Artists
Adam Websper
Adam Websper is a young British artist who enjoys painting and sculpting. He has exhibited his bronze sculptures in a number of different locations and he has both paintings and sculptures in many private collections and institutions including a sketchbook bought by the Royal Academy. He creates his sculptures in bronze or wood, then finishes and hand patinates them. He is directly involved in the creation of his work from pouring bronze to sculpting and finishing. He likes to simplify his sculptures until sometimes they even begin to look quite abstract. His favourite materials include bronze, silver, ...
Alan and Lyn Newton
Alan and Lyn Newton both trained at Wallasey School of Art – Alan in Ceramics and Lyn in Fine Art. They moved to Sheffield to work in art education, eventually returning to Merseyside to become professional potters. This husband and wife team makes studio pottery in stoneware and porcelain clays. Each piece of pottery is hand thrown on the potter’s wheel or hand built. They are then individually decorated in glazes and oxides and fired in an electric kiln to 1,280 degrees centigrade. Each piece is totally unique. They have been making a living producing their pots for ...
Alison Read
Although Alison chose printmaking as her medium when first studying fine art at Newcastle University, her final show was sculpture and photography. When she was subsequently chosen to exhibit in the RCA and was commissioned by Lord Rothschild to make a life-size sculpture of five gnashing, running dogs, it looked as if her career might have gone down a different route. But despite this success, she abandoned sculpture and returned to printmaking, running the Printmaking Workshop at Lincoln University for the next 9 years. At Lincoln, Alison completed her MA degree, learnt a lot about practical printmaking, and began exhibiting ...
Anne Harris
Born in Blackpool, Anne acheived Art 'O' level at the age of twelve. She currently lives in Louth, Lincolnshire, with her husband and two children, who are in their twenties. Her father's family originated from Malton. She loves landscapes and buildings, and tries to capture the essence of a scene in her work. She particularly enjoys painting miniatures, because it is like looking through a keyhole into a magical world. She has won many local awards, and in January 2011 was privileged to be chosen as the feature artist on the front cover of the SSA (The Society for All Artists) magazine. She is ...
Anne Thornhill
Anne Thornhill has been painting from as far back as she can remember and says that “it was therefore a natural progression to study art and then become a professional artist.” She trained in Fine Art at Lincoln College of Art and Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, graduating in 1974. Since then she has worked professionally, selling her work from the two galleries she ran with husband, Paul. Moving in 1996 to a quieter lifestyle in the country has enabled her to paint full-time. She works from drawings, which are usually in acrylics. Her work is about crystallizing a ...
Anthea Stephenson
Anthea Stephenson, who is based in Sheffield, studied History and History of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Leeds. She has painted all her adult life and has taken courses in life drawing and print-making as well as producing work in pastels and oils. Original sketches are generally made in pastel or charcoal and the finished work is usually carried out with painting knives on canvas. She currently works as Heritage Officer at the University of Sheffield, curating, researching and displaying the University’s collections of paintings, silver and memorabilia and liaising with the curators of its museums. Anthea ...
Anthony Cox
Anthony Cox was born in Hanworth, Middlesex, in 1943 and has been passionate about art all his life. At the age of sixteen, he left school and began an apprenticeship with an engineering firm in the South of England qualifying as a gear tool engineer and finally settling for a career in the drawing office. Between 1966 and 1969 he attended the studio of Llewellyn Petley-Jones, the Welsh/Canadian painter where he learnt the technique of painting with watercolour. He then moved to Northumberland and trained to be a teacher at Alnwick College of Education, taking the main course in ...
Barry Peckham A.R.O.I., S.E.A,, P.S.
Barry Peckham was born in the New Forest in 1945. He has had no formal training but started showing his work in London in 1974 and has continued to exhibit there. The majority of his work is associated with the New Forest and Solent shores but he seems equally at home, on his painting trips, with the big skies of Norfolk, the quay at St Ives, Cornwall and the Yorkshire Moors and Dales. Peckham is proving to be a worthy successor to a notable line of New Forest painters. He seems to have taken the strengths of these ...
