Although abstract in nature, Adam Bracey's oil paintings makes direct reference to real locations, featuring structural references juxtaposed against areas of outstanding natural beauty.

Adela Powell is inspired by nature, landscapes and the sea, which is naturally conveyed through her clay. Even her figurative pieces examine layered and eroded rocky surfaces, embracing the fragility and unpredictability of her subject.

Alexia Weill works in stone, marble, diabase, limestone or serpentine, seeking harmony in round shapes. With her “Circular impressions”, she works the stone in circles like a mandala, inscribing and sculpting her emotions, her visions, to emanate a circulating energy.

Alison Coaten is fascinated by the human desire to make sense of existence through religion, myth and folklore, and the use of art to create concrete images of worship in the form of icons and idols.

Annabel Munn creates ceramics from thin earthenware slabs, torn into sections, and constructed into new forms. These evoke memories of place and time, and highlight a lifelong fascination with fossils, ancient landscape, architecture, and found objects.

Ann’s photographic projects originate from a desire to invite the viewer to witness some of the subtle unseen details of their environment. Examining the living and abstract world to form images that explore the spontaneous nature that subtly exists all around us.

In his painterly responses to the coastal landscape and the novel, Ashley Hanson’s distinctive, tactile canvases explore the frisson between information and imagination, between abstraction and figuration, and between the cerebral, the emotional and the visual. Above all is his excitement for placing colour against colour.

Barbara Burns explores the dramatic landscapes of the West Coast of Ireland, Snowdonia and Cornwall to garner an intuitive response in the studio. Working in oil, glazing allows her to build her paintings overs several months, selecting and eliminating forms and textures.

Barry Stedman takes a relaxed and direct approach to make vessels. He aims to create a sense of drama that is fresh and exciting, exploring vibrant colour compositions and exploiting the gestural qualities of fluid brush marks and soft clay.

Branka Vrhovski-Stanton’s ceramic vessels are an exciting fusion of sculptural form and spontaneity in porcelain, stoneware and earthenware. Bold painterly lines and statement pieces dominate her work.

The territory that Carolyn Bew explores in her work is that thin yet rich veneer between the domestic and pantomime. Working in oil and in print, she explores who we are and our difficult attitudes to the animal world so often seen as something apart.

Carys Davis uses colours and textures in her glazes that reflect the Welsh landscape; the red and green of the inland valleys, the greys and blues of the sea and the sky, the textures of sand, stone and granite.

Craig Underhill’s intimate, slab built vessels, act as 3D canvasses; evoking a feeling of landscape and place that are affected by time.

Patchwork Tree

Using encaustic on board, David Hayward’s art is a painterly contemplation on the marginality of shorelines; with their horizontal delineations of air, water and land.

Working in wood and concrete, Davide Galbiati sculpts to bring the soul of his subject matter to life through materials that present a paradox. The end result is serene and beautiful.

Influenced by decorative frescos, Dawn Stacey paints with an altered perspective, placing flora, fauna and figures into mysterious narratives that play-out in fantasy landscape scenes.

Elizabeth Price’s sculptures are as emotive as they are highly collectible. Sculpting details and subtle gestures, she manages to capture the most intimate moments of joy, sadness and contemplation.

Felicity Warbrick's work is inspired by childhood surroundings in the Yorkshire Dales that fed her imagination when growing up. She explores these feelings and memories as buildings and landscapes in drawing, painting and drypoint.

Felix showcases his fascination with deconstructing the oblong, cube and sphere forms and shapes through large, abstract sculptures.