Guest artists

Diane Coates’ beautiful sculpture resonates with life, capturing energy, sensuous movement and dynamic line.  Her distinctive figurative work suggests character, or the essence of the subject’s spirit.  Diane specialises in clay modelling for its unique response to touch and ability to retain subtle characteristics; she then casts in bronze or bronze resin.

 

Miles Flint’s love of photography began at an early age, taking his first pictures on family holiday in France at the age of 8. After leaving school he travelled extensively in the Himalayas, igniting a passion for landscape photography.  Miles’ images range from China in 1976 to   America in 2009.

 

Jenefer Ham was formerly a graphic designer, but now loves creating distinctively vibrant glass sculptures. Mainly self-taught over the past eight years, she fuses her one-off designs in a kiln, using hand-rolled art glass. Her style features harmonious, intermingling colours and flowing shapes.

 

Liz Hancock designs and makes contemporary jewellery from her studio in Farnham.  Her work is based on sculptural and organic forms using silver, gold and gemstones. She also uses a combination of textured and plain pieces of silver to achieve the desired effect.  Generally she likes jewellery to be three dimensional and fairly bold.

 

William Lai is both and artist and a sculptor.  He works in many media but particularly enjoys using vibrant colours to create bold, surreal images in mixed media on large canvases.  His arresting and thought-provoking work has been shown all over the world, notably at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (1993 and 2001), The Malta International Biennale (prize winner), New York, Miami, Italy, Germany and Singapore.

 

Marilyn Mason studied illustration at Kingston University.  She has lived and worked in England and Africa.

She is particularly inspired by the people and places of West Africa, where she still regularly visits.  Most of her illustrative work is done on location, using predominantly pen, ink and watercolour.  These days she likes nothing better than to be sitting on Brighton Beach, drawing seagulls!