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ARTISTS 2026
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The following Artists will be taking part in this year's Cookham and Maidenhead Art Trail. Click on an image or a name for more information about the artist.
Alison Partridge
Venue 4
Alison Partridge enjoys exploring contemporary abstract and graphic art across traditional and digital mediums. Her work features bold colour palettes, strong shapes and patterns and expressive line work to emphasise energy, flow and visual impact. Working between illustrative and looser abstract styles, she draws inspiration from portraits, nature and mechanical forms to create vibrant and imaginative artwork.
Alison Partridge enjoys exploring contemporary abstract and graphic art across traditional and digital mediums. Her work features bold colour palettes, strong shapes and patterns and expressive line work to emphasise energy, flow and visual impact. Working between illustrative and looser abstract styles, she draws inspiration from portraits, nature and mechanical forms to create vibrant and imaginative artwork.
Inge Hutchins
Venue 1
I have been a potter for 35 Years and produce many outdoor and indoor organic looking vessels, but also work in finer clays producing indoor ornaments. I'm very influenced by the ancient cultures, loving the charm of the ageing materials.
I have been a potter for 35 Years and produce many outdoor and indoor organic looking vessels, but also work in finer clays producing indoor ornaments. I'm very influenced by the ancient cultures, loving the charm of the ageing materials.
Artspiration
Venue 5
Artspiration is a School of Drawing and Painting in Maidenhead for children (Ages 5-17yrs). The works on display are works by their Teen Art group that meets weekly.
This group consists of Secondary school aged children, where they get an opportunity to work with various guest artists and explore one subject in depth. They work on various subjects like Still life, portraits, life drawing, Design, Illustrations, Outdoor landscape study etc. and explore various art mediums like water colours, acrylics, charcoal, oil paints, ink, egg tempera, gold leaf, etc.
You will also be able to see their student’s sketches, studies etc that narrate the displayed work’s journey. Join them at the weekend and be amazed by the young talents!
Artspiration is a School of Drawing and Painting in Maidenhead for children (Ages 5-17yrs). The works on display are works by their Teen Art group that meets weekly.
This group consists of Secondary school aged children, where they get an opportunity to work with various guest artists and explore one subject in depth. They work on various subjects like Still life, portraits, life drawing, Design, Illustrations, Outdoor landscape study etc. and explore various art mediums like water colours, acrylics, charcoal, oil paints, ink, egg tempera, gold leaf, etc.
You will also be able to see their student’s sketches, studies etc that narrate the displayed work’s journey. Join them at the weekend and be amazed by the young talents!
Caroline's Glass Art
Venue 6
Caroline uses hand-cut glass pieces and crushed glass, fired in her kiln, to create unique bowls, screens and wall art. She loves using nature as an inspiration and enjoys experimenting using foils and wires within the glass to create textual effects.
Caroline uses hand-cut glass pieces and crushed glass, fired in her kiln, to create unique bowls, screens and wall art. She loves using nature as an inspiration and enjoys experimenting using foils and wires within the glass to create textual effects.
Chadwick-Art
Venue 3
Jill's passion for glass and colour started over 30 years ago and her work is continually evolving. Her art is a representation of what she sees in her mind rather than an exact image of what is in front of her and she loves to explore the endless possibilities of working in glass. Commissions welcome.
Jill's passion for glass and colour started over 30 years ago and her work is continually evolving. Her art is a representation of what she sees in her mind rather than an exact image of what is in front of her and she loves to explore the endless possibilities of working in glass. Commissions welcome.
Dawn Carroll
Venue 6
Dawn is a ceramic sculptor, who creates nature-inspired work, exploring the connection between people and the natural world through simple, organic forms and earthy textures.
Dawn is a ceramic sculptor, who creates nature-inspired work, exploring the connection between people and the natural world through simple, organic forms and earthy textures.
Dominique Simond
Venue 4
Dominique Simond’s work is a masterful display of Classical Realism infused with Trompe-l’œil ("trick of the eye") sensibilities.
By combining the rigorous techniques of classical still life with the expansive storytelling of mural painting, she creates environments that feel both grounded and aspirational. Her style is one of Refined Illusionism, where the boundary between the painted world and the physical world becomes beautifully blurred
Dominique Simond’s work is a masterful display of Classical Realism infused with Trompe-l’œil ("trick of the eye") sensibilities.
By combining the rigorous techniques of classical still life with the expansive storytelling of mural painting, she creates environments that feel both grounded and aspirational. Her style is one of Refined Illusionism, where the boundary between the painted world and the physical world becomes beautifully blurred
Donna White
Venue 4
Donna White is a highly experienced artist with over 50 years of art experience, including a University Fine Art degree. Her work has been recognised in a book on South African Art, and she has participated in a range of prestigious National exhibitions, including the Royal Academy Summer Show, the Royal West of England Autumn Show, and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in London.
Donna has had numerous solo shows, and has taught art to both adults and children, as well as judging a number of art competitions.
Donna White is a highly experienced artist with over 50 years of art experience, including a University Fine Art degree. Her work has been recognised in a book on South African Art, and she has participated in a range of prestigious National exhibitions, including the Royal Academy Summer Show, the Royal West of England Autumn Show, and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in London.
Donna has had numerous solo shows, and has taught art to both adults and children, as well as judging a number of art competitions.
