A list of Bideford Bay Creatives members, with links to each practitioner’s individual page, explaining their areas of expertise and what services they can offer.
Visual Arts
I’ve studied Fine Art in Bradford and Exeter. Specialising in Painting and Printmaking. I enjoy the society of ideas and community and have collaborated with writers and poets. I’ve also worked with young people on digital film making and with communities on environmental art projects. Exhibitions have included, The British Print Biennale, Sheffield Crucible, The Association of Photographers Gallery London. Art Trek 2009. I’ve also supplied images and artwork for commercial projects, Woodmansterne, Boots, The Observer, RHS Garden, Bookcovers.
Obsessive creative is probably an accurate description. I became a full time, self-employed Artist in 2004, I have experience in secondary school Art Teaching, managing an Art Gallery, community based / workshop teaching and selling and exhibiting my work in solo shows and through a number of galleries.
BA Hon’s Fine Art, Birmingham University. BTEC Diploma in Art and Design and figurative sculpture. I live in Northam where I have my studio.
I was born in Sunderland and studied at Sunderland and the Royal College of Art. I am keen on drawing and it is the foundation of all my pictures. My work is allegorical. I like to weave layers of colour and subplots into a simple image. The Southwest landscape, music, dance, the figure, comics and fairy stories provide inspiration.
Former woven textile designer and recent holder of the prestigious title ‘Royal Horticultural Society Photographer of the Year’, Sarah Gallifent, captures abstract images with coastal and plant inspired themes.
Janis Glover
Passionate about the patterns and marks in the Devon landscape and it’s coastline, I paint draw and sculpt from my studio by the sea. I work from the figure and am inspired by it’s landscape qualities and colours. Experienced in taking workshops and groups in schools, I exhibit locally and across the country.
Linda Gordon
I am an ecological artist, engaged with land, people and place. The work takes a wide range of expressions… land art, sound, video, photography, performance, installation, text … It can also take the form of small localised public events. My concern is to connect and respond deeply to the natural environment, and to enable others to do the same.
A photographic artist who has built up a unique vision of the world through his digitally constructed images. None of his photographs are simply photographs; most of them are made from up to 100 separate images layered, like strata, on top of each other to build up an impression of what it is like to be in a place, giving the viewer far more than a visual experience.
Karen Hawkins
‘Art is a celebration of our lives and our space within this world. Through colour, space, pattern and form, art offers a vibrance that visualises and celebrates an expression of ourselves and the world around us’. Oceanicarts is run by Karen Hawkins a public artist who lives in North Devon. She takes her inspiration from the environment of coastline and countryside and the unique cultural heritage of the region.
Duncan Hopkins
My main practices are painting and digital graphic design (illustration & website design), with support origins in drawing, photography and collage. Work is available for commission, exhibition and purchase. I have built and help maintain this website.
Ian Hudson
Professional artist for thirty years, watercolours being my principal medium, however, I sometimes use charcoal (for life-studies and figures, pastels and pencil too). My subjects include landscapes, wildlife, portraiture, and maritime studies, particularly those of working sail on the Taw/Torridge estuary during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I also teach watercolours and life-drawing at various venues.
Gillie Jackson
As visual artist, teacher, writer, I enjoy working in a variety of different areas and disciplines. Since completing a Fine Art Degree, my visual work concentrates on painting and photography. I’m passionate in using the arts as a health tool and run art groups in the Mental Health. Travel documentation using creative writing, poetry, photography and drawing is another area I’m working on to become published.
Janet Jopson
I love working with the technique of Batik and Lino-cut printmaking, which both explore line, colour and texture. My themes are local land and seascapes, flowers and animals. My most recent work explores these elements through paint. I am making a series of paintings in acrylic that explore the sea’s surface. I want to capture the sense of fluid movement and weather conditions around the North Devon coast. I also run day workshops from my studio in Westward Ho!
I grew up on the North Devon coast, if I wasn’t on the beach, I could hear the sea from home, and if I couldn’t sleep at night I’d sit and watch the lighthouse twinkle at Lundy. Now I paint or make relief pieces that illustrate living by the sea. I exhibit locally.
Sue Russell
Sue Russell celebrates her passion for vibrant colours and textiles through her work that ranges from teaching art and craft courses to celebrating Carnival arts across the South West. She is the founder of Flying Colours, a carnival arts group based in Bideford.
I am a professional artist working mostly in textiles and found materials, making embroideries, fabric montages and driftwood assemblages. I have recently resumed printmaking. For many years I have exhibited my work at the Burton Art Gallery where I am best known for my hand painted silk ties and scarves. My inspiration comes from the sea and the natural world as well as the making process itself and I enjoy making work with animal themes. Studio visits by arrangement. Commissions welcome.
Sarah is an artist living and working in North Devon. She is currently working on large pen drawings of trees and woods in her area, particularly Torrington Common and Rosemoor RHS Garden. These drawings show a fascination with line and tone as well as mood and history.
Crafts
John Butler
I have an engineering degree (Bsc) from Aston University and a lifetimes’ experience of business and a lot of experience of life, all of which is at the disposal of the members as required! I do not consider myself to be an “Artist” but an artisan.
Jilly Collins
As a professional milliner and founder of The Artful Hat Company, I design hats and fascinators for all seasons, events and celebrations. Made in strong, vibrant colours using sumptuous materials and glamorous embellishments, my pieces are always stylish and very feminine. Every piece can also be made in any colour and exactly to the client’s requirements.
Flambeaux Jewellery
Razale Scott Olivier discovered a passion for jewellery making whilst living in France. She collected her influences of quirky trends to create Flambeaux Jewellery.
Kim Styles
I use photography and sketching to note my ideas, then evolve them into a design for a piece of quirky jewellery. All my designs are made individually by hand, using traditional techniques. I gained my arts degree in London and then worked as a manufacturing jeweller in a large company, but for the last five years I have been working for myself as a Designer/Maker in North Devon.
Arts Workers
Sadie Green
Sadie Green is an experienced freelance Project Manager and has been initiating, co-ordinating and managing arts-based projects since 1999. She is Chairing the committee of Bideford Bay Creatives.
