Artists & Makers - NAT 2023
We're very excited to introduce all the amazing artists and makers who are part of this year's Newbridge Arts Trail (20-21 May 2023).
You'll find them listed here in alphabetical order (by family name), along with a taster of what you'll see when you visit them.
Paulo Baigent - Prints
Carole Bayliss - Jewellery
Izzy Bez-Cryer - Painting
Jan Byrne - Ceramics
Maria Danishvar - Figurative Painting
Matthew John Davies - Oil Painting
Brian Elwell - Painting
Kate Evans - Needle & Wet Felt
Penny Faux - Painting
Nigel Gardner - Painting
Polly Gough - Printmaking
Ann Hines - Painting & Linocut Prints
Philip Jansseune - Graphic Art
Janice King - Painting
Sarah Kniveton - Printmaking, Mixed Media & Alternative Photographic
Maria Knowlman - Bookbinding & Painting
Ian Parfitt - Illustration
Chris Peecock - Digital prints, Acetate Shadow Boxes & Papier Mache Jewellery
Apoorva Raghav - Acrylic Painting
Toni Roe - Digital Artwork, Resin Jewellery, Keyrings & Bead Bracelets
Kelvin Rogers - Photography
Tom Rogers - Painting & Drawing
Kathryn Scaldwell - Oil Painting
Kate Scully - Jewellery, Painting, Prints & Cards
Finola Stack - Painting
Hilary Strickland - Nature-inspired Prints on Cards, Linens, Cushions & Lampshades
Laura Symes - Painting
Mark Trueman - Painting
Karen Wallis - Drawing-based Projects
paulo baigent
Prints
Instagram: @speaktomegabriel
Facebook: SpeakToMeGabriel
This year, Paulo is showing digital prints which combine hand-drawn ink drawings with digital colour and manipulation to produce repeated patterns.
The range of work is called Flower Power and each themed piece of work is arranged to become an imaginary flower.
Venue: Newbridge Primary School
carole bayliss
Silver Jewellery
Instagram: @zimzalajewellery
Facebook: Zimzala Jewellery
Carole creates handmade sterling silver jewellery, simply designed to make you smile.
Venue: The Locksbrook Inn
Izzy Bez-Cryer
Painting
Instagram: @izzysabato
Izzy Bez-Cryer is an artist currently living and working in Bath. They are currently creating a series of bold, detailed ‘worms’. Within these paintings. they aim to convey looming emotions (like nostalgia, dread and peace) which suffuse everyday life, suspending them within the ‘worms’ and their environments.
Venue: Weston Methodist Church Hall, Kennington Road, BA1 3EA
Jan byrne
Fine Art Ceramics
Instagram: @janbyrneceramics
Jan creates hand-built, ceramic, fine-art pieces which are highly decorated, telling visual stories.
Venue: 19 Rosslyn Road, BA1 3LQ
Maria Danishvar
Figurative painting
Instagram: @maria_danishvar_artist
Facebook: @Bath Fine Art
Maria’s paintings feature ballet, landscape and still-life.
Venue: Weston Methodist Church Hall, Kennington Road, BA1 3EA
matthew john davies
Oil Painting
Instagram: @matthewdaviesart
Matthew takes traditional techniques and fuses them with other artistic interests. He paints all sorts of different things, with portraiture as his main focus.
Venue: 46 Newbridge Road, BA1 3JZ
brian elwell
Painting
Instagram: @elwell.brian
Facebook: @Brian Elwell
Twitter: @elwell01
Brian’s work is about making ideas visible. He is interested in psychology, religion, rebirth and regeneration, and the human need for meaning and purpose.
Venue: 51 St Johns Road, Lower Weston. BA1 3BW
kate evans
Needle & Wet Felt
www.kateevansfeltdesign.weebly.com
Instagram: @kateevansfeltdesign
Facebook: Kate Evans Felt Design
Kate is a needle and wet felt artist. She likes to take inspiration from nature and create a range of items. These include small stand-alone pieces, embellished frames and large pictures combining wet felt, needle felt, machine and hand embroidery.
