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Harriet Ferris
Harriet presents the Guardian Collection
These new works have a strong link to Harriet’s sense of place. They are an accumulation of a range of influences from lighthouses to wind turbines to modern vernacular architecture. Harriet explores form through the slow process of coil building, giving her time to consider the form and hone down structural elements into simple but visually bold designs. The mark making remains, bringing fine detail and a visual richness to the work which is enhanced by a combination of matt, metallic and gloss glazes.
Hollie Savory
Colour plays a pivotal role in Hollie's work, how colours interact and work with and against each other, in both what she sees and within her memories of a place.
Capturing light and refracting it into pure blocks of colour, spontaneity and memories of place captivate Hollie, with a background in fashion heavily influencing her use of colour and her eye for spotting unusual combinations within the landscape. Often laying down colours in multiple layers and taking away to reveal unexpected colours below.
Living in the countryside, Hollie is drawn to the expansive agricultural landscapes. Natural patterns such as crop lines or the rolling contours of the terrain continually inspire. Her work captures the rhythms of the land, capturing the shapes and forms within it. The ever present sky, a constant source of inspiration and personal comfort, plays a crucial role in her work.
Hollie moves between landscapes and more intuitive abstracted works, playing with colour and form. Texture and mark making are important parts, revealing and concealing underlayers add to the richness of the works, much like the landscapes she depicts. When painting landscapes, Hollie tries to paint not only a view, but also her thoughts and feelings whilst walking within the landscape.
Julia Dilla Andrews
Collective Effervescence is a term which describes the moments that Julia is aiming to share with her practise in printmaking. Looking at the human experience of resilience and the flame of the human spirit.
After art college Julia has combined a career in fashion and visual arts and crafts. She has always been drawn to screen printing using mixed mediums from fabrics, commissions and now creating works on paper and canvas, using her own drawings, photography and mixed sourced images backed with colour and pattern to create original screenprints.
Based in a shared print studio, at Print Club London in Dalston she has shown her prints in group and solo shows in the UK from Folkestone Art Gallery, The Thanet Open Studio, Atelier Gallery in Brighton, New Artist Fair, Inky Fingers Gallery in Hackney Wick, Bless Stories, the Findhorn Bay Arts Festival, Art Friend gallery, and the Edinburgh Art Fair.
She is represented by Glasshouse Contemporary Gallery, London and last year, her print, In My Mind, was selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and the Limited Edition of 50 sold out in 2 weeks.
She is also part of the North London Printmakers who regularly show at the Battersea Affordable Art Fair where her print was selected for the highlighted curated wall in this year’s Spring show.
Kev Hopper
Kev Hopper studied Fine Art at Coventry University 1980-83 and is perhaps better known as a musician and composer founding the bands, Stump, Ticklish and Prescott and releasing 14 solo albums.
He began painting seriously in 2020 and has had exhibitions in Margate, Whitstable and Deptford X festival.
He is a current exhibitor at the prestigious John Moores painting prize this year (2025) held at Liverpool’s Walker gallery.
Sue Ransley
Surrey Artist of the Year Finalist 2021 & 2023
Creates Magazine Emerging Artist Award Winner 2019
The Women In Art Prize Finalist 2018 & 2019
Sue Ransley is an artist who specialises in painting pictures of everyday people. Her goal is to provide a light-hearted perspective on life, capturing the warmth and humanity of her subjects. Through her artwork, she hopes to evoke a sense of familiarity, allowing viewers to recognize something in the image that reflects someone they know or a certain behaviour.
Sue's journey as an artist began later in life, after she experienced an illness and decided to take up painting. Fortunately, she found an art tutor who helped her discover her unique style. The majority of Sue's work is done in oil, although she occasionally explores water-based media as well. When working with oils, Sue starts by drawing with paint. The lines she creates become an integral part of the finished piece. On the other hand, when using water-based media, she skips the initial drawing and dives straight into painting the masses with a loaded brush. This process requires a zen like approach, hence it happens infrequently. Regardless of the medium, Sue's focus is always on capturing the essence of the image rather than getting caught up in finer details.
All of Sue's artwork is inspired by people she has observed while engaging in her favourite activity: people watching. Armed with a sketchbook and camera, she immerses herself in the world around her, documenting the moments that catch her eye. Through her paintings, Sue aims to share her unique perspective on everyday life and the people who inhabit it.
