About me.
I’m a single mum of a lovely little boy. I spent some years travelling and then settled in Berlin for 6 years where I discovered my obsession with metalwork. I then moved back to my home town in Yorkshire where I’m raising my son and started work on my small business. As an artist, my work is motivated by a childlike love of objects. I challenge myself to elevate often unseen objects and ideas and bring them to a place they can be inspected, admired and cherished. I’m a lover of small things, old things, textures, metaphors and challenging the norm. I want everything I have to be beautiful and I love what I make. Kellertür is a way for me to bring together many aspects of my purpose as an artist in a way that I can share.
Kellertür means “cellar door” in German which is said to be the most beautiful phrase in the English language, phonetically. Having spent some years in Germany I wanted to bring a part of it in to my current work to honour my time there. I like the visual of a cellar door, as my workspace often resembles the organised chaos of a cellar crammed full of excitement to rummage through - full of shiny things and tools ;)
I want to share my love of beautiful things because it’s so important to take control of the objects around us when sometimes it’s so hard to control how we feel on the inside.
Martha x
About Kellertür.
Kellertür is an independent label I have created to house and share my values and excitement for beautiful tiny things. I want to address the value of visceral joy in using lovely objects balanced with increasingly urgent environmental concerns.
I use copper, brass and eco silver. Brass and copper are recycled materials at the manufacturing stage and therefore are considered sustainable even when bought new. Copper alloys (brass is a copper alloy) can be recycled over and over again without compromising the quality of the material.
Copper naturally creates a protective film (oxidisation) which means it resists corrosion, meaning your copper products will last a long long time! You can repurpose these metals, recycle them or if they end up in the earth will not pose a risk to the environment like plastic. #plasticfree
I use recycled, recyclable or biodegradable packaging and my focus is to be as sustainable and ethical as I can be.
Every item you see on sale here has been handmade by me :)