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The Hampshire Artists Co-operative
Bringing Artists Together

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Our Artists


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Ruta Brown - Jewellery

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Web: - www.rutabrownjewellery.com
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After gaining a BA (Hons) in Fine Art (Sculpture) at West Surrey College of Art and Design in Farnham, Ruta Brown also studied silversmithing before setting up an independent jewellery studio.

Directly manipulating precious metals using hand tools and heat, Ruta Brown has developed a comprehensive personal vocabulary of form and texture. This supports the creation of a distinctive visual language that is expressed in a range of jewellery and small objects.

Drawn to the textural possibilities that can be achieved, Ruta Brown has specialized in the technique of reticulation. Directional heat is applied to forged, folded forms, each piece individually fabricated, in exploration of the structural limits of the metal, mainly sterling silver with 18 carat gold as added decoration. The results are a variety of intricate forms, often also incorporating stones and pearls, details evoking weathered fragments of flotsam, or other marine elements from the shoreline.


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Angela Carter - Ceramics

Tel: - 01428 741530
Email: - info@millandpottery.co.uk
Web: - www.millandpottery.co.uk
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Angela has been a member of the Hampshire Artists Cooperative since it's inception at the Selborne Gallery in 2007.

After training in ceramics at West Surrey College of Art & Design, Angela went to work at Milland Pottery, near Liphook where she has developed a business around producing domestic earthenware pots and running sessions for all ages for people to gain an understanding of the processes involved in making pots - both hand built and wheel thrown. Birthday parties, Hen parties and team building sessions are all popular. Vouchers for the sessions are available.

Her pots are produced on the potter's wheel using red earthenware clay and decorated with coloured slips under a transparent or matt glaze. Different methods of applying the slips are used, from simple brush strokes to paper resist and slip trailing, sponge printing and 'splatting'. The functional wares have a transparent glaze, which means the pots are oven proof and dish washer safe. Recent pots are decorated with slip and then burnished, parts of the pots are glazed so they can be used as well as decorative.

Angela welcomes commissions for commemorative pieces to unusual one offs.

There is a small showroom at Milland Pottery where pots are on permanent display.

Each November Angela co-hosts a Contemporary Craft Exhibition and Sale at Milland Village Hall.


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Hilary Charlesworth - Textiles

Tel: - 01730 817191
Email: - hilary@totallytextiles.co.uk
Web: - www.totallytextiles.co.uk
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British Tapestry Group Member | City and Guild Creative Textiles | City and Guilds adult education teaching | City and Guilds Counselling Skills.

I am a qualified adult education tutor teaching various textile techniques. I specialise in weaving both rugs and wall hangings. I also run The Loom Exchange which buys and sells second hand weaving and spinning equipment (www.theloomexchange.co.uk) I am the author of "Painting with Yarns" a guide to weaving a sampler of tapestry techniques.


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Susan Colyer - Painting

Tel: - 02392 640861
Email: - susan.colyer@btinternet.com
Web: - www.suecolyer.com
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I am an artist passionate about watercolour and how its unique qualities work to capture the beauty of the world we live in. My paintings are memories of places I know and love and the resulting image reflects my feelings and emotions about a place rather than identifying the subject itself.


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Gill Drew - Painter

Tel: - 07879 287921
Email: - art@gilldrew.co.uk
Web: - www.gilldrew.co.uk
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After gaining a BA (hons) in Textiles (embroidery) at Loughborough College of Art and Design I went on to study as an art teacher. My own creative work has always kept bubbling along in the background. I now enjoy spending most days in the studio and encourage others to explore their creativity in workshops and art classes.

My subject matter includes figurative and landscape pieces. There is often a narrative in the piece, a connection to a memory, or a feeling of nostalgia that connects on an emotional level through shape and colour.

I enjoy capturing the light, the colours, textures and the feeling of being outdoors surrounded by nature. I love to pay attention to the sounds, the details and shapes, the surprises and discoveries found in the countryside or other subject matter. This could be standing on the cliffs by the sea or on a regular walk with the dog on the edge of the city where I live, finding glimpses of wildness where nature isn't tamed.

