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Yuki Kokai
Yuki graduated from Tokyo Glass Art Institute with a master degree in Glass Art in 1997. She then moved to the UK and studied metalwork and jewellery at The Surrey Institute of Art & design University College (UCA Farnham). After graduating, Yuki has worked for a number of internationally renowned glass studios. Since 2006 she has been concentrating mainly on her jewellery work, and she still blows glass too.
Yuki produces precious metal jewellery and Japanese Kimono accessories in designs inspired by nature and seasonal changes. Her work is endlessly tactile and playful, but also classically beautiful, harnessing shape and light to great effect. With her traditional work, she brings a unique modern essence to an ancient art form.
Yuki has been exhibiting her work across the UK and in Japan in selected galleries.
Jon Lewis
Jon Lewis founded Orbic Glass, a creative glass design studio in 2005. The vision was to innovate modern glass design in architecture, lighting, blown glass and sculpture. Since his first introduction to glassmaking in 1989, Jon Lewis has become fluent in many glass disciplines. He has exhibited worldwide and has produced blown, cast, stained glass and numerous commissions, both architectural and sculptural.
Ewa Wawrzyniak
Ewa Wawrzyniak was born in Poland and trained in ceramics and glass at Middlesex Polytechnic and Surrey Institute of Art and Design in the UK. She completed her Master of Arts at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland, where her research explored the technical and expressive possibilities of sand casting glass. Since 1999 she has been a Part Time Lecturer in Open Studies in Ceramics & Glass at University of Hertfordshire, UK, and since 2005 she is a regular Visiting Lecturer in Faculty of Art & Design (Glass) University College for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK. Ewa has shown her work in numerous exhibitions in UK and abroad. Since 2005 she has occupied a studio at Parndon Mill.
Angelika Hinton (known as Geli)
Though born and educated in London, Angelika has spent most of her adult life in the Middle & Far East. The tropical beauty of Singapore and the cultural diversity of Hong Kong have had a profound influence on her work.
Returning to Hertfordshire she brings the flamboyant colour and rich expression of these cultures to her ceramic sculptures which she produces in her studio at Parndon Mill.
Angelika works in stoneware clay, and most of her pieces are suitable for exterior locations.
Liz Boast
Liz Boast has had a studio at Parndon Mill since 1999. It is set up as a printmaking studio, but She also paints in here too.
My collection of "stuff" that I use for inspiration is also kept here: dolls, puppets, bric-a-brac, junk shop pieces, car boot finds, beach combing treasure, things brought back from travels. Also my sketchbooks, full of drawings, paintings, cuttings, photographs, life drawings, tales and memories all to be used one day.
Suman Gujral
Suman GujralI graduated in 2018 with an MA in Fine Art, with distinction, from the University of Hertfordshire. She has shown her work extensively at Parndon Mill, Flatford National Trust, Candid Arts, Vyner Street and Mall Galleries in London, St Albans and Welwyn amongst others. She has also been selected to show work with the prestigious Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair- last year and again this November. She has been invited to take part in an exhibition next year at the internationally renowned Whitworth Gallery in Manchester. Earlier this year, She was awarded a bursary, by AN Artists, for career development and Lewis Biggs, formerly director of Tate Liverpool and Liverpool Biennial and now of Folkestone Triennial, is mentoring her.
“The interplay of light and shadow in our lives fascinates me. Light creates shadows and shadows help us appreciate the light. This has been particularly sharp for me during lockdown where the beauty of the landscape has provided light in the darkness. Being outside, in my garden, the countryside and by the sea, has kept me sane! I often take my sketchbook along with me and the drawings lead to my original, hand-pulled prints., made in my studio in Hertfordshire, looking out onto my garden.”
Chris Seaber
Chris Seaber was born in London in 1947. He studied at Camberwell, Falmouth and The Royal College of Art and since leaving the RCA in 1971, and in parallel with his teaching, has continued to make paintings, drawings and associated works.
His work revolves around ideas that can be instigated by any event or encounter. The starting point for these investigations can be as varied as the work produced. Something seen, heard, read or remembered can spark the initial engagement. The resulting body of work has produced collections of drawings and paintings far abstracted from the original source of engagement — but each group of works is bound together by a consistent theme.