Dave Turner is a mixed media commission-based artist, primarily using acrylic as his chosen medium. Dave’s art career began back in St. Anselms College where he studied Art at both GCSE and A-Level but moved away from art at University, studying Real Estate.

However, during the pandemic, Dave rediscovered his love for painting and began developing his own style. Fast forward a couple of years and a completed degree, Dave is now pursing art full time with the launch of his latest exhibition ‘I did this exhibition instead of my dissertation’, showcasing a handful of paintings created during this academically challenging time.

The collection of paintings are for sale in addition to commissions.

Tony Hickson is a Wirral based artist predominantly working in ink and acrylics.

Tony’s art is influenced by his lifelong love of pop culture, art, music, comics, tv and movies. It is the imagery of these influences that give his work a graphic art quality and style.

Following retirement from careers in Operations Management and HR, Tony became a volunteer with the Liverpool Bluecoat Room inclusive art project for learning disabled and neurodivergent adults. It was the work with the Blue Room project that stimulated him to firstly start drawing again, something he hadn’t done in a long time and then explore a medium that suited the look he wanted to create for his artwork.

Over the past couple of years Tony has undertaken private commissions, but this is the first time any of his work  has been exhibited publicly and the pieces focus on some of his 70’s musical hero’s.

Emilia Belderbos is a 3rd Year Student; she grew up on the Wirral but is currently studying Silversmithing and Jewellery at Glasgow School of Art.

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Her work focuses a lot on nature and her surroundings but is also inspired by the Art Deco era. She mainly likes to work in Silver, focusing on jewellery. Emilia likes to work to a small, detailed scale, but occasionally enjoys making larger, more runway inspired pieces.

A Final Year Fashion Design Student at Liverpool John Moores University, Meg has spent the past three years exploring Liverpool, making the colourful city her home away from home in the West Midlands.

Within both her womenswear design and print design, Meg feels that her works consistently utilise bold colours, patterns and shapes – evidencing her favour for the bright and cheerful side of the arts.

People offer the greatest inspiration for Meg’s work, individuals experiencing the world via their own paths. Prints-wise Meg finds the variation in homes greatly interesting and enjoys working on these pieces, all unique and telling of the personalities within.

Her Womenswear clothing designs continuously refer to feminism and iconic women within history who have impacted the modern day and have allowed us to live how we now live.

Joseph Cattrell is a Final year Fashion Design Student at Liverpool John Moores University, specialising in modern tailored menswear looks.

He utilises various silhouettes from both typically male and female garments to produce contemporary collections and unique looks. In particular, he enjoys creating illustrations in a monochromatic style to focus on the silhouettes and design details, and enjoy seeing the outfits come to life physically in fabrication.

Stephen Bayley began painting around 2016 after taking early retirement from his job as a financial director in the printing industry and is largely self-taught, but has had a lot of inspiration and help on his journey from a number of other artists, mostly local.

He shares Hub Studios with ten other artists, situated in the old Cains Brewery Village in the vibrant Baltic area of Liverpool.

He has exhibited around the North West of England and sold to buyers around the UK. He is a member of Wirral Society of Arts, dot-art (the Liverpool artists’ agency) and Liverpool Urban Sketchers.

The paintings in this exhibition, "An Eclectic Mix", are either acrylic or oil on canvas while the drawings are pen and ink, some with a touch of watercolour.

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Kim Harley-Griffiths is an artist living & working for many years on the Wirral, but she was born & grew up in North Wales.

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Whether drawing, painting or sculpting it primarily stems from observation of the subject and an eye from anatomy through fluidity, movement and tension.

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In all her work Kim loves to explore form, structure the rhythm and the fragility of nature and to be inspired not in a literal sense, but in expressive gestural mark making.

Thomas Plunkett is the Past President of the Royal Watercolour Society in London. Tom has exhibited his work both Nationally and Worldwide. 

Nick Belderbos is a Chartered Architect and Photographer specialising his photography in artistic compositions often picking up the architectural characteristics of the built environment

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Poppy is in her final year studying Painting and Printmaking at Glasgow School of Art.