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Emiko is a printmaker and painter. She has a M.A. in Fine Art from Tokyo National University and M.A. Printmaking at the Royal College of Art. Her works are in public and private collections, including, New York Public Library. She has demonstrated printmaking at many art events and has gained several awards including those from the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and the Royal College of Art.
Åke Arnerdal
Åke is a painter from Sweden where he graduated in 1996 with a Master of Fine Art from Umeå University in Sweden. He also has a postgraduate degree in 'Art and New Media' from the Art Academy at Gothenburg University. He has exhibited in Sweden, Norway and the US (New York) and is represented in permanent art collections in several Swedish towns. He has a solid experience of teaching art for all groups of people. As an art educator, he has recently developed and expanded the educational programmes at Skulpturens Hus, an art institution in Stockholm, Sweden.
Paul Badger
Paul is a sculptor, trained at Bath Academy, who brings to his sculpture projects an array of talents - from carving stone and marble to television and film production, puppeteer and animation.
Claire Bevacqua
Claire studied at Camberwell College of Art and Chelsea and obtained a BA Joint. Hons in Visual Arts.
Nigel Caple
Studied at Portsmouth University, and has worked in France, Spain and Morocco and latterly for several years in Japan. He has taken part in numerous exhibitions and received many awards in solo and group shows. He worked as a co-ordinator for International Relations linking cultural activates between Japan and the UK. Nigel has lectured at the British Museum on Hiroshige against the background of Japanese Culture. He has held a major painting show at the Barbican and at Hertfordshire University.
Diana Constance, Principal
Scholarship student, The Art Students League N.Y.C. and the University of New Mexico. Paintings in the collections of Mobile Oil Corp., Diamond Trading Co., Leicestershire Education Authority, The Peace Museum Bradford University, Memorial in the Church of Reconciliation, Dachau, Germany. Author of 5 books on Practical Art. Prize winner in The Laing National Landscape Competition 2000.
John Crossland
John trained at Sheffield College of Art. He won a place under Victor Pasmore at Durham University Art School and sold work at Northern Artists Exhibition in Huddersfield in 1960. He has exhibited at Graves Art Gallery and the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle. John has taught watercolours at Hampstead School for Art since 1995.
Douglas Druce
Douglas is a portraitist whose sitters have ranged from Marlene Deitrich to Eastern potentates. He studied at St. Martins School of Art and then with Leonard Boden, the Royal Portrait Painter. His other expertise is in mural and scenery painting and here again his commissions have been varied and international. Douglas in an expert in techniques and methods of past artists as well as anatomy and perspective.
Desmond Healy
Desmond has an MA in Fine Art from the Royal College of Art, London. He has many awards including Gold Medal and Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture from the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London and the Stephenson Harwood Prize for Painting from the Royal College of Art.
Eithne Healy
Graduated from Wimbledon School of Art in 1991. She exhibits work regularly in London showing paintings, drawings, sculpture and photographs. She teaches in adult education, is a visiting lecturer and teaches drawing and painting to foundation students at Berkshire College of Art. Her subjects include the human figure, landscape and animals.
Estelle Lovatt
Estelle is an artist and freelance journalist (print and broadcast), with wide experience in art practice. Estelle is able to offer advice and guidance, having worked on both sides of the canvas.
Jan Malaszek
Jan has a MA in Fine Art: Printmaking, Camberwell College of Arts as well as a PGCE from the University of Greenwich, and BA (hons) Fine Art Maidstone College of Art. He has had extensive teaching experience and has exhibited widely.
Briony Marshall
Briony blends a background in Biochemistry with a training in traditional figure sculpture to produce contemporary sculptures and installations that attempt to make sense of the big questions in life and the little questions of daily existence. Scientific themes and molecular structures, mix with representations of personal relationships, to draw out moments of insight into the world around us and our place in it. She was awarded a Bursary by the Royal British Society of Sculptors in 2008.
Vincent Milne
Has exhibited widely, notably in New Contemporaries, Stowells Trophy at the Royal Academy, Whitechapel Open, New English Art Club, London Group, and B.P. Young Artists Collection at the Barbican. He has executed interior and exterior murals in Lambeth, Lewisham, and Southwark, as well as Brittany. He studied Fine Art at Goldsmith's College and gained a postgraduate certificate from the Royal Academy School of Art. He was awarded the Landseer Prize for drawing, a David Murray Scholarship and a Richard Ford Award for study in Spain.
Jackie Mwanza
Jackie is a well-established Teacher of Mosaics.
Derek Ogbourne
Studied at the Slade School of Art and has shown nationally and internationally, including The South London Gallery, Tate Modern and most recently Sharjar Biennial, in the United Arab Emirates. His work spans many disciplines including life drawing, painting, sculpture, performance and video.
Theresa Pateman
Since graduating with a Fine Art degree at Coventry Faculty of Art in 1983, Theresa has worked both as an illustrator and Printmaker. She was a partner in a Silkscreen printing workshop, with the help of a Prince's Trust award. She later became involved in designing and constructing costumes for the Notting Hill Carnival. She is at home using various techniques including Etching, Drypoint, Monoprint, Mezzotint, and Collography. She is a member of two printmaking co-operatives: the Greenwich Printmaker's and the Southbank Printmakers galleries, regularly exhibiting with them and other galleries in London and the UK.
Drew Perridge
Drew graduated from Central St Martins with a BA in Jewellery design. He has worked extensively in jewellery making and has exhibited both in this country and abroad.
Ann Ruthven-Taggart
After graduating at Kent University with a B.A (Hons) in English and Italian, Ann Ruthven-Taggart trained at Saint Martin's School of Art and Design and The Sir John Cass Faculty of Art Design and Manufacture at London Guildhall University, graduating with a B.A (Hons) degree in Jewellery and Silver-smithing. She received a Swarovski Design award in 1994 and the British Jeweller's Association award in 1995. During her degree she trained and worked with the jeweller and designer Barbara Christie.
Krystyna Shackleton Dzieszko
Trained at both Manchester and St. Martin's School of Art. She also gained a post graduate certificate in Education and a BTEC certificate in Contemporary Art and Design Practice. A very experienced teacher and lecturer in adult education since 1973, Krystyna has also been involved in a range of one person and group shows including the Camden Arts Centre and in group shows with UK Arts Council and the Instituto Nacional De Bellas Artes, Mexico City. Her work is held in private collections in Britain and Europe as well as the National Museum, Warsaw.
Mary Treherne
Graduated from St. Martins School of Art she holds a PGCE for teaching art. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions including The Royal Society of Oil Painters at Mall Galleries, London.
David Waller
Trained at Bedford and Cheltenham, gaining a degree in Sculpture in 1988. He is a practising artist, and has successfully exhibited sculpture, ceramics, drawings and paintings. He has both enthusiasm and commitment to sculpture and teaching which helps his students produce a high standard of work.
Valerie Wiffen
Studied at the Royal College of Art in London under Ruskin Spear and Colin Hayes. On graduation, she won the Drawing Prize and has maintained a professional practise of drawing ever since. Valerie has taught drawing and painting for many years, and also exhibits her work at the New English Art Club, The Royal Academy Summer Show, and other mixed shows. She is the author of 3 practical art books; Ways of Drawing Faces and Portraits, Ways of Drawing the Human Figure, and Figure Sketching School.
Tony Wigg
Tony Wigg studied Fine Art and Performance at Middlesex. He has run a batik and silk painting business and sellls his work through commission. His love of teaching and his craft have created a great interest in his work. He was a founder member of the Silk Painting Group.