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Lotte Farnham
Austrian-born Lotte is a painter and printmaker. Originally a translator she studied Fine Art as a mature student. She graduated from the University of Hertfordshire in 2002 and has since exhibited at regular intervals. Although her work is generally quite abstract, she likes to tell a story. Her prints mirror her emotional involvement with nature, as well as the human condition.
Gerda Rubinstein
Gerda Rubinstein was born in Berlin in 1931and moved to Amsterdam in 1933 where she attended the Rijks Academie, winning a scholarship to study in Paris under Ossip Zadkine. Returning to Amsterdam she was awarded her first public sculpture commissions.
In 1958 she came to London where in 1967 Pat Gibberd saw her work on exhibition and recommended it to the Harlow Arts Trust. She was commissioned to make sculptures for the town and the Gibberd Garden including a portrait of Sir Frederick. Gerda's sculptures are very popular in Harlow. They are familiar, well appreciated and many inspire real affection.
Gerda’s sculptures have developed from early carving in stone and then refractory brick, in which she carved negative shapes into which bronze was poured. She now concentrates on modelling in wax for small work or in clay for larger pieces, which are then cast in bronze or resin.
Gerda explains: "My sculptures are almost always of people, getting my inspiration from where I live. I have also made portraits and modelled birds and animals. I hope that the work, which is generally figurative, will be self-explanatory without the need for titles. I have come to realise that the sense of freedom and hope that I experienced as a teenager in Holland, after five years of occupation in World War II, has really never left me and that it still colours my work".
John Farnham
John Farnham worked as assistant for Henry Moore until the sculptor’s death in 1986. John creates works in bronze, stainless steel and stone. He is particularly passionate about carving. It is the process of elimination and “listening” to the stone which excites him. Although he has a rough idea about what he wants to create, he lets himself be guided by the strata and colour of the stone. He mostly depicts human and animal forms and takes inspiration from foreign cultures, mythology and his imagination.
He has widely exhibited in this country and abroad and his sculptures can be found in major collections. His latest commission was a large bronze for Pembroke College in Cambridge.
Roy Jones
Roy has previously worked in Islington, London, and had a regular space on the Piccadilly railings selling his work to purchasers from all over the world. He moved to Hertfordshire seven years ago painting and exhibiting locally, including with Hertford and St Albans Art Societies and at the Hertford Club.
He loves the countryside and is a keen angler, which has been a great inspiration for his work. He works predominately in acrylics and watercolour.
Simon Langsdale
Simon Langsdale has had a lifelong interest in the arts, cultural heritage and the crafts but it wasn’t until 2006-07 when he completed a full-time course at Roehampton University in calligraphy and bookbinding that he seriously considered a career in these areas.
During 2008, he had an informal apprenticeship with the letter carver Tom Perkins, learning how to draw letters and cut them in stone. From 2008 -11 he studied at the University of Hertfordshire, gaining a BA with First Class Honours in History. At the same time, he continued developing his skills as a letter carver, visiting other craftsmen’s workshops and gaining his first commissions.
On graduating in 2011, he set up his own business as a self-employed letter carver. From 2011-15, he worked on cataloguing the archive of the craftsman Michael Renton for the Edward Johnston Foundation and also became the librarian and archivist for the Society of Scribes and Illuminators.
In 2018, he completed an MA by research in History at the University of Hertfordshire. In October 2017, he became a fellow of Digswell Arts Trust and had studio at The Forge in Digswell, Hertfordshire until July 2020, when he moved to Parndon Mill, Harlow. He mainly works to commission, creating pieces of public art, memorial stones, birdbaths, benches, plaques and stones for the garden. He also teaches and lectures on calligraphy and letter carving, running workshops and short courses. In the spring of 2018, he ran letter carving workshops at Highfield School Letchworth.
Sarah Lamb
Sarah Lamb’s training consisted of a three year jewellery course at the Epsom School of Art in the mid-seventies, winning an award in the 1977 De Beers “Diamonds Tomorrow” competition. She has been designing and making and more recently teaching jewellery ever since. Colour is an important element in her work which is seen through use of enamel, glass bead, fused glass and other mixed media which she makes herself and combines with silver to create individual pieces.
Melinda Scarborough
Melinda has has worked for over 35 years in the jewellery industry, obtaining a BA Hons Degree in Jewellery Design and Manufacture, City and Guilds (distinction) for Jewellery construction. She has exhibited at Goldsmith's Fair, and was Student Designer of the Year at UK Jewellery Awards.
