Janette Byrne | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Janette Byrne | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Janette Byrne | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Janette Byrne

Janette Byrne

Artist

 

Janette Byrne (Jb Art) is a local artist who graduated with a Masters in Fine Art at the University of Greater Manchester. She has exhibited widely in the UK and has had several works accepted to go through to the Royal Academy Summer exhibition … and has Sold there.                            
     Janette’s current work ethic is far removed from the detailed processes of completing Fine Art Degrees and by popular request she is enjoying painting frivolous flowers and animals… She hopes you enjoy her display.

Cyclamen

 

Cyclamen Sky is a serene study in poise and quiet beauty. The delicate, sweeping petals of the cyclamen unfold like ribbons in the breeze, their soft blush and ivory tones set against a vivid, sky-blue background.

There’s a gentle rhythm here. The graceful arcs of stem and bud dancing upward with a quiet, contemplative energy.

Painted in acrylics on canvas board and measuring 27 x 27 cm, this piece is framed in clean white that lifts the natural palette. Cyclamen, with their distinctive nodding blooms, have long been associated with inner strength, devotion, and understated grace. This painting captures that spirit perfectly — a sense of calm resilience held within soft, flowing forms.

Artwork Title: Cyclamen Sky
Artist: Janette Byrne
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Board
Size: 27cm x 27cm
Price: £45
Presentation: framed, ready to display

Floral Display

 

A joyful explosion of colour, this oil-on-board painting celebrates the abundant beauty of a freshly gathered bouquet. Janette Byrne’s expressive brushwork and bold colour palette evoke a spontaneous, almost celebratory energy—as though the flowers are still dancing from being placed in the soft blue background and rounded vase.

The art creates a calm contrast, allowing the florals to sing with life.

Artwork Title: Frivolous Flowers
Artist: Janette Byrne
Medium: Oil on Canvas Board
Size: 28cm x 33cm
Price: £70
Presentation: framed, ready to display

Fuchsia Tangle

 

An exuberant celebration of nature’s drama, Fuchsia Tangle draws the viewer into a vibrant undergrowth where oversized fuchsia blooms hang like whispered secrets among thick, wild grasses.

The artist’s expressive brushwork and bold colour palette turn this delicate flower into something untamed and defiant.

Each pink petal edged in crimson and softened with lilac pops against a backdrop of sun-soaked greens and flashes of aqua, suggesting a humid garden or lush tropical border alive with energy.

Painted in acrylic on canvas board and set in a clean white frame with a subtle blush mount, this 5×7″ piece delivers colour therapy in compact form

Artwork Title: Fuchsia Tangle
Artist: Janette Byrne
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Board
Size: 13cm x 18cm
Price: £30
Presentation: framed, ready to display

Fuchsia Tangle

 

An exuberant celebration of nature’s drama, Fuchsia Tangle draws the viewer into a vibrant undergrowth where oversized fuchsia blooms hang like whispered secrets among thick, wild grasses.

The artist’s expressive brushwork and bold colour palette turn this delicate flower into something untamed and defiant.

Each pink petal edged in crimson and softened with lilac pops against a backdrop of sun-soaked greens and flashes of aqua, suggesting a humid garden or lush tropical border alive with energy.

Painted in acrylic on canvas board and set in a clean white frame with a subtle blush mount, this 5×7″ piece delivers colour therapy in compact form

Artwork Title: Fuchsia Tangle
Artist: Janette Byrne
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Board
Size: 13cm x 18cm
Price: £30
Presentation: framed, ready to display

Other works by Janette

Fauvism Lemons

Daisies

Fauvism Sunflower

Take a look at the others exhibiting this summer

Franki Beddows | Featured Artist Summer 2025

I paint to get lost. It’s the moment of flow—where shapes, shadows and textures start to whisper—that keeps pulling me back to the canvas. In those early layers of acrylic, faces, figures, and strange little creatures begin to reveal themselves. I never go looking for...

read more

Patrick Taylor | Featured Artist Summer 2025

  Both these pieces were manually drawn on-screen (by hand, no filters or digital assistance). Patrick Taylor is a visual artist now based in Bolton, working across painting, drawing, and design. A graduate of Manchester College of Art & Design, his creative...

