Artist Profiles
King Street Arts
Below are short statements and a few examples of each artist's work:
Founders of King Street Arts:
Studio Artists:
Diane Hinson
King Street Associate Artists:
Alice Evans - Andreya Platia - Andrew Holland - Andy Tetlow - Ann Kretzschmar - Anthony Heward - Barbara Holt
Beverley French - Bob Armitage - Catriona Stamp - Ceris Jones - Claire Crawford - Denise Keen-Junk - Diane Armstrong - Ehud Nir - Fritha Mount - Gerald Fitzgerald - Gill Aitken - Grace Owen - Hannah Leach - Hester Gilkes - Jane D Souza - Jane Shimmin - Janet Paske - Jean Harrison - Julie Martin - Magata - Matta - Michael Hipkins - Milan Ivanic - Paul Gedge - Pauline Ashton-Hipkins - Philippa Godden - Robert Wolf - Roger Chapman - Rosa Mackinder - Rozz Cutler - Sally Corless - Sharon Grimes - Steve Lahan - Sue Marsden - Teresa Toms - Trisha Spence - Val Gedge - Will Huxham
Kath McDonald: King Street Arts
Co-direct King Street Arts.
I began working in clay 30 years ago and now it is a central part of my life.
I enjoy the elemental and malleable feel of the clay, the way it is possible to work with it intuitively, and how that can link to my inner state of being.
My practice explores the nature of the human condition through focus on the human form. I find working with clay is like a journey of discovery for me each time I do it, based on a shared relationship with clay as a material.
I have run clay workshops and participatory projects with people of all ages which focus on the ability of clay to explore the human condition including Venus Revisited, an Arts Council project I ran on menopausal experience with two groups of women in Lancaster and Morecambe and Presence in Absence, an exploration in clay of the role of servants at the Judges’ Lodgings museum, Lancaster, part of the Heritage Lottery celebration project of their 400 year anniversary, currently on show.
Clay is a very accessible creative medium and I enjoy working with people from scratch.
Alice Evans:
Associate Artist
Alice Evans is a versatile artist who works across a range of media, driven by an unwavering fascination with the captivating interplay between different aspects of the environment. Her artistic practice revolves around unveiling the hidden connections, rhythms, and narratives that exist within these realms. It moves from politics, portraiture to mythology and the human form.
By embracing various media, Alice explores the possibilities they offer. Each medium becomes a unique portal through which she channels her distinctive perspectives and sensory experiences, whether it be the vibrant strokes of a paintbrush on canvas, the delicate lines and textures of a drawing, or the captivating movement captured in music or in a film. Through these varied artistic forms, Alice transcends traditional representations and communicates in a manner that reflects her unconventional ways of perceiving the world.
Alice's mind thrives on different patterns of thought, which contribute to her keen ability to perceive and appreciate the subtleties of her surroundings. Her heightened sensitivity adds a distinct energy to her work, enabling her to communicate in ways that go beyond the expected and offer a fresh perspective on landscapes and their inhabitants. She enjoys distilling complex subjects into their essential forms, while maintaining a sense of energy and emotion.
Through her multidimensional artistic practice, Alice seeks to foster dialogue, inspire action, and contribute to the urgent and necessary reimagining of our relationship with landscapes, flora, fauna, and the interconnected ecosystems that sustain us all.
Andrew Holland:
Associate Artist
BA (Hons) fine art
I have recently moved to Heysham from the Rossendale Valley.
I am looking forward to drawing and painting everything around me, especially the spectacular views of Morecambe Bay.
I have had a varied and rewarding artistic career: pub sign painter, art teacher, workshop leader and self employed artist.
Andy Tetlow:
Associate Artist
Andy Tetlow is a contemporary watercolour artist whose work is rooted in close observation of architecture and place. Focusing on historic landmarks and familiar urban environments, he explores the subtle details that often go unnoticed—stone textures, shifting light, and the quiet character embedded in built forms.