Belinda Rymer
Belinda studied fine art at Hull University. Her work is about light and drama, and the interplay between ever morphing weather conditions which generate atmosphere and mood.
Ben Waddams
Ben Waddams is a young, British wildlife artist working in oils, acrylics and pen & ink. His love and fascination for the natural world has brought him endless joy since before he can remember. Today he works in the media and with charities in an effort to preserve the wildlife he is so fond of. “I have been lucky enough to have lived and travelled through some truly mesmerizing areas of the world and this is where I take my inspiration from. Some people make the point that filming, painting and writing about animals are not active conservation. Correct, ...
Bridget Askew
Bridget Askew trained at Lincoln College of Art and worked in graphic design studios before taking time out to be a ‘mum’ to her two young children. She set up as a freelance artist and, in 1994 she decided to paint her son David’s bedroom. The ceiling and walls became adorned with a jungle of almost life-sized elephants, chimpanzees, zebras, lions and exotic birds! She worked as a mural artist for local health authorities, councils, schools, businesses and on private commissions. This also led her to run workshops and demonstrations in art-based subjects for colleges, schools, art centres and ...
Clare Wake
Clare Wake was born in Stockton-on-Tees and lived in the North East until moving to London to study painting at the Slade School of Fine Art from which she graduated in 1983. She moved to York in 1989 where she has taught day and evening classes for many years. Now that her children are older, she has resumed exhibiting and her work continues to evolve. She works in acrylic, watercolours, pastel and gouache. Her airy geometric forms are incorporated into figurative and abstract images of landscapes, architecture and flowers. She says “My paintings are mainly figuratively based in their ...
Colin Cook
Colin Cook was born in West London in 1958 and lived in the south of England until moving to the northeast in 1989. He studied painting at Maidstone College of Art and graduated in 1979. On leaving Art College, he returned to West London to teach art in two colleges before moving to the northeast to take up another teaching post. He has taught a wide range of age groups and an equally wide range of subjects including photography, digital imaging and of course, painting and drawing. He began exhibiting in 1991 when he took part in the 10th Cleveland ...
Colin Kellam
Colin has more than 40 years of experience in the making of studio pottery. His intention is to produce a range of domestic ware which would fulfill the criteria of practicability, durability and attractiveness at a reasonable price, each piece having its own individuality whilst remaining part of a cohesive whole. The decorative themes are based chiefly on the natural world. The pottery is oven and microwave proof, dishwasher safe and no toxicity is released from either clay body, glazes or colours.
Darren Baker
Darren Baker was born in 1976. He attended Bradford Art College, graduating in the summer of 1998. He strove to perfect his technique and vision inspired by several Old Masters and contemporary realist painters. Soon after leaving, he was fortunate to receive some very prestigious exhibition offers, including in London, and commissions. He has completed portraits of HRH Prince Charles and Tony Blair which hang in St James’ Palace and Downing respectively. More recently he has been asked to produce a portrait of her Majesty the Queen to commemorate her 85th birthday. His career really ...
David C Bell
David C Bell was born in Lincolnshire, not far from the banks of the Humber. After attending Trinity House Navigation School, Hull, he embarked upon a career at sea as a navigating cadet in the Merchant Navy. Despite his initial career choice in the Merchant Navy and having spent time at sea drawing and painting, he felt his true course in life was to paint full time. So, after nine years sailing around the world as a ship’s navigator, he left the sea to become an art student. After gaining a B.A. in Art, he set about fulfilling ...
David C Lyons, FBSP
David Lyons was born in Barrowford and has lived around the Pendle area in Lancashire all his life. Pendle Hill is a well known landmark and its chief claim to fame is being associated with the Lancashire witches; a small group of mainly very poor, local folk who became victims of “witch hunts” at the beginning of the 17th Century. His early education was in the old mill towns of Colne and Nelson but the surrounding countryside was only a bicycle ride away and it was up many of the local hills that he pushed his bike to ...
