David Pearce
Pookie Blezard
Pookie was born and brought up in Barnes. She has been the owner and creative director of the womenswear brand Pazuki for over 35 years.
Originally trained at the Camberwell School of Art with a strong emphasis
on drawing and painting from life, she then moved on to specialise in printed
textiles. She has now come full circle back to painting, which inspires her recent fabric designs. Currently painting is her passion and the experience of decades of pattern making and choosing colours is evident in the work.
pazuki.co.uk
instagram.com/pazuki_london
Sophia Bloxham
Sophia is an artist and illustrator originally from the Cotswolds who has lived and worked in Barnes and London for the past four years. She studied a degree
in Illustration from University College Falmouth and has since worked in a variety of creative roles including visual merchandising, mural design and studio management, for a range of prominent British companies and artists.
Her own creative style is inspired by traditional botanical art and her work focuses closely around flora, fauna and natural forms. She creates detailed and delicate watercolours of these subjects, and then adds her own unique decorative style including elements of pattern, reflection, geometrics and Art Deco design through use of inks and metal leaf adornment.
instagram.com/sophiatheillustrator
Hannah Bourne
Hannah studied at the London College of Printing and Chelsea College of Art and Design. She gravitates towards themes of architecture and urban city life, starting with photographic images and re-interpreting them to createdistinct hand-printed screen prints.
instagram.com/bournieprints
Hannahbourne@icloud.com
Alice Brooks
Alice studied a year of Liberal Arts in Connecticut, USA. Following this she chose to pursue a career in psychology, gaining a masters degree in Older Adult Mental Health, and a doctorate in Clinical Psychology. Throughout this time, she continued her artwork alongside clinical practice, through a range of fine art courses exploring a variety of mediums.
She now focuses solely on her artwork and enjoys painting with vibrant colours and has an eye for detail.
Alice has exhibited at a range of events across London, regularly sells her work locally, and particularly enjoys doing so as part of the Barnes Artists group.
With her background in mental health, Alice is passionate about the therapeutic benefits of nature, art and creativity.
She was awarded ‘Richmond Artist of the Year’ 2022 for her painting in
tribute to a nature-based well-being programme at the London Wetland Centre in Barnes.
alicebrooksart.co.uk
instagram.com/alicebrooksart
Sarah Dickinson
Sarah graduated from Camberwell College of Arts following a degree in textile design and painting. Her regular dog walks in Richmond Park with its changing seasons have become an inspiration for many of her artworks.
Her interest lies in drawing and painting in oil from observation and then developing an idea in her studio through a variety of techniques and mark-making using a mixture of media.
She regularly attends classes at the Royal Drawing School where she enjoys the community of the room and a desire to experiment with colour and form.
sarahdickinsonstudio.com
instagram.com/sarahldickinson
Ali Ergin
Ali was born in Ankara in 1980 and is a designer, interior architect and painter.
He has studied and worked extensively
in Turkey, Italy and the UK.
He has been painting for more than
a decade and has held a personal exhibition as well as participating
in several group exhibitions. He lives
in London with his family, where
he continues to paint and carry out
concept projects as the founder of
Ali Ergin Design Studio.
aliergin.co.uk
instagram.com/aliergin_art
Jeremy Frearson
Jeremy is a long-time Barnes resident who, since retiring from an international career with the oil group Shell, has resumed an early interest in wood
sculpture and carving that was influenced in part by the work of Barbara Hepworth. More recent inspiration has come from many hours of volunteering with Friends of Barnes Common.
His aim is to bring out the natural qualities of different woods, with all their various grains, textures and inherent characters, in shapes that, although mainly abstract, draw inspiration from nature. Doing so hopefully encourages wider appreciation of both the material and the trees from which it comes.
One of his works won the Sarah Myerscough Award for sculpture at the Barnes Artists’ Common Art show 2021.
Zac Greening
Zac is a multi-disciplined artist and sculptor who has a passion for
large-scale visually arresting works
and installations. He had a formative experience in the clothing retail industry where he incorporated his art into window displays before moving on
to more challenging environmental projects. Zac has since settled into the realm of fine art and aims to highlight
the relationship between man and the natural environment. He has had major exhibitions in London and the US.
zacgreening.co.uk
instagram.com/zacgreening
Paul Hannon
Paul is a former financial journalist now working as a painter and printmaker
in southwest London. Woodcuts and linocuts are his artistic heartland, deriving inspiration from the techniques of Edvard Munch and some German Expressionists.
