Wiltshire Artists Collective

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✨ARTIST SPOTLIGHT ✨ Philipa Batty ✨Picture the moment - I was dancing around my kitchen to “Make your own kind of music”...
23/04/2024

✨ARTIST SPOTLIGHT ✨ Philipa Batty ✨

Picture the moment - I was dancing around my kitchen to “Make your own kind of music”, whilst completing a painting exercise from an online art course and I was having a ball. I cried when the music stopped, in that moment, I knew I had found what I needed to do, I needed more art making in my life. The idea for www.mykinda.art was born.

Encouraged to stick with more academic subjects at school, I went to university to complete a Nursing degree. I've always had creative pastimes - making clothes, home furnishings, sugar craft and watercolours.

I retrained as an Alexander technique (AT) teacher, after years in the NHS and education. A friend came to me for AT lessons. She told me about art classes she was setting up, and I went along to find out about expressive intuitive painting, mixed media and acrylic - which I knew nothing about at the time. It blew my mind!

By 2019 I entered my first juried show and was accepted. Sadly, it also coincided with a cancer diagnosis. I’ve continued to paint, learn and teach AT. In 2021, my art became a bigger, necessary, and more public part of my life. I've been accepted in more juried shows, I’ve shared more on social media and have now sold locally, nationally, and internationally.

The Peacock Art Trail 2023, another pivotal moment - I met lovely visitors alongside friendly and talented artists from the Corsham area; but I also found out about the submission event at Corsham gallery and a vacant studio space. Now in 2024, in my new space, I have created my latest collection. It will be in the window at called “Still Alive”. 1st- 15th May and will include abstracts, florals and quirky still life paintings.  

My pieces convey how I am in the moment and what I’m curious about. I produce my kind of art (www.mykinda.art).

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✨ARTIST SPOTLIGHT✨ Fiona Charter ✨After my degree in 3D Design (ceramics) I completed a PGCE and taught Art and Design f...
06/04/2024

✨ARTIST SPOTLIGHT✨ Fiona Charter ✨

After my degree in 3D Design (ceramics) I completed a PGCE and taught Art and Design for many years. I have been a full time ceramicist for about five years now and work from my garden studio near Salisbury.

I mainly make large platters and coil vessels from terracotta, painting a layer of white slip over. Onto this I paint insects, flowers and birds in the style of old botanical drawings and prints. Inspiration is Wiltshire flora and fauna, archaeology and folklore.

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✨ARTIST SPOTLIGHT✨ Kristiina Jefimova ✨My name is Kristiina (based in Trowbridge). I draw colouring books that are sold ...
28/03/2024

✨ARTIST SPOTLIGHT✨ Kristiina Jefimova ✨

My name is Kristiina (based in Trowbridge). I draw colouring books that are sold online on amazon.

It started about 5 years ago with hand drawn doodles on paper which I then scanned individually and put together a colouring book online.

Now I have moved onto digital creaton. Still hand drawn but directly on iPad.

My work is mainly abstract doodles and mandalas. I have released several colouring books over the years. For me the process is very therapeutic.

Here is a link to my books on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AKristiina+Jefimova&s=relevancerank&text=Kristiina+Jefimova&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1

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✨ARTIST SPOTLIGHT✨Nettie Baskcomb Brown✨Nettie is a botanical artist working from her home studio in Pewsey. She uses fr...
27/03/2024

✨ARTIST SPOTLIGHT✨Nettie Baskcomb Brown✨

Nettie is a botanical artist working from her home studio in Pewsey. She uses fresh seasonal flowers and foliage in two distinctive ways: - Pressed Flower Art and Bas-relief Botanicals. Nettie either presses botanical specimens to use in her watercolour paintings or impresses them into clay to make bas-relief plaster and concrete casts. This ancient technique, used by botanists before the invention of photography, provides a different perspective on the ephemeral beauty of our flora, not through colour, but through texture.

‘Close your eyes and feel every detail of each plant, leaf or seed – like a botanical braille.’

As well as making unique visual and textural art of our local landscapes and flora, Nettie makes bespoke bas-relief pieces for ‘One Moment in Time’ garden portraits, wedding bouquets and memorial tributes.

Exhibitions 2024:





Gallery 11, Planks Farm, Lydeway, Devizes

Nettie’s home studio is open by appointment where she also runs a limited number of workshops during the season.



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✨ One of our previous spotlight artists, , has asked us to share with you some of his more recent photographs. Of course...
26/03/2024

✨ One of our previous spotlight artists, , has asked us to share with you some of his more recent photographs. Of course we are happy to oblige, we think they look brilliant! We particularly love the secretary bird. Which one is your favourite? ✨

✨ARTIST SPOTLIGHT✨Klee Mallows ✨My artwork is inspired by nature and the wildlife that exists around us. Primarily I am ...
23/03/2024

✨ARTIST SPOTLIGHT✨Klee Mallows ✨

My artwork is inspired by nature and the wildlife that exists around us. Primarily I am a commission based portrait artist working in Acrylic paints or Graphite pencils.