Working primarily in watercolour, Tetlow combines expressive mark-making with layered washes to balance precision and atmosphere. His approach is both interpretive and intuitive, allowing structure and spontaneity to coexist within each piece. While recognisable locations frequently form the subject, the intention is not strict documentation, but a re-seeing—an invitation to pause and engage more deeply with the spaces we pass through every day.
Originally from Manchester, and now based in his adopted home of Lancaster, Tetlow draws ongoing inspiration from the architectural heritage and landscape around him. His work reflects a personal connection to place, capturing not only how locations look, but how they feel—familiar yet continually revealing something new.
Andreya Platia:
Associate Artist
Andreya is a mixed media Artist influenced by psychology, storytelling and the work of Bruno Schulz and Robert MacFarlane. Weaving together painting, drawing, collage and print she assembles fragments of memories and daydreams in the context of the natural world.
A keen hiker, deeply spiritual and passionate about horticulture, Andreya’s work is delicate and sensitive, often containing motifs of flowers and hints of sacred space. Her recent work is based on recollections of gardens from childhood and imagined places.
Since gaining her BA Honours Fine Art in 2002, Andreya trained and worked as an Art Psychotherapist and Art for Wellbeing tutor for several years, and her work is in private collections in the UK and US.
Ann Kretzschmar:
Associate Artist
After 60 years of believing I could not draw or paint, I was inspired by artist Emma Hunt from Egremont during lockdown who was offering free online classes in soft pastel. I started with my grandfather’s pastels which had been sitting unused in my loft for almost 50 years then discovered the wonderful Unison Pastels that are handmade in Northumberland and use almost pure pigment. My work is mainly landscapes often inspired by photographs of places that mean a lot to me and I take commissions for animal portraits. Last year I stepped outside my comfort zone and took part in the ‘Paint Garstang’ plein-air competition.
Most of my work to date has been in soft pastel but I have recently started experimenting with acrylic, ink and water colour and am working on developing a looser style. I admire the work of John Constable, JMW Turner and Wolf Khan as well as impressionists such as Monet and Degas, who were users of soft pastel.
Ann Kretzschmar
'Odin'
55 x 70cm
Anthony Heward:
Associate Artist
I make work based on the human figure — drawing, painting and stone. To support this work I do regular life drawing and painting, sometimes making pieces which show just parts of the figure. This approach lets me make more interesting shapes than doing the whole, and I sometimes intensify the colours in flesh tones or use arbitrary colour. I look for angles, tension and rest. When I retired I wanted to do something new and so I went to Alan Ward’s soap stone carving classes. Here I discovered the magic of giving movement and life to a piece of rock millions of years old made from ancient sea beds, deserts or volcanoes, enjoying the beauty and sensuality of stone. The artists that I admire as role models are Max Beckmann, Egon Schiele, Barbara Hepworth and other modernist sculptors from the 20th century. I have recently started work on a series of mixed media works on paper, exploring notions of masculinity.
Anthony Heward
Barbara Holt:
Associate Artist
Originally from Manchester, I have lived in Lancaster for 30 years. As a city dweller I’m interested in a world that’s been shaped by ordinary human lives. Recently I have been drawn to the coast around Morecambe Bay, where the rhythms of the sea seem to complement the ebb and flow of community life on the Bay.
Since February I have been developing work from small studies made on the Isle of Skye with the overall title “Waiting at Milovaig”. Last year I spent five days in a rented cottage, mostly looking out at the same view (my partner broke his leg on a walk, which curtailed our activities somewhat). In addition to observing the changing faces of nature - the light, the weather etc – I began to consider the history of the area, what traces remained of the old crofting community and my own position as a tourist, benefitting from the historic brutality of the Clearances. The works on view are a selection of this work in progress.
Barbara Holt
Autumn Walk
Beverley French:
Associate Artist
I am a self taught artist working in the Ribble Valley and Trough of Bowland. My inspiration to make images comes mostly from this local area, especially the fells and moorland, and industrial traces like the canals and mills. I like silence, and Longridge Fell is the nearest place I can get to from my home where I can’t hear traffic noise.
