Fiona studied General Art & Design and Graphic Design at Epsom School of Art & Design (now The University for the Creative Arts). She worked for many years in various design companies before taking up painting after her children started school.

She has always had an interest in plants and following a weekend botanical painting course at Wisley Gardens, under the tutelage of the late botanical artist Pauline Dean, decided to concentrate on botanical painting. She works primarily in watercolour, but has recently been experimenting with coloured pencil.

Fiona has been a full exhibiting member of The Society of Floral Painters since 2005 and in 2013 was elected a full Member of The Society of Botanical Artists. At the SBA’s Exhibition she won ‘The Joyce Cuming Presentation Award’ for her painting ‘Breadfruit’. She has also won many awards with the Society of Floral Painters. She successfully exhibits and sells her work through group exhibitions and private commissions.

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.

Caroline is influenced by the farm she lives on, where she helps run a small holding of sheep, cattle, horses and poultry. She is driven by the exploration of creatures and their characteristics. Capturing a moment in time though form, colour and texture. Using a variety of processes, primarily painting and original prints, how these processes can affect the character and position of the figurative study. Inspired by everyday occurrences, movement in animals, nativity, the subtleness of life surrounding us and how each of these characters make their way through life.

Horsepower

Through a lifetime of training horses and experiencing life on a cattle range in Wyoming, Caroline has created a range of linocuts and linocut screen-prints to capture the essence of the power of the horse.

Her practice has included regular commissions of portraits, in particular with horses and dogs, ensuring a representation of character. She thoroughly enjoy these commissions, as each one she finds a welcome challenge to create a successful piece for a happy customer. She finds herself very fortunate to have returning customers and regular commissions.

Becca's vibrant paintings are inspired by landscapes in general, and flowers in particular, and where they are sited which makes for interesting compositions. Her work uses texture with bold coloured acrylic paint and inks, to produce random and intentional marks, forming compositions of the natural environment.

A commission in 2018 saw Becca producing 12 large paintings for Frimley Park Hospital covering over 17 metres in length, for one of the Elderly Care Wards. Recently Becca has painted bluebells including in the Chantry Woods, Guildford, views of sea – specifically - St Ives, Cornwall, and expansive views of Italian Poppy fields. In 2022 Becca painted Porlock, Exmoor and the previous year her work centred on expansive views of Cromer sea and meadow paintings. Her painting has been chosen for the cover of Surrey Artists' Open Studio brochure for 2024.

With a BA from Kingston University, Becca has been painting since 2011.  She has sold to the USA, Canada, New Zealand and Europe, through galleries, including the Corte Real Gallery, Portugal, Itch Gallery Rutland, Obsidian in Stoke Manderville, Lightbox Woking,  South Street Gallery Dorking ad the Frame Shed Ripley amongst others. She has work in several galleries in the UK and sold well at her large exhibition at Cumberland Lodge in 2016, including to the Chairman. She has work in the Mayford Centre in Woking, where her studio is situated, Natter Café, Farncombe and she exhibits regularly by invitation at West Horsley Place  in the “My Mind’s Eye” exhibitions with Adam Aaronson and Liz Hauck and their curated group.

As well as larger original paintings Becca produces more affordable prints, cards and cushions from her work.  She lives in Guildford with her family. She can be contacted though her website or on social media as follows.

website                    www.beccaclegg.co.uk

facebook               Becca Clegg Art

instagram              @beccacleggart

email                      [email protected]

Andrew’s work is inspired by his travels and the places he has been. When travelling, as well as painting oil studies “en plein air” and sketching, part of his practice is to fossick around collecting bit and pieces; detritus. It is the latter that become motifs in his mixed media collages, be they newspaper clippings, religious text, shoe leather, papyrus and even sand from the Sahara. These compositions are meant to be seen as both disposable bits of flotsam, yet are presented as small treasures; palimpsests of his experience of a place.

These set of collages are a result of his travels in the Middle East and some are a response to countries where the secular and religious worlds rub, often painfully, against one another.

The Hard Target series, together with Dance to the Beat of a Distant Drum address Western interventions in the Arab World.

Sunita graduated from Sir JJ Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai, India. She paints on a wide range of subjects including contemporary landscapes, abstract art and Indian mythological/traditional paints. Her favourite medium is acrylic on canvas and her paintings feature cheerful colours and unique texture quality. She is inspired by the whole concept of creativity; the idea that a blank canvas can be turned into something that someone will cherish is very exciting to her. She also enjoys the fact that a painting can mean different things to different people and she has been happy paintings with acrylics for most of her life.

Although beautiful English countryside landscapes, hills, and small villages fascinate her, Sunita says nature has influenced her style. Subconsciously whatever she sees has an effect on her, teaching her about form, colour, techniques and texture. She feels she has absorbed all these lessons into the work she produces.

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.

Aylin has a BA Honours Degree in Fine Art. She studied graphic design in Georgia, USA, and lived abroad for some years, working in the Bahamas and Spain as a practicing artist, painting marine subjects and street scenes. Aylin works mainly in oils and acrylics using sketches and camera as her reference materials to capture the essence of a scene.
Aylin’s principle source of inspiration is her travels in the United Kingdom and abroad. She is mainly interested in the effects of light and shadow, captured in oils, and continues to paint marine subjects, street scenes and landscapes.
‘Painting is the heart and soul for me, and nature is the inspiration to represent the spiritual journey for me.’ Aylin takes commissions.

Martin has always drawn and painted from childhood to the present.
After studying Industrial design at Leicester Polytechnic he has had a varied career as a commercial artist in different environments. First working on wallpaper and textile designs. He was a photographic re-toucher and artist in National press. He freelanced in advertising as a story-board artist and illustrator then ran his own Creative Services studio in London for 15 years. He has produced creative products for manufacturers in Germany and China.

Martin’s inspiration comes mainly from nature. He has a great passion for the countryside and all that is found there. In addition to landscape painting he also draws and paints wildlife subjects.
He finds there are infinite things to stimulate an idea for a painting.
In particular ‘light’ and how it affects everything, altering colours and most importantly giving an overall ‘mood’. He paints some subjects more than once, perhaps at a different time of the year, or time of day.

Martin paints in both oils & watercolour, the enjoyment is equal for him. The process of ‘making a picture’ by drawing and painting has always given him pleasure. Just recently he has started to produce Lino-cut prints as an added spectrum to his portfolio.