The Collective Loxton - Artisan’s Profiles
Body & Bloom Wellness
Jade Hand
when we care for the body, the whole person begins to bloom.
Jade created Body and Bloom Wellness to enable her to still work whilst she completes her placement for University Degree and ensuring the business was low stress and also met her creative side.
Jade creates calming wellness products like reed diffusers and soothing home fragrances designed to extend that sense of peace into your everyday life.
Deb Othams
Author
Bullying leaves invisible scars that affect self-esteem, learning, and family life long into adulthood. Healing Beyond Bruises offers a compassionate, practical guide to spotting the hidden signs, responding with empathy, and supporting recovery. Packed with real-life stories, research, and easy-to-use tools, it helps parents, teachers, carers, and professionals create safe spaces where individuals can thrive again.
Jane Qualmann
Cards, Hats and Quirky Emu’s
Jane creates hand-painted and wood-burnt designs on hats and bags, as well as original watercolour and acrylic paintings.
Having lived in the Riverland for the past three years, Jane began painting two years ago and, through experimentation, discovered a unique niche painting quirky emus. These works portray emus as weird, colourful characters, each piece celebrating individuality, playfulness, and the beauty of handmade art.
Jilly’s Pantry
Jilly Fogden
Pickles, Jams and plants
Jilly was raised on a farm and For the past two decades, she’s been a beloved presence at farmers’ markets, known for her homemade jams, pickles, sauces, and hearty pies. A passionate baker, she’s especially celebrated for her traditional German cakes. She now combines her love of vintage bric-a-brac with her green thumb, creating charming plantings in repurposed treasures bringing country charm and handcrafted character to everything she creates.
Sews and Grows
Domenica Tootell
Sewn products and propagated plants
She creates a range of sewn products, including key fob wristlets, scrunchie wristlets, tote bags, and zipper pouches. Domenica also grows and propagates variegated plants
She also is a teacher and playgroup facilitator at the local primary school, and also creates content for her YouTube channel, Easy Sewing for Beginners. Alongside her passion for sewing, She has a strong love for variegated plants and enjoy the process of propagating and nurturing them.
Erin Harrald Ceramics
Erin Taylor
Ceramic artist
Erin lives in Winkie with her husband Samuel and her border collie Molly. She has a home studio where she makes and teaches pottery to others. Erin has been making for over 20 years and still has so much enjoyment from creating.
She makes cups, mugs, bowls, teapots, vases, platters, earrings, brooches, gnomes, birds, garden art and plant markers and Australian themed pieces.
Carol’s Crafts
Carol Bagg
Handcrafted Macrame plant hangers
Carol is retired and currently living her dream on a houseboat with her partner, Stan. Carol has two daughters and four wonderful grandchildren.
she enjoy’s crafting, particularly macramé, and loves creating unique plant hangers by pairing colorful cords with matching beads. In Carol’s spare time, she also enjoy’s fishing, reading, jigsaw puzzles, and crosswords.
Asterix printing co
Krystle Mercieca
3D Printer Artist
Krystle creates, cute 3D printed items from home using her ever growing range of 3D printers. Kids love her creatures and fidget toys and will save their pocket money to come in and buy.
Her range is ever changing with a wide variety of items.
MURFF
Murphy Yandell
Apparel that means something with every wear
MURFF is more than just clothing—it’s a movement built on values that inspire strength, resilience, and ambition.
MURFF is designed for those who wear their values with pride. Their collection features thoughtfully crafted pieces that embody stability, growth, and unity, making them perfect for individuals who want their clothing to reflect who they are.
Rosies Homemade Dog Crackers
Kirsty Coppin
Natural Dog & Cat Treats
Kirsty had the idea for her natural pet treats business to assist he dog who suffers from Lupus.
All her products are homemade with love in the Riverland and crated with all natural ingredients. She doesn’t use any preservatives, artificial colours or flavours.
Little Miss Jen
Jenny Saunders
Range of Baby & Children’s Accessories
Jenny has lived in Loxton for over seventeen years, and has been sewing, knitting and crocheting for over 50 years. Her experience and attention to detail shows through in her quality made items. She loves that she can share something that she enjoys doing.
She offers a variety of quality handcrafted products which include -Baby Gift Sets [Bibs, Soft Toys] Nappy Bags, Amigurumi Crocheted Animals and Dolls, Girls Bow Bags, Doll Carry Baskets, Carriers Dolls and accessories along with Toddlers/Children's Backpacks and Bookmarks.
The Bunta Project
Tanya Lehmann
Mini Pottery Vases
When Tanya was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in mid 2024, she took to learning pottery, something she could immerse herself in with free abandon, to embrace the messiness of the process, to play, experiment and discover joy through creativity and learning something new. "The Bunta Project" was born. She has loved creating these mini vases and is experimenting with dried flower bouquets. They have been a motivator to keep her going on the hard days, and reminder to find joy and beauty in the little things.
Katherine is a devoted dog owner, artist, and jam maker based on her property in Loxton. Surrounded by nature and inspired by her everyday life with her dogs, she creates thoughtful, handcrafted pieces—whether that’s small-batch jams or original artwork—each reflecting her creativity and love for simple, meaningful living.
Rainbrella Blessings
Diane Paschke
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.
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.
Sue Drabsch
Nature Based Art
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.
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.
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
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.
