We are delighted to extend an invitation to all artists to submit their works that celebrate the essence of spring for our forthcoming group exhibition at MAGAN GALLERY curated by Agnieszka Lokaj and hosted by Gosia Oldakowski-Pacak. This exhibition coincides with Wandsworth being the London Borough of Culture 2025, a year to show how culture can spark joy, making us feel happier, healthier and more connected to each other.

Theme: Spring signifies renewal, connection and joy. This exhibition seeks to illustrate the journey of transformation that occurs during this season, inviting artists to express their interpretations of spring’s essence.

Exhibition dates: 22 May to 7 June 2025

Participants

Abibat Adedayo

Abibat’s work, inspired by nature and sunsets, explores themes of self-discovery and resilience through recurring motifs like winding paths. Using acrylics, oils, watercolors, and gouache, she tailors each medium to evoke mood and texture. Influenced by dreamlike animation, her art invites quiet reflection and a sense of wonder in life’s simple moments.

Segun Akinremi 

Segun Akinremi is a passionate and award-winning photographer and videographer based in Kent, UK. With over seven years of experience, he specializes in capturing timeless portraits and cinematic visuals. As the founder of Kaboom Media Productions, he creates compelling content that reflects nature and culture. In 2024, he received the Business Awards UK for “Excellence in Creative Editing in Photography and Videography.”

Anette Aspen

Annette’s art channels her personal experiences and emotions, offering healing and raising awareness about neurological conditions, including her own. She donates 20% of her sales to The National Brain Appeal for epilepsy research. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions, featured in art publications, and supported several charities. Notably, she exhibited and sold work at Sotheby’s as part of the ‘Art & Neurodiversity’ exhibit.

Tash Bardot

Former ballroom dancer turned artist, Tash creates emotive abstract realism from her home studio, blending inks, spray paints, collage, and oils. Her work explores self-acceptance and personal growth, often through floral motifs symbolizing transformation. Inspired by spring’s renewal, she channels themes of inner peace and individuality. Recently, she expanded her practice through studies at the Milan Institute, continually pushing her creative boundaries.

Lise Bjerkan

Oslo-based artist Lise Bjerkan works across painting, photography, and text, creating vibrant, multilayered compositions that blend abstract imagery with personal and found materials. Using techniques like image transfer and cyanotype, she integrates her own photos with acrylics, charcoal, ink, and text. With a background in anthropology and journalism, her art reflects humanistic themes shaped by global research and personal experience, often serving as abstract visual diaries.

Marta Boros

Marta Boros is a Warsaw-born pop artist based in London, blending painting and poetry to express a bold, female perspective. Her vivid, collage-like works are often mysterious, provocative, and emotionally raw, drawing inspiration from pop art icons like Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Tracey Emin. Like Emin, she uses personal experience as artistic material, sometimes incorporating her own poetry into her canvases. Boros’s art stands out for its honesty and striking visual impact, aligning with a growing global appreciation for contemporary pop art.

Tom Browning

Tom Browning is a Suffolk-based artist whose work explores human hybrids as reflections of our cultural and psychological nature. Drawing on mythology and folklore, he creates new beings cast in bronze through the traditional lost wax method—a process he sees as integral to their creation. Trained in Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts, his passion for bronze casting deepened while working with sculptor Laurence Edwards, shaping his enduring interest in form, transformation, and material.

Kryssy Byrne

Born and raised in Poland, I moved to the UK to escape the constraints of communism, later embracing a new chapter in Australia, where I studied under artist David Chen. Initially working with acrylics, I transitioned to oils, exploring landscapes, seascapes, abstracts, and mixed media. Now based in Egham, Surrey, I draw inspiration from personal photos and memories, blending French Impressionist influences with a contemporary touch. My work is defined by bold brushstrokes, rich textures, and expressive movement. Outside the studio, I’m also a passionate golfer.

Anna Chiampesan

Anna Chiampesan is an Italian-born artist based in the UK, with a background in fine arts from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. While her professional focus lies in graphic design and coding, painting remains her true passion. Her work explores the emotional depth of the human experience, blending realism and abstraction to reflect themes of love, grief, joy, and resilience. Through expressive compositions, she invites viewers into a space of reflection and connection.

