Anthony Ratcliffe     The work of the artist has always been connected with British landscape and is a result of travelling extensively around Scotland, Wales, England and Ireland. This exploration includes into research natural history, archaeology, geography and literature associated with the same landscape. The artist is particularly interested in the [...]

Helen Peyton     Helen is founder and artist in residence of Smart Gallery, social museum and art gallery, her contemporary linocuts are dynamic and thoughtful, due to her ongoing love of objects, their stories, histories and association to our emotions. Smart Gallery was nominated for the 2015 Turner Prize and awarded [...]

Anja Perival     I am fascinated by the different atmospheres that light creates in our environment. My choice of subject matter is usually quite ordinary but it’s the effect that light has within these spaces that captures my attention. I find it really interesting to see light changing the unremarkable to [...]

Mark Pearce     Mark grew up in Cumbria where he trained at Carlisle College of Art, progressing to The Norwich School of Art. After a very successful career as a graphic designer in London, Mark moved back to Cumbria in 2006. He works from his Ravenglass home, creating vibrant contemporary landscapes [...]

Carol Pairaudeau and Paula Gamble-Schwarz     Artists Carol Pairaudeau and Paula Gamble-Schwarz are involved in an ongoing silent drawing conversation. Employing a variety of printmaking materials and techniques, both artists independently begin to develop their response to an agreed theme. However, before the work reaches a conclusion the two artists exchange [...]

Jane Ormes     My screen prints reflect my take on the world. I produce playful, colourful images, often involving animals in absurd situations. I like to think that these creatures all have a secret life that we know nothing about. I keep a notebook to jot down unsual names or lyrical [...]

Tricia Newell     I studied illustration and graphic design at Ipswich Art School in the seventies and spent many years as a freelance illustrator.  My introduction to printmaking was as a teenager, when I helped Joe Lubbock print the etchings for his limited edition books. This led to my joining an [...]

Gail Kelly     Traditionally made using local materials covered with layers of whitewash, the Irish old farmhouses and cottages seem to fit into the landscape so well. Some have been maintained and cherished over the years and continue to be someone’s home. Others, abandoned long ago, are so remote I wonder [...]

New Light     New Light is a charity which celebrates and promotes Northern art, supporting both well-known and emerging artists. The New Light Prize Exhibition is one of the region's largest open exhibitions, which tours renowned galleries across the North and London. It includes the £10,000 Valeria Sykes Award. Our 'Art [...]

Stef Mitchell     Mono printing from nature, Stef makes prints which create an edge from which the organic accident and intentional mark can be read. Recent work explores depth and frontality within a circle and in work combining the external language of nature with the internal language of quilting. Her folded prints have developed [...]