Andy Bendix

Local artist, Andy says this about her work:
‘My figures, either human or animal are very rarely from a single model. The idea comes first. A phrase, a cave drawing, a newspaper image. I cherry pick - her face, his posture, that attitude. I pick up the clay and finally, there comes the eyes-shut moment when the finished piece is clear in my mind and all other images are discarded. The idea is transformed into a cold cast metal or a fired ceramic sculpture- it’s done, it lives.’

'Thor' by Andy Bendix

Alison Catchlove

Since graduating from from Loughborough University in 2000 with a degree in Fine Art, Alison has been specialising in metalwork, creating sculptures inspired by nature and wildlife. She is particularly known for her intricate and often comical birds. Alison has had several successful solo exhibitions at RHS and National Trust gardens creating sculpture trails of her birds and other animals. She exhibits widely and often works to commission or runs workshops either in schools or from her studio in Shere.

As Alison says, ‘I enjoy what I do, I want that to be evident in the finished sculpture and I hope that it brings a bit of happiness to the people that look at it. I love nothing more than when someone looks at one of my sculptures and smiles.’

'Pair of Parrots' by Alison Catchlove

Martin Duffy

Martin has been a professional figurative sculptor since 1996. His work covers a wide variety of subjects including dancers, children, animals, portraits and motor sport. He casts in bronze and other materials for the garden and home. As he says,

‘I try to create powerful and dramatic sculptures, which have a beauty of form. Sculpture should be tactile, drawing the viewer to want to interact physically as well as visually with the work. With a lifetime fascination with the way a body moves, I enjoy the challenge of capturing the essence of movement, balance and tension within a static sculpture.’

Martin’s is a regular exhibitor at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and in 2012 was commissioned to produce a sculpture for the entrance hall of one of the Olympic training venues.

'Little Beggar' by Martin Duffy

Angela Farquaharson

Angela says, ‘Originally having studied fashion design, I returned to full time education to study Ceramics. It was during that time my direction changed from making vessels into becoming ever more figurative, being influenced by the female form, and I started to draw inspiration from the fashion world - the way fabric and drapery create new shapes, constantly changing appearance with the body’s movement.

‘The work has continued to evolve and develop more figuratively, becoming more emotive, capturing the modern idiom, whilst preserving the values of classical figurative sculpture. Ultimately my work revolves around depicting the female form and looking at its sensuality and inherent beauty.’

Angela has been a regular exhibitor at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Her work is in private collections around the world.

'Dormant Beauty' by Angela Farquaharson

Lynn Fitzwalters

Lynn is a local mosaicist who creates wall-hung pictures and garden art like stepping-stones, usually featuring wildlife. She seems to have endless patience, spending many hours cutting and fitting tiny glass and ceramic tiles to produce memorable images. Lynn is a passional gardener who creates the stunning backdrop for the sculpture trail at Art & Soul every year, much praised by artist and visitor alike.

'Tiger Tiger' by Lynn Fitzwalters

Suzie Hartley

Suzie says, ‘I have a classical style in my work and draw inspiration from ancient, fragmented sculptures, using the torso as my main focal point. Working both from life and intuitively, my expressive figures celebrate the strength and beauty of the female form. Through twisting, arching and stretching, my forms express tension and energy capturing movement in clay. I use life drawings as a starting point for my clay figurative sculptures and continue developing the forms in my art studio in Lewes, East Sussex. I am fascinated with ceramic glazes and oxides and my work explores colour though a variety of surface finishes.

‘I want to create sculptures that have a tactile quality, that draw you in so that you can experience new qualities and appealing forms from all angles.’

'Fragmented Form' by Susie Hartley

Paul Harvey 1960- 2023

Paul Harvey was a British sculptor and artist who has sold sculptures all over the world. Paul sculpted since the age of 10 and his love of birds and Art Deco design inspired much of his work. His works are cast in marble and metal resins, and there is also a small collection of foundry bronzes.

A regular exhibitor and friend of Art & Soul over the years, Paul sadly passed away in June 2023, after being diagnosed with a brain tumour. His wife Sarah worked alongside Paul for the past 25 years from their studio in the middle of the Hampshire countryside, surrounded by wildlife on the edge of a half-acre pond. She continues to produce his beautiful sculptures, with the help of their son Christian and daughter Eloise.

