Sarah-Jane Mason is a Creative Practitioner, Facilitator and Educator who specialises in using mixed media approaches to personal and participatory arts projects. She believes that creativity is the key that unlocks learning and that play and experimentation are important parts of the creative process. Sarah-Jane comes from a traditional…
Amelia Crouch is a multi-media artist and art lecturer, resident in Bingley. She uses a range of media, including print, drawing, video, audio and installation to create artwork, using a combination of text and image, for galleries and other public spaces. Her often commissioned work explores the power of language, including: the relationship between text, physical space and image;…
Steven Short, was born in Norwich in 1959, but came to West Yorkshire in 1978 to study Politics and Geography at the University of Bradford. After graduation in 1981 he made the city his home and has worked in social housing field locally for over 30 years with a main focus of helping people to gain…
Sven Shaw is a Saltaire-based illustrator specialising in often highly detailed, but humorous illustrations. After completing his A levels at the local St. Bede’s Grammar School, Sven attended Bradford College, School of Art for his foundation art studies before studying Graphic Design at Hull (2002-5). He graduated…
Angela Barrow is an Ilkley-based textile artist and tutor, specialising in felt-making, and who creates a wide range of 2D and 3D artwork, including scarves, jewellery, book-covers, wall-hangings, and hand-bags. Using mainly wet felting techniques, I love to create pieces with colour and texture, working in both 2D and…
By the time of her death in 2008, the artist and arts administrator, Dorothy Bradford, had built an international reputation for her paintings and drawings of musicians and dancers. She lived and raised a family in Ilkley during the 1960s and made a significant impact on the arts scene in the…
