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Jewellery & Metalwork

Acanthus Studios

Acanthus Studios on Katoomba Street in the Blue Mountains brings together jewellery and metalwork craftsmanship in one of NSW's most inspiring creative regions. This studio honours the precision and artistry of jewellery making, where materials are transformed through skilled hands into wearable art. The limited opening hours reflect the dedicated nature of the practice—visits are thoughtfully scheduled to allow deep engagement with the work. Stepping into Acanthus Studios, you'll discover pieces that celebrate both technical mastery and creative vision. It's an ideal destination for those seeking handcrafted jewellery with genuine depth and character.

Adrian Gilbert Art

Adrian Gilbert's studio gallery sits on the corner of Easter and Holmes Streets in Leura, opening on weekends. The work is Gilbert's own — all of it — and seeing it in the space where it's made changes how you look at it.

Jewellery & Metalwork

Ainsley Fine Jewellery

Ainsley Whelan has been working with clients from her Blue Mountains studio since 2001, producing fine jewellery distinguished by filigree detailing and softly textured surfaces. Nature's circular forms run through the work — rings, engagement pieces, gemstone collections — each made to order through direct consultation. The Leura gallery is where you come when the piece actually matters.

AusArtwork - Katoomba

An online seller of original Australian paintings based in Katoomba, in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. The catalogue runs across landscape, rural scenes, country homesteads and farmhouse subjects, with works from a range of artists intended for home and office. Paintings despatch Australia-wide, and pick-up can be arranged from Soul Side Café at the Gearin Hotel on the Great Western Highway.

Textile & Fibre

Australian Alpaca Barn

Tucked into Leura Mall in the Blue Mountains, Australian Alpaca Barn celebrates the warmth and beauty of alpaca fibre through an exceptional range of textiles and wearables. The studio's commitment to quality craftsmanship shines through every product—from luxuriously soft garments to home goods that invite touch and admiration. Open daily, this welcoming space allows visitors to explore the unique properties of alpaca wool while supporting local fibre arts. The charming mountain village location makes it a perfect pause during a Leura exploration, offering both the comfort of natural fibres and the knowledge of artisans who understand their craft intimately.

Jewellery & Metalwork

Bestowed Jewellers

Bestowed Jewellers, nestled in Winmalee Village Shopping Centre in NSW, brings artistry to jewellery and metalwork. Open six days a week, this studio welcomes visitors seeking distinctive pieces and custom commissions alike. The jewellers here work with precious materials and refined technique to create adornments that become part of personal stories. Whether commissioning an heirloom or discovering ready-made treasures, clients experience makers who understand that jewellery carries meaning and emotion. Bestowed Jewellers represents a commitment to craft excellence and genuine connection with those who wear and cherish the work.

Jewellery & Metalwork

Bijou sparkles as a jewellery destination in the heart of Leura Mall, showcasing distinctive metalwork and wearable art. This everyday-accessible studio offers pieces that balance contemporary design with enduring elegance—perfect for those seeking something beyond the ordinary. Open seven days a week, Bijou welcomes browsers and collectors alike into an intimate setting where quality craftsmanship shines. Whether you're hunting a special piece or simply exploring, this Blue Mountains jeweller offers the kind of treasures that become beloved keepsakes.

Blue Mountains Creative Arts Centre Inc.

A self-funded collective of around 160 members working across pottery, printmaking, mosaics, life drawing and fine art. Based at the corner of Hare and Moore Streets in Glenbrook, the centre runs classes for adults and children, hosts regular practice groups, and holds an Annual Art Prize each October. Entirely member-supported, which keeps the focus on making rather than spectacle.

Blue Mountains Cultural Centre

Katoomba's civic anchor for the arts, the Cultural Centre folds a city gallery, public library, and the interactive history exhibition *Into the Blue* under one roof. The viewing platform over the Jamison Valley is the understated draw — panoramic and free. Alongside the unmissable smokestack of the Carrington Hotel, it's easy to find.

Wood & Furniture

Blue Mountains Joinery Co

A Katoomba workshop run by Max, Daniel, Cooper and Mason, Blue Mountains Joinery Co builds custom cabinetry using a combination of CNC machinery and hands-on bench work. Projects scale from small commissions to complex fitouts across a range of materials and finishes. The team works directly with clients from brief through to installation.

Textile & Fibre

Blue Mountains Quilters

On the first Saturday of each month, quilters take over the Anglican Church Hall in Lawson. The format is loose: a pop-up fabric shop, show-and-tell from one o'clock, a $1 raffle. Visitors pay $10 at the door; members bring their own mugs. The biennial quilt show runs over three days in April.

