My name is Aiko and I love to create!

I am a very versatile artist and love drawing fine art with graphite pencils, if I fancy a bit of colour, I create beautiful intricate designs on glass with glass paint. I have only got back into art after a 25 year hiatus and am so lucky to create everyday, now I cannot imagine my life without this! Being a member of Cookham arts club and Marlow arts club for the past few years has developed my confidence to start exhibiting my art, which a few local celebrities have purchased (so surprising!). A few years ago, I was lucky to be asked to join the Marlow Arts Trail for their annual exhibitions and I'm in my 3rd year running with them. All my exhibitions have been successful and I have the most wonderful reactions to people seeing my art, which makes me so happy! Every time I drive or walk past the Old Fire Station, I always wish I could show my art here. I really feel ready to start branching out now and start taking my art just a little bit further.

Please have a look at my Instagram page, if you have any further questions or more information please do not hesitate to ask. Aiko x

Amanda Bucknill is inspired by images of the personification of luck and chance from antiquity until the present day. Having studied anthropology, Amanda returned to Amersham Art College to study a foundation course and then printmaking and sculpture.

Amanda has loved art since childhood and in recent years she has been able to devote more time to painting. She is motivated more by the heart than the head, finding that it’s interesting to work on different subjects including landscapes, people and pets, always using a medium which suits the subject and her emotional response to it. Amanda works in oils, watercolour, charcoal, graphite and mixed media. Amanda is happy to receive commissions.

Amy Lovell is a self taught portrait and landscape artist. She works in a figurative style, predominatly in oils. Amy’s work has been shortlisted for Artists & Illustrators magazine’s 2023 British Art Prize, and she has been a prize winner at the Cookham Arts Club Summer Exhibition, the Our Changing Earth Art Festival and the Maidenhead Town Show.
Amy enjoys capturing pleasing moments of light, colour or composition, often in scenes that would otherwise be unremarkable. In her portraits of family and local community, she aims to capture moments of pleasure or ‘flow’, when people are fully immersed in and enjoying an activity. She often focusses on the interplay between characters and their setting, and looks for moments of what she describes as ‘chance choreography’, where people are connecting with one another through a shared activity, which leads to symmetry and harmony in their postures and movements.
Amy practices by drawing and painting from life as much as possible, and otherwise works from photo and video references. Amy takes commissions for family portraits.

I’m simply happy when I’m making. I consider myself lucky to have lived my life as a maker. I have been creating things for half a century. In that time I have been a ceramicist, a painter, a gardener … the ‘alchemy of making’ is a lifelong journey. For decades I was a professional sculptural ceramicist. In later years I added painting in oils, layering colour and scratching into the surface as I do in clay. I am led by a relationship between nature and materials. At the heart of my practice is my love of growing things, of growing me.