Clare Chapman makes paintings that are uneasy in their uncertainess. They seduce, yet retain a feeling of repulsiveness lurking beneath the surface of their abject bulges and hollows. The imagery is often accidental and altogether fictitious. John Moores Finalist 2008 and British School in Athens Residence 2004 Clare currently lives and works in London.

Nocturne No2, 2009-10 Oil on Canvas (102cmx 153cm )

Nicholas Kowalski is a long established artist whose work charts ghost fragments of the world. Taking from his immediate environment he begins with chance encounters of everyday discarded objects, buildings and places. Some of these objects physically find them selves with new purpose as part of his multimedia art works. The viewer is often left reflecting the history and significance of such objects in relation to their own human presence.
Nicholas Kowalski is founder member of "ORB" professional artists studios Blackpool

Virginia Verran has had a number of retrospectives in her career including public galleries like the "Henie Onstad Gallery" in Oslo and "Newlyn Gallery" in Cornwall.
With Virginia Verran’s work we see our perception of space and objects constantly challenged. Initially a process painting it plays with the minds ambiguity in relation to the art. To define the work is to undefine its pure state of marks which illustrate movements of light like vapour trails and glimpses from the corner of the eye. Each work has a different pace a different tempo or speed in which to fasten your self for some sort of cosmic encounter.

Emma Oldridge came to prominence in 2000 when she won the “Jerwood Drawing Prize” for students. Emma‘s work is interested in futuristic gadgets and experiments which have since become dated. There is this sense of vulnerability and nostalgia in the way she depicts machines and people. She tries to underline and develop these ideas through the process of manipulating, editing and re-inventing the source material.
Emma currently lives in Bristol where she has a studio at “Spike Island”.

Margaret Cahill is based at “Rogue Studios” in Manchester . She has exhibited in London, New York, Sweden and Eastern Europe as well as widely in the North West and her work is represented in public, corporate and private collections in Britain and abroad.
Her paintings of disused spaces explore our increasingly fragile relationship with our environments and the way we view them in a constantly shifting and uncertain world. It questions the boundaries between form and space, the real and imagined and touches on notions of transience and mortality.

Esteban Igartua is a Peruvian artist who graduated at “Byam Shaw School of Art “in London 2003 and subsequently went on to exhibit in “New Contemporaries”.
His work is about a world that of his own imagination. Although derived deep from his subconscious there is a strong narrative between his works as the story unfolds. These are labouredly created paintings of harsh landscapes not indifferent to old religious depictions of hell.
A large collection of Esteban’s work was exhibited at Bristol’s “Spike Island” along with Georgia Hopton and Cornelia Parker in the exhibtion "Prophet".

Adrian Pritchard makes marks through the build up and release of tension. In doing this he creates a variety of painting techniques which he combines with eastern aesthetics and western physics. This has led some of his work to take the form of painting installations which use gravity to precipitate viscous materials.  Adrian has exhibited widely across the UK and Japan, his work can be found in public collections like “University College Falmouth” and the “British Embassy” in Tokyo.  

Ann Carragher is an Irish artist who graduated from the University of Ulster with an MA in Art in 1997. She went on to do a residency at "Hang Zhou Academy of Fine Art" in China with "The British Council." Now settled in Blackpool she is a Founder Member of Blott studios.