Christine is a North East artist working predominantly in soft pastel however her work in acrylics and mixed media are as equally inspiring and depict the North East landscape, seascape and flora at its best. Her work s often a close up of those spaces that may go unnoticed or considered ordinary.

Christine is inspired by local landscape, the changing seasons and the time of day. She uses pastels and paints to capture the ways in which colour and light transform the everyday view into something beautiful. She is fascinated with the way in which colours sit together, pushing forward and pulling back, altering atmosphere, understanding and the way in which we view the world.

Christine has a lifelong passion for painting and creating, having taught for over twenty years she is now fully focused upon her art and sharing her passion with others. You can create with Christine through her workshop opportunities tuition and demonstrations at her studio in Washington,Tyne & Wear and at venues across the North East.

Here in the north east we are blessed with breath-taking landscapes and the most beautiful beaches in the land. My ceramic artwork is inspired by nature and all things beautiful.

I have work from my studio in Gateshead and I like to experiment with different textures and surface decoration which is a subtle reflection of the flora and wildlife around us. Using natural oxides to replicate elements such as textures and colour variations of rocks to create sculptural work. My burnished Raku work reflects the smooth surface of pebbles and the pattern of varying landscapes around us.

My pieces range from work on the wheel, hand constructed items in earthenware, stoneware, raku and occasionally smoke firing methods. I love the different intensity of colours and glaze effects the firing methods produce. The sculptural work is hand built giving each piece a unique character and presence of the subject it represents.

I find that clay is a wonderfully versatile material that also has therapeutic qualities. I love the fact that you can start with a lump of clay and eventually end up with something beautiful.

Lotty Thompson is a Northumberland artist and teacher, aesthetically and emotionally inspired by the coast and local landscape. She is fascinated by the geology of the Northumbrian coast and rugged cliffs, and will often be fossil hunting, if she’s not sketching and painting on the beach.

Lotty primarily works in watercolour and ink but she experiments with mixed media on her larger landscapes, finding charcoal and ink an expressive medium to convey the cliffs and geological formations.

She also believes in affordable art for all and creates beautiful one- off paintings on sanded and varnished wood blocks, of local landscape and various sea creatures. The painted wooden blocks are stand alone and make beautiful gifts or adornments for home interiors.

Lotty and her children lived on an old wooden sailing boat for three years, sailing the Mediterranean, and this has provided her with much inspiration and a continued fascination with the life aquatic.

She also makes stunning decoupage sea shells to be used as ornaments or trinket dishes: these are affordable and unique as no two shells are the same. She sells sea shells by the sea shore …

Lotty’s work can be found at the Coquetdale art gallery in Rothbury, Serendipity at Berwick Upon Tweed, the Drift Cafe, Cresswell and various art fairs across Northumberland. She is also on Etsy at ArtByLotty.

Using different mediums, I like to create landscape paintings with light and a sense of place. In my life drawings, I hope to create a sensitive feeling of the human form.

Born in Zambia, raised there and in Northumberland, Ruth trained in fashion and built an award-winning interior designer business in Newcastle. Having worked and travelled in many countries across the globe, absorbing cultures, colours and the beauty of the natural world, she now works happily in her studio in Newcastle Arts Centre painting in oils, always from experience of the countryside she loves – the Northumbrian coast, and the very special Outer Hebrides.

Ruth’s instinctive response to the rich colours in the Hebrides, in the landscapes and echoed in the traditional island tweeds, produced a profound effect on her work. Each painting in this collection is based on a particular Harris Tweed swatch, the starting point limiting the paint pallet mixed from just these colours. As a result, her landscapes resemble not just the purple, peaty rivers, vibrant turquoise of the seas, blindingly white beaches, and heathery moors but also the natural ingredients that went into dying the yarns. Her joy in being there as often as she can, expressed in her paintings, has made her work much loved and sought after. Her paintings are now collected world-wide, and during the pandemic she produced her first book – a sell-out – The Outer Hebrides Captured.

Predominantly working in oils, Ruth employs a technique that uses both palette knife and brush resulting in the richly textured, vibrant style for which she has become renowned. She is now running workshops for art groups across the county.

Jeanette Lander makes evocative pieces using textile and mixed media. Her work captures the spirit and atmosphere of the beautiful Hills and Coastline of Northumberland.

She is inspired by the light and spacious skies of Northumberland; her studio overlooks the Cheviot Hills which, throughout the changing seasons, provide a never ending source of material. She uses fabrics, paper and dried flowers from her garden to create collages which capture the essence of this beautiful part of the world. Jeanette has exhibited at the 3D2D events at the Edinburgh Festival and is a member of Serendipity in Berwick.

I create unique hand crafted fused glass which is influenced by the coast and countryside of Northumberland, Yorkshire and Cumbria.

Sculptor Luca Serra is originally from Sardinia, but has lived and worked in Northumberland for over 20 years. Using a wide range of wood, he carves his wooden sculptures entirely by hand. Starting with a naturally-felled tree, he then works from the bark inwards, to discover the hidden shapes within. Luca's work in inspired by his love of music and of nature. Most of his pieces reflect these two elements which are very important to him. He says the size and scale of his work can vary, depending on a customer's requirements. "While I work mainly to create individual pieces, I also accept private commissions from bespoke pieces to organisations looking for larger artworks."

I am an artist & printmaker living in rural Northumberland. I am predominantly a printmaker, mainly producing linocuts, but also monotypes, screen prints and cyanotypes. I illustrated a book of short stories, published last year. I am inspired by living in a designated “dark skies” area, and by the nature that surrounds me in Northumberland National Park.

I went to art college in the late 70s to do ceramics. This coincided with the arrival of the Studio Glass movement to the UK and the rest as they say is history….I was hooked. I consider myself so lucky to be able to make a living working with this magical material and the medium has held my attention now for over 40 years and I’m not done yet …..still lots to explore and infinite possibilities to play with. I was lucky enough to have worked with some of the masters of glass before setting up my own business in 1987.
If I am not in the studio I can be found either in my garden or out in nature with my man and my greyhounds. The great outdoors is where I find most of my inspiration for my work with the changing shapes, colours, textures and moods of the natural world.

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