My background has primarily been in zoology and veterinary nursing of Zoo and exotic animals, but I have always maintained...

Alan is a local lad living in Wigton and drawing inspiration from the town and the surrounding area.

Annabelle uses a variety of media; acrylic and watercolour paint, pencil, clay and hand and machine embroidery...

Christine Kirkpatrick lives and works from her home studio on the north side of Carlisle, a place where creativity...

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

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

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....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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...

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