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Aisha Khan
Painter working with layered landscape studies, natural pigments and community sketching sessions across the Dales.
- Area
- Skipton studio
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- 0
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Amy-Jane Hodgson
Working across photography, printmaking and painting, I use nude self-portraiture to explore femininity and freedom of my body. My practice mainly uses bright pinks and cautionary yellows to combine ideas of hyper femininity and perceived danger of the female form. Through this, I challenge shame, censorship and objectification, reclaiming nudity as a joyful, unashamed experience of the body.
- Area
- North Yorkshire
- Followers
- 2
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Ian Harrison
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- Area
- Bentham
- Followers
- 1
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Jonah Reeve
Digital artist building interactive projection pieces, data sketches and playful public-realm installations.
- Area
- York media studio
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- 0
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Josie Beszant
Josie Beszant is a British mixed-media artist, curator and storyteller based in Masham, North Yorkshire. Working with found objects, paper, textiles, paint and natural materials, she creates assemblages, installations and participatory projects that explore memory, belonging and the quiet significance of ordinary things. Her work is drawn to objects that have been worn, repaired, discarded or overlooked, finding in them evidence of lives lived and stories carried forward. Themes of folklore, ritual, collections and the idea of the reliquary run throughout her practice, alongside an enduring fascination with what we choose to keep and why. Alongside her studio practice, Josie has spent more than thirty years running Masham Gallery, where she champions contemporary British artists and makers and has developed a reputation for creating thoughtful exhibitions rooted in landscape, making and community. This curatorial work informs her own practice, creating conversations between objects, people and place. Increasingly her work extends beyond the gallery wall into shared creative experiences. Drawing on her training as a meditation teacher and her studies in applied storytelling, she creates projects that invite people to slow down, notice more closely and reconnect with landscape, memory and seasonal rhythms through making. Whether creating intimate sculptural assemblages from forgotten fragments or designing participatory works inspired by the changing year, her practice asks how beauty, care and attention can become quiet acts of resistance in a fractured world.
- Area
- Masham
- Followers
- 1
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Lauren Smith
Creates botanically dyed handmade paper and letterpress printed artworks that are rooted in and inspired by the living world.
- Area
- Leith Makers Studio
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- 0
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Mary M Woolf
I am a multi-disciplinary artist and maker based in the Yorkshire Dales, near Settle. My art work explores ideas surrounding perception and experience. My aim is to inspire people to look a bit closer at their surroundings and to take a bit more notice of their experience of being in a place. I graduated in 2016 from the University of Westminster with a First Class Honours in BA Photographic Arts.
- Area
- Near Settle
- Followers
- 1
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Maya Ellis
Photographer and moving-image artist documenting coastal communities, tidal rituals and small independent venues.
- Area
- Scarborough seafront
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- 0
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Michelle Hodgson
Studio 42 is based on the Yorkshire, Lancashire border and is home to artist Michelle Hodgson. Michelle draws inspiration from the surrounding landscape, creating original illustrations the wildlife and fauna that surround her. Working from original drawings she creates her own unique style of prints which are a combination of Gelli plate monoprints, using her own linocuts to create texture, and hand painted collaged linoprints. Michelle also creates unique festive decorations based on her linoprints.
- Area
- North Yorkshire, Lancashire and South Cumbria
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- 0
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Nelly Brooke
Textile artist using repair, natural dye and archive cloth to make participatory installations and wearable works.
- Area
- Whitby studio
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- 0
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Rachel Thornton
Rachel Thornton is a Yorkshire-based printmaker whose work explores liminality, transformation and the fragile beauty of impermanence. Using drypoint, collograph and relief print alongside painting, wood, silk and wax, she expands printmaking beyond the printed surface, creating layered works that occupy the space between image, object and installation. Through themes of water, woodland and the human figure, Rachel reflects on moments of quiet change found through immersion in nature. Drawn to threshold spaces, between land and water, stillness and movement, presence and absence, her work considers how transformation often unfolds gradually, inviting contemplation and a deeper awareness of the transient nature of our lives. Transparent layers, delicate surfaces and tactile materials become metaphors for memory, renewal and what quietly remains after fleeting moments have passed. Rachel lives and works in the Yorkshire Dales, where experimentation with material and process is central to her practice. Her current work continues this exploration through translucent textiles, wax and sculptural forms, expanding her investigation of ritual, care and impermanence.
- Area
- Studio42
- Followers
- 1
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- 100% complete
Ruth Whitaker
Sculptor making timber, metal and found-object work for gardens, trails and collaborative outdoor commissions.
- Area
- Richmond workshop
- Followers
- 0
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Sue Flowers
My work as an artist explores our emotional connectivity to environments, the interdependences of people with their histories, environments and ecologies. I am drawn to understanding the minutiae of place: hidden details, forgotten truths, undiscovered stories and threatened species. The work I create within a social context enables me to help others to realise that they can build another world – one where the impossible becomes the possible and reality a thing of beauty. I am a founder member & Director of Green Close. I also work part time as the Network Manager for CVAN NW I am the Regional Champion for the LENS ( Lived Experience Network) and a passionate advocate for using creativity to affect positive change in health and social care systems. I am currently working in Blackpool as a co-investigator on the AHRC funded mobilising community assets to tackle health inequities.
- Area
- Green Close Studios, Melling
- Followers
- 0
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Tom Alderson
Ceramicist producing wheel-thrown vessels and site-responsive clay installations inspired by moorland geology.
- Area
- Harrogate workshop
- Followers
- 0
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