A fascination with trees has influenced much of Susanna’s work in various forms throughout her artistic career.

The Chinese regard wood as the fifth element after air, fire, earth and water. The Norsemen believed the World was supported by a tree and in Christianity the wooden cross symbolises both death and rebirth and so it is no wonder that throughout the ages artists have drawn inspiration from the tree.

In this series of woodcuts and drawings she has tried to make her trees iconic.

The ideas behind the symbolism may differ or change but the tree remains a constant form in an ever-changing world.

Susanna hopes you will spare a few minutes to reflect on what the tree means to you.

Susanna studied Fine Art at WSCAD, Farnham and Printmaking at Wimbledon School of Art

Sue was a graphic designer and art teacher in her professional life, working freelance for many educational bodies including English Heritage and the National Trust. She then worked as Publicity and Promotions Manager for West Sussex Library Service for 19 years and returned to painting and printmaking after taking early retirement.

The physicality of painting excites her. It is in the process, the materials, the 'doing it' rather than a purely intellectual response, although her subject matter and approach is changing. Similarly with printmaking, she finds a different discipline leads to a cross pollination of ideas which feeds all strands of her work.

Responding to the landscape and her environment is inevitable. 'Nature' in all its aspects inspires her and particularly where things meet, the edge of things. Her landscape/seascape paintings are often heavily layered, reflecting not only what may appear on the surface, but what lies beneath. The images usually develop a narrative of their own.

Walking through and being in the landscape is vital to her practice. Playing with scale, shape and colour is key in developing images from drawings done in situ, from photos, from found objects and from the memories of those experiences.

Sue works on many drawings back in the studio before even attempting a finished piece and then work on several canvases or prints at the same time.

painting in oils. He has a passion for painting en plein air which has shaped his style of work because of the need to paint quickly when on location. His landscapes, many of which are urban, demonstrate minimal brush strokes with a lightness of touch to produce realistic images.

Rodney states ‘I now paint the vast majority of my work with the subject in front of me. Inspiration comes from everyday life – people, buildings, streets, skies – and the challenge of translating three-dimensional subjects into a convincing two dimensional oil painting.

In 2017 Rodney competed in Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year with the judges short listing him to the final three of his heat and praising his work describing his entry as ‘a jewel of a painting’. Rodney was also a prize winner in the 2017 The Artist magazine’s open art competition with a self-portrait and he has also had two paintings selected for this year’s exhibition at Patching’s Art Centre, Nottinghamshire.

Rodney is a self-taught painter who works in his spare time alongside his graphic design work in publishing.

Based in South West London, Rodney has exhibited locally, nationally and at the Guildford Arts Yvonne Arnaud exhibition this summer.

Rob’s paintings explore his connection to the British landscape, particularly the area of Surrey in which he lives, and Hampshire where he grew up. A large proportion of his work originates from time spent in the Surrey Hills in particular. Some recent work has also been inspired by trips to other parts of the UK, including Cornwall, the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales.

He produces rapid sketches whilst in the landscape, as well as taking photos. Other pieces have been based purely on strong memories of a particular encounter with the landscape.

These references give him a fixed starting point, but he is always keen to allow the paintings to evolve naturally and intuitively, so that they often depart from the topographical specifics of the place in question.

The paintings rely equally on observation and memory; they involve an element of abstraction and are more interested in evoking the sensory experience and emotional impact of the landscape than directly reproducing what he has seen. Rob is influenced as much by Abstract Expressionism, as he is by recent developments in landscape painting.

Rob embraces a wide variety of media in each piece, from oils and acrylics through to house paints, pastels, inks, enamel spray paint, charcoal and coloured pencil. Nothing is off limits, and he will often make decisions spontaneously as he seeks to express his memories of an encounter with the landscape.

The happy accidents that occur when these various media combine are essential to his work. His paintings are as much about the act of mark-making as they are about depicting a particular landscape or location. He wants the process of painting to show through, and for each painting to maintain the spontaneity and energy with which he has produced it.

Rachael is a former lawyer turned professional photographer specialising in the coast. Her inspiration comes from a childhood spent at sea and she is best known for her Sirens portfolio, critically acclaimed photographs of stormy seas, named after creatures of myth and legend. This portfolio has won numerous awards and been published globally. It is currently on exhibition in Brighton, UK (September 2018) and Massachusetts, USA (September – November 2018) and it is the subject of a fine art photo book published by Triplekite.

Rachael has exhibited in major London galleries, Barcelona and New York and her limited edition prints appear in private collections in the UK and USA. She owns f11 Workshops through which she runs photography workshops in the South East of England and she also leads tours for Ocean Capture, an international photography tours business. Rachael writes for photography magazines and is in demand as a public speaker. She was described as one of 'the best outdoor Photographers working in the UK today' by Outdoor Photography Magazine, June 2016 and she is a judge for the Outdoor Photographer of the Year contest.
Black and White Photographer of the Year 2018.
Classic View winner, Landscape Photographer of the Year 2017
Sunday Times Magazine’s Award winner, Landscape Photographer of the Year 2016
My photograph 'Medusa' has been awarded a prize in the Siena International Photography Awards 2018. It was also one of a portfolio of 10 of my 'Sirens' that was shortlisted in the professional portfolio section of the Sony World Photography Awards 2018, the largest photography competition in the world.

Paulene’s work concentrates on the urban built environment, often highlighting the overlooked minutiae of city streets, bringing to the fore the background noise of society.
Recent work has focussed on a dilapidated post box.

Martin’s work begins with memories, his childhood, this is how his process starts, vivid recollections of whom he is and where he came from. A journey from the Past to the Present, Situations, Surroundings, the people he meets and the journey Martin’s life has taken so far.

Martin classes his work as Abstract Expressionism and explores printmaking and digital art techniques. Combining both methods together, Martin creates abstract compositions which are full of personal emotion, colour, shape and energy.

Martin has spent his career in education, Comprehensives in London, Teacher’s Colleges in Nigeria and Further Education in Weybridge.  During much of this time he has also written poetry, attending Wey Poets, Guildford, co-editing Weyfarers, getting poems into numerous magazines and publishing five short books.

After retirement, he has had more time to pursue art, describing his work at first as Collages, later simply as cut-outs.  He has shown his work in coffee-bars, Guildford Library, Guildford Institute and Godalming Museum.  He is especially pleased to be showing his work at Clyde & Co where, as previous visits have demonstrated the work is of a very high standard.

Jan is a design-led painter and printmaker. As an artist she explores boundaries - the boundaries between word and image, between poetry and painting and the boundaries between representation and abstraction.
Her work reflects her emotional response to both the environment and to poetry. The two responses work in parallel – the environment reminds her of specific poems and certain poems capture, for her, the essence of the environment.
Her interest in poetry stems from her first degree in English Language and Literature. This was followed by a career in design and communications before getting a further BA and MA in Fine Art and becoming a full-time professional artist and tutor.
She regularly exhibits and has had numerous one woman shows with work in collections throughout Europe and Australasia.

Virginia is interested in how a landscape has evolved and continues to evolve through natural and human processes. Referencing her own and found photographs and incorporating materials gathered from the landscape itself, Virginia seeks to create an interwoven layering of local history and memory, using the texture and colour of the landscape of her concern.

Virginia has an MA in Fine Art and works as a freelance artist in education including the Art for All programme at the Watts Gallery. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in Surrey, Norfolk, London, Yorkshire and Ibiza.