Creative Hinckley Member Directory
Looking for a creative? Here's a selection!
There are a plethora of local artists, designers, writers and craftspeople living and working in the Hinckley area. The following directory lists those who are active members of Creative Hinckley. Click on any member to view their portfolio.
John Brightmore
Glen Bank Photography is based at The Lawns Business Centre, in Hinckley where we work on a varied client list from furniture to fashion and flowers to food.
With every shoot bringing its own unique set of rules to achieve the desired result, one shot can last all day, or a whole catalogue could be shot too.
Working now totally on digital the only restrictions are how long your eyes can last in front of a computer screen. Having been taught to create special effects on film in camera, through multiple exposures and trickery pokery; the saying, “the camera never lies” has never been so far from the truth.
Neil Coultas
I was born in Great Grimsby in 1961 and studied at Grimsby School of Art before gaining a degree at St Martin's School of Art in London in 1983. I now live in Hinckley, Leicestershire.
My work is heavily influenced by the dockland environment where I lived in my early years. The colour, shapes and texture of the trawlers, equipement and surroundings lend themselves to my work and are an endless source of inspiration.
Bill Allsopp Photography
I have had a passion for photography all my life. I specialise in landscape and monochrome work but make pictures of many different subjects. My pictures have been published by magazines, used for advertising, on greetings/birthday cards and on the internet etc. You can buy prints or acquire a licence for advertising, editorial or other use. I am also available to produce commissioned work.
Sue Barry - Mixed Media, Felt/Textile Artist
Sue is inspired by Hedgerows & Flowers, creating contemporary pieces of art and craft, using dyed wool tops and traditional and contemporary techniques. Sue cards the wool tops to create a variety of colours to develop felt silk chiffon/wool scarves, pots, wallhangings and brooches.
Larger framed work is also available. Each piece is unique. Sue has exhibited throughout the East Midlands, is a member of Creative Hinckley, and facilitates creative and Reiki healing workshops.
Elizabeth Jarvis - aka Betty Knitter
I am a designer and maker of knitted accessories, including bags and home furnishings. I also write knitting patterns and I’m a regular contributor to ‘Simply Knitting’ magazine, as well as selling my patterns as downloadable files via my website. My particular interest lies in combining different yarns together to create knitted pieces with exciting colours and textures.
Winsome Ruddock
As a Participatory Artist Winsome has over 19 years experience working with many diverse communities throughout the Midlands.
Using an exciting variety of interesting and engaging creative processes, Winsome works in close partnership with local authorities, schools, and community groups.
Utilising textiles, mosaic and painting, participants are given opportunities to explore and express themselves through the creative process.
The latest addition, ‘Art Parties’, which happen at her studio at the Atkins, provide fun, hands-on creative experience for boys and girls.
Elizabeth Bamfield Textile Artist
I design and make contemporary wearable art. Currently I make felt, and hand knit with coloured copper wire to create different textural effects for beaded jewellery. I am inspired by the ideal of combining natural and man-made fabrics and other materials. As an experienced teacher of textiles I will be offering textile workshops to adults and children.
Sharon Steingold
I have lived in the Midlands for many years. I trained as a nurse, and then studied Fine Art at North Warwickshire College, Loughborough University and De Montfort University. I completed a PhD in 2007 at DMU where I now work as a senior lecturer. I have led workshops in schools and organised several public art projects in Leicestershire. I love to paint and to be involved in creative activity!
Eve Marshall
My work is inspired by animals and nature. I love to play with colour and textures and create bespoke needle felted brooches, cushions, vessels, jewellery and bags out of locally sourced wool. I am a full time crafter and spend my time teaching workshops and selling my work at galleries in the East Midlands and online. I welcome comissions and enjoy making a person's favourite animal out of wool.
Jo Connell
Contemporary ceramic vessels, sculptures and wall panels for interior and exterior settings.
Well known for her work using coloured clays - subtle colours and textures produce intriguingly tactile surfaces, sometimes stretched and distressed almost as geological forces affect the earth’s crust.
