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Alldis, Paulilne
After studying Natural History Illustration at Sunderland University, I have always painted and sculpted in a very wide range of mediums and sizes, from tiny detail to murals, watercolours to oils and clay. Portraits and wildlife are the main themes of my work and I usually like to work on a number ...
Amos, Linda
Since graduating from Sunderland University with an HND in Design (Communication) where I specialised in Natural History Illustration, I have consistently developed my skills to handle different media, techniques and processes in art and design. I do this through working freelance and in the product...
Anderson, Marjorie
Landscape and seascape, both representational and abstract, is a recurring theme in Marjorie's work and reflects her love of the outdoors in all seasons. She records images that catch the eye; the line of a footpath, dwellings in the landscape, light on water, shadows and reflections, and inter...
Aynsley, James
I am a Northumberland based artist, with a background in Architecture. I therefore have a particular interest in depicting town and cityscapes. My paintings are characterised by strong colour, bold forms, and a desire to record the effects of light on a subject. I work exclusively in watercolour,...
Azocar, Enrique
Drawing was my original expression. I draw a lot but I do not do preparatory studies, as I prefer to resolve everything on the canvas. I know what I want to paint, but have often changed composition and colours because a better idea on the same subject has turned up two days later. My work ends and ...
Bacon, Anne
STARS (Shared Traditional Artists Resources) offers support and facilities to artists and courses in printmaking (etching, engraving, woodcut, lithography etc) and painting and in the care and conservation of paintings. It also exhibits and sells works printed / made at the centre...
Bailey, Janine
In our Northumberland workshop we produce handmade furniture and crafts from beautiful reclaimed wood and wind fallen wood. We have a small gallery shop on the farm where we sell our furniture and crafts,we also make one off pieces to order....
Barnard-Edmunds, Dehlia
Being passionate about colour and texture, I have been concentrating mainly on work with textiles using a variety of techniques including stencilling, printing, applique and hand and machine embroidery. Inspiration may come simply from the fabric itself; architecture especially theart deco period; n...
Barnes, Wyn
My unique Fine Art Photographic images are available printed onto a range of media. I work with Landscape, Macro and Still Life subjects to produce strong, graphic images which retain a vibrant, natural feel.
Digital SLR Camera and Photoshop Workshops undertaken, full details on my w...
Digital SLR Camera and Photoshop Workshops undertaken, full details on my w...
Barnes, Renira
The inspiration for my work comes from something I have seen or experienced such as the natural beauty of plants in my Northumbrian cottage garden, or from walking and climbing in the atmospheric Northern Hills. I prefer to work outside but representation becomes less important as I explore pattern,...
Baxter, David
I am a self taught artist and like to work with a variety of mediums. The type of medium is usually dictated by the subject I am working on. I look forward to taking part in the Art Tour and meeting new people....
Beedle, Ross
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Belcher, Paul
A freelance artist working in the North East, Paul's paintings capture themes of landscape and memory. Sights, sounds, and colours that remind us of a moment in time.
Working as visual artist, Paul Designs and leads workshops in schools and local community groups.
These works...
Working as visual artist, Paul Designs and leads workshops in schools and local community groups.
These works...
Bell, Mike
Structure and composition lead Mike to see landscape in horizontal bands often related to the tidal flow on beaches & wild moorland landscapes near his studio in West woodburn from which many of his works derive, His work both large and small in acrylic, mixed and found materials, often in relie...
Bell, Veronica
Work in wood. Functional and sculptural...
Bint, Marilyn
Watercolour...
Blackett-Ord, Sarah
I paint the landscape, trees, plants and buildings of the West Allen Valley. The mysterious quality of an early evening June light on a border, sun filtering through trees on a sultry afternoon, fiery autumnal colours reflected in the river or bright sun through a Himalayan poppy....
Blayney, Pat
Pat Blayney has been designing and producing a range of stylish garments and accessories, working with unusual yarns (many hand-dyed) and materials over the last eight years, although she has been involved in producing textile work all her life. Pat is also a co-owner of Craft Works Gallery in Corb...
Blayney, Jenny
I paint in oil and watercolour,use clay as a medium for modelling. My main work is in running workshops aimed at finding the Creative Spirit which lives in each and every one of us, using themes such as the Festivals of the Celtic Year; finding the Soul in Self and in Nature. I also work as a regis...
Burt, Elizabeth
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Burton, John
Portrait commissions from photographs. Subjects undertaken include people, pets, cars, motorbikes, and houses. Mediums offered include pencil and charcoal, pastel and watercolour. The example images are a pastel sketch (foxhound), and a watercolour painting (motorbike). My work is affordable, and yo...
Cadie, Jules
Artist-facilitator
Jules combines his art-practice with facilitating community and cultural development events and activities. He is passionate about sustainable development. ...
Jules combines his art-practice with facilitating community and cultural development events and activities. He is passionate about sustainable development. ...
Canning, Janet
Janet is the teacher at The Jinty Painting School. After 30 years teaching Art and Design in Scotland Janet relocated to Northumberland to follow a dream. The painting school is set in a large north facing Gin Gan and offers classes in watercolour, acrylic and mixed media to all levels of ability....
Carter, Glynnis
My work explores my relationship with and to the landscape. It is inspired by places I have visited and the North Pennines. My paintings are a response to the landscape rather than a representation of it. Colour, texture and a sense of space in my work is important to me.I work on a painting over se...
Clay, Lorraine
Lorraine Clay.
