I have always enjoyed making and building in wood. A number of years ago I watched a woodturner using an old lathe in a barn making large bowls and thought "I'd like to have a go one day". I started woodturning in 2016 as an absolute beginner. I joined the Berkshire Woodturning Association and have now progressed to the Master Class and have won Woodturner of the year a couple of times. There was a 2 year period where I didn't turn anything due to a house move and building a workshop in my garden.

I turn many different forms often inspired by a club competition theme. One of my favourite themes are lamps which incorporate vintage style bulbs and unusual pieces of wood. I have also developed a love of turning 'Torus' shapes which can be very challenging.

I also like to introduce colour and texture into my finished items and often incorporate resin to highlight areas within a piece.

I have always loved art. The process of turning a blank sheet of paper or canvas into a painting has always fascinated me. If that painting invites the viewer to want to spend time looking at it (that it offers perhaps a reflection of an emotion), or takes them to a place they would like to be perhaps stirring a memory or simply is just very pleasing to look at then that feels so rewarding.

Recently, I have been lucky enough to be shortlisted twice for the British Art Prize (2023/2025) and I was awarded 'The People's Choice' Award from the Cookham Arts Club Summer Exhibition 2025. More information about me and awards further back can be seen on my website.

I generally work in acrylic and occasionally watercolour paintings of landscapes and wildlife. For landscapes I get lots of inspiration from local areas, however, my first love is Greece and many parts of the Mediterranean. I love the vivid colours of the houses and boats of Greece and also the amazing light and beautiful shades from the Mediterranean which I try to reflect in my paintings. The effects of light and shade within a scene fascinates me.

I have studied for and worked in Graphic and Web Design but I now have more time to lose myself in the wonder of painting!

I am enchanted by nature and my art explores ways to portray the exquisite detail of colours, forms and elements of landscapes that are unique to particular places. I use mainly acrylics and collage on canvas, wooden board and paper. My works are usually multi-layered with glimpses of colours, forms and textures.
My pictures have been selected for exhibition with the Society of Wildlife Artists and Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours at the Mall Galleries in London. Prizes include the Molly Staley Award and the Public vote at HACG Spring Show 2022.

Kerry is a landscape artist based in West Berkshire. Taking her inspiration mainly from rural and coastal environments, she has a particular fascination with human intervention on the landscape and the resulting tension between permanence and impermanence: ancient monuments and architectural ruins being a favourite theme. Kerry works in oils and acrylics and has had work exhibited at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Penlee House Gallery, Penzance, and ‘The Artist and Leisure Painter Open’ as well as in Henley and Reading. She participated as a ‘Wild Card’ artist in Series 8 of Sky Arts ‘Landscape Artist of the Year’.

Laura Hol is an Internationally selling, self-taught artist, with a degree in Architecture. She has been drawing and painting ever since she was born - rumour has it she came out of the womb with a free paintbrush. Her art revolves around living and experiencing life in colour, you are not only supposed to look at her work, but to feel it. Her themes usually centre around, place, travel, the world, nature and the colour hidden within it. She has a canny ability to capture the essence of a place or an emotion and give it to you. There is always something more to see, if you just look again.