Julia Preston | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Julia Preston | Featured Artist Summer 2025

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Julia Preston | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Julia Preston

Julia Preston

Artist

 

Based in Bolton, Julia Preston is the artist behind SulikoSoul — a creative practice rooted in bold colour, layered texture, and emotional connection to place. Working across acrylic painting, mixed media, pyrography, and anodised aluminium jewellery, her work explores the seasons, the landscape, and cultural threads that tie us to memory and meaning.

Inspired by the moors of Lancashire and her travels through the Caucasus and beyond, Julia’s art often reflects a meeting point between wild terrain and intimate stillness. Her vibrant canvases shift between abstract and figurative, often echoing the mood of the land and the rhythm of nature. Whether painting a windswept hillside or crafting a statement piece of jewellery, she invites viewers to pause, feel, and reflect.

Julia works from Falcon Mill Studios and regularly exhibits across the North of England. Her pieces are available online and through selected galleries and independent shops.

Autumn Chill

 

is a richly textured, emotionally resonant acrylic painting that captures a moment of seasonal transformation in the landscape.

The piece draws you in with its layered brushwork and intentional colour shifts: vivid russets and golds in the foreground, whispering of turning bracken and crisp undergrowth, give way to cooler blues and silvery greys that build the distant hills and expansive sky. Her use of bold colour contrasts with subtle gradations, especially where land meets water, creates a rhythm that is both grounded and atmospheric. The whole image feels like it’s breathing, you can almost hear the wind whirling across the moor.

The textural depth suggests a strong physical engagement with the canvas kind of help feel the chill, but also the glow of the low autumn sun. It evokes reflection, transition, and that wistful stillness just before winter takes hold.

Artwork Title: Autumn Chill
Artist: Julia Preston
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Board
Size: 32cm x 32cm
Price: £240
Presentation: Framed, ready to hang

Lake View Storm

An electric expression of the land in flux, “Lakes View – Storm” crackles with the tension and magic of an approaching winter dusk.

The vibrant cobalt and ultramarine skies feel charged, not just with storm energy, but with the shimmer of something unearthly.

There’s a hint of the aurora borealis warming up backstage, ready to dance once the light drops low enough.

Sweeps of acidic green carve through the hills like veins of light, giving form to an otherwise abstracted landscape.

Julia’s confident, gestural marks lend drama and dynamism to the scene. You can feel the wind rising, the air thinning, the quiet before something spectacular erupts in the sky.

Artwork Title: Lake View Storm
Artist: Julia Preston
Medium: Acrylic on Paper
Size: 48cm x 48cm
Price: £320
Presentation: Framed, ready to hang

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John Bentley | Artist In Residence

John Bentley | Artist In Residence

Exhibiting Artist

John Bentley | Artist In Residence

John Bentley

John Bentley

Digital Alchemist

 

Blending photography with painterly textures, digital layering, and, at times, physical embellishment, Bentley’s images straddle the surreal and the real. He is drawn to ambiguity, tension, and the quiet power of presence. His pieces are not designed to flatter — they are made to provoke, to honour, and to hold.

Bentley’s practice is rooted in studio work but never confined by it. Whether capturing raw expression in-camera or pushing a piece into abstraction through post-production, he remains focused on the emotional pulse beneath the surface. The work is not about spectacle — it’s about staying with what’s uncomfortable, what’s beautiful, and what dares to be both.

Veiled

Photographic, digital & physical mixed media on fine canvas

Swathed in coarse fabric, half-lit and half-forgotten, she sits suspended between exposure and retreat. Her lifted arm becomes a gesture of surrender, of defiance, or perhaps quiet reclamation. Whether physical or emotional, there is something missing here… but not absent. The void is part of the narrative.

She could be in bloom or burning.

The red flare that obscures her face could be read as a crown or a wound, a blossoming or a scar. The ambiguity is the point. This creation pulls us between painterly softness and photographic realism

Her body language is neither submissive nor confrontational. She does not perform. She simply is.

Artwork Title: Veiled
Artist: John Bentley
Medium: Mixed Media Canvas
Size: 60cm x 90cm
Price: £450
Presentation: Unframed, ready to hang

Voltage

 

Photographic & digital artwork on canvas

Originally captured during a fashion shoot at the studio in 2015, Voltage began as a moment of movement. A fleeting exhale, a twist of hair, a half-formed expression caught in-between. But in post-production, it evolved into something darker… more charged.

Through layered digital enhancements, the subject was transformed. A soft, tempestuous presence became heightened with gothic intensity: deep shadows cloaked the skin, hair exploded like a thundercloud, and sharp, electric blues tore through the background. Streaks of blood red were woven in deliberately — hinting at danger, seduction, and something just out of reach.

The image now holds a cinematic tension. Her mouth is open — not quite a scream, not quite a whisper. Her posture holds energy, her stare is both confrontational and ethereal. There’s no stillness here. Only presence.