If you dig into the ground sometimes all you find of past generations is shards of their ceramics. All their hopes and dreams, smiles and tears are lost. We are not immortals, we too will vanish when our cycle ends, a process out of our control.
New experimental works explore...
If you dig into the ground sometimes all you find of past generations is shards of their ceramics. All their hopes and dreams, smiles and tears are lost. We are not immortals, we too will vanish when our cycle ends, a process out of our control.
New experimental works explore...
Claydon, Tony
As you walk along the glorious river valleys of Northumberland, you are treated to an ever-changing series of views that are, quite simply, good for the soul. Tony's aim is to share these scenes, through virtual walks on the 'northumberlandscapes' web site, and photographic prints an...
Clayton, Lucy
My earrings and pendants are abstracted from artwork by Christina Mingard, Mike Bell, Sarah Riseborough, Anne Kinniment & other artists. the Lindisfarne Gospels also feature and all can be bought by mail order from me or from the Laing Art Gallery and Biscuit Factory - Newcastle, Rheged Discove...
Cole, Neil
I work in many different media in 2-D and 3-D. I especially love pencils and oils. My work is very detailed, exploring eclectic themes from the deeply personal and spiritual to my interests in film and the environment. I’m largely self taught and perhaps this has helped me to experiment and explo...
Cowans, Helen
The colourful, contemporary textile art of Helen Cowans reflects a love of many hand and machine embroidery techniques often combined with mixed media.
Work is mainly inspired by science, landscape and eastern cultures and includes a range of items from 3D structures to large wall hangi...
Work is mainly inspired by science, landscape and eastern cultures and includes a range of items from 3D structures to large wall hangi...
Cox, Natasha
My work involves a range of processes where visual layers are produced as well as riveted layers, breaking up the surface and providing a dimensional element.
I have been inspired by a variety of worn surfaces to explore the visual appearance of texture. This was achieved by mark making...
I have been inspired by a variety of worn surfaces to explore the visual appearance of texture. This was achieved by mark making...
Crewe, Pamela
At present working on birds and Northumberland landscape, I have produced lively and expressive watercolours, acrylics, oil paintings, prints and wood engravings.
I have loved painting for as long as I can remember and continue to delight in the excitement of direct observation and the visual ...
I have loved painting for as long as I can remember and continue to delight in the excitement of direct observation and the visual ...
Cuthbert, Penny
Penny takes landscape as her starting point. Using collage and assemblage with mixed media she explores the traces that have been left in both the manmade and natural environments, indicators of the time that has passed, journeys that have been made and a process of discovery through making the wor...
Daley, Neil
My main subjects are Northumberland and the Lake District, but I also have a passion for capturing the beauty we create in our built environments.
I paint best when motivated by place or occasion, and readily confess the act of painting is sometimes a torturous affair to reach it'...
I paint best when motivated by place or occasion, and readily confess the act of painting is sometimes a torturous affair to reach it'...
Dawson, Judith
I paint with acrylics. I originally took my inspiration from the beauty of Portugal and enjoy painting seascapes but also flora and fauna. My paintings have a spiritual quality and are contemporary in style....
Dexter, Jill
Woven textile artist creating fabrics both for wearing and to adorn the home. Wide variety of yarns used, often handspun or hand dyed. Fabrics created for scarves, both fine and dressy, or warm and textured, bags, cushion covers, table linen and rugs or hangings. Commissions undertaken....
Dickson, Janet
I am a printmaker inspired by colour, texture and form particularly in the garden and in landscape, but it is the garden which has been the predominant theme recently in a an ongoing series of monoprints. Working in a rural riverside studio I take inspiration from Northumberland's rich garden h...
Dobbins, Malcolm
These new large paintings, which I begun May 2010, are inspired by the Northumberland coast and national park. They are constructed in Aqueous Dispersion/mixed media. They are intended for exhibition during 2011 Art Tour, Location yet to be decided....
Dobson, Richard
Richard works in oils and pastels on a variety of subjects; some personal work, others as customer commissions. The ideas behind his recent work have been prompted by cubist themes. He uses his paintings to draw attention to the way we look at things and the process of observation.
"I wan...
"I wan...
Dobson, Susan
The inspiration for my work is walking and climbing in the mountains - being at one with the landscape and the elements, in remote and wild places.
My work speaks directly to a fundamental human need to connect with wild places.
‘Wilderness challenges complacency and the otherness...
My work speaks directly to a fundamental human need to connect with wild places.
‘Wilderness challenges complacency and the otherness...
Drage, June
A Fine Art graduate of Newcastle University, June has exhibited her paintings, photographs and prints in the UK and abroad. June has been a Network member for many years and is currently chair of Network Artists in Northumberland. ...
Duncan, Cathy
I have returned to my love of sketching from life, people,especially musicans performing, after a year of learning printmaking techniques such as linoprinting, wood engraving, monoprinting and making collographs.
I was Artist in Residence for Northern Chords this March and I am now Art...
I was Artist in Residence for Northern Chords this March and I am now Art...
Dunne, Sue
Sue Dunne is a ceramic artist living in the beautiful Tyne Valley. She gains much visual inspiration for her work from the countryside around her. The work is press moulded in earthenware clay and features birds and foliage as a central theme. Her workshop is open by appointment only....
Earlam, Carolyn
Collecting debris from a beach in the Outer Hebrides, walking with the dog through a local quarry, or taking a flight over China or the Nevada desert - all these experiences provide source material for Carolyn Earlam’s large-scale semi-abstract canvases. She makes a very personal response to her int...
