Tutors

Pam Foley

Pam has been a freelance sculpture tutor for over two decades and she has maintained a sculpture practice for over 30 years. Her background is in teaching both children and adults in her native USA (San Francisco and the Bay Area) as well as in the UK. She is originally from New England…read more

Jezella Pigott

Jezella is an artist working in a variety of mediums including printmaking, drawing, collage, textiles, installation art and performance works. Jezella competed her MA in drawing at Wimbledon in 2015 after her BA Fine Art (Hons.) at Oxford Brookes University. In 2016 she was Artist in Residence…read more

Rose Wallace

Rose studied Ceramics at Buckinghamshire New University under the tutorship of Professor Neil Brownsword and Kevin Millward attaining a first class BA (Hons.) in 2008, and became a selected member of the Craft Potters Association in 2010. Rose has work in the permanent collections of the Art Gallery…read more

Hannah Yeadon

Hannah Yeadon

Hannah studied ceramics at Camberwell School of Art (BA) and Bath Spa University (MA). She has been a practicing ceramicist and has taught in Oxford for 30 years.…read more

Grant Waters

Grant Waters

Grant is an experienced professional artist and tutor living in Oxfordshire. He holds a BA (Hons.) in Professional Studies in Education and is a lecturer at Abingdon and Witney College. He also teaches adults who suffer from drug addiction and mental health issues.
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Emma Williams

Emma Williams

Emma is an educator in the visual arts, specialising in environmental conservation with a passion for creativity with context. She gained extensive expertise as the Education Officer in charge of development at the University of Oxford, delivering popular formal and informal education programmes for schools, families and adults.…read more

Anthony Wilder

Anthony Wilder

Anthony studied for his BA at Bath Academy of Art and gained his PGCE from the University of Reading.  He taught at Theale Green School and then spent thirteen years as Head of Art at Denefield School in Reading.  During this time, he enjoyed a sabbatical year painting in Italy.  …read more

Sarah Wenden

Sarah gained a first-class honours degree in Fine Art (Painting) at the Central School of Art & Design and took her M.A. at the Slade.  She was Junior Fellow in Fine Art at Cardiff (S.G.I.H.E.) before becoming the first Artist-in-Residence at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew. There she was painting landscape which has always been her main concern.…read more

Claire Venables

Claire has exhibited at the Mall Galleries with the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the New English Art Club. She has regular exhibitions in London and Oxfordshire where she is a committee member of the Oxford Art Society.…read more

Ruth Swain

Ruth Swain

Ruth Swain is an award-winning portrait, figurative and still-life artist living in Oxfordshire. Her previous career in advertising influences her paintings – she likes to use visual ideas and humour to enhance her work. Currently Ruth is exploring the idea of Still-Life as a form of portraiture.…read more

Lucy Stopford

Lucy Stopford, BA Leeds Fine Art, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Contemporary British Portrait Painters and former Chair of the Oxford Art Society, has run workshops for over 15 years in both Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. Working exclusively from the model in oils, charcoal and clay,…read more

Sarah Spackman RBA

Sarah Spackman RBA

Sarah studied at Byam Shaw and Camberwell School of Art, London, BA (hons.) Fine Art.  Since then she has worked full time as an artist and exhibited regularly both here and abroad.  Her work is based on a fundamental belief in the value of drawing and the importance of creating relationships within the pictorial space. …read more

Jane Strother

Jane studied painting at Bath Academy of Art and has worked as a painter, illustrator, printmaker and teacher and trainer of teachers. She works from her studio in Oxford. “I am a studio painter. I devise and build a final image through many stages and layers of paint. …read more

Clova Stuart-Hamilton

Clova Stuart-Hamilton

After graduating in Fine Art from Oxford University Clova attended the RA Schools gaining a Postgraduate qualification in Painting.  Her own practice, which is under-pinned with drawing and working directly from life, is rooted in this early training.  She has been exhibiting and selling paintings for more than 30 years.…read more

Julia Simmons

Julia Simmons

Julia gained her Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at West Dean College of Arts and Conservation and has taught Art Explorers at Sunningwell for more than three years. She is an ideas person and works to bring together art materials, techniques and influences from other artists.…read more

Kevin Scully

Kevin trained at Wimbledon School of Art and began his career as a scenic artist in the theatre and television. He then worked for many years as a successful illustrator in advertising and publishing. His commercial experience required him to be able to work in a diverse number of mediums, but he now paints primarily in watercolours, oils and pastels.…read more

Nena Parkes

Nena was educated at Central St. Martins. She works in varied styles focusing on one goal – the exploration of the boundaries between the figurative and the abstract. She can be inspired by the natural environment, political themes or philosophical concepts. Her background as a scenic artist means…read more

Susan Neale

Susan Neale

Susan Neale has been an artist all her working life, since graduating with a degree in Illustration from Harrow College of Art…read more

Graham Hudson

Graham Hudson studied ceramics at Bath College of H.E. (B.A. Hons.) and Staffordshire University (M.A.). He is a professional member of the Craft Potters Association and has been a ceramics tutor at various art schools, universities, and colleges for the last 25 years. He makes functional…read more

Charlotte-Houlihan

Charlotte Houlihan

Working from life, Charlotte creates honest and thoughtful studies of the beauty and expression of the human figure. They are direct, often spontaneous observations of our body language and nature as much as an individual’s form and features, quickly recorded in oil paints or inks. Following a degree in Furniture and Product…read more