I take photographs mainly, but am trying to paint outside more. I am an interpretive painter and like experimenting with paint effects and mixed media. I also use textiles. My working pattern generally progresses from trying to be quite representational, working through increasing stages of abstraction as I explore what it is about a subject that I am drawn to. So I generally work in series around one topic for about 12 weeks, then move on to the next thing that catches my eye.
Beverley French
Dunsop Bridge from Longridge Fell
Charcoal
27 x 27cm
Bob Armitage:
Associate Artist
Since moving to Morecambe from Lancaster 4 years ago I have become fascinated by the man made structures that border the bay. Pools, concrete slipways, jettys, stone groins and breakwaters. All gradually being subjected to the unceasing effects of sun, winds and tides. How to draw and paint these places is the challenge. I use oil pastels, water colour, charcoal anything that comes to hand to try and pin down what's there.
I can scratch about for days getting nowhere, other times it takes a few minutes.
It can be very frustrating.
Catriona Stamp:
Associate Artist
I spent many years making art and exploring different techniques and materials; pastel, print, artistsbooks, coffin painting, lunar calendar illustration, botanical illustration, pottery, paper sculpture. I finally took an MA in Fine Art (Site and Archive) at UCLan in 2010. I am currently working on nature-inspired collages and dioramas. I hope to convey my love of nature to others.
Ceris Jones:
Associate Artist
I make drawings and paintings which explore the figure preparing for, and being actively involved, in human adventure and activity.
In my work, I aim to represent the psychological preparation involved, as well as the highly visual physical transformation that takes place when, for example, a caver is moving underground: a climber, cat-like, scales the rock; a diver takes on an almost animal-like appearance when breathing apparatus is added...
I work from observation, in sketchbooks, using pencil and charcoal, to quickly portray the “moments” I have seen. Sometimes, drawings are developed into monotypes, collages, and occasionally into 3D.
As a figurative artist, I constantly work with the life model, a practice which I have learned to be vital to the understanding of the human figure.
Claire Crawford:
Associate Artist
My work begins with a deep connection to animals, rooted in a desire to capture their presence and spirit. Over time, I’ve begun inviting the natural world into the process itself – using tree rubbings for texture, and letting the weather shape the marks on the page. These techniques transform each piece into a collaboration between my hand and the environment.
Inspired by our interconnectedness with nature, I aim to reflect the harmony and beauty that exists around us. The process becomes a mindful act – a way to slow down, observe closely and reawaken a sense of belonging.
I hope my work invites viewers to pause, reflect, and reconnect with the quite magic of the natural world – seeing it not as a backdrop, but as a living, breathing partner in our lives.
Diane Armstrong:
Associate Artist
Lancaster based I enjoy encouraging others in their creativity as much as making my own art.
Usually working three dimensionally, I make books and small sculptures.
In 2012 I began The Making Place which is a thriving community of makers who meet weekly. Primarily working on individual projects as well as regularly exhibiting our work publicly. I co facilitate a weekly reflective art group at The Cornerstone. Most recently Barton Road commissioned me to found Memory Makers, a creative space for those living with dementia.
Denise Keen-Junk:
Associate Artist
My training started at a young age as an artist via colouring books and a box of crayons, must admit I still use crayons. At this young age we try to keep within the lines when we get older and experiment the lines disappear and the world is literature an open book. It is up to us where we go and what direction we take. My direction took me on a road of discovering printmaking especially etchings I love the idea of drawing onto a metal plate, acid baths and inking up wiping off pressing and the anticipation of peeling back the paper which was lovingly watered, placed over the plate, pressed and hoping it does not stick creating a finished image. I also create drypoint, collagraphs plates as well As I can’t semi control the outcome of my prints I can control my paintings. I like to work with acrylics, oils, inks, wax, and other mixed mediums on paper and canvas. Sometimes using wooden indian blocks to create abstract or semi realist images. My inspirations come from patterns, colour and nature. As you can see from my profile I am a beekeeper and like a busy bee I am always foraging under the undergrowth for inspiration.
