Tutors

Working under the name Riverbird, Jill creates nature-inspired original hand-pressed linocut, woodcut and collograph prints from her cosy home studio next to the Penryn River in South Cornwall. She works from her own sketches, drawings and photographs, combining...

Richard knew he wanted to be an artist by the age of 5. Years later, he studied Illustration at Cambridge School of Art, then worked in London as an illustrator before heading West to pursue a career as a landscape and seascape painter. This is where the love for...

Lucy’s journey in ceramics began as a child, inspired by her grandmother’s pottery. She began to develop her ideas through clay with confidence during her school and college education. Lucy moved to Cornwall in 1993 to study Studio Ceramics at Falmouth and fell in...

Painting professionally for nearly 20 years, Karen Green has exhibited in solo andshared exhibitions in Bristol, Stroud and Cheltenham. Her studio, just outsideStroud, is opened regularly to visitors with the annual SITE Open Studios Festival. She began teaching seven...

Jamel Akib was born in Leigh-on-sea, Essex in 1965 to mixed English and Malaysian parentage.  He moved to Sabah, North Borneo at the age of five and returned to England in 1978 and gained a BA honours Degree in Illustration in 1989. He now lives in Salisbury...

Alice Helene Pascall trained in teaching in Cumbria in early 2000s and has applied her teaching skills throughout her career to many students with enthusiasm and encouragement. Alice moved to Cornwall in 2008 and after the birth of her last child in 2016 has been...

Sophie Aston trained at Glasgow School of Art and Chelsea College of Art in the 1990’s; her work has been exhibited internationally. Highlights of her career include being selected for The John Moores Painting Prize at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool in 2004 and a...

Billy is an internationally known botanical painter and illustrator and tutor and is based in Kent in the UK.Originally Billy trained and worked in fashion design and illustration but she swiftly returned to her first love, painting and illustration. Her works are...

Living in the West Country for over 40 years, much of Colin's work incorporates evidence of man’s influence on and presence in the landscape around the South West of England. He works directly from the subject, or often starts by drawing as a way of exploring and...

Tom Voyce (b. 1989) is a British painter whose subject matter comprises of a variety of different themes such as interiors and semi abstracted landscapes, often within the notion of place and transit. Tom was the 2017 winner of Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year....

Born and raised in Essex. Now living on it's border in London, on the edge of Epping Forest. Her work is expressive, loose yet detailed, conveying feeling in every brushstroke. A trained draughtswoman, self taught in watercolour, each piece contains the keynotes...

International Artist and Author, Soraya works in watercolours, oils, pastels, acrylics and mixed media with a variety of subject matters such as musicians, café scenes and African market scenes amongst others. Many of her subjects are travel based including people in...

Mark Fennell is a professional portrait painter who works to commission from his home studio in the hill top village of Brill in Buckinghamshire. He works predominantly in oils, notable sitters include Antony Worrall Thompson, John Hood, Lord Mayor of Birmingham...

With a background in lifestyle photography and styling for Cornish artists and brands, Lisa's love of flowers kept growing leading her to train at the renowned Tallulah Rose Flower School in Bath and onto start hosting her first seasonal workshops. Lisa's interwoven...

Laura learned watercolour with Mally Francis FLS at Heligan Gardens. Laura has three RHS gold medals (London 2013, London 2014 and London 2018) and Best in Show and Best Botanical Painting awards (2014, 2018). Laura has seven paintings in the prestigious Transylvania...

Kaye is an established artist from Somerset, who permanently exhibits in a number of galleries. Her achievements include winning the Chairman’s Choice award at the Bath and West Show 2009 and exhibiting in the Mall Galleries in London as part of the Art Liberating...

Judi Trevorrow is a hugely popular artist for her seascapes, harbour and floral paintings. Living in Cornwall, Judi is constantly inspired by the dramatic light, the surf and sand, the gardens and the myriad of tiny harbours and inlets. Her dedication to capturing the...

Jonathan Newey is an award-winning artist with over 25 years of experience in both drawing and painting. Born into a long line of artists, he has extensive experience in a wide range of mediums and subject matter, but is best known for his realistic drawings of...

John enjoys giving watercolour demonstrations to art societies and teaches painting to groups of adults. He continues to work commercially, exhibits his paintings widely and has won many awards. He undertakes private commissions including more detailed animal studies...

Growing up in London, Joe Armstrong spent five years studying Art an Design at the Epsom School of Art. After a stint working in advertising, in 1986 he moved to Cornwall, where he went on to have a successful career in graphic design for thirty years. It might seem...

Born in 1955, Jeremy Ford has been an artist all his life. He has worked as an illustrator of books, magazines, greetings cards, and in advertising. He has demonstrated for St. Cuthbert’s Paper Mill, the makers of Bockingford and Saunders Waterford Watercolour papers,...

Hester’s practice is rooted in traditional representation and methods, but she is constantly challenging her understanding of “painting” and exploring ways paint can represent effects such as light, time, movement and climate.Having grown up in rural Devon, Hester was...

Gail completed a BFA (Honours) at the University of Manitoba, then went on to Graduate Studies in Art History at Queen’s University receiving her MA in 1989. She settled in BC on the west coast of Canada in 1994. In 2002, Gail was awarded Signature Membership in the...

Catherine has painted portraits since her school days and began her professional artistic practice in Singapore in the 1990s taking commissions. There she also developed a range of studies of the eclectic architecture in oils, which sold at exhibition and as...

Caroline is an Illustrator, artist and educator. She has exhibited and curated numerous shows around the UK and more recently been part of illustration exhibitions in Bologna, Italy, Shanghai, China and Sharjah, UE. Having illustrated over 50 children's picture books...

Andrew trained and worked in illustration before taking up oils over 20 years ago. Now Helston based, he mainly works en plein air or from his studio at Krowji Redruth, painting the landscapes of Cornwall – particularly Porthleven, Mullion and the Lizard Peninsula....

Amanda has many years’ experience as a professional artist and tutor who has also published several magazine articles and books. Her work is known and loved throughout Cornwall and can be found in galleries across the Duchy.

Adrian Holmes (b.1982) is a printmaker devoted to Japanese printmaking and Sosaku hanga. He graduated from the University of Plymouth with a degree in Visual Arts. He fell in love with woodblock Japanese printmaking whilst living in Japan and he began to study the...

Jake exhibits widely in the South of England and in 2004 was a finalist in the Daily Mail's 'Not The Turner Prize' competition.  In 2007 his work was selected for the Royal Society of British Artist's exhibition in The Mall Galleries, London, and from that...

Kevin Scully teaches in acrylics, oils, watercolour, pastels and drawing at courses, workshops, and painting holidays in the UK and abroad. He writes regular articles for The Artist, and Artists & Illustrators magazines. He is the author of several books including...

My inspiration comes from walking in Cornwall and Scilly watching the landscape slowly change with the seasons. I work on the high moorlands, the seashores and all places between - trying to capture a sense of place and time in both the big views and the small...

Jenny lives in Derbyshire, not far from the beautiful Peak District. She has strong family roots and connections to Cornwall and the Channel Islands, and a love for the sea. ​ Since graduation in Art & Art History from seaside university Aberstwyth in 1998, she...