Mandy was born in Bolton, Lancashire, but have spent most of her life in the South, although she considers herself a proud northerner!

She is a self-taught photographer and bought a film camera, age 17, with her first six months wages. Initially, rather reluctantly, she changed over to digital eight years ago.

She looks for the unusual and candid in everyday things and situations setting the camera manually to avoid digital editing afterwards, wherever possible. Previously, she has exhibited at the Guildford Institute – including a very successful solo exhibition.

The photographs in this exhibition are an insight into how we interact with our coastline and beaches.

More of her work, and contact details, can be viewed on her website. www.mandymillyardphotography.co.uk.

After a career in nursing Jenny has concentrated on learning more about art, which has long been an interest and a means of expressing her ideas and feelings about the world around her.

Whilst working toward a B.A. Hons. In Fine Art at UCA, Farnham, gained in 2012, and since, her practice has referenced global warming leading to rising sea levels and coastal erosion; the interface between sea and land and the sense of wide open spaces.
Recent work has related to historic changes in the world around me. Jenny enjoys using printmaking processes to express this.

David makes photographic images and frames. His artistic focus is upon the support and rejuvenation that he feels comes from place, land and atmosphere. Although his interests and influences are eclectic, within the photographic tradition he is inspired by the Pictorialist movement and perhaps the more abstract street photography of the 1950’s and 60’s, although this is not necessarily reflected in his current work. His recent experiments have tended to include old film cameras, woodland and mist.

"With the pace of modern life ever quickening I find that I'm looking for a sense of stillness, dare I say it, grace. For me this translates to a kind of photographic version of a “slow food” approach to the initial image capture, then development by hand, scanning, printing, matting and framing, all with an emphasis on the value of craftsmanship and a healthy allowance for the judicious inclusion the accidental"

David was born and grew up in Surrey and is entirely self taught having no formal artistic education. He has made his way through a variety of occupations including periods as a gardener, chef, musician, as an acoustic engineer, and only recently (and partially) through his imagery.

Zuju was born and raised in Hyderabad, India. Marriage brought her to England in the early ‘60s. Here Zuju qualified initially, as a 3-dimensional designer and has designed furniture, ceramics, jewellery and clothes.

A period in Iran and Brussels exposed her to different aspect of Art, Culture and Food. She ran a restaurant in Wimbledon after writing a book about Indian food.

It was a relatively easy progression from 3-dimential work into painting. Since taking up art seriously she has worked in a variety of media. The subjects of her paintings have mainly been abstract and semi-abstract. She has exhibited in India and Surrey.

Ingrid is a full-time artist living in Ash and working from her home studio.

She's had a lifelong love of drawing and painting and is fascinated by the use of colour and light and the techniques of the impressionists.

Ingrid doesn't have a formal art educational as such, but has self developed - starting from a local authority art class that got her completely hooked then over the years through workshops and art clubs. She loves to experiment with many media but mainly water based - mesmerised by the wonderful unpredictability of watercolours inks and dyes and the versatility of acrylics.

She exhibits in various venues in London and the South.

Fay attended the Royal College of Art doing a Textile and Etching course for three years and then spent her working life as a free-lance designer. Once she had retired she took up painting using her garden as inspiration for her art. She mainly paints in oils.

Elisabeth works mostly in acrylics and mixed media, with special emphasis on light and using vibrant colours as well as interesting textures, so creating vivid movement in her paintings. Her favourite subjects are flowing landscapes in all seasons and strong seascapes.

Elisabeth began painting in 1999, attending weekly classes for nearly five years, led by a professional artist. She is a member of various Art Societies, with whom she exhibits regularly, among them Guildford, Farnham, Woking, West Surrey Artists and Lloyds of London Art Group. She has won several awards, amongst them the Euro Award, Mixed Media Award and Aquarius Award at exhibitions of the Guildford Art Society shown at Guildford House Gallery. She has also won various awards at Woking Art Society exhibitions. Her work has been exhibited within the Society of Women Artists (SWA) exhibitions at the Mall Galleries in London on various occasions and also at the prestigious Affordable Art Fair in London.

Nicky’s work is essentially optimistic; whether she is painting flowers or the sea, the emotions she aims to portray are hope and happiness. She is particularly inspired by the trees, big skies and hardy heathland flowers of the countryside around her home, and tries to capture a sense of air and movement as she paints.

Nicky originally trained as a designer (BA Hons Fashion, Central St Martins 1993) and the influence of her love of textiles can be seen in her use of colour, texture and pattern.

Her other interest is a life drawing. All her figurative work is in mixed media, either quick, gestural drawings or multi-layered collages when time allows. She exhibits in galleries and art fairs across the UK and in Europe.

Caroline paints in oil and acrylic, often in combination with collaged pre-prepared or found papers. Colour is her main area of interest, and she is continually fascinated by how small shifts of saturation or hue can create a sense of light and space.

Her works focuses, as much on the background space as on the object itself, looking for the visual tension in the relationship between figure and ground, dark and light, positive and negative.