Eden, Angela
My acrylic work is characterised by contextual uncertainty and ambiguous imagery vigorously executed in rich bold colours. This is in marked contrast to my watercolours and pastels which display a more obvious narrative between the source of inspiration and the final image.
Studio open as deta...
Studio open as deta...
Elias, Priscilla
I transform junk literally things that have been thrown away by painting them with fantasies from my imagination. I also do black and white illustrative graphics and painted pictorial signboards as well as murals and drawing workshops.....
Farooqi, Sarah
I paint landscapes, townscapes and illustrated maps in pen and watercolour. I hope my work conveys a sense of fun, and my affection for this beautiful part of England.
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Fenlon, Sue
My work is a reflection of the landscape and shoreline of Northumberland. As I live in a beautiful and remote place, it gives me the opportunity to observe and paint the emotions reflected in the colours and light of the changing seasons, which I capture in watercolour and pastel....
Forster, Lesley C
Landscape and seascape paintings in oil, pastel or silk painting...
Fowler, John
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Friend, Jason
Jason Friend is an award winning, freelance photographer and writer based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England. A renowned landscape photographer, he can often be found braving the British weather to capture evocative images of the Scottish Borders, Cumbria, Yorkshire or Northumberland.
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Furlonger, Rose
Making masks is a highly enjoyable activity; getting to grips with a large lump of clay and watching a character emerge; then using it as a mould on which to create a wearable mask!
I make masks and puppets in a wide range of styles, sizes and materials; each one is unique and many a...
I make masks and puppets in a wide range of styles, sizes and materials; each one is unique and many a...
Galbraith, Amanda
Pebbles Gallery
Pebbles is a fine art gallery and cafe set in the middle of Allendale.
We offer local affordable Art and Creative Crafts with a artist of the month featured in the main gallery 1st Saturday of every month.
We also support musicians and often have Live Music at many of our fr...
Pebbles is a fine art gallery and cafe set in the middle of Allendale.
We offer local affordable Art and Creative Crafts with a artist of the month featured in the main gallery 1st Saturday of every month.
We also support musicians and often have Live Music at many of our fr...
Geater, Kathy
I make fused glass pieces. I take my inspiration from the natural and human world around us. I am drawn by the endless possibilities of glass; the exiciting process of fusing vibrant colour and texture to achieve a transformation of individual expression....
Goonan, Michael
I am a Northumbrian landscape photographer and publish my work in the form of local view cards, calendars, jigsaws, playing cards, framed pictures etc. They are supplied to shops and tourist outlets throughout the region....
Graham, Peter
I carve wood and stone,figurative or abstract and have just graduated from the City and Guilds of London Art School where I studied historic stone carving. I have always been drawn to the process; by its simplicity and complexity and by its connection with artists through time from when we were firs...
Gray, Marlene
I am a Fellow of the Calligraphy and Lettering Arts Society (CLAS), and offer a comprehensive calligraphy service for all special occasions. All customised work undertaken, including but not limited to, wedding and party work, albums, book inscriptions, certificates, signage, poems and presentation ...
Grennan, Penny
My work is concerned with souvenirs, artefacts and objects and what value they might have. I paint in oils on canvas and linen and have exhibited in Hexham, Newcastle and Japan. I am currently studying for an MA in Fine Art at Northumbria University and am artist in residence for the Society of Anti...
Grierson, Helen
I am a stained glass artist, whose abstract designs are based on the images I come across living in the North East. I love the very tactile experience of working with glass and lead, the intensity of colour and the effect light has on the image. Commissions both large and small are undertaken.I also...
Hall, Harry
Harry Hall was recently awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society for his photographs of Tibetan nomads living in the Himalayas. Some of these prints will be on display, together with a variety of photographs taken within Northumberland and in the Scottish mountains and islands....
Hall, Anthony James
I began as a landscape artist; then started to dabble with abstraction,which I found most stimulating. You can say so much more with abstraction. My work contains a great deal of symbolic imagery,(religion, sexual attitudes, life).
/n/nI'm particularly fascinated by religious attitudes,w...
/n/nI'm particularly fascinated by religious attitudes,w...
Hanna, Lewis
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Harrison, Rosie
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Harrrington, Jenny
I'm fascinated with the variety and richness of nature. I love experimenting with mark-making in an attempt to capture this richness. I painted mainly landscape in different media -- often the same theme -- I get obsessed with certain subject matter e.g. a clump of trees and will paint this in ...
Hartas, Bettina
Bettina's initial training was at Camberwell School of Art, and subsequently she gained both a BA and an MA degree in the arts. She brings together different colours and textures to create an artwork that is both bold and harmonious. Bettina works primarily in acrylics and in watercolours and e...
Hawkes, Carolyn
The perception of colour and space are central to my work. Collages, mixed media paintings and installations in natural settings are based on a scientific and mathematical interest in pathways through landscapes, mazes, and the progression of waves. They may be seen as metaphors for man's jo...
Hayward, Mary
BA Fine Art (Painting) at Newcastle University, 1970. Taught Art & Design in schools and colleges until morphing into a Graphic Designer while living in the New Forest in the 80s. Designed for B&Q, British Gas, English Nature, Esso, Forestry Commission, several Financial & Pharmaceutical...
