Warwickshire Open Studio Artists

Our group exhibition showcases an inspiring collection of works, including painting, ceramics, sculpture, woodworking, and printmaking. Discover the Artists that will be exhibiting at Brookside Art Shed.

  • Drawing inspiration from nature and the elements, my artistic journey embraces experimentation, intuition, and spontaneity. Through the use of humble materials like coarse clays, coloured slips, and oxides, I seek to capture the essence of the world around me. Lately, my exploration has led me to the Japanese art of Kurinuki, a technique characterised by carving and hollowing out solid blocks of clay. This method encourages organic textures to emerge, shaped by the clay's innate qualities. The resulting artworks exude a sense of vitality and wonder, echoing the beauty and complexity of the natural world. 

  • I make stoneware fired decorative pots experimenting with the malleability of the clay and more recently with the addition of copper, raffia and willow.  Many of my pieces are built using a combination of techniques: slabs on moulds, kurinuki (a Japanese technique which consists of hollowing a lump of clay), coiling and stretching. I like to use texture on the surface of my pieces, and decorate them with oxides, slips and glazes. My inspiration comes mainly from nature: the colours of mountains and deserts, strata, rocks, tree trunks and plants.

  • Martha is interested in how craft functions as a catalyst for change, and she uses her interdisciplinary practice to highlight issues in our food system. Working closely with organisations dedicated to reducing food waste, or providing alternatives to supporting big food. 
    Martha recently produced a consciousness-raising body of work celebrating the people working hard to regenerate a culture of care within the food system, and created opportunities for conversations around the way we eat. Her approach is playful and accessible, and explores the role craft can play in creatively engaging people in important issues, encouraging shifts in attitude and changes in behaviour.

  • I am an artist and teacher who enjoys making mixed-media work that combines my love of printmaking, photographic techniques and textiles. I have a particular passion for hand embroidery and I am currently exploring creating textures with beading, felting and embroidery stitches using natural forms and fossils as my inspiration.

  • Helen Edwards is a creative practitioner in Oxfordshire, specialising in drawing and printmaking. Her teaching covers all age groups and needs, from one-day workshops, regular Saturday classes and drop-in life drawing and portraiture sessions, to ongoing art tuition for students of all ages and stages of their academic life. Helen’s own practice centres around a love for natural forms, from Greco Roman statues to the botanical world around us. 

  • Megan is an artist and fine art printer based in Banbury, specialising in oil painting, digital illustration, and high-quality art reproduction. Her dreamlike work, inspired by fantasy, art history, and mythology, blends traditional and contemporary styles to create vibrant, atmospheric portraits and figures. Beyond her own practice, Megan works closely with artists to scan, reproduce, and print their artworks, ensuring faithful fine art reproductions. With a growing focus on oil painting, she now takes on commissions, embracing the depth and richness of the medium to bring her visions to life.

  • I hand build figurative sculptures in clay. Every piece is unique, made in a naïve style, embracing the brighter side of life!

  • Katherine is a self-taught ceramic artist specialising in hand-built vessels that are decorated with engobes, slips and glazes. She is inspired by nature and the colours and shapes she sees. She attempts to create a dialogue or a memory in each piece. Katherine aims to create unique pieces and is fascinated by mark making and textures.

  • Colourful Creations inspired by places I love. An abstract artist blending her love of colour, a passion for creativity with her skills in design – the outcome is ‘Art, designed to make you feel good!’

    Driven by the principle to love what you do and do what you love, Sandy creates work that reflects her love of travel, colour and life.

  • Living in the countryside, I always enjoy being outside and I believe I have an affinity with the natural world. I am drawn to the ever changing landscape for my inspiration. I feel fortunate to live in Warwickshire. I feel inspired by the pattern of hedgerows, the beauty of Cow parsley, woodland ferns, misty morning fields and dramatic skies the seasons bring us. As a family we regularly holiday in Cornwall, with my felted pictures I try to capture the ruggedness and yet frailty of where the land meets the sea, the expectation of what lies beyond.