MEMBERS’ DIRECTORY
Mary, otherwise known as ‘BaaBaa Blackshaw’, is an illustrator.
Taking inspiration from outsider art & folklore, Mary’s work inhabits a space between play & storytelling.
Mary often creates art materials from found objects.
Theodora is a mixed-media artist and maker based in Oxfordshire, UK. She has worked in museums and archives for seventeen years and is influenced by material culture, story-telling and folklore from around the world.
Rosalind Butt : Photographer
Rosalind developed her own practice whilst healing from illness. Photography quickly became a tool to heal her busy mind, through the very literal act of using the camera to frame and focus on areas one at a time, taking in beauty and creating a still image, and letting noting else enter thoughts and mind.
Her work is concerned with issues of preservation and archiving, using traditional methods of preservation in unconventional ways such as shirts ‘preserved’ in salt and photographs ‘preserved’ in wax.
Olivia Davies : Painter
Olivia Davies is currently at the University of Edinburgh studying Fine Art and History of Art (out of term time home is Woodstock). This piece is an oil on wood impressionist painting titled Bathing (2023) which depicts Olivia’s partner. This painting expresses peaceful emotions with the use of colour and symbolism hoping to portray love and warmth.
Jean-Pierre is a self-taught artist, working mainly in oils. His paintings take their inspiration from the work of photographers, geek culture, urban sports, and his own imagination.
I am a self taught sculptor who started out learning the techniques of lapidary whilst living in New Zealand. Inspired by the resurgence in the Maori art of carving jewellery out of Pounamu (nephrite jade), I taught myself to fashion pendants out of stone I found on West Coast beaches.
Mike Firth : Painter
Painting in oil using both palette knife and brush, Michael is influenced by movement, people, wildlife and the natural world.
Louisa Foster : Painter
I am predominately a landscape painter, working en plein air and in my studio.
I like to use mixed media in my work.
During lock down I used mixed media to portray shop fronts and houses.
I am a local artist—and a bumpkin at heart. Happiest sitting in a Barley field watching the clouds go by. I grew up in Chadlington, in The Cotswolds, after moving from Liverpool in the early 80's, and fell in love with it immediately. After Art A' Level, I won a place at Berkshire College of Art and Design where I studied photography for two years.
I'm passionate about the countryside and try to bring that to my artwork.
Thinly applied oil paint and natural, local pigments, sometimes peeled back to reveal lost surfaces. Portraits and landscapes represent memories re-edited over time.
When not photographing people, Jules turns his eye to exploring the ‘unseen art’ that surrounds us! He particularly likes to create abstract ‘rustscapes’ as well as capturing natural movement and pattern in flora.
Rana Ibrahim : Collage Artist
Rana Ibrahim, an Iraqi collage artist, brings a fusion of Iraqi heritage and UK lifestyle to her vibrant creations, infusing her work with dynamic energy and contemporary flair.
My new and first part of my series artworks about women headcover in different religions will show in international women day event.
Eleanor Matthews : Textiles
Amateur artist working with textiles and embroidery techniques. Using hand embellishments and often working with repurposed fabrics and found objects.
John Mills : Photographer
John’s focus is Street Photography and incorporating portrait shoots into that scene. Also, as of late, his focus has been back on 35mm film photography, getting back to his roots, slowing down, and really focusing on creating the best art on the busy streets of the UK as possible.
Painting in oils, metallic acrylics, and occasional glitter, Caroline paints in impasto technicolour, exploring the visceral joy (and the dark sides) of life.
Katie-Lark Ratcliffe : Painter
Katie-Lark Ratcliffe's South African roots and love of travel, shine through in her colourful acrylic paintings. She explores portraits, nature and abstract subjects, all expressed in a vibrant, positive style.
Gleide Reid's Woodstock interiors shop always has the most artistic window displays in town. She's a keen supporter of local artists, and has been expanding her own creativity learning to paint portraits in oils.
Pete has been a photographer for over 30 years. Working mainly on advertising campaigns, he's traveled the world extensively for major international clients.
Jane Smith : Photographer/Collage Artist
Photographer and collage image maker who is passionate about “Collections”. Jane’s areas of interests vary within popular culture, from Lego minifigures, retro toys and graphics on food packaging, inspired by a lifelong love of Pop Art.
John is an observational painter who likes to work on location in oil and watercolour in order to experience and react to his surroundings directly.
Jennifer Taylor : Painter
Jennifer is an Artist based in Woodstock working mainly in acrylics, subjects of choice, wildlife and local landscapes. Gaining inspiration while out walking.
Jane is a potter who loves to integrate her love of nature and the ancient world into her pieces. Ammonites and trilobites regularly feature, and for Artweeks 2024, these are being integrated with a much more textural and earthy feel in some of her work.
Sarah Turner : Painter
Sarah Turner is an enthusiastic amateur artist with a keen interest in art history. She enjoys working in a range of media including oil and pastels, to paint colourful still life and outdoor scenes that capture the moment.Her career in teaching and working particularly with young people with special needs, has also framed her conviction that creativity nurtures and empowers learning, well-being and self- expression.
Marta explores the expression of human moments through the medium of plants and flowers and creates her pieces and sculptures with a mix of live and dried flowers, often with homegrown and seasonally foraged elements.
Sarah Cunningham : Printmaking
Sarah is an amateur artist and lino printmaker based in the Cotswolds. Her art draws inspiration from the natural beauty, wildlife, and architecture around her home near Blenheim Palace, as well as from her favourite hiking spots in Ireland, England, and around the world.
Polly Wyatt: Illustrator
Polly has always had an interest in flowers in all their different forms, colours and fascinating intricate details and uses watercolours, pencils and pens to illustrate beautiful flowers and natural objects.
