Moya Acton
Moya Acton has a small studio in our contemporary house in the Midlands and enjoy participating in local exhibitions.
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Ruth Allen
Ruth's work captures the essence of an image through the use of a delicate continuous line. She enjoys the feeling of spontaneity this gives her with her work, which shines through her designs. The line is offset against blocks of colour and collage.
Ruth's aim is to give a focus to the work which is reminiscent of the techniques, colours and element of pattern that is with 1950s design.
Gill Bainbridge
Gill graduated with a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design from Central School of Art & Design, London. After her degree she worked in publishing, designing and illustrating children’s books and also designed and illustrated games for Galt Toys.
For over 24 years Gill taught Art & Graphics at Secondary School Level, in Cambridgeshire, which led to an MA in Art & Design in Education, relating to the motivation created by museum and gallery education to stimulate Art. Gill latterly taught in a Specialist School alongside assessing students for Exam Access Arrangements and providing 1:1 Specialist Support in Further/Higher Education Institutions.
Gill has always continued to design, paint and make as part of her everyday life. She has a love of nature, natural forms and the environment. Her acrylic paintings are stylised, colourful and graphic in nature. They aim to celebrate the joy of springtime and bring cheer to those who view them.
Anne Bannell
Anne is a self-taught artist rediscovering her creative talents in recent years.
Born and raised in Norfolk, England, Anne began her career as an air stewardess before moving onto the BBC working on current affairs programmes in the early 80's. In 1985 she started her own knitwear business which led onto having a book of patterns published and then shops in Cambridge.
When Covid forced lockdown, Anne had plenty of time to indulge in painting as never before. Working mainly with acrylic paints, she is developing a distinctive style and is also experimenting with digital formats.
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Karen Birchwood
Born in 1965 in Kent, Karen gained a BA Hons in Printed Textiles at Middlesex Polytechnic in 1989.
She worked for many years in London for one of the leading design studios in the UK, establishing herself as one of their top selling designers and becoming Head designer during her time with the studio.
Karen produced designs for both fashion and furnishing fabrics for worldwide companies such as Laura Ashley, Miss Selfridge, Monsoon, Fenn Wright and Manson, Marks and Spencers amongst many and also worked on design projects for ceramics and tableware with the home store Habitat.
After moving back to Kent in 2004 with her family Karen has been able to follow her long held desire to paint. Her background as a designer plays an important role in how she interprets her subject.
She works mainly in acrylic and mixed media, on canvas, board or paper. The main inspiration comes from the landscape, the coast, her garden and home. Karen creates an impression of what catches her eye, a response and reflection of her surroundings.
Her work is driven by colour, mark making, texture and abstract form. Karen's paintings have a strong sense of movement as well as a sense of abstract patterning.
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Marc Brown
Marc is an English coastal landscape painter, born and raised in Southwold, a small market town located on the Suffolk Heritage Coast. His family has lived in Southwold and the surrounding area for several generations and has historical family connections to local towns and villages including Dunwich and Covehithe. A long association with the sea on both sides of Marc's family continues to influence his work and reinforces his bond with the North Sea and coast.
Working in mixed media, Marc's paintings reflects his lifelong love of the East Anglian coastline and its alluring horizons. He often explores the juxtaposition of large open skies with distant buildings and objects, and has become well-known for his meticulous, sometimes miniature photo-real details.
Since graduating from Manchester Metropolitan University in 1995 Marc has exhibited paintings in the United Kingdom including London, Cambridgeshire and Cornwall, and also at the Serena Hall Gallery in Southwold for over 25 years. In addition to public exhibitions Marc has completed several major commissions for both private and commercial clients.
Sarah Cannell
Sarah’s creative process all starts with drawing, colour and creative freedom, developing paintings and ceramics through play and experimentation. She has a passion for landscape drawing and painting which have more recently found their way on to her thrown earthenware and porcelain ceramic forms.
Sarah believes that a painting, print, ceramic or photograph can only really work if the initial drawing or idea has a strong composition form. She has spent many years walking, drawing, searching for compositions on the marshes, footpaths and in the lanes around the Waveney Valley. There are echoes of the past everywhere in the landscape, holloways, paths that have been created by people or subtle tracks made by hares finding the quickest route through a hedge or across a field. The impact of human activity can be heavy handed like the route of an old train line across a marsh or subtle, like the replanting of field hedgerows with Blackthorn, Hawthorn, Sloe, Spindleberry.