I work in acrylics, exploring details and surfaces. My process begins playfully, laying down colours and textures on to which the composition develops. Each piece evolves as I explore the subject matter and enjoy the discoveries. Paint is layered, sanded, scratched into and finally glazed and surfaced with a wax finish.


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Nina Inzani - Painter

Email: - Ninakeay@hotmail.com
Instagram: - Nina Inzani

Nina's practice is multifaceted, ranging from semi-abstract monochromatic landscapes, to vibrant still-lives and Cyanotypes.

Her paintings pass through many phases of working and reworking as elements are intuitively added and removed. Thus, each image is the striking result of a unique process revealed as a palimpsest of layers and mark making.

Nina's meditative approach explores spiritual aspects of the natural landscape and heightens an awareness of balance and harmony, ā€œ By connecting with the ambience of a place, we slow down, are still and quiet and ultimately are able to connect with ourselves ā€œ.

Nina's paintings have been described as having the potency to evoke a contemplative state of mind and a sense of connection and receptivity to the challenges of the anthropocene.


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Penny Metcalfe - Painting & Ceramics

Tel: - 01962 733815
Email: - metcalfepenny@gmail.co.uk
Web: - www.pennymetcalfe.co.uk
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My paintings incorporate my main passions which are the personal space of gardens, nature and the wider landscape and my interest and curiosity about people and their emotions. The 'Positive Emotions' series is an exploration of affirmative and optimistic feelings. Paintings which suggest elements of pleasure, awe and wonder and creating a painterly 'world' of hopefulness. The landscape paintings are bold, expressive and semi-abstract with strong shapes and patterns which reflect elements found in the 'outdoors'. I love the flowing arrangements and repetitions of the patchwork of fields found in the countryside with the contrasting small detail of organic pods, stones and seeds found right under your feet or close to hand in the garden. I am inspired by the changing seasons and work hard to develop art that conveys this beauty and delight. I create figure sculptures inspired by the everyday where each figure has its own unique character, identity and personality. Often thoughtful, spiritual or just reflecting on a moment in life. Figures are coloured with underglaze which is layered and textured. I create figure sculptures where each has its own unique character and personality.


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Elisa Mott - Glass

Tel: - 07966 774270
Email: - elisa@shakeyourglass.com
Web: - www.shakeyourglass.co.uk
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I create glass jewellery, glass homeware gifts and glass wall art. The techniques of kiln forming glass I use include fusing, slumping, casting and kiln carving, I am also familiar with the hot glass technique of lampworking. I believe my glass products and workshops bring colour and happiness to the people involved.

My unique jewellery range is distinctive, colourful and eye catching. I love to make my customers feel confident and individual. My quality homeware collections and art pieces will energize your style and bring a striking focus to your living spaces.

I take my inspiration from wildlife especially birds along with my travel adventures. This is expressed in my glass design through imagery, colours and textures.

Developing new skills and experimenting with the glass is an exciting part of my progress so you can expect ongoing new and original designs.


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Amelia Newton

Tel: - 07801 473879
Email: - amelianewton531@btinternet.com
Web: - www.tornedgedesign.etsy.com

My work at the moment is strongly influenced by objects and places that mean a lot to me. Having spent many years teaching art and design to young people the latest work revisits still life. This was often a go to starting point in the classroom. Shapes, colours and textures are re-imagined into designs for fabrics.

Ideas start as small paintings or paper prints. These are collaged digitally into designs specifically for scarves and cushions. The beauty of this printing process is the nuances of colour can be picked up giving the fabrics a very painterly feel. Occasionally a small detail will be extracted again and used in a very different context, possibly a repeat print. On some designs I draw a free line that weaves its way across the surface.


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John Phillipson - Sculpture

Tel: - 02392 733459
Email: - lesley.johnphillipson@btinternet.com
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I graduated from Portsmouth College of Art & Design in the sixties and spent thirty years teaching Art & Design in Portsmouth Schools. I was Head of the Art & Design Department at Portsmouth College for 13 years. I have always been a practising sculptor and since retirement have been fulltime. I have sat on the Board of the Hampshire Sculpture Trust for the last twenty years.