read more

Rob Edmondson | Featured Artist Summer 2025

  Rob Edmondson is a Lancashire-based landscape artist with a deep-rooted passion for capturing the shifting moods of the British countryside. Working predominantly in acrylics, his work draws inspiration from the wild moorlands, coastal paths, and quiet valleys...

read more

Janette Byrne | Featured Artist Summer 2025

  Janette Byrne (Jb Art) is a local artist who graduated with a Masters in Fine Art at the University of Greater Manchester. She has exhibited widely in the UK and has had several works accepted to go through to the Royal Academy Summer exhibition … and has Sold...

read more

Julia Preston | Featured Artist Summer 2025

  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...

read more

John Bentley | Artist In Residence

  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...

read more

Julia Entwistle | Artist In Residence

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...

read more

Peter Arkwright | Artist In Residence

  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...

read more

Tina Hurst Artist In Residence

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...

read more

Jackie Williams | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Profile Image of Jackie by Ian Fletcher  Jackie Williams is a Lancashire-based painter whose work explores the shifting energies of landscape and light. Working primarily in acrylic, she creates expressive, textural pieces that move between abstraction and realism —...

read more

Kirsten Todd | Featured Artist Summer 2025

  Kirsten Todd is a Lancashire-based intuitive artist and founder of Art at Vixen, known for her emotionally charged abstracts and divine feminine portraiture. With a BA in Graphic Design and over 30 years in the creative industry, Kirsten has painted...

read more

Julia Uttley | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Profile image of Julia courtesy Don Tonge  Julia Uttley is a Bolton‑based photographer whose work reveals a deep connection to the region’s industrial heritage and moorland landscapes. Born and raised in Lancashire’s Fylde region, she was drawn back north in 2015,...

read more

Mike Lord | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Mike Lord is a Lancashire-based oil painter whose landscapes are both familiar and fantastical—echoing the moors, fields, and canals that surround his rural home. He came to painting later in life after careers in law, counselling, and mediation, discovering a passion...

read more

Karen Holt | Featured Artist Summer 2025

profile Image captured by Henry Lisowski Karen Holt is a Bolton-based artist and the creative force behind The Barn Studio, a welcoming artistic space that reflects her love for colour, texture, and expression. Known for her richly layered work that often blends...

read more

Jackie Williams | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Jackie Williams | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Jackie Williams | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Jackie Williams

Jackie Williams

Artist

Profile Image of Jackie by Ian Fletcher 

Jackie Williams is a Lancashire-based painter whose work explores the shifting energies of landscape and light. Working primarily in acrylic, she creates expressive, textural pieces that move between abstraction and realism — often inspired by the wild moorlands, coastal paths, and garden spaces around her home in Heapey, near Chorley. Her practice balances instinctive mark-making with an emotional response to nature, capturing fleeting moments of weather, movement, and memory.

Through her online space heapeygallery.co.uk and her social media presence, Jackie shares not just her finished pieces but glimpses into her creative process, inviting collectors and art lovers into the rhythm of her artistic life. Whether working on large-scale canvases or more intimate studies, her palette ranges from the soft and earthy to the bold and radiant — always with a strong sense of atmosphere and place.

Jackie’s work has found homes across the UK and continues to resonate with those who are drawn to the beauty in the everyday landscape. She is one of the exhibiting artists featured in the Gathered Works Summer Exhibition at BL6 Studios in Horwich, 2025.

Summer Breeze

 

Summer Breeze lives up to its name. This is a bold, expressive painting that captures that exact moment when a warm wind sweeps through a field of flowers, everything moving, dancing, shifting.

Jackie doesn’t paint every petal or stem. She doesn’t need to. What she gives us is the feeling of it. The energy, the light, the sheer joy of a summer’s day set loose on canvas.

There’s no tidy structure here, and that’s the point. This is nature in motion. Rich golds, deep purples, burnt orange and flashes of green all clash and blend with intent. It’s wild and vibrant, but controlled enough that it draws you in rather than overwhelms. There’s a rhythm to it. A hum. Stand in front of it and you almost expect the scent of flowers to hit you.

Something about it just lifts the atmosphere. For collectors who like their artwork to make an entrance, Summer Breeze doesn’t whisper. It walks in, opens the windows, and lets the light flood in.