Sarah’s love of colour is evident in all her artworks, it’s always a joy to discover a vibrant Spindleberry with it’s bright orange berry encased in a bright pink pod. There really are the most intense flashes of colour out in what at first glance looks like a green/brown marshland. From the Campion along the side of the road in the spring, Dogwood sprouting in the hedgerows, bright red Holly berries to the intense blueish purple of ripe Sloes, the heavy red/brown of the soil and the bright skies reflected in puddles in the lanes.
Molly Cawthorn
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Nicky Chubb
Nicky originally trained as a designer, graduating from Central St Martin's School of Art in 1993 with a BA (Hons) in Fashion Design with a specialism in printed textiles. After working in various areas of the fashion & textile design industry, a career break to raise her four children led her to rediscover the excitement of drawing & painting.
Nicky's flower paintings are an attempt to capture the burst of happiness that she always feels on finding an unexpected patch of wildflowers, or when a breeze sends a meadow dancing. Nicky is particularly inspired by the vivacious wildflowers, hardy heathland plants and big skies she sees in the countryside around her home, and the powerful feeling of permanence and belonging that watching a familiar landscape through changing seasons can bring. She is also strongly influenced by memories of the flowers that her Grandad grew in his garden when she was a child, and the naïve shapes that she often uses are representative of this.
Lisa House
Lisa House's work is focussed on creating atmospheric, textured landscape & still life paintings.
Inspired by nature and local surroundings, her art practice is consistently imaginative, expressive, and soulful.
Painting with a mixture of instinct, emotion, and skill, she has a subtle understanding of colour
and its deep impact on the viewers conscious and subconscious.
Alongside her landscapes, Lisa combines inanimate objects with birds and animals,
creating still life collections filled with character and charm.
Alison Hullyer
Alison Hullyer graduated in graphic design in 1990 from Northumbria University and now works as a professional illustrator. She lives in a village just outside Cambridge.
Her prints and paintings continue to be inspired by subjects she sees on her daily walks with her scruffy dog Ollie; from skeletal winter trees, to close-up studies of seed heads, birds and the fen landscape.
Alison uses various techniques in her work including pen and ink, oils, watercolours, and also combining hand-drawn images with digital technology.
Alison has recently been working on a new collection of oil paintings inspired by the contrasting landscapes of the Fens and the Highlands.
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Jill Iliffe
Jill Iliffe has lived and worked in South London for most of her life before moving to Surrey in 2018 where she works in her purpose built studio.
Jill studied at Wimbledon School of Art, achieving a BA in Fine Art and an award by the Roostein Hopkins Foundation for excellence in drawing, funded her subsequent MA in Drawing in 2009.
Since moving to a more rural life, Jill’s work now encompasses nature, including birds, butterflies and flora. Although it is sometimes quiet work she still likes to add a flash of London colour as a background. She also makes glass pieces for the home, inspired by mid century design.
Victoria Johns
Victoria is a Visual Artist who studied glass design at Staffordshire University, England in the mid 1990's. Her studio is on the Bedfordshire/ Buckinghamshire border in the U.K. and her art practice focuses on Abstract Mixed Media Painting and Printmaking. She finds these two disciplines complement and inform each other and allow for a wider exploration of subject matter.
You could say Victoria has a slight obsession with looking at the world in an obscure way. She focuses on new ways of seeing the world around her, by flattening out our 3D world.
“Whenever possible I’ll grab the window seat in an aeroplane so I can snap away at the birds-eye views passing me by.”
This privileged view point in the sky gives her intriguing aerial views that flatten out man-made features, in turn highlighting what nature has to offer. By using a sketchbook and a camera she enjoys isolating shape, space, colour, pattern, enticing texture and exploring scale and composition. This process of observation will often translate into a multilayered artwork.
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Mary Kemp
Mary paints in oils from her garden studio. Her subjects are the coast, landscapes and the great outdoors. Sometimes these places feature people and the occasional dog.
Having trained as a nurse and then became full time mother, she went to art college for a year and never looked back as she loved the craft of making art, the drawing, the planning and the ultimate application of paint.
“There’s a beauty in oil paints, a medium that has stood the test of time and produced the most memorable and long lasting masterpieces. Nothing compares to its luscious texture, responsiveness to touch or depth and variety of colour.”
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Chris Lockwood
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Lizzie Madder
Lizzie Madder studied at Loughborough College of Art in the 1970s. She later studied botanical art and was a member of the Leicestershire Society of Botanical Artists.
In 2002, after moving to Cambridgeshire, Lizzie discovered the flat landscapes and big skies of the Fens. This ever-changing, never-changing landscape took her painting in a very new direction. Lizzie works mostly in watercolour.
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Melanie Max
Melanie’s semi-abstract landscapes are inspired by the British coast and wetlands. She works from her studio aboard her narrowboat with views across the washes in Cambridgeshire.
