Featured artists
Mark Holman
A multi-disciplinary creative, Mark Holman’s practice initially focused on figurative subjects - both sculpted and drawn. Recently, his process has drawn on parallel creative ventures as an actor, musician and horticulturalist, evolving beyond the purely figurative to focus on human connections with nature in a more socially engaged way. The goal of Mark’s current projects is to engage community and encourage discourse, supporting sustainability and promoting healthier relationships with the environment.
Kate Horsley
Kate's illustrations are made from a combination of collage, ink and watercolour paintings and fabric. She has taught photography workshops for a number of years in the UK and France, specialising in alternative processes like wet cyanotype, wetplate collodion, gum bichromate and polaroid emulsion lifts. Kate's main subject-matter is the natural world and she experiments with handmade botanical inks, prints on birch bark, hand-coloured images, and prints made from leaves, flowers and grasses.
Samuel Horsley
Samuel Horsley is an artist and printmaker whose images range from loveably strange cats to macabre gods and ethereal monsters. During his Graphic Design degree at Central St Martins, he specialised in illustration and was influenced by the work of Goya, Švankmajer and Scarfe. He prints screens and linos at Hot Bed Press Studio and he instagrams as @idonthaveorgans
Sue Lewington
Sue's ink and watercolour sketches of local scenes have popular appeal. A great number of her journals and sketches have been published in book form and are widely available in bookshops and galleries throughout Cornwall and Devon. She says: ‘I want to record the experience of living on the edge of the land, whether in Scilly, Penwith, or my new-found love and inspiration, Shetland.’
Liz Manning
Liz Manning gave up a career in occupational therapy to move to Cornwall and do an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Plymouth, She now writes fulltime. She specialises in (but is not limited to) visual poetry and also has a novel in progress. Her work frequently focuses on faith, family, and mental health. Liz has had work published in INK magazine and the Harpy Hybrid Review. She is also on the committee organising the new Looe Festival of Words.