Member Artists

Jessica D’Alton Goode is an award-winning children’s illustrator and fine artist. Her work is created with a mixed media of watercolour, acrylic, and ink with gold detailing and is inspired by the beautiful and the wild; influenced by folklore and legend and the ancient relationship between us and the wilderness

https://www.jessicadaltongoode.com/

I am an award-winning illustrator, writer and printmaker. I have a BA in graphics and illustration and an MA in children’s book illustration. My first picture book is due to be published in 2020. In my illustration work, I combine traditional printmaking and drawing with digital processes.

In 2018 I was a winner in the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators ‘Undiscovered Voices’ and was longlisted in the ‘Noirwich’ Flash Fiction awards.

Exhibited nationally and internationally: Bankside London (selected for the Royal Watercolour Society Contemporary Watercolour Exhibition) and Bologna Italy (Bologna Children’s Book Fair).

www.sandyhorsley.com Instagram: @sandyhorsley    Blog: www.sandyhorsley.com/blog

Botanical art and illustration Inspired by British wildflowers and quintessentially English nature.

Laura often illustrated plants found in her garden as a child, she’s always been enchanted by nature and the landscape in her Suffolk home. After completing her BA Hons degree in Fine Art Laura went onto a career as an Art Consultant, selling artwork around the world. However, 10 years later she decided to pick up the paint brush again to document her natural surroundings.

Inspired by British wildflowers, grasses and quintessentially English nature her vibrant artwork documents the wild plants that are fast decreasing across the UK – Did you know that 97% of our British meadows have disappeared since the 1930’s? Illustrating wildflowers often found on the roadside Laura’s gouche and watercolour artwork finds beauty in unexpected places. She creates miniature, natural worlds you can get lost in, just like Alice in Wonderland.

Laura can often be found exploring the Norfolk Broads on her boat with her travel easel, pooch and sketchbook. She regularly walks along the Suffolk coastline… You can follow her inspirations and studio life via Instagram: @lauraandrewsstudio

I am a traditional book binder who restores all types of books typically from the 18th century for example family bibles. I take commissions such as Thesis and photo albums. I hold a range of  presentations and workshops for adults and children for example 3D pop up cards, “face making” and folded book art.

Email Address: [email protected]
Website Address: www.booksurgeon.co.uk

Fiona FitzGerald is a Ceramicist and an Art Historian.

She works with clay that she has textured and patterned as she has rolled it out. The surfaces then suggest the subsequent forms that the clay will create as she assembles turn and torn pieces together. The work is then fired to stoneware.

She gives regular talks to groups, at The Cut, Halesworth and at Anteros in Norwich. Current regional and London based exhibitions prompt the topics. She also runs short courses on Art History for adults. Her Norwich classes are based at The Stage, St Augustine ‘s Street.

Joanna – AKA Dotty Scotty – is an artist that currently specialises in 3D needle felted wool sculpture. She predominantly creates beautiful birds of all shapes and sizes drawing her inspiration from the wildlife that surrounds her.

Having formally trained in Fine Art & Textile Printmaking she is able to use her design skills to bring her creations to life, each one taking on their own individual character.

The wool is felted by jabbing barbed needles into it. Firstly a solid form is made which is then worked into: layering the colours, blending them and then creating the stunning patterns that are unique to each bird, all crafted with a single or multi needle.

Joanna has lived in Norfolk for 11 years and works from her studio in Brundall. She sells her work online ( Dotty Scotty needle felt ) undertakes commissioned work and has recently started to show her work locally.

Instagram – instagram.com/dottyscotty8338

Facebook – dottyscottyfelt

Email – [email protected]

My art is a natural progression of ideas, informed from my inner and outer landscapes. I am interested in how my intuition transposes thoughts into a visual format and how the collection of marks and materials become the sum of their parts. I make my own charcoal and collect soils to use for pigments. I call my practice drawing but this can be on paper, wood, cloth. I am experimental and work in 2D and 3D, and my subject registers the environment in which I work. My argument continues to be that man has a creative spirit with a need to make traces.

Stephanie Bunn is textiles artists, craft practitioner, curator and Lecturer in Social Anthropology. She works with felt, willow and rush, does landscape work, curates interactive and collaborative exhibitions. and is an ethnographer. Most recently, she has been carrying out a collaborative ethno-historical study of Scottish vernacular basketry alongside contemporary Scottish basket-makers. Practice forms an important element of all of her research and she has done apprenticeships and learned many of the practical skills entailed in her areas of study, including conducting extensive ethnographic and historical research into felt textile practices among high mountain Kyrgyz pastoralists in Central Asia.

Stephanie has also made several collections of nomadic felt textiles for museums in the UK and worked with the British Museum to curate the first ever British Museum exhibition on Central Asian nomadic textiles, Striking Tents. Her publications include Kyrgyzstan, an edited study of the work of the Kyrgyz ethnographer Klavdiya Antipina, Nomadic Felts of the World published by the British Museum Press, and www.wovencommunities.org/ the interactive website of her current research project on Scottish basketry.

Using primarily silk and wool I design each piece around a mood or feeling, or something in nature that has touched me whilst out on my regular bike rides in the countryside. The combination of texture and colour drive the design to the point where I try to capture some element of nature.

I especially enjoy using the finer wools such as camel, baby alpaca and merino which, when combined with silk make a luxurious, hardwearing and beautiful textile. I also enjoy using vegetable fibres including rose, nettle and soya fibre, and cotton and hemp. Some beautiful and unusual yarns are made in Japan, and I enjoy using a fine stainless steel thread wrapped in pure silk to produce some interesting effects.

www.rachaelcharmley.com