ARTISTS INDEX

Below is an alphabetical index of all our exhibiting and non-exhibiting artists.

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ALL ARTISTS

Continue scrolling below to see all our Artists, by surname alphabetically.

SUZANNE BAGINSKI

Suzanne handmakes vibrant contemporary fused glass for the home, garden and, of course, yourself!

Suzanne also has quite an array of beautiful greetings cards for all occasions and can create a bespoke card for you too.

Suzanne also runs courses from her home studio. More information about these can be found on her Facebook page.

Email: suzanne@beehappyglassdesigns.co.uk

Web: www.beehappyglassdesigns.co.uk

Facebook: Bee Happy Glass Designs

‘Mondrian Inspired Cake Stand/Tiered Cheese Board’

‘Bee Themed LilyPots’

‘Cloud with Rainbow Raindrops Windchime’

CAROL BAINES

Carol Baines is a printmaker who creates painterly etchings, monotypes, drypoints and screenprints, taking inspiration from the wonders of the natural landscape.

Email: carolbaines100@gmail.com

Web: https://www.carolbainesfineart.co.uk

Instagram: @carolbaines100

‘Amber Cliffs’

‘Silver Birch’

‘The Way Through’

IASONAS BAKAS

Iasonas Bakas produces his geometric abstracts using oil paint. His primary sources of inspiration comprise the principles and iconic examples of architectural, interior and product design. Through a detailed design process of planning and painting his work, he achieves a delicate balance of shape and colour in well composed abstract frames.

Email: studio@bakas.co.uk

Web: http://bakas.co.uk/

Instagram: @bakas.artist

‘Balance’

‘Swing’

‘Bar’

KAREN BATES

Karen hand-builds and paints decorative figures, pots and wall plaques with a splash of gold leaf.

The work is influenced by Orthodox Christianity, European folk art and Coptic iconography.

Email: karen.bates10@btinternet.com

Instagram: @ceramicskarenbates

‘Standing Angels’

‘Angels of day and night’

‘Flying Angel’

LUCY BEGENT

Lucy is an illustrator and graphic designer with a bold playful style. She works with paper cut outs and digital collage creating prints and greetings cards. Her work mainly focuses on animals and plants, especially cats!

Email:  lucybegent@gmail.com

Instagram: @lucybegent

Venue: Not exhibiting this year

‘Cornflower’

‘Cat on a Bath’

‘Robin’

Bear Flat Artists - Robina Clifford

ROBINA CLIFFORD

Robina works mainly in linoprint, occasionally in drypoint or monotype, sometimes with a background of collage. The content is often political or topical, but can also take a light hearted view of life, taking in anything from pebbles to footballers.

Email: robina@andrewwalworth.co.uk

Instagram: @robinawalworth

‘Hong Kong 1’

‘How not to wear your mask 1’

‘FIftyseven’

‘FIftyseven’

Bear Flat Artists - Bea Colborne

BEA COLBORNE

Bea is a painter dedicated to creating whimsical art of the natural world.

She is exploring style and medium to help depict the beauty in the form and detail found in the outside world.

Email: bea@quartzdreamer.co.uk

Web: www.quartzdreamer.co.uk

'Beetle'

'Hand'

‘Hare’

ANDREW CORNISH

Andrew enjoys sourcing interesting and sustainable hard and soft woods to create a variety of forms including lidded boxes.

He is currently working with his wife on collaborative wood and clay designs.

Wherever possible, the wood used, is either repurposed or donated from locally felled trees.

Email: info@wheelandlathe.co.uk

Web: www.wheelandlathe.co.uk

‘Californian bay laurel with live edge‘

‘Live edge silver birch‘

‘Ash bowl with pyrography’

WENDY CORNISH

Wendy has returned to ceramics after many years, originally studying it at Sion Hill in Bath.

She chooses to work both on the wheel and with hand built structures using stoneware or crank clays.

Some pieces are produced in collaboration with her wood turner husband, Andrew. These may be functional or purely decorative.

Email: onewendy@hotmail.co.uk

Web: www.wheelandlathe.co.uk

‘Trio of stoneware pots’

‘Ceramic bowl with Ash turned lid’

‘Terracotta vase with white tin glaze’

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BEATA COSGROVE

Beata Cosgrove is a Bath based professional photographer, who will be displaying photographic art prints of Bath in different seasons.

Email: beatacosgrovephotography@gmail.com

Website: www.bathphotoprints.com

‘Pulteney Bridge at dawn’

'Spring in Bath'

'Christmas tree at dawn outside Bath Abbey'

JENNY COWDEROY

Jenny Cowderoy is a semi-abstract, expressionist artist. The works suggest landscapes, seascapes or still life but are intrinsically emotive in essence and tend to appeal on that level to those who love and buy the work.