Braemar Gallery

Opened in 1988 and run on a no-fees, no-commission model by Blue Mountains City Council, Braemar Gallery gives local artists a low-barrier route to exhibition. The heritage Braemar House on Macquarie Road, Springwood, hosts rotating shows spanning painting, sculpture, ceramics and photography — current exhibitions include Sheridan Linnell's unsettling naïve figurative works and Rob Gordon's acrylic landscapes of Blue Mountains waterways. Free entry, Thursday to Sunday.

Textile & Fibre

Jade Forder runs art classes out of Winmalee using paint, markers, and collage as the primary materials. The focus is less on technique than on expression — working through feelings that resist language. Aimed squarely at women and beginners, the group format is deliberate: Jade argues that shared creative space does something solo painting at home cannot.

Since 2010, Day Gallery has held two distinct collections under one roof in Blackheath: contemporary Blue Mountains painters working through landscape and identity, and historical Australian works spanning the 1800s to 1900s — including prints and oils by artists like A.H. Fullwood, who trained in Birmingham before joining Roberts and Streeton at Sirius Cove. The stockroom extends further, into European drawings as early as the 17th century.

Ceramics & Clay

Earthly Design Studio

Born in France to Moroccan parents, the potter behind this Blue Mountains studio works in saggar firing — a process she controls only partially, letting flame and atmosphere determine the final surface. Metal inlays reference Berber pottery from Safi. The geometric patterns carry specific meaning: protection, gender, the divine. Bullaburra is an unlikely place to find all of that. And yet.

Falls Gallery sits on Falls Road in NSW as a serene destination for visual art lovers and curious explorers alike. This intimate gallery space showcases contemporary work in a setting that feels personal and unhurried, encouraging meaningful engagement with each piece. The studio atmosphere invites visitors to linger, discover, and connect with artists who take their practice seriously. Whether you're a seasoned collector or simply drawn to good art, Falls Gallery offers the kind of welcoming environment where conversation flows naturally and new perspectives open up. It's a quiet gem for those seeking authentic creative experiences.

Gallery 96 | Palla Jeroff Studios

Palla Jeroff's studio and gallery occupy a single address on Lurline Street, Katoomba — visits by appointment only. That arrangement is the point: you're not browsing a retail hang but stepping into a working studio where commissions are discussed and new collections previewed. Call ahead.

GALLERY NWC anchors Katoomba Street in New South Wales, operating as a purposeful gallery for contemporary visual work. The venue combines professional curation with genuine accessibility, making it a valued resource for both local artists and visitors exploring the region's creative landscape. The selective opening schedule reflects a commitment to intentional programming rather than routine operations. Each exhibition receives focused attention and thoughtful presentation. Visitors encounter work that has been carefully considered, displayed in a space that prioritizes the art over commercial distraction. For those exploring the Blue Mountains area or seeking galleries with real curatorial vision, GALLERY NWC offers the kind of cultural depth that makes a visit worthwhile.

Ceramics & Clay

Lyn Hart's pottery studio sits behind a garden in Leura, its showroom open to visitors browsing her work. Drop-in workshops offer a few hours at the clay — a practical use of a misty Blue Mountains afternoon. Term-based classes run Tuesday lunchtimes and weekday evenings for those who want to go further.

Hope Tree Framing Blue Mountains

Neil has spent more than 20 years in the framing industry — retail and wholesale, Australia and abroad. His Megalong Street studio handles custom picture framing Tuesday to Friday, plus Saturday mornings. The work on the walls is his own: original artwork alongside the frames. Straightforward hours, no fuss, and someone who actually knows what he's doing.

Jewellery & Metalwork

Irene Byrne & Co Antique Jewellery

On Leura Mall in the Blue Mountains, Irene Byrne & Co stocks antique and vintage jewellery spanning Georgian to mid-century — fede gimmel rings, Art Nouveau aquamarine pendants, untreated 1920s rubies. The kind of shop where the price tags double as history lessons. Open seven days.

John Wilson Art Gallery

John Wilson spent his life painting the Blue Mountains in oil, and the gallery on Katoomba's Narrow Neck Road is where that body of work now lives. Since his death in 2025, his wife Cecilia has kept it open Thursday to Sunday — a modest, specific place to see and buy the remaining paintings of a landscape artist who rarely looked anywhere else.

Ceramics & Clay

Eight-week cumulative classes in the Blue Mountains town of Katoomba, structured to take beginners from first contact with clay to throwing functional pieces on the wheel. All levels are welcome. Sales run alongside the class programme.

Keith Rowe Glass

Forty-plus years into glassblowing, Keith Rowe runs his Blackheath studio with two collaborators: Kayo Yokoyama, who engraves and enamels birds, rabbits and botanical forms onto panel works and domes, and Scott Coleman, who diamond-carves sculptural bottles. Rowe himself works in series, recently producing large murrine pieces in the Vivid Colours tradition. Tools are wooden blocks cut from fruit trees, shaped with beeswax to stop glass sticking.