Osria Coltif

Osria Coltif, is a contemporary jewellery designer based in London. Her work explores the tension between structure and softness, oftenblending minimalist geometry with organic elements. Her piecesare influenced by architectural forms and a deep appreciation forbalance, repetition, and clean lines. Her current focus is the CUBEcollection—an ongoing exploration of form using square-cut stonesand sterling silver. The pale green hues of Andean Matt Opal, centralto the series, evoke a quiet sense of renewal and calm, drawinginspiration from the subtle awakening of spring.

Lucinda Denning

Lucinda is a UK-based artist with a degree in Painting from Farnham Art School, an MA in Public Art and Design from Chelsea College of Art, and a PGCE from Greenwich University. Working primarily in oils, gouache, and acrylic, she also creates prints, mosaics, and hand-painted furniture. Her bold, colourful, and figurative style is instantly recognisable, often exploring human connection, individuality, fashion, and historical influences. 

Manka Dowling

Born in Warsaw, MA from the Academy of Fine Arts. In London since 1970, she explores painting with vision and precision — always evolving, always refining.

Lena Esaulova 

Lena Esaulova is a London-based jewellery artist whose work blends storytelling, history, and upcycling. With a background in graphic design and film costume and props, she brings a strong narrative sensibility to her jewellery practice, which she began seven years ago. Lena reimagines antique and vintage elements—such as Victorian cameos, Italian micro mosaics, coral beads, and intaglios—into contemporary pieces that carry emotional depth and personal symbolism. Her approach goes beyond restoration, transforming inherited objects into modern compositions that explore memory, time, and identity. Her jewellery exists at the intersection of adornment and quiet storytelling.

Gill Flett

Gill is a south London-based sculptor whose object-based work explores the concept of “brief time” by capturing the physical memory of urban decay. Using construction materials—particularly mortar—she creates solid forms that reference the degradation of infrastructure. Her sculptures often consist of modular, unique units that can be displayed individually or as a group. Colour plays a key role, drawn from specific locations to embed a sense of place and memory. Gill earned her MA in Fine Art from Gray’s School of Art in 2023, 33 years after completing a BA in 3D Design there. 

May Gañán

May is a contemporary jewellery artist known for developing her own visual language by integrating painting and drawing onto organic forms, which she transforms into unconventional canvases. Her pieces are deeply personal, carrying layered meanings that evolve as they are worn and experienced by others. Her distinctive approach has earned international recognition, including the New York Sculpture to Wear Award (2022), the Romanian Jewelry Week Award (2021), and the Vogue Award for Creativity at Milano Jewelry Week (2018). 

El Relleno

El Relleno is a self-taught artist currently living and working in London. His mobile phone photography blends street photography and nature, drawing inspiration from minimalist ideas and ancient mythology. In his first year of exhibiting, El Relleno was discovered busking at Charing Cross by a filmmaker who later created a documentary about him. This encounter led to his first solo show in Camden. Since then, his work has been exhibited in galleries across London, and he was selected to appear at Visual Art Scotland’s centenary show at the Royal Academy in Edinburgh.

Lucy Gow

This Belfast-born artist creates landscape-inspired work rooted in personal connection and memory. Focusing not on sweeping vistas but on selected fragments of the view, her process blends observation with imagination and shifting perspectives. Working intuitively, often on multiple pieces at once, she responds to the landscape through layered textures, mark-making, erasure, and blending. Her vibrant, energetic compositions aim to evoke a sense of place, history, and belonging—inviting viewers to get lost in the work and reflect on their place within the broader narrative of the world.

Irene Grazuliene

Born in 1966 in what is now Lithuania, then part of the former Soviet Union, this London-based artist has been living in the UK for nearly two decades. A lifelong admirer of art—especially abstraction—she is self-taught, having begun painting intuitively without formal training. Her creative journey led to a showcase at the London Art Biennale in 2023. Still exploring her artistic identity, she experiments with colour, texture, and composition, drawing inspiration from nature, travel, and everyday encounters. Using acrylics, modelling paste, sand, and a variety of tools, she transforms memories and emotions into textured, expressive works on canvas.

