Meet the Artists
Emma Bond
Emma is a botanical illustrator and printmaker, working across a range of printmaking techniques with drawing always at the heart of her practice. Inspired by the natural world, her work explores pattern, texture, and colour through processes including collagraph and monoprinting.
Emma loves sharing these techniques with others, encouraging experimentation, curiosity, and creativity for all levels of experience.
Barry Sykes
Barry Sykes (born 1976, lives and works in Walthamstow, London) is an artist with a varied practice, including drawing, sculpture and performance, used to explore play, pleasure, vulnerability and interaction.
As Barry’s Anywhere Arts School he has recently hosted workshops and events in museums, cafes, parks, hospitals, schools, colleges and saunas.
Siobhan Watt
Siobhán is an Illustrator printmaker based in Walthamstow, East London. She enjoys experimenting with analogue techniques, combining mark-making with collage and printmaking, carefully preserving the texture and imperfections in her work.
She is inspired by spending time in local green-spaces such as the Wetlands and Epping Forest. Her thoughtfully-crafted goods are all made in the UK, using eco-friendly materials like recycled papers, organic fabrics, and non-toxic water-based textile inks.
Laura Gee
Laura Gee is a London-based visual artist whose mark-making, colour and painterly gestures explore nature, a sense of place and time, emotions, motherhood and mental health.
Her art explores emotions such as anxiety, peace, love, grief, certainty, uncertainty, hope, and joy. Laura’s goal is to help people make art in simple, accessible ways to support wellbeing and mental health.
Ellie Horry
Ellie is a visual artist whose work is an evolving exploration of light and form encompassing drawing and printmaking. She has a BA in textile design and has been attending classes at the Royal Drawing School since 2019.
Natural forms, textures, patterns and movement all inspire her practice and she uses a lot of plant-based materials such as charcoal, chalk and botanical inks in her work.
A drawing session with Ellie can combine joyful experimentation and peaceful meditative observation, gentle exploration or bold expression. Above all, it's a rare opportunity to pause and to play.
Artists’ Work
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![A person's hand holding a white card with a pressed purple and white flower illustration, on a black surface with art supplies nearby.]()
Emma Bond - Tetrapak Printing
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![An art piece with a mixed media frame surrounding a blue background with the words 'Nothing better' written in white lines, as well as a large white circle in place of the letter 'O'.]()
Barry Sykes - #aNaturistClubInEssex
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![Interior of an art gallery or cafe featuring framed abstract artwork on a white pegboard wall, hanging pendant lights, and a display of colorful cups and bowls on a shelf.]()
Siobhan Watt - Woodland Cabin
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![A wall decorated with several landscape paintings, including a large painting of a beach scene with rocks and the sea, and smaller paintings of similar coastal scenery. Part of a green upholstered chair is visible in the lower left corner. The floor is wooden, and there are electrical outlets on the wall.]()
Laura Gee - St Marys Hospital Mental Health Unit
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![A black and white sketch of a woman sitting, her head turned to the side, with an elaborate hairstyle decorated with roses.]()
Ellie Horry - Circus and Comedia Del Arte
READY TO GET STARTED?
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Come and see what is on your doorstep. Our public sessions are open to everyone. Slow down, look closely, and have a go at drawing, no experience needed.
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