A member of Craft Potters Association and Royal Birmingham Society of Artists; retired college lecturer; author of The Potters Guide to Ceramic Surfaces (Apple) and Colouring Clay (Black). Available for teaching and workshops/ demonstrations.
David McCormack
I was born in London. I hold an honours degree in English and a Master’s from the Shakespeare Institute. Formerly, I was an actor and director, I now teach English and creative writing at Hereward College in Coventry. I am a prolific writer of poetry and I have recently begun work on a tetralogy of plays on political figures for radio, the first of which, Stalin’s Final Statistic, was broadcast last year by Renaissance Radio.
Helen Sutherland
No profile currently available
Sarah Bellavia
I am currently studying a B.A (Hons) in Design Crafts at De Monfort University.
My main interest is with slumped glass. I am inspired by the forms from the natural world and landscapes.
I take ideas from my photos and drawings and use them as inspiration to create decorative slumped glass pieces.
Pete Underhill, Chocolate Starfish Limited
A graphic designer for over 25yrs, Pete now works from his home studio sharing his time between graphics, illustration and writing children's books.
For relaxation, he likes to paint people in oils and is always on the lookout for interesting faces.
Amelia Kirk
I create handmade jewellery from silver, copper, brass and semi precious stones. The collection includes a series of necklaces, earrings, bracelets and rings.
I am inspired by knitting which is incorporated through the mixed media elements in my jewellery. The theme of knitting and nostalgia is portrayed through texture, piercing, buttons, thread and paper. Every stage of the making process requires an individual and personal approach. Variations in scale, colour, composition and decoration, makes each item unique.
Commissions are welcomed.
Chic Throws
Chic Throws is the home of stunning locally handmade quilts & throws from the heart of the sunny midlands, I believe that my quilts make wonderful, functional, but fashionable lasting gifts & there's nothing better than a quilt to call your own, especially one that is made just for you! Commission pieces a specialty of mine; why not enquire about your own handmade throw, now taking orders for children’s receiving quilts/play mats.
Contactus
CONTACTUS HAS BEEN IN HINCKLEY TOWN CENTRE SINCE 1986. THE OWNERS ARE MARVIN AND LARAINE COOK. WE FRAME EVERYTHING FROM FOOTBALL SHIRTS TO CAKE DECORATIONS. IN THE SHOP WE HAVE A LARGE SELECTION OF PRINTS AND LOTS OF MIRRORS MADE TO ANY SIZE YOU WANT.
Artography
My name is Lesley Bee and I specialise in wedding and portrait photography. My aim is to create stylish, contemporary images that you will treasure forever.
John Commane
In the seventies I attended evening art classes at North Warwickshire College
in Nuneaton. This was when I first started potting for leisure. In the late nineties
I studied ceramics and glass up to HND under the stewardship of
international potter Jo Connell. I continued my studies at Birmingham City University.
I then returned to Nuneaton College and taught Flexi Access Foundation pottery.
My primary discipline is ceramics. I specialise in RAKU fired pieces. I like to
explore other areas of ceramic making and firing techniques.The options are
endless.
I am also a member of Art Alert in Nuneaton and Escape Warwickshire.
Si Welford - Way Up There
Way Up There is the home of artist Simon Welford. Simon’s work has been gaining popularity over the past couple of years due to its use commercially by bands and in a successful UK film.
Simon’s work has sold as far a field as Japan and the USA and he held three successful art exhibitions in Sydney, Australia at the end of 2010. Simon’s next exhibition will be in Leicester in November 2011.
Bev Chandler
I am a fine artist. My current work focuses upon the use of colour in contemporary painting practice. The perception of movement that evolves through colour, shape and pattern form the basis of my lines of enquiry.
My current paintings derive from doodles. The fluid lines and shapes produced through this subconscious method, entice the viewer to travel round the paintings in "the minds eye”. This notion of a feeling of movement on a static two dimensional surface encourages existensial sensations including: pace, quiet, noise, space and enclosure.
Nicola Wynne
Having worked in the textile industry for the last 16 years as a Design Manager for Courtaulds Textiles and in Buying at Next I set up “Envisage Creative Ltd”, a Textile Design Consultancy specialising in surface pattern design, which offers print designs, separations & product designs to the textile, ceramics and stationary markets.