Georgina Haly

Artist and designer. She works part-time in her art studio with the Artists Studio Company in Kennington. She is drawn to the idea of creating form in real space. Educated at Kingston School of Art, she primarily works with drawing and materials. Her work explores themes of object and space, inspired by engineering drawings from a project at the IMECHE (Institute of Mechanical Engineers). She aims to explore the relationship between drawing and the object, creating pieces that engage with the space the art inhabits—the gallery space. 

Bec Hopkins

Bec Hopkins has exhibited her work across West Sussex, Hampshire, London, and Brighton. Her art is rooted in a deep love and connection with the ocean and sea swimming. Through her pieces, she seeks to capture the joy found in the waves and the sense of freedom and connection to nature that comes with swimming in open waters. Bec creates her collages using recycled and collected vintage papers, as well as Indian rag paper. Her paintings incorporate acrylic, watercolour, and Indian inks.

Krzysztof Jablonowski

Photographer and graphic designer, graduated from Cracow Academy of Fine Arts. Scholarship at the Salisbury College of Art in the UK where she obtained a certificate – Professional Qualifying Examination in Photography. Doctorate in Photography from the National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź. Presently teaching.

Jonathan Hughes

He studied ceramics in his youth and took O and A level Art (ceramics, not painting or drawing). He always wanted to make pots (hand-built, not thrown), but life led him away from that path. Forty years later, he is determined to follow this route at long last. He creates unique hand-built sculptures from stoneware and porcelain, which are usually dry glazed.

Jolanta Jagiello

Jolanta Jagiello is a primarily a Welded Metal Sculptor with an Acme Artist Studio at High House Production Park. Jolanta is a member of the Association of Polish Artists (APA) and regularly exhibits at the POSK Gallery in Hammersmith. And is an ‘Inspired By …’ at Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) Sculpture Category winner in 2005, 2008, 2010. Jolanta has recently joined the AltMFA a peer-led group of artists.

Johanne Narayn

An expressive artist with a passion for colour, nature, and tropical themes, she draws on her multicultural roots—born in England to a Trinidadian father and Irish mother. Early experiences in both Trinidad and Ireland shaped her creative vision. Trained in graphic design and fine art, she began with oils and watercolours before switching to acrylics for their quick drying time. She is now preparing a new series of figurative works, returning to oils.

Maria Kaleta

Maria is an award-winning painter and graphic artist, with a portfolio that also includes pastels, drawings, printmaking and installation. Her work showcases a clear faculty for both traditional and modern media. She holds a Master’s Degree from the Painting, Graphics and Sculpture department at the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of Fine Arts (previously the Academy of Fine Arts) in Poznan and has since also studied Exposition and Display at The National College of Arts in Poznan. She exhibits regularly in London.

Bartlomiej Katana

Born in Radom. In the 1990s, he attended the School of Fine Arts (Zespół Szkół Plastycznych) in his hometown. He was part of the first graduating class of this newly established school, paving the way alongside a group of young, artistic enthusiasts. He developed his drawing and painting skills under the guidance of Professor Stanisław Zbigniew Kamieński. Currently, in addition to the techniques mentioned above, he also works with photography. 

Magdalena Kronenberg-Seweryn

Born in Rabka, Poland, Magdalena Kronenberg-Seweryn began her artistic education in drawing and painting in Krakow, later expanding her perspective through studies at BHU in Varanasi, India. Her international experiences deeply inform her practice. She regularly attends masterclasses at the Polish Sculpture Center in Orońsko and sculpts alongside Beata Czapska at symposia. Working from her studio in Buckinghamshire, she creates sculptures through repetitive, intensive processes that formalise chance and celebrate everyday beauty. Her work reflects a deep connection to nature, rootedness in the moment, and a desire to harmonise the ephemeral with the physical.