Artwork Title: Summer Breeze
Artist: Jackie Williams
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 100cm x 100cm
Price: £495
Presentation: Unframed, ready to hang

Dunes

 

There’s something timeless about this piece.

No buildings, no people, no distractions. Just space. Just light and earth. It’s got that raw honesty that reminds you of early morning walks or the hush before a weather change.

The colours are beautifully restrained — soft greys, ochres, hints of slate and salt. Williams hasn’t overworked it. You can see the brushstrokes, feel the texture, almost smell the sea air.

Artwork Title: Dunes
Artist: Jackie Williams 
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Size: 100cm x 50cm
Price: £350
Presentation: Unframed, ready to hang

Take a look at the others exhibiting this summer

Franki Beddows | Featured Artist Summer 2025

I paint to get lost. It’s the moment of flow—where shapes, shadows and textures start to whisper—that keeps pulling me back to the canvas. In those early layers of acrylic, faces, figures, and strange little creatures begin to reveal themselves. I never go looking for...

read more

Patrick Taylor | Featured Artist Summer 2025

  Both these pieces were manually drawn on-screen (by hand, no filters or digital assistance). Patrick Taylor is a visual artist now based in Bolton, working across painting, drawing, and design. A graduate of Manchester College of Art & Design, his creative...

read more

Rob Edmondson | Featured Artist Summer 2025

  Rob Edmondson is a Lancashire-based landscape artist with a deep-rooted passion for capturing the shifting moods of the British countryside. Working predominantly in acrylics, his work draws inspiration from the wild moorlands, coastal paths, and quiet valleys...

read more

Janette Byrne | Featured Artist Summer 2025

  Janette Byrne (Jb Art) is a local artist who graduated with a Masters in Fine Art at the University of Greater Manchester. She has exhibited widely in the UK and has had several works accepted to go through to the Royal Academy Summer exhibition … and has Sold...

read more

Julia Preston | Featured Artist Summer 2025

  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...

read more

John Bentley | Artist In Residence

  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...

read more

Julia Entwistle | Artist In Residence

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...

read more

Peter Arkwright | Artist In Residence

  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...

read more

Tina Hurst Artist In Residence

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...

read more

Jackie Williams | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Profile Image of Jackie by Ian Fletcher  Jackie Williams is a Lancashire-based painter whose work explores the shifting energies of landscape and light. Working primarily in acrylic, she creates expressive, textural pieces that move between abstraction and realism —...

read more

Kirsten Todd | Featured Artist Summer 2025

  Kirsten Todd is a Lancashire-based intuitive artist and founder of Art at Vixen, known for her emotionally charged abstracts and divine feminine portraiture. With a BA in Graphic Design and over 30 years in the creative industry, Kirsten has painted...

read more

Julia Uttley | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Profile image of Julia courtesy Don Tonge  Julia Uttley is a Bolton‑based photographer whose work reveals a deep connection to the region’s industrial heritage and moorland landscapes. Born and raised in Lancashire’s Fylde region, she was drawn back north in 2015,...

read more

Mike Lord | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Mike Lord is a Lancashire-based oil painter whose landscapes are both familiar and fantastical—echoing the moors, fields, and canals that surround his rural home. He came to painting later in life after careers in law, counselling, and mediation, discovering a passion...

read more

Karen Holt | Featured Artist Summer 2025

profile Image captured by Henry Lisowski Karen Holt is a Bolton-based artist and the creative force behind The Barn Studio, a welcoming artistic space that reflects her love for colour, texture, and expression. Known for her richly layered work that often blends...

read more

Kirsten Todd | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Kirsten Todd | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Kirsten Todd | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Kirsten Todd

Kirsten Todd

Artist

 

Kirsten Todd is a Lancashire-based intuitive artist and founder of Art at Vixen, known for her emotionally charged abstracts and divine feminine portraiture.

With a BA in Graphic Design and over 30 years in the creative industry, Kirsten has painted professionally since 2016, using expressive acrylics to explore connection, resilience, and the rhythms of nature.

Her Fragile Earth series captures vibrant, semi-abstract landscapes alive with colour and movement—celebrating both the beauty and vulnerability of the world around us.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and in 2025 she joins a curated selection of contemporary artists in the Harvest of Visions Summer Exhibition at BL6 Studios, Horwich.

