Collection: Karen Suzuki

Our winner of the 2019 Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair retail showcase award, Karen is inspired by a huge range of subjects, including old toys, Staffordshire pottery, animation, books, classic horror and sci-fi movies, and urban wildlife.

Karen usually doesn’t sketch or do any other planning, preferring to just start working with a selected range of materials and allowing the object to evolve organically. Too much thought tends to result in an object with an unsatisfyingly stiff or stilted appearance. As all her creations are hand stitched and no attempt is made to exactly replicate anything, no two are ever alike.