Covington Chris
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I live in a small village on the Warwickshire and Northamptonshire borders.
I am a member of the Rugby and district Art Society and Napton Art group exhibiting my work with them and also, I exhibit with the Northants and Rutland open studios. My work can be seen during the festival at Silverstone Methodist church and at the central exhibition at Lamport hall,
My work is inspired by light, shade and atmosphere of local landscapes and also holiday destinations in our beautiful island. I paint a lot plein air capturing a moment in time and giving me lasting memories of a few hours spent outside in our beautiful countryside. Recently I have tried my hand at painting garden flowers and fruits I do admit that I am rather addicted but it will never take me away from my first love landscapes. I paint what moves me and if that is liked by others then that is a bonus.
I am based in Buckinghamshire and have exhibited in the south east for many years in both solo and group exhibitions.
Working in acrylic and mixed media my paintings vary from the realistic to abstract. I aim to capture the essence of a subject through either a freedom of gesture or a more considered layered approach and I enjoy experimenting with colour and texture. Inspiration comes from many sources including the sea, landscapes and aspects of modern life.
I am a young artist born and raised in Northamptonshire, currently studying art at university. My oil paintings feature animals, landscapes, and the female figure. My work is based on my personal experiences of connecting to nature in a modern world, with influences from ecology, history, and myth. I like to experiment with visual and surface texture, incorporating collage elements such as silver leaf and tissue paper, and playing with pigments and mediums.
My work can be found at https://hannahgoddard.com/artworks/
Since childhood I’ve enjoyed all art & crafts and retiring from paid employment in 2022 has given me the opportunity to spend even more time making, sketching & painting, sometimes in watercolour but more usually acrylics on canvas. My focus is always on colour & pattern, & my current style reflects my passion for vibrant hues, bold shapes & a rich diversity of surface decoration.
I exhibit and sell my work locally whenever I can, most recently at the Yardley Arts 2026 Open, where I was privileged to have two pieces selected for inclusion. This is my first time exhibiting at Alderton, which was recommended to me by a fellow artist, & I am very much looking forward to it!
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Caroline Swan is a Towcester-based artist inspired by the places, people and landscapes of Northamptonshire.
Local scenes feature strongly in Caroline’s work, particularly Towcester and the surrounding countryside. She enjoys finding beauty in familiar places and has painted many of the town’s well-known landmarks, as well as quieter and less familiar views. Her work combines realism with a bold and expressive use of colour, creating paintings that are recognisable while capturing something of the atmosphere and character of a place.
Caroline also paints still life and florals in both acrylics and oils. She has also developed a distinctive bokeh style, creating atmospheric paintings using luminous layers of soft, out-of-focus circles of colour.
Caroline has been exhibiting locally since 2021 and regularly takes part in the Towcester Handmade Fayre. She is a member of South Northants Arts and Northants & Rutland Open Studios, and will be exhibiting at Silverstone Methodist Church as part of the NROS Art Trail from 19th to 27th September 2026.
See more of Caroline’s work at: www.carolineswanart.com
As a musician and teacher, I came to art and the joy it brings late in life.
Having tried all kinds of mediums, I generally enjoy working in Acrylics most.
It is only in the last two years I have started to draw and paint as a means of relaxation. I am self taught and love the process of creating something which is a new experience for me.
I took up painting again in 2010 having done very little since my school days. I prefer working in pastel, pen and wash, acrylics and mixed media. I enjoy painting all subjects, and in particular pet portraits and village compilations like this recent one of Milton Keynes.
I had a career teaching furniture and product design and in retirement have taken up painting, depicting scenery from my native Pembrokeshire and more locally in Northamptonshire
I enjoy creating a sense of atmosphere and loosely interpret what I see with quick application of paint creating strong dynamic gestural movement on canvas using acrylic paint.
I have always loved drawing and painting. I use mainly Acrylic, Pastel, Charcoal and Graphite. I get inspiration from many things but especially from walking in the countryside with my dog. I live in Silverstone and this picture was done very close to home in late summer last year.
Chris is a new artist for our art festival, more details coming soon,
I’m a self taught artist and have been painting for about 18 years as a hobby, I started with watercolours and now paint in all mediums I particularly like acrylic and my favourite subject is landscapes. I have exhibited my work in local exhibitions and have sold lots of my work. I go to a local art group once a week. This will be my first time at Alderton art festival And am looking forward to it.
I am a self taught artist and have loved drawing and painting since childhood. My parents gave me my first sketchbook to stop me drawing on my bedroom walls. I could have been a Banksy!!
A love of the natural world has led me to draw and paint animals and flowers. I am a member of Towcester art society and Northampton botanical society.
I am a landscape artist of 40 years experience, living and working in the Northamptonshire countryside. My work is mostly in oil paint, but I also work in watercolour, acrylic and pastel. My subjects range from scenes within the county to others further afield, including coastal scenes. My work explores both Impressionist and Tonalist methods. I also enjoy painting abstracts and mixed media works.
I have exhibited locally and sell within the UK and internationally. I also welcome visitors to my studio by appointment and accept commissions.
