HELEN ROWLAND

Helen Rowland trained at Edinburgh College of Art and now paints from her home in Leven, near Beverley. Her abstract landscape and seascape paintings are inspired by her experiences of the East Riding coast and countryside. Experiencing the landscape is her starting point for creating and she gains great joy and solace when running in the open spaces around her village and walking on the beach at sunrise.

Her paintings are explorations of colour, limited palettes, with layers of fluid paint creating a sense of place, whilst expressive marks and energetic brush marks celebrate the freedom and sanctuary she draws from the landscape.


© Helen Rowland

SARAH THORNTON

"Music, nature, love and unity are my biggest influences.

"Nature has always been my escape, take the Blackbird for instance, on first glance they look the same, but if you closely study them and listen to their songs, you see the individuals. I’ve spent the last ten years watching the birds that visit my garden, I Iive on the edge of the city at the top of Gledhow Valley Woods, in the summer I listen to how they chatter and how that carries down the valley. It brings quiet to my over active brain, connect with nature and you can almost hear the chords that have inspired composers and music makers from time and memorial.”

© Sarah Thornton

IONE HARRISON

Ione Harrison is a North Yorkshire-based landscape painter, with a studio in Welburn, North Yorkshire. She runs regular watercolour painting workshops across Yorkshire .

She creates vibrant, atmospheric paintings, working primarily in watercolour and ink and uses experimental techniques to create rich textures, such as wax resist, textiles and plants. Ione’s work explores themes of landscape and the natural world.

Ione’s work conveys a sense of connection with the natural world, specifically the moorland landscapes that surrounds her.  She explores texture, colour and atmosphere through the water-based mediums of watercolour and ink. The four paintings on display all depict North York Moors landscapes.

© Ione Harrison

KATRINA AVOTINA

Katrina Avotina is a professional artist, living in Leeds. She specialises in acrylic paintings with more than 30 years experience and has illustrated several children books.
In her paintings, she devotes much attention to the play of colours, line and plot. She conveys her vision of the world, through her travels, with colours and images, but the plot always plays a special role.

Katrina wishes to spread the beauty in the world and to bring happiness to people through her artwork.

© Katrina Avotina

SARAH PERRY

Sarah Perry is an award winning professional pastel artist based in Horsforth, Leeds. She finds inspiration in all types of animal portraiture capturing their emotions, beauty or a striking image drawn in a realistic style. She works in pastel alongside coloured pencil and graphite, showing every detail.

As well as her original work she provides open run and limited edition prints. All prints are professionally printed with Limited edition prints being signed and numbered also with a Certificate of Authenticity.

© Sarah Perry

JADE NASH

Jade is a mixed media artist, photographer and wildlife filmmaker based in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

Her work reflects her deep interest of the natural world and hovers between different mediums to express her ideas, such as illustration, the abstract, and fine art media.

Her artwork on display is a mix of dried wildflowers from her garden with acrylic paint and pencil and represents the wonderful wildlife that she has come across in recent years.

© Jade Nash

JENNIFER STEELE EVANS

Jennifer Steele-Evans

Jennifer Steele- Evans lives and works in Oakwood, with much of her work being grounded in the urban green spaces found in Leeds, particularly Roundhay park and Gipton Woods. She a studio holder at Assembly House, Leeds and in 2024 she was selected to be part of the “Ones to Watch” exhibition at Sunny Bank Mills. Jennifer creates poetic and jewel-like artworks that bring into existence unseen connections with the natural world into the home. She is inspired by places where land, water and sky meet, celebrating the cycles of transformation and the fragile beauty of the moment through artworks that break down the boundaries between the real and the ethereal.


© Jennifer Steele Evans

JAN PARSONS

Jan Parsons is an artist/teacher working from her studio in Wakefield. She paints colourful abstract landscapes in acrylic, describing her work as not merely a visual representation of a place, rather the sensual experience of being there. Her work on show is from her recent series ‘There is Another Sky,’ a collection painted using acrylic and mixed media on canvas and panel. Jan builds up an image using layers of opaque and translucent washes of paint which over time come to represent real and imagined views. This process of adding and subtracting layers means the final image is slowly revealed in unusual and unpredictable ways. 

© Jan Parsons

JUSTIN BOYD

Justin is a self-taught artist residing in Barnsley. 

Working as professional architectural lighting designer, that is designing daylight and electric lighting systems, he understands light and its interaction with the physical world. He enjoys painting as a detachment from the overwhelming digital world we live in. Justin seeks a wide variety of subjects, including landscapes, portraits and still life, in an effort to expand his capability across the full range of painting. His pieces are all painted from life and completed within an hour with some touch-ups on a second sitting. My aim is to produce work that is un-fussy, valuing expression over meticulous detail and accuracy.

© Justin Boyd

MINU ACHREKAR

Minu Achrekar is an Indian born British artist based in Leeds, UK and paints alongside a career in healthcare. Minu specialises in alcohol ink landscapes and in the last four years she has developed her own techniques using straws and hairdryers to achieve a variety of exciting effects with the inks . Her use of vibrant colours makes the paintings lively and uplifting. Minu is excited to bring an innovative look to her paintings which often portray her memories of her favourite landscapes and holidays. Through her paintings Minu would like to celebrate the light and space within natural landscapes.

Minu is a prolific artist and has had many exhibitions both locally and internationally and her paintings are in many private collections around the world .

© Minu Achrekar

ALEX ASH

Alex Ash studied at the Chelsea College of Art and then spent ten years working as a designer, art consultant and art teacher. Alex has combined her skills and expert knowledge and now pursues her passion working full time as an artist.

Inspired by the tranquil sea and sun of her childhood home in Dubai and the moody, dramatic seas of Yorkshire where she was born and now lives, Alex creates abstract seascapes.

© Alex Ash