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Laura Bracey Curry
Laura works with mark-making, mainly across drawing, printmaking and painting. Her work documents everyday scenes and gradual changes through the lens of landscape. Using mark-making, colour and tone to capture these familiar spaces.
Sue Kennedy
Baby Photography has been at the heart of my business since I moved from my first little studio on the the top floor of Parndon Mill in 2004, to the first floor a few years later to establish my portrait studio.
Alan Freeman
Several years ago it seemed that blacksmithing was concerned only with reproducing traditional designs. Now it has become a creative craft offering an opportunity for artistic expression. As with ceramics, there is a sense of magic in using fire to turn raw materials of little beauty into objects which are useful and attractive.
David Rouse
After spending four years studying classical guitar making in London, David began his professional career in 1991 and moved to Parndon Mill in 2005.
Using the finest available tonewoods he makes bespoke classical and flamenco guitars of the highest quality.
His instruments are in the hands of discerning musicians in all corners of the world.
Margery Lovatt
Growing up in Ireland, Margery has always been aware of the beauty seen in colour and light. Working in stained glass allows her the opportunity to work with these elements. Lettering is also important for her offering another form of communication. For this she works on paper or glass using a pen, brush or engraving tool. She has a particular interest in making stained glass sundials and calibrating them to the location they are designed for.
Rossetti Couture
Theresa Blake trained at Wimbledon School of Art in period costume cutting and construction for film, television and the West End stage (ballet and opera). By combining this early training with her later experience in several major bridal houses, "Alternative" couture bridalwear design was inevitable.
Gemma Smale
We are delighted to introduce the newest member of the community at Parndon Mill hub of creativity. Currently training as a ceramic designer Gemma's work is an exploration and study of form and surface. With interest in evolving the natural material of clay into functional wares and sculptural pieces.
Ivan Daggett
Ivan has been practicing as a fine artist and tutor for over 25 years.
As a fine artist he works predominantly in sculpture exploring the psychology and symbology of themes in world mythology. The materials and methods he uses are wood and stone carving, clay modelling, silicone rubber mold making and plaster casting, drawing and video. He has exhibited regionally and nationally and his work is held in private collections in the UK and abroad.
Billie Achilleos
Billie is an artist working within many disciplines and has been a puppet, prop and set builder since 2006. Her specialty areas include model making, moulding and casting, foam and textile fabrication, wood carving, paper engineering and metal work.
Sue Wagstaff
After graduating with a BA Honours Degree in Fine Art from the University of Hertfordshire I completed my training as a Secondary School Teacher in Art at Middlesex University. I work part time at a local Hertfordshire school as Head of Art, run private classes at Parndon Mill and work on local outreach projects in Hertfordshire and Essex.
Anton Psak
Within my work, I am carefully considering the influence of social cognitive network on the very individual ‘mind’. The choice of oil as a medium, which predominates in my practice, is conditional to its historical context, social expectation and the illusionary impossibility of challenging this. I use a combination of wet-on-wet and glazing techniques, which allow me to layer my memories and be in control of letting-in the viewer.
Corrina Dunlea
Corrina Dunlea is a fine artist /Illustrator, a teacher of drawing and portraits, and a proud cultural facilitator for Harlow's art collections, working in a studio at Parndon Mill. Her portraits are usually born instantaneously, stemming from an urgency to capture both the energy and humanity of the sitter. The images are created in the main with dry mediums, charcoal, easy to slide around and form a soft ground for building up tone, pencils to refine features, ink and wash to generate movement and drama. Her popular images depict lively observations of life,love and food. Her portraits in this exhibition are giclee prints of her paintings.
Yuki Kokai
Yuki graduated from Tokyo Glass Art Institute with a master degree in Glass Art in 1997. She then moved to the UK and studied metalwork and jewellery at The Surrey Institute of Art & design University College (UCA Farnham). After graduating, Yuki has worked for a number of internationally renowned glass studios. Since 2006 she has been concentrating mainly on her jewellery work, and she still blows glass too.