Diane Leach
Diane Leach studied Craft Design at Plymouth College of Art and Design, specializing in ceramics. For a number of years, she worked in a pottery designing and creating pots for flower arrangers. She then moved back to her home town of Bridlington. She has had a variety of jobs over the years but now works part-time in the adult education sector teaching creative studies leaving her with free time for painting. She works with water-based mediums (mainly acrylic), often starting with a textured base. She uses a wide variety of brushes and also anything else to hand – sticks, fingers, textured paper ...
Elisabeth Bailey
Elisabeth studied ceramics at Scarborough Technical College from 1969 to 1972. Since 1978 she has worked as a potter with workshops in Yorkshire at Grosmont and Whitby. She now has a studio in Kirkbymoorside. Elisabeth works in red earthenware, using overlapping glazes with designs painted in hot wax or scratched into the first layer of glaze. Her work is wheel thrown and she likes to link beauty with function making pieces that can be used. She is a member of the Brigantia Craft Association and a life member of Northern Potters.
Elizabeth Gemmell
Elizabeth's fine original etchings are inspired by the domestic scene and nature.Often also hand-coloured with watercolour, they are produced using a variety of techniques, and convey her love of detail and colour.
Eva Trotter, BA
Eva Trotter studied 3-dimensional art at Loughborough College, specialising in ceramics. After leaving Loughborough, she taught at Epsom College School for four years, running the pottery studio before moving to North Yorkshire in order to help run her husband's interior design copany in Darlington, Co Durham, which also included landscape garden design. Her work has been exhibited at the Osborne Studio Gallery in London and the National Racehorse Museum in Newmarket for the Injured Jockey's Fund and the Spinal Injuries Association. She shows her work in numerous other exhibitions every year. Eva Trotter has received commissions from France, Germany and ...
Frances Brock
Frances Brock started exhibiting her work in Talents Fine Arts in 2006. She says “I come from Middlesex, but escaped to York in 1977, where I met my husband and began life in this most beautiful county. I am a Graduate of the Royal College of Music and teaching has been my profession. I have always enjoyed art-work with young children and started to paint, myself, in 1991. I have been learning to print-make since 2001. I love the actual process of painting – as the glorious colours move and blend and settle in shining water, creating ...
G Ashley Hunter
G Ashley Hunter was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire in 1936 and has been a talented artist since childhood. His love af animals and the countryside influences his self-taught style of painting which in recent years has been mainly in oils. His paintings are created from observations made of animals in their natural environment, his early experiences of working on Cheshire farms and, more recently, his love of country sports. Full time painting was not adopted until recent years. Previously, he tenanted a petrol filling station and kept a small pig and poultry farm on land at the rear of his ...
Glazed and Amazed Ceramics
CHLOE HARFORD Raku Animal Sculptress These beautiful animals are produced in Devon by the Sculptress Chloe Harford and fired using the ancient Japanese Raku method.Chloe Harford attended Plymouth College of Art and Design from 1995 – 1997 completing a National Diploma in Design Crafts as a jeweller. She was then invited to work in a ceramic studio and studied raku with two raku potters. In 1998, she started her own business producing raku animal sculptures in a crackle glaze finish in a workshop in the Tamar Valley on the Devon Cornwall border. Since then, she has added numerous new ...
Hector Fraser
Art has always been Hector Fraser’s other interest after agriculture. He is retired from farming and devotes much more time to painting. Apart from a period in the 1950s when photography dominated, he has always painted. He has sought out good tutors and learned from them. A Foundation Course and an ‘A’ level in Art along with sculpting have broadened his knowledge. He has taught painting in Further Education and still leads a painting group. He has demonstrated to many art societies and felt honoured to be invited to judge and appraise work at exhibitions and meetings. He works ...
