Seventeen pieces, one pair of hands

Most makers narrow. They find the thing their hands are good at and they spend twenty years going deeper into it, and the work gets better for it. Jonna Vanschoonhoven went the other way.

The opening collection of the mercato contains original acrylics on canvas, knotted macramé, a stained glass panel joined with copper, a tooled leather journal, two wool felt hats burned freehand, painted stoneware and four goat's milk soaps. On a shelf they look like the inventory of a whole market rather than one bench.

The tell is in the edges

Look at where each piece stops. The carved frame around a seven-inch painting gets as much attention as the painting. The mountain range on the mug runs the whole way round instead of sitting on one side like a decal. The burn work on the ivory hat is carried right out to the brim edge, where a less patient maker would have faded it out.

Nothing here is treated as a background for something else.

That is the through-line, and it is a harder discipline than specialising. A single craft lets you build muscle memory. Six crafts mean starting from attention every time.