Winners of the 2021 Heritage Crafts Awards
3rd February 2022 | ANNOUNCEMENTS
The result was one of four revealed at the COVID-delayed ceremony hosted by Heritage Crafts Vice Presidents Baroness Garden of Frognal and Lord Cormack. Other recent successes were also celebrated, including seven national honours and the awarding of the second annual President’s Award for Endangered Crafts, set up by Heritage Crafts President HRH The Prince of Wales and won in 2021 by watchmaker Rebecca Struthers.
The Heritage Crafts/Marsh Maker of the Year award was won by glass engraver Tracey Sheppard, who took up glass engraving at evening classes in the 1980s and soon reached the pinnacle of her craft, receiving commissions from Historic Royal Palaces to present to Her Majesty the Queen, and to be part of the Downing Street Collection of engraved glass. She has worked tirelessly on behalf of the Guild of Glass Engravers and is now their President, alongside being Master of the Art Workers Guild.
The Heritage Crafts/Marsh Volunteer of the Year award
Finalists
The finalists were as follows:
Heritage Crafts/Marsh Maker of the Year
- Fabian Bush – boat builder
- Rachel Frost – hat maker
- Tracey Sheppard – glass engraver
Heritage Crafts/Marsh Trainer of the Year
- Deborah Carré – shoemaker
- Delyth Done – blacksmith
- Kevin Millward – potter
- Greg Rowland – wheelwright
Heritage Crafts/Marsh Trainee of the Year
- Kieren Berry – papermaker
- Niam Chauhan – violin maker
- Francis Lloyd-Jones – potter
- Anna Olafsson – hand engraver
Heritage Crafts/Marsh Volunteer of the Year
- Colin Garrett – British Violin Making Association
- Jane Kerr – Wooden Boatbuilders Trade Association
- Debbie Richardson – Braid Society
The next round of nominations open on 1 March 2022.