Hayward, Alan
Repeated patterns, colours and textures observed in nature provide the inspiration for Alan Hayward's stunning photographs. His current work follows two themes; "A Natural Order" reflects the synthesis in science and mathematics which suggests a fundamental orderliness underlying the ...
Hickey, Paul
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Hickey, Norma
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Holford, Rena
I am a glass artist working mainly with kiln formed glass my main work at present is the study of the horse and of the red kite birds my sculptures are avalable in a variety of sizes i am allso working with leaded glass and welcome comisioned work....
Holliday, David
At the moment David is mainly focused on watercolour landscapes. People always comment on his unusual use of colour and subject matter. From derelict industrial scenes to colourful townscapes and moody Northumberland skies. Originals and limited edition prints are available....
Holm, Jenny
My paintings have a dream-like quality and are full of allusions to fairy tales and myths. Although each painting sets a scene and has story to tell I leave it to the observer to decide what the story is about.
My work is represented in private collections in Canada, Denmark, France, Sw...
My work is represented in private collections in Canada, Denmark, France, Sw...
Holmes, Nick
There is usually an autobiographical element to my work, which I interleaf with playful quotations from art history, science, literature and popular culture. My paintings resemble billboards, book-covers or CD cases and present you with a tangle of clues to sort out....
Holmes, Walter
I paint pictures, mostly fairly traditional landscapes, but also some that
lean heavily towards abstraction....
lean heavily towards abstraction....
Holmes Wright, Beverley
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Hughan, Liz
All my cards and prints are made from original works by myself. I am inspired almost entirely by things I come across in my daily life. These things are then reorganized into patterns and designs that please me, often in a stylized form. Originally from Galloway in South West Scotland, I have lived ...
Jackson, Anke
I try to capture the atmosphere and feeling of places I have been to. The subjects are mostly landscapes in watercolour, pastel and some oils; often from Northumberland but also some from Europe and beyond.
Please click on thumbnail pictures to see whole painting....
Please click on thumbnail pictures to see whole painting....
Jackson, Geoffrey
Langley Furniture Works
Furniture, cabinet making and specialist joinery for homes, gardens and parks, made from appropriately seasoned, mostly European hardwood, by a team of experienced cabinet-makers. We work closely with customers so that the design evolves from their ideas and requirements a...
Furniture, cabinet making and specialist joinery for homes, gardens and parks, made from appropriately seasoned, mostly European hardwood, by a team of experienced cabinet-makers. We work closely with customers so that the design evolves from their ideas and requirements a...
Jackson, Katie
Welcome to my magic shed, where I take jumble sale finds and mat them into bold designs, where damaged books find a new use and old recycled objects get another chance to shine.
I love paper, fabric, wool and above all ...colour!...
I love paper, fabric, wool and above all ...colour!...
Jackson, Cheryl
A textile artist using various forms including felt making....
Jamieson, Steph
I am a potter living and working near Allendale. The polished surfaces of my simple sculptured forms, richly marked by smoke, express an earthiness that gives me a sense of identity, linking past with future.
Opening times-by appointment....
Opening times-by appointment....
Jarvis, Michael
I'm interested in the processes of looking at the world and our ability to scan and absorb visual data in various ways. Similarly I'm attracted to the idea of the image as a potential space within which one can reconcile individual thought processes against the wider collective consciousne...
Jennings, Shirley
I graduated from Northumbria with a BA(Hons)in Fine Art in 2006,and have exhibited locally and in Japan.I'm inspired by the wild and remoteness of the area were I live, also strangely by the fact that I came here following a spinal accident,links both my personal feelings and emotions as well a...
Kennard, Barbara
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Kinniment, Anne
Anne is well known in the North East for her evocative embroideries of wild flowers and gardens. Her work is a combination of painting and embroidery and her richly textured foregrounds of grasses and flowers are created with a mixture of hand stitching, collage and machine embroidery. She has bee...
Lamb, Gordon
I work quite rapidly in watercolour, trying to achieve spontaneity and a sense of loose reality. My subjects are landscape with abstract influence, and portraits, mostly in oils with a more figurative style. In all this I try to capture the spirit and get to the heart where truth is. ...
Langley, Ellie
Feltmaker.
I live and work in the dramatic landscape of the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on an environment award winning smallholding.
My sheep are my companions, my inspiration and the source of my material. My work is made solely of natural, local wo...
I live and work in the dramatic landscape of the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on an environment award winning smallholding.
My sheep are my companions, my inspiration and the source of my material. My work is made solely of natural, local wo...
Law, Elizabeth
Liz Law has been repairing books over the past 5 years as part of a group based in Newcastle's Literary & Philosophical Society. The group welcomes new members. Liz's customers include Hartlepool Museums Service and Tees Archeology, also private indivduals.
Liz enjoys reviving much-...
Liz enjoys reviving much-...
Lawrenson, Dorothy
Paintings, prints, poetry and music comprise Dorothy Lawrenson's unique response to the local landscape. Familiar features invite recognition, but elements often appear to be observed in passing or only partially remembered.
Similarly, in drawings of folk and jazz musicians her di...
Similarly, in drawings of folk and jazz musicians her di...
Lewis, Christopher
I love the feel and smell of wood, and the way the grain reveals itself. I make games and small furniture, and I carve wood, sometimes to express ideas, sometimes for its own sake. I have recently published the book "Cleave the Wood and There I Am - Meditations with Carvings and Music", ...
