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Sue Kennedy
Baby Photography has been at the heart of my business since I moved from my first little studio on the the top floor of Parndon Mill in 2004, to the first floor a few years later to establish my portrait studio.
Alan Freeman
Several years ago it seemed that blacksmithing was concerned only with reproducing traditional designs. Now it has become a creative craft offering an opportunity for artistic expression. As with ceramics, there is a sense of magic in using fire to turn raw materials of little beauty into objects which are useful and attractive.
David Rouse
After spending four years studying classical guitar making in London, David began his professional career in 1991 and moved to Parndon Mill in 2005.
Using the finest available tonewoods he makes bespoke classical and flamenco guitars of the highest quality.
His instruments are in the hands of discerning musicians in all corners of the world.
Margery Lovatt
Growing up in Ireland, Margery has always been aware of the beauty seen in colour and light. Working in stained glass allows her the opportunity to work with these elements. Lettering is also important for her offering another form of communication. For this she works on paper or glass using a pen, brush or engraving tool. She has a particular interest in making stained glass sundials and calibrating them to the location they are designed for.
Rossetti Couture
Theresa Blake trained at Wimbledon School of Art in period costume cutting and construction for film, television and the West End stage (ballet and opera). By combining this early training with her later experience in several major bridal houses, "Alternative" couture bridalwear design was inevitable.
Gemma Smale
We are delighted to introduce the newest member of the community at Parndon Mill hub of creativity. Currently training as a ceramic designer Gemma's work is an exploration and study of form and surface. With interest in evolving the natural material of clay into functional wares and sculptural pieces.
Ivan Daggett
Ivan has been practicing as a fine artist and tutor for over 25 years.
As a fine artist he works predominantly in sculpture exploring the psychology and symbology of themes in world mythology. The materials and methods he uses are wood and stone carving, clay modelling, silicone rubber mold making and plaster casting, drawing and video. He has exhibited regionally and nationally and his work is held in private collections in the UK and abroad.
Billie Achilleos
Billie is an artist working within many disciplines and has been a puppet, prop and set builder since 2006. Her specialty areas include model making, moulding and casting, foam and textile fabrication, wood carving, paper engineering and metal work.
Sue Wagstaff
After graduating with a BA Honours Degree in Fine Art from the University of Hertfordshire I completed my training as a Secondary School Teacher in Art at Middlesex University. I work part time at a local Hertfordshire school as Head of Art, run private classes at Parndon Mill and work on local outreach projects in Hertfordshire and Essex.
Anton Psak
Within my work, I am carefully considering the influence of social cognitive network on the very individual ‘mind’. The choice of oil as a medium, which predominates in my practice, is conditional to its historical context, social expectation and the illusionary impossibility of challenging this. I use a combination of wet-on-wet and glazing techniques, which allow me to layer my memories and be in control of letting-in the viewer.
Corrina Dunlea
Corrina Dunlea is a fine artist /Illustrator, a teacher of drawing and portraits, and a proud cultural facilitator for Harlow's art collections, working in a studio at Parndon Mill. Her portraits are usually born instantaneously, stemming from an urgency to capture both the energy and humanity of the sitter. The images are created in the main with dry mediums, charcoal, easy to slide around and form a soft ground for building up tone, pencils to refine features, ink and wash to generate movement and drama. Her popular images depict lively observations of life,love and food. Her portraits in this exhibition are giclee prints of her paintings.
Jon Farningham
Jon Farningham captures not only outward appearances but something that is suggestive of the character underneath. When he creates self-portraits he looks inward, however when painting others he removes personal and subjective experience to create an image which is fair and true of them. Commissions would be accepted. Portrait painting is an immense task, however the rewards of the experience are incredibly fulfilling.
Lotte Farnham
Austrian-born Lotte is a painter and printmaker. Originally a translator she studied Fine Art as a mature student. She graduated from the University of Hertfordshire in 2002 and has since exhibited at regular intervals. Although her work is generally quite abstract, she likes to tell a story. Her prints mirror her emotional involvement with nature, as well as the human condition.
Gerda Rubinstein
Gerda Rubinstein was born in Berlin in 1931and moved to Amsterdam in 1933 where she attended the Rijks Academie, winning a scholarship to study in Paris under Ossip Zadkine. Returning to Amsterdam she was awarded her first public sculpture commissions.
In 1958 she came to London where in 1967 Pat Gibberd saw her work on exhibition and recommended it to the Harlow Arts Trust. She was commissioned to make sculptures for the town and the Gibberd Garden including a portrait of Sir Frederick. Gerda's sculptures are very popular in Harlow. They are familiar, well appreciated and many inspire real affection.
