Olinda is a potter who works in Ashover making boxes and sculpture She draws on Middle Eastern and Southern European ceramic styles. Olinda is a member of the Northern Potters Association and Holymoorside Arts Festival.
Jennie comes from an embroidery background and now works as a mixed media textile artist and printmaker. She is a member of textile and printmaking groups in Derbyshire and Sheffield, exhibiting and running workshops with them. Her creative work focuses on stitch, print and constructed 3D pieces.
Ann is a weaver. One strand of her current work is tapestry. The other is handwoven textiles of a more practical kind.
She has a B.A. Hons in Textile Design and a P.G.C.E. She has been an adult tutor and a primary school teacher.
Adrian is a ceramics artist based in Glossop. He joined the team in 2011 having exhibited as an artist for the last six Open Arts events. Adrian aims to promote the arts in the north of the county and recognises the important role that the Derbyshire Open Arts plays in this.
Kelly is a landscape artist who also works in the design industry. She lives and works in Derbyshire and is passionate about getting people to discover their inner creativity
Living in Whaley Bridge for over 25 years now, trained in fine art at Loughborough then lived a life on the railway. 3 years ago I set up 'Handmade in Horwich End' and basically create what I want, largely working as a textile artist producing both 2D & 3D work. 2 main workstreams - fabric figures and reverse appique & machine embroidered portraits to commission.
Andrea Joseph is an illustrator from South Wales, now living and drawing in the high peak. Her illustration work has taken her around the world, working on book, documentary illustration and urban sketching. She teaches online for Sketchbook Skool and runs her own workshops in Derbyshire including the popular Drink and Draw events. In 2012 a book was published about Andrea's work.
Having lived in Derbyshire for the last 14 years Liz finds it inspiring to invoke this within her craft work of soft furnishings including hand beaded bedspreads, hearts bags and collage pictures.
Maddy is an art textile teacher who has recently moved from East Anglia to Derbyshire. Here, in Derbyshire, she hopes to focus more on her art work. She has held exhibitions in Suffolk and Essex, works on commissions and supplies local pubs and cafes with her art work. She paints animal faces and land/seascapes and creates mixed media pieces that include print and stitch. Her background is both fine art and art textiles