Clarissa Kumala

Clarissa Kumala, also known as Clariiku, is a young Indonesian artist studying in the UK who specialises in abstract and surrealist art. Her vibrant, gestural works draw on everyday student life, social media, and personal interactions, aiming to capture youthful and honest observations. While she primarily works with traditional media like painting and ceramics, she also explores animation, illustration, and photography. Her art has been exhibited locally and internationally, featured in conventions and publications.

Robert Kuzmicz

Robert Kuzmicz is a photographer and visual artist with a background in photography, art history, and Fine-Art printmaking. His work has been showcased at numerous group exhibitions across Europe, including in London, Venice, Paris, Stockholm, Poznań, and Gibraltar. In 2024, he won the Grand Prix at the Royal Blue Art Gallery in Stockholm, which led to a solo exhibition featuring his premiere collection The History of Everything. His innovative use of divisionism in photography earned him a finalist spot in the HERALBONY Art Prize 2024, with the selected piece set to be shown at Earth Garden Gallery in Tokyo.

Ang Li

Ang Li, born in Anhui, China, began studying Computer Science in Beijing before switching to Communication to follow his passion for visual art. In 2021, he moved to the UK to pursue an MFA in Creative Documentary by Practice at University College London, graduating in 2023. His work has since been recognized by BAFTA-qualifying film festivals and exhibited in galleries. Ang’s art is calming yet powerful, inviting viewers on introspective journeys. He values human connection, storytelling, and isn’t afraid to challenge authority or norms. He believes every artwork reflects the artist’s current phase, making each piece a personal narrative.

Xing Yu Liu

Xing Yu Liu is a multidisciplinary artist focusing on video art, theatre production, and fine art photography. The artworks are subtly political. Identity and the sense of belonging to a country are recurring themes in Xing Yu’s work. These topics are often approached in a dry and documentary manner.

Agnieszka Lokaj

Agnieszka is a contemporary artist based in London. Her artistic journey began later in life after years of working in the technology sector. She has been longlisted for The Women in Art Emerging Artist Prize 2024 and the Visual Art Open 2024 Emerging Artist Award. Most recently, her painting was selected for the poster and catalogue cover for the Friends 2025 Exhibition at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists.

Waleria Lugowska

From Kyiv to Poland – her journey led her from the stage to the jewellery bench. She designs colourful, expressive pieces that bring joy to others.

Zoltan Magyar

His passion for landscape painting was inspired by his father, whose artistic talent encouraged him to start sketching at an early age. With years of practice and guidance, he learned to capture nature’s beauty using graphite and acrylics. His dedication has earned recognition, and through his work, he aims to share the harmony and emotion he experiences in nature with his audience.

Mbuyisa A. Maphalala

A South African visual artist currently living in London. His artistic journey began in South Africa and Eswatini, where he received formal training in Commercial Art and Printmaking. He has participated in numerous exhibitions across Africa, the United States, and the United Kingdom. His work draws inspiration from cultural diversity, heritage, human emotions, and the human figure.

Michelle Margetts

Michelle began painting in her sixties, following careers in mathematical research, garden design, and finance. A lifelong fascination with patterns and geometric forms—especially those found in nature—now informs her artistic practice. Travel has also been a major influence, inspiring works that aim to capture the atmosphere of the places she has visited. Her art is known for vivid colours, layered textures, and bold shapes. Initially working in a representational style, she has since shifted toward abstraction, using colour and form to evoke the essence of landscapes and experiences.

Venetta Nicole

Venetta Nicole is a mixed-media artist whose work explores internal journeys through portraiture and abstract scenes. Using acrylic, oil pastel, and charcoal, she blends Abstract art, Expressionism, and pop art to create bold, symbolic compositions that invite introspection and dialogue.In 2025, she is focusing on the relationship between art and architecture, using wood to craft textured abstract structures. Her approach emphasizes pattern, texture, and personality, showcasing wood’s versatility as a medium.