Yuki produces precious metal jewellery and Japanese Kimono accessories in designs inspired by nature and seasonal changes. Her work is endlessly tactile and playful, but also classically beautiful, harnessing shape and light to great effect. With her traditional work, she brings a unique modern essence to an ancient art form.
Yuki has been exhibiting her work across the UK and in Japan in selected galleries.
Teresa Chlapowski
Having been a knitwear designer for many decades, the desire to create her own ‘Art’ finally took over. Starting with ceramics and sculpture, Teresa discovered glass and fell in love with this amazing, alchemic medium; an alternative universe of just light and shadows.
She creates both sculptural and functional glass pieces. Her fused vessels and panels express her previous textile background and love of pattern and colour, creating one off slumping moulds which have a fabric, flowing quality. In her more sculptural pieces, she focuses on the figurative that gives a glimpse of the human form that is both mysterious and revealing but always with a story to tell. Teresa uses a variety of techniques including fusing and sand casting, as well as combining glass with ceramics and photography and also experiments with cyanotype prints.
Her inspiration comes from the sea and reflections, ancient art and archaeology, the human figure and its shadows, textiles and photography and with that, the detailed patterns that are found in everything around us. Every glass piece is an exciting challenge, a partnership between the artist and the glass as it works its own magic
Member of: Contemporary Glass Society (CGS), Just Glass Society, Glass Art Society (GAS), Chelsea Art Society (CAS), Association of Polish Artists in GB (APA)), HVA (Hertfordshire Visual Arts), and takes part in their various group exhibitions.
Karen Murphy
Karen Murphy has chosen to work in glass to express ideas of space, light and movement. The inherent qualities of the glass imbue the work with a spiritual and ethereal quality. The pieces are fused and formed in the kiln and are enhanced by the additions of dichroic glass.
Her work is always available in The Gallery at Parndon Mill and she would be pleased to discuss commissions for specific needs or projects. Recent commissions have included commemorative pieces for the chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire, the Spanish Ambassador, The British High Commissioner in Malaysia & Gatwick Airport
Jon Lewis
Jon Lewis founded Orbic Glass, a creative glass design studio in 2005. The vision was to innovate modern glass design in architecture, lighting, blown glass and sculpture. Since his first introduction to glassmaking in 1989, Jon Lewis has become fluent in many glass disciplines. He has exhibited worldwide and has produced blown, cast, stained glass and numerous commissions, both architectural and sculptural.
Ewa Wawrzyniak
Ewa Wawrzyniak was born in Poland and trained in ceramics and glass at Middlesex Polytechnic and Surrey Institute of Art and Design in the UK. She completed her Master of Arts at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland, where her research explored the technical and expressive possibilities of sand casting glass. Since 1999 she has been a Part Time Lecturer in Open Studies in Ceramics & Glass at University of Hertfordshire, UK, and since 2005 she is a regular Visiting Lecturer in Faculty of Art & Design (Glass) University College for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK. Ewa has shown her work in numerous exhibitions in UK and abroad. Since 2005 she has occupied a studio at Parndon Mill.
Anona Wyi
Anona Wyi is a glass blower working in Northamptonshire. She has been making and designing blown works of art since the 1990's, crafting functional table ware pieces to sculptural one offs. Enjoying the process of making, her works are colourful, practical, unusual and unpredictable, from Scandinavian clean clear jug sets to colourful stripy steamed cocktail glasses. Inspired by the actions involved in gathering hot molten glass, predicting the timing of each heat, the choreography of every movement effecting the hot moving form, is enough of a reason to keep on making glass. She holds a Degree in Glass and Sculpture from the University of Wolverhampton, Graduate of the international Glass school in Brierly Hill and Orrefors School of Glass in Sweden. She now teaches alongside making her own works.
Margaret Gardiner
Margaret Gardiner makes vapour glazed Porcelain for serving, eating and drinking, flowers and plants. Or miniatures just for delight! They are fumed with stannous chloride to create random areas of lustrous iridescence
All pots are made out of porcelain and should be treated as fine china. The lustrous finish is metal so pots would crack if used in the microwave. They are fine in the dishwasher depending on who puts them in and how they are taken out!