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 [...]
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.
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.
Marcia Teusink is an artist and art educator with two decades' experience teaching art in museums, schools and other places.
Melanie Chalk is a ‘Returning’ artist, enjoying making Art after a lifelong career as a florist, having gained an A level in Art back in the seventies. She enjoys trying new techniques but has settled now on Mixed Media pieces, Mono and Collagraph Printing, Collage, with Fabric and stitch as [...]
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 [...]
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.
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.