'Blackbird' by Paul Harvey

Richard Heron

Local artist, Richard, has been in the metalworking business for over 40 years and his skills have been developed through the generations as his father and grandfather were both blacksmiths.
Richard loves to create through the medium of metal, and he works with bronze, brass, copper and stainless steel. He particularly enjoys working with stainless steel as he loves the light and depth of colour from its reflection that is created through the seasons.

'Tribute to Life' by Richard Heron

Sara Ingleby-Mackenzie

Sara is an internationally recognized sculptor, winner of a Henry Moore Foundation Scholarship, a graduate of the Bath Academy of Art, and winner of The President’s Commendation Medal for Sculpture at the XIVth Florence Biennale in October 2023.

Sara is known for her witty and glamorous ladies. They take a lighthearted view of society, exploring how in our image conscious world, we wear sunglasses, go bare footed, teeter on impossible heels, and carry expensive handbags all for others to take note of. Sara’s leggy ladies are to be found in galleries and garden exhibitions in the United Kingdom and in private collections around the world.

'Calypso' by Sara Ingleby-Mackenzie

Sophie Lawther-Dunn

Local artist, Sophie is a contemporary landscape artist specializing in acrylics and metal leaf. She uses sweeping brushstrokes interlaced with illuminated metallics to capture the transitory nature of the near and far landscapes that move her. Sophie loves the romantic and gothic and that is echoed in the tumultuous emotive vistas she paints. A creative background in interior design helps to ground intuitive brushstrokes with an in-depth understanding of form, colour and proportion, creating expressive, contemporary pieces. Sophie lives and paints from her home studio near Haslemere and exhibits regularly while also painting to commission.

'Forest' by Sophie Lawther-Dunn

Allan Mackenzie

Allan trained in graphic and commercial art, entering the world of sculpture full time after a career in construction. His latest collection reflects human expression observing activities of the everyday. Adding humour and exaggerated drama brings his figures to life as they sit above the garden plants keeping a watchful eye over all things that grow.

From his studio in Sussex Allan creates sculpture in a range of media. The final piece comprises several smaller elements to form the overall picture. His work is exhibited with the Royal Horticultural Society, National Trust and The Crown Estate.

'The Rescuer' by Allan Mackenzie

Katy Netley

Katie, based in Midhurst, is a celebrated ceramic storyteller. She collaborates with clients to narrate their unique stories through custom totem poles, memorials celebrating lives, and enchanting wedding arches. Katie's passion for learning about diverse cultures, along with her love for vibrant colours and intricate patterns, deeply influences her work.

Working primarily in clay, she produces personalized totem pole sculptures from her garden studio. She also conducts totem pole workshops in schools, inspiring creativity in young minds.

Katie's creations are fired at stoneware temperatures, making them frost-resistant and perfect for any environment.

'Totem' by Katie Netley

Carol Orwin

Guildford based artist, Carol, studied at St Martin’s School of Art under Sir Anthony Caro and Phillip King. She is an Animalier, interested in the muscular form, movement, power, and nature of the animals that she models, taking care not to compromise the anatomical integrity of the sculpture.

To ensure that her work is reproduced exactly she casts all her own sculptures, giving her complete control over the finished piece, including patination. Carol has three life-sized wolves in bronze installed at the University of Surrey and a Sumatran tiger cub and nine month-old adolescent cub were commissioned for ZSL London Zoo’s Tiger Territory.

'No Bo Peep' by Carol Orwin

Laura Pentreath

Laura Pentreath specialises in sculpting wild and domestic animals, cast in bronze or bronze resin. Working from live models whenever possible, her pieces vividly capture the animal's form, movement and spirit. Her sculptures have been exhibited in various galleries and exhibitions across the United Kingdom.

Born and brought up on an East Anglian farm surrounded by wildlife, Laura Pentreath now lives and works in rural West Dorset with her husband, four children and numerous animals great and small.