Lynch, Sylvia
I specialise in wildlife and figurative subjects, generally finely detailed and realistic. My wildlife paintings are exhibited nationally and reproduced as limited edition prints. Scale of commissioned work varies from murals to picture books. I favour pastels, gouache and scraperboard. As a qualifi...
Lyness, Jackie
Jackie explores the colours, forms, and textures of natural subjects, using a range of different media in a variety of styles - typically bright,splattery watercolours, highly detailed ink drawings, and also, richly coloured/textured mixed media abstracts. Inspiration could come from a reflection, t...
Mahon, Jos
My work is inspired by my experience of landscape and feeling for wild places.
I love the way nature and weather move and change- the places where these interactions occur are the places of my paintings. I'm there too responding to the thrill of the storm, the rage of sea and wind, paint...
I love the way nature and weather move and change- the places where these interactions occur are the places of my paintings. I'm there too responding to the thrill of the storm, the rage of sea and wind, paint...
Malkin, Pam
I work from a small studio at home. I have a Victorian Mangle which I use as a printing press for fine Art Prints and cards.
My paintings are usually inspired by a sense of place. In 2005 I was Artist in Residence in Hexham Abbey. I work with mixed media and watercolours. At present I ...
My paintings are usually inspired by a sense of place. In 2005 I was Artist in Residence in Hexham Abbey. I work with mixed media and watercolours. At present I ...
Malkin, Sue
After many years of working from the life-model, my current work continues to be figure-based,currently interpreting movement through compositions based on observation drawings of racehorses and jockeys.The tension, adrenalin, power and speed are elements that interest me as well as the strong forms...
Mann, Caroline
Caroline works with a wide range of inspirational fibres, vintage fabrics, synthetic and recycled materials to create her work which includes felt making; hooky and proggy rugs and wall hangings; hand made silk paper and textile collage.
Caroline is also currently developing her own ran...
Caroline is also currently developing her own ran...
Maskrey, Barbara
I live and paint in Cullercoats situated on the north east coast Northumberland.
My work portrays coastal and inland urban settings that reveal past and present influences of the people who lived and worked in the region.
Currently I'm interested in sites of industri...
My work portrays coastal and inland urban settings that reveal past and present influences of the people who lived and worked in the region.
Currently I'm interested in sites of industri...
Mathers, Jenny
My work is rooted in the natural environment.
A background in biological research informs my observation of structures and their interaction with light.
Using photography, video and printmaking I work with familiar objects or settings and create images whose origins may be unclear and reveal t...
A background in biological research informs my observation of structures and their interaction with light.
Using photography, video and printmaking I work with familiar objects or settings and create images whose origins may be unclear and reveal t...
Maughan, Margaret
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Mazel, Nicola
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McFarlane, Mike
Mike McFarlane is a landscape photographer based in North East England. After his training as an engineer failed to provide fulfillment, his love of the land got the better of him and he now spends his time waiting, watching and enjoying. Mike's work is available in galleries nationwide and is ...
Melvin, Karen
Born in America, exhibits widely in the north, London and abroad. Her latest photographs combine the fantastical with the prosaic, the mythological with the documentary, and personal memories with the shared experience of fairytale.
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Mills, Geoff
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Mingard, Paul
I publish Giclee Prints for artists including my wife Christina, whose work I have been producing for over five years. I believe that giclee prints are affordable pieces of artwork and require as much attention to quality and finish as any other form of printing. I take pride in what I produce and...
Mingard, Christina
I paint marks left in the landscape by people; the fields, trees, hedges, walls and furrows. The detail that makes sense of the whole.
In the broader view it is often the link between the natural and the man-made that attracts me. Hadrian's Wall provides a perfect example.
Recent...
In the broader view it is often the link between the natural and the man-made that attracts me. Hadrian's Wall provides a perfect example.
Recent...
Moffitt, Sue
I love painting, the whole physical and mental process, making marks and thinking about colour and composition are all important. My interest in the relationship between man and nature is the driving force behind much of my work....
Moore, Cat
I create felt objects and images inspired by nature, the world around me and colour. Currently I make pots, bowls, bags, tea cosies, brooches and scarves, alongside sculptural and two-dimensional pieces of art. I am also working towards incorporating linocut printing into my felt pictures. This summ...
Moran, Richard
I specialise in Northumbrian landscape/nature photography, regarding my work as a tribute to the county's wonderful and diverse scenery, and its varying moods, from the dramatic coastline to the wilderness of the Cheviots. My images can be purchased as high quality, lab-produced prints, via the...
Morpeth, Sarah
My current work comprises an ongoing series of books and work on paper made in response to a 1945 film with which I have been obsessed for years - 'I Know Where I'm Going".I am particularly interested in the book structure - in the interdependence of form and content and exploring how...
Morpeth, Carolle
The focus for my work at the moment is on sections of the textures and patterns I find in the landscape around me in Elsdon. These are developed from drawings and photographs into layered compositions either as acrylic paintings, sometimes with added materials, or as batiks. Smaller pieces of work ...
Morris, Helen
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Mundy, Darren
Darren works from his home studio in North Shields producing art in a popular and commercial style.
His latest project is Hilltown, of which he says “You could be mistaken for thinking that Hilltown is just little houses on large hills. However, each Hilltown has its own story to tell”.
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His latest project is Hilltown, of which he says “You could be mistaken for thinking that Hilltown is just little houses on large hills. However, each Hilltown has its own story to tell”.
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Murray, Jane
I am a painter, working mainly in watercolour. My constant love of colour and light is focussed mainly on flowers and vegetables at the moment. My paintings range from accurate botanical studies to larger, experimental works moving towards the abstract....
