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Carol Burns – Q&A
Carol Burns is an award-winning contemporary artist whose layered abstract paintings explore memory, identity, connection and the stories that shape human experience. Working through collage, paint, drawing and reclaimed materials, she creates richly textured...
Rachel Le Roux – Q&A
Rachel Le Roux is a British-Filipino contemporary artist whose practice centres on the female form, identity and the shifting experience of becoming. Through expressive figurative painting, she explores femininity, movement and the space between vulnerability and...
Dawn Fincham – Q&A
Dawn Fincham’s richly layered works transform fragments of the past into vivid, character-led worlds. Combining vintage engravings, found imagery, digital collage and direct painterly intervention, the London-based artist creates compositions that invite viewers to...
René Porter – Q&A
René Porter is an award-winning realist artist from Los Angeles whose practice spans oil painting and charcoal drawing. A graduate of Columbus College of Art & Design, she works across portraiture, still life, figures and cityscapes, using light to shape the...
Wei Keong Tan – Q&A
Wei Keong Tan is a designer and artist whose ceramic practice explores the complex relationship between human control and the natural world. Born in Singapore and now based in Gloucestershire, Tan brings together an early background in product and industrial...
Greg Kent – Q&A
Greg Kent’s sculptural woodturning begins with an appreciation for the innate character of timber, its grain, burrs, colour and evidence of decay, but it extends far beyond the material’s natural beauty. Self-taught and later supported through a QEST Scholarship,...
Kathryn Thomas – Q&A
Painting Light, Atmosphere and Wonder For Kathryn Thomas, painting is an act of attention: a way of meeting the shifting drama of light, colour and atmosphere before it slips from view. Trained in Fine Art Painting at Bristol Polytechnic, now the University of the...
John Carpenter – Interview
Scale, Colour and the Sculptural Language of Form John Carpenter’s abstract paintings are defined by a striking balance between boldness and refinement. Trained as an illustrator at the University of Westminster before completing his master’s degree at the Royal...
Neal Scrase – Q&A
Neal Scrase is a contemporary artist whose work moves between surrealism, portraiture and imaginative storytelling. Self-taught, he has been painting for most of his life, developing a practice rooted in inner vision rather than direct reproduction. His paintings...
Amarajyoti – Painting as Meditation
Amarajyoti is an artist whose practice brings together painting, meditation and a lifelong engagement with creativity as a form of inner exploration. Trained in Art and Design in the 1960s, she went on to teach art for more than 20 years before travelling to India...
