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Meet our super-talented Everyday Artists

17 December 2015

We've been shining a spotlight on a host of Britain's unsung art heroes: people who enjoy doing something creative outside of their day job. We've featured crafters, spinners, knitters, painters, musicians and more - you can explore their inspirational stories below.

  • Meet the world-record holding crafters making a crochet Christmas project

  • Get Creative's content producer rolls up her sleeves and threw a pot for Hey Clay!

  • The retired tool-maker who gave the Jubilee Thames Pageant sunny skies

  • The contracts administrator with creativity at her fingertips

  • DIY toymaker father creates kingdoms from clutter

  • Paperback perfection: the school worker who sculpts art from stories

  • Photographer uses real life locations to create futuristic scenarios

  • Construction worker recreates day job in miniature

  • Bake Off's back. How sugarcraft can be the icing on the cake.

  • Landscape gardener has a monster talent

  • Sports-mad poet serves ace verses

  • How a lifeboat rescue sparked an interest in model boat making

  • How a painter turned five church windows into a Renaissance masterpiece

  • One of a handful of aspiring artists whose painting was chosen for the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition

  • A retired designer who painted a Canaletto-style painting, replacing the buildings with those of his home town

  • A retired decorator gave his home a Renaissance make-over

  • A crafter who loves creative challenges of all shapes and sizes

  • A spinner who takes her spindles wherever she goes, including an FA Cup Semi-Final

  • A retired tool-maker who painted a life-size Canaletto replica

  • A crafter who didn't think drawing would be her forte but had a go anyway

  • A former teacher who went looking for a hobby and found the ukulele

  • A jewellery designer who discovered a love for digital printing and uses it as a way to relax and to cure jet-lag

  • A dedicated mum and knitter who makes retro tank tops for her rugby- mad son and his friends to add a splash of style to the stands

  • A stitcher who joined a sewing group to meet like-minded people. She's made tea cosies and draught excluders as gifts and hopes to move to dressmaking

  • A stroke survivor who has used painting, music and writing to rehabilitate. He shared his first self-portrait using his affected hand with Get Creative

  • A keen cross stitcher and crafter who uses it as a way to relax and wind down after a day content producing for Get Creative