Artists' Biographies
Julie Atthews
As a textile artist Julie’s practice is influenced by the ephemeral qualities of nature and the colours, textures and surfaces created as forms decay and erode. Julie explores the beaches of the British Isles, shaping, stitching and moulding fabrics to replicate coastal forms, convincing the viewer that they are real objects, reawakening memories of our positive experiences of nature
Instagram @julieatthewsart
Facebook: Julie Atthews
Rachel Bentley
Contemporary Artist
Rachel Bentley is a self taught Yorkshire artist who captures the emotional landscape of the Pennines, Dales and moors. Returning to her creative life after running her own business, she works with paint, ink and objects gathered from the land itself. Her work brings the feeling of the landscape into people's homes and lives. Originals, prints and cards available.
Website www.rachelbentleyartist.co.uk
Facebook: @RachelBentleyArtist
Instagram @rachel_bentley_art
Lauri Bower
Paper Collage Artist
Lauri is a paper collage & mixed media artist creating one-off paper collages, giclee prints, and greeting cards. Her inspirations are words, poems, nature, and her garden. Her artwork is colourful and textured. She paints papers to work from using watercolour paint, lino-print, marbling, and ink. Mindfulness is part of her creative practice and is reflected in her subject and colour choices. She curates Wetherby Gallery, offers workshops and demonstrates on Thursdays.
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/the_creative_space_uk/
Website https://the-creative-space.org.uk/
Folksy https://folksy.com/shops/TheCreativeSpace
Jackey Brown
Jackey started with watercolour painting at an evening class in Leicestershire over 40 years ago. However getting married and moving to Cambridgeshire, she did not paint for nearly 20 years. Then a move to Yorkshire stirred up the desire to paint again. She now mainly uses pastels and mixed media to capture landscapes and animals but enjoys having a go at any different type of paint, given the chance.
Jan Bulley
Jan’s primary interest is in mixed media landscape painting in a loose and fluid manner over textured backgrounds and taking inspiration from nature. Her process has evolved using lots of washes and wet-in-wet techniques into semi-abstract landscapes that strive to capture the ephemeral effects of light, atmosphere and tranquility.
Jan also works in printmaking, in particular with collagraph, which produces a very expressive and textured finish creating a unique print every time.
Jan also works in hand built ceramics, using ancient techniques; pinch pots, coiling and slabs constructing pieces of simplicity. Again, taking inspiration from nature, she uses texture and mark making to create truly original pieces.
Visit at www.janbulleyartworks.co.uk and www.instagram.com/janbulleyartworks
Clare Dean
Clare is a mixed media artist, who particularly likes to work with acrylics in a loose textural way, finding inspiration from nature and her garden, and particularly enjoys painting meadows. She also works in pastel and oil occasionally. She has a large range of cards and prints, including animals and birds along with floral and landscape work.
Clare is happy to do workshops or demonstrations for local art groups and runs her own workshops. She has undertaken several commissions. She regularly exhibits at RHS Harlow Carr and other events. Please visitwww.clarescreations.co.uk for more information.
https://www.facebook.com/clarescreationsart
https://www.instagram.com/clares_creations_art/
Natalie Elderton
Natalie is a ceramic artist making both decorative and functional pieces such as large platters, vases and garden decorations. All of her work is hand built using slaps, coils or pinching methods. Often, she will then apply coloured slips and then scrape and carve into the clay to show the colour of the clay beneath. This is a process called sgraffito. Working as a florist for many years she takes much of her inspiration from flowers, plants and the natural landscape.
You can see more of Natalie's ceramics at www.instagram.com/natalieeldertonceramics
Chris Harman
Chris Harman is an artist based in Collingham, who works in a variety of mediums including painting and photography. After studying at Leeds College of Art, Chris spent 15 years working freelance as an artist; teaching, researching, exhibiting, exploring collaborative sculpture and action as art rather than object. In more recent times, Chris has struggled with his mental health and has used painting and photography as tool for expression on his journey through life. His photography also explores objects that somehow tell a story of their own, often making the viewer see beauty in the ‘unbeautiful’. Chris has worked with organisations such as Leeds City Gallery, Wakefield Hepworth and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. He continues to create, and to tell his story through his work. He is currently working on a new project about time, the effects this has on daily life and our ability to create.
