Lucy Lee & Edward Campbell
Lucy Lee and Edward Campbell are the founders of The Old Mill, an art studio and occasional exhibition space based in Palnackie on the Solway coastline in the heart of Dumfries and Galloway, which invites visitors to explore the connection between creativity, spirit and our natural environment.
Lucy is a mixed media artist, currently working with materials found in the landscape of her garden and surrounding area. She is working on building techniques and crafts that can be used as tools for connecting to plants, and our inherent human creative impulse. Working as a gardener and forager has encouraged Lucy to enquire about the nature of art making and in particular art materials and now uses them almost entirely in her own creative practice.
Edward, after working with Acrylics, Oils and Watercolours throughout his career, began to intensively developing his technique of working with plants to create art materials during the first lockdown in spring 2020. Through experimentation, and learning from a variety of sources, Edward has gained a rich and intuitive style of working with the plants, and over the past couple of years, has become the main medium with which he creates.
Their workshops are focussed on the making of creative materials such as paints and inks, and the historical and cultural context of creative materials.
Hannah Turlington
Hannah is a lino artist and designer who lives in North Yorkshire. She takes inspiration from the beauty of the North Yorkshire countryside, people, places, history, and humour of Yorkshire, she creates art that is fun, playful and a vision to behold. Hannah describes her work as telling a story. All her work has a botanical element in it, as flowers evoke strong memories and have stories attached to them that are part of everyone’s lives. She collects objects that represent her story and then creates a composition, usually in flat lay, as that is the way she likes to work. She then photographs it, illustrates it before tracing and transferring it to the block to be carved.
This story telling is also mirrored in both her original lino prints and her surface pattern designs on fabric, which she uses to create beautiful skirts, lampshades and cushions.
Hannah has taught extensively and teaches a range of different printing workshops.
Kirstie Williams
Kirstie Williams is a practising artist, printmaker and creative workshop tutor based in West Yorkshire. She primarily works with screen printing, cyanotypes and linocut for both textiles and paper printing. She creates products such as fine art prints, handmade books, cards, tea towels, pouches and wall hangings. Kirstie discovered a love for cyanotypes in her garden during lockdown in 2020, without access to her usual community print studios she was looking for ways to create from home and use elements from nature to develop some new ideas. She currently works from her studio at The Art House in Wakefield and enjoys spending time experimenting using a variety of techniques.
Kirstie is also a founder of Leeds Print Workshop, a cooperative printmaking studio located in the centre of Leeds. Established in 2016, LPW aims to offer affordable printmaking facilities to people in Leeds and surrounding areas and also to bring new people to the medium through a range of creative workshops and courses. Kirstie also works as the Maker Spaces Manager at The Art House in Wakefield where she oversees the memberships and public courses for the Darkroom, Printmaking and Ceramics community studios.
Kirstie has a wealth of experience in teaching, having previously worked as a Print Technician at Leeds College of Art and a Lecturer in Art & Design at Shipley College.
Monica Gabb
Monica Gabb is the designer and creator of Twenty Birds. She is a Designer and loves exploring image and print. She Grew up in the south and gained her Masters Degree in Sequential Design and Illustration at the University of Brighton in 2006 and then moved to North Yorkshire.
Twenty Birds originated from Monica’s fascination of the wide variety of pattern and colour within varying birds. She is drawn to collections and displaying the differences and similarities within a group; finding order in layout, correlation in shape and contrast in scaling and pattern.
When she began designing these triangular birds she noticed repetition in colour and marks and wanted to find out if she could overlap them between birds. Monica constructed a template to fit 20 birds of varying size and rotation. She spent time working on the best combinations and amount of abstractions sticking to straight lines only. She wanted to stay true to original colour ways yet reduce the amount of tone variation.
Monica designs all of her products and has been sure to find UK based printers and producers for her cards, mugs, tea towels and fabric. Monica prints and produces all of her original screen prints are had finishes the cut-out cards. All of the Hanging decorations are entirely made by Monica one the fabric has been digitally printed in the UK.
You do such a grand job – perfect location and set up, always welcoming, inspiring tutors and great food such a great day out thank you Gaynor, Sue and Vanessa
Alice Fox
Alice’s process-led practice is based on recording experience of landscape. She works with natural fibres, and gathered materials, employing natural dye techniques, print, stitch and weave in different combinations. She lives and works in West Yorkshire.
Enjoy my day at Artison – Relaxing / Retreat / Sense of Achievement / Escape / Rejuvenating
I enjoyed being part of a small group and the relaxed atmosphere and was amazed how much I was able to complete in a day.
All processes were well explained. I appreciated the hand out and tips on where to buy equipment etc. I enjoyed learning something new at a pace I could cope with an a friendly environment.