Wahida Phillips Illustration Wahida Phillips Illustration Wahida Phillips Illustration 1/1 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. Website: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wahidaphillipsart Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wahida_phillips_art/ Email: wahidaphillipsart@gmail.com

North Somerset Embroidery and Textile Group Textile Art North Somerset Embroidery and Textile Group Textile Art North Somerset Embroidery and Textile Group Textile Art 1/1 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. Website: https://northsomersetembroideryandtextilegroup.wordpress.com/ Facebook: Instagram: Email: elkedavies@btinternet.com

Caroline Cunningham Painting/Drawing Caroline Cunningham Painting/Drawing Caroline Cunningham Painting/Drawing 1/1 After studying textile design for 4 years I worked in London designing knitwear, then needlepoint and rugs for magazines, before focusing on silk painting and glass work. My abstract silk paintings have themes drawn from nature combined with man made structures. Website: Facebook: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carolinecunningham156 Email: cunningstitches@icloud.com

Grace Ahern Various Grace Ahern Various Grace Ahern Various 1/1 Grace Ahern is a young creative individual who uses nature as her inspiration and explores this through colour and various disciplines such as ceramics, woodwork and textiles. She wants to depict the beauty within our world, the ying and the yang from natural patterns through to humanity. She makes a conscious effort to try use environmentally friendly materials and upcycle anything she can to produce her outcomes. She lives in North Somerset and also has an interest of interior design. Website: Facebook: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ernie_art_2000 Email:

Rose Lafferty Textile Art Rose Lafferty Textile Art Rose Lafferty Textile Art 1/1 Rose Lafferty from Portishead creates pictures using needle felting and wet felting techniques. She uses a variety of wools, silks and other fibres including rare breed fleeces that she prepares and dyes herself. The pictures are usually inspired by nature with ocean waves being a regularly recurring theme. Website: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RoseFeltInspired Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosefeltinspired Email: RoseFeltInspired@gmail.com

Joanna Sellam Painting/Drawing Joanna Sellam Painting/Drawing Joanna Sellam Painting/Drawing 1/1 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. Website: https://www.joannasellam.co.uk Facebook: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/josellam_artist Email: joannasellam@proton.me

Hilary Kington Mixed Media Hilary Kington Mixed Media Hilary Kington Mixed Media 1/1 I am a wildlife watcher, conservationist, painter and printmaker with a passion for our local salt marshes. In our increasingly fragile world conservation and education is now a key part of my work. We are lucky to have these precious places but they are in decline and their future hangs in the balance. My hand-pressed, woodcut prints tell the stories of these wetlands and their endangered wildlife. I often inscribe messages into the woodcuts so people know why they need protecting. It is only when we understand the problems that we can help to protect the world around us. Website: https://www.ukwildlifeart.co.uk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HilaryKingtonSaltMarshSketches/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hilarykington/ Email: hakartstuff@icloud.com

Mandi Baykaa-Murray Painting/Drawing Mandi Baykaa-Murray Painting/Drawing Mandi Baykaa-Murray Painting/Drawing 1/1 Renowned for her creative use of feathers, Mandi, affectionately known as ‘The Feather Lady,’ crafts unique artworks that are as inspiring as they are beautiful. Utilising real moulted feathers as her canvas, each carefully collected for its unique beauty, Mandi applies delicate layers of acrylic paint to bring her intricate visions to life. Each piece is a testament to the synergy between natural beauty and artistic innovation - a piece of the natural world, transformed and reimagined. Mandi's works are a celebration of nature, emphasising sustainable artistry, turning found feathers into inspiring creations that resonate with nature lovers and art enthusiasts alike. Website: https://www.thefeatherlady.co.uk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wildwithpaintbrushes Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mandibm Email: mandi@thefeatherlady.co.uk

Peter Foreman Ceramics Peter Foreman Ceramics Peter Foreman Ceramics 1/1 Peter enjoys making both functional and decorative pottery using a variety of different making and firing techniques including Wood firing, Raku and Saggar. Local clay and wood ash is incorporated into some of his pottery. Website: Facebook: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterforemanceramics Email: peteforeman@gmail.com

Caroline Wait Enamels Caroline Wait Enamels Caroline Wait Enamels 1/1 As an artist, I have spent 17 years perfecting my skills as an enamelled copper and mixed media artist. The versatility of enamelling and the ability to achieve bright, vibrant colours continually inspire me. I love incorporating these colourful creations into everyday objects to produce unique pieces of art. A quote that deeply resonates with me is, "You watch it cool down slowly from white or red heat to deep blues, solemn violets, juicy greens, subtle lilacs, glowing orange, with a pure unbroken glaze for the surface, and then you know that your labour is not in vain, your work beautiful, it will never fade" - Edith Dawson, Enamels. During the lockdown, I delved into the world of mixed media and discovered a love of creating my crazy grey-haired ladies. I enjoy blending them with unusual objects, providing me with an opportunity to frequent vintage fairs and unearth hidden treasures. Website: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blackberrylanedesigns Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blackberrylanedesigns4 Email: carolinewait@yahoo.co.uk

Michelle Lucking Painting/Drawing Michelle Lucking Painting/Drawing Michelle Lucking Painting/Drawing 1/1 Michelle Lucking is an award winning, international pastel artist specialising in realism to create large scale, beautiful seascapes and underwater portraits. Her art explores the contrasting raw power and calm serenity of the differing states of water, and the technical challenge of capturing both its translucency and movement. Lucking’s interest extends to both the anatomy of water and the human form, and how the 2 interact; how light and water refracts the human form into abstract shapes dissected by light and shadow that still resemble a person. A keen sea swimmer and photographer, Lucking draws on her own reference photos and immediate experiences of the sea and swimming to recreate and convey the emotions and narrative of water, using both realism and scale, and capturing light and movement, to draw the viewer into her paintings. Her work is collected and exhibited internationally and in 2017 she won the prestigious Annie Longley Award at the annual British Pastel Society exhibition. She is brand ambassador for the internationally acclaimed pastel company Unison Colour, and has been featured in several magazine publications including Artist and Illustrator. In 2024 she was approached by the acclaimed whiskey company The Macallan and produced 6 paintings for their estate collection, one of which was then featured on the packaging of a limited edition whiskey. Website: https://www.michellelucking.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MichelleLuckingArt Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MichelleLuckingArt Email: michelle.lucking@hotmail.co.uk

Nick Whiting Sculpture Nick Whiting Sculpture Nick Whiting Sculpture 1/1 My sculpting life has taken a dramatic and new direction in the last two years. First, I was asked to do a statue of St Francis of Assisi for a friend. The outcome of this is that the figure I produced now lives in the communal gardens of a retirement home and is much loved by all who go to see him. Whilst doing this I was given a commission by a school in Accra, Ghana for three life size busts to represent the three people who founded the school 24 years ago. The school has established itself and is now very highly regarded in the education world. They are currently building an extension to the school and the busts will have a special part in the new building - cast in bronze, to be on permanent display for evermore! Website: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NickWhitingSculpting Instagram: Email: nickwhiting86@gmail.com