Lucy Burden
Lucy paints stunning, atmospheric landscapes and seascapes which are
full of movement and fluidity. She has exhibited throughout Wales and
Herefordshire.
Her exhibition ‘Flow / Llif – The River Wye from Source to Sea’ is
inspired by the River Wye, from its source on Pumlumon to the Severn
Estuary near Chepstow.
Over the last two years Lucy has completed the Wye Valley, twice. Once
with her friend Nat, sketching, photographing and painting the river
through changing seasons and weather conditions. She also joined the
50th anniversary Wye Valley Walk and made lasting connections
including film maker Steve Bennett who exhibited his film “Flow”
alongside Lucy’s exhibitions in Chepstow and Hereford.
Vivian Barraclough
I discovered an ongoing addiction to fluorescent orange whilst studying Fine Art. The architectural, the landscape and sociopolitical contexts often inspire my work. I have a need to seek ever more ways of practicing sustainably. The processes I employ are explorative and continue to evolve; they have included collaborative projects and relational performances working with other artists and communities across the UK. My interdisciplinary practice currently uses poetry and found objects to create site-responsive assemblages. Recent themes include issues around homes and homelessness, my connection to landscape and questions about our existential climate crisis. http://www.vivianbarraclough.uk Instagram: vivian_barraclough_artist
Jane Tudge
I make images and sculptures using photography (both digital and cyanotypes – an early form of cameraless photography), wax, found objects, text, stitch. My current preoccupation is with the natural world: the rhythms of the seasons made manifest through sky, flowers, seeds, nests, trees. Walking and gardening are recent inspirations and the need for solace that these occupations provide in these difficult times. My internal landscape and imaginings, research and ruminations are at the heart of my practice, not always obvious to the viewer, but there nevertheless as well as influences ranging from Botticelli via the Turin Shroud to Matisse.
Tracy Caldah
Tracy Caldah is an emerging contemporary artist and designer-maker based in rural Herefordshire, UK. After graduating with a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Design Craft from Hereford College of Arts in 2024, she discovered how making has become integral to her health and wellbeing. Working across ceramics, Jesmonite, metal, 3D printing and found materials, Tracy transforms overlooked materials by pairing them with precious metals and thoughtful design. Her practice explores themes of redemption, value and resilience, giving renewed significance to the ordinary. Through her sculptures, she invites viewers to recognise that, even through life’s hardest moments, we all possess purpose, strength and inherent worth.
Timothy Lewis
I put on authentic experiences for audiences, tapping into strong emotions to make my work accessible. These experiences are the outcome of my research-based, multi-disciplinary practice. Archive, documents and other written material are supported by language, rich in whimsy and pathos, wordplay and poetry; alongside, oral histories, installation, photography, video and watercolours. The starting point for my art is a found, evocative object, which informs a narrative thread; typically tying together personal autobiography and memories of a lost moment in time or person, and drawing on nostalgia and melancholy, to heighten bittersweet feelings. I use a relational approach with participation and performance to engage the viewer. Artist and audience embark on journey, experiencing together. The artist playing a JS Bach cantata on the alto recorder in the grounds of the Rodd, Presteigne (music from Sidney Nolan’s archive), off steps (of the kind used by Nolan in his painting to gain a different perspective) Residency at the Rodd, November 2023
Suzanna Boak
Working in fine pen, Suzanne creates beautifully intricate drawings of historic British architecture. Her delicate artwork captures the timeless essence of our heritage, with much of her creative inspiration drawn from the ageing charm of rustic buildings throughout the Welsh Marches. Through meticulous linework, her art becomes a quiet celebration of the rich stories embedded within weathered bricks, timber beams, and leaded windows.
Alongside her personal collections, Suzanne accepts bespoke commissions. Thoughtfully capturing the unique character and personal history of individual homes and local businesses, each hand-drawn piece preserves the distinctive architectural details that make every building so deeply special.