Myers, Claire
An animal artist, with a special passion for horses. A growing range of prints and cards available, and commissions are also undertaken. Please visit the website for more details....
O'Brien, David
About the Artist
Hi, thank you for checking my profile. My name is David O'Brien, and I have returned to painting after a very long absence.
I have been drawing and painting from a very early age, and once considered it as a career, even going to art college as a teenager in the seventies...
Hi, thank you for checking my profile. My name is David O'Brien, and I have returned to painting after a very long absence.
I have been drawing and painting from a very early age, and once considered it as a career, even going to art college as a teenager in the seventies...
O'Donnell, Christine
abstract artist wofking on large canvas with mixed media to fit with the enviroment you live in....
Oxley, Mick
Based in Craster, Northumberland, location is fundamental to Mick Oxley's work.He is a keen observer and recorder of the rhythms and moods of the sea and shore.His work consists of two main types.Firstly, watercolour and acrylic seascapes which are painted in response to the changing weather, t...
Palmer, Sara Jane
In medieval art the individual rarely exists, in classical sculpture the image is refined into a perfect form.
My work connects the outward image of an individual to an inner place, a centre of privacy, which some call the soul.
I experiment with texture and colour. I t...
My work connects the outward image of an individual to an inner place, a centre of privacy, which some call the soul.
I experiment with texture and colour. I t...
Parkin, Wendy
I work in two mediums. I use woodstain and oil on wood to create a tonal picture. I also work in oil/acrylic on canvas. These works dipict materials and soft fabrics hanging or knotted....
Parrish, Pamela
Most of my work is based on observation drawing and is mainly concerned with human beings. I have had an exhibition of paintings, after a residency with Dance City in Newcastle, in which I explored the mind of the dancer and the relationship between the internal image and the dancer's efforts t...
Pattullo, Mandy
My ideas are generated through drawing, photography and intensive visual
/nresearch. I work in series so my textile solutions on paper or fabric may
/nvary significantly in style and subject matter. Sometimes the sketchbook
/nitself becomes the product or I may produce a wall hung ...
/nresearch. I work in series so my textile solutions on paper or fabric may
/nvary significantly in style and subject matter. Sometimes the sketchbook
/nitself becomes the product or I may produce a wall hung ...
Pearson, Rachel
After graduating in Textile Design from Glasgow School of Art, her work as a mural artist has taken Rachel all over the world: most recently, Dubai. Her keen eye and passion shines through her illustrations and watercolours. ...
Penny, Jane
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Pharncote, Omi
I turn sheeps fleece into felt by using soapy water and a lot of muscle power! I like to make felt books as works of art.I have a C & G foundation certificate in feltmaking and am currently studying for a degree in Textiles and Surface Design.
I have over 8 years of experience of running ...
I have over 8 years of experience of running ...
Phillimore, Rachel
Rachel uses traditional Northumbrian tools and frames to create her hooky and proggy textiles, which take the form of rugs, wall hangings, and framed pictures. Many different fabrics, some with older histories, are used to bring a contemporary interpretation to her work....
Phillips, Peter
My studio is situated in the Northumberland National Park, and I work out in all seasons and weathers grasping the moment and laying it down with speed and vigour - capturing the dramatic, atmospheric, awesome, breathtaking and evolving landscapes of the UK and beyond.
My collections evokes a spo...
My collections evokes a spo...
Philp, Lesley
Contemporary Silverware
Lesley Philp is a contemporary silversmith hand-making original classic pieces of jewellery and home silverware in sterling silver and 9ct gold. Lesley uses her silversmithing skills to form and shape her distinctive pieces of work and make the precious metals the prin...
Lesley Philp is a contemporary silversmith hand-making original classic pieces of jewellery and home silverware in sterling silver and 9ct gold. Lesley uses her silversmithing skills to form and shape her distinctive pieces of work and make the precious metals the prin...
Pickard, Dave
I work mainly in coloured pencils. Subjects range from stones to landscapes....
Pine, Sue
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Playford, Lionel
Lionel Playford is a painter and draughtsman. He has been making pictures about the Northeast landscape since 1989 including industrial and urban landscape as well as the upland and coastal areas. Recent work has focused on north and mid Pennine landscapes and the Northumberland coast. He has done m...
Podmore, Peter
I work directly from the landscape using pastels, oils and acrylics. I used to travel widely to work but now, with a large barn studio to work from in one of the most spectacular areas of Northumberland, my subject matter is largely local....
Prentice, Marion
I am a BA Hons.(Fine Art) graduate from Cumbria Institute of the Arts. As a multi-disciplinary artist I 'borrow' texture and patterning features from nature. Much of my work is themed around macrocosm and microcosm. I use mixed media, printing, encaustic and painting to compose 'af...
Quinlyn-Nixon, Michael
Michael Quinlyn-Nixon is an internationally acclaimed artist. His work has appeared in magazines, books and on stationery. He currently produces limited-edition greeting cards and calendars featuring his teddy bear illustrations....
Quinn, Jacqueline
Jacqueline is a printmaker and painter whose work describes northerly landscape and sacred marks and symbols.
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Quinn, Mary Gerardine
My other (day) job is as a part-time family doctor, but after finishing a Fine Art degree at Sunderland Uni in 2008,I found I couldn't stop painting.
Now exclusively using oils, my current painting interests lie in photojournalism, baroque statuary and especially drapery....