Originally from Cornwall, her life’s path gradually took her to the flat lands of the Fens and closer to her favourite coastline, the Norfolk coast. Melanie has a fine art degree from Chelsea School of Art and after a career in web design she now completely focuses on painting.
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Clare Millen
Clare has exhibited her work nationally and internationally and has been an active member of Cambridge Open Studios for over a decade. She currently divides her time between her own studio practice, teaching and lecturing in Cambridge and training other teachers working overseas.
“To begin a painting is to embark upon a journey into the unknown....the final destination is perceived but rarely in focus before I start. Memory, experience and intuition guide me along a solitary creative path, strewn with twists and turns, to arrive at a place often unexpected, yet always inherently familiar. Inspired by a trilogy of the elements - land, sky and sea - my paintings are abstract visions and amalgamations of memories, moods and feelings. They are nowhere yet everywhere. Places that resonate within us all.”
Clare works in layers, building, scraping and scoring surfaces to expose the history of colour and surface she has laid down. She is led by what is revealed and works intuitively until she feels the piece is complete. This process of laying colour down in a chance way is thrilling but also exasperating at times. Many hours and many layers of paint can either fly or die in front of her eyes. Clare is often defeated and has to walk away. However, when a painting does work, she finds it a deeply satisfying feeling - one that compels her to repeat the process again and again.
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Nikki Monaghan
Nikki is an artist and designer working from her studio in Falkirk, Scotland. She studied at the Scottish College of Textiles and has since worked as an interior stylist, designer and artist, also spending time involved with community arts.
Nikki’s subject matter ranges from narrative landscapes and seascapes to quirky birds and figures. Through her love of colour her paintings evolve by layering up acrylics and oil pastels, creating textures within the paintings. Working from memory allows her work to take on a stylized abstract feel.
'I have always been drawn to landscape and coastal scenes and the shapes and patterns found in our everyday surroundings. My work is inspired by memories, I love colour! I paint using acrylics, oil pastels, and sometimes a bit of collage. I use canvas and board to paint on, and work can vary in size. I like the idea that people can enjoy my work, as much as I do painting it!'
Danielle Neill
Bristol artist Danielle Neill seeks to bring more colour and happiness into your everyday.
Her work is an explosion of energy inspired mainly by the Abstract Expressionism movement.
Danielle works in an acrylic medium applying the paint onto the canvas with a mixture of brushes, sponges and even her own hands. Her work is inspired by photographs and sketches she captures on holiday, taking in the visual delights of a new place and translating it onto the canvas.
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Lynn Norton
Lynn is a Cambridgeshire-based artist and is influenced by the natural world. The more rugged and gnarled the subject, the more it interests her, as texture is a big part of her mixed media technique. She always has a camera with her, even on her daily dog walks locally. However, she also likes to go out and sketch en plein air if possible, as drawing the subject in front of her enables her to focus of the most important aspects of the view.
As an artist who likes working with loosely applied water-based medium in her underpaintings, she always has to be prepared for the unexpected – and relishes it when it happens. Many a painting has taken a different turn due to interesting marks at that stage. Lynn likes to experiment with different medium and how to use them together, as she is always looking to develop her technique further to achieve more interesting effects.
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Laura Pearson-Clark
Laura, aka Art in the Burrow, creates paintings for your home inspired by art forms in nature. She loves decorative patterns and bold colours to bring joy to people’s lives, working with a range of media including graphite, gouache, acrylics and pen. Laura aims to create eco-conscious pieces too, reusing materials and incorporating collaged pieces from previous experimental work.
It wasn’t until the pandemic and the experience of furlough that Laura made the leap to become a full-time artist. The name Art in the Burrow comes from being stuck in our cosy home through the lockdowns and her Art in the Burrow journey has been incredible. She has been providing community workshops funded by Arts Council England Cultural Recovery Fund and she runs her own art classes.
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Martyn Perryman
Martyn Perryman primarily works from the Portland Studios next to the woodland of Bookham Common, Surrey, as well as working from a home, he has in a converted sail loft in St Ives, Cornwall.
Through the mediums of oil on canvas and oil on paper, Martyn creates seascapes and landscapes focusing on the horizon. He takes his inspiration from regular coastal walks in all weathers.
He will revisit a place, returning to the same view point making sketches and colour studies to use back in the studio.
Rachel Plant
Rachel studied Fine Art, Photography and Graphic Communications at A Level and went on to become a professional sand sculptor and travelled all over the world entering into exhibitions and competitions and winning awards. In 2019 she decided to hone her skills in drawings and paintings and is mostly self-taught as she did not study in further education beyond college.
