Saskia Saunders

Saskia Saunders creates elegant handwoven sculptures from her garden studio in Buckinghamshire, England. Saskia’s work embodies the sensation of lightness and freedom we feel when we immerse ourselves in the sanctuary of our natural world. By bringing the ancient craft of weaving into contemporary form, her work addresses our need to live more sustainably, in harmony with nature. Saskia uses natural plant-based materials and yarns such as linen, hemp and paper to connect people directly […]

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Elizabeth Prince

Elizabeth Prince is a British ceramicist from Manchester, who now runs her studio from the Lake District. Her distinctive style has developed from her background in interior design and studying fine art. Whilst developing her unique range of stoneware and porcelain pottery, she pursued a successful career as an interior designer, dealing with contemporary living spaces in some of the North West’s most prestigious residential addresses. Founding Prince Design UK in 2008, drawing on her […]

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Katy Binks

London based artist Katy Binks expresses her unique style through a powerful visual language of colour and form. Katy is a multidisciplinary artist who is known for her bold printmaking, immersive murals and bright textile design.  Colour is a key part of her practice, combined with a love of architecture to create energetic site specific artwork. “I’m interested in the spaces between print, object, painting and installation, and the way artworks can operate on all these […]

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Michael Speller

Michael is an imaginative figurative sculptor working primarily in bronze. Since his very first visit to a foundry he was drawn to the fluidity and the challenges bronze presents, this is reflected and expressed in all his work. His distinctive and playful elongated figures are often impressed with emotive words and objects to create hugely expressive and textural surfaces. Solitary or grouped, his figures represent how we live in the world, combining the influences of family, friends, environment […]

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The Studio

The Art Story Studio is a collection of artists with backgrounds ranging from fabric design to sculpture and everything in between. By imaginatively blending these techniques, they are able to create altogether new categories of art-making. At the studio’s heart is a team of talented fine artists, graphic designers, and mixed media specialists. Collectively, they have a diverse understanding of materiality and how these materials can be combined to make something unique. A fusion of […]

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Michelle McKinney

Michelle McKinney works with exceptionally fine woven metals, including stainless steel and brass. The unusual translucency of these materials brings a very ethereal quality to her work. Her artwork is inspired by the space between opposites; Her choice of subject matter deliberately contrasts with the materials used in her work. The movement of hundreds of delicate butterfly wings or falling leaves are depicted in materials renowned for their strength and durability.  This preoccupation with opposites, […]

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Norman Parkinson

Celebrated English portrait and fashion photographer, Norman Parkinson, CBE (21 April 1913 – 15 February 1990) was renowned for his easy and relaxed style. His work revolutionised British fashion photography, as he moved the craft out of the studio and into outdoor settings. He constantly reinvented himself over seven decades, making himself a household name thanks to his front covers for Vogue and Harpers Bazaar. Norman focused his lense on the zeitgeist, shooting stars of the moment. […]

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Etienne Krahenbuhl

Since the mid-1970s, Etienne Krähenbühl has presented his works in a host of personal and group exhibitions in Switzerland, Spain, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy and the USA. Among the many distinctions he has received, he was awarded the Edouard Maurice Sandoz Foundation Prize in 2009. “The notion of time is a constant in Krähenbühl’s work: time as a testimony or expression of the artist, the materialization of his memory. Rust and wear are the materialisation […]

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