Iconic John Lennon

 

In this bold and expressive portrait, Kirsten Todd reimagines one of music’s most recognisable figures – John Lennon. Painted in acrylic and layered with bursts of spray paint, his face is brought to life through an electric palette of pinks, purples, oranges, and blues.

Every mark is deliberate, yet full of energy, giving Lennon a vibrant presence that feels both modern and timeless.

The background hums with layered textures, symbols, and graffiti-like gestures — a nod to both Lennon’s rebellious edge and his message of peace. Look closely, and you’ll see moments of softness beneath the colour, especially in the eyes, which seem to watch quietly through the chaos.

Artwork Title: Iconic John Lennon
Artist: Kirsten Todd 
Medium: Acrylic & Spray Paint on Canvas
Size: 40cm x 40cm
Price: £400
Presentation: Unframed, ready to hang

Iconic Prince

 

Bringing the Purple One to life with electric colour and commanding presence. Painted in acrylic and spray paint, the portrait glows with bold contrasts, all layered with rhythm and intent. The expression is intense, direct, unmistakable.

The background is a controlled chaos of pattern and movement, echoing Prince’s fearless creativity and genre-defying sound.

His eyes hold your attention — sharp and full of fire — while the textured bursts behind him pulse like the beat of a song.

A visual tribute to individuality, confidence, and raw, undeniable talent.

Artwork Title: Iconic Prince
Artist: Kirsten Todd 
Medium: Acrylic & Spray Paint on Canvas
Size: 40cm x 40cm
Price: £400
Presentation: Unframed, ready to hang

Rural Pathways

 

A celebration of movement, memory, and the wild joy of colour. This isn’t a quiet countryside stroll—it’s a rush of wind through the trees, a blaze of late-afternoon light slicing through the land, paths twisting with purpose and energy.

Bold, expressive marks pull you forward—ochres, tangerines, sky blues—all crashing together in a way that feels both raw and joyful.

There’s something unfiltered here. Not just a landscape, but the feeling of being alive in it. Of remembering somewhere you’ve never been.

Artwork Title: Rural Pathways
Artist: Kirsten Todd 
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 50cm x 50cm
Price: £275
Series: Fragile Earth
Presentation: Unframed, ready to hang

Ploughed Chalklands

Ploughed Chalklands is a vibrant, rhythmic exploration of farmland energy. Part dreamscape, part memory, seen through the unmistakable lens of Kirsten Todd’s Fragile Earth series.

With bold gestures and mosaic-like brushwork, Todd conjures the essence of cultivated fields under a lively sky. The winding furrows, painted with warm peach, terracotta and turquoise, feel almost musical as they sweep across the canvas, guided by rows of trees under a wild pastel canopy.

It’s a celebration of agricultural land — not as a static scene, but as a place alive with colour, motion, and humanity’s enduring relationship with the soil.

Artwork Title: Ploughed Chalklands
Artist: Kirsten Todd 
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 50cm x 50cm
Price: £275
Series: Fragile Earth
Presentation: Unframed, ready to hang

Take a look at the others exhibiting this summer

Franki Beddows | Featured Artist Summer 2025

I paint to get lost. It’s the moment of flow—where shapes, shadows and textures start to whisper—that keeps pulling me back to the canvas. In those early layers of acrylic, faces, figures, and strange little creatures begin to reveal themselves. I never go looking for...

read more

Patrick Taylor | Featured Artist Summer 2025

  Both these pieces were manually drawn on-screen (by hand, no filters or digital assistance). Patrick Taylor is a visual artist now based in Bolton, working across painting, drawing, and design. A graduate of Manchester College of Art & Design, his creative...

read more

Rob Edmondson | Featured Artist Summer 2025

  Rob Edmondson is a Lancashire-based landscape artist with a deep-rooted passion for capturing the shifting moods of the British countryside. Working predominantly in acrylics, his work draws inspiration from the wild moorlands, coastal paths, and quiet valleys...

read more

Janette Byrne | Featured Artist Summer 2025

  Janette Byrne (Jb Art) is a local artist who graduated with a Masters in Fine Art at the University of Greater Manchester. She has exhibited widely in the UK and has had several works accepted to go through to the Royal Academy Summer exhibition … and has Sold...

