Baildon-based artist Sophie has been creating mixed media abstract work since 2019. Working mainly on cold pressed paper and canvas, she loves the texture these surfaces give. Her work is exciting and authentic, letting her intuitive process lead the way. Palette knives, catalyst blades and old credit cards are some of her favourite tools. Mossy …
Ally’s work occupies a relaxed middle ground between mixed media and abstract painting: using embroidery and a detailed use of stitch, she is able to express her interests with mother nature and in particular, lichen. Through her work, the artist presents what would otherwise be overlooked into a space where it can be viewed and …
Taaryn Brench is an independent designer and illustrator based in Leeds. Analogue processes and happy accidents are at the core of her process. Taaryn’s work is characterised by a love of colour, pattern and playfulness which is applied to hand-sewn textiles, greetings cards and jesmonite accessories and sculptures.
Cast Editions is a series of cement cast sculptures and bud vases. The cast sculptures interact and connect with each other making adaptable collections. All the pieces in the whole series can be displayed and stacked in a variety of different ways. Making it fun to find your own personalised sculptural display. Bud Vases are …
Spreading a positive mental-health message through beautiful design-led gifts, CAHM is a luxury fragrance and wellbeing brand made in Yorkshire. Vegan-friendly, sustainably sourced, cruelty-free and plastic-free packaging all contribute to an ethical brand made with a lot of love.
Pei-Yao Chang is a media artist, a researcher and a two-year novice freediver currently based in London. Her practice investigates space(s) and the implication of embodied experiences based on gravitation from land and her weightless freediving journey. As such, fascinated by sensation, movement, and perception, she investigates and explores embodied cognition. Pei-Yao Chang’s current work …
Rural Ireland has a lot of abandoned houses. Often they have been left with contents intact but subsequently ransacked and windows broken. The torn curtains left exposed to the elements were sad reminders of previous inhabitants who had to leave for unknown reasons. The scenes invoked sadness and raised questions about what had happened In …
Jo is a BA Fine Art graduate from Bradford University (2002) and works from her art studios in Fossgate York. Her work is initially inspired by horizons, vast land, seas and big skies experienced growing up in Australia, travelling to and from by sea, and by sailing oceans in her 20’s, working on yachts – …
Saira’s work brings together textiles, screen printing, linocut, and hand embroidery to distort and manipulate the natural forms of age rings created by trees, with some becoming almost unrecognisable. She has used these materials to represent humans’ manipulation and damage to nature. It is a commentary on how deforestation is destroying important ecosystems and how …
Teresa is a Leeds-based illustrator and children’s book author who has written and illustrated for publishers in the USA and UK in addition to creating personal artworks for exhibition. Her current work reflects her interest in nature and botanical themes with figurative historical and folkloric elements. She uses mixed media processes including printed ephemera and …