An independant designer based in North Essex who has been creating stylish affordable jewellery for several years. Each piece is handcrafted by Helen using quality products including semi-precious gemstones, sterling silver and gorgeous glass beads from all over the world. All designs are exclusive so each piece of jewellery is a 'one off'. Her designs are inspired by a passion for beautiful beads.
Personal commissions are taken and the majority can be personalised using different gemstones & highlights.
Because the nature of the product comes from natural resources, pieces cannot be repeated, though an alternative can be made.

Kit Beecroft

Is a privately tutored - self financing artist who has turned to larger format work in recent years, dividing his time between Scarborough and London. Being inspired by sculptures by Henry Moore & Barbara Hepworth and paintings by Ivon Hitchens & David Bomberg.
Kit explains 'The most a maker of images can hope for is that, for a moment, he or she can divert the viewer from the daily round. In the age of mass media, bombardment of the visual sense has seemingly limited attention spans to a degree where `optical illiteracy` has gained ground. I believe a painting has to be experienced as an intuitive, feeling function, some of which is subliminal and therefore difficult to intellectualise'.
Kit works in oil on canvas, some heavily textured; advancement and recession where appropriate are created by thickness of paint as well as tonal values. Now publishing high quality limited edition Giclée prints so his artworks can be enjoyed by even more people.

Chris Bennett

Born in London in 1957 and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in the early 80s under Euan Uglow, Geoffrey Camp and Phil Sutton. He has exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy Summer Show and with the Royal Institute of Oil Painters at the Mall Galleries, London. His current works are to be seen in prestigious galleries around the UK.
A notable commission is a portrait of Sir William Hawthorne, now in the collection of Churchill College, Cambridge who, with Sir Frank Whittle, designed the first jet engine. Chris paints an internal world, a distillation of something seen or half glimpsed in life, which is digested and later realised as a formal image; he is painting an ideal, not an idea. The paintings are the outcome of giving an external shape to an internal experience.

Louise discovered her talent for art and design at school, where she specialised in screen printing. Having completed an Art Foundation Course at Portsmouth College of Art, she embarked on a 4 year Degree in Media and Production Design at the London College of Printing. After graduation in 1991 she spent several months travelling around Central America, which was to have a strong influence on her distinctive use of both colour and shape. Returning from her travels, Louise settled into a career in graphic design back in London. Although her creative talent was effective in the commercial world, she was keen to strike out as a designer and artist in her own right, and spent her free time producing handmade cards and illustrations which were successfully sold through a number of retail outlets including Harvey Nichols. She also undertook a number of commissions for corporate Christmas cards. Then in May 1997 she moved to Hampshire and decided to go it alone as a full-time professional artist. Over the past five years Louise has developed a style of painting which, although expressive, is firmly rooted in her design background. Her high-impact oils on board are predominantly figurative; they encapsulate the energy and buzz of a crowded scene in a manner that is both stylised and beautifully observed. The great love of the sea which took her back to the South Coast is reflected throughout her work, but we can also see a great affection for human interaction in a variety of social and public situations.

Des Brophy

"Having lived by the sea for most of my younger life, early inspiration came from the sea and costal areas I was familiar with. I had always expressed an interest in Art. Even as a child I would draw.At the age of 22 while a young RAF serviceman I spent some time in the RAF hospital. To keep myself occupied I assembled air-fix models of famous Galleons although I soon became more interested in the detailed illustrations which were on the front on the box that they came in! These inspired me into taking up watercolours and in my own way trying to attempt these images myself – not to any great success I might add. From this however I continued to nurture a desire to paint.It was not until I was in my early forties that I met a local Artist (and retired Art Teacher) John Greensmith R.W.S.. John showed great patience and tolerated my insatiable need to learn the techniques of handling watercolour. Resulting in paintings of local landscapes of bleak Derbyshire moorland scenes with dramatic and wild skies. To this day I still enjoy the beauty of the Derbyshire moorland and villages.

Hazel was born in Port Said and trained at Portsmouth College of Art. Her favourate medium is Silkusingdyes to produce her bold vivid images of flowers, fruit and animals.

Pam Carter

Born in Tanganyika, East Africa to an Austrian mother and Scottish father, Pam moved to Scotland at the age of thirteen. She graduated from Glasgow School of Art in the seventies and immediately embarked on a career in teaching. After being based in Braidfeild High School for four years, she took a year out to study in Chicago, then spent a further two years teaching art in the glorious setting of the Seychelles. From the mid-eighties she taught in various colleges until in August 2004 she gave up her academic career to concentrate on painting full time.
Pam's dazzling seascapes originate on the rugged West Coast of Scotland with its isolated cottages and wild colours and amongst the majestic cliffs and fishing villages of the East Coast. In her own words: "A sense of a place is important in my work but for me it's not about capturing a scene with complete accuracy. Sometimes it is the elements and the untamed force of nature that inspire, but more than anything it is the essential quality of the light which can be found in the Scottish land and seascape. I often interpret the scene with abstract elements allowing the paint to work for me. I translate this light in terms of contrast and colour - often bold but always with subtlety and balance. I ultimately want to create a visual sensation and pleasing image."
Pam's award winning artwork is held in an impressive range of private and corporate collections. She has also held numerous solo exhibitions throughout Britain and in the USA and has participated in several group shows including the Royal Scottish Society (RSA), the Royal Glasgow Institute (RGI), Visual Arts Scotland (VAS), and the Paisley Art Institute (PAI). She gained an award from each of the latter three venues.

Chabridon was taught by his life long friend, Lucien Vedar, before the First World War. His work was exhibited in the New York World Fair in 1925. He died at the age of 50. The plates are now being reworked by Alain Faré.

Veronica Charlesworth
Veronica was born in London,UK in 1952, originally training at Hampton Art School studying drawing and painting. Then gaining a BA in Graphics at the London College of Printing studying printmaking and graphic design. For the following five years she ran a printmaking workshop publishing editions of screenprints and lithographs. Marrying her artist husband Michael MacDonagh Wood in 1979, they have together created and printed their own prints with great success.

Matthew Cook