Mark J Rothberg
Mark J Rothberg, owner of StudioFORTY2, is a multidisciplinary artist whose current work focuses primarily on collage, but also photography and painting. He describes his practice as a way of exploring memory, emotion, personal transformation, and the relationship between inner experience and the physical world. His process involves cutting, tearing, layering, and reassembling materials to create new visual narratives from fragments of past experiences. At the start of 2026, following a bereavement and opening a new studio at the end of 2025, Mark developed concepts he calls “Introvecta™” (the collection of thoughts, memories, beliefs, and emotions carried internally) and “Extrovecta™” (the physical objects and material traces carried externally). He is exploring a variety of mediums as a way of transforming and processing these inner and outer elements into artwork.
Jeanette Kinsey
Jeanette is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is driven by curiosity, experimentation, and a strong connection to place and faith. Originally from Sweden, she has lived on the Welsh border for nearly 30 years, drawing inspiration from the surrounding countryside and beyond. She has exhibited in Herefordshire and Shropshire and is currently studying a BA in Fine Art at Hereford College of Arts. Her latest body of work explored the themes of Grief and Hope mainly through turned, carved, and sculpted wood. Alongside her fine art practice, she also creates commissioned graphite pet portraits, capturing each animal’s unique character with sensitivity and precision.
Lia Coello
Lia Coello is an artist from the West Midlands with a multi-disciplinary practice with a specialism in sculpture that focuses on materiality and the body. These works symbolise the body from the material choice, material that embodies the brutal relationship between mechanical tools and domestic items to create uncanny hybridisations, highlighting the juxtaposition between the two. Coello’s work stems from her intrusive and harmful thoughts, which are visualised into these ‘objects’ that have the essence of the human body in shape, form and colour as an ‘objectification’ of herself.
Tottie Aarvold
Tottie Aarvold is a MA Fine Art graduate from Hereford College of Arts. She is a fine art photographer who focuses on the abstract qualities of the world. She sees her images as ‘found paintings’, an organic fusing of both the human and natural world. She is drawn to textures, layers and entropy. Her images are of the abandoned, unvalued and unnoticed, the unusual and random in everyday life. She sees beauty in decay, the abstract mark making of the weathering of time. Influenced by her years working as a psychotherapist, Tottie is interested in the hidden and revealed. She is drawn to the damaged and the strength of ‘still standing’ against the odds. http://www.instagram.com/totaarvold/
Tina Williams
Tina Williams is a printmaker and illustrator based in the wilds of Herefordshire, creating artworks inspired by the landscapes of the county, and its feathered and furry inhabitants. Tina turns each of her hand cut blocks into limited edition artworks or prints them onto cotton fabric to become part of her range of handprinted homewares.
Tina primarily works with lino to create her work, cutting and printing each block by hand, and has recently begun experimenting with traditional wood engraving. Tina has been fortunate to exhibit her work around the country, and has her work stocked throughout the British Isles.
Tamsin Bridge
Drawing on research into relationships between memory, myth and desire. Tamsin
employs a multi-disciplinary, multi-media approach that involves writing,
performance, and installation.
Tamsin is currently pursuing a practice led PhD at Swansea College of Art. She has
an MA in Fine art with distinction from Hereford College of Art (2019).
www.tamsinbridge.com
Sophia J Wagstaff
I am an artist based in Herefordshire, working primarily in digital video and collage.I gained a BA (Hons) in Visual Arts from Goldsmiths in 2005, and more recently completed my master’s in Fine Art at Hereford College of Arts, and was presented with the Sidney Nolan Trust residency award. Based in the UK and exhibiting in Naples, Italy, my work draws on the theoretical frameworks of Jungian analytical psychology, most particularly the concepts of the collective unconscious and the archetype, to explore desire and the hidden structures that shape how human beings understand and experience themselves in relation to one another. My practice occupies the charged territory between the unconscious and the visible. Digital video allows me to manipulate time, image, and sound into layered psychic landscapes; collage introduces rupture, and the physical act of cutting and reassembling, a gesture that carries its own theoretical weight when applied to representations of identity and desire.
Omar Majeed
Omar Majeed is a writer, artist, and musician, working in an eclectic array of media.
