The work of printmaker Catherine Sutcliffe-Fuller explores her personal journey from a rural to an urban environment. Nature is a constant in her work and life: as a child she enjoyed a rural upbringing and connected with nature and its seasons on her parents’ smallholding. Today, sketching nature provides her with a sense of identity, […]
A passion for everything relating to tea and tea drinking is the original inspiration for Helaina’s work. Researching the ceremonies and rituals of drinking tea in bygone eras Helaina soon realised it was the elegance of the Edwardian era that captured her imagination… the images and graphics of the day all helped her define the […]
I describe my work as ‘Painting Nature’, as a direct response to my immediate surroundings; exploring colour, composition and expression yet maintaining the very traditions of British painting. Making sketches as well as my own visual notes I paint intuitively and expressively with bold sweeping brushstrokes that sum up whole passages of my subject. Painting […]
Jolene has been designing and making contemporary jewellery since 1984 and has developed a reputation for quality and a unique style. Creating various ranges in melted and polished silver, fused with copper or brass and sometimes incorporating semi-precious stones. Influenced by the ancient world and natural forms. [foogallery id=”18338″]
Elke Sada worked as a research scientist for over a decade before training as a ceramicist in England, culminating in an MA from the Royal College of Art. Sada skilfully combines her love of gestural expressive painting with everyday objects in her striking ceramic objects. Unusually, as a 3D maker her starting point and inspiration […]
Gill Tyson was born in Heysham, Lancashire and studied at Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh University, receiving an MA (Hons) in Fine Art in 1979. She is a former Chairman of Edinburgh Printmakers and has served on the City of Edinburgh Visual Arts Awards Panel. Gill has recently completed printmaking residencies in Ireland and […]
I feel deeply tidal as a person. Things flow up and ebb away in our lives. Things come round again or are chance findings, opportunities to be seized; else in the blink of an eye they are gone, back into the depths. I have been lucky enough to learn my craft from an eclectic range […]