read more

Julia Preston | Featured Artist Summer 2025

  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...

read more

John Bentley | Artist In Residence

  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...

read more

Julia Entwistle | Artist In Residence

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...

read more

Peter Arkwright | Artist In Residence

  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...

read more

Tina Hurst Artist In Residence

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...

read more

Jackie Williams | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Profile Image of Jackie by Ian Fletcher  Jackie Williams is a Lancashire-based painter whose work explores the shifting energies of landscape and light. Working primarily in acrylic, she creates expressive, textural pieces that move between abstraction and realism —...

read more

Kirsten Todd | Featured Artist Summer 2025

  Kirsten Todd is a Lancashire-based intuitive artist and founder of Art at Vixen, known for her emotionally charged abstracts and divine feminine portraiture. With a BA in Graphic Design and over 30 years in the creative industry, Kirsten has painted...

read more

Julia Uttley | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Profile image of Julia courtesy Don Tonge  Julia Uttley is a Bolton‑based photographer whose work reveals a deep connection to the region’s industrial heritage and moorland landscapes. Born and raised in Lancashire’s Fylde region, she was drawn back north in 2015,...

read more

Mike Lord | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Mike Lord is a Lancashire-based oil painter whose landscapes are both familiar and fantastical—echoing the moors, fields, and canals that surround his rural home. He came to painting later in life after careers in law, counselling, and mediation, discovering a passion...

read more

Karen Holt | Featured Artist Summer 2025

profile Image captured by Henry Lisowski Karen Holt is a Bolton-based artist and the creative force behind The Barn Studio, a welcoming artistic space that reflects her love for colour, texture, and expression. Known for her richly layered work that often blends...

read more

Mike Lord | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Mike Lord | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Mike Lord | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Mike Lord

Mike Lord

Artist

Mike Lord is a Lancashire-based oil painter whose landscapes are both familiar and fantastical—echoing the moors, fields, and canals that surround his rural home. He came to painting later in life after careers in law, counselling, and mediation, discovering a passion for oils during an evening class with artist Chris McLoughlin.

Working from his home studio, Mike’s work captures a deeply personal view of the world around him, blending memory, mood, and magical realism. His scenes often feature imagined light, layered brushwork, and rich colour—inviting the viewer to pause and reflect.

Mike has exhibited in respected northern venues including Cedar Farm, Art in the Pen (Skipton), Clitheroe Contemporary Art, and Blackburn Art Gallery. He is one of the featured artists in the upcoming “Harvest of Visions” Summer Exhibition at BL6 Studios in Horwich (July–September 2025), where his evocative style will sit alongside a curated collection of accessible fine art.


Prints and originals are available via mikelordart.co.uk, and studio visits are welcome by appointment.

Hawthorn Tree

 

This is Lancashire in all its raw beauty: honest, windswept, and spellbinding.

The hawthorn, shaped by years of weather, leans not in defeat but in quiet defiance, perched on the shoulder of Haslingden Grane, this solitary hawthorn tree stands like a quiet witness to the passage of time.

Behind it, the land opens out in sweeping rhythm down toward Calf Hey and Ogden reservoirs, shimmering beneath a sky scattered with light and movement. 

Artwork Title: Hawthorn Tree
Artist: Mike Lord
Medium: Oil on Board
Size: 89cm x 64cm
Price: £700
Presentation: Framed, ready to hang

Roddlesworth Bluebells

 

There are places in this world where time slows… where light drifts through leaf canopies like a whispered promise—and Roddlesworth in spring is one of them. In this tranquil, almost sacred painting.

In Bluebells at Roddlesworth, Mike translates that seasonal magic into paint: a dense carpet of bluebells stretches across the forest floor, while young green leaves filter sunlight into soft patches of illumination.

This is not just a woodland scene—it’s a mood. A memory

Artwork Title: Roddlesworth Bluebells
Artist: Mike Lord
Medium: Oil on Board
Size: 65cm x 55cm
Price: £380
Presentation: Framed, ready to hang

Levens no 2: daylight leaves the garden

In Levens no.2, Mike invites us into a moment where time gently pauses. Where light, memory, and solitude meet in the gardens of Levens Hall.