Artwork Title: Voltage
Artist: John Bentley
Medium: Archival Canvas rendering
Size: 60cm x 90cm
Price: £350
Presentation: Unframed, ready to hang

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Julia Entwistle | Artist In Residence

Julia Entwistle | Artist In Residence

Exhibiting Artist

Julia Entwistle | Artist In Residence

Julia Entwistle

Julia Entwistle

Artist

Julia Entwistle is a contemporary British artist based in Lancashire, whose evocative landscapes offer more than just a view — they offer a feeling. Working primarily in oils and acrylics, Julia’s impressionistic style is guided by atmosphere and emotion rather than topographical accuracy. Her brushwork is loose and expressive, allowing room for spontaneity and unexpected magic to emerge on the canvas.

Julia’s creative process begins with the sky. Whether it’s the drama of an approaching storm or the soft hush of twilight, the sky sets the tone for her work. From this atmospheric starting point, she builds the landscape below, allowing earth and air to meld into a single, harmonious image that draws the viewer in.

Inspired by the rugged beauty of the North — from Lancashire and Cumbria to the wilds of Scotland and Northumberland — her paintings are romanticized interpretations, crafted to stir something deep in the soul. These are not just places, but feelings made visible.

Her work is a perfect fit for anyone drawn to the quiet power of nature and the poetry of light. Ideal for calming living spaces, restful bedrooms, or reflective office environments where peace and inspiration are welcome companions.

In My dreams

 

In My Dreams lives in the delicate space between memory and longing. Rendered in a wash of lavender, heather, and soft amethyst, the piece drifts like a half remembered place … blurred, distant, and hauntingly familiar.

There’s a hush to this painting, as if the entire landscape is suspended in a moment just before waking.

Julia’s trademark romanticism is at full strength here, with the horizon barely defined and the foreground melting into a velvet mist.

There is no clear path, no figure to guide the eye, only the pulse of a far-off landscape under an endless sky. Absence of detail gives this piece its quiet power: it lets your mind do the travelling.

Artwork Title: In My Dreams
Artist: Julia Entwistle
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 92cm x 61cm
Price: £700
Presentation: framed, ready to hang

Canal But No Boat

 

A quiet tension hangs in Canal No Boat, where the absence of a vessel becomes the subject in itself. Julia Entwistle paints a solitary stretch of canal under a milky sky, the path flanked by moody trees and softened outlines, evoking the eerie hush of early morning or the first light after rain.

The palette is rich in violets, indigos, and aqua tones, cool, dreamlike, and introspective while the brushwork leaves room for atmosphere to take the lead.

There is movement here without motion, a journey suggested but not taken.

This piece would speak deeply to lovers of poetic stillness, people who find beauty in in-between moments and half-remembered places.

Artwork Title: Canal But No Boat
Artist: Julia Entwistle
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 92cm x 61cm
Price: £700
Presentation: framed, ready to hang

A Touch of Ambrosia

 

“A Touch of Ambrosia” is a winter landscape that balances rugged earth with celestial light. Snow-topped hills rise in the distance, while the valley below holds delicate traces of snow and the fading memory of human habitation.

Above, the sky glows with an otherworldly radiance, streaked with soft golds and silvers that hint at something beyond the everyday — a reminder that beauty lingers in forgotten places, and that even the quietest landscapes hold a touch of the divine.

Painted in oil on paper, the work carries a timeless quality, its textured brushstrokes echoing both the fragility and endurance of the land. Elegantly framed and ready to hang

Artwork Title: A Touch of Ambrosia
Artist: Julia Entwistle
Medium: Oil on Paper
Size: 47cm x 47cm
Price: £395
Presentation: framed, ready to hang

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Peter Arkwright | Artist In Residence

Peter Arkwright | Artist In Residence

Exhibiting Artist

Peter Arkwright | Artist In Residence

Peter Arkwright

Peter Arkwright

Artist

 

Peter Arkwright is a Lancashire painter whose work shifts boldly between the physical and the emotional, the seen and the sensed. Whether portraying the raw energy of a rugby scrum or the solitary majesty of a Highland peak, Peter’s paintings are rooted in movement, memory, and meaning.

Working primarily in oil, his expressive brushwork and layered textures reflect a desire not simply to depict, but to feel. Recent works delve into personal reflections—what he calls “digging up demons”—using paint as a form of emotional release and reconciliation.

In The Thick Of It

There’s no escape here—no sideline, no distance. Peter Arkwright throws us right into the centre of collision, limbs locked, sweat flying, muscle against muscle. In the Thick of It is more than a depiction of a rugby scrum—it’s a portrait of pressure, unity, and struggle.

Peter’s trademark expressive brushwork blurs the line between body and background, capturing the chaos and intensity of human contact. The energy is palpable—paint drips like sweat; gestures clash and blend as if we’re seeing not just movement, but memory.

This isn’t sport as spectacle. It’s sport as metaphor. For life. For resilience. For battling the unseen forces that shape us. Just as Peter describes “digging up demons” through his art, this piece feels like a moment of confrontation—with others, with self, with history.

