Mike concentrates on turning one-off pieces working with more difficult or unusual pieces of timber, making use of the natural shape of the tree by exposing the grain or ‘defects’ within it in an interesting and/or sympathetic way. He particularly enjoys working with burred or damaged material, revealing the beauty within the wood and letting its …
Roman Vaughan-Williams makes artworks which map a landscape of relationships: within the outside world, inside his psyche, and between these two spaces. Roman’s works are often made up of juxtapositions of material; rusty iron A-frames come up against graphite-covered MDF and trompe l’oeil representations of woodgrain. What appears like disparate matter is drawn together into …
Based in North Yorkshire, Kimberli works expressively and intuitively in acrylics, watercolours, pastels, oil pastels, collage, embossing foil, encaustic wax, found objects, and ink. Kimberli’s self-taught painting technique focuses on spontaneous creativity and not being tied to any one particular outcome. Her many-layered paintings emerge as bursts of spirited energy and colour. She is inspired …
Duncan began photography in the mid 80s as soon as paperboy finances allowed. Always fascinated by older scenes, he found that practices abandoned in the UK were still part of everyday life abroad. An obsession with the Steam Locomotive enveloped. Inevitably a hiatus, over twelve years bringing up a family whilst Steam died. But for …
When Debi looks at a scene, she immediately speculates about what is going on. She is fascinated by the ways people relate to each other and the world they live in. The wide-ranging mixture of Yorkshire’s industrial and rural landscape provides endless scope for visual storytelling. The artist may direct attention with colour and tone, …
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.
Klara is an illustrator and novelist based in Bingley, West Yorkshire. They work in a semi-realistic style using pencil, markers and digital. Klara specialises in portraits, narrative illustration, and surface design. They are LGBT, and their work explores ideas of gender, feminism, nature, and all things esoteric. Klara is currently working on a complete tarot …
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.
Adele’s process involves scanning 19th century photographs and extracting the characters that she finds waiting for her in the past, then relocating them to new surroundings. She intertwines her subjects with creatures and adds delicate foliage and detail to build new worlds and spaces. Images are brought together using Photoshop, (including her own drawings and …
Amanda Glanville is a Maker of Tiny Glass Stuff. Discovering the meticulous art of flame-worked glass in the mid 1990s she’s been on a mission ever since to reclaim the tradition of making kitsch ‘little glass animals’, reinventing them for the present day as quirky, affordable collectables. She has become well-known for approachable, colourful and …