Hugh Brown
Hugh Brown was born in Derbyshire in 1953 but spent most of his early years in the South of England. Following school, he gained an honours degree in 3-Dimensial Design after which his career took a somewhat different turn. He entered the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst from where he graduated as an Officer in the Army Logistics Corps. For the next 26 years he served Queen and Country in many far off places and for a number of those later years, had been a successful, self-taught, amateur artist whilst serving in the Forces. The impetus to become a ...
Janet Hayton
Most of Janet's work uses coloured clay slip on earthenware, and her bowls, vases and plaques are inspired by Chinese folk papercuts.
Jennifer A Bell
Jennifer A Bell was born in Yorkshire where she spent her early years before moving to Lincolnshire. From a young age, she showed an obvious flair for drawing and painting. She attended a traditional Grammar school where she was dissuaded from studying Art in favour of more academic subjects. It still remained a passion. After obtaining a degree in Geography with Geology, she taught these subjects up until the birth of her first daughter in 1977. All the while her interest in painting and the natural world persisted and, encouraged by her husband, who was already an ...
Jim Ridout
Jim Ridout lives in the Eden Valley near Penrith in Cumbria close to his main subject, the English Lake District, where he is best known for his unique watercolour treatment of skies. Some of his landscapes have an oriental flavour reflecting his long residence in Japan. In recent years, his frequent visits to Provence have renewed his interest in painting 'en plein air' in watercolours and oils. He exhibits his paintings of the conservation area along the coast from St Tropez at the old customs house at Cape Taillat. For the Gallerie dei Barri in Gassin, he also ...
John Egerton
After studying design at Scarborough College of Art, John Egerton moved to london and the Hornsey College of Art to train as a teacher, but it was not long before he bade farewell to the classroom and returned to his beloved North Yorkshire. In 1965 he persuaded his parents to allow him to set up his first pottery workshop at Sneaton. In the early days,he made thrown earthenware but in 1970 he changed to oxidized stoneware fired in an electric kiln to broaden the range, size and glaze at his disposal. Progress was slow, money short and there ...
John G Smith
John Smith was born in Worcestershire in 1927, moving to Lancashire in 1930. He studied Engineering at London University. After returning from National Service in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in Malaya in 1947, he married Dilys his childhood sweetheart and followed a varied, professional Electrical Engineering career during which he worked for Metropolitan Vickers, Associated Electrical Industries, General Electric Company, Grimwood of Australia and Emerson Electric Company of the USA. In 1977, he and his wife set up their own small Electrical Design and Manufacturing Company which they ran until retirement in 1997. John is a ...
John Sibson
John Sibson was born in 1942 in Stamford, Lincolnshire and was brought up in the North of England in Westmoreland and on Tyneside. Now, he lives and works in Cumbria in the fellside village of Hilton near Appleby. Qualifying as a mining engineer in 1964, he achieved a doctorate in the same discipline in 1967. As a mining engineer he travelled widely living in North Wales, East and West Canada and in the Highlands of Scotland. He and his family then settled in Knaresborough where he continued his career in the minerals and quarring industry. He is primarily a ...
Jonathan Pomroy
Jonathan works as a freelance wildlife and landscape artist. All his paintings are a result of observation in the field.
Ken Fowler
New to our Gallery, Ken's work is an individual and lively mix of the cartooning tradition and fine art. Born in 1955 among the bomb-damaged streets of Hessle Road in Hull, Ken Fowler left school at 15 and went to work on the fish docks as a barrow boy, which many did at that time. Although excelling at art at school and being told he was gifted, it did nothing to persuade him that art was a proper form of employment yet soon after receiving his initial wage packet, he purchased his first box of oil paints. Inspired by ...
