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Ella Merriman

Ella Merriman is a London-based artist and designer whose practice centres on the endangered craft of rush basketry. Harvesting rush by hand from slow-flowing rivers across the UK, her work reflects a deep engagement with material, place, and process, while exploring the growing disconnection between humans and the natural world.

Combining traditional techniques with found objects collected from London streets, Ella Merriman creates a dialogue between urban and rural environments. Her practice is rooted in slow, tactile making, guided by intuition and the inherent qualities of her materials.

Through experimental forms, she reimagines everyday and discarded objects, extending rush basketry beyond its functional origins into conceptual and decorative realms. Her work engages with themes of preservation, renewal, and the subtle presence of nature within contemporary life.

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Sculptures
Installations
Wall Panels

Mediums:

Sculpture – Land
Sculpture – Mixed Media
Sculpture – Mobile
Sculpture – Wood
Sculpture – Other
Sculpture – Tabletop

Subject:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical
Interiors

Selected Exhibitions

2026 – Selected for Collect Open 2026, Collect at Somerset House
2025 – Exhibited in ‘A Moment in Time’ at the Van Gogh House
2025 – Exhibited with Cox London during London Craft Week
2025 – Exhibited in Undoings at the Sussex Contemporary
2024 – Worshipful Company of Basketmakers’ Award – prize of a studio at Cockpit Bloomsbury in London
2018 – First Class Honours, BA Furniture & Product Design, The School of Art, Architecture and Design
2014 – Distinction, Art and Design Foundation Diploma, Falmouth University

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Andy Welland

Kaleidoscopic rainbows collide, prints sing, and pink is everything in the world of Andy Welland. Positioned as a contemporary artist for the next generation, Welland’s work blends vibrant abstraction with a graphic sensibility shaped by his background in design. His practice moves fluidly between painting, sculpture and product collaborations, with projects appearing through retailers and partners including Liberty London, Lush and Co-op Live Arena.

Raised in Doncaster by a trio of creative and influential women—his mother, grandmother and aunt—Welland developed an early appreciation for making and visual culture. He later studied Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University, graduating in 2007, before working within the luxury division of M&C Saatchi and across boutique design studios in the UK.

This background informs Andy Welland’s distinctive visual language. His energetic compositions are built from colliding shapes, bold colour systems and collage-like forms. Drawing inspiration from childhood imagination, nature and human connection, his work celebrates togetherness, imperfection and the joyful complexity of being human.

Play sits at the heart of Welland’s practice—both as a mindset and a method. Through experimentation with colour, material and process, play becomes a creative tool that encourages curiosity, unexpected discoveries and joyful accidents, opening space for new ideas and meaningful connection.

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Paintings
Prints
Digital
Sculptures
Installations
Wall Panels
Textiles & Rugs
Accessories

Mediums:

Collage
Digital
Installations
Mixed Media
Painting on Canvas
Painting on Paper

Subject:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical

Selected Commissions:

Colour, Play, and Everything In-Between — BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Brighter in Real Life — Bloc Projects, Sheffield
Loose Ends 319 — Millennium Gallery, Sheffield
Loose Ends 300 — Newcastle Quayside public artwork
Light Up Kilburn — public art commission
Ashford Unframed Mural Festival — large-scale mural
BBC — broadcast artwork collaboration
Amazon — commercial artwork collaboration
Liberty London — retail collaboration
LUSH — Knot Wrap design collaboration

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Amy Albright

The paintings of Amy Albright transport the viewer into atmospheric and ambiguous landscapes—perhaps a misty evergreen lakeside, a distant coastal cliff shrouded in fog, or the quiet depths of a turquoise underwater expanse. Her subjects often feel vast and immersive, sometimes leaning toward abstraction while at other times suggesting recognisable landscapes. In every work, there remains an element of intrigue and the unknown.

Albright works with subtle tonal ranges, using oil paint with an inky fluidity that softly envelops the canvas. The result is imagery that appears misty, watery, and indistinct—like a memory recalled or a place imagined.

Her process begins loosely. Expressive, gestural marks establish the composition before gradually being “reined in” through blending, fading, pouring, and glazing multiple layers of oil paint. Through this careful layering, forms dissolve and re-emerge, as though wrapped in an atmospheric cloud. Occasionally, Amy Albright introduces small details that act as anchors within these otherwise ethereal environments.

An explorer and devoted observer of the natural world, Albright draws inspiration from travel, from the shifting underwater environment, and from the dynamic weather, tides, and coastline of Cornwall, where she lives. The meeting point between land and water—where boundaries blur and forms transform—remains a continual and perhaps never-ending source of fascination in her work.