Email: charlesgkartist@gmail.com
Web: www.charleskart.com
ETSY: charlesoilpaintings.etsy.com
I have always been interested in art during my school, but didn’t start painting till my late 40’s.
On leaving school went into engineering as Toolmaker Apprentice followed by various engineering and technical roles up to my retirement.
I class myself as a hobby painter in Oils and Acrylics. Fortunately, my work is liked enough that I have sold in exhibitions and by private commissions.
My art covers all subjects such as Still Life, landscapes, Portraits and Animals.
I am member of the Boothville Art Group Northampton.
My work can be viewed on MJ ART Northampton /facebook which I try to keep updated.
I have enjoyed art from an early age with art material always at hand.
I am self taught and enjoy watercolours, coloured pencils, pastels and Chinese brush painting.
Over the past year I have done several animal drawings using coloured pencils. I love the texture that I can get with a sharp pencil. I still think I love drawing both large cats and domestic ones too. I have also had dog portrait commissions too. Watercolours are of places, landscapes and botanical. I was introduced to Chinese brush painting by a friend and picked up materials whilst travelling to the far east on a couple of holidays it is different to western art but enjoyable and relaxing.
I belong to Towcester Art Society, Northamptonshire Botanical Art Society and the Chinese Brush Painting Society
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I am a local artist and have always been interested in art and painting, having done a number of courses on the internet and at art schools. I also enjoy learning by copying the paintings of other artists.
My preferred medium is oil and I also enjoy acrylics and mixed media; painting small portraits and large landscapes in a variety of styles from loosely realistic to abstract.”
Born and raised in Bedfordshire, Jane has exhibited successfully in numerous group and solo shows. Her paintings have also been shown at the Mall Galleries in London with The Pastel Society and The Society of Women Artists and can now be viewed at Mosaic in Woburn or by appointment at her studio.
She works with art groups as a demonstrator and tutor and has weekly classes and a full programme of workshops every year.
Best known for her atmospheric pastel paintings of seascapes, landscapes and urban scenes, she also uses various other media when experimenting with colour and texture in her more abstract work.
I am a self taught artist and enjoy using many different mediums to create artwork. I especially enjoy doing portraiture.
I like the subtle effects of watercolours next to the bright vivid colours from pure inks.
For some of my art work I use gold leaf, embroidery silks and patterned tissues to achieve interesting effects.
I accept commissions and can be contacted by email at tina.bacon25@gmail.com
I mainly paint in oil and watercolour and am interested in light, shade and reflections, particularly in the natural world – plants, animals, landscapes and especially seascapes, which remind me of my childhood growing up at the coast.
I live in South Northamptonshire and you can view more of my work here-
www.instagram.com/vikki_bishop_art
I am an artist based in Milton Keynes. My love of painting was inspired by my dad, who was a keen amateur artist. I work in a variety of media but specialise in watercolours, acrylics and lino printing, though I’m always keen to try new arts and crafts.
For many years I worked in local primary schools, latterly teaching art, inspiring the young to develop a love of the arts. Now retired, I have more time to focus on my own work.
I am a member of Milton Keynes Society of Artists and regularly exhibit with them. More recently I have been developing loose watercolour techniques in my landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes. I enjoy capturing the changing moods of the weather. I also specialise in detailed watercolour pet portraits.
My latest endeavour involves running watercolour workshops to raise money for Willen Hospice which has been enormously rewarding.
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I have drawn ever since I could hold a pencil. Attended both Derby Art College and Coventry gaining a degree in Graphic Design. Bristol University followed and then I taught Art for a few years to adults. I worked in the design studio at the Open University for 22 years – during this period I was not actively painting.
In 2009 I began again with my art – I’ve sold internationally, exhibited in London, the NEC and locally.
Until lockdown I was mainly an animal artist working in pastel on velour. – my pastels are left gathering dust, whilst I’ve moved on to oils – painting landscapes, seascapes, still life etc. Please take a look at more of my artwork on my new website www.rosamundewood.art
I’ll have cards of my artwork at Alderton as my range and style is quite extensive.
My interest in art started in my youth mainly with cartooning. Other than for a period during the 1970s where I produced some paintings in oil paint, it was not until my retirement in 2012 that I seriously started again, this time with acrylics, soft pastel, pen/brush and ink, Inktense pencils, and most recently oil and watercolour. I have also produced some small sculptures/models with air dry clay.
As for subject matter, most of my paintings and sketches are pets, wild animals and portraits, but I have dabbled in landscapes, seascapes and some architecture pictures. As with most artists my scope of subject matter is not cast in stone, as other forms, including abstract, may attract me in the future.
As the child of an accomplished artist, my father taught me to look, see and interpret the world around me. After a short spell at Art College, my life took a different direction and my drawing, design and painting were shelved. Now in later life, I have revisited my love of art and spend all available time designing and painting in watercolours, enjoying the process and behaviour of this difficult medium.
Since retirement I have joined a small art group in Northampton, I have always enjoyed art from a young age, and now with time to pursue this as a hobby.
