Francesca Chalk - New Work Coming to Crafts Alive!

Francesca Chalk is an illustrator and her artwork is very much based on wildlife and natural themes. New for Crafts Alive are the beautiful cards pictured above.

Francesca tells us 'For this year’s Crafts Alive the theme of 'Flowers and the Maker' has been an absolute gift!

My background is in graphic design and this means I tend to create my images thinking primarily of shape and composition. The colours seem to evolve afterwards, although I usually have an overall mood in my head.

I try to find a new way of seeing something or using a particular detail which may have been overlooked. It always interests me how an image can touch the viewer emotionally and I always hope this will happen with my images too.'

Visit Francesca's website for more. 

Crafts Alive is a five day festival of designer craft with original work for sale, alongside guest exhibitors, demonstrations, workshops, talks and delicious locally made food and drink.

Rodmarton Manor

Nr. Cirencester

GL7 6PF

Wednesday 10th – Sunday 14th September 2025

Open Daily 10am - 5pm

Buy your advance tickets for Crafts Alive here