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Robert’s joy in expressing his passions and interests through the mediums of drawing and painting began way back in childhood. He went on to forge a lifelong career in the fashion industry, which still continues today, working with his wife, fashion designer Suzy Hamilton, creating and manufacturing...

I’m largely a figurative painter working in acrylic, pastels, charcoal, really anything that I can get my hands on. I like to experiment painting on all sorts of textures, from canvas and cardboard to slate and steel. Growing up in South Yorkshire most of my family were either miners or steelw...

A fascination with light and shadow, reflection and refraction, pattern and water movement drives the minimalist abstraction in my paintings of real landscape. I take the contemporary search for the sublime to the extreme of simplicity. Countering an information-saturated culture where little is unk...

I trained as a printed textile designer at Camberwell School of Art and subsequently worked as a designer in various London studios. I went on to explore felting techniques and am now making a diverse selection of handcrafted art works, jewellery, scarves and household textiles. I produce all my own...

Art has always been a part of my life, it was something I was good at as a kid, in fact it was the only thing I was good at. I did know that I wanted my job in life to have a creative element to it. It was about 2 years ago, now that the kids are ready for moving out that I felt the need to get back...

My work reflects my relationship with the natural world and the emotions it inspires. I’m interested in detail and embellishment, order and chaos. I look at my subject matter and think about how many different ways it can be represented. Representation itself fascinates me. You can approach one subj...

As well as creating original oil paintings which are exhibited in galleries across Yorkshire, the north of England and also in London, I produce limited edition prints of my paintings. I am proud to be an exhibiting member of Leeds Fine Artists (founded in 1874). My paintings are very heavily guided...

My life and career since starting work in 1963 has always involved photography. I grew up in Headingley, Leeds, Yorkshire. My father was a press photographer on the Yorkshire Post and it wasn’t long before I was following in his professional footsteps. At 16 years of age I started work as a pr...

I make vessels and sculpture. Most are wood fired in an anagama type kiln to around 1300 Degrees Centigrade, but others are fired in neutral, (electric Kiln) atmosphere or in a gas kiln. Occasionally I also raku fire a piece. My work has been influenced by observations of people, by places I have vi...

I live in Leeds and work in half a double garage. I come originally from Devon; my father was a sculptor and my schooling was very art based. So I rebelled and went to University to study Social Administration and Politics. I decided after my degree to accept fate and took up painting. I did not go...

Heather Burton is an award-winning Yorkshire-based artist who specialises in palette knife work. Inspired by the dramatic coastlines and countryside of the UK, she applies many layers of acrylics to capture their ever-changing moods and atmosphere. Heather began with portraiture and figurative work...

I love drawing, painting, sculpting, in fact any type of art.  I work with a variety of media and materials, these include silk painting and batik as well as traditional painting materials.  I am currently enjoying working with photographs and photo shop, using my computer as a sketch book to create...