Gerda’s sculptures have developed from early carving in stone and then refractory brick, in which she carved negative shapes into which bronze was poured. She now concentrates on modelling in wax for small work or in clay for larger pieces, which are then cast in bronze or resin.
Gerda explains: "My sculptures are almost always of people, getting my inspiration from where I live. I have also made portraits and modelled birds and animals. I hope that the work, which is generally figurative, will be self-explanatory without the need for titles. I have come to realise that the sense of freedom and hope that I experienced as a teenager in Holland, after five years of occupation in World War II, has really never left me and that it still colours my work".
John Farnham
John Farnham worked as assistant for Henry Moore until the sculptor’s death in 1986. John creates works in bronze, stainless steel and stone. He is particularly passionate about carving. It is the process of elimination and “listening” to the stone which excites him. Although he has a rough idea about what he wants to create, he lets himself be guided by the strata and colour of the stone. He mostly depicts human and animal forms and takes inspiration from foreign cultures, mythology and his imagination.
He has widely exhibited in this country and abroad and his sculptures can be found in major collections. His latest commission was a large bronze for Pembroke College in Cambridge.
Roy Jones
Roy has previously worked in Islington, London, and had a regular space on the Piccadilly railings selling his work to purchasers from all over the world. He moved to Hertfordshire seven years ago painting and exhibiting locally, including with Hertford and St Albans Art Societies and at the Hertford Club.
He loves the countryside and is a keen angler, which has been a great inspiration for his work. He works predominately in acrylics and watercolour.
Simon Langsdale
Simon Langsdale has had a lifelong interest in the arts, cultural heritage and the crafts but it wasn’t until 2006-07 when he completed a full-time course at Roehampton University in calligraphy and bookbinding that he seriously considered a career in these areas.
During 2008, he had an informal apprenticeship with the letter carver Tom Perkins, learning how to draw letters and cut them in stone. From 2008 -11 he studied at the University of Hertfordshire, gaining a BA with First Class Honours in History. At the same time, he continued developing his skills as a letter carver, visiting other craftsmen’s workshops and gaining his first commissions.
On graduating in 2011, he set up his own business as a self-employed letter carver. From 2011-15, he worked on cataloguing the archive of the craftsman Michael Renton for the Edward Johnston Foundation and also became the librarian and archivist for the Society of Scribes and Illuminators.
In 2018, he completed an MA by research in History at the University of Hertfordshire. In October 2017, he became a fellow of Digswell Arts Trust and had studio at The Forge in Digswell, Hertfordshire until July 2020, when he moved to Parndon Mill, Harlow. He mainly works to commission, creating pieces of public art, memorial stones, birdbaths, benches, plaques and stones for the garden. He also teaches and lectures on calligraphy and letter carving, running workshops and short courses. In the spring of 2018, he ran letter carving workshops at Highfield School Letchworth.
Sarah Lamb
Sarah Lamb’s training consisted of a three year jewellery course at the Epsom School of Art in the mid-seventies, winning an award in the 1977 De Beers “Diamonds Tomorrow” competition. She has been designing and making and more recently teaching jewellery ever since. Colour is an important element in her work which is seen through use of enamel, glass bead, fused glass and other mixed media which she makes herself and combines with silver to create individual pieces.
Melinda Scarborough
Melinda has has worked for over 35 years in the jewellery industry, obtaining a BA Hons Degree in Jewellery Design and Manufacture, City and Guilds (distinction) for Jewellery construction. She has exhibited at Goldsmith's Fair, and was Student Designer of the Year at UK Jewellery Awards.
She has been teaching at Made in Herts and previously at Artshed for 10 years. Her patience and preparation is second to none, along with her technical knowledge and wealth of experience. Her precise traditional style is admired and emulated.
Yuki Kokai
Yuki graduated from Tokyo Glass Art Institute with a master degree in Glass Art in 1997. She then moved to the UK and studied metalwork and jewellery at The Surrey Institute of Art & design University College (UCA Farnham). After graduating, Yuki has worked for a number of internationally renowned glass studios. Since 2006 she has been concentrating mainly on her jewellery work, and she still blows glass too.
Yuki produces precious metal jewellery and Japanese Kimono accessories in designs inspired by nature and seasonal changes. Her work is endlessly tactile and playful, but also classically beautiful, harnessing shape and light to great effect. With her traditional work, she brings a unique modern essence to an ancient art form.
Yuki has been exhibiting her work across the UK and in Japan in selected galleries.