MORVEN BROWNE

Morven is based on the North Wales/English border near Whitchurch in Shropshire.

She is a mixed media artist who creates environmental kinetic sculptures. Her starting materials are always copper and brass, from which each piece evolves organically.

Inspired by movement and light within nature, Morven has long been fascinated by swaying grasses and trees, dappled light, and fleeting shadows.

ANTONIA CLARE

Antonia is an artist whose work moves between expressionist still life, semi-abstract landscapes and seascapes, and fully abstract painting. Inspired by the coastline where she lives, her paintings reflect a love of colour and a deeply personal response to the world around her.

Although creativity has always been central to her life, Antonia also built a successful international career as an award-winning writer, teacher and speaker. She is now focusing more fully on her art from her studio gallery in Holt, North Norfolk.

Her recent paintings have been shortlisted for the Sir John Hurt Art Prize and selected for the Institute of East Anglian Artists open exhibition.

JENNIFER COBB

Jennifer is based in a small hamlet in the countryside of North Lincolnshire and began exploring clay when she was a child, with her grandmother. She took up pottery full time in 2022 after reaching the quarter finals of The Great Pottery Throw Down.

She works in stoneware using her own range of glazes. She creates wheelthrown forms which she hand alters to create organic functional sculptures. She enjoys the dichotomy between the precision of throwing and the looseness of handbuilding.

Her work is heavily influenced by her love of the natural world and scavenging. She is an avid beach comber, field walker and fossil hunter. She loves to explore textures found in nature in fossils, corals, fungi and shells and apply these to her vessels.

JACQUI COTTERILL

Jacqui is based in the Midlands and has been making art for most of her life. An art foundation course introduced her to many techniques and led to a Fine Art degree, working mainly as a painter. She later went on to study Creative Stitched Textiles and enjoys the tactile quality of that medium.

She works mainly in textiles using hand dyed, painted or felted backgrounds and a large range of threads. Much of the work is done on a sewing machine using free motion stitching, but she works with different techniques according to the design.

Landscape and natural forms have always interested her, and the colours, patterns and textures of the world around her are her main design sources. She enjoys taking photos of details in the landscape and often uses these as inspiration for her textile work.

SU FRANCE

Su is Lincolnshire based and has been a full-time artist since 2022. She works in ink, earth pigment and collagraph on Irish linen, from her barn studio in Lincolnshire.

Her abstracted landscapes are quiet and considered, drawing on Japanese aesthetic thinking and the pull of the surrounding fields.

Her work draws on the Lincolnshire landscape around her barn studio. She grows the botanicals she prints from, and sources and grinds her own earth pigments, building an earthy palette across collagraph, print and printed ceramics.

MARK GITTINS

Mark is based in North Nottinghamshire. One way or another, he has been making things since childhood, but he has been making pottery for five years.

He is working primarily with stoneware clay, which he fires in electric and woodfired kilns. He makes his own glazes which is an important part of his process. He aims to make functional pots that look simple and natural and that invite touch.

He is inspired by stones, beaches, graffiti and the 1970s.

SIOBHÁN GORMAN

Siobhán is based in Leicestershire and she graduated in 2000 with a BA(HONs) in Fine Art. Life took her away from art but now she is back rediscovering it.

Her work, which primarily consists of paintings and observational drawings, is inspired by people, insects, and animals, through which she captures their stories, character, and unique qualities.

MIKE HALASA

Mike is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist based in the Midlands who embraces experimentation across a range of genres and media. Although his practice is varied, abstraction sits at its core.

His physical pieces often explore more introspective and shadowed aspects of human experience, creating space for reflection and emotional depth.

Exploration and experimentation are central to Mike’s creative process. He sees each piece as part of an ongoing journey of learning and development, where trial and error are not setbacks but essential steps. For Mike, the act of making is as important as the finished work, with unexpected discoveries often leading to the most rewarding results.

JENNIE HOLLIER

Jennie is a lens-based artist based in Leicestershire. NZ born, she was schooled in Australia and Oxfordshire then completed her BVA at Auckland University of Technology in 2000. Following a career in graphic and web design, she returned to her creative practice five years ago.