A blonde figure in soft blue stands still among the wildflowers, enveloped by the calm geometry of sculpted hedges. Behind her, the warm stone of the manor catches the last of the day’s light as it begins to slip quietly away. A blackbird perches on the hedge – watching, waiting. A small witness to this transition from day to dusk.

Artwork Title: Levens no 2: daylight leaves the garden
Artist: Mike Lord
Medium: Oil on Board
Size: 50cm x 60cm
Price: £380
Presentation: Framed, ready to hang

Golden Trees.

In this artwork Mike Lord captures that elusive, early-morning hush when nature holds its breath. A winding path draws us into a glade of tall trees, their golden leaves catching the morning light as it pours softly through a misty woodland.

Shafts of sunlight streak across the grass, casting long shadows and giving the entire scene a feeling of gentle promise. The leaves, some still clinging, some beginning to fall, suggest a changing season, perhaps autumn stepping into winter, or spring emerging from sleep.

What makes this painting so magnetic is Mike Lord’s way of letting the quiet do the talking. There’s no drama, just grace! A kind of meditative stillness that invites the viewer to imagine walking this path, hearing the crunch of leaves underfoot, and feeling the cool air laced with birdsong. It’s a celebration of light and its power to transform the ordinary into something deeply moving.

Artwork Title: Golden Trees
Artist: Mike Lord
Medium: Oil on Board
Size: 74cm x 59cm
Price: £520
Presentation: Framed, ready to hang

Take a look at the others exhibiting this summer

Franki Beddows | Featured Artist Summer 2025

I paint to get lost. It’s the moment of flow—where shapes, shadows and textures start to whisper—that keeps pulling me back to the canvas. In those early layers of acrylic, faces, figures, and strange little creatures begin to reveal themselves. I never go looking for...

read more

Patrick Taylor | Featured Artist Summer 2025

  Both these pieces were manually drawn on-screen (by hand, no filters or digital assistance). Patrick Taylor is a visual artist now based in Bolton, working across painting, drawing, and design. A graduate of Manchester College of Art & Design, his creative...

read more

Rob Edmondson | Featured Artist Summer 2025

  Rob Edmondson is a Lancashire-based landscape artist with a deep-rooted passion for capturing the shifting moods of the British countryside. Working predominantly in acrylics, his work draws inspiration from the wild moorlands, coastal paths, and quiet valleys...

read more

Janette Byrne | Featured Artist Summer 2025

  Janette Byrne (Jb Art) is a local artist who graduated with a Masters in Fine Art at the University of Greater Manchester. She has exhibited widely in the UK and has had several works accepted to go through to the Royal Academy Summer exhibition … and has Sold...

read more

Julia Preston | Featured Artist Summer 2025

  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...

read more

John Bentley | Artist In Residence

  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...

read more

Julia Entwistle | Artist In Residence

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...

read more

Peter Arkwright | Artist In Residence

  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...

read more

Tina Hurst Artist In Residence

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...

read more

Jackie Williams | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Profile Image of Jackie by Ian Fletcher  Jackie Williams is a Lancashire-based painter whose work explores the shifting energies of landscape and light. Working primarily in acrylic, she creates expressive, textural pieces that move between abstraction and realism —...

read more

Kirsten Todd | Featured Artist Summer 2025

  Kirsten Todd is a Lancashire-based intuitive artist and founder of Art at Vixen, known for her emotionally charged abstracts and divine feminine portraiture. With a BA in Graphic Design and over 30 years in the creative industry, Kirsten has painted...

read more

Julia Uttley | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Profile image of Julia courtesy Don Tonge  Julia Uttley is a Bolton‑based photographer whose work reveals a deep connection to the region’s industrial heritage and moorland landscapes. Born and raised in Lancashire’s Fylde region, she was drawn back north in 2015,...

read more

Mike Lord | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Mike Lord is a Lancashire-based oil painter whose landscapes are both familiar and fantastical—echoing the moors, fields, and canals that surround his rural home. He came to painting later in life after careers in law, counselling, and mediation, discovering a passion...

read more

Karen Holt | Featured Artist Summer 2025

profile Image captured by Henry Lisowski Karen Holt is a Bolton-based artist and the creative force behind The Barn Studio, a welcoming artistic space that reflects her love for colour, texture, and expression. Known for her richly layered work that often blends...

read more

Karen Holt | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Karen Holt | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Karen Holt | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Karen Holt

Karen Holt

Artist

profile Image captured by Henry Lisowski

Karen Holt is a Bolton-based artist and the creative force behind The Barn Studio, a welcoming artistic space that reflects her love for colour, texture, and expression. Known for her richly layered work that often blends abstract forms with landscape inspiration, Karen brings a warmth and authenticity to everything she creates. Her studio, nestled in the heart of Bolton, has become a nurturing hub for local artists and art lovers alike—somewhere between gallery, workspace, and creative escape.

