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List of Artists

I am a self taught mixed media artist based in South Gloucestershire, England. I get my inspiration from nature, seasons and my surroundings.I like creating atmospheric textured artwork with interesting visual effects and bright colourful abstract floral paintings and cards.

Agnieszka Richards

mixed media painting

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What had I hoped for? To walk a path is such a solitary activity. All my unspoken words and thought, love and anger, my envy and frustration are contained in the movement through space. It is a place to dream.

Ainslie Ross

painting

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I produce elegant detailed ink drawings, concentrating on the detail and beauty found in nature.

Alison Dyson

ink drawing

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I have been drawing, painting, sewing and making since my earliest memories. Brought up in the Herefordshire countryside, I moved to Bristol to study Illustration (BA Hons) at Bower Ashton, UWE, where I now work in the Fashion & Textiles Department.
Continually inspired by glorious nature, I love to sketch and paint in fields, gardens and on beaches. Drawn to colour and texture, I enjoy the physical process and layered qualities of oil painting. Using brush, knife and improvised tools, this is a happy way for me to capture the vibrant pattern of my surroundings.

Alison Stephenson

painting

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Amanda has been a practicing artist for many years.
Although Amanda is best known for her visionary colourful paintings she has recently started experimenting with textile books . The books will be on display for the art trail with a selection of recent paintings.

Amanda Griffiths

painting & textiles

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I am an artist living in Thornbury, having graduated from Falmouth University 2022. I produce original, hand drawn black and white artworks using fine point ink pens depicting local scenes, buildings and life observations from around Thornbury, which I hope you will enjoy. I also produce editorial illustrations which you can see on my website.

Angela Colquhoun

ink drawing

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Crafted quilts in a variety of beautiful fabrics, including doubles, singles, cot size, quillows, table runners, place settings, tote bags, shoulder bags and zipped toilet bags, something for everyone.

Anne Guy

quilting

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I am very influenced by colour and although I use a variety of images to work with I prefer water based themes especially boats using various mediums but mostly acrylics ,

Anne Harrison

painting

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Sea inspired jewellery using New Zealand Paua shells, semi-precious stones and freshwater pearls.
I also make sea glass and photographic cards.

Anne Lewandowska

jewellery

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Anne is a painter of landscapes, flowers and animals and works mainly in acrylic or gouache.

Anne McAllister

painting

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I have been producing watercolour paintings for quite a while now, and I thought it might be a good idea to give some of these an airing in public once again. I tend to paint what interests me at any given time. The subjects range from very old photographs, to wildlife and to anything else that pops into my head. I do take occasional commissions but on the whole the subjects are based on dreams and flights of fancy. I hope that you enjoy what you see.

Ashley Haigh

painting

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Caroline uses maps, photographs, documents and natural materials to make layers of marksand images with textiles, print, cyanotype and mixed media. She focuses on historical landscapes and changes to nature and environments.

Caroline Stealey

textiles & mixed media

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Catherine is a ceramicist producing both functional and decorative pieces. She enjoys exploring a variety of finishes, such as Raku and slip decoration.

Catherine Hall

ceramics

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I have been painting in this area for 15 years, my work is landscape based and has taken on a semi abstract personal interpretation, encapsulating feelings of mystery and moving through while walking. Using oil or acrylic paint on canvas or panel, texture, colour and composition, making a satisfying painting take precedence over portraying a view. Collage has also been a particular interest, sometimes primarily, at other times being incidental in the development of the work.

Christine Dack

painting

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Animaps: images discovered while exploring the countryside with my feet. I was alerted by Bristol conceptual artist Richard Long to the possibility of using walking as a way of understanding the countryside, but the images I have found owe more to Taoism and more especially, Tibetan Buddhism. Through Thornbury Wayfinders I am seeking new ways of interacting with the countryside and involving others in the process.

Christopher Bloor

drawing

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My work concentrates on my local landscape. The landmarks, fields, and fauna are all aspects that informs my paintings.
I work by sketching outside on the spot. The sketch will then be sized up and painted in my studio.
My painting process is very sketchy to start with then I slowly build layers of acrylic paint onto water colour paper or canvas to create fine detail.
Colour is also very important to me. To give a realistic interpretation of a view but an enhanced colour and contrast to make my work sing!

