Jantien Powell
Jantien Powell the resident artist and tutor at the Studio, Jantien works in a variety of medium including acrylics, mixed media and pastels. She has been a professional artist and tutor since 2003.
Alison Board
Alison Board spent many years working in the Arts before pursuing her ambition of studying for an Art degree in 2009. Alison uses her countryside home and family history to inspire her work. Watch Alison explaining how easy it can be to mix your materials in this great little video.
Amanda Turner
Amanda Turner is a figurative oil painter based in South Wales. A self taught emerging artist, Amanda has been honing her oil painting skills over the last five year, largely focused on portraiture. She is passionate about sharing her knowledge and love of oil painting.
Catherine Beale
Catherine Beale’s painting practice began in Singapore in 1996, with the US Embassy and British High Commission among her clients. Returning to Bath in 2006, she is now a Member of the Society of Women Artists and recipient of The Editor’s Choice Award (The Artist Magazine). She creates powerful, cascading watercolour landscapes and portraits and shares her techniques – that she calls “gravity painting” – in her friendly and generous workshops.
Chris Carter
Chris Carter US Artist Chris Carter draws and paints daily as she travels the world with pen and brush. Her willingness and commitment to share techniques; favourite tools; and her knowledge of orchestrating colour, line, shape and tone have made her a sought after workshop instructor.
David ``DJ`` Johnson
David “DJ” Johnson : I have been drawing and painting for as long as I can remember, and creating artwork has always been a driving force and passion in my life. I am now an independent freelance artist and have been teaching art classes, running painting workshops and doing painting demonstrations throughout the UK and Europe for 15 years.
Feona Ness
Feona Ness has been a professional Artist for over 25 years and has many years experience teaching Art. She loves to paint powerful skies and rich, strong, often abstract landscape scenes.
Gareth Jones
Gareth Jones is an award winning artist and tutor from North Wales and a passionate advocate of the medium of soft pastel. Renowned in particular for his powerful and realistic depictions of the sea and coastal fringes. Gareth has taught widely in the UK and also in France, Norway and Italy.
Guy Manning
Working in oil paints from his studio shop in Tenby, Guy Manning is a full time landscape painter and illustrator. With over twenty years’ teaching experience he runs informal weekly classes and “kick-start creativity” sessions. He has been scribbling and splodging since he was five.
Ian McManus
Ian McManus has been painting watercolours for over 30 years in a representational yet expressive style using loose direct application of paint to bring radiance and clarity to his work. His down to earth approach and clear guidance make him a sought after guest tutor at art schools around the UK.
Jonathan Newey
Jonathan Newey is an award-winning artist who lives and works in Reading. He comes from a strong artistic background and is believed to be a 4th generation artist. He works in a variety of mediums and subjects and has been teaching art courses in adult education for 25 years.
Jude Lowery
Jude Lowery – For Jude Art has been a life long passion. Having studied a degree in Wood, Metal, Ceramics & Textiles, she dedicated almost 30 years to teaching Art before following her own interest in painting. Her work is inspired by journeys through the rural landscape and animals feature largely. Working primarily with watercolours, drawn elements and acrylics Jude uses the way materials behave to depict a sense of character.
Lucy Burton
Lucy Burton : I’d describe myself as a creative all-rounder! I’ve an A-level in “Fine Art and Ceramics” and a Degree in “Industrial Design & Technology”. I paint regularly “alla prima” in oil paint, always aiming to produce a piece of art that is full of character and colour. A good composition and the freedom to experiment with colour and interesting brush marks is what inspires me most and what I enjoy teaching others.
Mark Warner
Mark Warner is an artist and tutor based in Shropshire. Sketching is at the heart of his work and he draws inspiration from the landscape. He loves to study colour, light and weather conditions and works directly in the field as well as from sketches and photographs. He exhibits his work widely and teaches a range of painting classes as well as painting holidays both in the UK and abroad.
Nicky Hunter
Nicky Hunter has been dedicated to painting and teaching watercolours for the past 10 years with a loyal following of students. She is highly sought after for her uplifting and informative painting demonstrations and tuition and is particularly well known for her radiant large scale flowers in watercolour, born from her previous successful 20 year career as a textile designer.
Oriane Pierrepoint
Oriane Pierrepoint is a young portraitist working from her Studio in Newport, South Wales. Having attained a first class degree in Fine Art from Oxford Brookes University, Oriane is on the road to establishing herself as a fully-fledged portraitist, balancing commissioned work with other self-motivated paintings. She has exhibited in galleries across the UK, and has been shortlisted for and acquired several portraiture awards.
Rebecca De Mendonca
Rebecca DeMendonca creates dynamic pastel paintings that capture movement and atmosphere. Rebecca teaches pastel courses in Britain and Italy and her book ‘Pastels for the Absolute Beginner’ was published by Search Press in 2019. She is an associate member of the Society of Equestrian Artists, and was a finalist in the Artists and Illustrators ‘Artist of the Year Competition’ 2017, 2018, and 2019. She has exhibited at the prestigious Mall Galleries in London.
Richard Box
Richard Box trained at Goldsmiths’ School of Art and went on to be ‘Senior Lecturer’ and finally ‘Head of Art’ at Avery Hill College of Education. In 1985 he resigned from the position in order to develop his own work. He has written seven books and made two DVDs about drawing, design, colour and embroidery.
Richard Suckling
Richard Suckling studied at Cambridge School of Art and worked in London as a freelance illustrator for a number of years. Having moved to Newlyn, Cornwall, he now draws his inspiration from the local sea and landscapes and just about everywhere he travels. He is passionate about sharing the medium of soft pastels; teaching, demonstrating and writing on the subject.
Scott Euden
Scott Euden is a professional Welsh artist. A Cardiffian, Scott lives in the Vale of Glamorgan and his work focuses on Landscape/Seascape/Coastal painting, recreating the sublime beauty of the natural landscape. He is an experienced art tutor and has a 25 year career as a Team Leader with Prince’s Trust Cymru and Co-Ordinator/Tutor for a Cardiff SEN school.