Kit Glaisyer's mesmerizing West Dorset landscape paintings bring a contemporary twist to the traditional genre of the romantic landscape. Kit uses oil on linen & canvas, built up using multiple glazes to capture the subtle & sublime character of this unique corner of Wessex.

A widely respected artist who has exhibited in New York, London and across the UK since the early 90s, Jon’s distinctive oil paintings express an emotional interpretation and abstraction of the natural world around him, using hand ground pigments to maximise depth and luminosity and intensify the emotive response.

Grace Crabtree is an artist based in Bridport, West Dorset. Her paintings, often made using the ancient techniques of egg tempera and fresco, are grounded in the experience of walking or swimming through a place, while unearthing folkloric, geological, and mythic narratives.

“John Charlesworth is an [un]conventional easel painter, employing acrylic paint on canvas or wood. He blends the harsh, unnatural acrylic spectrum to a softer, warmer coloration and tonality, more akin to oils. He never uses raw, unmixed pigment. Even his whites have a small admixture of other colours, principally red and yellow, otherwise they would look stark, cold and unbelievable.” John Charlesworth

Formerly based at St Michael’s Studios, Bridport, John now lives and works in Appleby, Cumbria.

“I am a British artist and live and work in Dorset and London. Ever since I can remember, I have been happiest with a pencil or paintbrush in my hands. From early childhood, I was obsessed with nature and would spend every spare minute in the garden, studying and drawing plants, flowers and insects. Primarily a landscape and portrait painter, my work is my visual diary; a recording of the light, colours, space and form found in the objects and places that make up the living world. The act of putting charcoal to paper and oil to canvas is a compulsion that gives me great joy.” Helen Lloyd-Elliot

“Nature remains rich and deep in the subconscious. It’s an evolving language and it’s only in inspiration that you can find the next way forward. I allow themes to emerge in my work naturally. Ecology runs through my recent work, which I see as a metaphorical language in itself.” James Ursell

Ella is fascinated by observing people, their behaviour, temperament and clothing, questioning display and social ‘performance’. Painting semi-fictional portraits in real and imagined scenarios, she plays with fact and fiction in an attempt to understand her own sense of being.

I’m drawn to contrast and coexistence, how textured, active surfaces can sit alongside calmer, contained spaces within a single form. In recent years, I’ve explored this through abstract, sculptural vessels. The pieces are wheel-thrown and hand-built in porcelain.  

Through layering and carving, I shape the surface so that light and the viewer’s eye moves between the form’s exterior and interior. Textured surfaces sit alongside quieter, contained spaces, letting each element holds its own within the whole.

Marc Atkins is an English artist, photographer, videographer and poet, working in lens based media, drawing, painting, sculpture and text.

Now based in Bridport, Marc has lived and worked for many years in London, and has also spent extended periods of time in Rome, Detroit, New York, Warsaw and Paris.

His images have been acquired for public and private collections, including the National Portrait Gallery, London, Tate Gallery, London and the University of Cambridge.

"I find the act of painting generates more painting in the sense that it extrudes the subject matter that has lingered longest in my mind; what I would call my back catalogue of unproven thoughts, and then questions whether it should be considered any further. Painting becomes the conduit by which I can unravel this complex mix of sex, death and art.

The way in which I allow the free movement of paint over the surface of the canvas is in itself a challenge. Paint, deliberate, remove, paint, deliberate, recognise. Anything and everything is possible; chance and calculation collide. This is the jerk off moment; an unexpected reality presented before me that resonates with my subconscious like nothing else.” Ashley Greaves, 2017