubing system. With one vision in mind, Peter worked hard to maintain a maple forest that was sustainable for generations. Today, Peter and Carla Purinton tap 17,000 sugar maple trees on 350 acres of farmland.