Kinga Olah

Kinga Olah is a London-based, award-winning contemporary jewellery artist whose work explores the dynamic relationship between jewellery and the human body. Rather than simply adorning the body, her pieces invite a reciprocal interaction, where the body reveals and activates the jewellery. By transforming negative spaces of the body into sculptural, delicate forms, she redefines wearability and perspective. Kinga’s signature technique involves layering crushed stones to create rich textures, often symbolising personal connections or memories.

Kerrie O`Leary 

Kerrie O’Leary is an Irish artist and producer based between Dublin and London. With a background in Management Science and an MFA in Computational Art, she merges data analysis, code, and technology to create tangible artworks inspired by environmental systems. Her practice reveals hidden patterns—such as tides and time—by transforming raw data into poetic visualisations and sculptural forms.

Michael Oyinbokure

Michael Oghenekaro Oyinbokure (Mike Kure) is a multidisciplinary artist and photographer based in London, whose work explores African identity within a globalised context. Combining digital and traditional media, he addresses themes such as resilience, migration, and belonging, offering nuanced perspectives that move beyond stereotypical representations. Through candid photography, he captures moments that resonate with universal themes while remaining deeply rooted in African heritage. 

Andrzej Pacak

Graduated as a veterinary surgeon, he started his artistic education in 1970 in Warsaw, at the studio of a well-known sculptor Miroslawa Miller. Later he collaborated with her for many years. Since 1991 he lives and works in London, where he recently opened his own gallery of art – MAGAN. During over forty years of work he participated in multiple exhibitions and shows among others in: the UK, Poland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Russia, Lithuania etc.

Morgane Pairain

Morgane is a contemporary painter based in Carshalton, inspired by emotions and her surroundings. Her intuitive approach explores form, shape, and colour to evoke moods and reflections on life. Primarily working in acrylic, she also experiments with various mediums. Largely self-taught, she is currently studying Art & Design at West Dean College. A member of the Carshalton Artists group, she exhibits regularly and was selected for The Horton Summer Exhibition 2024.

Anna Pieniazek

Anna, born in Katowice, Poland, has been painting since childhood and has worked with oil paints for over 30 years. She earned her art diploma from Silesia University in 2003 and now creates imaginative, colourful oil paintings on canvas. Since relocating to London in 2005, her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the UK. Ania has exhibited with the Society of Women Artists at the Mall Galleries and the Chelsea Art Society, and is regularly represented at the Affordable Art Fair and Fresh Art Fair.

Araminta Ramsey

A London-based artist, she creates expressive landscape paintings inspired by her travels, memories, and emotional connection to the natural world. Her work celebrates the colours and energy of wild places — the kind that stop the viewer in their tracks and evoke a deeper sense of aliveness. She paints intuitively, focusing on light, movement, and contrast to capture how a place feels, not just how it looks. After a career in PR, she returned to painting during the pandemic and now pursues it seriously, working primarily in acrylic and oil. Her style balances boldness with reflection — a little chaos and a lot of colour.

Margo Random

Margo Random is a London-based artist who discovered her passion for art after a career in music, songwriting, and acting. Working primarily in oil, she also explores pastel, watercolour, collage, and printmaking. Her work spans landscape, still life, and portraiture with an abstract sensibility and a vibrant use of colour influenced by her travels, her London surroundings, and her New York roots. Margo has exhibited widely across London, and her ‘Tooting Bec’ print series was acquired by the London Transport Museum. She aims to capture the essence of her subjects with simplicity and emotion.

Nadiia Rom

Born in 1977, the artist began her formal education in the arts between 1989 and 1993, attending art school with a focus on painting. She later pursued studies in architecture at the National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic,” graduating in 2004.  A pivotal moment in her journey came in 2016, during a profound personal and professional crisis. At that time, art became a vital means of survival and self-expression. In 2022, she relocated to the UK due to the war in Ukraine.

Milena Rosa

Born in Poland and currently living in Mitcham, she is a self-taught artist, although she is still learning and exploring new techniques. Painting is her new hobby after decoupage, creating tote bags and greeting cards. Abstract art is what she loves the most. In her artwork, you can see acrylic paints and different texture mediums. Her paintings represent calm and meditation. She loves getting inspiration from Petra Thölken and Rinske Douna.

