Brands

Sakura Colour Corporation of Japan started in 1921 as a crayon manufacturer. In 1984, Sakura shocked the established pen manufacturers when they launched the world's first gel ink. Gelly Roll quickly became synonymous with gel pens and other major manufacturers scrambled to jump on the gel bandwagon. Sakura now manufactures a wide range of high-quality niche pens for crafting, marking and drawing.

Saunders Waterford is an exquisite watercolour paper, traditionally made on a cylinder mould machine. It is a superior quality watercolour paper made by St. Cuthberts Mill and comes with the Royal Watercolour Society’s endorsement.

Combining the latest technology with handmade processes, Schmincke produce the finest calibre artists’ colours, which are predominantly single pigmented. Schmincke offer an array of paints to suit all abilities and budgets, including Horadam Aquarell, a high quality range of watercolour paints. 

Founded in 1920, Scola is a proudly homegrown British brand that specialises in manufacturing and distributing children's art materials.

Synonymous with quality & safety, their trusted paints, crayons, modelling materials & adhesives products can be found being used in classrooms across the whole UK.

For more than 30 years Seawhite have been supplying the UK educational market with popular products such as sketchbooks and polyholdalls. Their product range is aimed at artists and designers of all abilities. The universal appeal of their products has ensured that many of Britain's top designers have used Seawhite sketchbooks in their study years and ask after them long after. 

Invented in West London by Colin Kininmonth and George Gray in 1937, Sellotape was both the widest and thickest tape on the market and became widely adopted as a means to seal ammunition boxes and help protect windowpanes from potential bomb damage during the British war effort.  Throughout the decades since, they've diversified their range to include a wide variety of products for every occasion.

Sennelier are a French brand that began in the late 19th century under master colour maker Gustave Sennelier. Sennelier continues to make watercolours, acrylics, gouache and more - their creamy-textured, highly pigmented pastels remain the company’s lasting legacy, as anyone who has used them will understand.

The Sharpie became the first pen-style permanent marker and the brand can now be found on a variety of permanent and non-permanent pens made with a number of tips, the most popular being the Fine tip.

Snazaroo offer the very best in face painting products with inspirational, simple and easy to follow step-by-step guides and are widely considered to be the "World's Favourite Face Paint".

Founded back in 1899 as the "C. Howard Hunt Pen Company", a manufacturer of the finest dip pens.  Throughout the years, their range has only grown & become more varied over time until, in 1997, they relaunched under the name "Speedball", taken from a brand of pen launched by the company in 1915.

Based in North Carolina, Speedball have a global reach, with manufacturing operations in a number of countries including the UK.
Today they produce & market products for an array of field & techniques, including printmaking, writing & an assortment of artist materials.

Part of the Shesto family of brands, Spraycraft caters for all of your modelling and hobby airbrushing needs from basic airbrushes, kits, propellants, compressors, mixing jars & accessories.

Pens with cult status – that is what STABILO stands for. The family-run enterprise STABILO is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of writing instruments and stands for German quality, an extraordinary variety of colours and ground-breaking innovative strength.