Kerry-Anne Knibbs Art

Kerry-Anne Knibbs is an artist and author based in the Blue Mountains. Her artwork is available in Glenbrook Village at Ginger Jar and Ebony & Ivy Boutique, as well as through her website. She creates original artworks, limited edition prints, and is the author of Imagine, all of which are available online. Kerry-Anne is also a Featured Artist with Art Lovers Australia and her work will appear on Selling Houses Australia in 2027. A symbolic artist, Kerry-Anne's work explores birds, landscapes, and symbolic mindscapes. Her latest book, Imagine, and the accompanying Imagine artwork series were launched in Glenbrook and are now available online at www.kerryanneknibbsart.com and through selected retailers. The book “Imagine: Contemplating the Symbology of Hilma af Klint” invites readers to consider the symbolism of Hilma af Klint, the visionary artist who believed her encoded artworks were created for the future, when humanity would be ready to understand their deeper meaning. Kerry-Anne also offers career-focused art classes for high school students, HSC preparation, and mentoring for adult artists.

Ladybird Design Creative Art & Jewellery Workshops, Blue Mountains

Fran runs these Blue Mountains workshops out of Wentworth Falls, teaching watercolour, acrylics, collage, silver jewellery-making, and natural perfume blending. Classes suit most skill levels and work as well for a solo Tuesday as a hen's party Saturday. The range is genuinely broad — few studios in the mountains cover both metalwork and essential oils under the same roof.

Freedom Wilson arrived in the Blue Mountains from Central Australia in 2006, laced up her boots, and started drawing. The resulting silk-screen prints — rendered on linen, canvas, paper and wood, stitched and constructed locally — map the specific ecology of the World Heritage bush: flowering waratahs, watching animals, fallen leaves. Stockists run from Katoomba's Food Co-op to Fitzroy's Brunswick Street.

Legacy Stained Glass

Kirby Sharrock learned the trade from her father — puttying windows, handling wooden tools, working with copper and steel in the smell of linseed oil and turpentine. A University of Sydney design graduate who went on to work under stained glass masters, she now runs this Leura studio restoring antique leadlight and making new windows to commission using traditional methods.

Wood & Furniture

Leura Fine Woodwork Gallery

On Leura Mall, Roxann and Rob's gallery shows fine woodwork — furniture, objects, sculpture — made from timber suited to the Blue Mountains setting. The kind of place where you pick things up, check the grain, reconsider your furniture. Open seven days.

A weekend gallery on Plantation Street in Wentworth Falls, LOAF shows work from a roster of artists across paintings and other artworks, alongside a selection of objects and books. The doors open Saturday from 10am to 3pm and Sunday from 10am to 1pm, keeping the space to a quiet, considered rhythm in the upper Blue Mountains.

Lost Bear Gallery

A converted guesthouse on Lurline Street, the road down to the Three Sisters, Lost Bear Gallery spreads across 12 rooms of paintings, sculpture, ceramics and glass by Australian artists. An outdoor garden of Japanese maples and bamboo backs the sculpture works. Owner and director Geoff White also operates as an art broker and dealer, with complimentary delivery across greater Sydney.

Textile & Fibre

Minerva’s Bower

A fabric shop on Katoomba Street stocked exclusively with natural fibres — Japanese boiled wool, cotton corduroy, stretch denim, brushed flannelette. The range skews toward garment-making rather than quilting, with seasonal arrivals keeping regulars returning. Open Tuesday to Saturday in the Blue Mountains' main town, it's the kind of shop that makes you want to go home and sew something.

Moontree Studio and Kate Soady Gallery

Thirty years on Leura Mall, Moontree has built its reputation on candles — beeswax pillars, soy-wax fragrant pours, twisted tapers — alongside homewares and Blue Mountains artist Kate Soady's paintings. The scent hits you first. Stock runs from $14.95 beeswax dinner candles to ceramic vases, with an emphasis throughout on Australian makers.

Jewellery & Metalwork

Daisy is a self-taught metalsmith working from the Blue Mountains in recycled sterling silver and 9ct gold, with traceable stones. An ongoing student of traditional Hellenistic astrology, she draws her jewellery from folklore, mythology and the night sky: talismans for the thirty-six decans, emblems for the four tarot suits, faerie-folk pieces and small critters, worked into rings, bolo ties, cuffs and necklaces. She works one-off and to order, and takes commissions for wedding and engagement rings.