Kj Bentley
Kate, known as Kj was born into an artistic family and from early childhood was encouraged to pursue her creativity. Her love of art continued throughout her school life and in further education. She studied on a Foundation Diploma Fine Art course and was subsequently offered a place on a Fine Art degree course. However, Kj decided that what she really needed was a little life experience and left the art world in pursuit of it. She spent five years leading a varied career and gaining an HND in Public Service Management. She then married and, after the birth ...
Leslie W Stones
If you were to stand in the grounds of Castle Howard, North Yorkshire, and walk away from the house to the brow of the hill, far below and just to the left of the lake you mght just catch a glimpse of a row of small old cottages almost hidden from view, buried in the surrounding woodland. Leslie Stones' father, a farm labourer, had worked on many Yorkshire farms but it was there that she was born in the spring of 1957. If the first few years of life can affect one's outlook as an adult, then his early years ...
Louise Summers
Louise Summers was born in Cardiff and educated at Badminton School, Bristol. She worked mainly as a bookshop assistant in Bristol and Brighton followed by a couple of years working for Francis Chichester in his small map and guide publishing business in London. She married in 1973 and lived in Newfoundland for a year. She and her family were then based in Oxford for about 6 years before moving to Yorkshire. She gained an Honours Degree with the Open University reading Art History, developing a keen interest in Art. She admired and learnt much from the sculptor ...
Malcolm Ludvigsen
Malcolm Ludwigsen is an oil-painter with a particular interest in figure and en plein-air painting. Whenever possible, he likes to paint in the open air, directly in front of the subject. ‘This’, he says, ‘gives my work a vibrancy and vitality sadly lacking in much of studio painting. In fact, I disapprove of studios. Someone once said that a brush stroke in the field is worth twenty in the studio, and my own experience makes me heartily agree with this.’ When I started painting, I think the thing that first attracted me was Ruskin's exhortation that all ...
Mark Azopardi
Mark Azopardi is an entirely self-taught artist, following in the tradition of fine art draughtsmen before him. He works, primarily, in pure watercolour or a combined watercolour and pencil technique, but has developed styles of working to suit the mood of each piece. This has lead to experiments in using pure gold and metal leaf, oil and acrylic paint, woodblock printing and pen and ink work in his pieces. His eye for detail is complemented by the ability to understand and convey emotion in his subjects and it is this that has made his ‘Renaissance Heads’ so popular. He undertakes a ...
Mark Huskinson
Born at Langar Hall in Nottinghamshire in 1935, Mark Huskinson comes from a long line of artists and sculptors. He was educated at Ampleforth College where the art room and cricket pitch took preference to academic studies! He went on to study at Edinburgh College of Art where, being one of those who was always willing to learn but reluctant to be taught, his stay was brief! Then followed a career in agriculture and engineering until twenty years later he returned to his easel. Most of Mark Huskinson's work now depicts his piquant sense of humour and a lifetime spent on ...
Michael Fowler
Michael Fowler was born in the old West Riding and his roots have remained in Yorkshire. He cannot recall a time when he has not drawn or painted and, during his school years, his enthusiasm and passion for art was the main driving force of his education. In 2006, he took the opportunity to take early retirement in order to pursue a career as a professional artist. He is predominantly a landscape and seascape artist who paints in a contemporary impressionistic style in oil and acrylics both ‘plein air’ and in his studio. He strives to capture the fleeting ...
Michael Simpson
Although Mick Simpson studied fine art at Staffordshire Polytechnic, it was the traditions of his home town of Stoke-on-Trent which inspired his love for sculpture. The famous towns forming the region have created some of the world’s finest works and respect for the craft of the sculptor and designer are well deserved. There are few modellers who can produce accurate and detailed studies covering such diverse subjects as dogs, cats, African wildlife and female form. He is one of those who can achieve this goal working from reference books, his own drawings, photography and observation. Like so many ...