She works with several modern art galleries across the UK and her work is in the collections of private buyers, including hotels, country estates and some well known celebrities.

Email: jenny.cowderoy@gmail.com

Web: www.jennycowderoy.com

Instagram: @jennycowderoy

VICKI CULLEN

Vicki has a passion for painting contemporary landscapes and seascapes inspired by beautiful scenery she has explored.

Vicki uses acrylics and oils to create textured abstract paintings filled with movement and colour. 

Email: vickicullenartworks@gmail.com

Web: www.vickicullenartworks.com

Instagram: @vickicullenartworks

MARIE CURTIS

Marie designs and creates handmade jewellery with meaning, using recycled sterling silver, 9ct gold & responsibly sourced gemstones. Marie’s jewellery is made to be worn everyday and cherished forever.

Email: marie@designvaults.co.uk

Web: http://www.designvaults.co.uk

Instagram: @designvaults

‘Eternity necklace’

‘Lotus earrings’

‘Sunburst Emerald necklace in gold’

Lindy Dickens

LINDY DICKINS

Combining mixed media including photography, Lindy enjoys building layers revealing, hiding and creating unpredictable outcomes.

Email: lindydickins@gmail.com

Instagram: @lindydickins

‘Hepworth Plant 2’

‘Houses’

‘Hepworth Plant 1’

MARIA JOĂO TRALHĂO DOLAN

An exploration of the impact of the urban environment on mental wellbeing designed by lived experience researchers.

Using mapping and a range of creative media, this work combines personal insights and observations to reflect their research.

Email: mariajdolan@gmail.com

‘I heard snippets of conversation’

‘Made me wonder’

‘Cutting through the park’

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YVONNE ELSTON

Yvonne’s handmade sculptural ceramics explore the beauty of the curve through the form of a bird. The aim is to bring a sense of tranquility into the home.

Individually finished, she uses ancient outdoor glazing methods to give unique effects such as raku and smoke-firing. She also makes her own glazes to fire in her electric kiln.

Email: yvonne-elston@tiscali.co.uk

Instagram: @yvonneelstonceramics

‘Concordia Dove - Raku’

‘Fecund - Smoke-fired Porcelain’

‘Bird in Hand - Smoke-fired Porcelain’

JAMES

FOX

Based in Bath, in the South-West of the UK, James has been a landscape photographer for over 30 years.

Using film and digital cameras to capture images from Britain and around the world, limited edition printing allows James to share the best of his work with you.

Email: james@halsall-fox.com

Web: www.halsall-fox.com

‘Field of Daisies’

‘Cherry Blossom’

‘New York on 6x6 film’

Bear Flat Artist - Richard Gardiner

RICHARD GARDINER

Working in oils and acrylics, Richard’s work evolves through a process of applying paint, scraping off, splashing, dribbling and drawing until something emerges. The final result is more about atmosphere and movement rather than realism.

Email: richardgardiner30@outlook.com

Web: richardgardinerartphoto.weebly.com

‘Gap in the Landscape’

‘Misty Start’

‘Olive Trees’

Bear Flat Artists - Marlis Garner

MARLIS GARNER

The use of mixed media and printing processes helps Marlis to create ambiguous and atmospheric work.

Email: garnermarlis@hotmail.com

‘Fence in the Snow’

‘Ice Bear’

‘On the Summit’

Bear Flat Artists - Sammy Hayward

SAMMY HAYWARD

Sammy Hayward is an illustrator and animator. His work combines a variety of traditional and digital techniques and media.

He is exhibiting paintings, drawings and prints.

Email: contact@srhillustration.com

Instagram: @srh_illustration

‘Spectacled Bear’

‘Cityscape’

‘Winter Fox’

Bear Flat Artist - Ben Hughes

BEN HUGHES

Unique contemporary portraits and still life.

Traditional landscapes of Bath, London and beyond.

Email: mail@benhughesart.co.uk

Web: www.benhughesart.co.uk

‘Bath Abbey’

‘Early morning on the Canal’

‘Sam the Wheels’

LORELEI HUNT

Lorelei has been making mosaics for 15 years, using a variety of materials including broken china, glass and ceramic tiles.

She is now making more mosaics suitable for outdoors; and increasing influenced by the revival of interest in British folk traditions.

Email: loreleihunt3@gmail.com

Instagram: @shardenfreude

‘Green man’

‘The Dreamer’

‘You shall have a fishy’

CHRISTOPHER ISAAC

Christopher Isaac mostly examines the form and social character of our urban environment, its buildings, spaces, activities and people.

Email: christopherisaac@btinternet.com

‘Allotment Chess’

‘Corona Roulette’

‘Sicilian Barroque Noto’

RITA LAZARO

Rita is a multimedia artist and illustrator renowned for her distinctive fusion of children's book illustration with elements of neo-cubism and abstract impressionism.