Karen is one of the exhibiting artists in this year’s “Harvest of Visions” Summer Exhibition at BL6 Studios. Her contribution adds a grounded yet emotionally resonant voice to the collection—a visual conversation between memory, place, and the act of making. Whether she’s working with paint, mixed media, or found objects, her work invites viewers to slow down, explore, and feel.


Prints are available via newartgallery.co.uk, and originals from studio The Barn Studio Gallery

All visits are welcome by appointment.

 

Tempest Diablo

 

A masterful original watercolour that captures the raw, unfiltered energy of a horse in full motion. With windswept mane and tail, the dark figure cuts across a muted, sandy background with urgency and grace.

There’s a tension in the body,leaning forward, hooves lifted. A suggestion of not just movement, but determination and spirit.

Karen’s subtle use of earthy tones and delicate washes gives the piece a weathered, almost ethereal quality, while the dynamic pose delivers a punch of power.

Perfect for a calming interior with a natural palette, or as a centrepiece in a collector’s study or hallway, this painting brings with it a quiet storm—alive, elegant, and unforgettable.

Artwork Title: Tempest Diablo
Artist: Karen Holt
Medium: Watercolour on paper
Size: 72cm x 54cm
Price: £680
Presentation: Framed behind clarity art glass ready to hang

Tempest Fire Rocket

 

A one-of-a-kind, hand-embellished artwork drawn from her original equine painting. This dynamic piece captures the raw power and freedom of a galloping horse, its mane and tail unleashed in a storm of fiery brushwork.

Rich with siennas, rusts, and flashes of indigo and charcoal, the textures are instinctive, layered, and full of life.

This isn’t just a reproduction—it’s a unique creation in its own right, lovingly reworked by the artist to give it fresh energy and individual character. Perfect for a statement wall in a home with warmth and movement, or an office space that celebrates bold, spirited thinking.

Artwork Title: Tempest Fire Rocket
Artist: Karen Holt
Medium: Embellished Giclée Print – one of a kind
Size: 84cm x 56cm
Price: £280
Presentation: ready to hang

Wild Lion

 

A bold, expressive portrayal of power and presence. With textured brushwork and a fiery palette of ochres, deep browns, and white highlights, the lion’s mane bursts with motion and energy.

It feels as though the animal is emerging from the canvas. Majestic, untamed, and unflinching.

A striking piece that commands attention, Wild Lion is ideal for a contemporary living space, creative studio, or office that values strength, confidence, and individuality. Not just art—it’s attitude.

Artwork Title: Wild Lion
Artist: Karen Holt
Medium: Mixed Media On Paper
Size: 66cm x 81cm
Price: £620
Presentation: Framed behind clarity art glass ready to hang

Match Night

 

Capturing the electric energy of the Bolton Wanderers stadium under floodlights, seen from a high, cinematic viewpoint above Horwich.

The painting glows with anticipation, with cool blues and warm urban lights bouncing across the scene—while expressive strokes in the night sky echo movement, noise, and atmosphere.

This isn’t just a football ground—it’s a beacon of community, memory, and pride. Perfect for a fan’s home, a modern office, or a space that celebrates local identity. A love letter to the game, and the town that lives for it.

Artwork Title: Match Night
Artist: Karen Holt
Medium: Embellished Giclée Print – one of a kind
Size: 66cm x 54cm
Price: £280
Presentation: Framed behind clarity art glass ready to hang

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Karen Holt | Featured Artist Summer 2025

profile Image captured by Henry Lisowski Karen Holt is a Bolton-based artist and the creative force behind The Barn Studio, a welcoming artistic space that reflects her love for colour, texture, and expression. Known for her richly layered work that often blends...

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