Miranda Watson
Miranda Watson has painted since childhood. She left Liverpool University with an honours degree in English and Classical Civilizations and spent four years teaching English in Turkey, followed by six in a Midlands comprehensive. She was Education Development Officer in a theatre before spending the next decade as a human rights campaigner in London on behalf of the Nagas, Sikhs and Kurds. She has worked widely in the graphic design of CD covers, posters and brochures, campaign materials, educational publications and stage sets. In 2001 she completed a Diploma in Foundation Studies, Art & Design at the City ...
Neil Pearson
Neil Pearson is now firmly established as an international artist and illustrator. Originally a graphic designer, he has worked in the Architecture and Planning Industry for over 30 years. He continues to work with architects, designers, developers and publishers in the UK and overseas but he is also an accomplished artist and designer. Recently, he has expanded his interests to include book illustration and theatre design, yet still preparing concept drawings for many international projects. His love of illustration and imagery has led him to concentrate his energies into pure colour. His studio overlooks the North Yorkshire ...
Nolon Stacey
Nolon Stacey is a self-taught graphite pencil artist specialising in fine art drawings of rural scenery, farm animals, dogs and landmarks. Having never had any formal art training, he acquired the methods he uses through trial and error. Whilst growing up in Sheffield in South Yorkshire, he began drawing as a child and continued his passion throughout schooling. He then took a different turn gaining a degree in Mathematics from the University of Warwick but soon returned to his drawing and began specialising in portraits. Having been approached by Kadinskly Art with an offer to join them as one of ...
Paul Blackwell
Paul Blackwell has lived and worked in North Yorkshire for over 30 years. He trained in Fine Art at Solihull Art College and Bath Academy of Art at Corsham, Wiltshire, graduating in 1973. He has been working as a professional artist ever since. His paintings have been sold extensively during this time and are featured in private collections worldwide. He is well-known as a visiting lecturer and tutor to art societies and painting groups in the area. His work is predominantly in pastel or acrylic and reflects his passion for the countryside and natural forms. He endeavours ...
Paul Jenkins
Paul Jenkins was born in the West Midlands in 1949. He first started his career in art in the early ‘70’s sculpting in wood and then found himself drawn to sculpting in clay and wax. He went on to study ceramics at Dudley College of Art. After graduating in 1979, he set up his own business designing and manufacturing Sculpture and Ceramics which were then sold all over the world. Within 5 years, he had a growing customer base that included galleries and private collectors. He went on to sell his business to concentrate on more exclusive art works rather than ...
Paul Laugier
Paul Laugier was born and brought up in England but still has strong contacts with his father’s family in Aix-en-Provence. His grandfather attended the same school as the painter Paul Cezanne and at least one of Cezanne’s views of Mont Ste Victoire was painted from the Laugier family farm. Paul studied Architecture at University, but afterwards trained as a set designer with the BBC in London. He then worked as a draftsman on six feature films including ‘Superman 2’, then as a Senior Designer with HTV in Cardiff. He was a freelance Production Designer from 1992 to 2006, ...
Penny Mclean
Penny McLean lives in East Yorkshire. She studied at Edinburgh College of Art for four years in the 60’s, specializing in drawing and painting. She studied under Sir William Gillies and Sir Robin Phillipson and her painting style is strongly influenced by her early exposure to Scottish painting. She also found great inspiration in the paintings of Joan Eardley whose work she greatly admires. The Scottish painters’ love of colour, texture, expressive brushwork and the natural rhythms of the landscape are strongly reflected in her work. She followed Edinburgh with a further year at Manchester College of Art. ...
Robert Brindley, RSMA
Robert Brindley is a member of the prestigious Royal Society of Marine Artists (RSMA). He has shown and sold work in London at the Mall Galleries at their annual exhibition, with the Royal Society of Marine Artists (RSMA), the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI) and also at the Carisbrook Gallery, London with the Guild of Aviation Artists (GAvA). In 1993, he exhibited for the first time with the Royal Society of Marine Artists and in November 1997, he was elected a member and was subsequently featured on Tyne Tees Television’s “A Day in the Life of…” series. ...
