Local artist, Alison paints in resins, acrylics and inks and often introduces other materials like leaves, twigs and bark so that her work takes on a textural effect. Alison is inspired by the beauty of the natural world and her passion for travelling. She paints spontaneously from thoughts and feelings and allows her imagination to run freely and intuitively. Her work is unpredictable. Each piece has its own story to tell and can create quite different responses in different viewers.

Allan’s latest collection reflects human expression observing activities of the everyday. Adding humour and exaggerated drama brings his figures to life as they sit above the garden plants keeping a watchful eye over things. Working in his studio in Sussex, he creates sculpture in a range of media. The final piece can be made up of several smaller elements forming the overall picture. Allan trained in graphic and commercial art, entering the world of sculpture full time after a career in construction. HIs work is exhibited with the Royal Horticultural Society, National Trust and Crown Estate.

Carole has a degree in Fine Art from the University of Kent and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors. She works from her studio in Kent where her imagination is sparked by watching her garden change and develop throughout the year. The diversity of texture, form and design she sees in nature feeds into the organic and abstract pieces she creates. Her inspiring sculpture is created by using a mixture of techniques that involves manipulating flexible materials into rigid organic forms. Different types of aluminium are coaxed into fluid shapes, strengthened with steel and coated with resin.

Gary Scott’s sculptures range from figuration to abstraction, referencing and evoking nature and the body in challenging ways. His bronze and plaster works embody the process of making with dynamic, roughly hewn surfaces that imply the forms are vying for life or attempting to dissolve themselves. Simultaneously witty, sexy, playful and macabre, Gary’s sculptures reach, wilt, twist and tear themselves into being. References from literature, music and art history are embraced, channelled and wilfully distorted to create works that reflect desire, conflict and our ability to connect with the world.

Contemporary sculptor Helen Solly transforms sheet metal into animated flowing forms, often burnishing the surface to give different reflective qualities, creating a sense of movement from this resistant material. She gained a first-class ‘Fine Art with Sculpture’ degree from Chichester University and gets inspiration from nature in beautiful West Sussex, where she lives and works

Surrey artist, Helen describes her approach to painting: ‘I am a contemporary artist working in acrylic & mixed media. I find my inspiration in the structural world around me, either in busy city life or in the tranquillity of beautiful villages. I want the architectural element to be understood but mainly I try to capture the mood and spirit of the location’.

Joe works in his studio in Buckland, Surrey. He trained as a stained-glass maker but in recent years he has focused on creating contemporary works of art. He loves sharp contrasts and enjoys stepping away from glass as the primary medium combining it with other media. For his sculptures, he makes mild steel and stainless steel metal frames and then inserts stained glass or Dalle de Verre panels in them.

In his 2D works, Joe uses leaded glass and copper foil techniques. He usually combines glass and ceramic as the latter has a different texture from that of the glass surface and can add depth to works.

American documentary photographer, Elliott Erwitt, once stated ‘Photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place’, and this is very much true of Jon’s approach as he challenges himself to find the hidden beauty in scenes that would otherwise go unnoticed. He is inspired by the structure of architecture and the chaos that mankind creates when interfacing with it.

Based in Guildford, Jon has exhibited across the UK and had his work selected from over 16,000 entries to be included in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2019, selling the piece during the pre-exhibition viewing.

Having created props for the musical ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ and the English National Opera, Jonathan sculpted for models and effects in TV and film. In 2003 he began creating his own work, thus turning his passion into a career. All aspects of the natural world inspire Jonathan. Working in clay, he enjoys the challenge of creating from both the real and imagined. Through his close observation and manipulation of materials, Jonathan creates detail and texture or surface bas-relief on his sculptures, which are hand finished and painted to accentuate the relief. Jonathan’s sculpture now has many collectors, both in the UK and Internationally.

Juliet is a Hampshire-based artist. Her natural intuition when working with shape and form was given a strong technical basis by studies in Art and Design. She studied sculpture for several years under internationally renowned sculptor, Les Johnson, and now works mainly in clay, producing original sculptures in limited editions. From art deco style figures to realistic animal studies these can be cast in foundry bronze or in resin. Her sculptures vary from small intimate pieces to larger more powerful works.

Kent-based artist, Kate continues to explore the vivacity, power and movement of horses through the detailed study of the equine form and captures their essence and physicality in each sculpture.
The creation of each horse sculpture comes from the detailed study of the subject and the passion to explore the subject’s possibilities, the desire to communicate the reality of the horse’s physique and an exploration of the horse’s anatomy.

"… but if you teach your horse to go with a light hand on the bit, and yet to hold his head well up and to arch his neck, you will be making him do just what the animal himself glories and delights in."
Xenophon, The Art of Horsemanship.

Primarily inspired by a passion for dancing, and ballet in particular, in her figurative sculpture, Laura is driven to capture the liberating and almost meditative experience of being completely absorbed in the moment. Finding and celebrating inner peace became important to her when she stopped dancing. As she says: ‘I hope the simple organic curves and peaceful nature of my sculptures will offer the viewer a sense of perspective and serve as a reminder to appreciate and revel in the wonderful world around them.'

