Beth has always enjoyed using paper, making vessels, candelabras, jewellery etc. Now for the past 16 years she has been making collage pictures, mostly inspired by the countryside around her as well as some portraits of family and friends. The camping picture is a representation of an annual event to celebrate her daughter’s birthday.

Beth is not a fast worker and makes 3 or 4 pictures a year at best. It is a long process, firstly ripping out pages from magazines until she has the colour range needed. Tearing, cutting, trying things out, fixing, starting and repeating again. After much patience and frustration it is ready to stick down but again a fiddly and time-consuming process.

She hopes you recognise some of the landscapes and some of you may recognise Peta White who is shown in Peta in Yellow.

If you are interested she has had Fine Art Glicee prints made of these images which are available unframed for £50 each.

The diversity of the wild and free natural environment takes on a life of its own and entices Andrew to respond, it is what always brings him back to landscape painting.

Mostly inspired by the calm and dynamic scenery of Scandinavia, Canada and Ireland, he tries to capture their vast and remote uniqueness from his personal affinity with nature.

Andrew’s interest in painting rugged, earthy scenery has come from numerous travels and experiences of raw environments.
These environments directly influence his opaque, multi-layered painting style.

Nicola’s etchings are based on pieces of metal and rust. These objects - corkscrews, drill bits, scissors, and secateurs - are old found in markets or have been given to her. Nicola’s wish to revive old tools and reveal their personality, her interest in the surface textures of the metal with its well weathered patina resulting from years of use and exposure to the weather. Her work is created by layers of etching, dry point and aquatint which are added to and scraped back to produce similar results to that found on these metal objects, and it is this that she seeks to reproduce and represent, reflecting where possible their history.

Elaine works both in ceramics and digital print. Her most recent work combines both these techniques.

The work on show at this exhibition is her experimental digital print work. Elaine uses several different starting points for this work. Traditional mono printing, photography, textual mark making etc… she uses Photoshop on the computer and ProCreate on the iPad, these are sent back and forth and worked on by both applications until the desired result is achieved. The prints are then printed on Fine Art Paper on an inkjet printer. The inks are pigment inks which ensure their longevity.

David Ringrow is a keen artist who works in Accountancy and paints in his spare time. At University David won a place each year for private tuition with the Resident Artist.

David has continued his art as a hobby and shows and sells his work in London at places such as Blackheath and The Mall Galleries concentrating on rich colours and geometric shapes.

Daphne Jefferis is an Art History Lecturer who has enjoyed painting and drawing all her life. She has attended many painting courses and workshops and particularly learnt watercolour techniques with Christopher Baker in Sussex.

Daphne is now semi-retired and has more time to paint. Landscape has always been an inspiration, but still life work offers the opportunity to observe how objects appear in space and the patterns they make. By limiting the colours used the arrangements become simplified and clear.

Daphne has exhibited at Guildford Cathedral, Open Studios, AppArt, KD Prints and Guildford Arts.

Stephen has always found great comfort in the landscape. He is constantly drawn to reflect a sense of connection with landscape in the form of paintings both small pieces in location and large studio pieces. He is forever intrigued by the ever-changing weather and seasons, which so dramatically change a locality. Stephen’s work intends to be a reaction or conjure a deep response to the essence of a place. Some of his work is instinctive drawing in location while other work derives from a memory or instinctive reaction to a place visited. One could say it is the energy and spirit of a place or landscape, which is filtered directly into his work. The way the light falls across the landscape and creates a particular mood is often an inspiration where fast compositional studies drawn in situ start the process of understanding the particular place or moment in time. Some of these places and landscapes he re-visits time and again and it is through his exploration and adventure that he has developed a deeper understanding of the place. Most of Stephen’s paintings tend to be from the Surrey Hills and the south coast.

Katrin is an artist and designer working primary with wool as a ‘painting’ medium. Although she enjoys using wool in a craft application during hand spinning and weaving, she finds that during needle felting (also known as dry felting) there is more scope for letting her imagination run away.

Katrin’s starting point is always a photograph, painting or drawing of her own and during this process she is already looking at form and colour in her subject matter. Carrying ideas across to wool involves careful blending of dyed locks using carding brushes to create new shades and mix colours in the same way as one would mix paint. Layers of fibre are built up and attached to one another using a barbed felting needle that simply latches the individual hairs to one another to form felt. Wool from different varieties of sheep allows for different effects with curls giving more texture than smoother types. Different needles allow for finer work and detail.

Katrin’s subject matter tends to focus on landscapes, although recently she worked on a series of flower studies based on sketches from her garden during the summer months.

Working with wool not only gives visual reward from the use of colour but also the pleasure of working with a soft and comforting medium which has been known to man for thousands of years yet is still being pushed in new directions.

Many of her wool art pictures are available as cards and printed items through her website and she periodically offers workshops in needle felting methods.

Joslyn’s work focuses on vivid colour and sculptural shapes, which she loves disrupting with the introduction of chaotic gestures, throwing acrylic paint and vigorously spinning or tilting the canvases. Inspiration for the titles often comes from overheard conversations, current events and silly happenings.

As a New Zealander, who emigrated to the UK, it is part of her culture to use “kiwi ingenuity”, thus she has made a variety of rubbish spin painting machines out of all kinds of materials with varying degrees of success, and has had a great time making a huge mess, both indoors and out.
The journey is more exciting than the destination.