Featured Artists
Jayne Ashenbury
I was all set to study Art and Drama at Cheltenham University (having studied both at A level) but fate changed my path. I became a Signwriter – self taught and self-employed – as part of the Princes Trust and…
Matt Kavanagh
I live in Tavistock with my wife Nichola. We are originally from Nottinghamshire but like many people, we have decided to move to the South West in order to pursue a life that is surrounded by natural beauty, creativity and…
Angela Newberry
I started collected birds eggs, caterpillars and frogspawn, when I was six, at seven I had Saturday morningart classes and learnt how to make pillow lace – so my interests in art and nature started at an early age. The…
Gilly Spottiswoode
After studying Fashion & Textiles at Leicester Polytechnic (as was), specializing in Footwear Design, I graduated with immaculate timing just as the British footwear industry moved the majority of production abroad. I worked as a shoe designer for a short…
John Rabbetts
I was born in Southampton but it wasn’t until I moved to Bridport that I really took off as an artist. I have won several awards including the ‘Kieth cast cup’. I have taught art at various locations and have…
Anne Blackwell Fox
The first art prize I won was at primary school. It was a book called ‘Sketching Out of Doors’ by Leonard Richmond. It’s the only prize I’ve ever won. It’s something I still enjoy doing today! Usually when I’m settled…
Michael Street
I began painting with oils as a self-taught artist in my late teens, and then honed my drawing skills while reading Zoology in 1967 – 70, having to produce very accurate drawings of specimens and dissections. My satisfaction in this…
Barbara Beckerleg
I am from a family of artists originating in the far west of Cornwall. I lived in Tavistock for many years and, although I still work there, I now live in Plymouth. I’m inspired by the land and seascapes around…
Melanie Guy
A short biog – School and Art College in Croydon, followed by Swansea, Specialist art teaching cert with focus on a ceramics diploma. I worked in the Welsh Cottage Craft industry for a time, mostly making Welsh dragons in clay…
Jeannine Allen
I was born in Paris and attended art college in Montmartre. Growing up in the centre of the city, near the Louvre and the Latin Quarter, I was influenced by fine art, architecture and sculpture from an early age. I…
Jean Mintoft
I have to admit right away that I am definitely not in the first flush of youth! But right from my earliest years I always loved painting, drawing and doing anything arty-crafty that I could find, even though no-one else…
Janet Brady
After graduating from the Royal college of Art in 1985 my first career was as a fashion designer in a very creative predictions company in London. It was fast paced, coming up with new ideas for big companies season after…
Ian Pethers
I grew up in East Berkshire near Windsor and the River Thames and spent my twenties working on the river as a lock keeper. I began painting at the age of eleven after a holiday in the Tamar Valley and…
Colin Pethick
I’ve been a full time professional fine art painter and freelance art tutor since graduating in 2003, based in the Tamar Valley, at St Anne’s chapel, working mostly over the South West of England. I was born at Gulworthy and…
Adrian Edwards
Watching the grey pink smoke lifting from the blazing flares, I became very aware of the fluorescent yellow gilet labelled ‘Pages of the Sea’ I was wearing. On November 11th 2018, I was one of the invited artists asked to…
Gudrun Taresch
There are three things that are steady in my life: expressing my inner self with art, redefining my outer self through curiosity, openness and awareness, and last, but not least, I have never fitted in a box! Already as a…
Sue Coleman
I started producing art work in 1982 when I started playing around with watercolour and pen and ink.In my professional career I worked in theatres and the arts, first in repertory and producing touring shows as a stage manager and…
Sophie Fordham
I have always had a great interest in stories and mythology, old and emerging and how they reflect and highlight our culture. I am interested in how we fit in to our environments, be they emotional, social and physical. I…
Maria Floyd
Maria Floyd is a painter based in Devon and Cornwall and has worked here for over 15 years. She studied Fine Art/ History of Art BA(Hons) at Goldsmiths College, London in the early 1990s and has had a passion for…