Jane Horton CPAGB, BPE3, AFIAP
Janes passions are photography, horses and wildlife and loves nothing more than capturing the beauty and spirit of amazing animals.
She also enjoys photographing the wonderful landscapes of Yorkshire and the Outer Hebrides.
Janes photography has won awards in the UK and around the world.
Email: janehorton1922@gmail.com
Instagram:janehorton92
Glynis Learmonth
Glynis creates textile art using scrap and pre-loved fabric. Using ‘waste’ unlocks her creativity because the colour, feel and history of a piece of fabric is already exciting and inspiring. Her work reflects her environmental awareness and love of natural beauty and she hopes that through her art she inspires other people to protect nature.
Facebook: @glynislouiselearmonth
Instagram: @glynislouiselearmonth
Maggie Molyneux
I am a retired engineering draughtswoman, my passion is painting and drawing. Buildings are my specialist subject. Townscapes, historical buildings, pubs and churches, world iconic buildings from travels afar.
Living most of my life in and around Birmingham, working mainly on city centre building projects, surrounded by buildings and fabulous city canals
Now living in Wetherby, I still find inspiration in many ‘Nooks and Crannies’
I hope you like my work.
Rachel McNaughton
I paint mostly in watercolour although sometimes use pastel and my early choice of subject matter was flowers. Since then I have broadened my horizons and paint landscapes, animals and whatever takes my fancy! I now have a looser style but I still always have to fight against painting in detail.
Work has been published by National Trust, Laura Ashley, Unicef, M and S and WHSmith.
You can see more of my work by visiting www.artbyrachel.co.uk ( where there are galleries of my art to buy as originals and prints or click here to visit my Etsy shop which also includes painting tutorials.
click here to e mai]
Jill Neale
Jill enjoys painting many subjects, primarily meadows, showing the harmony in nature to be found in the countryside around her. Jill hopes that her paintings and use of colour convey a feeling of joy and happiness. Jill also paints the countryside around Collingham as well as abstract mixed media pictures, animals and house portrait
Richard Newman
Since Richard Newman retired, he has worn two hats, those of a writer and an artist. When training as an Architect at UCL, Richard was taught to draw at the Slade next door to the Bartlett. He has turned his attention to developing landscape ideas where sensibility and contemporary themes merge. He works, usually in mixed media of acrylic and water colour spending long, happy hours in his studio in the garden.
Telephone: 01937 845675
70. High Street, Boston Spa LS236EA
Linda Quartermaine
Linda Quartermaine creates unique and captivating artwork that is sure to be a conversation starter. With a special focus on watercolour landscapes, graphite,
watercolour and pastel pet portraits and pastel wildlife art, you can find something for every room of your home. Each painting is crafted with a hyper-realistic style and an eye for detail, ensuring that each finished product is exquisite. Linda is also passionate about the conservation of endangered animals and would love to create
something special for you that celebrates your love of wildlife.
David Ranby
A long time rock climber, I started carving in 2017 following a starter kit gift from my daughter. I am not trying to replicate an existing living form, but interpret. I carve 80% by hand (chisels etc) to allow the stone to change plans. I use Yorkshire stones (Swaledale Fossil, York, Ancaster weatherbed) for the intrigue they bring in colours and fossils.
Ailsa Read
Ailsa Read’s contemporary paintings are inspired by the coastlines of the British Isles. Her work explores the sea as both a subject and a place of movement, light, and wilderness. Working in oils and mixed media, she focuses on capturing the ever-changing elements that affect tides, in a style between abstraction and realism.
www.ailsaread.co.uk
Ken Shippen
Ken is a retired Engineer and enjoys landscape painting, usually in oils. He is drawn towards traditional landscapes, such as seascapes or river and lake settings. His paintings often encompass large open spaces with dramatic and bold skies. Although his landscapes are generally, realistic interpretations, he is also looking to capture and convey a real sense of the mood of the scene. He exhibits around the North Yorkshire area and is happy to undertake commissions on behalf of clients.
email; shippen.ken@gmail.com
Karl Simpson
Jenny Sharpe
Having visited a local art exhibition Jenny decided to enroll for watercolour lessons. She now paints landscapes and seascapes both in watercolour and acrylic taking her inspiration form the beautiful county she lives in. Jenny has exhibited in Walton, Boston Spa and Richmond Station.
