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

James Ursell is a visionary artist with a deep spiritual connection to the environment. Well known for his large-scale outdoor installations, he is now concentrating exclusively on paintings that are at once pastoral, figurative and mythical.

At his family home in Wales and elsewhere, Ursell has created large-scale installations including ‘Garden of Love’; a giant wicker bowl set into the earth that mirrors the map of the constellations. This work attracted the attention of Spacex Gallery in Exeter and is also featured in 100 Dream Gardens by Andrew Lawson. However, because of their time-consuming scale, Ursell has now rejected installations and instead adopted painting exclusively; building on the basic tools of poetry and theatre he developed as an installation artist.

“I became much more interested in the space that painting offered – it seemed like a whole new world was opening up, and immediately available to me.”

Ursell’s paintings take ecology and fable as major inspirations. The title of one of his works, ‘The She-Bear of Old England Awakes,’ is a line from Alistair Mackintosh’s book Soil and Soul, covering the first environmental case to be won on religious grounds. The bear represents a reawakening of an ancient yet new balance between humankind and nature, a reverential custodianship of the earth.

“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.

Belgin Bozsahin creates sculptural ceramic work by drawing on the themes of existence, self, and identity.

Born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey, Belgin has lived in London for more than three decades and exhibited in both Istanbul and London.

Her work can be found in private collections both nationally and internationally. She is an Arts4Giving artist who supports peace and humanitarian projects worldwide.

“I can draw on personal understanding and knowledge that helps me relate and communicate with others. My work examines the notion of continuing evolution and changes that things are not perfectly smooth, spotless or still. It is about the contrast between inside and out and the tension this creates.”

In recent years, Belgin has been working to create surfaces with layers and textures, in order to capture a sense of accumulation and to bring a sense of sight into the hidden spaces on surfaces. This has evolved into several collections within the category of wall pieces.

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.

Marc has presented his work and ideas on the image at lectures and conferences at venues such as the Royal Academy, London, UEL School of Architecture, London, Royal College of Art, London, Instytut Mikołówski, Poland, the New York University, Paris, The Photographers' Gallery, London, Université de Liège, Belgium and the CRASSH, University of Cambridge. His books include The Logic of the Stairwell, The Prism Walls, Silent Street, The Teratologists, Faces of Mathematics and Warszawa.

"Fundamentally my work is about a journey. Through vast landscapes, entangled roads, and buildings of myriad rooms, I puzzle at the qualities of experience, perceptual misunderstanding, the elegant and desolate, and the disturbing nature of beauty. I am enticed by fleeting moments of intrigue, points of intricacies, a shift in shadows, and the fissures within the certainties of location. My images are of encounters with a curious world, a curtain momentarily blows open and a glance of light exposes the activity of a room, indistinct characters fall from the unlit corners of a street, texts from a forgotten book stream from the page, nebulous structures become distinct sculptural forms, frames of a lost film escape to become their own narrative, a silent performance of lives plays out in hidden settings. Observations form oblique impressions, casting images which at once begin generating their own stories, seeping out over time into the world. The veil rests closed, the image is held." Marc Atkins, 2025

Ashley Greaves was born in Croydon in 1961. He first studied art at Ravensbourne College of Art, under the tutorage of Vic Kuell. He then studied Fine Art at Portsmouth Polytechnic from 1981 to 1984, and was fortunate to study under such diverse influences as Ray Pearson, Jock McFadyen RA, Neil Stokoe and Paula Rego RA. He did a postgrad in painting at Cyprus College of Art, run by Stass Paraskos, where he was guided by Humphrey Ocean RA and Mali Morris RA. He continued his studio practice at Pixley Street studios from 1986 to 1990 before moving to the Propeller Factory Acme studios at Childers Street, Deptford, from 1991 to 2024. Since 2025 he has lived and worked in Bridport, Dorset.

"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