2024/2025 Artists

Barbara Green

My art is inspired by the coast and country side of Dorset and is mostly painted 'en plain air'. I work in oils and also do etchings and collagraphs of whatever catches my eye. 

Alison Summerfield SWAc Hon

Alison paints in oils, although charcoal and inks are sometimes employed in her work. She revels in the physical and instinctive process of working with the paint, using both knife and brush and often working wet on wet. Her paintings are predominantly an emotional reaction to nature, landscape and coast. “I have experimented with a number of art disciplines but the joy and challenges of working with oil is unparalleled. Oil affords me the immediacy of energetic, spontaneous expression when working wet on wet or a more reflective approach when drying time dictates.”

Julie Oldfield SWA

Re-known local artist Julie Oldfield tells us “I specialise in skies and landscapes. The process of weathering and slow change drew me to experiment with metal sheets and the effects of chemistry, heat and weathering to create patination foundations that I could then develop with traditional art materials. I have been refining my techniques and use different metals to achieve different effects.”

Julie’s distinct work on copper and brass sheets always draws admiration and we are very much looking forward to having her work on display at the All Wrapped Up exhibition.

Hilary Buckley

Hilary is inspired by the wonderful Dorset landscapes and uses various different media, including watercolour, oil pastels, soft pastels, acrylic, gouache, oils and collage in her paintings of Lyme Regis and Dorset.

Hilary says “I love Art Deco and my work has a definite graphic feel to it.  I am drawn to graphic shapes and colours in the local scenery and seem to have discovered my own distinctive style.”

Lesley Hook

I am a mixed media artist, building up layers of watercolours, acrylic paints and inks, collage, crayon and pastel, to create paintings full of colour and pattern, that reflect my love of textiles and my home nestling in Devon’s green landscape, just a stone’s throw from the coastline. My paintings can be a blast of colour, inspired by nature while allowing my imagination to wander and create. 

Anna Brewster

Anna Brewster conjures up the magical beauty of the Devon coast and countryside in vibrant and expressive mixed media.  Her paintings are available as a range of postcards, calendars, highest quality prints and original framed artworks.

Matney’s Shed Sculpture - Matt Sowter

Fresh from his win at this year’s Art Unlimited International Art Competition, we’re delighted to be welcoming Matt Sowter with his eye-catching scuptural pieces. Matt tells us “I use reclaimed, salvaged or scavenged materials; predominantly wood, metal and glass. My main inspiration comes from nature, Picasso, tribal art and rust. My sculptures are not anatomically accurate as I like each piece to be unique and have its own personality and quirkiness. My sculptures have been described as "gnarly" and "mildly brutalist". I think this comes from the subjects I create and the materials I use, which can be rough edged and pointy. I like to keep these qualities, so for example; I don't dull the edges or smooth and round the teeth, as this would take away from their "Gnarly " character.….please handle with care, they may bite!

Juliet Giron

Juliet is a self taught artist who started to paint later in life after a move to Cornwall, where it is impossible not to be inspired by the wonderful coastal scenery. Juliet tells us “I now live in Devon and am equally motivated to paint by the beautiful countryside in this part of the south west.”

Gill Steinberg

A deeply skillful quilt maker, Gill explains that after many years of dressmaking, for herself and others, she is now involved in using up the leftovers, and recycling interesting fabrics she come across.

“I make patchwork throws, ideal for snuggling under when the weather gets chilly, small patchwork wall-hangings, and patchwork cards.”

Duncan Harris

Duncan is principally a landscape painter, producing beautiful work in oil on canvas. He moved to Dorset in 2011 after having been trying to move here from London for many years. Duncan says “I work fairly quickly, and as much as possible outdoors, returning to the scene at the same time over several days, weather permitting.”

Linda Bristow Ceramics

Linda’s sculptures derive from her strong love of nature, specifically meadow flowers.  Each piece uniquely crafted to expose the diversity & fragility of British wild flowers, yet as a collective, the relationship between each flower demonstrates the beauty of the meadow in its united form.

Linda usually works in earthenware clay. Textures and scraffito are applied to the surface and a mixture of oxides and coloured slips are painted onto the surface to create an abstract effect. Work is fired twice and sometimes a third time to include a glaze firing to finish.

Caroline Barnes Ceramics

Caroline set up her small business in 1994 and is based in West Dorset. She specialises in creating an exquisite range of handmade porcelain products from buttons to framed collections.

Each piece is handmade from porcelain clay, glazed and then decorated using platinum and coloured decals created  from Caroline’s illustrations and photographs. Inspired by vintage prints, botanical drawings and the beach finds from nearby  Lyme Regis Caroline has created a highly contemporary ceramic collection.

