Rooted in narrative, Astrig’s paintings capture the fleeting, intimate domestic moments of connection between humans and the animals who share their life.

Although abstract in nature, Adam Bracey's oil paintings makes direct reference to real locations, featuring structural references juxtaposed against areas of outstanding natural beauty.

Adela Powell is inspired by nature, landscapes and the sea, which is naturally conveyed through her clay. Even her figurative pieces examine layered and eroded rocky surfaces, embracing the fragility and unpredictability of her subject.

Alexia Weill works in stone, marble, diabase, limestone or serpentine, seeking harmony in round shapes. With her “Circular impressions”, she works the stone in circles like a mandala, inscribing and sculpting her emotions, her visions, to emanate a circulating energy.

Alison Coaten is fascinated by the human desire to make sense of existence through religion, myth and folklore, and the use of art to create concrete images of worship in the form of icons and idols.

Examining our relationship between how we celebrate and consume sugary treats, Anna Barlow’s hyper-realistic, joyful food sculptures tantalise viewers with the promise of a sweet bite.

Annabel Munn creates ceramics from thin earthenware slabs, torn into sections, and constructed into new forms. These evoke memories of place and time, and highlight a lifelong fascination with fossils, ancient landscape, architecture, and found objects.

In his painterly responses to the coastal landscape and the novel, Ashley Hanson’s distinctive, tactile canvases explore the frisson between information and imagination, between abstraction and figuration, and between the cerebral, the emotional and the visual. Above all is his excitement for placing colour against colour.

Barbara Burns explores the dramatic landscapes of the West Coast of Ireland, Snowdonia and Cornwall to garner an intuitive response in the studio. Working in oil, glazing allows her to build her paintings overs several months, selecting and eliminating forms and textures.

Branka Vrhovski-Stanton’s ceramic vessels are an exciting fusion of sculptural form and spontaneity in porcelain, stoneware and earthenware. Bold painterly lines and statement pieces dominate her work.

The territory that Carolyn Bew explores in her work is that thin yet rich veneer between the domestic and pantomime. Working in oil and in print, she explores who we are and our difficult attitudes to the animal world so often seen as something apart.

Craig Underhill’s intimate, slab built vessels, act as 3D canvasses; evoking a feeling of landscape and place that are affected by time.

Using encaustic on board, David Hayward’s art is a painterly contemplation on the marginality of shorelines; with their horizontal delineations of air, water and land.

Working in wood and concrete, Davide Galbiati sculpts to bring the soul of his subject matter to life through materials that present a paradox. The end result is serene and beautiful.

Elizabeth Price’s sculptures are as emotive as they are highly collectible. Sculpting details and subtle gestures, she manages to capture the most intimate moments of joy, sadness and contemplation.

Emma Forrester’s mixed media paintings are an intricate dance between tradition and innovation. Drawing influence from a myriad of sources, from the artistry of Chinese ceramics, to the delicacy of Japanese woodcuts and the vibrant patterns of Turkish Iznik ceramics, Emma’s work is a tapestry of cultural exchange.

Felicity Warbrick's work is inspired by childhood surroundings in the Yorkshire Dales that fed her imagination when growing up. She explores these feelings and memories as buildings and landscapes in drawing, painting and drypoint.

Felix showcases his fascination with deconstructing the oblong, cube and sphere forms and shapes through large, abstract sculptures.

Imagination and dreams play into Fernando Guibert’s surreal and powerful art. He uses variety of materials and techniques to create his works, including drawing, painting and various printing processes.

Helen Nottage’s sculptural works play with the notion of fragility, decay and beauty, of both the human body and spirit. This discourse is reflected within the delicate surfaces of her figures, which reveal a huge variety of organic textures and colours, and upon closer inspection, intricately embedded symbols.

Inspired by a moment in time, a song, poem or myth, Helen Phoenix’s paintings explore the personalities of the birds who are our companions in life.

Sculptor Jackie Summerfield captures the charm and character of familiar animals and birds with her contemporary ceramic pieces.

Jane Skingley captures still life compositions in oil with rich texture and energetic mark making, which she believes offers more beauty to the viewer than meticulous painting.

New Artist The women that international artist Jessie Mooy portrays in her raku sculptural works have become symbolic Earth Mothers; guardians of the animal world.

Jon Barrett-Danes animals are hand built and enigmatic indoor and outdoor sculptures; endowed with the strength and humour it took to physically create them.

Working in a range of mediums, Jules Allan’s abstract paintings consider the mortality, sexuality and vulnerability of the human body. Void of figurative forms, her pieces are fragile or tough, blurred, separate or merged. Each painting establishes its own identity.

Kate Richardson’s oil paintings are a unique expression of freedom and boundless imagination. With a dynamic portfolio featuring dreamlike landscapes, intuitive abstracts and ghostly figures.