Issaka: ‘art is an amazing thing, with the right opportunity, the right timing you can do so much’ sense of an openhearted artist Jasmin Issaka

I’ve always been interested in how our actions can change things for the better. If you want to do something seriously good that has long term value for everyone you need to combine eye, heart, hand and spirit. You need to care deeply. Jasmin Issaka: reinventions of the ordinary I noticed the work of […]

Artist Mary Sewell: the force that through the green fuse: a Seed for 2017…

January reminder in Mary Sewell’s work of the force that through the green fuse drives the flower…..(Image below from the great Middleway Society Poetry blog Mary’s poem is called Seed: Seed These words start from the bottom, deep in the earth where it is dark and quiet. Waiting still In the dark. A sigh […]

Glowing lights wrapped inside deep darkness: looking at the inspiration of Pat Murray Newark Artist

Pat Murray Newark artist brought up in West Bridgford is going from strength to strength. The work she does is growing and developing all the time. Pat trained at Leicester and London College of Print working as an illustrator for many years and is now a full-time artist. She lives in Newark and you can […]

The art of photography is in the detail: new ways of seeing: Martyn Williams Photography

One of the problems all towns, cities and rural areas have at them moment is that building and development, although a great thing, can also be a problem for local people, even local creative people as it can seem sometimes as if it’s all gone too corporate, everything is bland and the same. This is […]

Mary Sewell: painter

The journey of an artist is always an interesting one and Mary Sewell, now based at co-op Portland Works in Sheffield, produces beautiful abstracts from word, print, paint and photography like Seed: I’m very interested in art and artists. Seed is a poetic document through photography and print, word and image of what being at Portland […]