Now exclusively using oils, my current painting interests lie in photojournalism, baroque statuary and especially drapery....
Reed, Alan
"I produce paintings which are representational but not photographic. I'm concerned about capturing the light and the fleeting moment in time for which watercolour is ideally suited. I like to paint people and cities, depicting the hustle and bustle of street life"....
Rhodes, Mal
Mal works in watercolour and acrylic. Her current inspirations are the colours and textures in her garden. Her watercolour paintings attempt to capture the colours and shapes, expressing the flora in a semi abstract manner. She loves the fluid transparency and unpredictability of the watercolour m...
Riseborough, Sarah
I paint in oils and acrylics, mostly the local coastline and countryside. I accept commissions and provide workshops....
Robinson-Begg, Cindy
Cindy's work forms a discourse with life. Her response to her environment and cultural background is idiosyncratic and evolutionary. A culture growing on the petri dish of life.
/nOriginal, contemporary, printmaking is the mainstay of her creative practice, but each artistic response is ...
/nOriginal, contemporary, printmaking is the mainstay of her creative practice, but each artistic response is ...
Rogers, Janet
Janet Rogers is an artist who follows in the traditional path of making stained glass panels. Based in Durham City, gets most of her inspiration looking over the cathedral, gardens, and rural landscape.
Her work has a contemporary feel adding new life to old buildings using vibrant, ...
Her work has a contemporary feel adding new life to old buildings using vibrant, ...
Rogers, Mary Ann
Mary Ann Rogers paints cockerels, ducks, wildlife and landscapes in watercolour at her remote studio in beautiful Redesdale, where many of her subjects can be seen.Consistently voted into the 'top ten' living artists in print by the Fine Art Trade Guild, and top self-publishing artist in t...
Rose, Glynis
I have had a passionate interest in design and working with textiles since childhood. I built on this interest by training to be and art teacher and then spent the next ten years of my career working in developing countries. I learnt a great deal about local indigenous crafts in that time. Later, wh...
Ross, John
I use mainly oils and acrylics in my home studio.
Figurative work,sport,landscapes,animals...feature regularly.
I hold an Annual Exhibition in Whickham and am beginning to exibit locally....
Figurative work,sport,landscapes,animals...feature regularly.
I hold an Annual Exhibition in Whickham and am beginning to exibit locally....
Sales, Norma
Norma is a glass artist based in Whitley Bay, she produces works using freeformed hot glass, cast glass and stained. slumped and fused works.
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Scott-Robinson, Linda
A Painter living in a remote area of North Northumberland. Linda's inspiration comes from the ever shifting light that constantly changes the surrounding lanscape ...
Seddon, Peter
I have recently retired to the South East Coast of Northumberland where I make handbuilt sculptural ceramics and hanging wall reliefs and panels in reduction fired stoneware. The sea is increasingly influencing my imagery....
Serra, Luca
My main inspiration comes from Nature,Tribal Art and Music.My sculptures are carved by hand using various types of wood.For me, carving a piece of wood is like giving a new life to the tree which has been felled.The tree still lives ,but in a different form. ...
Sharman, Lizzie
I create unique hand worked pieces using natural fibres, often sourced locally from near my home in rural Northumberland.
I gather ideas from many cultures and incorporate various traditional techniques including weaving, hand spinning, crochet, fairisle knitting and felting.
I often use the c...
I gather ideas from many cultures and incorporate various traditional techniques including weaving, hand spinning, crochet, fairisle knitting and felting.
I often use the c...
Sheppard, Ann
I work part-time as a teaching assistant but paint in a corner of my dining room – dreaming of a studio in a big garden!
I work in watercolour, producing detailed paintings of botanical subjects. Nature is transitory and we often miss moments of great beauty in the life cycle of the most ordin...
I work in watercolour, producing detailed paintings of botanical subjects. Nature is transitory and we often miss moments of great beauty in the life cycle of the most ordin...
Smith, Sheila
My paintings are quite diverse ranging from portraiture to abstract works and
are mainly in oils and in watercolour. Portrait and other commissions welcomed....
are mainly in oils and in watercolour. Portrait and other commissions welcomed....
Spencer, Val
I paint whatever inspires my imagination to run riot with colour, texture and line. Often I will explore a topic with several media.
This enables me to abstract the essence of the chosen subject....
This enables me to abstract the essence of the chosen subject....
Stewart, Jill
I make small metal objects, mainly jewellery and clocks. The jewellery is silver with titanium and etched brass, quite graphic with contrasting metals.
<br />Colourful cartoony clocks have etched animals and birds.
<br />I've started printmaking and painting as well !...
<br />Colourful cartoony clocks have etched animals and birds.
<br />I've started printmaking and painting as well !...
Story, Willa
Willa specialises in artwork which combines stained glass and mosaic techniques, producing a fusion of traditional and modern bold designs. Each unique piece characteristically features a mosaic style surface using hand cut glass combined with wood or metal. Willa produces designs for abstract art p...
Stott, Catherine
Light filled and colourist painting/printmaking in a variety of media. Inspiration comes from music and other art forms, local festivals and traditions and from the natural world. Artist in Residence at Morpeth Folk Gathering. Archival prints of some items. Workshops for adults or children can be ...
Studd, Eve
Offering colourful creative workshops using natural dyes from my garden and the lanes around my home, near the national park.
Discover how to produce wonderful colours and use them on wool from local and rare breed sheep.
