Little Wing Shakes a tail feather!

The birth of Little Wing Accessories

Pippa trained in Ceramics and Visual Research at the University of Brighton 2002. After PGCE training she went on to work teaching Ceramics and Art at various schools, colleges and community projects around Brighton.

In the summer of 2009 Pippa Forester travelled to Australia. In a village in the hills of New South Wales she found some beautiful, delicate emu feathers and a local craftsman helped her to turn them into earrings. On her return to England she began to think how the same idea might work with our native bird feathers. Sourcing striking iridescent duck and pheasant feathers from a Hampshire company and using the same technique she used in Australia, Pippa began making earrings, working with the natural beauty of the feathers, complementing and enhancing their colours and shapes with glass, bone and metal beads. Inspired by traditional Morris dancing costume, the pheasant tail headdress was the first headdress she made but was quickly followed by other designs using a huge range of different feathers and Indian braid.

Her first exhibition of this work,  as part of the First Avenue Collective at an open house in Brighton Christmas 2009,  was great success. She began selling her work at Handmade, a contemporary craft and art fair in early 2010. In the summer of 2010, the organisers of Handmade, together with local artists and craftspeople, opened a cooperative shop in Kemp Town in Brighton. 

The Autumn/Winter of 2010 sees her work on sale at Pearl and Queenie, a beautiful jewellery boutique in Hastings Old Town. Pippa will also be exhibiting at the Bungeroosh Gallery, a bold and exciting Open House running at weekends throughout December at 25 Marine Square, Brighton. She will also be selling work at Brighton's Second Hand & amp: Craft Bazaar and Handmade Christmas Market both at Komedia on the 5th and 12th  of December respectively.