Nolan on Lovel Gallery

Robyn Nolan runs this weekend gallery on the stretch of road between Katoomba and Leura, showing her own mixed-media canvases alongside a rotating program of invited artists — Lyn Harrison, John Ellison, Tricia Oktober among them. Works can be framed and shipped interstate or overseas directly from the gallery. Open Friday to Sunday, 11am–4pm.

ONE88 & Equilibrium

Part gallery, part retail, part therapy anteroom. ONE88's companion space Equilibrium stocks hand drums, ceramics by Tamara Pottier, jewellery by Felicity Grover, and raffia baskets alongside self-help books and psychology journals. Upstairs, four therapists take appointments. The logic holds: the shop floor is framed explicitly as a soft entry point into their offices — community infrastructure dressed as a gift shop.

Textile & Fibre

Picklemouse Corner

A patchwork and quilting shop tucked into an old cottage in Leura's Woolworths carpark. Megalong Street doesn't sound promising, but Picklemouse Corner stocks fabrics, haberdashery, and Block of the Month clubs alongside fudge, jams, and honey — a combination that makes more sense once you're inside. Bus groups welcome.

Rex-Livingston Art + Objects

On Katoomba Street, Rex-Livingston shows paintings, ceramics, and sculpture across a roster of over thirty artists — from Phil Stallard's oil landscapes to Charles Blackman's secondary-market canvases. The gallery runs its own Mount Eyre Art Prize and maintains a stockroom of investment-grade work. Serious commercial gallery programming, well above the regional average.

Ceramics & Clay

S.Mountain Ceramics

Sharron Mountain has spent 30 years as an educator and artist, and the Blue Mountains landscape shows in everything she makes — totem sculptures, gilded vessels, vases that read like compressed geology. What sets the studio apart is the clay itself: foraged from the surrounding terrain. Workshops run regularly; visiting potters, including Steve Williams and Lea Durie, bring their own techniques to the space.

Jewellery & Metalwork

Two adjoining stores on Leura Mall — the Man Cave to the left, a women's accessories room behind a connecting door. Between them: Secrid wallets, Ayala Bar jewellery, ToniMay diamond earrings, leather overnighters and shaving kits. A third outpost, the Cabinet of Curiosities, sits further down the street. Good browsing for a Blue Mountains afternoon.

Wood & Furniture

The Australian Woodworker

The Australian Woodworker represents the thriving tradition of timber craft across New South Wales, celebrating the beauty and complexity of wood as a medium. Located in Livingstone Street, this studio honours both heritage techniques and contemporary design thinking. Woodworking here encompasses fine furniture, sculptural work, and functional pieces—each revealing the deep dialogue between maker, material, and vision. Whether you're seeking bespoke pieces or seeking to understand wood's remarkable potential, The Australian Woodworker exemplifies the craft's enduring relevance and the skilled artistry it demands.

Textile & Fibre

The House Of Wool

A yarn shop on Leura Mall stocking what it calls "unique yarns" for knitters, weavers, and fibre artists. Hours are deliberately limited — closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays, shorter on Sundays — which keeps the place feeling like a find rather than a retail fixture. Worth timing your Blue Mountains visit accordingly.

Textile & Fibre

On Leura's main street, this artist-run co-operative splits rent, rostering and running costs among its members — Blue Mountains makers who stock the shop with work not widely available elsewhere. Every person behind the counter made something on the shelves. Open every day except Christmas and Anzac Day.

Wood & Furniture

Thornton & Blake Showroom

After a corporate career change and a diploma from Sydney Design School, Anne Hogarth built this Blue Mountains showroom into a full-service interior studio — curtains, fireplaces, flooring, custom kitchens, Molmic sofas. Colour consultant Ellisha Gronlund handles paint mixing and custom eye-matching with two decades of experience. Less a shop, more a neighbourhood resource for anyone renovating in the mountains.

Jewellery & Metalwork

vanHoren - Macrame Jewellery Wirework

Denise Van Horen works across three distinct modes from her Blue Mountains studio: sterling silver jewellery (bangles, Viking chain bracelets), macramé wall hangings, and wire sculpture for gardens. Materials lean recycled and natural where possible. The pieces suit decorators and jewellery collectors alike — original, handmade, and available to commission or buy directly online.

Wild Valley Art Park

Off-grid by design: solar panels power the equivalent of eight households, rainwater feeds the taps, and a reed-bed system handles all waste. Classes and appointments only for now, though public access to the sculpture grounds is planned. The infrastructure is the argument — art made somewhere that takes its own footprint seriously.

Jewellery & Metalwork

The owner has spent 25 years cutting stones and still does most of it himself — opals especially. The Katoomba shop carries locally made handicrafts alongside the gems, and prices run noticeably below Sydney equivalents. Staff speak French, German and Spanish. Overseas visitors can claim GST back on departure.

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