Payal Roywest

Payal is a London-based abstract and modern impressionist artist working with oils, acrylics, and mixed media. Passionate about colour and texture, she draws much of her inspiration from the sky and sea. Fascinated by how light falls through and onto surfaces, she feels a deep connection to nature. Through her art, Payal aims to evoke feelings of positivity and contemplation, believing that art is not just what you see, but how it makes you feel, connect, and imagine.

Jana Rychvalska

With a background in architecture and landscape design, Jana has worked full-time as an artist since 2020. Influenced by classical music, her vibrant works often feature primary colours and geometric compositions. In 2024, she held two solo exhibitions, EMANCIPATION OF COLOUR and AUTUMNAL, and recently completed her first international show PO-LON. Her current solo exhibition MYRIAD explores language and art, also debuting short films based on 750 photo compositions titled House Keys. From April to October, she runs a fortnightly ART AND PLANT FAIR, supporting charities — in 2025, proceeds go to Mind.

Manasi Sant

Manasi Sant is a London based software engineer but she is an artist at heart. She hopes to find a balance between the analytical demands of her career and the expressive freedom of her art. Manasi creates contemporary pieces that invite thoughtful reflection using acrylics and mixed media. She blends vibrant colors, textures, and symbolism to reveal a deep curiosity about what it means to be human. For Manasi, painting is not only a creative outlet but a way to nurture her imaginative side. Each piece reflects her journey of growth, learning, and self-expression. 

Maha Satish

Maha lives and works in London, painting primarily in oils for their depth, richness, and malleability. Her layered compositions develop over months, drawing on a personal archive of found and collected imagery. With figuration at the core, she uses colour fields to explore light, space, and shifting focus, inviting viewers to feel part of the scene. Her work plays with perspective and depth, creating visually engaging paintings that are both intuitive and thoughtfully constructed.

David Sawyer

Born in London in 1961, he graduated from Canterbury College of Art in the early 1980s. A Modern British Impressionist, he focuses primarily on urban landscapes, with a strong interest in architectural subjects painted en plein air. He regularly exhibits at the Mall Galleries in London and is a member of both the Royal Society of British Artists (since 2004) and the Chelsea Art Society (since 2016). In 2019, he joined the then Prince of Wales on a tour of the Caribbean and Cuba as official tour artist, and in 2023 was invited to China by the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and the China International Cultural Association as part of a European delegation of artists.

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Justine Storey

Her paintings are a spontaneous expression of colour and movement. She loves working on large canvases that she can move freely, allowing light and vibrancy to emerge. Born in Sheffield, the Steel City, she later moved to London to study at Camberwell Art School, eventually completing a Fine Art degree at Chelsea School of Art. She is especially drawn to the sea lines of Cornwall—their raw beauty at night—and the quiet stillness of East Suffolk. Her anchor is the gift of life itself and the freedom to paint.

Maria Storey

Maria Storey is an Artist / Printmaker, with a BA Hons in Graphic Design, who makes original handprinted limited edition prints. She uses a wide variety of techniques, including lino, etching, collagraph and monotype. Her work is inspired by nature, wildlife and plant forms. She is fascinated by the patterns and textures captured in time and enjoys exploring ways of replicating these forms through printmaking. Each print is unique. Maria is a member of South London Women Artists and has had work selected for The Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2024. 

Mary Swift

Mary Swift is a London based professional artist and illustrator. Artist in third generation, painting from early childhood. Holding a diploma in textile interior design, Mary is working freely in any medium and scale, preferring oil or acrylic on canvas, her attention devoted to the love of nature and festive patterns of the universe. Inspired by birds, animals and memories, she creates whimsical characters and tells a story with every painting.

Naghmeh Tabrizi

Through handmade silver and enamel pieces, Naghmeh Tabrizi weaves stories of gardens, myths, and distant memories, drawing inspiration from the timeless elegance of Persian art and the visionary forms of the Wiener Werkstätte. Each creation becomes a unique fragment of a dialogue between East and West, architecture and nature, memory and imagination. The jewellery invites the wearer into a luminous world where history, poetry, and craftsmanship dance together in delicate harmony.

