All Artist Profiles
Kath Lowe
Biography Kath Lowe has a BA (Hons) and Masters in Fine Art from MMU and is an award winning portrait painter. She is currently President of Manchester Academy of Fine
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Ian Judd
Biography Ian Judd is a sculptor based at the Dean Clough studios, Halifax. He has been making sculpture since 1980 and his work has appeared in public spaces as diverse
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Lucy Manfredi
Biography Lucy was born in Stockport, Cheshire. After studying A level art and 3 other subjects, she completed an art foundation course at Stockport college.. specialising in life drawing. Lucy
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Herbert Yates
Until a knee injury a year ago most of the inspiration for my painting came from walking the moors around Manchester. By necessity, I had to find somewhere closer to
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Alan Edwards
Statement I have always found it difficult to write about how and why I paint. I am intuitively drawn to my subject matter. I see something and wish to make
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Christine Southworth
Biography ‘Growing up in the North of England in the late 1940s, I developed a close relationship with the natural world as a child.’ This closeness with nature and Christine’s
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Angela Herd Hall
Biography Angela Herd Hall is a self-taught painter and works in her studio in her garden. She prefers the peace and quiet of her own space. Angela’s work is mainly
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Jean Fenton
Biography Jean began sculpting after many years of painting. She studied bronze casting and metalwork at Loughborough College of Art. Jean worked with Manchester sculptor and MAFA member Keith Hamlett,
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Janis Bowie
Biography Janis left a teaching career in Design and Technology and Art in 2006 to concentrate on her own painting and having been a member of The Saddleworth Group of
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Norman Long
Biography Norman Long was born in 1976 in Preston. He received his BA in Fine Art from Newcastle University. He has now established his reputation as a distinguished portraitist and
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Bill Eley
Biography Bill is a well-respected North West artist. He trained in Manchester, first at the Junior Art School and then at the Regional College of Art where he studied painting
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Greg Fuller
Biography Greg Fuller demonstrates printmaking at the University of Chester’s Department of Art and Design. In 2016 he took part in The Common Ground Project, which looked at the idea
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Michael Goddard
Biography Born in Lancashire, England in 1951 Michael now lives in the beautiful Peak District National Park in Derbyshire. He studied art and design in the North of England in
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Lorna Green
Biography Lorna Green is a sculptor and environmental artist whose main interest is in Art in Public Places. I have worked throughout the UK as well as overseas in both
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Gerry Halpin
Biography Gerry Halpin is a landscape painter and was awarded an MBE for his services to charity and the arts. He has exhibited all over the North-west, including at Bury,
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Michael Hatjoullis
Biography Mike Hatjoullis was brought up in Blackpool and taught Printed Textiles at Liverpool School of Art for over 20 years. When he took early retirement, Mike decided he was
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Keith Hamlett
Biography Moving from Manchester to Criccieth, North Wales in 2005 afforded Keith the opportunity, once again, to work closely from landscape and seascape. His work has become, in many ways,
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Sue Henderson
Biography Sue Henderson graduated in Fine Art at Reading University, specialising in lithography and typographic design. Having acquired a small Albion relief press, she produced linocuts and wood engravings as
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Debra Budenberg
Biography Debbie Budenberg’s sculptural works give form and expression to personal explorations of family. The tensions, conflicts, emotions and relationships that are central to her experience as a mother, daughter,
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Peter Stanaway
Biography Peter Stanaway was born in Manchester in 1943 and studied BA Hons. (Fine Art) at Manchester University. Peter has exhibited across the North including at Manchester Art Gallery, Salford
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Adrian Sumner
Biography A graduate of Liverpool College of Art, Adrian has worked as an Illustrator, Arts Development Officer and Lecturer in various academic and public institutions. Currently he divides his time
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Joanne Taylor-Wilson
Joanne Taylor-Wilson is a still-life, landscape and portrait painter who specialises in oils and watercolours. Drawings and paintings are worked from direct observation using sketchbook studies, and ‘on the spot’
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Irene Jones
Statement I am excited by the joint expressions of order and chaos that collographs possess. The image is fixed, but the application of ink, and the ephemeral nature of the
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Derek Boak
Statement My work is concerned with the spirit. That of place, human existence and that of the wraith. After visiting many sites of ancient stones and cairns, I have become
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Derek Johnson
Biography Derek was trained at Blackpool School of Art and Manchester Regional College at Art, and subsequently was appointed Senior Lecturer in drawing and painting . Throughout this time he
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Sheila Dewsbury
Biography Sheila Dewsbury is a landscape painter whose work explores the underlying structure of the subject and how the play of light exposes form. Much of her source material is
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Pam Crook
Biography Pamela June Crook was born in 1945 in Cheltenham, where she still lives. Known professionally as P J Crook, she specialises in painting and sculpture. Her shows have
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Daniel Clahane
Biography During his degree at Canterbury College of Art, Danny began carving stone and immersing himself in the world of sculpture, it was during this time that he first worked
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Janina Cebertowicz
Statement I produce works on a range of subjects, grouping them into Collections and Series. These relate to Figure, Landscape and Still Life. I am particularly interested in the story
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Jane Burgess
Biography Born in Cheshire, Jane studied Graphic Design at Maidstone College of Art 1968-71. As well as being a member of MAFA, she belongs to Leeds Fine Art Club. She
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