Ehud Nir:
Associate Artist
My name is Ehud Nir and I’m from Israel. I moved to England in 1992. I have a BA in Graphic Design from Camberwell College of Art and an MA in Fine Art from the University of Central Lancashire.
Day to day, I work for the NHS in community therapy rehab services.
In the past, I have worked with different forms of art, such as, printmaking, pottery and painting. However, more recently I find my imagination is triggered by collecting manmade or natural objects, such as broken lightbulbs, pieces of metal and driftwood, and making sculptures out of them. This started during the Covid-19 lockdown when I was looking for materials which I could use to create imaginary landscapes. Some of these represent the passage of time and others just feel joyful to make
Fritha Mount:
Associate Artist
I have always been interested in nature, especially insects and enjoy recreating these tiny creatures in different mediums. I like to try my hand at lots of different creative processes but have a real passion for needlework and textiles. I was born and bred in the lune valley which is always a constant source of inspiration for me.
Gerald Fitzgerald:
Associate Artist
Gerald Fitzgerald has recently moved to Lancaster after living and working as a commercial artist in Cambridge for many years. He initially trained as an illustrator for his first degree, then Fine art for his MA, before eventually establishing a successful career in the games industry. Gerald is originally from Salford, and his move back up north instigated a change of direction for him, finally realising his dream to go back to his first love of painting. Gerald is influenced by various artist from Stephen Conroy, Victoria Crowe, Andrew Wyeth and Amy Drury, he draws heavily from his digital background and collage for inspiration, depicting recognisable scenes and characters from life with a sense of playfulness and painterly marks. Decorative whilst enigmatic, his work delves into the layered identities of his figures and portraits, blending nostalgia with a touch of abstraction. In his paintings, colours dance across the canvas, echoing the spirit of a bygone era yet resonating with contemporary themes. Each piece invites viewers to step into a world brimming with imagination.
Gill Aitken:
Associate Artist
I divide my time between two art practices: painting and mosaics. I've been a professional mosaic artist for over 10 years, working to create fine art pieces as well as decorative mosaic art commissions for both indoors and outdoors. I recently created a Victorian style shop front step for Lancaster City Council with heritage funding. I'm attracted to the colour and vibrancy of mosaic tiles, and by the fact that mosaic-making is a labour intensive and enduring art-form with ancient roots. I enjoy the sheer physicality of the process, and the magic that happens every time the grout is removed, revealing the final work for the first time. Whenever the work calls for it, I love to make use of recycled materials. My painting style is constantly developing, but I'm drawn to a loose, layered approach with visible brush strokes. I move between figurative and semi-abstract, always motivated first and foremost by colour. I spend most of my time with acrylics but every now and then, I venture into other mediums.
Grace Owen:
Associate Artist
Through creating mixed-media drawings I explore the subconscious, emotions, and fantasy. Never one to commit to a single medium; each artwork that I create involves a variety of techniques combining abstract mark-making and figurative, traditional drawing.
Within each drawing there is a narrative. By using an illustrative aesthetic, I encourage the viewer to read into the image and continue the story - it's interesting how another perspective can change the narrative entirely.
From drawing on conventional paper, to rolls of wallpaper, wood, and even musical instruments, I never want to feel constrained in my practice. The act of drawing to me is explorative, personal and an incredible form of communication.
Hannah Leach:
Associate Artist
Landscape and portrait artist Hannah moved to Lancaster five years ago, her landscapes have been inspired by the nearby Cumbria and Yorkshire dales.
‘I love to explore different media, and my work ranges from brightly coloured oil painting to intricate, black and white drawings in charcoal or pen.’
Hester Gilkes :
Associate Artist
My paintings begin life as images in the mind’s eye - ideas that emerge from something seen; a memory, a dream, a place, that then work their way from thought onto canvas or paper via a process of multiple drawn sketches.
