About Artisan Creative
We don’t do art the usual way. Mischievous and counter-intuitive, Artisan Creative forges music, books, and shows from raw materials of story and song - celebrating community, sparking imagination, and carrying big-hearted creativity into unexpected places with craft, wit, and soul.
Artisan Creative is a workshop, not a factory.
We are mischievous, counter-intuitive, and playful, always chasing the art of possibility. Rebellious and do-it-yourself by instinct, we thrive on spontaneity, self-sufficiency, and the sheer fun of going against the grain.
We create microverses - clusters of shows, books, recordings, podcasts, and live events - that orbit around big ideas and raw stories. Whether it’s the “moonshine music” of Steve Bonham & The Long Road, the rewilding wisdom of How to Survive and Thrive in an Impossible World, or the true tale of The Spirit Dog trekking from the Atlas to the Sahara, we make work that refuses to sit neatly in one box.
We believe in the extraordinary stories of ordinary folk, told with grit, humour, and heart. We believe in artisan values: craft, inspiration, authenticity, and love for the raw materials - wood, words, music, or myth. Our performances range from festival stages to rural libraries, always with the same aim: to bring big shows to small places and remind people of their own resilience and imagination.
Our vision? To keep creating surprising, distinctive, life-affirming work that helps people stop, smile, think, and feel more alive.
Artisan Achievements
Over the years, Artisan Creative has built a body of work that is as restless and wide-ranging as the journeys that inspired it. Our music has found its way to more than 350,000 streams on Spotify, while our videos have been watched over 340,000 times on YouTube. The stories we tell through conversation have reached ears around the world, with 15,000 podcast listens across 79 episodes, alongside 11 YouTube shows.
We’ve created and released 90 songs, collected in 7 albums, 12 singles, and 7 EPs, with 38 music videos to bring them to life. On stage, we’ve carried 4 touring shows to more than 100 performances, meeting live audiences of over 5,000 people in theatres, libraries, festivals (including Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Wigtown Book Festival, Brighton Fringe Festival), and small halls. Alongside the music, our love of words has produced 9 books that carry the same spirit of adventure and mischief onto the page.
Together, these numbers tell a story of persistence, play, and possibility - an ever-growing experiment in taking big-hearted creativity to unexpected places.
By the Numbers
350,000+ Spotify streams
340,000+ YouTube views
15,000+ podcast listens
38 music videos
90 published songs
7 albums • 12 singles • 7 EPs
4 touring shows
79 podcast episodes
11 YouTube shows
9 books
100+ live performances for 5,000+ people