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.

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.

My primary skill is as a photographer, but as I near retirement I've recently become more interested in different kinds of painting and am still finding my way and trying to improve