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.

We are a diverse collective of printmakers from the local area who use a range of printmaking techniques to create our work. Including; lino, screen print, mono print, woodblock, Gelplate printing and etching. The exhibition is held at Print[works]Weston which is the workshop studio of Tracey and Claire, two of the printmakers exhibiting. We run workshops in various printmaking processes and hold a monthly Print Club on the last Thursday of the month where all those interested in printmaking are welcome.

Taking her inspiration from nature, Lucy Routh creates paintings that are bold and vibrant in colour but with a sense of space and simplicity. Her painting style offers a contemporary twist on the genre of still life with images often being described as fresh and clean with a graphic and illustrative quality to them. Amongst Lucy's favourite images to paint are flowers, sea food and fruit.

Barbara Britton - Painter, Print Maker Jane Dalby - Painter Carol Dean - Painter Leonie Downs - Painter, Ceramicist Sue Howard - Painter, Card Crafting Christine Howe - @ handmadehowe Mosaic Artist, Painter Steven Howe - @ handmadehowe Rope Worker Julia Knight - Painter Teresa Pearson - Painter Margaret Williams - Painter Andy James - Mixed Media Artist Roy Bunce - Painter

Robert Sargent is an artist, architect and adventurer. A recent professional artist who is using his architectural skills to underpin his creative work. Inspired by the Southwest’s stunning scenery, his paintings capture that uplifting feeling you get on a perfect or not so perfect day when you’re out in nature. Robert aims to capture a permanent reminder for the walls of your home. Every piece has a unique geolocation catalogued through What3Words, so you too can relive that moment that warms the soul. His work is generally acrylic painting applied by brush, palette knife and pen on a variety of medium from canvas to paper. Website: www.ochrestudiouk.com Instagram: @ochrestudiouk Email: ochrestudiouk@gmail.com

I draw and paint in watercolours, acrylics and oils. I also make prints and Touch Drawings. I like to immerse myself in the landscape so that I feel part of it and feel closer to the place. Landscapes can resonate with our inner world and reveal some of the mystery of existence to us. I studied Fine Art at Central St Martins and Slade. I participated in Rose Frain's Womens Art Weeks, where I developed a more intuitive, imaginative approach to art making. During an NHS career in Art Therapy I continued to make images and attended courses at printmaking studios and at The Essential School of Painting. I studied Touch Drawing with Deborah Koff-Chapin in Findhorn, Seattle and online. I now offer Touch Drawing workshops and welcome commissions to paint portraits of people in their own garden or favourite parkland.

With a background as a Graphic Designer and a successful business selling graphic prints of the local area, Sarah has returned to her love of painting. Motivation to paint comes from noticing the dramatic and the colourful in a landscape and a desire to do more than take a photo, to somehow capture in paint the intense colours and the atmosphere of a place. She paints plein air whenever possible and finishes works in her studio using acrylic and oils.

Inspiration comes in many forms but I have always been drawn to people, places and nature. Sometimes I combine all three! I draw influence from varied sources, as inspiration truly is all around us, but my current art style is shaped by environments and contours, subculture, expression and style, (and splash of humour can also be found in some of my pieces)! Alongside the artwork I produce for general release I also do lots of private commissions and am often working variety of commercial illustration projects. There are also fellow creatives that I find extremely inspirational and these include M.C. Escher, William Hogarth, Brian Bolland, Eric Fischl, Mode2, Charles Griffin, Rodney Matthews and Barney Farmer - to name but a few of many more! My work is hand drawn. I sometimes colour with ink and sometimes I scan my drawings and colour them in Photoshop using a digital drawing pad and pen.

Liane Stevenson is a professional artist living and working in North Somerset. She trained in Fine Art, sculpture at UWE, and has continued to work within the artistic environment since then. Her work divides into three main areas, portraiture, landscape, and work inspired by the natural world. In her portraiture Liane is not concerned with a photographic likeness, but rather to capture a glimpse of the character of her subject and make a connection between the sitter and the viewer. In her landscapes she is inspired by the rhythms found in the natural and agricultural landscape, and in the architectural geometry of the cityscape. She uses mixed media and collage to represent and enhance the decorative aspect of these qualities, whist maintaining a sense of place. Liane’s interest in the natural world is really a celebration of the beauty and diversity of the World's fauna. She hopes to inspire her viewers to value and conserve our environment and the creatures within it. More recently she has been working with wood carving, a discipline she hopes to explore further.

Cora hand builds ceramic objects Inspired by weathered rocks pebbles, shells, forms and textures from where she lives. She combines her enjoyment of drawing with the use of clay by designing and making, hand built sculptures and ceramic plaques with engraved designs She has spent many years teaching adults and young people about art in schools, colleges and adult education, as well as teaching ceramics, art and design to adults in her studio. She has always tried to foster an appreciation of the arts joining with other art organisations to help to raise the profile of the arts in our local community. Cora started professional training at Kingston upon Thames College of Art, gaining a first class honours in 3D design / sculpture and afterwards studied ceramics at the Royal College of Art in London. Former Member of the Somerset Guild of Craftsmen