Ron Cowels
The image is the Grail! The subject has to be evocative and relevant, so I concentrate on people, places and events. The treatment has to be strong and vibrant, so I go for oil on canvas and push the palate into Fauvist territory. The value is in the quality, so I draw on half a century of experience and use all means at my disposal to achieve this end. Ron Cowels sold his first oil painting at the tender age of eleven when his headmaster took a liking to one of his drawings and commissioned him to paint a copy for the princely sum ...
Stef Ottevanger
Stef has made illustrations and sculptures of animals since early childhood. After a Fine Art course at Harrogate College of Art and a teaching career, she picked up her earlier interest and started making clay sculptures of domestic animals in the early 1980s. She says: " In my work, I have tried to get the essence of the animal subject, in particular its character and typical movement and stance. In some cases, it is just catching that fleeting moment and clay is an ideal medium to do this, in that it helps me to avoid over-refining the image. I don't want ...
Steve Langford
Steve Langford was born in Worcester in 1956 and still resides within the area. He spent much of his childhood inventing and constructing things and developing his fascination with the countryside, wildlife and the world’s oceans. He left school at sixteen after applying for and successfully gaining a position as an artist with the Porcelain Department at the Royal Worcester Company. He worked for Royal Worcester for fifteen years during which time he worked in many of the departments that make up production of fine bone china and within casting. He left Royal Worcester to join Country Artists, the wildlife ...
Steven Lingham AFC
Steven Lingham is a self-taught artist born in Derby, England in 1973 who previously worked as a trained printer. He has spent the majority of his life living in Yorkshire and he and his wife now live in a small, rural village near the beautiful old city of York. He is a member of the RSPB, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, the Wildlife Art Society Internatiol and Marwell Art Society. He is a signature member of the Worldwild Nature Artists Group, all of which promote conservation of wildlife, including his real passion for British birds the subject matter for which Steven is ...
Stuart Brocklehurst
Stuart Brocklehurst was born in Brighouse in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He studied illustration at Dyfed College of Art, Carmarthen, graduating in 1984. He is a painter, printmaker and illustrator. Initially a painter in watercolour and acrylic, he is increasingly working in linocut and sgraffito to develop the final pieces. He uses the reduction method to build up the image colour by colour. Each stage is printed by hand using a traditional baren – or sometimes just a wooden spoon! His work is a response in line and colour to the influences of the natural ...
Sue Ford
New to Talents,Sue Ford came from York originally but is now based in a beautiful village near the North Yorkshire Moors and is ideally situated for exploring the rich landscapes and coasts of the north of England. The local fishing villages of Staithes and Sandsend are her favourite spots where she takes her inspiration for her work on coastal scenes, however, she likes to paint many different subjects including portraits, animals and the landscape. Her love and interest in painting and drawing began in early childhood and developed further when studying at Middlesborough College of Art. She likes to ...
Sue McLaurin
Sue MacLaurin was born in Colchester in Essex. She grew up in Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, returned to England in 1964 and continued her education at Winchester School of Art. Drawing on her vast experience of working with animals and in particular horses, she is an artist with a great wealth of knowledge built upon years of observation. Her sketch books are full of the animals she has witnessed in both England and Africa over a lifetime of farm and zoological work. The bronze sculptures she creates show this deep understanding most succinctly. Sue MacLaurin currently resides in Wiltshire where she ...
Susan Sharrard
Susan Sharrard was born in Birmingham. She studied at Edinburgh University where she gained an MA in Fine Art before completing a PGCE in Birmingham. She taught Art and History of Art at Rugby School before joining the Drawing Schools at Eton College as a part time teacher which has enabled her to devote more time to her own painting. Susan paints primarily in oil paint on illustration board. The majority of her paintings depict wildlife in its natural environment though she also paints landscapes and still life subjects. She divides her time between Berkshire and North ...