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✨ARTIST SPOTLIGHT✨Carol Hall ✨I've always enjoyed drawing and painting but it's only over the last five or so years that...
19/03/2024

✨ARTIST SPOTLIGHT✨Carol Hall ✨

I've always enjoyed drawing and painting but it's only over the last five or so years that I've tried to develop my skills. My work is mainly inspired by nature with a bit of my own imagination. Most of my artwork is in oils but I enjoy using other mediums as well. I feel I'm still developing my own style and I like to experiment with different techniques.

You can find Carol

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✨ARTIST SPOTLIGHT✨ Amy B ✨As an artist based in the vibrant village of Marshfield, near the beloved city of Bath, I am c...
17/03/2024

✨ARTIST SPOTLIGHT✨ Amy B ✨

As an artist based in the vibrant village of Marshfield, near the beloved city of Bath, I am constantly inspired by the world around me. My work is a celebration of life and all its colourful complexities, conveying deep meaning and evoking powerful emotions. Each stroke of my brush is a joyful expression, infused with the love and passion I put into all my artwork.

Art is more than just a profession for me, it is my therapy. Through my creations, I explore my life experiences and channel them into a tangible form.

I am a mix media artist and use a variety of tools and techniques to give me Artwork a textured vibrant look.
All my Artwork is born from deep emotions and life experience both good and bad.
The deeper meaning painted in my work with each brush stroke conveys a message to each viewer of the piece of art.

Check out my website, “Amy B Artistry” with this link: https://www.amybartistry.com/

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✨ARTIST SPOTLIGHT✨ Fiona Macdonald ✨Fiona studied art and design at Bournemouth and Poole College then onto Bath Spa Uni...
15/03/2024

✨ARTIST SPOTLIGHT✨ Fiona Macdonald ✨

Fiona studied art and design at Bournemouth and Poole College then onto Bath Spa University to specialise in Ceramic Design during the late 90s.

During those formative years, there was no digital photography, no Instagram, no Etsy, no social media. Her works exemplify an essence of experience that carried through without feedback to support her adventures, in other words, she was held back by lack of confidence and support.

Since raising her family, she's back in the moment, continuing her innocent exploration of the unknown, like many artists.

Struggling with her understanding and faith of Christianity and the betrayals she's encountered, her work undertakes the portrayal of a journey back to self and the role of the Father in her purpose. Her artwork shows glimmers of hope for the future. A relationship with Jesus has been pivotal to this journey of understanding and guidance.

Her new clothes reveal her understanding of the Divine, and show her journey, in all it's glory.

Fiona views her work as "if it's beautiful, then I've succeeded. I've found beauty on the inside". A powerful statement.
"If I can create beautiful art, then I know I'm healed and God is speaking through me".

Fiona's art is fun, eclectic, raw and revealing, but mostly trying to be perfect. Just as it should be.

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✨ARTIST SPOTLIGHT✨ Sheryll K Fox ✨Sheryll K Fox moved to Wiltshire 25 years ago, attracted by the beautiful countryside ...
12/03/2024

✨ARTIST SPOTLIGHT✨ Sheryll K Fox ✨

Sheryll K Fox moved to Wiltshire 25 years ago, attracted by the beautiful countryside views. Despite being known locally for her figurative art and paintings of dancers, she regularly sketches and paints ‘en plein air’ during the summer. This winter she reviewed her studies and has made a larger set of paintings in the warmth and comfort of her home studio.

Sheryll will be taking over the window of the enchanting Corsham Gallery for two weeks with her new collection of Wiltshire landscape paintings.  From 13th – 27th March you can see her work in the gallery window and you will be able to meet her in person for tea and cake on Sat. 16th March from 11 am – 3 pm.

Sheryll’s previous work has been selected for the prestigious juried 'ING Discerning Eye' exhibition at The Mall Galleries in London, as well as The Bath Society of Artist's 116th Annual Show at The Victoria Gallery in Bath.

For more information about Sheryll you can follow her account 

And visit her website at www.skfoxart.com

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✨ARTIST SPOTLIGHT✨ Basia Martin ✨I have always painted but lockdown made me paint more extensively. I paint primarily in...
11/03/2024

✨ARTIST SPOTLIGHT✨ Basia Martin ✨

I have always painted but lockdown made me paint more extensively. I paint primarily in watercolour and pastel though recently a bit more in acrylic and oil. Landscapes and seascapes are preferred subjects. I exhibit regularly in group exhibitions and last year had my first “solo” exhibition with one other artist at the John Bowen Gallery in Malmesbury. I am a member of the Chippenham and District Artists, Tetbury Art Society and The Little Somerford Art Group.

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