Janine Needham-Kamm (Textile Artist)

Growing up in a family of professional sewers and makers, Janine watched her mother working at a sewing machine from a very early age.  “I have always loved colour and design; stitching, textiles, and working with my hands. Inspired by nature and the beautiful Somerset landscapes and the people within it. I use snapshots and photos I take when I am out and about to translate into paintings and drawings in my sketchbooks. These are used as a reference for the textiles pieces I make.

I love the soft texture of wool felt and how it feels when it has been stitched into. I use my needle and thread like a drawing tool to depict the details in the piece.”

Maggie Sindall

Maggie caught our eye at the 2024 Lyme Regis Art Society exhibition with her brilliantly intricate small upcycled sculptures made from the flotsam and jetsam she has gathered from Lyme’s beaches; so we’ve invited her back to share her creations with a wider audience as her work is literally “a little piece of Lyme.”

Chris Goodman

A graphic designer by profession, Chris creates wonderful graphic depictions of Lyme Regis and other local hot spots which always draw the eye of gallery visitors over the festive season. The style of his work transfers brilliantly to fabrics with his fabulous, collectable tea towels being a perennial best seller!

Higgledy Piggledy Makes - Hanna Clayton

Lyme Regis based local artisan Hanna Clayton lovingly creates a range of fun but beautifully crafted handmade items from bags to books to decorations. Her famous felt seagull decorations with their crocheted legs literally fly out of the gallery - the personality of each little gull undeniably distinct!

Sew La Di Da - Caroline Smith

Caroline is a Vintage Frock Designer and independent dressmaking pattern manufacturer. Director of Sew La Di Da Vintage Sewing School and Fabric Online Shop, Caroline has her studio here right in the heart of the Town Mill.

Each year, Caroline puts together a lovely capsule range of high-quality clothing for the Christmas exhibition. Often featuring rich velvets in jewel tones, these pieces are beautifully designed and always eye-catching.

Martin Pennycott

Martin is a talented Lyme resident who turns his hand to all sorts of arts and crafts - and we love to show his small copperware pieces at Christmas. Lovingly created, beautifully balanced and enhanced with exquisite enamel touches.

Caroline Crawford Ceramics

We’re delighted to welcome Caroline back for again this year with her beautiful, but very affordable, hand built and thrown pieces which are made with fine white Porcelain. A loose design -inspired by the beautiful Jurassic coast -is then etched into the clay. After the first firing it is embellished with subtle blue underglazes. It is then refired with a delicate blue Celadon glaze.

This collection includes Christmas decorations, coasters, mugs, dainty jugs and dishes.

Fiona Kenward Glass

Fiona has always had a fascination with glass, long before she learned to work with it; but having learnt how to work with stained glass, Fiona moved into fusing glass. “I love the alchemy of the kiln, and the huge variety of colours and textures available. Living in Dorset I am now surrounded by the things I love best- the sea and the countryside- both of which feature in my pieces.”

Chris Cunliffe

Local stick-maker extraordinaire, we couldn’t resist inviting Chris to join the exhibition this year. We call Chris’ canes “Sticks with a Story” as every piece has Chris’ carefully recorded provenance - which copse, what type of wood, what style? Stylish pieces in all sorts of shapes and sizes - handy if you’re feeling a bit ricketty…or good for rooting around in hedgerows!

Delicious Jewellery

“Handmade polymer clay jewellery made by a designer who is mad on colour and textures.” The perfect description of Sarah Ricketts who creates wonderfully striking jewellery - that you just can’t help collecting; or you buy as a gift…and then keep!

Somerset Woolshed

Somerset Wool Shed are a brilliant mother and daughter partnership who, between them, have many years' experience in dyeing, spinning and working with wool. Both ladies love colour and try to find fleeces and yarn that feel lovely to work with. Absolutely everything they make is unique, from the colourways they dye the yarn to the patterns in their Fair Isle-inspired hats. Lynne tells us “we try to source our materials from known suppliers - for example, from sheep farmers in Somerset or Shetland, or specialist yarn spinners for undyed sock yarn.

Some exquisite stock delivered for this year’s show - in particular, beautifully delicate lace knit shawls from hand-spun Shetland yarns have caught our eye.

Somerset Woolshed’s fingerless gloves , knitted from their own spun yarn were so popular last year that Lynne was needing to replenish stock faster than she could knit!

Charles Gadd

Charles will be joining us this year with his range of Gadd & Co glass and melamine tableware which he has developed with sought after artists Camilla Clutterbuck & Polly Hobbs. A resident of Lyme, Charles’ tableware is all made here in the UK from toughened, recycled glass. Friends since the age of 4, Charles & Camilla have been designing tableware since 2006 and are very specific about their production credentials, creating quality, practical pieces.