She works with 35mm, medium and large-format cameras, pinholes, and scanners. Her style is experimental, utilising traditional darkroom and alternative historical printing processes.

Inspired by travel, her locale, and larger questions of origin, her artwork often presents ambiguous imagery, utilising a setup that provides a timeless, placeless stage to function as deep space or deep ocean, seemingly from a telescopic or microscopic lens.

DAVE PAGE

Dave’s creative journey has been one of exploration and rediscovery. From painting butterflies and stick figures as a child to pursuing photography in his teenage years, his path has gradually led him to develop a distinctive visual language of his own.

Dave works across a variety of media, primarily using acrylic paint and inks, while also incorporating touches of watercolour and oil pastel where the work calls for it. He enjoys experimenting with alternative processes such as cyanotype and often integrates fabric and found objects, adding texture and layered meaning to his pieces.

At the heart of his practice is an interest in the relationship between manmade structures and the natural landscape, how they intersect, contrast, and coexist. He is also drawn to geometric design, with a particular admiration for artists of the 1920s and 30s who explored form, structure, and abstraction in bold and innovative ways.

JAN PARK

Jan Park specialises in atmospheric and evocative paintings.

Her love of colour, nature and form feature heavily in her artwork. She enjoys nothing more than a jolly good walled garden or evocative landscapes, add a few peeling paint surfaces or rust and her day is made!

You’ll often find her at work on her latest series in her Jackfield based art studio open to visitors, or sipping coffee chatting to visitors and fellow artists.

DAVID REDFIELD

David is based in the West Midlands and have been making art seriously for about three years.

He describe his style as eclectic! He loves working with oils and photography.

He draws inspiration from a wide range of illustrators, global art practices and Japanese photographers.

NICK SHONE

Nick is based in the North Lincolnshire village of Goxhill on the banks of the River Humber estuary. He has been making jewellery, chiefly in silver, copper and glass, for almost twenty years. More recently, he has been creating larger, more sculptural work in bronze, which he casts himself.

He works primarily in silver, copper, lampworked glass and hot cast bronze. While much of his work is inspired by the natural world, he doesn’t feel that his art conforms to any single style but rather has a variety inspired by the creative process itself.

He loves to study ancient and contemporary techniques for the manipulation of metals and glass. He finds it exciting to envision a finished piece of jewellery or sculptural form and work back to hone the methods and skills required to make it a reality. That’s what makes him tick creatively.

LIS STOCK

Originally from Wales, Lis now practises from her home studio in Leicester. She has drawn and painted for as long as she can remember, with a particular focus on developing her artistic practice over the last ten years.

Her semi-abstract landscapes emerge through layers of both thin and thick acrylic paint, built up with dynamic, deliberate brushstrokes and a variety of drawing tools. Through the interplay of colour, line and shape, she seeks to capture the essence of a place.

Lis’s work is predominantly inspired by the natural landscapes of her local area, as well as places with which she feels a strong personal connection. By creating a series of paintings centred on a particular location over an extended period, she explores the distinctive qualities that make each place unique and meaningful to her.

SAM WATERS

Based in Shropshire near the historic Ironbridge Gorge, Sam works from her home studio. She studied art in the 1990s and, after many years in a corporate career, returned to painting to develop her abstract practice, which she has now been pursuing professionally for several years.

Sam works with acrylic paint and mediums, incorporating charcoal, oil sticks, pastels and pencil. Her abstract style explores layered, textured surfaces inspired by industrial and harbour environments, alongside vibrant, expressive floral compositions.

Her work draws inspiration from industrial heritage and working harbours, where weathered materials, structures and textures shape her visual language. Alongside this, she explores the colour and energy of bold, expressive floral paintings.

MORAG ARCHER

Morag is based on Skye, and she has been making art for as long as she remembers. After school, she went on to complete a foundation year in Art, and then went on to a three-year BA Fine Art-based course at the Edinburgh College of Art, specialising in woven tapestry.

