SIX Exhibition returns, bringing together contemporary artists with distinct creative approaches. The exhibition highlights the individuality of each practice while celebrating the diversity of artistic mediums.
Featuring photography, printmaking, ceramics, woodwork, painting, drawing and mixed media, the exhibition presents a broad range of artistic expression. Spanning both galleries, SIX Exhibition offers visitors an engaging selection of contemporary work.
Exhibitor Information
Julia Andrews
Originally from Kent Julia is really pleased to be part of SIX2026 at the Horsebridge and to continue her connection with this part of the world.
Julia’s screenprints are layered monoprints creating an image saturated in colour with printed layers on top exploring the themes of collective effervescence often realised through music and dance. Her prints look to celebrate resilience and unity of the human spirit.
She shows at the Affordable Art fairs, London Original Print Fair and the RA Summer Exhibition.
Liz Atkin
Liz Atkin is an artist and educator. She reimagines her Compulsive Skin Picking and anxiety into drawings, photographs and performances. Liz is a mental health advocate and raises awareness for the disorder around the world. She has exhibited and taught in the UK, Europe, Australia, USA, Singapore and Japan. Her work is permanently held in the Welcome Collection, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, Derby Museum, and Bethlem Gallery Collection supported by the Peter Sowerby Foundation and National Lottery Heritage Fund. She is an ambassador for The Big Draw, the world’s largest drawing festival, focusing on the role of creativity for health and wellbeing.
Artist statement
There is an instinctive pull toward texture in my practice, informed by my lifelong experience of Compulsive Skin Picking. In my charcoal drawings, that energy finds another path—translated into gesture and the soft abrasion of charcoal against paper. Charcoal offers me a healing release, a tactile stillness that gently counterbalances the restless pull of the skin. Charcoal drifts across the surface as tide and shadow, tracing the pulse of waves and the flicker of light, uniting my experiences of sea swimming with a body absorbed in making.
Carly Berry
Carly Berry is a British contemporary artist specialising in aerial seascapes that explore the interplay of light, atmosphere, and coastal form. Inspired by the Mediterranean and the British coastline, her work captures the shifting moods of the sea through a distinctive elevated perspective. Sunsets and moonscapes are central to her practice, creating compositions that balance tranquillity with a sense of depth and movement. Turquoise and deep emerald green feature heavily, the best quality paints are used to ensure long lasting vibrant colours.
Berry’s paintings invite a contemplative response, offering viewers a moment of stillness while evoking the vastness and rhythm of the natural world. She is regularly represented at the Affordable Art Fair Battersea in London and other exhibitions throughout the year.
Sarah Grey
Sarah Gray is a ceramic artist based in Mid Kent, but originally from Coventry. She creates bold, expressive vessels and objects, decorated with brightly coloured slips and often layered with words. Her work draws on personal experiences, whether intimate, mundane, or autobiographical, and is shaped by her working-class background and lifelong connection to art as an emotional outlet.
Sarah’s practice is fluid and ever evolving. She allows the process to lead her and constantly wrestles with the beauty and honesty of imperfection. Words play a central role in her pieces - not just as decoration, but as anchors for meaning, humour, memory, and emotion.
Above all, Sarah’s work is about creating a sense of connection. Whether through a phrase, a form, or colour, she hopes her ceramics offer something that resonates - a reminder that we’re not as alone as we sometimes feel.
Dan Harnett
Inspired by my deep connection with the sea, my work blends photography and chromatography, spanning abstract compositions and still life studies. Influenced by my years in the merchant navy and childhood on the Kent coast, I explore the intersection of memory, place, and transformation.
My photography captures human relationships with the sea, while my chromatography practice reveals the invisible - patterns, pigments, and chemical traces inspired by seashells, seaweed, driftwood, and tidal treasures. These vibrant patterns reflect the layered narratives of maritime journeys, bridging science and art.
Seafarers and landlubbers experience the sea differently; my chromatography highlights these contrasts through molecular transitions that mirror our diverse connections with the ocean. Each piece offers viewers a glimpse into the emotions, challenges, and discoveries of life at sea.
Website – https://www.danharnett.com
Instagram – @danielharnett
email – dan@danharnett.com
Beverley Johnson
I am a printmaker, living & working in Aylesford in Kent.
My original limited edition linoprints, made using my 1860 Albion press, are often based in nature & have a simple, graphic, Japanese feel to them.
