Art Gallery

Anna is an artist and illustrator. Her upbringing in Scotland was surrounded by rural life, which alongside her love for colour, pattern, and textiles, has shaped her work. Anna has grown her trademark style of colour and humour using a mixture of fabric, feathers, pen, ink and paint. Animals are her main focus and she uses bold inky lines to capture their character.

Jill Ray is a landscape artist based in Sheffield. Her work is inspired by the Peak District, woodland in Sheffield and trips to the coast. Jill uses both traditional and digital methods to produce her landscapes. Jill beautifully conveys the colour, light and rhythms of the landscape to create striking and bold prints.

Kathryn is an award winning artist from County Down, Northern Island. She creates distinctive freestyle pourings and is inspired by everyday glimpses of the beautiful world around her. Kathryn’s artwork is created using a honey-like mix of ink and gel, which is poured freestyle onto the image surface. Free from pencil marks, she evokes a sense of energy, life and beauty for each subject.

Michael has become renowned for his stunning scenes of Venice, showing quiet backwaters where the water ripples gently, reflecting the faded grandeur of the magnificent buildings above. He also paints sunlit scenes in picturesque rural France and Italy.

Becky Blair’s lively and eclectic style, combined with her vivid use of colour and dream-like reflections, has seen her highly-sought-after work sold through exhibitions and private commissions internationally.

Marcella Cooper is an artist living in rural Suffolk. Marcella offers a more naïve style, which reflects life at home in her thatched cottage: cooking, reading, gardening and walking in the local countryside.

Scott was born in Glasgow in 1978 and since graduating university has been a full time artist, working from his studio in Glasgow. Scott’s approach to painting draws upon a tremendous energy and positivity, which is reflected in the themes of hope and optimism that infuse his work.

Since 1992 James has worked as a contemporary landscape and seascape painter and his ‘loose and energetic’ style has gained widespread acclaim. Strong light and colour are central to James’ paintings and dynamic viewpoints are a feature in many.

Paul Evans is one of the leading Landscape Painters working today. Paul Evans is widely known for his highly individual watercolours, acrylics and etchings inspired by East Anglia’s landscape and coast, Sussex Downland, the Kent Weald and Cornwall’s rugged coast and moorland. Paul’s painting explores only a few locations in detail through all times of the year to convey a deep sense of place.

“Blake is beyond brilliant. He is anarchic, moral, infinitely subversive, sparse when he has to be, exuberantly lavish in the details when he feels like it. He has tell wonderful stories without a single word, but his partnership with Roald Dahl was made in heaven. or somewhere. The diabolic ingenuity of Dahl came into its own only when he wrote for children. In conjunction with Blake, there was a kind of alchemy. I’ve never met a child who didn’t love Quentin Blake” – Melanie McDonagh, Daily Telegraph

Dan Crisp’s entirely hand created and unique style of digital painting is a contemporary response to the vast and varied influences of the British landscape. Dan’s landscapes are a personal body of work. Each composition is built up in layers of remarkable detail creating a depth and atmosphere which connects with the viewer. The juxtaposition of intense colour and bold designs does not simply copy nature but is a sophisticated and modern interpretation of the natural world and the effect of light on it. Dan’s artistic talent and creative imagination are embodied in these natural

Iain Faulkner was born in Glasgow in 1973 where he was raised and educated. Iain’s paintings are concerned with the portrayal of strong and powerful images, relying on visual impact as there is rarely any narrative. The paintings are about capturing calm and contemplative moments, intimate exchanges, solitude, sometimes melancholy, heightened in their resonance by the use of chiaroscuro. His use of techniques gives a stark contrast between the light source and the often dark tonality found in his paintings.