About Us
Welcome to The Candleman, in our shop you will find original collectable designs, handmade candles for collectors and gifts and for that special occasion; we have many hand made candles to show and to delight you from the cute to the macabre, each candle has been hand crafted and is totally unique.
Mark Parks the creator of The Candleman has gained a world wide reputation for his original designs; his work is in many collections across the world and the work has become even more collectable since setting up The Candleman, having worked exclusively for famous high street names and has designed for the gift ware industry for over 25 years. Mark was joined in the studio by Duncan Stuart, who trained as a pastry chef, graphic designer and landscape gardener over a number of years. Together they decided to create a design studio, along with a number of other designers and creators. You can now purchase your own piece of their work that will delight anyone who receives it.
The studio is based in the lovely seaside town of Christchurch Dorset UK. In our studio factory we create all of our designs and we have a dedicated team of crafters who make the handmade candles. Unlike some other ‘hand made’ candles ours are literally made by hand. Some of our crafters, work in the studio but most work in their own homes. All of our designs are created from original concepts or from customer’s commissions.
Our teams of dedicated crafters have many years of experience in the craft industry and have worked for some very well known high street names.
At The Candleman, we are dedicated to bringing, to the market some very unusual and very different handmade candles and handmade craft ideas, as you will be able to see from our website, we have a very diverse range of handmade candle gifts, covering a wide spectrum from the very cute to the very macabre we cater for the collector as well as for the customer who wants something unusual, as well as functional and different.
Our designs are both traditional and contemporary; most of the designs start out as plasticine models, just like the well known characters you see on their grand days out.
The designs can be very small up to quite large, which gives us an ability to cater for different tastes and requirements, we have limited production runs, studio pieces as well as larger production lines, functional and different, while retaining that handmade look, but every one is individual and there is never any two exactly the same. Take a look in our shop and see for yourself the delights that a-wait.
We sincerely thank you for your visit to our shop, we hope you enjoy it, if you have any comments and or questions to ask us please feel free to contact us.
Regards
Pauline Geran