Come Discover the Arts and Crafts Collective that is the Peppercorn Gallery
Peppercorn Gallery is an artist cooperative situated in historic Richmond.
We are an eclectic bunch all sharing a passion for our individual crafts.
We work together to operate the shop and sell our wares as well as those of other Tasmanian artisans.
We’re proud to sell quality Tasmanian made art and craft and support so may talented and creative people.
Historic Colonial Richmond & The Peppercorn Gallery
Peppercorn Gallery occupies Mill Cottage, built circa 1850, partly as a shop for the Moran sisters and it later served as a bootmaker.
In subsequent times it was used as a dressmakers, a piano school, and in the late 1970’s it became Richmond’s first Tea Room.
Peppercorn Gallery was established by Kurt and Shirley Ulmer in 1983 as an outlet for Kurt’s woodturning, expanding to become an outlet for Tasmanian craft and artwork.
Being in historic Richmond we have many visitors from all over the world visiting our lovely gallery. It is wonderful to hear from where they have come and to talk to them about their Tasmanian holiday.
50 Tasmanian Artists at the Peppercorn Gallery
Peppercorn Gallery promotes the work of over 50 Tasmanian artists and artisans covering a wide range of mediums including;
- ceramics,
- watercolour,
- acrylic and mixed media painting,
- leadlighting,
- jewellery,
- Tasmanian timber woodcrafts,
- leatherwork,
- candle making,
- glasswork,
- photography,
- Indigenous art,
- book binding,
- textiles, and many other hand crafted items.
The Peppercorn Gallery Co-Operative
We currently have 7 members as part of the Artists CoOperative.
They are Sue Anderson of Being Creative- Sue is originally from New Zealand but is now a proud Tasmanian homemaker turned bag craftswoman. With a love for crafting functional and stylish bags in leather, cork, cotton fabric and other textiles, she creates practical bags for daily errands.
Meet the Renowned Nature Inspired Textile Artist Rita Summers
Meet the inspiring textile artist Rita Summers of Gone Rustic who has a love for eco dying, slow stitching, nature journaling and creating in her artist profile story with Art Trails Tasmania.
Meet Jane Seychell: Capturing the Realism of a Moment in Time
Meet Jane Seychell, a Tasmanian artist blending realism and nature with colour pencil in her Artist Profile story with Art Trails Tasmania
From Paintings to Textile to Jewllery at the Peppercorn Gallery
Patricia (PJ) Hopwood- Wade of PJ Paintings. Patricia is a watercolour artists who paints Australian animals and birds, as well as whimsical scenes with emus.
Her motto is ” helping put smiles on faces’.
Brian Marriot and Jera Conan of Celtmania- Tasmania. Brian and Jera make jewellery cast in lead free pewter and silver plated.
There range includes brooches, earrings, pendants and charms.
Prue Quarmby of Bibiani and Prue Quarmby Designs. Prue explores techniques with metal, wood, paper, polymer clay and textiles.
Her Tasmanian Collection contains jewellery cast on real foliage of Tasmanian endemic species, Tasmanian stones, such as East Coast granite, and designs using polymer clay colour mixes redolent of particular areas of Tasmania, such as the Freycinet Peninsula.
Textile Art at the Peppercorn Gallery
Karen Stack of Bags from Rags. Karen is a textile artist and a pastellist.
She makes bags from old clothes and material. Each bag is unique and incorporates embroidery, sashiko stitching, free motion quilting, old buttons and recycled yarn to form a unique piece of fabric art.
She aims to recycle as much as she can in order to reduce textiles going to landfill.
Judy Thompson of JT Nature’s Lens- Unique Photography. Judy enjoys photography and captures images particularly of Tasmania that are made into cards, bookmarks, notebooks, carry bags, magnets and framed images.
Scott Thompson of IN2WOOD and Scott’s Wood Design. Scott makes a wide range of finely crafted domestic wood wares such as cutting boards, trays, lazy susans as well as jewellery boxes and numerous other items from Tasmanian Timbers.
About the Gallery
It is Peppercorn Gallery’s aim to enable artisans to come together on a co-operative basis to market their work collectively in an encouraging creative atmosphere, whilst maintaining the reputation of the gallery as an outlet for quality Tasmanian art and craft.
Explore the Peppercorn Gallery online and follow on Instagram and Facebook for the latest gallery arrivals, events and happenings.
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Belinda is doing a great job creating a professional looking artist hub online. Check out the profile I posted recently to see how well she does them. To all my artist friends let’s help make this THE go to place to discover local artists.
You won’t regret joining Art Trails Tasmania . It’s a welcoming community for creatives at any career stage.Becoming an Art Trails Tasmania member wasn’t a hard decision for me to make as it’s such a wealth of knowledge and support.Being member provides a quality way to showcase your creative endeavours and it’s quickly growing in reach.
We operate a home based picture framing business and recently joined Art Trails Tasmania as a means to giving us exposure to the wider artist community. We have almost immediately seen increase in activity thru our online sites, which I am certain will lead to more opportunities to grow our business.
Artist Profile Stories
I want there to be more arts and crafts in our world, in our communities and in our own lives. Hopefully you’ve found this blog post inspiring and interesting.
So I’m creating, with your help, Art Trails Tasmania, allowing all of us who feel this love to create more of it.
And the Art Trails Tasmania blog is a key part of making this happen, telling the stories of members. It’s about what they have happening with workshops and classes, exhibitions, open studio trails, where to find their outlets, markets, fairs and festivals so you can shop their creations as well as their art and craft retreats.
Also being shared are the supporters of our artists, the galleries, shops, cafes, art societies and groups, places to stay and artist in residencies.