Instead of printing large blocks of
solid colour, Paul takes the reductive techniques of woodcuts and linocuts to the limit, often producing what are fine line drawings, teeming with movement and pace.
He has exhibited at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, the London Festival of Print, the Horsebridge Gallery in Whitstable, and the Barbican Library
in London.
Paul is also a member of East London Printmakers and Richmond Printmakers.
paulhannonpaul.com
Michelle Hawes
Michelle studied at Southend Art College specialising in fashion design and pattern cutting. After a successful career for 38 years in buying and designing women’s apparel she now concentrates full time on drawing and painting.
Oil is her preferred medium but she also adores the fluidity of watercolour and has the odd dabble with acrylics. Her passion is painting landscapes, animals and flowers from observation but also working on the composition back in
the studio.
Michelle has exhibited numerous times at local venues and won Best Landscape Award at a Barnes exhibition in 2021.
She is a core member of Barnes Artists and the Society of Feline Artists.
michellehawesart.co.uk
Shirley Henry
Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Shirley Henry attended Goldsmiths’ College, London. Her art has been influenced by growing up along the rugged Causeway Coast in Northern Ireland. She is fascinated by portraying the atmospheric life of the study in her works and likes to convey her emotional reaction to this. Some of Shirley’s early work has been inspired by the techniques of the 15th Century Flemish Masters and she continues to incorporate this into her work. Working in oils, she enjoys the way the medium allows the artist to move beyond the realms of photorealism.
shirley_henry2000@yahoo.co.uk
Jo Holland
Creates photographic images without a camera or film. Mark Osterman, Photographic Process Historian at George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in New York describes her work as ‘the transcendental beauty is due to the combination of both transmissive and reflected light being recorded onto photographic paper’ Jo’s artworks are predominantly focused on composition, balance and harmony, often informed by her meditative practice. Jo has exhibited both nationally and internationally and has been recently commissioned by Harrods, Bhuti and Re:Centre in Hammersmith.
www.joholland.com
Instagram @joholland_uk
Bruce Houlder
Bruce lives in Mortlake and is a retired QC, a former Director of Service Prosecutions, and a Deputy Lieutenant for Greater London. He mostly paints watercolours for fun, and is more than happy when somebody wishes to buy one. He likes strong colour and enjoys experimenting with the power of this beautiful and translucent medium.
Fran Howard
Fran took up watercolour painting in 1991 and finds his subjects in England, France and Africa (where he lived for more than 25 years) and other places
he visits on holiday.
He enjoys painting scenes with water.
He lives on the Thames in Mortlake
and paints the river regularly. He is a member of the Chelsea Art Society
and Richmond Art Society.
Katie James
Katie grew up in Barnes and studied
at Camberwell College of Arts and Central St Martins School of Art.
While enjoying a long career in book publishing, Katie continued to paint
and sketch in her free time and holidays and is now a full time figurative artist.
She has become a successful portrait painter of people and dogs and is
equally admired for her still life and landscape work.
In 2019 Katie was a finalist in the
Diana Armfield Prize for Drawing
from Observation and was elected a member of the Chelsea Art Society.
She is a founding member of Barnes Artists and regularly exhibits her work
in galleries and shows throughout London, Somerset, Dorset and Enniskillen.
Katie was awarded the Green & Stone prize for Best Oil Painting in the 2008 Chelsea Arts Society Show and the Boécho Gallery People’s Choice Prize
in 2018.
katiejames.studio
instagram.com/katiejamesartist
Neil Lemaire
Neil graduated in 1998 and started working in Bronze Age fine art foundry in Limehouse, London where he further developed his ceramic shell bronze casting skills. Eventually he moved to Arch bronze foundry in Putney in 2004. He set up his own studio at the London Museum of Water and Steam, and in 2014 founded MouldMaking UK.
Neil handcrafts unique and exquisite vessels, bowls and sculptures in solid bronze that function as contemporary art and living artefacts.
mouldmakinguk.com
Lucy Lumsden
Lucy considers painting to be a totally addictive pursuit – trying to capture a fleeting moment and discovering the essence of something beautiful that
you can’t quite put your finger on.