An overqualified outsider, he compulsively makes experimental improvisatorial work intuitively in a metamodern idiom informed by European Modernist tendencies in oil painting and photography, and ironic and avant garde postmodern tendencies in sculpture, music, and video art, through which Omar explores symbolism from the unconscious brought to light by surrealist strategies, and captures the beauty in the quotidian; often using traditional, redundant and archaic formats, as well as incorporating digital media in phone photography and video work that incorporates pathos and bathos in equal measure while reflecting a sincere interest in documenting the passing moment.
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Maya Davis-Stokes
Distorted faces drawn without looking at the canvas describe how easily things can distort if you only look at things from one angle, I use this idea to describe stories and ideas in paint. Combining figurative and abstract elements in my portraits, the layers of oil paint quickly build up. Often exploring specific themes and highlighting the absurdity, leaving space for the audience to interpret and ponder. Inspired by a quote from Marlene Dumas about how even ugly things can be beautiful in paint. Underpinning my work across different media are themes of identity, health, neurodivergence and subverting opinions. I make work to make people think, to illicit emotion and to question reality.
Mandy Roland-Smith
Mandy Roland-Smith is a textile artist based in the Herefordshire countryside. Her needle-felting practice draws on psychotherapy theory, lived experience, and ecological thinking to explore the interconnected relationships between people and the natural world. Working with locally sourced fleeces, plant-based dyes, and traditional processes, she places the sustainability and circularity of her materials at the core of her work. Each piece embodies circular systems and the regenerative potential of natural materials. Through material process and narrative-led making, her practice invites reflection on humanity’s place within ecological systems and our reciprocal relationship with the living environment. Title: We Exist in Memory and Then We Are Gone, Date 2026, Size: 175 x 75 cm, Materials: Wool, natural dyes, felt
Jeanette McCulloch MA (RCA)
Being an artist is the only thing I ever wanted to do, and with determination I fulfilled this desire. My practice is a balance of time: 60% teaching art workshops which I enjoy, and 40% creating art, which I make but intentionally do not necessarily sell. My artwork has an individual approach, fusing together my love of cultural anthropology (drawing on location in museums), nature connectiveness (drawing outside) and creative writing. The added magic is the multitude of different processes and materials I incorporate. It never turns out how I think it will, and that is the joy! www.jeanettemccullochart.com
Ashling Stokes-Richardson
My work is about women’s healthcare and chronic pain. I make paintings and use pointillism to create them. I want to talk about how women are treated in the healthcare system. This is something that I care about because I have experienced pain and illness myself. People close to me have also gone through things. I use paint to show how painful it can be. I get ideas from what endometriosis might look like and feel like. Even though I have had two surgeries, I still do not know for sure if I have endometriosis. This has been a mystery for me for a time. As I keep making art, I am starting to think about things that have happened to my body. For example, I had a stroke when I was in my early twenties. This has had a huge influence on my life and my work. I think my art will keep changing as I learn and experience things. I hope that when people look at my art, they will think about what it’s like to live with chronic pain. I want to start conversations about how women’s chronic pain is treated. Women’s healthcare and chronic pain are important to me. I want to keep talking about them.
Amanda Attfield
I studied art at HCA starting with evening classes, going on to gain a UAL Drawing Award, then the Diploma in Art & Design (Distinction) & the Progress Prize. I was born in and now live in Herefordshire, and my work – usually impressionist, abstract – is inspired by Herefordshire’s unique geology, the border landscape, and the Welsh coastline. Oil and acrylic, rusts and blues, are favourites. I like to mix up textures and tones. I’m a bit of a “butterfly”, I usually have a few different projects on the go at any one time. I’ve participated in and sold work in various exhibitions in the County.
Alana Michael
I live in Malvern, and my practice includes Fine Art and Photography, both of which I studied at Hereford College of Arts. I do many things, including drawing in ink and print making, but my strength often lies in photography. Subjects that interest me and that I return to include Feminism, the uncanny, animals, landscape, folk and fairy tales, myths and history. I look forward to possible collaborations or exchanges of ideas with other members of Wye Contemporary.
