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Teresa Chlapowski
Trading as Aquarelle Design
Member of The Chelsea Art Society (CAS), The Association of Polish Artists in Great Britain (APA) and The Contemporary Glass Society (CGS)
Teresa Chlapowski started exploring sculpture by using clay, but over the last few years, she has discovered glass and has started to experiment with it, pushing it to its limits.
She has discovered casting with glass, both in the kiln using plaster/quartz moulds and sand casting in a hot glass studio. Plaster/quartz moulds offer a lot of detail and can be open moulds or lost wax. Sand casting is literarily making an open mould out of sand (and Bentonite) and then either pouring the glass in, or casting with glass billets in the kiln. This method retains some of the sand when taken out of the mould and the shape is more indistinct, giving a rougher, more ancient look to the glass, as though just discovered in an archaeological dig.
Her ideas come from dance and movement, to photography, ancient art and archaeology, travelling and new cultures. Usually the ideas come first and the media second.
Karen Murphy
Karen Murphy has chosen to work in glass to express ideas of space, light and movement. The inherent qualities of the glass imbue the work with a spiritual and ethereal quality. The pieces are fused and formed in the kiln and are enhanced by the additions of dichroic glass.
Her work is always available in The Gallery at Parndon Mill and she would be pleased to discuss commissions for specific needs or projects. Recent commissions have included commemorative pieces for the chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire, the Spanish Ambassador, The British High Commissioner in Malaysia & Gatwick Airport
Jon Lewis
Jon Lewis founded Orbic Glass, a creative glass design studio in 2005. The vision was to innovate modern glass design in architecture, lighting, blown glass and sculpture. Since his first introduction to glassmaking in 1989, Jon Lewis has become fluent in many glass disciplines. He has exhibited worldwide and has produced blown, cast, stained glass and numerous commissions, both architectural and sculptural.
Ewa Wawrzyniak
Ewa Wawrzyniak was born in Poland and trained in ceramics and glass at Middlesex Polytechnic and Surrey Institute of Art and Design in the UK. She completed her Master of Arts at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland, where her research explored the technical and expressive possibilities of sand casting glass. Since 1999 she has been a Part Time Lecturer in Open Studies in Ceramics & Glass at University of Hertfordshire, UK, and since 2005 she is a regular Visiting Lecturer in Faculty of Art & Design (Glass) University College for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK. Ewa has shown her work in numerous exhibitions in UK and abroad. Since 2005 she has occupied a studio at Parndon Mill.
Anona Wyi
Anona Wyi is a glass blower working in Northamptonshire. She has been making and designing blown works of art since the 1990's, crafting functional table ware pieces to sculptural one offs. Enjoying the process of making, her works are colourful, practical, unusual and unpredictable, from Scandinavian clean clear jug sets to colourful stripy steamed cocktail glasses. Inspired by the actions involved in gathering hot molten glass, predicting the timing of each heat, the choreography of every movement effecting the hot moving form, is enough of a reason to keep on making glass. She holds a Degree in Glass and Sculpture from the University of Wolverhampton, Graduate of the international Glass school in Brierly Hill and Orrefors School of Glass in Sweden. She now teaches alongside making her own works.
Margaret Gardiner
Margaret Gardiner makes vapour glazed Porcelain for serving, eating and drinking, flowers and plants. Or miniatures just for delight! They are fumed with stannous chloride to create random areas of lustrous iridescence
All pots are made out of porcelain and should be treated as fine china. The lustrous finish is metal so pots would crack if used in the microwave. They are fine in the dishwasher depending on who puts them in and how they are taken out!
Trevor Allen
For many years I have worked in retail as a window dresser and my art school ceramic training put me in good stead to work for London's top retailers. Window dressing is a bit like making sculpture you choose the most luxurious things and you arrange them to look at their most magical.
Angelika Hinton (known as Geli)
Though born and educated in London, Angelika has spent most of her adult life in the Middle & Far East. The tropical beauty of Singapore and the cultural diversity of Hong Kong have had a profound influence on her work.
Returning to Hertfordshire she brings the flamboyant colour and rich expression of these cultures to her ceramic sculptures which she produces in her studio at Parndon Mill.
Angelika works in stoneware clay, and most of her pieces are suitable for exterior locations.
Liz Boast
Liz Boast has had a studio at Parndon Mill since 1999. It is set up as a printmaking studio, but She also paints in here too.
