Gabriella Buckingham
Gabriella studied Graphic Design and Illustration and Kingston Upon Thames and has been working as a professional artist for 3 decades.
Of her work, Gabriella says "I’m fascinated by colour and light and equally drawn to both abstract and still life work because I really enjoy using my imagination just as much as observing subtle changes to colour relationships when I’m working from life. I imagine I will always want to explore both with varying degrees of separation. In 2022 I will be working on deliberately integrating both these approaches so that I really extend my creativity. I recently completed a series of work exploring intuitive painting and found that many abstract and semi abstract landscapes materialised which express my love of mystery and the unseen with fragments of memory. The more I look at my own work the more I realise how much potential there is in combining parts of my imagination and memory with objective reality. Much of my work is small to medium scale and I've been working at a larger recently and relishing the freedom and the challenge of doing so successfully. ”
Gabriella exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition twice and her work is now in the 2025 RA calendar. She has shown many times at the Holt Festival Art Prize, at the Discerning Eye and the ING - Figurative Art Now at the Mall Galleries. Her work is held in private collections both in the UK, Spain, the US and Canada.
Louisa Boyd
Louisa Boyd is a multidisciplinary artist who works with print and sculpture.
Louisa has worked as a professional artist for over twenty years, exhibiting both nationally and internationally. Her pieces are included in public and private collections worldwide and she is recognised regularly through prestigious juried exhibitions. She is currently exhibiting at the Royal West Academy of England for their Paper Works show (until April 27). Recent exhibition highlights include: London Art Fair Encounters (2023), Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2023, 2019, 2017 and 2014), Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 (online edition), 2019, 2018), New Light Prize Exhibition (2020/2021) and the Flourish Award Exhibition (2020/2021) where she was awarded the Great Art Prize. She was invited in 2023 to show work for Just Like Escher at Escher in the Palace in The Netherlands where they exhibited a sculptural work. The exhibition featured 36 international artists including Damian Hirst, Chris Ofili, Alexander McQueen and Escher himself and was put together to celebrate 125 years since Escher’s birth. She was also awarded a scholarship from the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust in 2023 for developing her printmaking practice.
Morven Browne
Morven’s work explores the interplay of movement and light within the environment, and the influence of meteorological factors on the colours and shadows that surround us.
Using jewellery making techniques, she creates repeating sculptural forms which, when grouped, become small installations, kinetic sculptures or 3D wall pieces.
Morven was brought up in rural Dumfriesshire and worked as a Physiotherapist before embarking on a second career as an artist. She now works from a studio on the North Wales/Shropshire/Cheshire border, where she is able to totally immerse herself in the sights and sounds of her rural location.
Jan Brewerton
Jan Brewerton is an artist and printmaker, based in Devon and Shropshire.
She studied Fine Art at Coventry University and at Goldsmiths College in London. Her work is inspired by the domestic environment, the natural world and by travel. She uses clean lines and bright fresh colours in her depictions of everyday objects and artefacts. She is a member of the Devon Guild of Craftsmen.
Paul Cleden
I work as an Illustrator and Printmaker using a number of printmaking techniques throughout my work; lino multi block / reduction prints, or more recently a more fluid mixture of collograph, monoprint and lino etch.
‘I love to look at figurative movement; consequently sports are often featured because of the dynamic shapes and action, but equally a crowd of rush hour people leaving a train, people browsing a market or a dance hall crowded with figures are wonderful inspiration. the nature of linocut allows for the use of lovely flowing lines and dramatic overlap of colours which i feel fits very well into the subjects i am drawn to.’
Paul can now be seen in galleries across the UK. He has worked with a number of clients including National Trust, Bloomsbury Publishers, RSPB, Wetherspoon's, Art Angels, David Watson Silk.
Clare Curtis
I studied illustration and printmaking at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee. After spending some time in London developing a career in illustration I returned to my home town of Felixstowe in Suffolk to pursue my love of printmaking.