Katy Small
I work with felt, yarns and fabrics. My work is inspired by the changing skies and landscapes, or even the tiny, busy world of a hedgerow.
My pictures start as a drawing or small painting in my sketchbook. The background of a picture is created using ‘wet felting’, similar to blending paints or pastels. For the finer details, I use machine felting and embroidery with a variety of yarns. I do not aim to re-create an actual scene, but rather evoke a feeling, an impression, a mood. You can find my work on Instagram and website www.feltedyarns.co.uk
Toff Artists
Simon Mountford and Gary Lauder
Simon Mountford creates layered artworks that bring together photography, paint, and bold graphic touches. His work feels both familiar and slightly off—capturing moments of beauty, tension, and everyday life. With rich texture and striking colour, each piece invites you to pause, look closer, and find your own meaning within it.
https://www.toffartists.co.uk
Instagram theoldfriendsfactory
Gary Launder creates distinctive digital artworks that blend photography, collage and texture into layered, contemporary compositions. His work spans reimagined townscapes, cultural and music-inspired portraits, abstract forms and expressive animal pieces. Uniting these subjects is a strong visual language of depth, atmosphere and bold colour, transforming familiar imagery into striking, thought-provoking statement artworks.
Pat Willard
Silk Painter
Pat has been painting and selling her work in Yorkshire for 35 years - this included 22 years at RHS Harlow Carr......A Russian craft whereby the design is painted on to stretched silk resulting in a magic combination of gold, silver and copper edged images, glowing from the beautiful silk dyes used...A metre wide painting of Leeds Heritage buildings will be on display during Wetherby Open Studios..... Join my one day workshops and learn the art yourself!
Bret_one
Bret_one is an abstract urban contemporary artist whose practice evolves from a graffiti background into refined gallery-based work. He holds an MA from Leeds Arts University and creates large-scale spray paint and acrylic works
exploring the transition from street culture to contemporary art through layered surfaces, expressive mark-making, and recent exhibitions across Yorkshire
As a textile artist Julie’s practice is influenced by the ephemeral qualities of nature and the colours, textures and surfaces created as forms decay and erode. Julie explores the beaches of the British Isles, shaping, stitching and moulding fabrics to replicate coastal forms, convincing the viewer that they are real objects, reawakening memories of our positive experiences of nature
Instagram @julieatthewsart
Facebook: Julie Atthews
Rachel Bentley
Contemporary Artist
Rachel Bentley is a self taught Yorkshire artist who captures the emotional landscape of the Pennines, Dales and moors. Returning to her creative life after running her own business, she works with paint, ink and objects gathered from the land itself. Her work brings the feeling of the landscape into people's homes and lives. Originals, prints and cards available.
Website www.rachelbentleyartist.co.uk
Facebook: @RachelBentleyArtist
Instagram @rachel_bentley_art
Lauri Bower
Paper Collage Artist
Lauri is a paper collage & mixed media artist creating one-off paper collages, giclee prints, and greeting cards. Her inspirations are words, poems, nature, and her garden. Her artwork is colourful and textured. She paints papers to work from using watercolour paint, lino-print, marbling, and ink. Mindfulness is part of her creative practice and is reflected in her subject and colour choices. She curates Wetherby Gallery, offers workshops and demonstrates on Thursdays.
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/the_creative_space_uk/
Website https://the-creative-space.org.uk/
Folksy https://folksy.com/shops/TheCreativeSpace
Jackey Brown
Jackey started with watercolour painting at an evening class in Leicestershire over 40 years ago. However getting married and moving to Cambridgeshire, she did not paint for nearly 20 years. Then a move to Yorkshire stirred up the desire to paint again. She now mainly uses pastels and mixed media to capture landscapes and animals but enjoys having a go at any different type of paint, given the chance.
Jan Bulley
Jan’s primary interest is in mixed media landscape painting in a loose and fluid manner over textured backgrounds and taking inspiration from nature. Her process has evolved using lots of washes and wet-in-wet techniques into semi-abstract landscapes that strive to capture the ephemeral effects of light, atmosphere and tranquility.