Lynn is a local mosaicist who creates wall-hung pictures and garden art like stepping-stones, usually featuring wildlife. She seems to have endless patience, spending many hours cutting and fitting tiny glass and ceramic tiles to produce memorable images.

Having studied at Gloucester College of Art, Maria initially worked as a visualizer in an advertising agency. Now she focuses on painting contemporary, colourful, exciting, imaginative and impressionistic pieces, based around the nature and wildlife that she finds on travels and discoveries. Her painting style has evolved to use vivid colouring techniques in a free, semi-abstract style. Maria says: ‘I love the vibrant colours of acrylic paints, and sometimes combine them with acrylic inks and pen work on paper, board or canvas. I find this technique lends itself to some of my bird and flower pictures, street scenes and seascapes. The balance between colour and line works well, and the line doesn’t overwhelm but adds another dimension.’

‘As a sculptor, I am inspired by the human form and the emotions that it can evoke. Sculpture fixes a moment in time while conveying a sense of movement and energy. Usually beginning with clay, I mould and cast in a variety of media to create pieces that are graceful and expressive, allowing a deeper meaning to form in the mind of the viewer. In my work I build on traditional sculptural techniques and contemporary practice. The creative process is an evolving journey and a constant challenge to balance technical skill with critical reflection. To seem effortless requires consistent refining of the creative language. My subject is the emotive physicality of sculpture’.

‘My work centres around themes of sustainability, reuse and the nature of value. I specialise in creating forms in nature using discarded plastics such as car hubcaps and bumpers. I also work with scrap metal. The types of material that I choose that would normally end up in landfill, instead become works that entertain the concept that it might be possible to redesign products so that they have a further application once their original use is concluded.

‘I carefully select elements within the materials in order to utilise their shape and character, and as I work, the predesigned and used pieces add a life that is very different from a totally controlled medium. Plastics were intended to last for a very long time. I hope my work outlasts the factory processes that originally created the material’.

Local artist, Robbie says: ‘I have been painting and drawing all my life and since retirement from Dentistry in 2008 I have concentrated on oil painting. I paint mainly ‘plein air’ as I like to capture the effect of light and atmosphere.

‘I studied portraiture at the Heatherly School of Fine Art and have been elected as a member of the Wapping Group of Artists. I have exhibited for several years at the Mall Galleries for the ROI, RSMA and NEAC’.

‘For the most part, my work is an exploration of people. The subject matter of each piece determines the materials and the forms of the work I produce. I usually aim to let the subject be the central focus and like to capture a reaction in order to reveal an alternative impression. I love drawing and getting into the detail of a subject, expressing it through abstract angular shapes and loud colours. I predominantly work in the medium of pencil and acrylic on board. I have exhibited work throughout the UK and Ireland and currently work out of my studio in Chichester, West Sussex.’

Sam draws with steel, using heat and hammers. Her inspiration comes from the black, sweeping lines of Art Nouveau illustrations, the structured organic forms of plant life and the natural world. She predominantly uses cold, hard, linear steel, but by manipulating and controlling it using the flames from the forge, welding and sculpting with power tools, she aims to create pieces that have gentle movement and life. Sam was born in Brighton and grew up in Shoreham by Sea, surrounded by the South Downs, River Adur and the sea. She gained a BA (Hons) degree at Brighton University in 3D Design. She has completed many commissions for private homes and gardens, including gates, curtain poles, furniture and sculpture.

Suzie’s animal sculptures are well known both in the UK and abroad. She has undertaken many private and business commissions including sculpture exhibits for a museum in Taiwan and the public installation of Nelson the Seal at Looe Harbour in Cornwall. Her work reflects her fascination with an animal’s character and form, and she often produces work to aid animal charities close to her heart. In this way she can give something back to the animals she loves and who inspire her. Her originals are made in clay and cast in resins, pewter or foundry bronze.

Teresa Wells creates emotive figurative sculptures in bronze, that celebrate man’s physical and emotional survival over adversity. Inspired by the question: ‘How do humans behave’, she draws inspiration from the contours of athletes and ballet dancers to emphasise a physical strength, placing them in precarious poses to stress fragility. When combined with geometric architectural supports, in steel and stone, she shows a contemporary approach to bronze, lifting it off the plinth and making it appear less monumental and traditional.

Teresa’s work is widely known due to appearances at Chelsea Flower Show, BBC TV’s ‘Home is where the art is’, BBC/Netflix ‘Dracula’; and many pieces are now held in private collections around the world.

Originally from Dublin, Marie is self-taught, but admits her apprenticeship with the late Dorothy Arthur was invaluable to her. She typically works in clay, casting in both bronze and resin. Her style is figurative, her influences are vast and diverse, from Michelangelo and Giambologna to Rodin. To portray an essence of the human character through the medium of clay and bronze - be it soulfulness, beauty, energy - is her enduring quest. Producing seemingly airborne art is the challenge she sets herself through her dance and athletic pieces.