Jonathan Middlemiss is known internationally as an outstanding artist in individual ceramics, sculpture, painting & drawing, and land art. He grew up in the beautiful Yorkshire dales and studied fine art and intaglio printmaking at college before going on to make his living from individual ceramic vessels, painting and land art for over thirty five years.

Making pottery tableware for some years gave him the foundation to produce highly finished individual ceramics which have been exhibited worldwide for many years and can be found in museums in Britain, Europe and the Far East.

His childhood love of creating in the landscape has never left him however, and this has recently led to sculpture and land art collaborative projects with Arts Council and Wildlife Trust support. It has led him to find ways to encourage others to value and conserve the wildernesses of the world through creativity, and in this he reflects on the words of the Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum who says In the end we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand....
This is a unique role for the arts in the future. He sees the Northern Fells of Lapland as a particularly inspirational place for people to work creatively. Drawing and painting have always been a foundation of his work and he paints in watercolours and oils in the landscape, but prefers dry media such as conté, pastel, and compressed charcoal on heavy watercolour paper.
He also uses oil or acrylic on canvas with found materials from the landscape as a way of connecting with the physical and subtle energy of a particular place.
His established reputation in ceramics led to being offering lectures and workshops in the U.S.A and U.K., and since 1996 he has been invited to be an external lecturer at Falmouth College of Arts and University College Cornwall.
Jonathan continues a busy programme of exhibitions and is currently working on paintings for a solo exhibition inspired by the wilderness of Lapland. In ceramics his work has been shown this year in the 4th World International Ceramics Biennale in Korea.
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Tom Rickman is a professional artist who grew up in London and studied at the Epsom School of Art. Upon finishing college he moved to West Dorset and immersed himself in the sea and landscape, painting from a small beach hut in Charmouth.
His natural predilection for the west led him to Cornwall, where he currently resides and works close to his chosen subject, the landscape.
The idea of light and colour, which he exercised at college, is at the centre of his creative work and he constantly studies these themes in the landscape - how the two interact and affect each other.
Over the years he has built up a broad body of work from various geographical areas.

These include Dorset, Cornwall, Scilly, Dartmoor/ Exmoor, the Western Highlands of Scotland, Venice, Sicily and of course the sea itself. Continuing to feed his hunger for ever new horizons he has began to travel further afield.
Upon discovering Italy and especially Venice its character really took him by surprise here he found a sense of golden light and now regularly makes trips and exhibits in the city. Further discovering Italy he drove his Morgan Sports car down to Sicily from Cornwall many miles and images resulted in a body of work which was exhibited in Venice in June 2007 and produced into a book Sicilia 06.
In all these areas a similar theme has surfaced in his paintings ­ the light, atmosphere and character of a place.

Having touched the south of Europe, the opportunity to go to its Northern edge fills Tom with excitement - the North as a romantic arena, its light and clear elemental air and wild space. Travelling to these places satisfies a deep yearning to discover and he is always delighted to return home with fresh images and memories.
Tom¹s work is exhibited in both the UK and Internationally. He shows regularly in Nantucket USA and Venice Italy. He has works in various collections including; Christies, London, Slaughter and May, London, Ely House, London, Hell Bay and Island Hotels, Scilly and the Beach Club, Nantucket. Tom has also had his work commissioned for the new Queen Mary ll.
His book 'On the Edge of Twilight' was published by Great Atlantic Publications September 2002. Tom has run several painting workshops in West Dorset and on the Scilly Isles.
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Timothy Niall-Harris is one of the UK leading contemporary Avian Artists although he prefers just to be known as an artist who happens to paint birds. Living in the Highlands of Scotland gives him the opportunity to study the many bird species that surround his home and studio. His wildlife paintings of grouse, capercaillie, pheasant and partridge have become highly sought after by art lovers and sporting enthusiasts alike.

Timothy's interest in wildlife and painting lead him on a worldwide search for experiences to portray in his avian art. From the Outback and rainforests of Australia, to the Southern edge of the Sahara desert Timothy has absorbed the stark beauty of the wild places of the planet.

Although wildlife art commissions draw him out of the UK to paint rare St Vincent¹s Parrots in the West Indies or Bee Eaters in Senegal, Tim still retains his great passion for the birds of the remote parts of the UK. The moorland of Cumbria and the Munro¹s of Scotland still remain one of his great passions in search of the grouse and the feeling of space. It is this love of the wilderness that has now led him to one of the last wilderness areas of Europe - Lapland. Tim is looking forward to introducing the students to this magnificent unspoilt nature area beyond the Arctic Circle, and the inspirational wildlife present here.

Working on private commissions and building a selection of work for regular exhibitions Timothy is always developing new ideas based on his life experiences with the birds of the world. His avian subjects have been exhibited to worldwide acclaim both in the UK and Australia and his paintings hang in private collections in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Holland and West Indies. Over the years his work has been reproduced for Limited edition prints via Buckingham Fine Art and has been sold in Sotheby¹s Annual Wildlife Auctions.
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