Future Festive: Winter Art Market
ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House
Wednesday 10 to Sunday 21 December 2025 + Late night opening till 8pm, Thursday 11 and Thursday 18 December
This December, we invite you to step into a world of creative warmth and inspiration at Future Festive: Winter Art Market, open from Wednesday 10 to Sunday 21 December 2025 at ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House, 8 Church Street, St Helier. All are welcome to join the opening celebration on Tuesday, 9 December, from 5.30pm to 7.30pm. Mulled wine will be served.
Set within an interactive and welcoming art environment, Future Festive offers visitors the chance to explore an imaginative alternative to the traditional Christmas market. Across twelve days, the space will be transformed into a hub of festive creativity, featuring stalls by 17 local Jersey artists and community groups selling prints, original artworks, and limited editions, perfect for one-off artistic seasonal gifts. Five of the 17 artists carry the official Genuine Jersey mark.
From exquisite paintings and quirky prints to ceramics and vibrant African winter fabrics, Future Festive presents an alternative winter market showcasing the talent and imagination of Jersey’s artists. Discover the dreamlike worlds of Lisa MacDonald, the atmospheric snowscapes and playful felt bunting of Rosemary Blackmore, and the fable-inspired prints of Will Bertram, alongside a new generation of makers including Aimée Cast and Oscar Nimmo. The full list of featured artists include Amy Baker, Will Bertram, Lucy Blackmore, Rosemary Blackmore, Debbie Brown, Aimée Cast, Ann Muhoro, Barbara Pustelnik, Chantal Venton, Julia Renault, Julie Pearce, Lisa MacDonald, Lucy Fleming, Marc Medland and Oscar Nimmo, as well as original pieces created through artmaking workshops with local charities EYECAN and Jersey Mencap.
Interactive installations
As well as the art market the event will also feature two captivating installations that invite visitors to slow down and immerse themselves in sensory experiences of light and sound. Harmonic Portals by UK artist Chris Plant is a series of immersive, minimalist light and sound sculptures that transform colours into audio frequencies and explore the textures of surfaces. Originally commissioned for the 2017 Lumiere Festival and since shown internationally, the work creates a meditative environment where colour and tone converge to offer moments of calm reflection. Also returning is Photo // Synthesis, a multi-sensory installation by sound artist Jack Chown (kiskadee) and visual artist Neal Coghlan (Studio Aszyk). Together, these pieces transform Capital House into a place of winter cosiness and creative play, a unique environment for art lovers, gift seekers, and festive wanderers alike. With free entry and no booking required, Future Festive offers an inclusive, joyful experience that celebrates community, creativity, and the beauty of giving artfully this holiday season.
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Aimee Cast
Aimée Cast will be showcasing and selling a range of her joyful creations. Visitors can expect to find an exciting selection of vibrant art prints, handmade ceramics badges, magnets, buttons, felt decorations and more! She will also have original artworks on display, offering a glimpse into her imaginative world and creative process.
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Amy Baker
Amy makes bold and playful graphic linocut prints that experiment with simplicity, combining symbols with text to project an atmosphere or feeling. Amy will be selling fun illustrative posters, digitally designed christmas cards, prints and baubles at the Future Festive: Winter Art Market and is very excited to embrace the festive feeling.
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Ann Muhoro
Ann Muhoro runs a fashion business that seeks to bridge the gap in African-inspired fashion in Jersey. Our collection includes everyday wear, occasion outfits, and tailor-made office attire—each piece featuring a vibrant touch of African fabric.
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Barbara Pustelnik
Barbara Pustelnik is a Jersey-based fine art photographer. Focussing on Jersey Horses & dogs— fine art equine and canine portraiture as well as photography-inspired gifts and prints. Her project now running into its fourth year, Barbara brings these animals into iconic sites such as Hampton Museum and Grosnez Castle, revealing a different story of Jersey’s heritage and beauty. Barbara will be selling a selection of fine art prints, calendars, hand-made candles, mugs and post cards.
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Chantal Venton
Description goes herFrom superstition and mystical practices to the complexities of romantic relationships, Chantal Venton seeks to uncover the unseen forces that shape our lives and interactions. Blending symbolism and characters to discuss contemporary issues. Chantal's practice spans printmaking and ceramics primarily, where surface becomes a site for storytelling and symbolism. Each piece balances aesthetic allure with functionality, inviting viewers to engage not only visually but also through touch and use.
