MEET THE NORTH EAST MAKERS

Northumberland-based paper artist Sarah Morpeth says her work often takes inspiration from childhood memories.

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"Poems and half-remembered stories, and memories which pop up on my daily dog walks," she explains. "Visually, the imagery I use comes from the countryside around me in rural Northumberland, so you'll find the hedgerows, wild flowers and animals that inhabit this landscape appearing in my books and paper cuts."

Recently, she's turned her focus to the coast. "Seagulls, seals, ships and lighthouses are all beginning to make an appearance," she says. One new piece is especially personal: "I've been creating papercuts using the shapes of old Victorian glass bottles with sailing ships inside them. I'm sure it's because as a child my gran had a ship in a bottle and I found it completely fascinating."

Sarah lives in the heart of the Northumberland National Park. "I don't think I could make my work anywhere else," she says. "I live in the house which was my parents, so it's full of memories. I walk the paths my dad walked every day, and I feel completely rooted here."

Her stand will feature "not just paper cuts but concertina books, paper garlands and pop-up paper landscapes."