Tulin finds working with glass mesmerising: it’s both beautiful and complex. She creates small vessels, initially kiln-formed and then cold-worked. During the latter process she often creates more gestural forms, whose colours and shapes allude to memories of places encountered during her travels – the landscapes, and the flora and fauna she has seen, home …
Kayleigh Davis’ work seeks to explore the impermanence and fragility of the natural world throughout the seasons by embedding foraged and grown pigments and prints into habotai silk. Her process is intrinsically meditative as she forages for seasonal botany around the landscape in Marsden and grows her own dye plants. Each textile piece is born …
Working with wood and natural materials, David explores rhythm, texture, and movement. He translates repeating patterns found in music—where variation emerges within structure and order—into physical form. His relief sculptures provide viewers with an interactive experience in which the eye travels through the work, tracing rhythmic patterns and moving between elements in an unprescribed order. …
Living in Pennine Yorkshire, Kath Bonson is surrounded by inspirational landscape and tries to convey its colours, forms and textures in ceramic pieces that can include impressed surfaces, screen-printed images and unique complex layers of glazes over natural earth oxides. With all of her work she aims to create a ‘sense of place’, based around …
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 …
David is an archaeologist turned professional artist living in Saltaire. He aims to evoke an emotional response to our environment through his art. Oil paint is applied thickly using a knife to create an almost sculpted effect. The subject matter includes the landscape of Yorkshire and beyond. Trees are the central focus of much of …
Amanda is a glass maker specialising in the miniature. A tiny glass Coronavirus she made in 2021 was acquired by the Science Museum. London for their Covid 19 Collection for the Nation. Her bright, cheerful menagerie of tiny stuff is often described as ‘art with a big smile on its face’. Come and join her …
Emma creates joyous playful art that appeals to a wide audience. She produces one of a kind monster plushies complete with a hand drawn mini biography. As well as making monsters, Emma also works as an illustrator. Her drawings are inspired mainly by her monsters and her love of ghosts but also her love of …
concretebodies is a photographic project exploring the emotional presence of architecture, with a particular focus on modernist and brutalist forms. Through careful attention to light, shadow, lines, texture and composition, the work reveals the atmosphere and character within concrete structures and overlooked urban spaces. Rather than documenting buildings in a purely technical way, these photographs …
Cerys’ art is an expression of the self, working with geometric shapes and figures in abstract spaces, letting the hand lead the brain with an idea in that moment. Her work is built up using layers, working with a vibrant palette. Using the use of colour to create mood and emotion in her pieces. Inspired …