Claire Failes

painting

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Created vessels have dialogue with each other, their surroundings and those who interact both visually and by touch. The intangible essence, presence or ‘being-with’, enables interaction with others, our world, underpinning values within making. This precious essence facilitates acceptance, empathy, dialogue, potential for our well-being, that of others, and can facilitate collaboration.
Clays are similar yet individual and unique. During making, materiality of clay, inherited tacit knowledge, incorporating wood firing, local brick, wild clays and ash reinforces connections. Timeless interaction and understanding of varied societies and cultures, also mirror aspects within Clares previous midwifery career, providing wholeness to her work.

Clare Stephens

ceramics

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Loose and lively bold abstracts.

Diane Harrison

painting

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Paintings mostly of places I’ve visited

Elaine Romaeo

painting

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Elizabeth has been exploring creative arts education for over 60 years.
During the past four years, she has been creating small pieces of textile art, using scraps of old fabric, buttons, beads and very simple embroidery stitches, and then assembling them into stitch books. She's interested in the therapeutic potential of meditative, contemplative practices.

Elizabeth Vooght

textiles

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Unfortunately Francis is now unable to exhibit this year but we are hoping she will be back next year.

Frances specialises in painting and various forms of printmaking including collagraph, monotype and lino printing.
Her work is inspired by a love of nature and being outdoors. Whether it's the sea crashing against the Cornish coastline or a frosted over oak leaf in her local fields, these encounters form the ideas behind her semi-abstract paintings and intricate prints.

Frances Daws

painting & printmaking

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I am a self-taught hobbyist furniture maker who enjoys designing and making small pieces of furniture from wood. In the early years most of my work was influenced by The Arts and Crafts movement. Currently the Art Deco era is my inspiration, using mainly rippled sycamore and black walnut. I have recently made a range of occasional tables, each piece individually designed and hand crafted by myself in my own workshop. The contrasting spline detail a recurring theme. I also create smaller objects such as candleholders and vases often utilising offcuts from my tables.

Geoffrey Eamonn Doyle

wood

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Creative woodturner, large number of items for sale, as well as a variety of unique wooden models for display only.

George King

woodturning

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Quilts of all sizes, from double size to cot quilts in an assorted array of fabrics, something to suit a multitude of tastes. Also smaller quilted items, bed runners, tote bags, zipped toilet bags, covered books table mats and more. All assembled and quilted with care.
Pyrographed wooden items, hand burnt, painted and finished, including lined sycamore boxes, keyhooks, decorative plaques, coaster sets, clocks, light pulls and more.

Georgina Korn

quilting & pyrography

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I work with silver, copper, aluminium and enamels to produce hand-crafted, original jewellery designs decorative panels and bowls.
Nature and landscapes play a large part in my work and I enjoy experimenting and trying new techniques and materials.
I have been participating in the art trail and selling my work in local venues for the last twenty years. I have been tutoring silversmithing and enamelling in Bristol and from my garden studio.

Gillian Harkness

jewellery & enamels

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Batik and weaving inspired by the natural environment, landscape and especially woodlands.

Heather Morgan

batik & weaving

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Holly is an internationally-selling artist who captures memories, moments and emotions in magical seascapes, landscapes and florals. Vibrant colours and textures sweep across the canvas, adding mood and vibrancy. Each painting is filled with heart and spirit - a celebration of nature and all its healing powers.

She graduated in Fine Art at the University of The West of England, winning the John Hulla Award from the School of Creative Arts and achieved a First Class Honours Degree. After graduating she became a qualified art teacher at Masters level.

"I try to bring joy and clarity and to transport the viewer to a place of peace and mindfulness. My palette is generated by mood, embracing what is in my head and also what is in reality, often a dance between both."

Holly Dunham

painting

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I work mainly in acrylics. I enjoy painting landscapes, particularly coastal areas I have visited.