She has been teaching at Made in Herts and previously at Artshed for 10 years. Her patience and preparation is second to none, along with her technical knowledge and wealth of experience. Her precise traditional style is admired and emulated.
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.
Teresa Chlapowski
Having been a knitwear designer for many decades, the desire to create her own ‘Art’ finally took over. Starting with ceramics and sculpture, Teresa discovered glass and fell in love with this amazing, alchemic medium; an alternative universe of just light and shadows.
She creates both sculptural and functional glass pieces. Her fused vessels and panels express her previous textile background and love of pattern and colour, creating one off slumping moulds which have a fabric, flowing quality. In her more sculptural pieces, she focuses on the figurative that gives a glimpse of the human form that is both mysterious and revealing but always with a story to tell. Teresa uses a variety of techniques including fusing and sand casting, as well as combining glass with ceramics and photography and also experiments with cyanotype prints.
Her inspiration comes from the sea and reflections, ancient art and archaeology, the human figure and its shadows, textiles and photography and with that, the detailed patterns that are found in everything around us. Every glass piece is an exciting challenge, a partnership between the artist and the glass as it works its own magic
Member of: Contemporary Glass Society (CGS), Just Glass Society, Glass Art Society (GAS), Chelsea Art Society (CAS), Association of Polish Artists in GB (APA)), HVA (Hertfordshire Visual Arts), and takes part in their various group exhibitions.
Karen Murphy
Karen Murphy has chosen to work in glass to express ideas of space, light and movement. The inherent qualities of the glass imbue the work with a spiritual and ethereal quality. The pieces are fused and formed in the kiln and are enhanced by the additions of dichroic glass.
Her work is always available in The Gallery at Parndon Mill and she would be pleased to discuss commissions for specific needs or projects. Recent commissions have included commemorative pieces for the chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire, the Spanish Ambassador, The British High Commissioner in Malaysia & Gatwick Airport
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.
Anona Wyi
Anona Wyi is a glass blower working in Northamptonshire. She has been making and designing blown works of art since the 1990's, crafting functional table ware pieces to sculptural one offs. Enjoying the process of making, her works are colourful, practical, unusual and unpredictable, from Scandinavian clean clear jug sets to colourful stripy steamed cocktail glasses. Inspired by the actions involved in gathering hot molten glass, predicting the timing of each heat, the choreography of every movement effecting the hot moving form, is enough of a reason to keep on making glass. She holds a Degree in Glass and Sculpture from the University of Wolverhampton, Graduate of the international Glass school in Brierly Hill and Orrefors School of Glass in Sweden. She now teaches alongside making her own works.
Margaret Gardiner
Margaret Gardiner makes vapour glazed Porcelain for serving, eating and drinking, flowers and plants. Or miniatures just for delight! They are fumed with stannous chloride to create random areas of lustrous iridescence
All pots are made out of porcelain and should be treated as fine china. The lustrous finish is metal so pots would crack if used in the microwave. They are fine in the dishwasher depending on who puts them in and how they are taken out!
Trevor Allen
For many years I have worked in retail as a window dresser and my art school ceramic training put me in good stead to work for London's top retailers. Window dressing is a bit like making sculpture you choose the most luxurious things and you arrange them to look at their most magical.
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.”
Kathy Gales
Kathy Gales' art is inspired by the scenes experienced whilst on her travels or locally in Harlow. Recently she has been developing her painting style using acrylics on clayboard. Her new paintings explore graphic line along with loose brush work to convey the beauty and drama of the landscape
John Durham
John lives in Hertfordshire and holds degrees from Hertfordshire, London and the Open universities. His academic research studies in geology inspired a love of our varied and dynamic national and international landscapes, and his passion for rocks and stones has been the inspiration for his art.
His contemporary paintings have focussed on revealing the underlying structures of some of his favourite places and landscapes. Vibrant colours and tints illustrate the composition of these geologically interesting sites and the artist’s understanding of the underlying structures of these landscapes lends these works a fascinating insight and new perspective on these familiar views. The result is work that is colourful and informative, but which seeks to lay bare the inner beauty of its subjects.
He has prepared a limited number (25)of high quality giclee prints of these paintings which are offered for sale.'