Joe Dowden

Award winning English watercolour artist Joe Dowden has drawn and painted from the age of six when he did his first plein air watercolour. Joe's landscape and marine paintings are in private, corporate and government collections around the world. His work hangs in Royal Palaces, Government Buildings and Public Institutions. He has authored books in many languages and worked for dozens of publishers globally. He has presented television programs, Videos, live streamed from major broadcasters and published on You Tube.

He has a strong, bright, and realistic style. His river paintings are achieved through abstract and creative processes, his hope being to recreate the way the mind sees things. His paintings have no narrative. They are purely about the act of seeing. Many of his paintings feature the rivers and lanes of his native Surrey Hills in England.

John Crump

John is an established New Zealand artist of over 50 years and displayed an interest in art during his early school years. Having trained as a teacher, his passion for art took over and he became a full time artist. John holds many award winning exhibitions, undertakes commissions and has taught art in New Zealand, Australia and the USA.

John Devitt

John worked in education before concentrating on his artwork career. His inspiration comes from many sources such as coasts locations and rural landscapes around the UK. He adopts several different styles including a loose drawing and watercolour approach and an illustrative / naive style. He exhibits regularly in Bedfordshire and Suffolk and sells his work internationally online. His face-to-face workshops are often oversubscribed and he enjoys adopting an informal but honest view as to how he paints.

John Muir Laws

John (Jack) Muir Laws is a principal leader and innovator of the worldwide nature journaling movement. Jack is a scientist, educator, and author, who helps people forge a deeper and more personal connection with nature through keeping illustrated nature journals and understanding science.

His work intersects science, art, and mindfulness. Trained as a wildlife biologist and an associate of the California Academy of Sciences, he observes the world with rigorous attention. He looks for mysteries, plays with ideas, and seeks connections in all he sees. Attention, observation, curiosity, and creative thinking are not gifts, but skills that grow with training and deliberate practice. As an educator and author, Jack teaches techniques and supports routines that develop these skills to make them a part of everyday life.

Julie Ford

Julie is an artist and tutor based on the Thames Estuary in Essex, UK. Growing up on an estuary has given her a love of rivers, boats, water and skies which make up a lot of her work.
Julie runs regular art groups, and classes and demos for art clubs. Julie is particularly fond of soft pastels for their vibrancy and ease of use. As an Associate Artist for Unison Colour, she regularly provides content for their followers.

Kasia Wiercinska

Kasia is an architect by profession however, she decided to follow her dream and become a professional watercolour painter. Kasia is Polish but started her art journey in New Zealand, taking part in exhibitions and teaching watercolour and city sketching. After a few years she settled in Oslo, Norway. Kasia's goal is to use experience and knowledge gained on the other side of the world and share her passion with others, connecting with local landscape, to observe activities of daily living and feel the energy around us. Kasia's favourite subjects are cityscape and seascape, especially with boats or waves. Travels and journeys are Kasia's main inspiration, always trying to capture beauty and the atmosphere of the surrounding landscape wherever she go telling a story about a place with her paintings.

Katy Rundle

Katy Rundle is a professional textile artist who works from a studio in Hampshire, UK. Her art is not what it first seems. Created from fabric collage and free motion embroidery, from distance it can be mistaken for painting, but NO paint is used. Everything Katy does celebrates life, taking inspiration from the world around her, with the use of vibrant fabrics and stitch. Her art is unique, uplifting, and joyful. Katy appeared in Landscape Artist of the year in 2018. She has exhibited her work in London and Windsor and her art has sold widely, being owned in UK, Canada, and across USA.

Kay Elliott

Brought up in an artistic environment Kay dabbled with many creative pastimes, but only found her real vocation with her free flowing water colour flower paintings. Having sold over 600 originals she remains enthusiastic about her painting and also really enjoys running workshops where painting skills vie for centre stage over the laughter!

Keiko Tanabe

Keiko was born in Kyoto, Japan and currently lives in San Diego, California. Mostly self-taught, she embarked on a professional art career in 2005. Since then, her paintings have been in many national and international exhibitions, both juried and invitational, and gained world-wide recognition

Keiko has frequently served as a juror in art exhibitions both on national and international levels. She has conducted more than 270 workshops around the world, has published several books and released 4 DVD’s. Keiko is a member of National Watercolor Society (signature), American Watercolor Society (signature), American Impressionist Society, Laguna Plein Air Painters Association (signature) and is on the advisory board of the American Watercolor Weekly.