Jackie Windeatt

painting

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I strive to produce objects that focus on the natural beauty and characteristics of the wood, embracing and celebrating imperfection where I find it. I want my creations to be practical and beautiful, a pleasure to look at, to hold and to use. This includes pots, bowls, plates, vases, cutlery and jewellery, always striving to keep shapes simple and clean. I use only reclaimed or responsibly-sourced local wood.

Johannes Roux

wood

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Jude has been producing artwork for many years, taking inspiration from the nearby Cotswolds and local coastal paths around her country home.

A number of pieces have been exhibited in the The Pastel Society exhibition. She also exhibits works in local galleries.

All art work is original and pastel art is sold with frame. Please contact her at judejamesart@ gmail. com.

Jude James

pastels

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Judith Pemberton-Bennetts is an impressionist artist who specialises in acrylics, acrylic inks, and metallic leaf. Inspired by nature, her work often features serene woodland scenes and seasonal landscapes, enhanced with gold, silver, and bronze leaf for a luminous effect. Judith’s paintings blend vibrant textures with atmospheric depth, capturing the beauty of local woods and their changing moods. Based in Dursley, she is the founder of Tyndale Arts, promoting affordable art and supporting local artists through exhibitions and events. Her work invites viewers to pause and connect with the natural world.

Judith Pemberton-Bennetts

painting

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I enjoy abstract art combining the fluidity of watercolour and the precision of fine ink work.

Julie Jackson

painting & ink

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I enjoy using acrylics, water colours and collage to imaginatively recreate landscapes, seascapes and other aspects of the natural world which inspire me.

Karen Byrne

painting

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Originally from Ireland, I completed a BA Hons, ceramics at Cardiff Met and have continued working professionally in clay from my studio in the Cotswold's.
My work is heavily focused on my natural surroundings, binding that with how clay responds to mark making and surface applications of slips and colour. I stretch and manipulate clay to create functional ceramics for use in the home.

Karen Hilliard

ceramics

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Inspired by the natural world my collection is a celebration of colour and nature as I see it. I am drawn to many creative mediums but my art is based around the use of watercolours and acrylics. I don’t have any formal qualifications so feel that I am free to experiment and pursue the fun and freedom that these mediums hold.

Kate Andrews

painting

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I paint in acrylic and take my inspiration from the British countryside. My subjects span flora, fauna and landscape. I aim to capture places or subjects that have special meaning for me, or sometimes I may create pieces largely from my imagination. I’m currently working on a series of paintings reflecting my experience of backpacking on the South West Coast Path.

Kay Watkins

painting

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Eclectic mix of stoneware and porcelain pottery, handthrown or handmade.

Lindsey Benson

ceramics

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I make thrown and hand built ceramics, some functional and some inspired by nature and landscape. The pieces are fired in an electric kiln to stoneware temperatures or in my homemade raku kiln in the garden.

Liz Armstrong

ceramics

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I studied art at A-level many years ago but did not at that time have the chance to follow my interest.
Marriage, children and then work took over.
My chance to paint came when moving back to this area in 2015.
My inspiration is the beauty of the landscape and especially trees although my work is by no means photographic.

Liz Spriggs

painting

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I enjoy a wide range of art interests and subjects and use pencil, pen and ink, acrylic and oil paint mainly. Above all I love painting wildlife in its natural environment. I use acrylic paint and endeavour to create different textures - blurred backgrounds, furry or feathered bodies, soft grass and lichen covered rock and branch.

Louise Burns-Jones

painting

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I produce "Ghost fossils" in coloured fused glass exploring the transient quality of natural forms, creating wind chimes and hangings. My paintings often explore landscape and flowers. A range of work to come and see.

Louise Guest

glass and painting

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Ludmila Snicareva paints in watercolor. She was born in Latvia and has lived in the United Kingdom for the past 15 year.
Flowers are the primary subject of her art work. She admires them, takes pictures of them and then paints them tirelessly. Watercolour beautifully conveys the versatility of colour, the elegance and fragility of flowers. Ludmila continuously studies new materials and techniques as they emerge.

Ludmila Snicareva

painting

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Inspired by the hotchpotch nature of coastal villages and the ever-changing mood of the sea, I work with preloved fabrics to create textile art. Some pieces are then incorporated into bespoke bags and functional homeware.

