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Artists

At Trymwood Studios we have had the privilege of working with some inspiring artists.

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Read more about their lives and experience here. 

Carry Akroyd

Carry lives on the Northamptonshire Cambridgeshire border between the Nene Valley and the Fens. Working as both a painter and printmaker, her focus is mainly on arable landscapes, with wildlife living on the margins of agriculture.

Malcolm Ashman
RWA, RBA

Malcolm Ashman (b.1957) is a multi-disciplinary artist working in painting, drawing, collage, digital printmaking, photography and sculpture. He is an academician at the Royal West of England Academy, a member of the Royal Society of British Artists and is president of the Bath Society of Artists.​

Kim Atkinson RCA

Artist and naturalist, Kim Atkinson (b.1962) lives on the westernmost tip of Pen Llŷn in North Wales, an environment that provides abundant inspiration for her work. It is here that Kim delights in ‘crawling around’ in wild

spaces, drawing the rare and beautiful species that thrive near her home.

Daniel Cole

Artist and naturalist, Daniel Cole (b.1965) lives in Cornwall. Surrounded by wildlife and stunning countryside. He has been interested in nature for as long as he can remember 

Anine Cockwell - 
De Jong

Artist,Anine Cockwell De Jong is originally from The Netherlands but now living and working on the edge of the fens near Cambridge, England. The inspiration for most of her work is animals and the natural world.

Coo Geller

Artist and Printmaker, Coo Geller lives and works in Bristol. Nature is the source for my work. I am first drawn to a particular natural material, perhaps a plant or a vegetable, when I notice a tiny aspect of it that I find fascinating. I record this to communicate its special, un-noticed qualities.

Robert Greenhalf

Artist and naturalist, Robert Greenhalf (b.1950) lives in East Sussex. He places great emphasis upon observing and sketching in the field. This approach lends a lively spontaneity and authenticity to the work, which is often difficult to achieve in the studio.

Simon Griffiths

Simon creates ceramic and bronze sculptures with a strong emphasis on the wildlife of his home in the North Pennines, a landscape of windswept moorland, deep wooded valleys and moving water.

Eve Harker

Eve Harker is a textile artist and illustrator based in Bath. All of her work is inspired by nature, creating weavings, and soft sculptures through traditional crafting techniques, including weaving, crochet and spinning.

Aime Haslen

Aime Haslen is a painter and printmaker based in Suffolk

Andrew Haslen

Andrew Haslen is a painter, printmaker and Sculpture based in Suffolk

Kittie Jones

Kittie Jones is a fine artist based in Edinburgh. She graduated from Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh University in 2008 and now works from her studio in Leith and regularly exhibits around the UK. Kittie has won a number of awards for her work.

Pam Kaye

Bristol based artist Pam Kaye's background is in 3 dimensional design specialising in ceramics and surface pattern.

Helen Kennedy

Winner of the

Trymwood Studios Art Prize

2024

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Helen Kennedy is a fine artist based in Edinburgh. 

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Wynona Legg

Artist and conservationist, Wynona Legg (b.1990), places drawing from nature at the heart of her practice. 

Sarah Lees RCA

Born in Coventry, Sarah settled in Carmarthenshire to study Wildlife Illustration.

She worked freelance for a number of years before returning to Carmarthen School of Art where she now runs Access to Art whilst continuing to paint and exhibit

Julia Manning RE

Somerset-based artist, Julia Manning (b.1952), spends time observing the natural world, translating these experiences into fascinating artwork. Her greatest passion is printmaking, enjoying nothing more than whittling a plate to the sounds of her radio.

Harriet Mead

Janet Melrose RSW

Perthshire-based artist, Janet Melrose

Kitty Mills

I have always been told that I learn kinaesthetically. In clay’s malleability and the sensory feedback it provides, the material lends itself to how I naturally come to understand my place in the world.

Jill Moger

Ceramicist, Jill Moger (b.1946), spent her post-war childhood playing in Epping Forest - a woodland filled with creatures that Jill sometimes took home in jars! Jill always loved drawing and later, as a mother of four, her love of making art and the natural world came together in a celebrated ceramics practice. 

Wynona Legg

Gordon Monk

Makes handmade chairs from green wood.

Wynona Legg

Nik Pollard RCA

Artist and naturalist,

Nik Pollard (b. 1970), began his observations of nature on the marshes in Kent, where he grew up. He now lives in Bristol. As well as engaging with projects further afield, he is always keen to learn about the nature on his doorstep.

Greg Poole

Artist and naturalist, Greg Poole (1960–2018), 

was respected for his depth of knowledge and expressive visual responses to the natural world. His observations of nature, through drawing and painting in the field, were later reimagined into monotypes and relief prints in his Bristol studio.

Louise Scammell

Printmaker and diver Louise Scammel (b.1960) made a deep connection with the sea during a childhood of rockpooling, fishing and diving on the south coast of England. Her carefully observed and sensitive artwork is made in response to the extraordinary beauty and diversity of the marine wildlife she encounters. 

Dafila Scott

After training and working as a zoologist, Dafila Scott turned to drawing and painting, studying under Robin Child at Lydgate Art Research Centre. Much of her work is inspired by wildlife and landscape and features animals or places with which she has become familiar.

Esther Tyson RCA

Esther Tyson (b.1973), Barrow in Furness, Cumbria) is a British

painter and printmaker.

 

Esther studied at Cumbria College of Art, the University of Wales and

the Royal College of Art, London.

Ben Woodhams

Ben Woodhams is an English artist and illustrator currently living and working on the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. After working in museums and art galleries as an exhibition curator and designer, Ben and his family moved to Bornholm in 2008, where he now works full time as an artist, illustrator and educator.

Darren Woodhead RCA

Darren Woodhead was born in West Yorkshire in 1971, but has lived in Scotland since 1996. He is a graduate of the Royal College of Art in London and a passionate Watercolourist, all of his work is produced outside on location and drawn directly in brush. 

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