Chiefly a lino cutter but also producing lithographs and screen prints, my work reflects my love of British 20th century art and design and although subject matter can vary inevitably love of plants and gardens forms find their way into most of my work. Whilst exhibiting prints around the UK I continue to use my illustrative skills working with individuals who share my enthusiasm for printing, illustration and design.
Penny Collier
Penny is a Lecturer in Illustration with Animation at Manchester School of Art, as well as a practicing freelance illustrator, printmaker, and animator.
She specialises in traditional printmaking techniques, exploring how these practices can inform and enhance digital mediums.
Her practice is influenced by themes of human resilience and collective endeavour, often realised through collaborative projects with professionals across diverse fields, including aerospace engineers, leading Psychologists, local bands and design agencies. Penny’s work has been recognised through shortlisting for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and showcased at the Fenn Ditton Gallery.
Susan Halls
TBorn 1966 in Kent, England, Susan studied studio ceramics at her local art school, the Medway College of Art and Design from 1984-1988. During this time she was awarded a scholarship by the Royal College of Art in London. She graduated MA with distinction in 1990.
After a residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, she established her studio in London, exhibiting widely through the United Kingdom and Europe. Susan also became a visiting lecturer to many colleges and universities including Royal College of Art, Central St. Martin’s, Manchester Art School, The Cardiff Institute and Bath School of Art. Her work is represented in several public collections, including The Sackler Foundation, Victoria and Albert Museum (London) and Stoke-on-Trent Museum and York City Art Gallery.
In 1998 she married American illustrator Chris Murphy and moved to the USA, setting up her home studios first in Connecticut then Massachusetts.
In 2018, Susan returned to her native UK and is currently resident artist at the University of York. She lives in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
“My obsession with animals and animal imagery has been more or less constant since my childhood so it is beyond doubt that they should be the dominant subject in my work. It seems right and the most honest creative front available. I do believe that part of my drive to make animals is tied up in the primitive need to possess them – like effigies and totems. In my sculpture I’m trying to create an image which traps a kind of animal truth. Direct representation does not interest me. I strive to create work which reinvents animal form, enhancing the facts without being slavish to mere appearance. Dog, Horse, Bird, Pig, Sheep and Goat are recurring themes.”
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Ali Kippax
My work is an emotional response to the coastal landscape and not a literal interpretation of what I see. The compositions that I develop are not particularly concerned with the specifics of place, but more the elemental relationship between land, sky and sea. The freedom and spontaneity of mark making and gestural paint application allow me to express a more personal image of the environment.
Having grown up on The Wirral I was surrounded by coastal references from the Dee and Mersey rivers, at the same time enjoying easy access to the mountainous areas of North Wales. Regular trips to the north Cornwall coast have punctuated my life as a painter over the years. These locations still remain a vital source of inspiration for my work. Graduating from Bristol with a BA(Hons) degree in Fine Art under the guidance and mentorship of the highly acclaimed artist Paul Feiler fuelled my desire to continue to follow a creative journey and test my own potential as an artist and educator. I exhibited in Cheshire at Castle Park Arts in 2019 and 2021, in Chester at the Fronteer Art Fair in 2022, and have sold to private collectors across the UK.
Sophie Elizabeth Moore
I live on the North Coast of Cornwall and have a background in Fashion.
I have always loved drawing and painting, particularly people.
I am fascinated with people and clothes; I love to people watch; I love hearing about other people's lives and experiences. I think we can learn and grow so much from talking to others. And I love how clothes express who we are or how we feel.
I like to imagine the figures I paint are in a certain time or place, they have a story to be told.
My most notable subjects are my swimmers, but I am partial to evoking a bit of cosy here and there, through wrapped up women and still life paintings.
Kate Munro
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Jim Williamson
My work draws on my own photographs, found objects such as old postcards and views and memories of places that evoke happy times spent with friends and family.
My work has a strong sense of place, celebrating the connections of my family and friends to their home towns, cities and communities in London, Cheshire, Yorkshire, the far North of Scotland and my birthplace of West Cumberland. More recently my work has been inspired by the coast of New South Wales, Australia, where both of my daughters now live.