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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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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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Jo Beattie

Jo Beattie – ‘Memories are those precious moments that tell our story’

Her work is a reflection on our own memories and also our shared past experiences expressed by ‘drawing with a sewing machine’. Shapes, textures, patterns and colours define us in a time, a place and a culture.

In the last few years the subject matter of her work has ranged from intimate scenes of everyday life to ‘Conversations’ within groups of people I have seen throughout my travels and more recently the discovery of the memories evoked by ‘Old Toys.’ I have been surprised by how emotional and important these can be.

Jo’s work uses shadow to reflect the image of our collective memories and identity. She has become interested in the way her artwork can enhance the idea of memory by having a shadow of the image reflected onto a plain background a distance away from the actual work. This enables the shadow to become larger and more defined. The work is produced in any way that best creates the atmosphere she is trying to evoke.

Jo Beattie predominantly uses a machine stitch with see-through backgrounds such as wire mesh and Perspex to allow shadows to become an integral part of the work.

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Memories are those precious moments that tell our story

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Michelle House

Michelle House is an abstract artist with over 20 year’s experience creating unique textile artworks and digital art prints. Her inspiration comes from the patterns and geometry within architecture. As well as the physical mixing and layering of colours, the texture of cloth and the print process.

Michelle House moved from painting and collage on paper to applying the same approach with textiles. Taking photographs and making drawings, she then edits and designs on a computer, before transferring her photographic images to silkscreens.

Michelle uses screens in conjunction with hand-cut stencils as a palette from which to select and build up her final composition. Using imagery and colour in an abstract way to create focal points, balance and space.

The dye’s and pigments, in combinations of transparent and opaque layers, are screen-printed and painted on to differently textured fabrics, which are then meticulously sewn together to make a single piece, or series of related works.

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