Jean Laming and Mari Scott from Amberley run Dotty Pots, a hand-painted ceramic pots stall at Amberley Craft Market.
“We call it our geriatric therapy,” says Jean, who loves to paint.
“A few years ago I painted a pot for a friend, they liked it and demand blossomed from there.”
She and Mari have been coming to the market for years.
“It's very social here, we enjoy meeting and chatting with all the tourists and visitors every week.”
Mari says she also likes the atmosphere of the market.
''The people here are nice and friendly, everyone gets along and all exhibitors help each other when necessary.
''It's enough for us, it's important as we get older, to still be able to socialize and meet other people.
“The painting and the market help take our minds off the struggle we now face around getting on waiting lists for treatment for our arthritis,” says Mari.
Jean's passion for painting goes back many years, when the 80-plus creative traveled the world and saw her artwork hanging in international galleries.
Born in Auckland, her artistic talents were recognized from an early age and at the age of 15 she had one of her paintings selected for a UNESCO world exhibition.
The then director of the Auckland Art Gallery, Eric Westbrook, suggested at the time that she travel to the United Kingdom to study fine arts, something her parents strongly disapproved of.
At the age of 19, she traveled to Australia and became an Archibald and Wynne Prize winner, with artist Sam Fullbrook as her mentor.
She has also painted murals in Pakistan, worked on a series of paintings about child trafficking and abuse, participated in an exhibition in Italy in 2011, written two musicals, illustrated several books and published many cartoons.
Her talent for mural painting also took her to many cities, including San Francisco, London, Sydney and Geneva.