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Categories:

Paintings

Mediums:

Paintings on Canvas

Subject Matter:

Landscape
Abstract Landscape

Education & Awards:

2004 – 2007 University College Falmouth, Ba (hons) in Fine Art
2007 – Winner of the Midas Award, a contemporary visual arts award
2022- Winner of Outstanding award – E.Sun Painting Award. Taipei, Taiwan.

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2025 – Between worlds, Artwavewest, Dorset
2024 – Waters edge, Sarah wiseman gallery, Oxford.
2008 Transition, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall. (Solo exhibition as Midas award winner)

Selected Group Shows:

2026 What the land remembers, Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery, Truro.
2022 – E. Sun Awards, Award winner exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan
2019-‘Blue mind’ 3rd on 3rd Gallery, The Reg Lenna Center for the Arts, Jamestown, New York USA
2016 The Lantern Gallery, Worcester University ‘Pipe dream’

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Heather McAlpine

Heather McAlpine was born in Stirling, Scotland, and her creative path has taken her across continents. After earning her MA at the Royal College of Art in London, she spent sixteen years living and painting in Vancouver, Canada, before following her instincts to the rugged shores of Cornwall. For the past decade, she has found both solace and inspiration in St Ives, working from her studio in the historic ‘Downalong’ quarter, nestled between three of her favourite beaches.

Heather’s paintings capture the distinctive light and colour of St Ives, translating not just the visual beauty of the ocean, but the sensory and emotional depth it evokes. Her work invites viewers into an immersive experience shaped by her deep connection to the sea, her love of wild swimming, and the intuitive, expressive process of painting itself.

Ranging from small, intimate ‘captured moments’ on paper to expansive semi-abstract canvases—some as large as 1.7 by 2 metres—her paintings reflect a lifelong dialogue between place, emotion, and the ever-changing rhythm of the coastal landscape.

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Paintings

Mediums:

Paintings on Canvas

Subject Matter:

Seascape/Water

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Corinne Natel

Corinne Natel is a contemporary artist specialising in abstract mixed media paintings. Corinne is based in North West London and is inspired by landscapes, nature, cities, travel, fashion and media. Her work investigates colour, form, space and texture.

Working with a variety of mixed media, a blank canvas takes on a new form and begins to develop a life of it’s own. A new entity, aiming to create vibrant and emotive works that allude to another world.

Corinne Natel has sold works in the UK and internationally, for homes, offices, hotels, restaurants and cruise ships. She has exhibited in solo and group shows at contemporary galleries and at renowned London Hotels and leading Art Fairs.

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Paintings
Prints

Mediums:

Acrylics on Canvas/Linen
Inks
Collage
Mixed Media

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Botanical

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Anne Davison

Anne Davison originally studied Printed Textiles BA(Hons) at Middlesex University, graduating in 1984 and established a fashion textile design brand in Shoreditch in 1985, selling worldwide to the fashion industry in the UK, Japan, France, Germany and the USA. Amongst others, previous clients have included Yves Saint Laurent, Mantero, Etro, Daniel Hechter, Tommy Hilfiger, Macy’s and Diane von Furstenberg.

Anne now works from her studio on the Thames, having shifted her focus to producing original artworks and home furnishings, selling to retailers, interior designers as well as TV and film.

Anne Davison limited-edition prints, collages and rugs are designed and created in her bright sunny studio in Woolwich, Southeast London. Inspired and influenced by artists such as Wilhelmina Barnes-Graham, Eduardo Chillida, Ben Nicholson and Alexander Girard, Anne is predominantly interested in abstract shapes colour and pattern. Each new piece begins with creating a range of stencilled, lino printed and screen-printed papers, I enjoy experimenting with different techniques, colour combinations and the freedom this stage gives me. From here, Anne moves to development – using paper collage to explore proportion, pattern, and to the final composition.

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Paintings
Prints
Textiles & Rugs

Mediums:

Collage
Mixed Media
Paint on Paper
Prints
Textiles & Rugs

Subject:

Abstract
Landscapes
Still Life

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Sara Stode Winter

Swedish born, London based artist Sara Stode Winter has spent her working life in steady pursuit of creative fulfilment. With a background in fine art and illustration and many years of professional experience in different creative fields, she has acquired a strong artistic confidence and a unique expression that manifests in her abstract paper sculptures. Taking inspiration from her Scandinavian roots, Sara’s sculptures showcase a refined aesthetic and a considered use of colours and materials which, along with her avant-garde mindset, lends each piece an intriguing air of beauty and wonder.
Control is overrated. Interesting things happen when you surrender to the fact that you never really had any in the first place. Shedding a lifelong quest for perfection and preciseness I am now making art as an exploration of what happens when an open creative mind meets malleable materials.