She normally works in oils but opted
for acrylic paint and ink to capture the movement of trees and the depth and layering of woods. Richmond Park and the exposed coast of Northern Ireland have been her main inspirations.
lucylumsdenart.com
instagram: @lucy_lumsden_art
Heather Mackinlay
Heather studied art for many years with members of the Royal Watercolour Society and the New English Art Club. Her work was recently selected for the Royal Watercolour Society Contemporary Watercolour Competition in 2019.
She has had a number of solo and
mixed exhibitions in London, Suffolk and Australia, including the open exhibitions of the NEAC at the Mall Galleries and the RWS at the Bankside Gallery, where she won the David Gluck Memorial Award in 2013 and the Wallace Seymour Watercolour Painting Prize in 2018.
heathermackinlay.com
instagram.com/heatherannmackinlay
Toby Messer
Toby was born in Kingston, Surrey but spent most of his formative years in Oxford. He studied graphic design and advertising at the Berkshire College of
Art and Design and spent many years
as a copywriter.
However, he always had a yearning to sketch and paint and when freelance work eventually dried up, he took the plunge to become a full time artist. He was, in effect, carrying on in the family tradition. His late father Ken was a celebrated and prolific water colourist.
Toby’s main medium is acrylic and he paints in and around the leafy wildness
of Richmond Park. He finds inspiration
in Barnes, with its varied architecture,
but also gravitates towards railway ephemera and industrial estates.
tobymesser-art.co.uk
instagram.com/tobymesser2
Annie Mitra
Annie grew up in Highgate, north London, and has lived south of the river for the past 20 years. She studied art
in both Paris and New York where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communication Design and Illustration from Parsons School of Design. She followed up with post graduate studies
at the School of Visual Arts in New York where she lived for several years. It was here that she wrote and illustrated the first of several children’s books.
She has also worked in ceramic and textile design with the Conran Design Group in New York, The Body Shop, and Whittard of Chelsea among her clients.
Her work has been exhibited in New York and London.
instagram.com/annie_mitra_art
Rachel Parker
After a career in property and finance, Rachel turned to her life-long passion
of art and is now a full-time artist, focussing on figurative, landscape and still life work. She paints in oils directly from life as well as using reference materials and an abundance of colour
to depict flesh tones, shape, and form.
Rachel is Vice President of The Society
of Women Artists and exhibits regularly with them at The Mall Galleries in London. She trained at the Heatherley School of Fine Art in Chelsea where she graduated with a Diploma in Portraiture.
rachelparker-artist.co.uk
instagram.com/rachel_parker_artist
Sue Pearce
Sue began her career as a graphic designer and is now known for her
large detailed graphite drawings. She is inspired by the textures and bold shapes of vegetables, shellfish, marine fish, sea shells and fossils. She produces larger-than-life images of a wide variety of subjects, creating artwork of an extraordinary graphic quality. Sue also produces landscapes and views of the River Kennet.
She lives and works in Barnes and enjoys being close to the River Thames and Barnes Common.
suepearce.co.uk
David Pearce
David graduated from Maidstone College of Art in graphic design and photography and went on to be a senior designer at the world-renowned design company Pentagram. He later co-founded Tatham Pearce whose clients included Barclays Bank, BBC, Raleigh Bicycles, Rolls Royce plc, Land Rover.
He is a past member of Design and
Art Direction Association, has sat on
its design committee and judged their prestigious awards programme on several occasions. David has also judged awards for the Association of Photographers and the Association of Illustrators.
In 2006 he decided to reduce the size
of his company to pursue his own artistic projects – specifically drawing, painting and photography.
David is a founder member of Barnes Artists and has exhibited in a number
of galleries and venues in London.
davidpearcestudio.co.uk
instagram.com/davidpearce.studio
Derek Pearce
Derek has worked as an artist and
musician for over 40 years.
For many years, he taught in the Theatre Department at Wimbledon School of Art. He founded the comedy band ‘Roaring Jelly’ which made albums and toured for 12 years – and at the same time worked with John and Sue Fox of ‘Welfare State International’ doing site specific street theatre and community celebrations.
Derek was also a founder member
of ‘Scaramouch & Co Puppet Theatre’ which, for 15 years, worked art
centres, theatres, children’s parties
and beaches.