Artwork Title: In The Thick Of It
Artist: Peter Arkwright
Medium:  Oil on Canvas
Size: 87cm x 112cm
Price: £ 700
Presentation: framed, ready to hang

To Glencoe

 

With sweeping skies and snow-dusted peaks, To Glencoe invites the viewer on a quiet, almost spiritual journey into the heart of the Highlands. But beneath the breathtaking beauty lies something deeper—a sense of solitude, reckoning, and emotional terrain.

Peter Arkwright paints not just what he sees, but what he feels. The river’s icy churn and the mountain’s immovable presence become metaphors for the paths we take through memory and meaning. There’s movement here, but no rush. Stillness, but not silence.

His brushwork—broad, expressive, and searching—brings warmth to the raw Scottish land, softening the severity without losing its power. It’s a painting that feels like walking into something bigger than yourself, with nature standing as both guide and mirror.

Artwork Title: To Glencoe
Artist: Peter Arkwright
Medium:  Oil on Canvas
Size: 102cm x 76cm
Price: £700
Presentation: unframed, ready to hang

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Tina Hurst Artist In Residence

Tina Hurst Artist In Residence

Exhibiting Artist

Tina Hurst Artist In Residence

Tina Hurst

Tina Hurst

Artist

an abstract artist based at BL6 Studios whose practice is rooted in natural colour, sustainability, and intuitive design. With a professional background in architecture, fashion, and fine art, Tina now channels her energy into creating organic pigments, botanical inks, and fibre-based artworks using natural dye processes.

Inspired by Japanese philosophies and geological landscapes, her minimalist compositions explore spatial relationships and environmental narratives.

Tina also produces handmade artist materials through her Etsy shop, Prism Inks, and runs immersive workshops in botanical dyeing and eco-printing.

Ionic Fields I

 

A painting that hums with silent electricity, Ionic Fields I evokes the charged stillness before a summer storm—the atmosphere heavy with potential, glowing with unseen forces. Yellows dissolve into tangerines, and ember-reds rise from below, as if the very air has been alchemised into colour. There’s a meditative pulse in this piece. A gentle flicker. A quiet storm building in slow motion.

For lovers of minimal yet emotive abstraction, this work would elevate any contemporary interior.

Paired with other pieces in Tina’s Ionic Fields or Nebula series, this artwork invites dialogue between emotion and environment.

On its own, it radiates with the calm confidence of something eternal.

Artwork Title: Ionic Fields I
Artist: Tina Hurst
Medium: Botanical Ink On Fabriano Paper
Size: 27cm x 27cm
Price: £75
Presentation: box framed

Ionic Fields II

 

Like a slow exhale at golden hour, Ionic Fields II glows with the richness of late sunlight on skin. The hues here are deep and soft—coppery rose melting into sun-washed amber and ochre, with earthy greens quietly grounding the composition.

There’s a smoky sensuality to this piece, as if it remembers warmth, touch, or the blush of a moment not yet passed.

 The collector who gravitates to Ionic Fields II likely senses energy in colour and appreciates the quiet power of intuitive mark-making.

Together with Ionic Fields I, this piece whispers in harmony, speaking of energy that shifts gently, rather than strikes. 

Artwork Title: Ionic Fields II
Artist: Tina Hurst
Medium: Botanical Ink On Fabriano Paper
Size: 27cm x 27cm
Price: £75
Presentation: box framed

Nebula 2 Botanical Abstract

 

“Nebula 2” floats between breath and colour—a soft kaleidoscope of organic vibrancy, where violet mist meets cerulean skies and lemony light. Created using Tina Hurst’s hand-crafted botanical inks, this piece feels like sunlight refracted through emotion. Each hue is alive with energy, yet the overall composition is soothing, like the memory of a perfect sky just after rainfall.

The artwork is the result of a vegan, sustainable practice rooted in alchemy and intuition. Tina doesn’t just paint—she cultivates colour from seed, extracting dye from her garden and transforming it into pigment with a reverence for nature and transience. There’s an atmospheric quality to “Nebula 2” that makes it feel both cosmic and personal, like a whisper from something vast and unknowable.

Artwork Title: Nebula 2
Artist: Tina Hurst
Medium: Botanical Ink On Fabriano Paper
Size: 27cm x 27cm
Price: £75
Presentation: box framed

Nebula 2 Botanical Abstract

 

“Nebula 2” floats between breath and colour—a soft kaleidoscope of organic vibrancy, where violet mist meets cerulean skies and lemony light. Created using Tina Hurst’s hand-crafted botanical inks, this piece feels like sunlight refracted through emotion. Each hue is alive with energy, yet the overall composition is soothing, like the memory of a perfect sky just after rainfall.

The artwork is the result of a vegan, sustainable practice rooted in alchemy and intuition. Tina doesn’t just paint—she cultivates colour from seed, extracting dye from her garden and transforming it into pigment with a reverence for nature and transience. There’s an atmospheric quality to “Nebula 2” that makes it feel both cosmic and personal, like a whisper from something vast and unknowable.

Artwork Title: Nebula 2
Artist: Tina Hurst
Medium: Botanical Ink On Fabriano Paper
Size: 27cm x 27cm
Price: £75
Presentation: box framed

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