Sara Stode Winter makes large scale sculptures out of quality Italian crepe paper. “When I came across this beautiful paper I was instantly drawn to the playfulness of its properties. Even now the possibilities still seem endless. To dye and manipulate the paper I use different media and techniques in processes that render each piece truly unique. The sculptures all take shape organically; from initial idea to finished artwork nothing is forced into being. I let the paper lead the way.”
Lately Sara has felt a pressing need to make large sculptures, which makes perfect sense. As the physical manifestations of her unleashed creativity, the pieces that emerge demand scale. No longer getting lost in the details, Sara is finding and claiming her space.

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Sculpture
Wall Panels

Mediums:

Gilding
Mixed Media
Paper/Paper Pulp
Pastels

Subject

Abstract

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When I came across this beautiful paper I was instantly drawn to the playfulness of its properties. Even now the possibilities still seem endless. To dye and manipulate the paper I use different media and techniques in processes that render each piece truly unique. The sculptures all take shape organically; from initial idea to finished artwork nothing is forced into being. I let the paper lead the way.

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Carl Rowe

Carl Rowe studied Fine Art at Manchester Polytechnic, graduating with an MA in 1985. He currently lives in Norwich and is a former Associate Professor and Course Leader in Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts. He is an artist member and studio holder at OUTPOST in Norwich and is also a member of the Printmakers Council. Carl Rowe has an international profile as both an artist and an academic. His work has been exhibited widely in the UK as well as in Germany, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Canada, US, Estonia, Japan, Malaysia and Egypt. In addition to studio production he has also worked on public art including billboards, print portfolios and hospital art. In 2018 Rowe was commissioned by Hospital Rooms to make work for Woodlands Mental Health Unit at Ipswich Hospital and is currently engaged in a new project with Hospital Rooms.

“My art switches back and forth between an engagement with socio-political issues and subconscious renderings.

I can’t escape my concern for the wrongdoing in the world and within my art a surface layer of humour, absurdity and the arcane masks a strong undercurrent of concern for humanity. When I ease off the direct engagement with current affairs, symbols, objects and graphic devices float up from somewhere in my memory and arrange themselves in unlikely compositions.”

Carl Rowe works with both paint, sculpture and print process. The materials that I use are often intrinsically connected with the images they portray such as the work Drool, an installation made with ink containing herbs and spices from the G20 countries and the Serbian paprika used in Deprecated Location, a screen print depicting Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Recent paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints present an obsession with clay pipe fragments, hazard warnings, cylindrical containers and clouds of particulates.

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Paintings
Prints
Sculptures
Installations

Mediums:

Collage
Mixed Mediums
Paintings on Canvas, Panel and Paper
Sculpture – Mixed Mediums, Recycled Materials and Wood

Subject Matter:

Abstract

Carl Rowe - Exceeding the Limits of the Box

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My art switches back and forth between an engagement with socio-political issues and subconscious renderings. I can’t escape my concern for the wrongdoing in the world and within my art a surface layer of humour, absurdity and the arcane masks a strong undercurrent of concern for humanity.

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Marina Emphietzi

Marina Emphietzi now lives in London and her work explores issues of time, life and memory.

She creates engaging artworks in a distinct semi abstract style inspired mostly by water and the marine environment.

With the sound of crashing sea waves and the hot feeling of sand under bare feet, Marina’s story starts in Famagusta, Cyprus. Her family’s childhood home built along the scenic coastline, she spent most of her days by the beach. It’s here that she came to know the limitless freedom of the Ocean. Surrounded by the vivid landscapes of Cyprus, art came naturally to Marina. Her heart’s desire was to study art, although she would pursue a successful career in hotel management and marketing before finally achieving her life-long dream. She has studied at the prestigious schools of Central St-Martins and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMASS).

At the age of 14, Marina Emphietzi lost her home in the trauma of war. The ocean and its waters, full of life and possibility, are a part of her most joyful memories. They are from which she draws inspiration from in her work and why her pieces have the power to evoke strong feelings of nostalgia and freedom. A world traveller, Marina has called many places home. The man-made beaches of Dubai, the crowded markets of Ethiopia, and now, the grey skies of London, U.K., each brings their own colour palette to Marina’s current work. Created with robust energy, her paintings have playful textures and a distinct style. They bring to surface lost memories of being near water, the sound of rumbling waves, the feeling of a warm breeze across skin. A metaphor of the transient human experience, her artwork suggests we flow through the journey through life, ever-changing and free.

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Mediums:

Paint on Canvas
Paint on Paper

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Landscape
Seascape/Water

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I create engaging artworks in a distinct semi abstract style inspired mostly by water and the marine environment.