With a keen eye for vibrant colour palettes and dynamic compositions, she transports audiences into whimsical realms where imagination knows no bounds.

Email: info@ritalazaro.co.uk

Web: https://ritalazaro.co.uk

Facebook: @RitaLazaroArt

Instagram: @RitaLazaroArt

‘Feline Harmony’

JOHN LEAHY

Jon is a photographer working mainly in black and white.

He is particularly interested in creative documentary themes in and around public spaces. He has exhibited a number of times with Bear Flat Artists,

Email: j@jleahy.plus.com

Web: http://www.jonleahy.co.uk

‘Lisbon 2012’

‘Rant 2021’

‘Seascape 2020’

KATE MARSHALL

Kate has a home studio on Beechen Cliff where she creates and teaches ceramics. She shows locally in Bath, but her work has been taken all over the world.

Her main interest is Raku because of the random beauty of pots created by fire, smoke and water. She enjoys making raku and horsehair raku lamp-bases where the timeless beauty of raku is shown off at its best.

Kate also throws beautiful and original functional stoneware.

Email: hello@katemarshallceramics.co.uk

Web: www.katemarshallceramics.co.uk

‘Horsehair Lampbase’

‘Bubble bowls‘

‘Green and raku copper bowl’

HELENA MISCIOSCIA

Helena Miscioscia is a creative photographer based in Bath, Somerset. Capturing Weddings, Motherhood, Newborn & Families in a natural, artful way.

Helena began her photography career in theatre and has been featured in The Telegraph, The Independent and The Stage. 

Helena’s approach is relaxed and informal rather than posed, preferring to focus more on the connection and magic between people and places.

She exhibited her work at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artist's Photography Prize 2023.

Email: info@helenamphotography.com

Instagram: @helenamisciosciaphoto

Web: www.helenamphotography.com

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CATHARINE NAYLOR

Catharine’s work encompasses wood graving, intaglio printmaking, print collage combinations and workshops.

Email: catharinenaylor123@gmail.com

‘Commission for a book plate’

‘Lockdown window’

‘Pollinators’

Amy Kam Mei Ng

Amy’s art is influenced by both Chinese and Western culture. She conveys her emotions and thoughts through abstract art forms.

Email: amyamystudio@gmail.com

Web: www.amyngkammei.com

ESTHER NORMAN

Hand built ceramic figures, animals birds and beast.

Using Raku technique of firing to give unique surface finishes.

Email: esthar69@icloud.com

Instagram: @estnorman

‘Raku Boat’

‘Small Raku Bird’

‘Mixed media Raku box’

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JAMES NUNN

Drawing is at the core of my work. Like an excavation, starting a drawing is like uncovering something already there. On an abstract level I am interested in the fundamental act of mark-making and my subject matter, predominantly the natural world, is simply something to hang the marks on.

Each piece is an exploration of the drawing surface and the stuff that makes the mark, be it ink, charcoal, pastel or whatever comes to hand. In the process of printmaking the metaphor is extended as I literally cut away the surface to create the image. I love the process and the uncertainty of what will be revealed. However clear one’s intentions, there are always surprises.

Email: jameslaurencenunn@gmail.com

Web: www.jamesnunnart.com

Instagram: @jamesnunnart

‘Octopodes’

‘Owl’

‘Owl’

‘Wild boar’

KRISTINE O’CONNOR

Kristine enjoys using swirling layers of vibrant colour to produce her landscape paintings.

She also creates large contemporary abstracts in acrylic using geometric shapes and patterns.

She is inspired by Gustav Klimt, Sonia Delaunay, Paul Klee, Hundertwasser and Hockney.

Email: kristinehoconnor@yahoo.co.uk

Instagram: @kristineoconnor

‘Dusk at Dunster Beach Cottages’

‘Farmhouse Near Bath’

‘View of Kelston Round Hill’

PEY OH

Pey Oh creates prints and cards of botanical photography, and beautiful moments from her walks. Bespoke aromatherapy plant products available by consultation through her website.

She also creates poetry bringing romantic and vivid imagery.

Email: pey@batharomatherapy.co.uk

Web: www.batharomatherapy.co.uk

‘Possibilities’

‘Magnolia Dreaming’

‘Camellia Curves’

CARLOS ORDONEZ

Carlos has been taking photographs since his school days (a long time ago), and has organised many photography and printmaking exhibitions and festivals in Stroud, Bath and Habana.

He is a founder member of PhotoStroud, PhotoBath and the Gloucestershire Printmakers Cooperative.

He is particularly interested in creating opportunities for collaborations, and has worked with Cuban and local poets, performers and artists.

Email: ordonezc@btinternet.com

Web: flickr.com/photos/ordonezc

‘Cuba 1’

‘Bolivia 1’

‘Lyncombe Hill Fields’

SHAY PARSONS

Shay is a photographer specialising in creative and abstract nature photography. She will also find abstracts and patterns in the built environment, and particularly in the streets of Bath.