I am able to work in a range of materials but my greatest enjoyment is working with stoneware clay; I like it for its immediacy, flexibility and versatility: it is able to be shaped and refined through all its stages of drying before final firing and glazing and further more I am able to produce forms in a variety of sizes .

Pieces develop organically from observation of form, attitude and movement in the natural world often taking the shape of stylised birds.

I also enjoy the challenge of commissioned work and meeting the needs of the client.


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Lynne Reeves - Paintings & Jewellery

Email: - lynnetheartist@outlook.com
Web: - www.lynnereeves.com
Instagram - @lynnetheartist

From beginnings enrolling at a young age on a Foundation course at Southampton College of Art leaving 5 wonderful wild years later qualifying in Art and Textiles. A career in the fashion industry followed. Eventually specialising in designing and creating Wedding dresses for many years.

The love of painting is always waiting to return.

Paintings are inspired by places visited, especially the coastal influences of Cornwall and St Ives with its artistic history and light. From on site sketches and photo references absorbing all these feelings and ideas, back in the studio using collage as a starting point followed by acrylic ink washes, paint and other media if Iā€™m lucky it undergoes a transformation into a colourful semi abstract creative work.

Coastal influence has also inspired the creation of the Merryn Rock Jewellery Collection. Along with daughter Claire, beach combing treasure is transformed into a unique collection using silver and silver clay some embellished with 24k gold leaf using the KeumBoo method of firing.


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Lucille Scott - Blacksmith

Tel: - 07880 724699
Email: - Scott@littleduckforge.co.uk
Web: - www.littleduckforge.co.uk
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Lucille Scott is an artist blacksmith creating hand forged metal items inspired by nature and her love for dance and music. She loves the fluidity of metal when hot and how this can be frozen in time. For Lucille the appeal of working with iron lies in the traditional role of blacksmiths, the permanence of their work and passing on this tradition to all around her. As a child, Lucille spent many a happy hour watching a blacksmith at work, in her 20s he offered an apprenticeship but having just completed a BEd in Design and Technology at Goldsmiths College she decided to follow the path of teaching. After 16 years in education her love of blacksmithing was rekindled prompting her to do some training at Hereford College of Technology and set up her own workshop, "Little duck Forge" in Eastney, Portsmouth.

Lucille spends a good proportion of her time teaching in the forge, some of it just fun days out for whoever wants to have a go, some designed to foster a love of making in the next generation. She can be seen demonstrating using her kitchen sink hearth powered with a plastic bag at local museums, fairs and garden shows.

Her work is constantly developing, 2015 saw the launch of Earth, Water and Fire, a collection of work using materials born of the earth, inspired by the sea and made in collaboration with other artists using crafts that are fused together by the searing strength of heat.


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Frances Vigars - Painting and Printing

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BA (Hons) Graphic Design - Bath Academy of Art and Cooper Union in New York | PGCE Art & Design - Experienced teacher running private lessons and workshops.

Diverse work exploring the boundary between paint and print. Working with colour and texture to explore conflicting planes and balancing abstraction with realism. Her work is a journey, using any medium and tool to make marks. Each piece is rich in layers of colour, texture and structure so that the more you look into it, the more it reveals.


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Alan Wallis - Ceramics

Tel: - 01252 725812
Email: - art@alanwallisart.com
Web: - www.alanwallisceramics.com
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Member of The Surrey Guild of Craftsmen | The Surrey Sculpture Society | The Farnham Art Society | The Guildford Art Society.

Alan studied art in the 60s and has earned his living by art and sculpture ever since. In his sculptures he seeks to capture the character and the fleeting moment of movement of his subject, whether it be a moon gazing hare or a duck in wellington boots.


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Carolyn Wallis - Textiles

Tel: - 01252 725812
Email: - carolyn@carolynwallis.com
Web: - www.carolynwallis-handweaver.com
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Member of The Surrey Guild of Craftsmen | The West Surrey Guild of Spinners, Weavers and Dyers.

Carolyn specializes in silk scarves, hand woven in complex patterns. Chinese silk yarn is bought in the undyed state and dyed by her to the colours desired for the next piece to be woven. Carolyn achieves her colours with both synthetic and natural dyes. Design Inspiration comes from the natural world.


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