I am an intuitive painter/printmaker exploring the ‘Emotional Landscape’ through gestural, semi-abstract, fictive places full of movement, weather, air and space. The works offer a sense of perspective, invite reflection, and utilise the restorative and hopeful aspects of nature. Colour is of prime importance in creating the emotional tone, working in layers of transparency with gestural marks to build perceived depth, texture and form. Celebrating the spiritual power of open spaces and the cyclical nature of life, the concept of journey both physical and metaphorical is central to the work. Selected for the Royal Academy and a recipient of several national awards my work has been widely exhibited in the UK. I have been a core tutor at Spike Print Studio in Bristol since graduating from an MA in Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking in 2004, and co-manage North Street Gallery in Bedminster.

Margaret uses her understanding of landscape to provide a feeling which connects to a deep seated love of the outdoors, whether from her native Isle of Arran, Somerset, Cornwall or following a recent trip to Shetland which has furnished the pushing of boundaries in her choice of medium. Ink and oils in particular provide enough scope for those to happen.

Sally Mulholland is a studio potter who creates from her home and studio in Portishead. Her work varies from small aesthetic and sculptural pieces to functional pots and tableware. She is inspired by the sea, mud and landscape locally and likes to experiment with glazes and sea glass additions. She has studied with studio potters in Bristol and Glasgow as well as at Bristol Folk House, South Gloucester College and Weston College. Originally from the West Country, she lived in Scotland before ‘returning’ in 2019. She also worked as Project Leader in a pottery supporting adults with learning disabilities and autism until recently deciding to pursue her own path.

We are a local embroidery and textile group and meet on the 2nd Saturday of each month (except August) at Cleeve Village Hall. We often have external tutors at our meetings and our programme offers a mixture of traditional embroidery and modern textile workshops. For enquiries please contact Elke Davies at elkedavies@btinternet.com.

I have loved painting and drawing all my life. My main focus has been nature, depicted in various media. I have a strong sense of place, often reflecting the history in my work (particularly my collages), and am also fascinated by the play of light and flickering shadows, which can change the mood of a scene in seconds. I am currently working on a series of paintings after a visit to Kew Gardens, where the many layers of reflections in the lily ponds in the Princess of Wales Conservatory intrigued me. 2014 HND in Painting Open College of the Arts. 2018 First Class Honours Degree in Contemporary Art and Professional Studies, Bath Spa University 2021 – 2023 Tutor for Seasons Art 2010 to Present. Participation in local exhibitions (Bath, Bristol, Clevedon and Weston) including the RWA. Member of North Somerset Arts and Clevedon Art Club, a-n The Artists Information Company, RWA Friends. Tutor for private groups in Watercolour and Oil Painting Progression of my own work in Oil, Watercolour and Acrylic.

Clare Orr is a local Artist who has gained qualifications in both fine art and public art as a mature student at the Royal Academy of Art in Bristol. Working in oil and watercolour the main focus of her work is landscape, seascape and nature. Her watercolour work is stylised using techniques of masking fluid, sea salt and washes to create texture and depth. By picking out the linear aspect of the countryside made by the footpaths, hedgerows and hills she produces work which has a printlike quality. Her work has been influenced by Japanese wood blocks prints. Her work in oils bring detail into the miniature scenes she creates. Clare uses a large collection of photographs and sketches of the surrounding landscape as inspiration for her paintings.

Award winning artist Paul is renowned for his unique themed mirrors i.e. Clevedon Pier/Bristol/Suspension/Glastonbury Tor and others. Also tree and nature designs made from 300 year old Elm/Oak and other woods. He also makes interlocking boxes i.e. Nautilus, Ammonite/Tudor Rose/Hearts and Leaf designs. Paul will also be showing award winning food chain interlocking animal families, unique in the World! They open up to reveal their food or offspring inside. Paul uses only Wood from a sustainable source to create his many beautiful designs.

Renate makes unique designs, using seedpods, spices and Paul's offcuts, depicting leaves and heart shapes. Renate is also renowned for her felting work, creating Bags/Brooches/Butterflies/Moths/Flowers and nature scenes. Renate's work is eye catching and of the highest quality.

Steve Peel is a local artist based in Portishead painting in water mixable oils. His paintings are inspired by landscapes in Bristol, the UK, and France. Steve presently works in the space industry and so is also inspired by telescope images of space, such as the Pillars of Creation captured by the NASA Hubble and James Webb Telescopes. Steve studies art at Folk House in Bristol where he has also exhibited his works.

Wahida Phillips is a contemporary artist creating fine art prints and cards using a variety of media. These include digital, as well as traditional hand drawn methods, watercolours, inks and acrylic paints. She works from her home studio in Portishead,where she designs and draws all her artwork. These are printed onto heavyweight fine art paper using giclee inks. Wahida is inspired by nature and architecture. She works primarily with a bright and bold colour palette to create pretty, colourful and whimsical illustrations of iconic scenery in North Somerset and Bristol.

I take inspiration from my immediate environment often painting outdoors before developing larger or more abstracted works in the studio. Originally from rural Carmarthenshire, I currently paint around the River Severn from my home in Portishead, where I also organise and run portrait and landscape courses. I often paint in oils using a limited palette to capture the beauty within this often bleak landscape. Complementary to this I enjoy the representational challenge of portraiture. I have successfully completed a number of commissions and have exhibited at the Holburne Portrait Prize in Bath. I have shown landscapes and portraits in many galleries and venues in and around Bristol and Bath including the RWA Autumn Exhibition and the Bath Society of Artists. I’ve also exhibited at the Mall Galleries in London with the Royal Institute of Oil painters and ING Discerning Eye exhibitions.

My name is Belle and I am a potter from Bristol. I trained at Clay College in Stoke-on-Trent, an intensive course designed to teach practical and in-depth exploration of the craft of pottery. As much as I shape clay, clay is what shapes me, and influences how I interact with it as a material. I approach my making with curiosity and play, paying close attention to how the clay responds to my hands and tools. I consider how I might encourage the marks of impressed stamps to sweep or fly across a stretched slab of porcelain, or how waves of clay might ripple up a wooden rib. I seek to capture a lively and natural loose energy in my work and I draw greatly from surface quality. Whether throwing or hand building my aim is the same: to capture a sense of movement. The marks that I impress, stretch and cut help to instil a sense of me into the pots I make.