Franki Beddows | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Franki Beddows | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Franki Beddows | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Franki Beddows

Franki Beddows

Artist

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 them; I just listen. My inner voice takes the lead, and I follow.

I use whatever’s needed—tools, brushes, even my fingers—to build the story. Every painting is a kind of emotional archaeology, where something hidden gets brought to the surface. Sometimes it’s a feeling, other times a full-blown narrative I never expected.

The subjects can feel eerie or unsettling, and I’m good with that. I’ve always had a love for the macabre. As a kid, I’d sneak downstairs to catch horror films with my dad or borrow all the ghost books from the school library. That fascination with the darker edges of life has never left me.

It’s all part of the human experience—the dark and the light. We carry both. My work is just one way of letting it all speak.

Memories Of Southport Sunset

 

Memories of a Southport Sunset holds a different kind of darkness – quieter, more contemplative. There’s no menace here, but a weight all the same.

The fiery sky, almost surreal in its intensity, glows behind the silhouetted treeline like something long remembered—vivid but softened by time.

That green foreground, layered and tactile, carries a sense of stillness and waiting, like a place you once knew but now only revisit in dreams.

This is still unmistakably Franki – expressive, unpolished, emotionally honest but with an invitation rather than a challenge.

It’s a gothic nostalgia: something beautiful with a slight ache in its bones. The kind of painting that stays with you not because it shouts, but because it hums with memory.

Artwork Title: Memories Of A Southport Sunset
Artist: Franki Beddows
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 25cm x 30cm
Price: £75
Presentation: Unframed, ready to hang

Being Consumed

 

A visceral dive into the subconscious, Being Consumed captures that raw, chaotic edge where inner turmoil and haunting memory collide. The central figures distorted, ghostlike, and almost puppet-like in expression seem to be caught mid-sentence, mid-scream, mid-thought.

There is a sense of stillness and violence coexisting. Behind them, barely concealed in shadow, lurk creatures with glowing eyes—watching, waiting, whispering.

Franki leans unapologetically into the strange and the unsettling, bringing forward stories that many would rather keep buried.

This piece, like much of her work, doesn’t offer comfort  – it invites confrontation. It’s a mirror to the things we often ignore: the ache, the scream, the faceless watchers we carry around inside.

Artwork Title: Being Consumed
Artist: Franki Beddows
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 40cm x 30cm
Price: £95
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
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Julia Preston | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Julia Preston | Featured Artist Summer 2025

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

Take a look at the others exhibiting in the exhibition

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

John Bentley  | Artist In Residence

John Bentley | Artist In Residence

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

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

Tina Hurst Artist In Residence

Tina Hurst Artist In Residence

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

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