Mair Gapper

textiles

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I started painting in my late 50s and use mostly Acrylics and Oils.

Marjorie Roper-Marshall

painting

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In combining organic materials and the manufactured, I struggle to resolve the dichotomy between nature and humankind, to marry the two – to create an harmonious, reciprocal and symbiotic relationship.

Mark Clifford

mixed media sculpture

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I am a self taught artist based in Berkeley. I paint landscapes and nature using acrylic paint and stitch. Textures and colours are important in my work and a lifelong love of wildlife is my main inspiration.

Melanie Chivers

painting & stitch

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Working with Lime plaster, mostly in relief, finished with white or coloured limewashes. A traditional decorative external plaster finish called Pargeting adapted and applied to boards to hang inside or outside.
Live demonstration pieces, commissions available.

Mike Hardwick

relief sculpture

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Thread painting machine embroidery of landscapes and meadows.

Mitra Mcquilton

thread painting

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Nadya webster runs White barn Upholstery providing a local upholstery service.
Nadya is a fully-qualified upholster who trained in traditional and modern upholstery techniques. She specialises in breathing new life into family heirlooms using gorgeous fabrics and sustainable materials. As well as restoring all types of chairs, armchairs and sofas, Nadya also makes bespoke seating and soft furnishings such as window seats, headboards and footstools. During the Severn Vale Art Trail, visitors to her workshop will have the chance to watch demonstrations of upholstery techniques, buy scatter cushions and browse and buy fabrics.

Nadya Webster

upholstery

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I am a hobby artist, I enjoy many forms of creative activity including pencil crayons and polymer clay.
My main creative outlet is using Alcohol Inks to produce colourful fantasy flowers and realistic paintings.
Alcohol Inks is a medium which is free flowing, inks are moved around using 95% plus alcohol. Paintings are then sealed with a water based sealant then varnished using a USB protective product.

Nic Driver

ink painting

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I draw inspiration from the natural world creating beautiful pieces from the free-flowing media of watercolour, alcohol ink and fused glass.
Profits are donated to The Woodland Trust for the planting of native trees.

Nicky Stone

painting and glass

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My work explores fragility, transformation, and the organic interplay of textures through ceramics and mixed-media processes. Inspired by the imaginary friends of my childhood, I use dioramas as part of the creative process to construct dreamlike worlds that blend the surreal with the familiar, evoking a sense of wonder and vulnerability.

Olive Haigh

ceramics & mixed media

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I use various media to produce landscapes and abstracts, and also collages.

Pauline Darley

painting & collage

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I’ve always drawn and painted but I spent a lifetime doing really interesting things in radio and television, that left me little time to pick up my brushes. I neglected it too long but for the last six years I've been trying to catch up. I paint in oils, mostly landscapes and portraits. Kind of realistic but occasionally abstract. Bit like me really.

Richard Leslie Lewis

painting

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Paintings inspired by elements of nature and landscape, such as rock formations, the seashore and local views. Framed and unframed originals, prints and greeting cards.
Rita originally studied printed textile design and fine print at Manchester Polytechnic and works mostly in mixed media and watercolour. Paintings, mainly in acrylic inks on a textured or collaged ground, are developed from observational drawings or colour notes made on site, along with location photographs.

Rita Dee

painting

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I design, make and sell silver and rolled gold jewellery incorporating semi precious stones.

Rosemary Millar

jewellery

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Sarah loves to experiment with different media and styles. She is particularly inspired by the vibrant colours in nature.

Sarah Benfield

painting

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"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything." Aaron Siskind.

My grandfather gave me my first camera when I was 8 years old. Over the following decades I've been fortunate in being able to capture visual stories, both as a keen amateur and a working professional, in film and digital. Shooting landscape, documentary, portrait and architectural photography, and recording those details which we might otherwise forget, it is a privilege to be able to share these visual memories.

Steve Godsell

photography

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After a working life spent in the creative industries I have returned to my first love of painting. I am always experimenting with different mediums and techniques, producing a diverse range of styles from bold graphic style flower portraits, loose flowing abstracts to dramatic imagined worlds. Always treading a fine line between chaos and calm!

Yvette Zoffani

painting

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