I trained as a theatre designer, which gave me the opportunity to experience myriad art materials and ways of working. That background has influenced my own art practice and practical approach to it.
Jane Shimmin:
Associate Artist
I live in the village of Wray in the Lune Valley with my husband and two dogs. We have three grown up children.
I retired from district nursing several years ago which has given me more time to focus on my painting which I have always pursued in my spare time.
I love to walk. I spend hours and cover many miles in the local landscape, especially the Yorkshire Dales nearby.
I take my sketchbook along but my work outside is becoming increasingly quick, only taking down some rough shapes and colours for information. . I prefer to spend time looking and absorbing as much as possible what I see. The paintings I then work on at home may contain elements from many different places. They are about my experience and feelings about being outside and the beauty of the colours and shapes both close by and in the distance.
I normally work on paper but am recently enjoying painting on wood in a more abstract way which allows me to create more textures and layers. Even then I find that the landscape elements manage to creep in amongst the shapes.
Janet Paske:
Associate Artist
'I am new to painting, being bored by art at school and never really taught, despite having lessons. I have visited many art galleries on my travels and love colour and pattern. Having semi-retired, I decided to 'have a go' and found an intensive online course which really worked for me.'
Jean Harrison:
Associate Artist
I’ve spent a lifetime in education, one facet of which was art education, and now I enjoy making art for myself.
I’ve been a sketcher and doodler for as long as I can remember. Pencil, charcoal, pen and ink were my materials and black and white were my colours. Since retiring I’ve forced myself to look at, and use, colour I started by applying colour to my pen and ink drawings uploaded to the computer. From there I went onto acrylics, until, finally, I’ve taken up watercolours. The interaction of layers of colour and the ways of applying colour hold an endless fascination for me.
I am also ‘a regular’ at Iron Press, the print workshop in the Storey Institute, Lancaster, where I attend courses and particularly enjoy lino printing.
Also at the Storey I attend the weekly life drawing classes.
Julie Martin:
Associate Artist
I work in mixed media, acrylics, drawings and words.
Through abstraction I aim to give form to the things I cannot speak, allowing
each layer to reveal a deeper knowing. Much like life itself, the layers are filled with textures, scripts and marks. By glazing and sanding back, I can reveal what was lost. I am trying to make sense of it all and journaling inwards as a way to honour my own grief and discover my self within the act of creating.
I paint to remember and to heal.
I do not have a website but my instagram is
Magata :
Associate Artist
Magata is a contemporary abstract acrylics painter based in Lancaster. My work is built on bold colours, clean shapes and a strong sense of play. I’m interested in the "emotional friction" of a composition, such as how a curve presses against an edge or how two colours compete for space.
I strip away the fluff until only the essential structure remains. My style is a mix of graphic simplicity and emotional punch: fresh, bright and slightly mischievous. I make structured paintings for unstable times, In a world that often feels chaotic and insecure. I find balance by pushing colours and shapes against one another. creating a sense of balance that feels intentional but never too serious.
I’d like to think of it as "emotional geometry". I’m particularly drawn to round shapes and how they inhabit space - sometimes they’re leaning on each other for support and other times they’re standing in quiet opposition. These paintings do not illustrate conflict, but they are shaped by it. They exist within a global atmosphere of uncertainty, where control is fragile and systems shift quickly. In response, I build controlled compositions that acknowledge instability rather than deny it.
As a woman working within domestic space as well as the studio, I think deeply about containment- how walls and horizons both protect and restrict us. A circle presses into a field. A horizon divides. Stability feels temporary. The work asks what stability looks like and whether it can ever be permanent
I don’t use depth tricks or illusions. What you see is what you get: bold, saturated colour and honest, handmade forms. Because many of my pieces can be rotated and hung in any direction, I’m inviting you to be my collaborator. You get to choose the final orientation, helping me define what stability looks like on your own terms
Milan Ivanič :
Associate Artist
I was born and brought up in Czechoslovakia. I studied at the Hollar School of Art and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where the emphasis was on drawing in the Central European tradition. I came to the UK to get married at the age of 22 in 1970. Here I worked in isolation for 30 years, bringing up our two children while my wife Roz went to work, drawing and painting when I could.
