Stephen Banks

Website:  http://dorsetscouser.com

Stephen Banks, from Bridport, (aka Dorset Scouser) is one of a growing number of enthusiasts who have taken up night-time photography. His pictures have featured centre-spread in The Guardian, on the cover of an Astronomy Photographer of the Year book, in the Trinity House Lighthouses calendar for 2014 and on BBC Stargazing Live. His time-lapse video, Bridport by Night, is a viral hit on YouTube with nearly 25,000 views. 

Antonia Phillips

Antonia is a well-known and established Dorset Landscape and wildlife artist, who exhibits regularly in the Mall Galleries in London. Using the medium of painting and printmaking, Antonia creates lively and atmospheric seascapes and landscapes.  Antonia trained in Bournemouth (Natural History Illustration and Fine Art) and has worked with Dorset Wildlife Trust for over 25 years, producing illustrations and nature panels for many of the Trust’s reserves. 

Adrian Gray

Website: www.stonebalancing.com

Adrian Gray is the pioneer of stone balancing art. His work is predominantly sculpture and photography based on the natural world of balance. He creates balancing sculptures using weathered stone, photographing them in natural locations to capture their transient beauty. In the past 14 years Adrian's work has evolved to include new ideas and themes, but the predominant feature remains the beauty and seemingly impossible nature of balance.

Maggie Cook

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/upweypotters/maggie-cooke

Maggie's imaginative works in porcelain combine fine art and ceramics.  Having trained both as a painter and a potter, she has an artist’s approach to her ceramics using texture and colour to produce images which demand close attention by the viewer. Her inspiration comes from nature, wildlife, landscape and the coast. Shoreline and tideline patterns and the flight of birds all play their part in her work.

Sam Dodd

Website: www.samdoddart.co.uk

Sam’s love of wildlife and the countryside inspires her to produce her lively acrylic paintings.  She has gained an A-level Art and a National Diploma in Art and Design.  Recently she has studied Botanical Illustration at Kingston Maurward College.  Sam has undertaken many commissions including; portraits, pets, houses and landscapes, all from her studio near Sherborne in Dorset. Sam’s illustrations were also used on the Dorset Wildlife Trust Christmas card collection 2015.

Pippa Hill

Website: http://pippahillsculpture.co.uk

Pippa sculpts ceramic animals and has recently started creating sculptures cast in bronze resin.  Growing up in Dorset, Pippa was surrounded with animals and began sculpting, drawing on her previous experiences with animals for inspiration. She also spends time watching her pets, trying to record in her head their expressions and attitudes. Pippa teaches ceramic classes in her studio and her work can be seen in local galleries and exhibitions. 

Caroline Parrott

Website: www.carolineparrott.com

Caroline has always been inspired to create pieces of artwork for interiors. Her contemporary aluminium design work compliments almost all environments.

As an artist Caroline's work is constantly evolving and moving in new directions. She finds inspiration in many of her surroundings and enjoys creating limited items that are at home both inside and outdoors. She also makes jewellery, automata, stationery and has a bespoke design service. 

Kate Wyatt

Website: www.katewyattartist.co.uk

Kate grew up in Dorset and went to school in Somerset, during this time she fell in love with the countryside, although she didn’t realise it at the time. 

Firmly believing in the conservation and protection of all of Britain’s native species Kate feels that the most important and vital aspect of her work is to help contribute towards the preservation of British Wildlife by depicting their characters. Kate draws from life, as much as possible, sketching and painting outdoors whatever the weather! 

Kate was delighted to be asked to do the illustrations by A.S. Mills for Bobby the Brown Long Eared Bat book, due out in May 2016.