“Envisage Brides” offers a bespoke design, dressmaking & alterations service creating individual bridalwear, bridesmaid dresses, christening gowns and special occasionwear.
ERUD IT Limited
ERUD IT is a well-established and professional IT company offering high quality service and professionalism.
Our dedicated creative department are here for all your web, print and video and multimedia requirements offering bespoke solutions with your business needs and target audience in mind.
Our technical team deliver IT services, solutions & support to business customers and home-users. Our skilled engineers are Microsoft certified and we have in house expertise covering all aspects of computer support.
Source Web Design
We build business web sites that resonate with your audience, and implement content management systems and web site maintenance services to ensure that your site stays fresh. Our search-engine optimisation service will dramatically boost your ranking in Google.
We also provide businesses across the UK with robust web hosting, email hosting and email marketing solutions.
Sue Mackrell
I am a poet and short story writer. I have an MA in Creative Writing from Loughborough University, and I teach the creative writing module there. My work has been published in a range of anthologies and magazines. With my husband David McCormack I run creative writing workshops with participants of all ages, abilities and backgrounds. Themes of workshops include writing about art and museum artefacts, local history and personal memories.
Arminta Fibrecrafts - Leigh Ann McDonagh
In her youth, American textile artist Leigh Ann McDonagh was lovingly taught to crochet by her inspirational grandmother, Arminta. Thus began a lifelong love affair with textiles - art, heart and function entwined.
Her work encompasses a wide range of fibre and textile arts – including hand-spinning, crocheting, weaving, feltmaking, knitting, dyeing, rugmaking, sewing and quiltmaking.
Her focus is on teaching these skills to beginners, via workshops, make-and-take parties and one-to-one instruction, sharing the joy of making things by hand.
Gwyn Williams
Gwyn is based in Leicestershire, and has been in the field of Interior Design for twenty five years, working on projects encompassing restaurants, retail interiors and executive homes. Designing and project managing projects at Historic Royal Houses, Natural History Museum, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, National Museum of Ireland, Royal Collections, First Choices, and executive homes in London and New York.
Gwyn currently works for Feed The Hungry UK providing food aid to projects around the world.
Card-Well
Distributing totally distinctive and unique little works of art, through cards and some pictures to suit every occasion from greetings to special birthdays to ‘Thank you’ cards using a wide range of medium. A limited number of commissions taken.
Peter Welton
After leaving school at 16 Peter was employed as a clerk in Grimsby General Hospital. Then he did National Service in the RAF where he was chosen to be trained as a killer. He then worked as a street singer, a railway porter and a school teacher and ended up as Professor of Fine Art at De Montfort University. He is now a full time painter with a string of clients including H.M. The Queen.
Judith Coles, Glass Artist (Thermalshock)
I am a self taught glass artist working in the field of warm and hot glass techniques. I particularly love working with bright and colourful glass and I pride myself on making a selection of modern and unique clocks, bowls, mirrors, jewellery and pens using a combination of glass, silver, wood, modern acrylics, copper and stone.
Graeme Hawes
A Glass blower/ Senior Lecturer at De Montfort University. I make contemporary functional blown glass vessels, supplying a number of retail outlets both nationally and internationally.
I also make one-off pieces for galleries and exhibition concentrating on the concepts of non- utilitarian craft, which are purely ornamental
Terry Davies
I am a self publishing fine art landscape photographer specialising in the landscapes of the British Isles. My motivation is to capture the essence of the landscapes that surround us through a combination of good light, detail and composition.
I complete the entire workflow myself from the photography and processing to the framing and final presentation. I use only the highest quality materials throughout the process and my prints are of giclée quality. My work is often very large with framed images up to 1.5m in length.
Lush-a-bye-baby
Lush-a-bye-baby offers a range of ‘Nappy Art’ gifts such as nappy cakes, nappy motorbikes, nappy babies and much more. The ideal new-born baby gift, with each one beautifully created to welcome that’s special little one into the World.
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