Workshops on natural dyes, simple weaving and some feltmaking, F...
Discover how to produce wonderful colours and use them on wool from local and rare breed sheep.
Workshops on natural dyes, simple weaving and some feltmaking, F...
Swift, Lynda
I am an Artist,Illustrator, and Crochet worker/designer. I paint many types of subject, from dragons to daffodils; meadows to morrismen; Sci-Fi to flowers & everything in between! I use watercolour, acrylics and pastel. A secret passion is teddybears, who appear on my card designs in every imagi...
Talbot, Mark
Mark Talbot is a designer- maker with an upbringing in traditional carpentry. His organic furniture and household objects are created from predominantly British hardwoods and inspired by ancient woodlands. They keep a sense of the irregularities of old trees, exaggerating rather than disguising flaw...
Taylor, Christine
I am a lover of art and a viewer of art. Most of my life I have drawn, painted and taken photographs enjoying this creative energy in my life. My artistic practice is concerned primarily in engaging with, cultural, emotional and personal experience related to memory the imagination, dreams the role...
Taylor, David
David Taylor is an award-winning landscape and travel photographer, who was born and raised in Newcastle upon Tyne and now lives in the ancient market town of Hexham, Northumberland. He took his first photograph at the age of 14, when his parents gave him a Kodak Instamatic for Christmas, and he has...
Thompson, Sally
Minimalist, near abstract paintings which are colour studies of the constantly changing sky, sea and landscape, often using impasto techniques....
Tose, Christine
Working mainly in watercolour, my recent work has been inspired by trips to Morocco and to Kenya. Closer to home I remain inspired by the land and seascapes of Northumbria, Cumbria and the Scottish islands....
Underwood, Gina
My style varies between an intuitive loose application to detailed and highly organised work to both depict and express.I use oils, acrylics and watercolours on any ground and focus mainly on organic and inorganic natural forms. More recently I have become aware of the intrusion of plastic into natu...
Vardy, Pam
Pam is a versatile artist, who lives and works in the unusual setting of an ancient pele tower. She paints atmospheric watercolour landscapes and flowers; large acrylic land and seascapes and mixed media abstracts on canvas. Studio/gallery open by appointment. Commissions welcome....
Veitch, Jane
My work grows out of involvement with the natural environment. I produce a body of work about particular places - a woodland, a stretch of coastline, a green lane. Using oils, pastels and collage I make strong images from natural and landscape motifs. Although my work is representational I concentra...
Villiers-Stuart, Rosie
Art form: painting - mostly watercolour and acrylic also teaching and workshops...
Vincent, Rebecca
Rebecca Vincent has specialised in printmaking for over 13 years. She trained at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford and Newcastle University. Her colourful etchings and monoprints are inspired by the patchwork landscape of Northumberland and the sea coast. She uses a wide range of hand-printed marks...
Wake, Janet
I use botanic images to create pictures, plaques and decorative door plates on reclaimed slate, using an acrylic mixed media.
I also create botanic watercolours and have exhibited with the Royal Horticultural Society at Hampton Court in 2006.
I am a qualified teacher and enjoy giving demonstrati...
I also create botanic watercolours and have exhibited with the Royal Horticultural Society at Hampton Court in 2006.
I am a qualified teacher and enjoy giving demonstrati...
Walker, Richard
Stimulated by the vistas of the border counties, I aim to capitalise on the weather and light to portray familiar scenes in ways perhaps not seen before. I emphasise dramatic effects using watercolours, acrylics and pastels and sometimes produce photographs alone when further interpretation seems un...
Walker, Christine
Painting, drawing & sculpture...
Walsh, Lyndsay
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Walsh, Lyndsay
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Waters, Brian
An illustrator and photographer. My personal work is rooted in landscape using paint and graphic media. My photography is concerned with exploring the erosion of man¹s structures by time and the elements....
Weightman, Bill
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Westall, Elaine
Working mainly in watercolour and acrylics, I try to capture the elusive light and atmosphere of the landscape, be that local woodland, west coast seascapes or the mountains of the Alps, the movement of the skies and textures of the landscapes inspire my paintings...
Weston, Jacqui
Jacqui has now sucessfully completed her BA Hons Creative Practice Degree specialising in Fine Art. Her current body of work explores issues relating to the consumer culture which is especially topical at the moment with the "credit crunch" etc. The artists practice includes mixed media ...
White, Carol
I'm an experienced Teaching Artist, I hold Painting Classes & Full-day Painting Workshops in rural across Tyneside & Northumberland. (Check the 'Workshops' page at www.carolsartonline.co.uk for full details).
I travel to Art Clubs/Societies and Community Groups througho...
I travel to Art Clubs/Societies and Community Groups througho...
White, Susie
Chesters Walled Garden, which I open to the public is in many ways my artwork since I combine colour, texture and shape in its planting. I respond to this, my initial creation, as well as the surrounding landscape and its wildflowers, with linocuts, which I enjoy for their physicality and spontaneit...
Whittle, Janice Anne
A self taught artist influenced by Japanese styles, mainly Koi, Orchids & landscapes. Mixed media including acrylic on canvas, watercolour and other....
Winward, Mike
I produce drawings and watercolours of a variety of subjects including rural and urban landscapes; buildings inside and out; still-life compositions.
I would be pleased to hear from you if you would like to find out more about my work, including where to view examples and how to purchas...
I would be pleased to hear from you if you would like to find out more about my work, including where to view examples and how to purchas...