In 1986 we moved to Lancaster permanently, and since then I have immersed myself in the landscape of Lancashire, Yorkshire and Cumbria. I’ve travelled a lot, but the places and people that I see again and again are my main subjects.
My aim is to make pictures rather than to paint views. While I am working I focus on tensions and harmonies: between wildness, cultivation and habitation; between perspective and flatness; between different kinds of marks; between representation and abstraction; between form and content.
I want to make pictures that people will look at again and again,
and see something different every time
Paul Gedge:
Associate Artist
I am a digital artist and painter-printmaker studying a MA at the University of Lancashire, set to finish my studies this year. For me art has been a part of my life since quite early on in my childhood. It's always been around me and I've for the most part been producing pieces for most of my life. Though the quality of them, I'd like to think, has steadily improved! With a deep interest in nature and a love for stories and story telling, my art comprises of a exploration of our natural world and humanities mark on it and explorations of narratives from various pieces of subject matter and creative writing. I love to depict what I see, what I read and what I write. I also feel drawn to depicting our human mark. Together, this makes up my practice.
Phillipa Godden:
Associate Artist
Phillipa is a lampshade designer and artist. Using watercolour and pen on paper she creates lampshades which are inspired by her journey with therapy and healing, movement, and an interest in abstract art and pattern. Each hand-painted lampshade is unique and documents a feeling at the time of creation.
‘A keen artist back in my school days, I didn’t continue into further education. I am now rediscovering my craft and enjoying experimenting with colour and shape. I endeavour to continue this exploration with the idea to design for textiles in the future.’
Robert Wolf:
Associate Artist
My paintings are meant to be snapshots, single frames from movies, possibly even advertising. Most people who have seen them like how different they are, some see them as contentious, but that's more about what's going on with them I believe.
I can sit around being apologetic, or get on with what I do. As much as I can admire traditional and modern art, it doesn't inspire me to follow it in my own work.
Parts of each painting is from real life, parts of them is straight out of my imagination, I mix them around to recall an event or something that is on my mind that I feel needs to be recorded. Some people write diaries, it would certainly be quicker.
I'd originally trained as an illustrator and worked briefly in advertising before the world went to computers. I ended up turning to engineering for a living.
I've always been fascinated with machinery, architecture, films and music.
I think that has influenced my drawing and painting style, along with some of the experiences I've had and the artists that have inspired me.
I paint using acrylics, it's simple and you have to work quickly, a sketch is easier to put down than miles of notes.
I paint on framed thin plywood, it can be made as smooth as stretched paper, but doesn't have the bounce you get with canvas, something that I can't get on with as I have a dodgy hand.
Rosa Mackinder:
Associate Artist
An idea, a place, a feeling, a word, an experience, an object or simply “stuff” can fire me up.
The only thing in common to every piece of work I embark on is that I look at it as a series of problems to solve, aesthetically and practically. This is my methodology.
I adopt whatever medium suits the job, often combining different materials and media.
It could be painting, a drawing, a textile, a three-dimensional object, an installation or a site-specific piece.
You could call me an” Eclectic Butterfly”!
Rozz Cutler:
Associate Artist
I moved back to Lancaster 8 years ago and discovered the Iron Press where I became addicted to print making. I have been involved in some sort of art form most of my life and attended Colchester Art College back in the 1960’s.
I love yoga, anything to do with the arts, travel and the great outdoors.
Sally Corless:
Associate Artist
I studied Fine Art at the University of John Moore - Liverpool. Following this
I had a studio in a shared workshop, where I had a painting accepted into the Royal Academy summer exibition.
I paint mostly in watercolour and fell walking and exploring our natural
environment is my inspiration.