She is a mixed media artist, specialising in collage and mosaic techniques, but incorporating painterly details. She loves pattern and highly decorative details.

Her inspiration is her home on the Scottish Isle of Skye. She lives in a remote crofting community surrounded by mountains and vast seascapes and shares her large woodland garden with many species of birds and animals, which find their way into her artwork.

MARION BODDY-EVANS

Marion Boddy-Evans lives by the sea in northeast Scotland, in the historic fishing village of Portsoy. She has been a full-time artist since moving to Scotland in 2008.

Marion works in acrylics and mixed media in an expressive style, using strong colours and mark making.

The coastal landscape and flower gardens are the main inspirations for Marion’s paintings, done in her studio and on location (pleinair).

JACQUI COTTERILL

Jacqui is a textile artist based in the Midlands. The visual arts have always been an important part of her life. After attaining a BA (Hons) in Fine Art over 4 decades ago she later went on to study Creative Stitched Textiles.

Years of experimentation with threads, fabrics and fibres have led to diverse techniques usually including free motion embroidery. Materials include her own hand-dyed fabrics, handmade felt, leather, beads, and metal.

Her interest in the colours and patterns of nature, particularly the sea, are reflected in much of her work. She is currently also working on ways of interpreting and representing detailed scientific images.

MARK GITTINS

Mark is based in his home-studio in North Nottinghamshire. He’s been making art, of one kind or another, since childhood. He started making pots four years ago.

Mark works with stoneware clay, making functional pottery on which the making process is visible in the finished piece. Some of his work is woodfired with the Sherwood Forest Woodfiring Society.

Inspiration comes all around. From visual arts and mark-making, from natural forms and the colours of rocks. All of this is filtered through the practical lens of functional pottery and the making process itself, particularly for woodfired pieces.

MIKE HALASA

Mike is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist currently based in the Midlands who enjoys experimenting with different genres. He primarily favours abstract art, whether in digital or physical form.

His physical pieces often explore the darker aspects of the soul, providing a more introspective experience, while his digital works tend to be brighter and more vibrant.

Experimenting with various media is a crucial part of his creative process. Mike believes that the journey of creation is about learning and development, where even the trial-and-error process can lead to unexpectedly rewarding results.

LIZA HAWTHORNE

Liza is an artist and image maker living on the Isle of Skye. Northwest Scotland.

A somewhat compulsive serial creative, she is constantly seeking ways to present her thoughts and her relationship with the immediate environment in a visually compelling manner.

This has led to more than 3 decades of exploring diverse media and tools, in order to attempt to capture ideas as they occur.

DEBBIE LYDDON

Debbie lives in Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk and has been making art for over 20 years.

Cloth is at the centre of her practice and she combines traditional stitch techniques with non-traditional materials such as bitumen, salt and wax to make 2-D and 3-D works.

Her work explores landscape and place, and inspiration comes from experiencing and paying attention to the surroundings. She aims to promote an awareness of the relationship between the visual, aural and tactile landscape.

DAVE STEWART PAGE

Based in Stoney Stanton, a small village in Leicestershire, Dave’s art-making journey has been a somewhat testing exploration, from butterfly paintings and stick people as a child, to photography in his teenage years, and more recently, discovering his visual artistic language.

He works in a variety of media, mainly using acrylic paints and inks, but sometimes incorporating a little watercolour and oil pastel. He enjoys the cyanotype process, as well as working with fabric and found objects.

His primary artistic interest is in exploring how manmade structures interface with nature and the landscape. He also loves geometric design and has a real appreciation for artists who worked in this area in the 1920s and 30s.

NICK SHONE

Nick is based in the village of Goxhill, North Lincolnshire just south of the River Humber and has been making jewellery for over fifteen years. More recently he has also been working in hot cast bronze from his small home studio foundry.

He doesn’t consider his work to follow any signature style, rather he is drawn to constantly exploring new mediums and creative techniques and, in addition to silver and bronze, work in copper, glass and vitreous enamel.

Nick loves to make things and for him the momentum behind his work comes from the challenge of exploring and attempting to master the techniques required in order to realise his vision of what he wants to create.