Capturing the essence of a landscape, I focus on fragments that thrill me to create a visual journey, using charcoal line to allow the story to weave across the paper. I evolve the narrative to produce exciting semi-abstract paintings in pastel...
Emma Studd is a multidisciplinary printmaker whose practice centres on creating original, one-off geometric screen prints. Using the screen as a drawing tool, she explores the relationships between colour, shape and pattern, creating layered...
Nature has no beginning or end, no boundaries. Reflecting this, I produce my paintings on location in the open air, with representations of the natural world, and in my studio with paintings that are inspired by theories and experiments in the...
Reframing the darkness of time. After a battle with mental health Adrian's experience with CPTSD and lacking self worth information his images. His images have won awards and his use of photography within mental health has appeared on line and...
I studied Fine Art in context at UWE. Since then I've been making artwork that expresses how I feel about about a place and what I notice about the people in it. My paintings combine figurative and abstract elements. Through layers of paint,...
Julie Taylor is a printmaker based in Bristol, much of her work is done in her studio at home and in Spike Print Studio, using both screen print and cyanotype. After seeing Alexander Calder's circus made out of wire wood and string she became...
David Griffiths (b.1948) lives in Bristol. He studied fine art at Leeds College of Art and photography and film making at Plymouth College of Art. He is inspired by chaotic landscapes, plants, trees and abandoned industrial machinery. He works...
Aly’s artistic journey is fuelled by a connection to the natural world. She creates intricate hangings that delve into wildlife, environment, folklore and story. Through layers of stitch, paint and movement, her dreamlike worlds are designed to...
Eliza is a painter (and occasional poet) from California, based in Bristol. Inspired by an environmentalist ethos and love of myth and magic, her current work emphasises the wonder to be found in local green spaces. Largely self-taught in oil...
My coastal work is inspired by a lifelong connection to the sea and the landscapes that shape both memory and emotion. I have always been drawn to the shifting light, changing tide, and quiet strength of the shoreline — places that feel both...
I’m a Bristol-based illustrator specialising in food, travel, and architectural scenes, creating hand-painted gouache and digital watercolour style illustrations full of character and atmosphere. Inspired by the food I eat and places I live and...
Steven John Owen is an abstract painter from Bristol, England. Working with oil paints and oil pastels, he explores colour, texture and composition through simple forms, creating expressive paintings that balance structure with feeling
Frances Cooley has spent a lifetime creating graphic designs, illustrations, drawings, and paintings. Growing up with creative parents, an architect and a fabric print designer who both encouraged her to draw everyday. She gained a degree in Art...
Anna Harley is an Anglo-Swedish artist with a focus on limited-edition landscape prints, inspired by her travels around the world and walking adventures in the South West of England. She uses a combination of drawing, digital photography and...
I am a contemporary artist whose practice explores the layered histories and enduring beauty of coastal life, with a particular focus on boats as symbols of resilience, memory and journeys. Growing up in Cornwall, I have always felt a deep...
I have always ‘done’ art and studied Art and Drama in York wayback in the 1970s. but it was during Lockdown it became a much more central part of my life. Since then I have enjoyed exhibiting with the Friends of RWA, Aga Kubish Gallery, Studio...
I am a photographer, teacher of photography and occasional gallery technician; my art practice is largely landscape based, and I like to exhibit regularly. I have an ongoing interest in the traces of people on the landscape, not so much in the...
Michelle is a Bristol based artist specialising in intaglio printmaking. Her handprinted etchings, created in small editions on handmade paper with oil-based inks, evoke atmosphere and mood. Inspired by the everyday and overlooked, her work...
As I age I'm painting more dreamscapes or maybe imaginary augmented reality. But still some Bristol based scenery, and still in my favourite oils. I'm constantly grasping desperately for freedom and being unfettered by what I see before me....
Welcome to my artistic world, where the beauty of the ocean and abstract expression converge. The ocean, with all its mystery and depth, inspires my work – I paint how the ocean feels rather than only what it looks like. The ocean is so full of...
Chris Shopland is an expressionist neurodivergent (AuDHD) artist whose work explores belonging, identity, authentic self-expression, and what it means to experience and navigate the world differently. Through expressive figures, imagined faces,...
A printmaker, mixed-media artist and photographer based at BV Studios in Bristol, my work includes screenprints, alternative-process photography, collage and acrylic painting. I enjoy the expressive freedom of abstract monoprinting, overlaying...
Exuberant gestural painterly images full of movement, weather, air and space. Sensitive colour is used to explore the emotional landscape through imagined and unseen places. Aiming to offer a sense of perspective, invite reflection and utilise...
I lived in Africa which inspired the bright colours I use in my work. I developed this style of painting when I lived in Cape Town and I term it Line Art or PopArt. I have recently discovered the artist Michael Craig-Martin and his wonderful use...
Now living in South Wales, I have been exploring my new surroundings, in particular the stunning Bannau Brycheiniog national park. I tend to start every morning with a small painting in a local coffee house before heading out. All my work is...