Anita likes wildflowers and loves the tenacity of the flowers that grow through the cracks in the pavement or come up through the debris of life around a station or a bus stop. Little jewels to brighten the day. All flowers are important and there is no such thing as ‘a weed’. Each flower has …
Charlie Taylor is a print designer and artist based in Saltaire UK. Combining her background in textile design with various artistic techniques, Charlie creates unique and eclectic designs for fashion and the home. She takes inspiration from English botanical gardens and visits to sunny tropical islands, producing prints that are vibrant, colourful and full of …
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 …
Qinlin has been moving around across multiple continents as a cultural nomad, producing a consistent struggle of processing cultural conflicts and historical roots. During COVID-19, she started to compile the complex contexts of loneliness, confusion, and chaos that surrounded the human environment. She aims to use her research to resonate with more groups of people …
Bronte is a printmaker based in Sunny Bank Mills, a historic textiles mill in West Yorkshire. Bronte studied Printed Textiles at Leeds Arts University and has gone on to work as an interior printed textile designer. Her career in textiles has informed her printmaking practice; her prints display bold and stylised patterns of flora and …
Bev seeks to convey her emotional responses to nature; distilling the feeling of the moment. Her mark making and monotypes use grasses and foliage from where she lives in Thornton, Bradford. Layers of mono-printing, forms, shapes and the subtle imprints of the foliage capture the voice of this Bronte landscape. Bev also creates abstract landscapes …
Annie Fforde is a practising artist with over 20 years printmaking experience. Annie makes and teaches printmaking in monotype, etching and drypoint, woodcut and linocut, carborundum and collagraph. She exhibits her prints in exhibitions and print fairs in West Yorkshire.
Koot is the brush name for a rock and punk album cover designer. He now combines that rock ‘n’ roll imagery with imaginary creatures that inhabit a human world. These are produced as airbrush and oil paintings and as lino-cut prints on paper and t-shirts.
Annie Fforde has over 20 years of printmaking experience. Living and working in céret in france, from 2001-2018 running a printmaking centre, tutoring and organising national and international exhibitions for around 40 members. Since returning to uk a tutor with artworks, halifax, inkers printmaking group and freelance. Exhibitions of prints with inkers and individual in …
A collection of very fine pen and ink pieces on paper, illustrating Edwina’s own poetry and taking influence from global iconography, myth and legend. Music is also a very strong influence in Edwina’s work. The work itself is sometime described as reminiscent of illustrated manuscripts. She will be showing a range of work that includes …