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  • Cassy Oliphant

    Location: West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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    For over twenty years, my practice as a community artist has centred on participation, storytelling, and collective making. Recently, through Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice fund, I have refocused on my personal creative work - exploring the intersection between Chinese and European folklore, inherited craft traditions, and the shifting nature of cultural identity.

  • Franky Blues

    Location: North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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    Franky Blues is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Portugal but currently residing in North Yorkshire, England. Franky's works aim to explore the innermost self and its place in contemporary society. Each creation is constructed by contrasting macabre themes with bright colours and natural elements, giving each piece an uncanny yet spiritually calm quality.

  • Ciarrai Samson

    Location: United Kingdom
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    I make printed and handmade artist books. My work moves between long-term research and wandering, using the book as a way to think about place, memory, and experience.

  • Abu Jafar

    Location: Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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    Abu Jafar (Visual Artist / Sculptor) is an acclaimed leading British International artist and Philosopher of the arts who lives and works in the United Kingdom. Born on March 21, 1968, in a small village called Jhilna, Patuakhali, Bangladesh.

  • Tessa Bunney

    Location: North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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    For over 30 years, Tessa has photographed rural life, working closely with individuals and communities to investigate how the landscape is shaped by humans. From hill farmers near her home in N Yorkshire to Icelandic puffin hunters, from Romanian nomadic shepherds to Lincolnshire flower farmers her projects reveal the fascinating intricacies of the dependencies between people, work and the land.

  • Nigel Waters

    Location: Devon, United Kingdom
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    I am a graduate professional artist with BA Fine Art First Class Honours 2006. I'm inspired by the landscape and create work that abstracts what I see and experience. Often working en plein air I create dynamic & colourful compositions. I'm inspired by abstract expressionism with rapid expressive mark making & striking colours of Fauvism. I have a strong exhibition catalogue over 20 shows in 2025.

  • Jon Eland

    Location: West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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    Finding myself and my place in the world through many media including photography, textiles and AI.

  • Jo Walton

    Location: North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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    Jo creates abstract sea/colour-scapes focusing on horizons, using gold, silver, copper metal-leaf, oil-paint, playing with rust and verdigris on plaster and wooden panels. Her work is inspired by extensive travel - sailing in her twenties delivering yachts, and her childhood years living in Australia. 20x20cm to 120x120cm.

  • RONIS VARLAAM

    Location: United Kingdom
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    For the last few years, I have tried to paint in a way that no other artist paints. I do not see the point of painting in a similar way to other artists. For THE NATURE OF THINGS series, I have found a new way of applying paint to figurative paintings. In the MEMORY AND DESIRE series I paint initially conventionally, but then cover the picture with a monochrome colour.

  • Ksenia Semirova

    Location: East Sussex, United Kingdom
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    Ksenia Semirova is a UK-based hand embroidery artist who mixes various techniques with plain materials such as threads, beads, pieces of textile to produce intricate artworks. Her works are a inspired by cultural, historical, social, and political contexts, interwoven with her personal perspective to create outcomes that hold profound meaning.

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