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Neale Marriott

Neale Marriott’s work explores our relationship with the places around us, whether the fleeting joy of the natural landscape or the complexity and enclosure of urban spaces. I see my artworks as constituting a journey in different ways. First, I want them to have an energy and sense of movement within themselves in order to replicate our interaction with the world. They also explore a journey from figuration to a more dynamic abstraction. Finally, in my sculptural work particularly, they are a reflection on a more generic human journey with references to history, progress, science and geography.

I have always been interested in exploring different materials on which to paint including metal, concrete, glass & Perspex.

In using these materials, I’ve always sought to blur the boundaries between the illusory nature of paint and the physical properties of materials.

Neale Marriott’s paintings and painted construction pieces on layers of acrylic Perspex and concrete try to take painting into new spatial and sculptural areas by creating an experience that subtly shifts and changes as the viewer moves around them. The aim is to create more interactive spatial artworks that better represent our experience and explore different contexts and narratives.

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Paintings
Sculptures
Installations

Medium:

Paint on Glass
Paint on Clear Acrylic
Sculptures- Concrete/Plaster

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Cityscape/Urban
Landscape

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I have always been interested in exploring different materials on which to paint including metal, concrete, glass & Perspex. In using these materials, I’ve always sought to blur the boundaries between the illusory nature of paint and the physical properties of materials.

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Gina Parr

Gina Parr is a Painter who also “paints with a camera” when traveling.

The image of the sea and the Artist’s thoughts about memory and identity are ever present in her work. Her childhood, spent diversely in wide-open spaces, fishing for Mackerel with her father, and her mother with her hoarding and mental health issues defined the Artist’s relationship to the sea and land, the uncertainty of the deep, the spirit and memory of the open space, evoking freedom and connectedness. She does not wish to recreate those experienced places, but to unearth the truth, to centralise the feelings and emotions that were and are present, to not be afraid of the material of her past. The Artist’s work is an expression of the intermingling of both joy and pain: the human condition.

Gina Parr was originally trained as a Fine Artist, graduating with a First Class BA Honours Degree.

She went on to Chelsea College of Art to study set design, leading to a 25 year career Production Designing many prestigious shows for television.

She returned to her Artist’s practice in 2007.

She has also lectured in art and design at Chelsea College of Art and Nottingham University, is widely exhibited in galleries and art fairs in the UK and Europe. She is an Associate member of The Society of Women Artists in London and has works held in collections Worldwide including; Keble College Oxford, Director Jestico + Whiles Architects London, President Boston’s Children’s Museum USA, Senior Economist Goldman Sachs, Argentex and Vedanta Headquarters in London, and Commissions in UAE, Belguim + London.

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Paintings
Photography

Mediums:

Mixed Media
Paintings on Canvas
Painting on Panels
Photography

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Landscape
Music
Seascape/Water
Emotional
Psychological

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The image of the sea and my thoughts about memory and identity are ever present in my work.

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Jonathan Page

Jonathan Page is driven by a desire to explore the boundaries between an aesthetic, harmonic perfection and the inherent imperfection of human creation. He celebrates the intricacies of artisanal craft within an increasingly mechanised world, incorporating visceral and instinctive approaches toward his art. He endeavours to explore ideas of purity and perfection within the boundaries of human consciousness.

Jonathan Page specialises in modern abstract sculptures finished in clay, fibreglass, bronze and steel.
“My sculptures are concerned with harmony, the natural world, aesthetics and beauty. I believe these concepts and phenomena are crucial to the integrity of art.”

Jonathan’s work is collected internationally and held in numerous private collections.

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Sculpture
Wall Panels

Mediums:

Ceramic
Metal-Cast
Metal-Coldcast
Resin

Subject Matter:

Abstract

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My sculptures are concerned with harmony, the natural world, aesthetics and beauty. I believe these concepts and phenomena are crucial to the integrity of art.

Jonathan Page

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My art switches back and forth between an engagement with socio-political issues and subconscious renderings. I can’t escape my concern for the wrongdoing in the world and within my art a surface layer of humour, absurdity and the arcane masks a strong undercurrent of concern for humanity.

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I create engaging artworks in a distinct semi abstract style inspired mostly by water and the marine environment.

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I have always been interested in exploring different materials on which to paint including metal, concrete, glass & Perspex. In using these materials, I’ve always sought to blur the boundaries between the illusory nature of paint and the physical properties of materials.

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The image of the sea and my thoughts about memory and identity are ever present in my work.

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My sculptures are concerned with harmony, the natural world, aesthetics and beauty. I believe these concepts and phenomena are crucial to the integrity of art.

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