She is also a member of the International Feltmakers Association.
Venue: 4 Homelea Park West, Newbridge BA1 3HR
penny faux
Painting
Trained in fine art at City of Bath College, Penny works in oils and acrylics. Her commissions have included portraits, still life and landscapes.
Some of her paintings tell a story or invite reflection, like her series of refugee portraits or the triptych commissioned by Yellowstone Theological Institute, USA.
Venue: Weston Methodist Church Hall, Kennington Road, BA1 3EA
nigel gardner
Painting
Nigel most often paints land or seascapes. Recently he also completed a series of the bridges of Bath in acrylic and mixed media.
Venue: Weston Methodist Church Hall, Kennington Road, BA1 3EA
polly gough
Printmaking
Instagram: @polly.gough
Polly is an artist printmaker, specialising in collagraphs and inspired by her love of animals, myths and stories.
Underpinning her work is a passion for experimentation, texture and colour which finds expression in this versatile and exciting medium.
Venue: The Locksbrook Inn, 103 Locksbrook Road, BA1 3EN
ann hines
Painting and Linocut Prints
Instagram: @annhines8
Ann’s painting is figurative, often featuring people at work or play. She tries to tell stories, capture atmosphere or suggest relationships.
Working mainly in acrylic, she is attracted by contrasts in light and texture. She likes experimenting with processes or media and finds unexpected results are often the most exciting.
Venue: 9 Evelyn Road, BA1 3QF
philip jansseune
Graphic Art
Instagram: @philipjansseune
Facebook: @philipjansseune
Twitter: @PJansseune
Philip is a Creative Director who, in his spare time, designs fonts and takes photos. This year-long project has been a personal exploration of the letters of the alphabet and the numbers 0-9.
Proceeds from selling this work will be donated to an organisation for refugees of the Ukraine war here in the UK.
Venue: The Locksbrook Inn, 103 Locksbrook Road, BA1 3EN
janice king
Painting
Instagram: @janicekingartist
Janice is a colourist painting in oils and acrylics. She has exhibited in London, Bristol, Birmingham and Bath, including the BSA Open exhibition 2022.
She enjoys painting a range of subjects including still life and landscapes.
Venue: 6 Newbridge Hill, BA1 3PU
sarah kniveton
Printmaking, mixed media, alternative photographic
Instagram: @sarah.kniveton
Sarah’s work focuses on memory, false and fragmenting with time.
She experiments mainly in print and photography, using repeating images from found negatives as well as alternative photographic techniques.
Venue: 2 Apsley Road, BA1 3LP
maria knowlman
Bookbinding and Painting
Instagram: @bindingyourtime
Maria makes creative journals and bespoke sketchbooks from scratch, with the aim of giving the user a really special experience every time they go to make a sketch or jot down a thought.
In her painting work, she enjoys capturing the atmosphere of places, such as our beautiful Bath.
Venue: Newbridge Primary School, Charmouth Road, BA1 3LL
ian parfitt
Illustration
Ian creates mind-boggling mazes.
Venue: Newbridge Primary School, Charmouth Road, BA1 3LL
chris peecock
Digital prints, Acetate shadow boxes, Papier mache jewellery
Instagram: @chris.peecock.549
Facebook: @chris.peecock.549
Chris uses his own photos to create digital kaleidoscopic prints. He has developed a technique using his laptop to mirror, multiply and layer sections of photographs to produce symmetrical images.
Framed giclee prints and those on canvas are professionally printed. Unframed prints are printed on matte photographic paper, treated with a protective coating to prevent fading.
Venue: Weston Methodist Church Hall, Kennington Road, BA1 3EA
apoorva raghav
Acrylic Painting on Canvas and Wood
Instagram: @apoorvaraghav
Facebook: @ardourforcreation
Twitter: @apoorvaraghav
Apoorva creates abstract art works in acrylics brush free, using hands and general household utility items.
Her range of products includes paintings, wooden coasters, wooden bookmarks and attractive handmade clocks.