Martin Taylor

Martin Taylor, born in August 1957 in Coatbridge, Scotland, is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in design and ceramics. He studied at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen from 1976 to 1980, where he earned a BA in Design, focusing primarily on ceramics. In the summer of 1985, he moved to London, where he began working in graphic departments within the oil industry. Since 1987, Martin has been part of Slideshow, a printing company based at the Barbican in London, where he continues to work to this day.

Angela Thwaites

Angela is an artist and maker living in Croydon and exhibiting internationally. Having studied in the UK, USA and Czech Republic, Angela has built signifcant expertise working in glass and mixed media. She creates sculpture and wearables with distinctive, sometimes humorous character. Melding digital and physical modelling methods, Angela develops tactile forms, translated through 4,000 year old casting techniques, into glass. Everyday sources and materials provide inspiration to develop ideas offering a new angle on human vulnerability and the power and fragility of nature.

Nedum Udeze

Nedum Udeze is a self-taught Nigerian visual artist currently based in Derby, UK. With abackground in civil engineering, his practice is a compelling fusion of technical discipline andcreative expression. He works exclusively with acrylic on canvas to create emotionally resonantwildlife portraits, exploring themes of resilience, identity, and untamed beauty. Each paintingdraws from his personal experiences and cultural heritage, making his art deeply narrative andevocative. 

Emiliy Abstract

Emily is a self-taught contemporary artist from Buckinghamshire, known for her vibrant, expressive works that celebrate spontaneity and joyful imperfection. Blending bold colour palettes with layered textures, her abstract compositions act as visual meditations—inviting viewers to feel as much as see. Influenced by music, poetry, memory, and nature, Emily’s intuitive approach creates space for introspection and emotional connection. She believes art can be a portal to healing and self-expression, offering moments of joy, vulnerability, and release.

Rowan Vuglar

Rowan Vuglar was born in 1952 in the small town of Paeroa, New Zealand.  In 1976, he went to Australia and, after brief studies at Mosman Art School in Perth, held his first one man show there in 1980. This contained some 90 pieces. After a brief period of study at Sydney College of Art, and further exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney, he travelled to the UK in 1986. In 1988 he joined the Stockwell Studios and exhibited there twice yearly until 2001. In all, he has held over 50 solo or joint exhibitions.

Cerise Washington

Cerise Washington blends Romantic-era landscapes with painterly abstraction and Impressionist influences. Her distinct style features expressive impasto, atmospheric light, and rich color layers evoking depth and reflection. Her early equestrian work was shown at the World Trade Centre in Dubai, earning recognition from His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. She has since exhibited at the Oxford International Art Fair and London venues like Covent Garden.

Sitara Yelding

Sitara’s work is inspired by nature and the environment. She draws inspiration from her garden and her deep love of the outdoors.

Katarzyna Zarzycka

Katarzyna Zarzycka is contemporary artist with Polish nationality. She had passion for drawing since very young age. Only she gained professional art education when decided to move to Gdansk to study Artistic Education in the field of Fine Arts. At the Academy she was truly fascinated by painting and sculpture. She has gained deeper interest in arts, science and human mind. After graduating Academy she decided to move to London to pursue career in arts.

Chaoming Zheng

Chaoming Zheng is an artist with Literature studies background. She studied in Fudan University, Royal College of Art, and University of Oxford. Her practice explores themes of connection, feminism, glitches during reproducibility, and overlapping diaspora in archives. She crafts narratives that weave together fiction, digital anomalies and the physical world. She portrays herself as a shapeshifting bard/a slippery fox who fabulizes traumatic realities with symbols both fragile and intimate. 

Joanna Zubkowicz

Joanna is a self-taught painter drawn to moody, expressive work that explores emotion through light, shadow, and organic forms. She paints in between the demands of daily life, often working in small bursts, chasing honesty rather than polish. Her process is experimental, layered, and personal — a way to stay connected to herself and the world around her.