I was trained in the School of Fine Art at the University Of Reading back in the 50s. As you can see I adore colour. I was Henley Art & Crafts Exhibition Secretary for 7 years; have been a member for about 60 years!

Rebecca Johnny is a visual artist working in hyper-detailed colored pencil drawings that explore water as both subject and metaphor for memory, transformation, and belonging.
Having lived in Marlow and Henley-on-Thames all her life, Johnny's relationship with water began with the River Thames—its changing moods through seasons, the yearly regattas, light dancing on its surface. Through extensive travel connecting with her Chinese and St. Lucian heritage, she's witnessed water's many faces: Caribbean storms, Chinese waterways, British canals. Each culture holds different meanings- harmony, memory, identity. Her drawings hold these layered interpretations simultaneously.
Johnny's practice centers on capturing the uncapturable—rendering water in motion, frozen through colored pencil. She works without underlayers, building up waxy layers that mirror water's relationship with boundaries. Each piece demands 70+ hours, creating textures so liquid they appear to move. Her signature style pairs rarely seen colors—mustard yellow, fuchsia, burgundy red, teal—making her work instantly recognizable.
Alongside her water obsession runs a fascination with classical sculpture. Visiting castles and estates like Eastnor Castle, she studies how artists carved hard marble into flowing fabric and tender flesh—like Bernini's work or the V&A's Vertumnus and Pomona. She's drawn to this paradox: stone statues that water inevitably claims through erosion, permanence versus flow.

Grew up in Henley and still live here.

Style: Contemporary figurative drawing and painting, and portrature. I generally work in mixed media - charcoal, pastels and paint are frequently combined.

Currenly amateur, but recently decided to progress from sketches to more significent pieces, and to start selling my work.

Looking for collaboration, learning and exposure.

Growing up on the south coast of England, my love of the sea, waterways and nature has always been a constant in my life. If I see a place. scene or thing that I find visually exciting I will challenge myself to capture it in my art.

I attended the Portsmouth College of Art , studying to become a technical illustrator – at the exact same time as technology was starting to change this traditional skill into a digital one.

Having forged a career in digital design for over 20 years, my desire to return to traditional methods has increased over time to the present day, where I am drawing or painting on a regular basis.

My preferred medium is watercolour, I find it gives me an immediate result but at the same time allows me to return to the same piece again and again, allowing me to add layer upon layer. I also like gouache alot - it gives me more control and I love the vibrancy you can achieve. More recently I attend the the Wokingham Life Drawing Society as much as possible.

Robin Reynolds works largely in pen-and-ink and watercolour. Since the summer of 2023 he has also branched into digital art, using Procreate (iPad).
He is best known for his historical panoramas of London and New Orleans. Visscher Redrawn (2016) is an update of the famous 1616 engraving of London, depicting the old London Bridge adorned with heads on pikes. The new version, coinciding with the Shakespeare 400 celebrations, was exhibited at the Guildhall Art Gallery in 2016.
Between Heaven and Hell is a celebration of 300 years of the city of New Orleans, and is a collaboration between Robin, the Historic New Orleans Collection, and his brother Simon, who created the interactive guide that explains historical references in the image.
Other story-based work includes a visual history of the Tower of London (2023) and, most recently, another collaboration with his brother in which he illustrates Simon’s amusing re-telling of Virgil’s legend of Orpheus and Eurydice.
Robin was born in Zimbabwe in 1952. He spent most of his working life in journalism in the United Kingdom. Latterly he was responsible for the BBC’s art and history collections.
Early work included fantasy landscapes and disasters, and for the Henley Arts Trail 2024 he returns to the theme with images of Henley-on-Thames in the aftermath of an earthquake.