UNTHEMED | CELEBRATION OF CREATIVITY
EXHIBITING ARTIST | FOOTPRINT GALLERY JACKFIELD
13 – 21 SEPTEMBER 2025
MORAG ARCHER
Morag is based on Skye, and she has been making art for as long as she remembers. After school, she went on to complete a foundation year in Art, and then went on to a three-year BA Fine Art-based course at the Edinburgh College of Art, specialising in woven tapestry.
She is a mixed media artist, specialising in collage and mosaic techniques, but incorporating painterly details. She loves pattern and highly decorative details.
Her inspiration is her home on the Scottish Isle of Skye. She lives in a remote crofting community surrounded by mountains and vast seascapes and shares her large woodland garden with many species of birds and animals, which find their way into her artwork.
MARION BODDY-EVANS
Marion Boddy-Evans lives by the sea in northeast Scotland, in the historic fishing village of Portsoy. She has been a full-time artist since moving to Scotland in 2008.
Marion works in acrylics and mixed media in an expressive style, using strong colours and mark making.
The coastal landscape and flower gardens are the main inspirations for Marion’s paintings, done in her studio and on location (pleinair).
JACQUI COTTERILL
Jacqui is a textile artist based in the Midlands. The visual arts have always been an important part of her life. After attaining a BA (Hons) in Fine Art over 4 decades ago she later went on to study Creative Stitched Textiles.
Years of experimentation with threads, fabrics and fibres have led to diverse techniques usually including free motion embroidery. Materials include her own hand-dyed fabrics, handmade felt, leather, beads, and metal.
Her interest in the colours and patterns of nature, particularly the sea, are reflected in much of her work. She is currently also working on ways of interpreting and representing detailed scientific images.
MARK GITTINS
Mark is based in his home-studio in North Nottinghamshire. He’s been making art, of one kind or another, since childhood. He started making pots four years ago.
Mark works with stoneware clay, making functional pottery on which the making process is visible in the finished piece. Some of his work is woodfired with the Sherwood Forest Woodfiring Society.
Inspiration comes all around. From visual arts and mark-making, from natural forms and the colours of rocks. All of this is filtered through the practical lens of functional pottery and the making process itself, particularly for woodfired pieces.
MIKE HALASA
Mike is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist currently based in the Midlands who enjoys experimenting with different genres. He primarily favours abstract art, whether in digital or physical form.
His physical pieces often explore the darker aspects of the soul, providing a more introspective experience, while his digital works tend to be brighter and more vibrant.
Experimenting with various media is a crucial part of his creative process. Mike believes that the journey of creation is about learning and development, where even the trial-and-error process can lead to unexpectedly rewarding results.
LIZA HAWTHORNE
Liza is an artist and image maker living on the Isle of Skye. Northwest Scotland.
A somewhat compulsive serial creative, she is constantly seeking ways to present her thoughts and her relationship with the immediate environment in a visually compelling manner.
This has led to more than 3 decades of exploring diverse media and tools, in order to attempt to capture ideas as they occur.
DEBBIE LYDDON
Debbie lives in Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk and has been making art for over 20 years.
Cloth is at the centre of her practice and she combines traditional stitch techniques with non-traditional materials such as bitumen, salt and wax to make 2-D and 3-D works.
Her work explores landscape and place, and inspiration comes from experiencing and paying attention to the surroundings. She aims to promote an awareness of the relationship between the visual, aural and tactile landscape.
DAVE STEWART PAGE
Based in Stoney Stanton, a small village in Leicestershire, Dave’s art-making journey has been a somewhat testing exploration, from butterfly paintings and stick people as a child, to photography in his teenage years, and more recently, discovering his visual artistic language.
He works in a variety of media, mainly using acrylic paints and inks, but sometimes incorporating a little watercolour and oil pastel. He enjoys the cyanotype process, as well as working with fabric and found objects.
His primary artistic interest is in exploring how manmade structures interface with nature and the landscape. He also loves geometric design and has a real appreciation for artists who worked in this area in the 1920s and 30s.
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