One studio. Four threads. The same pair of hands.

Kerioak is a small one-person studio working out of a back room and a garden somewhere in the UK. The same person makes the crochet, takes the photographs, paints the watercolours, and writes the blog. The studio is small on purpose and likely to stay that way. Three of the four lines of work are slow handcraft; the fourth, photography, runs on the same patient rhythm. Nothing here is rushed and nothing is mass-produced.

The shop opens and closes around the seasons. The blog posts when there's something worth saying. Commissions get taken in moderation. If you find your way here through a Pinterest pin from years ago or a friend's recommendation, welcome.

What's on the bench at the moment

The shop carries whatever has come off the bench recently. Pieces fall into a few honest groups:

• Crochet bags, hats, gloves, scarves, shawls, and stoles in wool, alpaca, and cotton.
• Blankets and afghans, sized from cot through to king. Custom palettes welcome.
• Children's pieces — hats, mittens, small blankets, tea cosies for play kitchens.
• Crochet hooks and small accessories — a few favourite ones I use myself.
• Photography prints in small editions, framed or unframed, including the dog portraits and the swan series that get asked about most.

See the gallery →

Dogs, swans, and the local landscape

The photography is mostly wildlife and the local landscape. Dogs, especially my own and the dogs of friends, photographed outdoors in their own places — a particular bench, a particular path, the kitchen door. Swans on a particular stretch of river that the camera has visited many hundreds of times. Garden birds. Occasional longer trips for landscape work.

Lightroom and Photoshop are part of the workflow but the goal is always to honour what was in front of the camera rather than to invent something that wasn't.

Get in touch

For commissions, print enquiries, custom palette work, or just to say hello after seeing the photography somewhere out in the world. Email is the way; I read every message and reply within a few days.

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