I love the authenticity of the handmade & strive to make work in which the viewer can find beauty.
I exhibit widely, including in London.
I also accept commissions.
Louise Rieger
After completing a BA in Illustration at Kent Institute of Art and Design, Louise had a successful career in television production. She has now returned to painting full time and works from her home studio in Kent.
Her subjects are suburban, unposed and often nostalgic. They range from landscapes that are inspired by places local to where she grew up and still lives, to interiors and figurative work.
Louise’s style is representational with snapshot compositions. Her practice elevates the ordinariness of clipped moments in time, prompting the viewer to consider question the broader story embedded within each subject while evoking a collective sense of familiarity.
Louise recent works have referenced old photographs of people she knows, found photos of strangers and family Polaroids from the 70’s and 80’s.
Nostalgic certainly, but ‘nostalgia’ doesn’t entirely sum up what Louise is aiming for. As well as this bitter-sweet remembering, the work wants to describe a feeling of absence and draw focus on a fond longing for something that is missing from the here and now.
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025
Shortlisted (Highly Commended) BTA Prize 2024
Shortlisted for Wells Art Contemporary 2023
Shortlisted ING Discerning Eye 2022, 2024 and 2025
Featured in Issue 11 of Photo Trouvee Magazine 2023
Featured in Create! Magazine 2023
Featured in ‘cene Magazine 2025
Virginia Scadeng
Virginia Scadeng graduated with a First Class BA Hons in Fine Art – Painting from Kent Institute of Art and Design, Canterbury, in 1992, followed by an MA in the same subject from Birmingham Institute of Art and Design in 1993.
She was then awarded a Fine Art Fellowship from Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education.
After graduating she taught life drawing and contemporary painting for many years and has also taught art in a junior school and worked as an illustrator both in a design studio and as a freelance.
Throughout her career she has produced large, abstract paintings, many of which were sold to private buyers and, represented by a London agency, has sold and rented work to business clients.
Continuing to develop her own artistic practice, she also volunteers in schools, running art sessions for pupils.
Jade Taylor
Working from a garden studio in the heart of the Kent countryside and immersed in the nature that inspires her, Jade’s work is a response to the beauty and fragility of the natural world and in particular our native wildlife, habitats and ecosystems. Working with the rhythms of nature, her delicate collaged works are created from painstakingly cut and layered botanical rice paper prints on linen, creating hidden narratives within her detailed observations.
Trained as a textile designer, her love of colour and pattern flows through her practice, where printmaking has long been central. The economy of Japanese design is a strong influence on her composition, as she pares back the natural world to skilfully reveal natures stories.
Winning Mammal Illustrator of the Year 2025, Jade has also been selected for the RA summer exhibition 2024, the Society of Women Artists at the Mall 2023 and Chelsea Art Society.
Work is held in private collections in the UK, Europe, New Zealand and Japan.
Artist Statement
Original Botanical monoprints exploring the delicate balance of ecology and the fragility of our native wildlife, working with the rhythms of nature. The delicate collaged works are created from painstakingly cut and layered botanical rice paper prints on linen, with hidden narratives. Japanese design is a strong influence as she pares back the natural world to skilfully reveal natures stories.
Sue Westergaard
I was brought up by women who worked with cloth. My mum made costumes for the theatre, my grandma sold high end upholstery fabrics to the Danish aristocracy.
My degree was in Printed Textiles, my MA in Fine Art Printmaking. I’ve spent my adult life teaching fabric design and print, alongside with freelancing as a designer/maker creating costumes, props and sets for theatre and festivals, printing T-shirts and basically doing anything that came along where I could use those skills.
I’m still working with cloth. I still always find myself falling back into print.
These days I do it to satisfy my soul. To help get my head around issues like life and death; the rituals, relationships, ups and downs that constitute our time on this mortal coil.
At the moment I’m doing a series of pieces about the clothes we wear. Their significance, not so much in practical terms like a jumper that made you feel warmer, but about things like the memories they evoke, the people they remind us of and the feelings associated with them. When and why we wore them, where we got them from, the things we did in them, what they meant to us, the way they looked or smelled, how they fitted or draped on our bodies and how we can completely recall things like their texture, softness or how they did up decades after we have actually worn them.
Sue Westergaard
e: suewestergaard@msn.com
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