“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 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 [...]
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 [...]
Preferring self employment and wishing for a more creative life, during the 90s, Caroline started her own business as a specialist antique restorer of dolls and teddy bears, running an independent shop. Around the same time, she became an award-winning and published poet.
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.
Francesca’s passion is colour. She paints abstract works full of colour. Her workspace is a wonderful Art Deco garage in River, near Dover, converted into a studio, with a garden that runs down to the river. Francesca has also created The Colour Potential card divination pack and Handbook, based on [...]
Helen Lindon is an artist, climate activist, film maker, performer, gardener and voracious reader.
Joanna Jones paints and draws and actively pursues a strategic role for the arts in the places that she lives.
Joseph Black lives and works at his studio in Kent. He trained at Camberwell College of Art, graduating with a BA Hons in painting in 2015, followed by a Masters Degree in the History of Art from The Courtauld Institute of Art in 2016. Joseph Black’s work combines technical precision [...]
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.
I am preoccupied with space. My conception of space is both physical and experiential, real and metaphysical. An early interest in the created reality of the theatre has been of lasting influence in my work. I work with performers, sound engineers, light engineers to create a site-specific live performance. I locate and explore hidden spaces within the urban environment as [...]
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. [...]
Samuel is an artist and printmaker, he explores comparisons in the food industry and makes work to champion those food manufacturers who take their practice seriously and passionately. He continues to explore ideas about our environment, health and food security.