Rachel enjoys capturing the light and atmosphere of a landscape. Particularly dark and rugged areas like that of Dartmoor in Devon, a place in which she is lucky to have right on her doorstep. She tries to simplify a scene to its necessities, invoking atmosphere and emotion; so that the audience can feel the space she depicting rather than just view it. She paints using oils on a textured base on canvas or paper. Often removing oil, scraping and scratching, that she adds throughout the process whilst building up other areas with thicker textures – giving the piece a rugged feel like the wild environment that inspired her.
Her palette is very limited and most of her paintings have a distinct colour cord which captures a particular light, weather or time of day. She steers away from adding too much detail – reducing a scene to its bare essentials so the viewer can see the painting with a quiet mind and experience a direct response, by keeping the lines soft and allowing different aspects of the scene to merge into others. Rachel stays away from realism and exact detail in her landscapes so that her pieces will remain timeless with the ever-changing world around us.
Sue Rapley
Sue works as a painter from her home studio in Cambridge.
She explores her response to the natural landscape drawing inspiration from this ever-changing environment. With an intuitive use of colour, Sue loves to work in a variety of media to express movement, light and reflections.
Through gestural strokes of her palette knife, building layers and texture, she creates vivid images that capture the essence of being within the landscape.
To the viewer, Sue’s paintings convey a fusion of vibrant colour with a feeling of sensitivity.
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Chloe Olivia Sansom
Chloë Olivia is an artist and illustrator based in Cambridgeshire.
Chloë graduated from the University of Northampton in 2012 before embarking on a career within the fashion industry. For years her artistic talent lay dormant until recently when she rekindled her love for painting and drawing.
Her technique switches effortlessly from simplistic, monochromatic lines, to bold, vibrant pools of acrylic ink and watercolour. Her subject matter typically depicts either edgy fashion magazine editorials or still life such as plants and flowers.
Brian Seymour
Brian is a semi-abstract impressionist artist based in East Anglia, and his projects and pieces reflect his love and passion for being in nature and in the busy world.
Brian began painting with oil paints at a young age, from painting his idols to understanding and capturing paintings from some of the Masters’ work. Later in life, he discovered the beauty of watercolour, with which he began his professional career. Brian then returned to his original love of oils and acrylics. He enjoys experimenting with new techniques for capturing the energy and light in his work.
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Jade Stout
Jade Stout is a visual artist based in Falkirk, Scotland who specialises in contemporary landscapes.
Trained as a painter at Edinburgh College of Art, Jade uses painting and drawing to capture re-imagined abstracted landscapes and seascapes. She focuses on composition, light, layers and atmosphere to recreate memories of the Orkney Isles landscape and weather in which she grew up. She mixes these visions with the landscapes around her now in the Scottish Central Belt.
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Jacqui Watkins
Jacqui trained for a degree in Surface Pattern Design at Loughborough College of Art. She went on to have a long career as a textile designer in the fashion and furnishings textile industry working in the UK and abroad.
She has now gone back to her love of drawing and printmaking and is primarily focused on watercolour and ink drawings and paintings, linocuts, collagraphs, monoprints and plate lithography. There is still a decorative quality to her work in her use of line, texture and colour with her main subject matter based in the landscape.
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Katrina Wilkie
Katrina is a landscape painter and begins by observing something in her environment as the starting point for a painting. However, the demands of the painting take over and she focuses on the composition and colour relationships. Katrina doesn’t include all topographical details, only those she feel are necessary for the painting to work. She sees the final painting as a distillation of her response to the subject.
Katrina is based in the Cambridgeshire Fens, and has exhibited her work in many group exhibitions. She regularly takes part in Cambridge Open Studios and Cambridge Drawing Society exhibitions.
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Amy Wormald
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Nicky Yianni
Nicky Yianni is a self-taught artist specialising in fine line urban architectural drawings and has garnered much praise for his incredibly detailed sketches and distinct artistic style.
Nicky had a flair for art from a young age and has since exhibited in a range of settings, including Stantons Coffee House (Bush Hill Park); Forty Hall (Enfield); Epping Forest Museum with a birds eye perspective of Waltham Abbey (Essex). In February 2018 Norwich Castle awarded Nicky after judging his ‘superb’ drawing depicting a birds eye view of Norwich.
Nicky has recently moved from Enfield to St Ives, Cambridgeshire to enjoy a quieter life with his young family in December 2022. When he is not drawing, Nicky enjoys travelling, long walks ‘off the beaten track’ with Bella the Rottweiler, hiking up the UK’s mountains, visiting museums and galleries, and going to the theatre.