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Debbie Brown
At the Future Festive Market in Capital House Debbie Brown will be exhibiting and selling a wide range of pictures. Most of her pieces are made on canvases, some are painted onto wood and driftwood. Expect to find views from all coastlines, including the wild west at Rocco and gentle east at Mont Orgueil. Also on sale will be shellfish and seabird pictures featuring an array of creatures; lobsters, crabs, puffins, curlews and many more.
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EYECAN
At the Festive Art Market, EYECAN is proud to present a selection of handcrafted items made by talented members, each living with varying degrees of sight impairment. EYECAN are especially pleased to feature work by Zena Gavey, a long-standing EYECAN member whose journey is truly inspiring. Diagnosed with sight impairment at age 30 due to Type 1 diabetes, Zena turned her passion into a pottery business, Daisy Design. We invite you to explore these heartfelt creations and support the artists behind them—each piece tells a story of creativity, strength, and community.
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Jersey Mencap
Taking Part Making Art is one of Jersey Mencap projects offering adults with a learning disability more choice and opportunity. With six weekly art sessions, our professional art tutors work with members to develop skills using different mediums. Sessions are vibrant, fun and inclusive and we are delighted to be part of this Art Market.
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Julia Renault
Julia Renault is a British artist working in watercolours and oil painting. She will be showing a series of contemporary flower paintings and paintings of Jersey. Julia is delighted to bring both framed and unframed pictures for sale to Future Festive. She undertakes commissions and would be happy to discuss this with visitors to the market. Julia has selected works with broad appeal to the public and over the weeks more will be added, as these sell. The pictures on sale have not been previously offered for sale and are all originals
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Julie Pearce
Julie Pearce is a local, Genuine Jersey certified ceramicist who makes and decorates her ceramic pieces by hand. Her mugs, baubles and plates are decorated by sea themed imagery, Jersey icons and beautiful birds.
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Lisa MacDonald
Lisa MacDonald’s paintings are illustrative narrations around the themes of safety and hopefulness, anxiety and trust. Lisa is particularly interested in telling stories about what it means to shore oneself up and to find calm amidst chaos in one way or another. Lisa’s work is often steeped in nature, home and family life in an attempt to question the constant search for comfort; in our homes, environments and in landscapes which promise hope. Lisa will be selling original artworks, numbered prints and cards at the market.
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Lucy Blackmore
Lucy Blackmore is a local artist whose work builds desired spaces. It offers playful escapism, inviting viewers into worlds that are deeply personal. Lucy creates these environments to be more than reality; they're emotional landscapes, offering a sense of solitude. Lucy's market stall will hold lots of small ceramic houses and a selection of her paintings.
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Lucy Fleming
Lucy Fleming is a Jersey based artist and printmaker whose prints depict decorative patterns, flora, fauna, stars and birds. All of her relief prints are carved and printed by hand in her St.Ouen studio. She endeavours to be as kind to the environment as possible while making her art. Approximately 90% of Lucy's Lino prints are printed using vegan inks and all of their packaging is recyclable and/or compostable. Lucy also up-cycles a lot of her frames.
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Marc Medland
Mark Medland is a visual artist who works from his studio at Greve de Lecq Barracks and sometimes from a small stone house on the coast in Normandy. His workspace is a laboratory for experimentation and research. Mark creates characters that inhabit imaginary worlds, collects and uses repurposed images and found objects - things that have a history and a previous life. The imagery of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s are particularly fertile ground for him. More recently, Mark has started to utilise film to bring these stories to life.
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Rosemary Blackmore
Rosemary's work has developed from watercolours of Jersey cows and landscapes to larger scale paintings in oils and cold wax exploring Jersey's stunning seascapes. Growing up in Jersey she developed a love of nature from an early age and developed a deep connection to the sea, which has allowed a natural progression towards abstraction in her paintings.She uses a cold wax medium with oils to add texture to the surface, applying layers and then removing paint to expose hidden colour underneath. At Christmas time Rosemary loves to indulge in her love of felt making. She will be selling hand made wool bunting, wall hangings, decorations and new for this year, Advent calendars, all linked to her paintings in the use of colour and texture.
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Will Bertram
Focussing around drawing, Will creates imagined landscapes inspired by folklore, music, books, real life events, and Jersey scenery. Primarily working digitally his aim is to create a physicality in digital drawing and a digital cleanness in physical work. He combines detailed illustrations, abstract mark-making and texture to bring narratives, wording and ideas into his recognisable style. For Future Festive, Will Bertram’s aim is to make a small space feel like a big exhibition, featuring past works, work created throughout the year, and some artwork created specifically for the show. Primarily prints, Will will be showing virtual artwork in a style he calls ‘virtual collage’, combining elements of drawing and virtual painting.