Venue: Newbridge Primary School, Charmouth Road, BA1 3LL
toni roe
Digital Artwork, Resin Jewellery, Keyrings and Bead Bracelets
Instagram: @troe_art_design
Facebook: @ToniIsKindByDesign
Twitter: @KindbyDesign
Toni creates colourful, positive artwork and design to inspire brighter days and to make people smile.
Colour is a wonderful way for us to express ourselves, boost our mood and convey emotion. It is such a powerful tool and it's one Toni loves to play with across all of the mediums she creates with.
Venue: The Locksbrook Inn, 103 Locksbrook Road, BA1 3EN
kelvin rogers
Photography
Instagram: @kelvin.foto
Photographs can be both literal and elusive. Kelvin looks for the unnoticed, whether that's a detail, a pictorial quality or chance encounter between the camera and a real thing or place in the world.
A range of smaller prints, ideal for the home.
Venue: 21 Westfield Park, BA1 3HS
tom rogers
Painting and Drawing
Instagram: @tomsart__
Tom is interested in the generation of images and how they communicate something words cannot. His practice explores reflections of unconscious processes.
Recently, he has been keeping a small journal of drawings with ink or charcoal, from places and occasions. This has led his practice while living in Bristol.
Venue: 21 Westfield Park, BA1 3HS
kathryn scaldwell
Oil Painting
Instagram: @kathrynscaldwell
Facebook: Kathryn Scaldwell Artist
Kathryn loves to paint in oils on canvas and loves capturing dramatic lighting in her work.
Most of the inspiration for her seascapes comes from the coastlines of Cornwall and Devon, although she has recently started exploring the wide open landscape of Norfolk.
Venue: 4 Homelea Park West, BA1 3HR
Kate Scully
Jewellery, Paintings, Prints and Cards
Instagram: @katescully.jewellery
Kate takes inspiration from nature and her love of animals for her paintings and jewellery making.
Her paintings are created with acrylics on either canvas or paper. Her jewellery is made from sterling silver, semi-precious stones and sea-glass.
Venue: 25 Newbridge Road, BA1 3HE
finola stack
Painting
Instagram: @finolastack_paintings
Finola works as a freelance illustrator (recent work includes the artwork for the 2022 Bath Christmas Market), but also likes to keep a hand in Fine Art when she can, including portraiture.
She has a passion for capturing the aesthetics of the world around her: it's people, colours and different cultures & costumes.
Venue: Weston Methodist Church Hall, Kennington Road, BA1 3EA
hilary strickland
Nature Inspired Prints on Cards, Linens, Cushions and Lampshades
Instagram: @hilarystricklandart
Facebook: Hilary Strickland Art
Working from home, Hilary uses watercolours to capture the intricacies and beauty of birds, insects, plants and landscapes around me.
As well as prints and cards, a request for a honey bee cushion led to her original paintings being used as the basis for printed textiles for table linens, storage nests, cushions, lampshades.
Venue: Consciously You, 1 Kennington Road, BA1 3EA
laura symes
Painting
Instagram: @laurasymesart
A newcomer to Bath, Laura loves living in an inspiring city so close to beautiful countryside.
She paints textured and abstract canvases using acrylics and mixed media.
She also works on paper, drawing from life and producing prints and collages. Strong contrasts and colour harmonies are usually her main focus.
Venue: 9 Evelyn Road, BA1 3QF
mark trueman
Painting
Mark’s work is a blend of oils on canvas, watercolours and pencil sketches of people and places from personal experiences.
Venue: Weston Methodist Church Hall, Kennington Road, BA1 3EA
karen wallis
Drawing-based Projects
Instagram: @karenwallis.art
Facebook: Karen Wallis Artworks
Karen bears witness to the world around her through sketchbook drawings, plein-air painting, and sound recordings. This material is developed into films, installations and web based activity.
Current projects include Artist in Residence on the Ness of Brodgar dig on Orkney, and a daily drawing journal posted to social media.
Venue: Fairfield Cottage, Newbridge Hill, BA1 3QL
