Alexandra Lavizzari

I understand photography, not just as an easy way of reproducing reality, but as a fascinating tool for creating artistic interpretations of what I see. I started my journey in photography when I first visited Hartland in Devon, where I discovered unique rock formations which are in fact, as I see them, a form of abstract art. Photographing these rocks opened up a whole new potential of visual effects which I continue exploring by combining various photographic techniques suitable to my subject matters – be they floral or architectural, geometrical or free flowing. What counts in the end, for me, is revealing the beauty of our world.

www.lavizzari-art.com @alexandra_lavizzari

Maddie Rock

I am an artist and printmaker inspired by the natural world. Walking and drawing are my starting points, allowing me to explore and understand my subject before translating my experience into print. I am particularly drawn to trees—their forms, textures, and presence in the landscape—as well as the rhythms of walking, especially along the coast path. I work primarily with collagraphy, a process that allows me to explore surface and texture in depth. Through making plates, I search for ways to convey the structures, patterns, and atmosphere of the landscape, as well as my own movement through it.

www.maddierock.co.uk Instagram: @maddierockartist

Leo Davey

Ever since I can remember I have created imagery. I love the processes, the endless possibilities, the accidents and the planning. Every painting is an experiment and every final solution is achieved via a different journey. Although landscape makes up a large part of my output, subjects vary enormously but are all linked by an attention to detail and focus on dramatic light and perceived space.

In recent years I have won the Evolver Prize, The Derek Balmer Painting Prize and The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, amongst other awards.I currently work from my studio/gallery in Minehead on the edge of Exmoor.

www.leodavey.com @leodaveystudiogallery

Jenny Barron

My watercolour still life paintings use a wide range of subject matter, fruit, flowers, decorated china and many other much loved bits and pieces from my happily cluttered shelves

Combining classical themes with a contemporary approach ,and the occasional digression into surreal or whimsical humour, I very much enjoy creating my vivid and sometimes dramatic painted world. The vibrant colours and deep shadows are achieved by building up layered watercolour washes , a technique developed from my earlier more botanical work

I am happy to be working in this unbroken still life tradition that reaches back to 17C and beyond.

www.jennybarronnew.com @jennybarron36

Margaret Micklewright

I particularly enjoy the light distribution and reflective qualities of rain on the landscapes around me. In January and February they have certainly been in abundance. Using ink has really helped me to show this inspiration. Flickering light and minimal marks to create the atmospheric work. My sketching creates a more immediate response to what is around me. Some colours are intensified, some are delicate, muted to blend in with the water based landscape that I have found on the Levels and beyond.

www.margaretmicklewright.com @margaretmicklewright

Jenny Graham

My work for this exhibition is based on the landscapes of West Somerset, primarily those of the Quantock Hills and Exmoor. Working in both watercolour and oil. I aim to create the spirit of the place - its season, light, colour and topography. I am drawn to the quiet places I

find on my walks with the dogs, with days both sunny and cloudy in all sorts of weather. These are not ‘pretty pictures’ but those, I hope, which give the feel and atmosphere of a particular place and moment.

www.jennygrahamartist.co.uk @jennygraham46

Sally Hebeler

My art is a celebration of the pervasiveness of memory and the imprint we all make on the world, however brief that may be. This process of printing allows me to connect with those untold stories, unmarked losses, and ephemeral lives. These prints are overlaid and built up using a variety of techniques and materials, like layers of history. I incorporate intaglio, relief, embossing techniques, found objects and archival materials.

My prints in this exhibition aim to celebrate the renewal of life, the excitement of Spring, with blossom, rooks, flowers and animals to make us all feel uplifted.

Email: sallyhebeler@btinternet.com @sallyhebelerprints

Jackie Crawford

My latest paintings have been inspired by the thought ‘Towards the Light’, where dark spaces are pierced by a light that makes them mentally habitable. Think of the colour that flows from sunlight through stained glass illuminating a dark space or a shaft of sunlight that pierces through cloud giving hope of a better day. This past year for me has been a year of loss particularly of loved ones, I have felt trapped in darkness where shadows blocked light from my mind and I wanted to find a way forward. Colour has always been my source of joy and painting is my passion. It makes sense to find the light again through creating art where colour and thoughts create shapes, fragments from the liminal worlds where my mind takes refuge in daydreams; they become the underlay for my paintings.

Alison Cosserat

My latest work is inspired by layers of time. I have a fascination with the patination and texture that builds up over many, many years forming untold stories and encounters along a journey. This is similar to the processes and effects created during my work as a gilder and restorer of antique gilt furniture. In my paintings I'm using the same traditional, organic materials and processes that I do in my gilding practice. Building up and knocking back, covering up and then revealing again. Underlying all of this is a fixation with numbers and geometry that has appeared throughout much of my work. Trying to create some kind of order and rationale. I hold a BA Hons degree in Visual Arts at Lancaster university.

www.theoldbrickworkshop.com @oldbrickworkshop

Roger Rowley

Roger Rowley (b. 1965) I am a Devon-based artist and studied at the London Art College and the Open College of the Arts. My work has been shown in solo exhibitions and was Highly Commended at the Homiens Art Prize 2025.

My practice explores the emotional and cognitive relationships we form with everyday objects. By examining the value and meaning we attach to these items, I consider how they carry traces of the past into the present, evoking memories of people, places and lived experiences, inviting viewers to reflect on their own emotional attachments and personal histories.

www.rogerrowley.com @rogerrowleyart

Sophie Jennings

I am a tattoo artist and have a studio at The Old Brick Workshop. My drawings are inspired by the concept of flash sheets. These are pre-drawn designs which typically can be chosen from a booklet, a poster, or nowadays an online post, to then be tattooed. Traditionally they are simple and repeatable designs, however more recently with the rise of ignorant tattoos, flash no longer has any limits.

I created these drawings using graphite pencil. I have always loved drawing with pencil and enjoyed taking myself back to the basics. I also work with acrylic, often featuring the ocean in my work. A couple of my acrylic prints, which are also for sale, can be found in my studio which is open for anyone to have a look around.

Instagram@sophiejenningstattoo

Chris Kampf

I studied Jewellery and Silversmithing at Leicester Poly in the 80’s and setup a bespoke jewellery business. Within a few years I progressed to larger, more sculptural work moving from silver to steel and copper, the majority recycled. These were sold in Camden Lock and then Covent Garden. Selling in London has resulted in my sculptures being sent to all four corners of the earth.

I then moved and settled in Martock, Somerset. My ethos is to use recycled metals and maintain a low carbon footprint and therefore much of my material come from local companies. My designs are all inspired by nature, stripping back to the bare structure of plants, creating simple forms that often move in the breeze.

www.ckgardensculptures.co.uk @ckgardensculptures