Our artists

Linda Snowdon

"Living in Cumbria I am surrounded by the rugged Lakeland fells, soft rolling moorland and everchanging moods of the Solway Firth. ...

Brian Campbell

BRIAN CAMPBELL: Painter & Illustrator Born in 1941, trained at Carlisle and Liverpool Colleges of Art, Brian moved to Wigton as an Art...

Anne Kelly

I didn’t start painting until the late 1990s, when a friend persuaded me to join her at an art class. I have been painting ever since....

Helen Campbell Robinson

Textile Artist/Designer/Maker Helen studied textiles at The Institute of the Arts in Carlisle in the early 80's where she specializing in...

Anthony Smith

I had trained to be a mountaineer and rock climbing instructor in my free time back in the day. Like many, I always felt a connection...

Emma Scott

Jewellery Designer & Maker I am a self-taught experimenter, mad scientist, whimsical creator, artificer type. A girl in goggles. I always...

Alison Marrs DA (Edin)

Alison has always drawn and painted and made things. She has always had a profound interest in colour and shape, and capturing the...

Rod Mostyn

Derek Ridley

My love of the Lake District began with passion for rock climbing in my teen years. I started to paint while confined to home during...

Julie Coghlan

Julie Coghlan graduated from the Cumbria Institute of the Arts with a First in Contemporary Applied Arts specialising in textiles, then...

Ruth Charlton

My work has always had a strong figurative element, with particular emphasis on facial expressions. I became interested in sculpting...

Anne Bryson

Anne is a painter with an eclectic approach to materials and subject matter. She began painting using watercolour paints which she still...

Annabelle Smith

Annabelle Smith is a sculptor and a painter. Her working media can be clay, watercolour, acrylic, pencil, pen and ink or threads and...

Wendy Graham

Wendy was born, quite a long time ago, in Kendal, where much of her youth was spent either riding or drawing horses. After university at...

Hilary Harrison

Hilary moved to Cumbria from Cambridgeshire in 2002 to attend Cumbria Institute of the Arts where she studied for a degree in Applied...

Carol Burns

"I am a painter who has lived and worked in the Wigton, Cumbria area all my life. Coming from a local farming family my interests are the...

Roxanne Denny

RD Glass is run by Roxanne Denny from her studio near Cockermouth. Her passion for glass began whilst taking an Applied Arts degree, as...