{ Tea & Make } was established in Spring 2009 by stylist Sally Curtis and artist Esther Yarnold, to manage events celebrating regionally-made products, creative businesses and making-do. Sally and Esther met in 2007 through their mutual love of bunnies, greyhounds and all things beautiful!

Based in South East London, Sally Curtis is an interiors stylist and writer, “everyday runner” of The French Bedroom Company, and founder of Pheasant, a little mail order company selling home accessories made by craftspeople across picturesque North and West Yorkshire. Sally has a passion for collecting lovely things that other people make, but has recently turned her hand to learning pottery for herself at the local adult education centre, which has made her appreciate other people’s work even more! And that is where the idea for Tea & Make began…

Esther Yarnold is an artist and curator based in London. She works in digital, installation and book arts, and also works in education, public art and design as one half of creative partnership, interim. interim are based by the coast in Dorset, and are associate artists at Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts. Esther really loves running creative projects that bring people together to exhibit, share and learn, and regularly curates exhibitions and events in unexpected locations, under the name piCOt.

Photos: Esther Yarnold, Kamala Katbamna and Ricardo Di Donato.