The Collective Loxton - Artisan’s Profiles
Elena and Mark work in their little ‘birdhouse’ commercial kitchen in Renmark to create handcrafted chocolates and flavour enhancers.
They also create delightful gift baskets which includes local products and seasonal produce.
Julie Noble
Pastel & Ink Artist
Specialising in Portraits of Animals and Children
Julie is a passionate artist, and Pet Portraits are her specialty, capturing the character of much loved pets.
She offers a vast range in store with original pastel paintings, and fine pen drawings of mostly birds and animals, along with limited-edition prints, and blank gift cards printed from her original artworks. Julie’s latest venture has been fine pen drawings of wrens and owls.
Katherine lives on a local property with her husband and 5 children. She is a passionate acrylic artist and has had a couple of jigsaw puzzles made with her artwork.
Another passion is preserving fruit and making jam and other homemade goodies from their fruit trees.
Robyn Abell
Handmade Reed Diffusers
I originally started making Diffusers and Candles for my florist back in Port Pirie as a bit of a side line but found them to be very popular and became much more then a little side line I did in my spare time.
We sold the florist and moved to Pyap in the Riverland to be closer to family.
I am enjoying being able to offer my diffusers under the brand Kylara Vines in the Collective Loxton.
Diane Paschke
Rainbrella Blessings
Sewing Enthusiast
Diane loves sewing items that can be loved and used for many years to come.
Her range includes Named Face Washers, Shopping/Tote bags, Christmas Stockings and Library Bags.
She can personalise a face washer with a name and you can choose from her range of appliqued pictures. Please enquire
Charmaine produces her own Candle range, created from Australian Soy Wax and Essential or Premium Oils.
Since setting up a home studio she has expanded her range of products and also offers Sugar Scrubs and Room Sprays and embellishes Tumblers, Mugs and Cork Coasters etc with graphics.
Rose Lehmann
Knitted Products
Rose is a passionate knitter, who learnt to knit from her mother who was an avid knitter.
She started knitted when she had her own children and has created many garments for her nieces and nephews and now for their children and her own grandchildren.
She is excited to offer some of her unique creations in our store.
Sue Drabsch
Nature Based Art
Sue Drabsch is a Loxton local who is a creative individual specialising in handcrafting unique items using nature as her inspiration. By using various materials and techniques, her artisans' focus is on creating functional and decorative objects by combining artistry and practicality to create bespoke items. With a strong purpose of renewable materials, these one of a kind handmade objects embrace the spirit of the Riverland.
Scent Status Co
Shardia Cavaiuolo
Candles & Candle Accessories
Shardia, has been crafting candles since 2020. She makes triple scented candles using soy wax and her collection features a variety of sizes, colors, shapes, and fragrances.
She has been a stallholder at many markets and her products are now available at our Collective store.
The artisan Critical Creative Collective at Loxton High School embodies their commitment to nurturing student innovation and entrepeneurship.
Giving students a launchpad to embark on their creative journeys and bring their visions to life.
Tanika designs and creates on trend and light weight earrings from polymer clay.
The process to make a pair of earrings involves, designing, colouring and conditioning Clay, cutting and baking, sanding and assembling.
Tanika uses high quality surgical steel findings and finishings.
Shelley proudly sources her handmade product ingredients such as olive oil and beeswax locally where possible and creates her lip and cheek balms in small batches with love and care.
Julie Wallis
Jewellery & Glass Artist
Jewellery and useable glass art
Julie’s offers a wide range of various metal and vibrant glass Jewellery along with useable glassware, all created in her home studio in Pinnaroo.
She is inspired by nature and uses gumnuts, leaves and pine cones to cast solid silver pieces for necklaces and earrings.
Brobajosa Designs
Kim Richards
Gift and Homewares
Kim has been creating unique giftware since 2018 and can personalise items for you.
Kim creates button, pebble and Scrabble frame art, along with domes, lanterns and other giftware using her vinyl cutting machine.
A recent addition is the personalised family tree design, pictured.
Rainbow Mosaics
Helen Burgemeister
Mosaic Art
Helen has been creating Mosaic Art for over 27 years and is winner of two Australia /New Zealand 3D Mosaic Artist awards.
She uses ceramic, glass, crockery, stone, slate and found objects in her pieces. Her mosaics in the Collective are created for outdoor situations.
Bag making for Margot has been a hobby for over 15 years but has recently discovered the unique and beautiful qualities of cork fabric. After making a few bags for herself with it, she was hooked, and Sloan Bags was born.
Margot has a wide range of bags and purses in the store, but loves making one of a kind pieces on request.
Dinah and her family strive to live a natural, chemical and plastic free lifestyle.
After years of trial and error, and the challenge of improving her daughter’s skin issues, Dinah has created a range of health and beauty products using only what the earth provides.
Mara Rada
Nature based creator
Gumnut Potpourri
Mara’s potpourri captures the essence of the Australian bush perfectly. It is a labour of love, collecting the gumnuts and buds, spreading them out in the sun to dry, then checking them for bugs and seeds that need to be removed. It’s then the rewarding act of creating the potpourri.
Embellish Cocktail Co
Emma Ferguson
Dried Garnishes
Emma is a cocktail enthusiast. Her passion for food and beverage and inspiration from the Riverland’s produce, led to Embellish Cocktail Co being created.
Emma picks and dehydrates local citrus to garnish food, drink, desserts and platters to add a little something extra,
Janelle offers a range of wooden boards that they have burnt saying and images into. Use as serving platters.
Glass tumblers with transfers along with other accessories
Muschio Park operates from their Riverland farm and came about to diversify and help give purpose and employment to a disabled member of the family.
Their products include homewares, accessories, pet products, sensory toys and more. All are handcrafted using inspiration from their daily lives on the farm.
Annie Delaine
Artist
Paintings
Annie enjoys colour and abstract art, largely using acrylic paints on canvas.
Annie is enjoying studio life after retiring from a nursing career. She has worked with small groups using Acrylic pouring with participants proudly taking home their art pieces. Annie welcomes commissioned paintings.
Annette Winter
Illustrator - Designer - Maker
Range of Accessories
All Annette’s products feature her original artwork that she has had printed onto fabric in Australia and then sewn by her.
She loves creating pattern prints and specialises in combining her illustrations and graphic design skills to create stylish, playful and cheerful designs. Many of the prints feature Australian Flora.
Little Village Vintage
Collect | Curate | Inspire
OPEN Thur/Fri/Sat/Sun 10am - 3pm
Resident Pop Up Shop
Megan Abbotts, owner of Little Village Vintage shares a section of the retail space with The Collective.
She offers a tasteful mix of pottery, furniture, home decor, glassware and an assortment of bric-a-brac.
Step into her space and you will be bound to have memories of a time past, come flooding back as you see items from by gone eras.
Megan shares her love of vintage furniture to inspire sustainable interiors.
