Artists

While studying fashion design, Amanda explored textiles, millinery, embroidery and illustration both in utility and abstract applications. She developed as an artist in the field of pottery, stone carving and most notably stained glass. She is constantly exploring new ways of expression and developing ideas of incorporating all the mediums that she has studied. One of Amanda’s commissions in stained glass is on permanent display in The Chapel of Canon Palmer Catholic School in Seven Kings.

Julian Walker is currently working with printmaking and sculpture. He trained at The Cass and St Martins, was the Natural History Museum’s first artist in residence, a New Contemporary (1999), winner of the Art in Business Award (2002), and once, according to the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper, a ‘Young British Artist’. He now lectures in print history, and teaches at the British Library.

Louise’s ceramics are inspired by architecture and archaeology. She has a fascination with history and the idea of discovering aspects of the past through objects or buildings that evoke tales and memories of time and place. Louise visits historic sites to soak up the atmosphere, takes photographs and makes drawings, which are then manipulated on the computer to create images for transferring onto the clay surface using a photographic screen printing process, building layers of moments observed. Louise is currently involved in developing arts projects with National Trust properties.

Paul Good and Kirsty Wood are a collaborative duo who have been working together for over 20 years. Their practice began in performance before expanding into film, sound, and sculptural works.

Their work has evolved in technical complexity, exploring sound as terrain and audio as a sculptural medium. They create site-specific, multimedia work influenced by the environments they inhabit, capturing traces of past and present, and giving physicality to absence and the ephemeral.

Since 2016, their sound work has been collected by the British Library and included in the British Sound Archive. They have performed at the ICA, London, and for their 2017 solo show Stale Air, in a Room, before Motion at SE8 Gallery, they performed and were interviewed for Wavelength on Resonance FM. In 2023, they released an EP with Tremolo Projects. Their most recent solo show, Rest Your Psalms Against the Skin, opened at Classwarroom, London, in November 2024.

Tara Fleur ‘Woman of Bones’ is a mixed media artist, art tutor and therapist trained at The London Guildhall University, MA (Fine Art) as well as completing an Advanced Diploma (Art as Therapy) and a Nursing Degree (Mental Health). Her work is an exploration of the psychological and anatomical aspects of the ‘self’. Inspired by Carl Jung ‘The Archetypal Self’ and James Hillman ‘The Image as Soul’ Tara dives deep into her own ‘self’ and the ‘self of others’ to create art that dialogues with the viewer without words but with psyche & soul. Tara is also committed to enabling others to explore and create art images via one-to-one tuition and/or small workshops as a means of expressing & embracing themselves without inhibitions, trepidations, or ‘self’ doubt.

“The gift of an image is that it provides a place to watch your soul” James Hillman.

These events provide the public with the opportunity to step inside the creative spaces, meet the artists, watch them working and even purchase handmade, unique items including paintings, stained glass, textiles, ceramics and more.