Mark Fincham

"Using photography and manipulated photography I construct my compositions digitally before working in oil paint. I produce figurative work and emphasise the subliminal dialogue in order to encapsulate and relay the concept of time, injecting 'life' into the static nature to the painings."

Lois Sykes

Lois specializes in contemporary animal art. Her delightful and charming studies of the furred and feathered, offer humerous insight into the nature and character of the animals she so lovingly portrays.

Liz Stace

"Currently, my ceramics are concentrated on wheel thrown, functional, domestic pieces which include, bottles, vases, bowls of all sizes, including bowls with glass filled double rims, mugs and candle holders. Travelling in New Zealand has focused my recent work on ocean bowls. These are thrown with altered rims and are decorated with several layers of glaze which create flowing surfaces to reproduce the seas I saw on the other side of the world."

Chris Hopwood

"My work is very varied and I am coming to realise that I may never have a particular niche. I like to work with whatever seems to suit be it oil paint, acrylic, stone, plaster, clay, charcoal, machine parts, wool, wire. I particularly like to crossover between mediums, putting stone from my carving into oil paint, or the reverse process of painting over relief sculptures. Some works are made using machine parts with a certain personal relevance, my broken car, my knitting and sewing machines, my old computers...all of which have been loved but now have been subsumed into a greater passion. I like physicality, tactility, presence and emotion in an artwork "

Becky Mair

Inspired by Jackson Pollock's technique of pouring and dripping paint, his action painting is a method that I have developed into my own technique; of gestural drawing. By defying the conventional way of painting on an upright surface, he added a new dimension, literally, by being able to view and apply paint to his canvases from all directions. I am interested in the flow of the pigment and paint on the canvas; whilst using my whole body to work above the canvas. Thus allowing the images to be abstracted representation’s of the male form. (Gestural abstracted images of male horses and cockerel’s on hand made paper).

Letitia Tunstall

Tish a printmaker producing original, one off pieces of artwork. She explores her interest in texture and textiles by printing using the collagraph and monoprint techniques. Often she embellishes and moulds the work creating three dimensional pieces. Letitia trained as a graphic designer and worked as Art Director for publishing houses designing bookjackets. She later trained as a teacher and taught for several years before setting up her studio in order to develop her own work as a printmaker. She combines this with teaching printmaking from her studio.

Ruth Dent

"Nature is a primary source of inspiration; I love walking and cycling and enjoy noticing colours, shapes and textures on my travels. These organic forms are captured with pencil, camera or memory, for later use. Poetry, literature, music and maps also provide me with starting points - often to be combined with memories and nature to create colourful and bold images. In my recent work I have focused on screenprinting and linocut, and enjoy using multiple processes to create a layered image. Over the past year my work has evolved towards the creation of a series of images on a theme, each image being an original print."

Jess Levine

"My art work has many starting points and sources of inspiration including the local landscape, experiences whilst travelling, architectural details and the human form. I enjoy working in mixed media as I find the process of making art very sensory, messy and involving. Materials I use include plaster, oil paint, sand, iron filings and different papers."

William Waldie

It was only after retiring that William was able to spend time to experiment and explore the possibilities of creating images using a computer.
All of his pictures in this exhibition are prints of images that he has created entirely in a digital format They are stored digitally and are in fact virtual, and only see the light of day when they are printed. William has only begun to exhibit his pictures, using this technique, within the past year."

Louisa Crispin

Inspired by my environment ... pansies to pylons ... roses to rooftops. Working in sterling silver, highlighted with semi precious stones or glass beads, I explore a range of techniques, including making my own tools, to achieve the desired effect. The resulting pieces are detailed reflections on nature with flowers, leaves and insects predominant. I aim to create delicate jewellery, which makes the wearer feel beautiful and feminine.

Sonia Smith

"In my work I like to engage primarily with scale, boundaries and space. I work with many materials, all types of paints, paper, found objects and textiles. The central point of which always comes back to paint, its properties, and its texture. I use paint as my voice, which enables me to have a dialogue with the canvas and thus revealing my improvised composition through space, shape, confrontation, rhythm and inflection. My work could be described as invention; a discovery with no foreseen outcome, like improvised music. It is an outward form of an inward search, a mix of questioning and creativity."

Paula MacArthur is an established artist who, in her most recent series of still lifes has been drawn to explore the joy found in simple objects. Working from a sketchbook of snapshots, she skillfully manipulates paint to reveal at once the complexity and extraordinary beauty of the simple things she is instinctively attracted to. Intense colours and dexterous brushwork are combined to conjure her emotional autobiography, and effortlessly evoke our own ephemeral recollections.

Mark Welland

Lisa Goslett

Jeff Bonnefoy

Jeff is a photographer with a conceptual edge. He particularly likes out-of-studio portraiture. He works with his subjects to produce highly individual, often manipulated images that capture character as well as likeness.

Annette Stephens was born in India . She has lived in Kent since 1959, where she has exhibited her paintings and sculpture in mixed shows. She has had one-person exhibitions of paintings in Dartford, Margate, Broadstairs, Gillingham and Maidstone and has had work accepted by the Royal Academy and has exhibited at the Mall Gallery and the Westminster Gallery and other private galleries around London. For the past fifteen years she has been making sculpture, which has been much influenced by study and travel in Italy

David R. Shaw

"My work is about our life, our culture, and about our actions, reactions and interaction. I use a multiple media approach which currently engages with Polaroid film as the foundation, using different types of film, finishes and display. Integrating my ideas with the traditional and with contemporary technical production alongside the Polaroid uniqueness and darkroom practice."

Mark Fisher

"My work has always had a strong sense of observation and drawing and I am constantly intrigued by the play between buildings and landscape and shadow and light.  For many years my preferred materials were pencil, pen and watercolour pencils which have good blendable qualities are easily transportable and give an immediate effect. Over the last couple of years I have turned to acrylic on canvas and in some instances I use resin paste to build up a heavy 'impasto' effect on the canvas before I apply colour."