He has made an extensive range of furniture sculpture and invented the concept of ‘Water Tables’, which are glass tops supported by sleeping hippos, diving ducks, dolphins and other water-loving creatures. The tables have sold all over the world and have been exhibited in Europe, the US and Asia.
derekpearce.com
Helen Pettigrew
Helen was born in 1974 and educated
at King’s College London and the Courtauld Institute of Art. She worked
in various industries from banking
to publishing before returning to her original passion of art in 2007.
She has worked solidly on private commissions and building a portfolio
of limited edition prints inspired by a beautiful stretch of the River Thames. Her work is predominantly in watercolour, but she also works in other media including oil painting, pouring acrylic, and drawing with pastel or charcoal. Helen’s style is often detailed and meticulous.
helenpettigrew.co.uk
instagram.com/helen.pettigrew
Anna de Polnay
After 30 years working as a commissioned muralist, fine artist and illustrator, Anna’s work is now mainly semi-abstract or abstract expressionist, as she loves the unpredictability and surprise of the form.
Anna’s mother was a professional painter and illustrator, so painting and drawing have been part of her life since before she could walk.
Deciding not to follow in her mother’s footsteps, Anna trained at drama school rather than art school, and worked as an actress for 10 years, until she noticed she spent more time painting sets than acting in them. In time, this led to a career as a muralist.
In recent years, Anna has painted
90 murals ranging from health spas to ashrams, for pop stars and millionaires, from the south of France to India.
Belinda Shaw
Belinda studied art at City Lit in central London and was awarded the University of the Arts, London Foundation Diploma in Art and Design. She experiments
with mixed media and collage to make abstract hangings, canvases, prints and small works.
Lori Shaul
Lori is a Barnes potter who specialises in hand-built, functional ceramics that are decorative and pleasing to look at, to touch and to use. In a world accustomed to disposable and unsustainable objects, Lori’s goal is to create meaningful, utilitarian works that her audience will appreciate with every use.
Caitriona Tamlyn
Studied design at London Guildhall University. She has worked predominantly as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer for the BBC and online games. Since having children she has been enjoying producing children’s silhouette portraits on a variety of
mediums and teaching the craft club Barnes Primary.
www.willowandink.co.uk.
Instagram @c.tamlyn
Sara Vertigan
Sara was born in Barnes in 1966 into a family of film creatives. She studied art
at The Central School of Art and Design and at Winchester School of Art, gaining a degree in textile design in 1988.
After several years designing for leading fashion brands, Sara ran her own interior design business for more than 20 years. In 2018 she joined Wimbledon Art Studios, returning to her first love of
oil painting.
Sara has exhibited at numerous art fairs and had her first solo gallery show in 2021. She became a full time artist in January 2022.
saravertigan.com
instagram.com/saravertigan
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Photography
London Independent Photography
(LIP), as a collective, meets on a monthly basis to share techniques and ideas, to mentor and critique each other’s work and to organise trips. The group’s combined interests vary enormously
and it has become a cheerleader of many photographic genres – from
street, portrait, phone and documentary to landscape, wildlife and macro photography. LIP prides itself on welcoming photographers of all standards and abilities, so much so
that it has members who are just
starting out, through to those winning major international honours.
Photographs by Nigel Attenborough,
Tammy Marlar, Sue Oakford, Paul Rawkins, and Andrew Wilson are on display at the Living with Trees exhibition.
www.londonphotography.org.uk
Picassos in the Park was founded by two creative mothers, Chloe Trayler-Smith and Laura Chevalier.
Chloe gained a BA Hons Degree in History of Art at London’s Courtauld Institute followed by a career as a Photo Director in the magazine and newspaper publishing industries.
Laura gained a BA Hons Degree in Fine Art and Photography at the University
of Arts London followed by a career
in design.
Their passion is driven by the desire to inform, nurture and transform children’s understanding, enriching their life experience through art.
Picassos in the Park run art courses for children aged 5-10 years and adults
with early stage dementia. The dementia workshops offer a relaxing and creative environment in which participants take inspiration and explore the work of artists using various artistic mediums. Classes
in Barnes are held at OSO Arts Centre and run in term time.
picassosinthepark.com
instagram.com/picassosinthepark