Sharon Grimes:
Associate Artist
I have recently taken early retirement to concentrate on my own art practise. Previously I was Head of Art at a local high school for over 20 years, gaining my students consistently outstanding results at GCSE and A Level. I also have an award for ‘Inspirational Teaching’ and have spent time advising other Art departments throughout Lancashire.
I now spend my time experimenting with texture, layering and tonal contrasts. I work in batik where my work is usually very painterly and textured. I also enjoy printing, using relief, intaglio and collagraph. Both these disciplines involve layering up of imagery and have a real element of surprise as you are never sure how each piece is going to turn out. I have found that I have also adopted the use of many layers when I paint.
Steve Lahan:
Associate Artist
Work:
Trained cabinet maker in the 1970s followed by three years working in psychiatric nursing.
Degree in multi-disciplinary arts and design 1987.
Freelance storyboard artist.
Course leader / tutor: Film & TV production animation and video game design.
Me now:)
All my working life has necessarily involved me in art & design, however I rarely made time to actually produce art just for myself.
Two years ago I signed up on Roy's art course exploring colour. I found it incredibly liberating and a much needed means of therapeutic expression.
Now I find painting has become an essential activity in my daily life and I try to paint every free day I can.
I realize my technical skills are limited, however I hope with time and practice these skills and my confidence will improve.
Influences:
During my degree I produced my thesis on the Weimar Republic period of 1920s post WW1
Germany, its political, social chaos and its decadence and escapism that all enabled the rise of dictatorial facism.
I also became aware of the astonishingly influential explosion of creative expression in all aspects of Arts and design during that period which produced the Bauhaus School of Art & Design, experimental theatre, satirical cabaret, expressionist art, and in particular the extraordinary silent film productions of the UFA that began to explore psychological, political and futuristic themes in a depth Western cinema (Hollywood) hadn't considered attempting, but eventually became heavily influenced by.
My artwork:
Consequently my own artwork draws greatly on that fascinating turbulent period as source material, ideas and themes, that it seems are still as relevant now as they were over a hundred years ago.
Sue Marsden:
Associate Artist
I regularly take my camera for a walk. We explore, discover, capture and record, then go home and create. Influenced by a fine art background (I studied Fine Art at UCLAN) I’m searching for colour, composition, texture or just simply subjects that make me smile. My hunting ground is mainly the North West between the Ribble Valley and the South Lakes
I feel like a treasure hunter and the rewards are often unexpected and surprising. Wildlife encounters , changing light or patterns in nature all bring me joy
Developing, drawing, painting, printing and sharing the story with others is all part of the process.
Teresa Toms:
Associate Artist
My diverse and eclectic art practice covers a wide range of media, ideas and investigations.
The series shown below is about FLIGHT. I love birds and they continually appear in drawings. I would like to fly myself…...
Trish Spence:
Associate Artist
I am an abstract artist using acrylic and mixed media. My art is a connected process that allows the art to lead the way as images form through the layers of paint and a variety of other media. It’s a process of creating using my intuition that is heart centred and not head based.
I love exploring new materials, tools and techniques. I love colour and texture and bringing bits of the hidden colour, texture and objects in the base beginning of the painting, to the fore. I paint what’s in my world, my interests, my feelings and spirituality. I began my painting journey at the age of 50 as I didn’t want one of my ‘rocking chair moments’ to be regret that I had allowed the limiting belief that I’m rubbish at art, to rule my life.
My art is about how it makes you feel? Does it stir a memory or your curiosity or something else?
Val Gedge:
Associate Artist
Having retired from District nursing I have since completed a BA and MA in Fine Art. My work seems to be split into two areas painting mainly animals and landscapes and installations which include print. My print and installations are about the Anthropocene era which is a suggested term for the era we are now in where man is the main cause of change in the world. I try to communicate this in my work with the notion of starting the conversation.
William Huxham:
Associate Artist
William Creates “Varied artwork that serves as a manifesto for several art movements such as reactionary, fauve, realism and naturalism.”
