“A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.” Spike Milligan Alma Tischlerwood studied with Günter Fruhtrunk at the Munich Academy and briefly Philosophy at Goldsmiths University of London. After graduating in Germany the artist received among other awards a prize for painting and a scholarship from the city [...]
Amanda Davis is an artist-teacher whose passion lies within nature and its use as a subject within art education. Exploring themes of organic matter, leaning towards natural history and science, she has a keen interest in the philosophy of Wabi-sabi and creating symmetrical imagery using objects that may be deemed [...]
Amanda Thesiger trained in painting at Maidstone Art College, the Royal Academy Schools and as a scholar at the British School at Rome. She works in mixed media and is involved in many projects as an arts educator. Thesiger’s work is rooted in natural history, and she combines a process-led [...]
Anna Falcini is a visual artist who investigates ephemeral and intangible phenomena to reveal mysterious things; the atmosphere of an estuarial landscape or the potential for conversations through the archive with the Welsh artist, Gwen John. Falcini often attributes these things to “feelings in the air” and uses her sensing [...]
Anna-Marya is currently based in Dover. She has an MA in Theory and Practice of Transnational Art from Camberwell, and likes to draw, perform, take pictures, use textiles and sometimes make art. She has had residencies in Cyprus, Japan and Hungary, and has a long association with recycling and community [...]
Carole Day is a student at The University for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, where she is studying for an MA in Fine Art. She is interested in drawing, printmaking and creating sculptures based on human and organic forms.Carole has worked extensively with community groups in her previous career in [...]
Clare Smith's mixed English/Chinese heritage informed her perspective on issues of identity and categorisation.
Based in Ramsgate, Emily graduated in 2000 with a BA(HONS) in Fine Art. A painter and textile artist she exhibits regularly in Kent and further afield with her mainly figurative artworks.
Joanna Jones paints and draws and actively pursues a strategic role for the arts in the places that she lives.
Kate Beaugié is a light sculptor; she works with our human, primal connection to light and shadow and it's resulting connection to being. Her sculptures and installations are made from various materials including burnt wood, gold leaf, water and the alternative photographic process, photogramy.
Katya Robin went to St Martin’s, Sheffield Hallam University and Turps. Her artist’s books are held in noted American collections.Her drawings of cleaners were selected for PSMirabel Paint! (2019) and Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize (2019). She reviews books for Graphic Medicine, co-curates Prosaic and is part of Drawn Together Collective.
Kim Plowright is an artist with an interdisciplinary practice involving drawing, teaching, performance lectures and digital storytelling.
Louise Webb is a Dover-based artist, curator and researcher who has worked throughout Kent, the UK and has shown internationally. Louise has recently been investigating the importance of listening spaces in communities and is interested in alternative learning spaces. She is researching the importance of conversation, listening, arts administration and work ethics. Looking [...]
Marcia Teusink is an artist and art educator with two decades' experience teaching art in museums, schools and other places.
Mike Tedder is a graduate of Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, now based in Dover, with a passion for mixed-media collage, photography and design. His work is inspired by many stimuli such as a dream, an emotion, language, something suddenly remembered, a song, or the experience of a particular moment. [...]
I take my first point of reference from crowds and large gatherings of people, looking for the detail in the ordinary but also the commonality within the group. Photographs are used to still movement and to reveal details, these photographs are then used to create drawings.I sew these drawings onto [...]
Steph O'Connor is a Dover based visual artist and teacher who promotes creativity and equality of opportunity. She uses art as a well-being tool for the children with whom she works and advises across schools on inclusion, creativity and open access.