Although I have done many painting’s over the years using different mediums I exhbited my paintings for the first time at the 2018 Alderton Art Festival.
Hello and thanks for having a look out my work on this website. My name is Barry Turland and I am local artist, self taught with a fascination in painting in oils, acrylic and watercolour with the effects of using mixed media, throughout.
Thank you for your interest.
I am a mixed media artist working from my studio in East Northamptonshire. Coming from a technical background in graphic, architectural and product design, I was encourage to start painting by my Mother (a keen amateur artist who runs an art group), and discovered a love for creating, drawing and painting in a range of media and in a diverse variety of subjects. I subsequently went back to College, where I studied a Combined Studies BA Degree – which incorporated Art, Sculpture, Photography and Art History.
I am passionate about painting, and all aspects of art and design, a keen photographer, and am currently working on book illustration. I enjoy galleries, museums and exhibitions – a love I have shared with my Mother from a very early age.
I have been immersed in art and countryside, flora and fauna, gardening, walking, landscapes, wildlife and animals all of my life, and these elements, I believe are reflected in my work.
I work mainly in mixed media, on linen textured media as I feel this best lends itself to the combination of technical and creative skills I strive to combine. I hope you enjoy looking at my work and that it expresses even a fraction of the enormous pleasure I derive in painting.
I am a member of Kettering & District Art Society, The Society of Wildlife artists, and The Fellowship of Professional and Amateur Artists where she recently received a prize at their Open Exhibition.
I have been very pleased to have been exhibiting at Alderton for around 20 years now, and have been fortunate to have been voted People’s Choice in the past. My most recent awards have been to receive “The Exhibition Prize” at the 2023 Northants Open Studio’s exhibition at Lamport Hall, and in 2024 – I was awarded “Boyce’s Choice” at the Kettering and District Art Societies Summer Exhibition, where I also won the People’s Choice award for a painting of Tawny Owls.
Commissions happily undertaken. For any enquiries, please e-mail: sli74art@gmail.com
Ruth is a local artist who had painted in this area for 30 years. She exhibits with local arts societies and art trails.
Ruth was awarded best pastel exhibit with Banbury Arts Society and ‘Best in Show’ in their final exhibition in 2016. In 2019 she received a ‘Highly Commended’ at South Northants Open Exhibition at the Hesleltine Gallery.
For 15 years she founded and chaired C.A.F.E., a charity promoting arts and music in care homes. The Charity received the Queen’s Award (M.B.E.) in 2016.
Recently two of her designs for stained glass windows were installed in the newly refurbished Brackley Town Hall.
Ruth lives in Brackley and finds artistic inspiration from the beautiful countryside, picturesque villages and market towns in the surrounding area. She works in variety of media: inks, gouache and acrylic but her favourite medium is pastel. Lately she has also experimented with textiles.
Val Goldfinch has been a regular exhibitor at Alderton for the last 30 years!
She is known for detailed and delicate watercolours of a variety of subjects including local scenes, gardens, cars, ceramics and slightly quirky objects that appeal to her!
Recent work features a lot of British animals, birds and flowers. Val will be opening her home studio as part of Northamptonshire Open Studios.
during the last two weeks of September 2024, where you can see her working and view sketchbooks and other projects.
Val’s work has appeared on jigsaws, mugs and cards and she also paints commercial and private commissions. Her website is www.valgoldfinchdesigns.co.uk
Anne’s passion for animals and wildlife has inspired her to create movement and expression in her animal and bird studies.
A self taught artist, Anne works mostly in watercolour but also with mixed media.
Most of her subjects are taken from the beautiful Northamptonshire countryside.
Commissions taken, email annegilbert@fastmail.co.uk
Anne was our winner of the ‘Peoples Choice’ award in 2018 and 2019.
I am a mainly self taught artist who started painting watercolour landscapes thirty years ago after a friend persuaded me to try painting as a hobby.
A few years ago I was asked to do a portrait of a pet dog and reluctantly agreed to give it a try although I had not attempted to paint animals before. The painting was a success and this aroused my interest in the subject of animal portraiture and I now specialises in animal studies using pastel as my favourite medium for this subject. I also enjoys figurative drawing and painting.
Some of my small landscape paintings are included in private collections across the world:- in America, Canada, Mexico, France and the Oman.
I have become more interested in colour pencil recently and have attempted a variety of subjects, some of which are in the exhibition. I am still doing animals, in both Pastel and Coloured Pencils, but mainly for commissions now.
Many of my animal paintings, and other subjects, have been reproduced on the cards which I have for sale at the exhibition.
Commissions accepted – email :- pamelafitzsimmons@yahoo.co.uk
I am a freelance illustrator and artist. I have worked as a freelance illustrator since 1982, in that time I have covered all fields of design, advertising & publishing in the UK and overseas.
Most of my works are all original paintings in either oil or acrylic.
Most of these are finished with gold/silver leaf and crystals, which gives then a added depth and lustre.
See more examples of my work at www.markduffin.net