My collection of "stuff" that I use for inspiration is also kept here: dolls, puppets, bric-a-brac, junk shop pieces, car boot finds, beach combing treasure, things brought back from travels. Also my sketchbooks, full of drawings, paintings, cuttings, photographs, life drawings, tales and memories all to be used one day.
Suman Gujral
Suman GujralI graduated in 2018 with an MA in Fine Art, with distinction, from the University of Hertfordshire. She has shown her work extensively at Parndon Mill, Flatford National Trust, Candid Arts, Vyner Street and Mall Galleries in London, St Albans and Welwyn amongst others. She has also been selected to show work with the prestigious Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair- last year and again this November. She has been invited to take part in an exhibition next year at the internationally renowned Whitworth Gallery in Manchester. Earlier this year, She was awarded a bursary, by AN Artists, for career development and Lewis Biggs, formerly director of Tate Liverpool and Liverpool Biennial and now of Folkestone Triennial, is mentoring her.
“The interplay of light and shadow in our lives fascinates me. Light creates shadows and shadows help us appreciate the light. This has been particularly sharp for me during lockdown where the beauty of the landscape has provided light in the darkness. Being outside, in my garden, the countryside and by the sea, has kept me sane! I often take my sketchbook along with me and the drawings lead to my original, hand-pulled prints., made in my studio in Hertfordshire, looking out onto my garden.”
Kathy Gales
Kathy Gales' art is inspired by the scenes experienced whilst on her travels or locally in Harlow. Recently she has been developing her painting style using acrylics on clayboard. Her new paintings explore graphic line along with loose brush work to convey the beauty and drama of the landscape
John Durham
John lives in Hertfordshire and holds degrees from Hertfordshire, London and the Open universities. His academic research studies in geology inspired a love of our varied and dynamic national and international landscapes, and his passion for rocks and stones has been the inspiration for his art.
His contemporary paintings have focussed on revealing the underlying structures of some of his favourite places and landscapes. Vibrant colours and tints illustrate the composition of these geologically interesting sites and the artist’s understanding of the underlying structures of these landscapes lends these works a fascinating insight and new perspective on these familiar views. The result is work that is colourful and informative, but which seeks to lay bare the inner beauty of its subjects.
He has prepared a limited number (25)of high quality giclee prints of these paintings which are offered for sale.'
Chris Seaber
Chris Seaber was born in London in 1947. He studied at Camberwell, Falmouth and The Royal College of Art and since leaving the RCA in 1971, and in parallel with his teaching, has continued to make paintings, drawings and associated works.
His work revolves around ideas that can be instigated by any event or encounter. The starting point for these investigations can be as varied as the work produced. Something seen, heard, read or remembered can spark the initial engagement. The resulting body of work has produced collections of drawings and paintings far abstracted from the original source of engagement — but each group of works is bound together by a consistent theme.
Neil Robbins
Following an absence of several years Neil Robbins recently reintroduced himself to the Cornish coastline. He describes this as “a transforming moment of aliveness as I stood by the sea”. He experienced it all with a fresh vision, and has since returned many times to paint.
“I have been painting the sea and coast of Cornwall for over 20 years. Many people ask me why choose Cornwall? The appeal of the Cornish coast to me is, for some reason overwhelming, almost magical.
Over recent years, I have found a deeper peace and happiness painting this coastline. Collectors of my work have already noticed the change, becoming less abstract more studied, and quieter in tone. But I hope still mindful of the poetic, and the wonderment of an imaginative source, the sea and sky.”
Bob Boast
Bob Boast studied at Hornsey College of Art achieving BA (Hons) in 1969. His work is observational paintings in acrylic and mixed media, he is interested in colour and multiple perspectives. He also makes 3D works, which move and confuse the eye. These have been on display in the window of the Civic Centre in Harlow. He lives and works in Essex
Exhibitions -
Parndon Mill Gallery, Harlow, Essex
Courtyard Arts, Hertford, Hertfordshire
High Roding Arts, Dunmow, Essex
Broxted Hall, Wheathamstead, Hertfordshire
Hanbury Manor, Ware, Hertfordshire Essex
Open , Beecroft Gallery, Southend
Commissioned work on permanent display in Astro Lighting, Harlow Essex and Harlow Playhouse, Playhouse Square, Harlow
Alan Burgess
Landscape has been the favourite subject for Alan Burgess for most of his long painting career. His works are not detailed because he is interested in grasping the essential character of the subject as revealed by light. It is important for him also to enjoy the actual quality of paint. For these reasons anyone looking at a painting by Alan can get the same feeling of the subject that he himself experienced of a specific play of light and shade.