Jan also works in printmaking, in particular with collagraph, which produces a very expressive and textured finish creating a unique print every time.
Jan also works in hand built ceramics, using ancient techniques; pinch pots, coiling and slabs constructing pieces of simplicity. Again, taking inspiration from nature, she uses texture and mark making to create truly original pieces.
Visit at www.janbulleyartworks.co.uk and www.instagram.com/janbulleyartworks
Clare Dean
Clare is a mixed media artist, who particularly likes to work with acrylics in a loose textural way, finding inspiration from nature and her garden, and particularly enjoys painting meadows. She also works in pastel and oil occasionally. She has a large range of cards and prints, including animals and birds along with floral and landscape work.
Clare is happy to do workshops or demonstrations for local art groups and runs her own workshops. She has undertaken several commissions. She regularly exhibits at RHS Harlow Carr and other events. Please visitwww.clarescreations.co.uk for more information.
https://www.facebook.com/clarescreationsart
https://www.instagram.com/clares_creations_art/
Natalie Elderton
Natalie is a ceramic artist making both decorative and functional pieces such as large platters, vases and garden decorations. All of her work is hand built using slaps, coils or pinching methods. Often, she will then apply coloured slips and then scrape and carve into the clay to show the colour of the clay beneath. This is a process called sgraffito. Working as a florist for many years she takes much of her inspiration from flowers, plants and the natural landscape.
You can see more of Natalie's ceramics at www.instagram.com/natalieeldertonceramics
Chris Harman
Chris Harman is an artist based in Collingham, who works in a variety of mediums including painting and photography. After studying at Leeds College of Art, Chris spent 15 years working freelance as an artist; teaching, researching, exhibiting, exploring collaborative sculpture and action as art rather than object. In more recent times, Chris has struggled with his mental health and has used painting and photography as tool for expression on his journey through life. His photography also explores objects that somehow tell a story of their own, often making the viewer see beauty in the ‘unbeautiful’. Chris has worked with organisations such as Leeds City Gallery, Wakefield Hepworth and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. He continues to create, and to tell his story through his work. He is currently working on a new project about time, the effects this has on daily life and our ability to create.
Jane Horton CPAGB, BPE3, AFIAP
Janes passions are photography, horses and wildlife and loves nothing more than capturing the beauty and spirit of amazing animals.
She also enjoys photographing the wonderful landscapes of Yorkshire and the Outer Hebrides.
Janes photography has won awards in the UK and around the world.
Email: janehorton1922@gmail.com
Instagram:janehorton92
Glynis Learmonth
Glynis creates textile art using scrap and pre-loved fabric. Using ‘waste’ unlocks her creativity because the colour, feel and history of a piece of fabric is already exciting and inspiring. Her work reflects her environmental awareness and love of natural beauty and she hopes that through her art she inspires other people to protect nature.
Facebook: @glynislouiselearmonth
Instagram: @glynislouiselearmonth
Maggie Molyneux
I am a retired engineering draughtswoman, my passion is painting and drawing. Buildings are my specialist subject. Townscapes, historical buildings, pubs and churches, world iconic buildings from travels afar.
Living most of my life in and around Birmingham, working mainly on city centre building projects, surrounded by buildings and fabulous city canals
Now living in Wetherby, I still find inspiration in many ‘Nooks and Crannies’
I hope you like my work.
Rachel McNaughton
I paint mostly in watercolour although sometimes use pastel and my early choice of subject matter was flowers. Since then I have broadened my horizons and paint landscapes, animals and whatever takes my fancy! I now have a looser style but I still always have to fight against painting in detail.
Work has been published by National Trust, Laura Ashley, Unicef, M and S and WHSmith.
You can see more of my work by visiting www.artbyrachel.co.uk ( where there are galleries of my art to buy as originals and prints or click here to visit my Etsy shop which also includes painting tutorials.
click here to e mai]
Jill Neale
Jill enjoys painting many subjects, primarily meadows, showing the harmony in nature to be found in the countryside around her. Jill hopes that her paintings and use of colour convey a feeling of joy and happiness. Jill also paints the countryside around Collingham as well as abstract mixed media pictures, animals and house portrait
Richard Newman
Since Richard Newman retired, he has worn two hats, those of a writer and an artist. When training as an Architect at UCL, Richard was taught to draw at the Slade next door to the Bartlett. He has turned his attention to developing landscape ideas where sensibility and contemporary themes merge. He works, usually in mixed media of acrylic and water colour spending long, happy hours in his studio in the garden.