Email: shay@shayparsons.com

Web: www.shayparsons.com

‘Graffiti No.2’

‘Graffiti No.3’

‘Landscape on the Side of a Boat’

Bear Flat Artists - Tamara Penwell

TAMARA PENWELL

Tamara is an iconographer, making icons - liturgical Christian images, using traditional techniques of egg tempera and gold leaf on wooden panels or stone tiles.

Email: enquiries@tamarapenwellicons.com

Web: www.tamarapenwellicons.com

‘Christ’

‘Guardian Angel’

‘Prophet David’

Bear Flat Artists - Sally Pollitzer

SALLY POLLITZER

Sally works in the tradition of architectural stained glass and also as a painter and printmaker.

Her sketchbooks are invaluable for recollection and reference.

Email: sallypollitzer@btinternet.com

Web: www.sally-pollitzer.co.uk

‘Collage, paint, design’

‘Lino cuts’

‘RUH Spiritual Centre’

AGNES POLLOCK

Agnes paints contemporary and serene still life in oil.

She moved from Holland to Bath about ten years ago and exhibits locally and internationally.

She also runs painting workshops.

Email: ajepollock@gmail.com

Instagram: @agnespollockart

‘Still life of Duck Egg’

‘Moon Rise’

‘Still life of Kintsugi Bowl’

Bear Flat Artists - Roly Prosser

ROLY PROSSER

Roly creates individual hand turned items out of a variety of native hardwoods and some from further afield.

Each piece is unique and is the result of many hours turning on the lathe and hand polishing.

Email: jenroly@btinternet.com

‘Maple bowl’

‘Triple pot’

‘Sepele bowl’

ANDY RHODES

Andy makes ceramic sculptures on the theme of wildlife inspired by the natural world.

Each piece is built by hand in clay.

Email: andy@andrewrhodes.me.uk

‘Puffin landing’

‘Year of the dragon’

‘Strawberry poison arrow frog’

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MAGGIE SIMONSEN

Abstract artist working with acrylic and mixed media on canvas and board, using a variety of different techniques.

Her latest work is a culmination of techniques of forms, shapes and depth in her visual line.

Email: maggiesimonsen@me.com

Instagram: @maggiesimonsen.art

‘Untitled’

‘Untitled’

‘Untitled’

EMILY SLINGER

Photography is an important aspect of Emily’s work, capturing textures and structures of the world around her which in turn enable her to expand possibilities incorporating print onto a variety of surfaces including paper, textile and clay.

What starts out as a photograph results in her interpretation of that original image and the relationship between colour, light, space and pattern found within urban and rural landscapes.

Her process is one of continuous exploration where everything builds upon each other.

Email: emilyslinger101@gmail.com

Web: http://emilyslinger.co.uk

Instagram: @emilyslinger101

‘Bath Abbey’

‘Beckfords Tower’

‘Forbidden Space’

JANE SPRAGG

Jane started painting after an afternoon’s oil painting workshop.

This sparked a love of painting in oils and especially still life, but she also strives to master other subjects.

Email: janespragg@gmail.com

Instagram: @janespragg22

‘Polished Cherry’

‘Garlic Bulb’

‘Bowl of Lemons’

CAROLINE TETLEY

Caroline has alays enjoyed the scale of jewellery and its technical demands but colour, with its emotive power, has always been important to her.

When she first tried enamels she was bowled over by their range and vibrancy and has been working with them ever since.

The Somerset landscape, tales, maybe a line of poetry all inspire her designs.

Email: caltetley@gmail.com

Web: http://carolinetetley.co.uk

‘Hope locket’

‘The Leap earrings’

‘Gecko pendants’

PAT TOPLIS

Online art sessions with another artist during lockdown, led to exploration of working practices by Pat Toplis.

This included using different materials and being aware of mark making: also using the left hand and time limited 5 minute work periods followed by showing and commenting on each others work.

These practises led to new avenues of creativity and spontaneity by both artists.

Email: pat@toplis.net

‘Chinese Lantern’

‘Daffodils’

‘Lobelia’

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CHRISTINE WATTERS

Christine works in Stoneware creating open and closed thrown contemporary designs gaining inspiration from natural forms, land and seascape.

Email: cwatters986@gmail.com

Instagram: @cwatters986

‘Vase 1’

‘Trio of Vases’

‘Group of Vases’

ZOË WOOLLEY

Zoë creates representational figurative sculptures. She completed her MFA at New York Academy of Art and her BFA at Central Saint Martins.

She teaches at Bath Artists Studios and is a founder of Cotswold Sculptors Association. She has exhibited nationally and internationally.

Email: zoewoolley6@gmail.com

Web: http://zoewoolleyart.com

Instagram: @zoewoolley6