Young Collectors: Christmas Gifting Guide 2025
As the festive season approaches, the search for thoughtful, lasting gifts begins. For young collectors, and those buying for them, Christmas is the perfect moment to invest in pieces that inspire curiosity, celebrate craftsmanship, and support emerging talent. Whether you’re building your first collection, adding something special to your home, or gifting art to someone discovering theirs, this year’s guide highlights accessible, exciting ways to give creatively in 2025.
1. Small Works from Emerging Artists
Original artwork doesn’t have to mean a daunting price tag. Many early-career artists produce small-scale works on paper that are both affordable and deeply personal. These pieces often become part of a collector’s most sentimental holdings because they mark the beginning of a journey—both for the artist and the owner.
2. Original Prints
Printmaking continues to thrive among young and established artists alike. Original prints offer a perfect blend of affordability and exclusivity, making them ideal gifts for someone just starting to build their own collection of art.
Tip: Look for signed or numbered editions—these hold their value and create a deeper connection to the artist.
3. Handmade Objects for the Home
Hand-made tableware and decorative vessels bring artistry into the everyday. Young collectors often appreciate functional works that can be lived with and used, not just admired from a distance.
4. Sustainable & Ethical Gifts
Young collectors are increasingly mindful of making conscious choices. Look for artists working with reclaimed materials, natural dyes, eco-conscious printing processes, or small-batch production. These gifts carry an extra layer of meaning, aligned with values that matter.
Giving with Intention
Christmas 2025 is all about slowing down, choosing with care, and celebrating creativity in its many forms. Whether you’re gifting a small work on paper or a handmade object, each item becomes part of a story—a memory tied to a moment of generosity and imagination.
For young collectors, the festive season is a chance to build a collection that feels personal and thoughtful, whilst supporting the artists who shape the world we live in.
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Date: 2021
Screenprint on BFK Rives Grey 270gsm
Size (unframed): 49 x 50
Edition size: 30
Published by Kip Gresham Editions and carries the studio blindstamp
Framing available on request
Part of the Cambridge Portfolio, completed during Andrew Carter’s Residency at Fen Ditton Gallery in April 2025
Multi-block reduction linocut print
24 × 38cm
Edition of 10
2 artist proofs
Wood engraving
Edition of 100
Unframed
Image size: 9 x 11cm
Paper size: 18.5 x 26.5cm
Please contact the gallery for all available Andy English prints
Etching and monotype print
Varied edition (VE)
A/P from an edition of 20
Print size: 34.5 × 28.5cm
Unframed
Sarah Gillespie’s latest mezzotint engraving in her ongoing study of the endangered UK moth species
Mezzotint engraving
2024
Edition of 30
Image: 62.5cm x 50cm
Framed: 77 × 65cm
Artist-made selenium toned silver gelatin print
Ed. 22/50
Overall 320 x 320 mm / Image 7.5 x 7.5 cm
Museum standard conservation framing - print under traditional window mount
Since graduating from The Drawing Year at the Royal Drawing School in 2021, Felix’s paintings and drawings have been acquired into private collections across the UK. This is the first time that Felix has produced an edition of prints and we are excited to have them exclusively available to purchase through the gallery.
Etching, edition of 20
Unframed
Paper size: 35.5 x 50cm
Image size: 19.5 x 26.5cm
Signed and dated by the artist
Printed at Stamperia d’arte Albicocco, Italy and carries the studio blindstamp
This engraved bowl is inspired by nature's elemental beauty, the repetition of a single leaf gives this bowl a strong vivid design.
These pieces make an eye catching graphic statement. Each of the bowls has a white rim, and is finely engraved on the inside of the piece.
Expertly made by master glassmaker Stephen Gillies, the design is engraved by Kate Jones.
Each one is signed on the foot, as a guarantee of authenticity.
H11cm ø15cm.
This engraved bowl is inspired by nature's elemental beauty, the repetition of a single leaf gives this bowl a strong vivid design.
These pieces make an eye catching graphic statement. Each of the bowls has a white rim, and is finely engraved on the inside of the piece.
Expertly made by master glassmaker Stephen Gillies, the design is engraved by Kate Jones.
Each one is signed on the foot, as a guarantee of authenticity.
H11cm ø15cm.
Each image is derived from drawings made in the field. Kittie hand draws each layer before exposing it onto a screen striving to keep the freshness of the hand-drawn mark whilst mixing it with more graphic layers of flat colour.
Screenprint
Edition of 21
38 × 56cm
Unframed
Hand-thrown in stoneware with lines of contrasting clay slip inlay, transparent glaze, electric fired.
Grey + White Tall Jug - £135
Beakers - £30
Coffee Cups - £36
Espresso Mugs - £32
Breakfast Mugs - £38
Pourer - £30
Hand-coloured drypoint etching
2025
Variable edition of 6
13 × 17cm
Framed (ed. 6/6): £ 325 SOLD
Unframed: £ 275
Hand-coloured drypoint etching
2025
Variable edition of 7
12 × 17cm
Framed (ed. 6/7): £ 325
Unframed: £ 275
Hand built stoneware with porcelain inside
Pressed with shells and feathers found along the River Deben
Glazed using lithium and a variety of oxides
SOLD OUT
Hand-printed bromide photographic print
12” × 16”
Edition of 20
Unframed
Framing available upon request
Pleated & stitched woven 'textile fossil' framed artwork
2022
Framed size: 44.5 × 44.5 × 7cm
Screenprint
Edition 19/25
Paper size: 24 x 30.5 cm
Framed
Printed with Carol Robertson, Graal Press
Courtesy of the Barns-Graham Trust