In September 2017, The British Polymer Clay Guild celebrated its 20th Anniversary in Kidderminster

The event was held in a historic 19th-century carpet mill, Bondsworth Mill, on the bank of the River Stour in Kidderminster, which was now the home of the Simply Limitless Organisation and Lisa Walker Designs, who kindly hosted the BPCG Anniversary celebration weekend.

 

We had two whole days of workshops*, demonstrations, make and take sessions, exhibitions of work by our members, shopping opportunities from local clay and tool distributors and talks and demonstrations by some of our founders, Alison Gallant and Sue Heaser, polymer clay tutors and members of the Guild.

 

We were hoping to launch a “Celebration” themed polymer clay competition at the event and collected handmade beads for the children’s charity, Beads of Courage. With local media involvement, we brought polymer clay to the notice of local people as well as our wider clay community.

We know you wanted to celebrate with us, so many of you visited our website and Facebook pages for regular updates as they were released and shared your birthday wishes with us!  #BPCG20

If you would like to suggest other ways to celebrate with us at any future events, – please get in touch!

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Two of our volunteers, Tracey Jones & Lizzi Bucklow-Holt created a YouTube video about the event - view it on Tracey's YouTube channel

Artist, Trader and Group Stands List

 

We were delighted to announce that the following had booked to be a part of our 20th Anniversary Celebration Weekend

 

Traders Tables

 

• Axminster Tools and Machinery – Pen Kits and other ‘blanks’ for use with clay, including Christmas items

• Mosaic Supplies Limited  Saturday only – FIMO Clay, texture sheets, silicone moulds, brooch blanks, plus other goods useful for embellishing polymer clay work

• Monkey Ann – Cutters, textures, findings, cords

 

Group Tables

 

• Welsh Group: ClayAround Community – with Kato Starter kits

• East Midlands Group: Polymer Playground, Saturday only

 

Artist’s Tables

All the following Polymer Clay artists had a table selling their wonderful work. We had added any additional products/equipment that they would be selling on their stands, as well as their own polymer clay artwork.

• Alison Gallant, including her Silk Screens, textures, Stencils, Wooden bangle blanks and brass blanks

• Maria Alexandrou, including her texture sheets and chains

• Karen Walker, including Cernit, blades, mica powders, texture mats, rollers, cutters and varnish

• Debbie Bulford, including some Sculpey items, Charm bead kits, and her new book, hopefully.  A full list of potential supplies can be viewed here. Please contact Debbie for anything you would like to pre-order.

• Enid Winder, Saturday only

• Fiona Abel-Smith , including FIMO Soft clay, tutorials, and canes

• Ange Smith

• Lisa Walker, FIMO Professional Clay

• Kerrie Venner

• Shelley Wylie, including tool starter kits, cuff template kits, cane savers, cane shapers, dragon eye cabochons, magnetic clasps, ring blanks, earring blanks, pendant and brooch blanks, long acrylic rollers other findings.

• Pascale Bigot,

• Heather Robertson,

• Fiona Adamson, Saturday only

• Felicity Harvey, Sunday only

• Anne Murray, including Stainless Steel domes, cutters, bags of crushed glass for Faux Techniques.