Telephone: 01937 845675
70. High Street, Boston Spa LS236EA
Linda Quartermaine
Linda Quartermaine creates unique and captivating artwork that is sure to be a conversation starter. With a special focus on watercolour landscapes, graphite,
watercolour and pastel pet portraits and pastel wildlife art, you can find something for every room of your home. Each painting is crafted with a hyper-realistic style and an eye for detail, ensuring that each finished product is exquisite. Linda is also passionate about the conservation of endangered animals and would love to create
something special for you that celebrates your love of wildlife.
David Ranby
A long time rock climber, I started carving in 2017 following a starter kit gift from my daughter. I am not trying to replicate an existing living form, but interpret. I carve 80% by hand (chisels etc) to allow the stone to change plans. I use Yorkshire stones (Swaledale Fossil, York, Ancaster weatherbed) for the intrigue they bring in colours and fossils.
Ailsa Read
Ailsa Read’s contemporary paintings are inspired by the coastlines of the British Isles. Her work explores the sea as both a subject and a place of movement, light, and wilderness. Working in oils and mixed media, she focuses on capturing the ever-changing elements that affect tides, in a style between abstraction and realism.
www.ailsaread.co.uk
Ken Shippen
Ken is a retired Engineer and enjoys landscape painting, usually in oils. He is drawn towards traditional landscapes, such as seascapes or river and lake settings. His paintings often encompass large open spaces with dramatic and bold skies. Although his landscapes are generally, realistic interpretations, he is also looking to capture and convey a real sense of the mood of the scene. He exhibits around the North Yorkshire area and is happy to undertake commissions on behalf of clients.
email; shippen.ken@gmail.com
Karl Simpson
Jenny Sharpe
Having visited a local art exhibition Jenny decided to enroll for watercolour lessons. She now paints landscapes and seascapes both in watercolour and acrylic taking her inspiration form the beautiful county she lives in. Jenny has exhibited in Walton, Boston Spa and Richmond Station.
Katy Small
I work with felt, yarns and fabrics. My work is inspired by the changing skies and landscapes, or even the tiny, busy world of a hedgerow.
My pictures start as a drawing or small painting in my sketchbook. The background of a picture is created using ‘wet felting’, similar to blending paints or pastels. For the finer details, I use machine felting and embroidery with a variety of yarns. I do not aim to re-create an actual scene, but rather evoke a feeling, an impression, a mood. You can find my work on Instagram and website www.feltedyarns.co.uk
Toff Artists
Simon Mountford and Gary Lauder
Simon Mountford creates layered artworks that bring together photography, paint, and bold graphic touches. His work feels both familiar and slightly off—capturing moments of beauty, tension, and everyday life. With rich texture and striking colour, each piece invites you to pause, look closer, and find your own meaning within it.
https://www.toffartists.co.uk
Instagram theoldfriendsfactory
Gary Launder creates distinctive digital artworks that blend photography, collage and texture into layered, contemporary compositions. His work spans reimagined townscapes, cultural and music-inspired portraits, abstract forms and expressive animal pieces. Uniting these subjects is a strong visual language of depth, atmosphere and bold colour, transforming familiar imagery into striking, thought-provoking statement artworks.
Pat Willard
Silk Painter
Pat has been painting and selling her work in Yorkshire for 35 years - this included 22 years at RHS Harlow Carr......A Russian craft whereby the design is painted on to stretched silk resulting in a magic combination of gold, silver and copper edged images, glowing from the beautiful silk dyes used...A metre wide painting of Leeds Heritage buildings will be on display during Wetherby Open Studios..... Join my one day workshops and learn the art yourself!
Bret_one
Bret_one is an abstract urban contemporary artist whose practice evolves from a graffiti background into refined gallery-based work. He holds an MA from Leeds Arts University and creates large-scale spray paint and acrylic works
exploring the transition from street culture to contemporary art through layered surfaces, expressive mark-making, and recent exhibitions across Yorkshire