'Fallow Deer' by Laura Pentreath

Emma Price

A Surrey-based abstract landscape painter, Emma Price works primarily in oils. She initially studied fine art and graphic design. Following her career in both Australia and England as a magazine Art/Creative Director across leading women's titles, in 2019 Emma left the publishing world to pursue her fine arts career. Having always felt a connection to the natural world, her work has evolved from realism pencil work to abstract landscapes. Emma creates atmospheric works that have a strong sense of light and drama, taking the viewer to more ethereal and imagined landscapes.

Recent successes include being one of the winners at the prestigious David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation Wildlife Artist of the Year 2024 and being shortlisted for the Women in Art Prize 2023. She exhibits regularly around the UK. She is an associate member of the Society of Graphic Fine Art.

'The Coppice' by Emma Price

Wendy Richards

In her words, ‘A new canvas, the smell of oil paint, a palette knife in my hand… I love to paint, to create something with meaning to me but then to pass it on with a new life to another.

‘Paint - the colour, the texture, the way it moves across the canvas, a limited palette with infinite possibilities. A dash of red amongst soft pastels, light and dark marks of the knife. The Subject - sea, sky, a face, a movement, stark buildings, fluid water, an image forming in the viewers perception.

‘The joy of creating has always been a part of who I am. I live in a corner of Hampshire with my lovely husband Tony and the comings and goings of our four children with lots of cats and chickens, four alpacas and a bouncy dog. My studio looks out onto a wildflower meadow. Inspiration is all around.’

'Jumbo' by Wendy Richards

Suzanne Riley

Local artist, Suzanne is a multidisciplinary artist whose work captures the joy of the visual world. Inspired by subjects ranging from the human form and typography to landscapes and abstraction, her creations explore the interplay of colour, texture, and composition.

Suzanne’s process begins with drawing, a bridge between conceptualization and painting, blending materials to create depth and texture. Collages, crafted from photographs, handmade papers, and recycled materials, often precede her paintings, serving as studies in texture and balance. Her photographic works transform everyday objects with striking colour saturation, printed on dibond with acrylic gloss for dramatic impact and lasting clarity. Colour remains central to her practice, guiding the creation of pieces that break conventions to captivate and uplift viewers.

'Blue Nude' by Suzanne Riley

Kate Rowe

Kate is a professional fabric collage artist living locally in Chiddingfold. Using Silk and other beautiful remnants, she creates unique, hand-sewn collages of people’s houses, their boats, children, pets, fish, sheep, birds and really anything and everything. Her work could be described as ‘Painting with fabric”.

Kate regularly accepts commissions, which are priced according to size and complexity. The collages are stretched over foam board and framed under art glass. They can take anything from a week to several months to complete. Kate’s work has received many accolades including being shown at The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

'Golf' by Kate Rowe

Alex Smith

As Alex says, ‘I have been lucky enough to work as an artist blacksmith since 1998 and have run Chalk Pit Forge, within Amberley Museum, West Sussex since 2008. I like to design and make functional metalwork and sculpture bespoke for a client or for sculpture trails, art trails and galleries.

‘My sculptures and functional work evolve from any source of inspiration, including the material itself, blacksmithing techniques, nature, feelings and people. I love to see beauty, form and shape in everything, whether it’s from a figure, a bird’s song or complex human emotions.’

'Natural Rhythm' by Alex Smith

Rachel Vittolo

Fluid acrylic artist Rachel Vitolo discovered this exciting technique over ten years ago. She uses the special effects that are totally unique to every painting as a background to her final brushwork. Sometimes the pours are done with an idea in mind and other times the pour decides what the final painting will be.

Rachel is a committee member of Haslemere Art Society and exhibits in the local area and further afield.

'Castle' by Rachel Vittolo

Neil Wilkin

Neil Wilkin’s passion for glassblowing and an enduring love of landscape and its formation, have been the driving forces behind a lifetime of making. This deep connection to the natural world is central to his work. He uses glass and the processes that form it to explore, celebrate and reflect the richness and extraordinary diversity around him. The colours he uses, hard and soft, absorbing and transmitting light, inform his work both physically and aesthetically. In recent years Neil has harnessed the optical qualities of solid glass in combination with the fluid richness of hot glass to explore new perspectives. He fabricates stainless steel to create larger, site-specific installations, both indoor and outdoor.

Neil’s work is found in public and private collections around the world, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Hepworth Wakefield and Crafts Council Collection in the UK.

'Flower' by Neil Wilkin