Emma Przygrodzka
Venue 9
Emma is a ceramic artist whose work explores material processes, surface, and firing techniques, with a growing focus on historical vessel forms and their cultural significance. She is particularly interested in how pottery reflects human ingenuity, identity, and resilience, and how the textures and traces left by the maker create a connection between past and present.
Her practice is informed by archaeological research, with a focus on Anglo-Saxon material culture. She has been researching firing techniques, vessel forms, surface decoration, and communal firings, and draws on these processes to shape both the physical and conceptual aspects of her work.
Emma is especially drawn to the contrast between early medieval material culture and today’s disposable society. She finds beauty in the simplicity of Saxon pottery and continues to explore these relationships through her ceramic practice.
Emma is a ceramic artist whose work explores material processes, surface, and firing techniques, with a growing focus on historical vessel forms and their cultural significance. She is particularly interested in how pottery reflects human ingenuity, identity, and resilience, and how the textures and traces left by the maker create a connection between past and present.
Her practice is informed by archaeological research, with a focus on Anglo-Saxon material culture. She has been researching firing techniques, vessel forms, surface decoration, and communal firings, and draws on these processes to shape both the physical and conceptual aspects of her work.
Emma is especially drawn to the contrast between early medieval material culture and today’s disposable society. She finds beauty in the simplicity of Saxon pottery and continues to explore these relationships through her ceramic practice.
FordArt - Bray
Venue 7
Brian works mainly in Acrylic but enjoys exploring ideas using sketch books and painting in watercolour, pastels and mixed media. He has exhibited his work at Maidenhead Painting Club, Cookham Arts Club and Windsor Art Group (Saville Gardens 2019, 2020)
Brian works mainly in Acrylic but enjoys exploring ideas using sketch books and painting in watercolour, pastels and mixed media. He has exhibited his work at Maidenhead Painting Club, Cookham Arts Club and Windsor Art Group (Saville Gardens 2019, 2020)
Gill Griffith
Venue 6
Gill works mainly in acrylics, watercolour and printmaking, but does enjoy mixing them up a bit, sometimes adding soft and oil pastels. She has recently ventured into the world of oil painting.
Gill paints/prints a large range of subjects, wanting to immerse herself into anything that particularly captivates her; but changing the style to express the subject how she feels about it.
Gill works mainly in acrylics, watercolour and printmaking, but does enjoy mixing them up a bit, sometimes adding soft and oil pastels. She has recently ventured into the world of oil painting.
Gill paints/prints a large range of subjects, wanting to immerse herself into anything that particularly captivates her; but changing the style to express the subject how she feels about it.
Grant Forsyth
Venue 6
Grant works predominantly in silver but also uses gold accents and semi precious and ethically sourced gemstones. His work is highly textured using reticulation methods as well as remelting and texturing his own sterling silver using the world around him as inspiration. Grant's also a prize winning chain maker and designer working in foxtail chain as well s designing and making his own style of chains.
Grant works predominantly in silver but also uses gold accents and semi precious and ethically sourced gemstones. His work is highly textured using reticulation methods as well as remelting and texturing his own sterling silver using the world around him as inspiration. Grant's also a prize winning chain maker and designer working in foxtail chain as well s designing and making his own style of chains.
Hazel Griffin
Venue 4
Hazel paints in a range of media including oil, acrylic and gouache. She loves wildlife, animals and the outdoors and enjoys capturing the light, colour and beauty of the subject matter.
Hazel’s paintings aim to illustrate the essence of the subject matter whether that is the dappled light of a sunlit walk, the warmth and energy of a much loved pet or the sweet gentleness of a child’s special toy. She also enjoys doing pencil drawings of wildlife focusing on contrasts in tone and expressions in the eyes.
Hazel paints in a range of media including oil, acrylic and gouache. She loves wildlife, animals and the outdoors and enjoys capturing the light, colour and beauty of the subject matter.
Hazel’s paintings aim to illustrate the essence of the subject matter whether that is the dappled light of a sunlit walk, the warmth and energy of a much loved pet or the sweet gentleness of a child’s special toy. She also enjoys doing pencil drawings of wildlife focusing on contrasts in tone and expressions in the eyes.
Inge du Plessis
Venue 2
My painting style is figurative; representational yet relishing the joy of painting and the beautiful and ever surprising things that oils, mediums and painting tools can achieve.
I find as much joy in the building of a representational 3-dimensional form as I do in painting the abstract space surrounding it.
This feels like a time of rapid growth as a painter. I am learning so much about technique, yet, perhaps thanks to growing older, I also feel more relieved of the constant tug toward realism. I work from photographic references; from life where possible, though mostly from photos, edited and/or combined to facilitate the idea I am following.
My paintings explore the emotive connection between land/earth and human, and between history and the present. Sometimes poetically reimagining history. In most of my works the subject involves people within a suggested narrative.
The impetus for a new work is visual rather than conceptual; fragments of ideas usually clarify through the physical process of painting and visual decision making. This is the joy of being inside the maze and painting my way out.
My painting style is figurative; representational yet relishing the joy of painting and the beautiful and ever surprising things that oils, mediums and painting tools can achieve.
I find as much joy in the building of a representational 3-dimensional form as I do in painting the abstract space surrounding it.
This feels like a time of rapid growth as a painter. I am learning so much about technique, yet, perhaps thanks to growing older, I also feel more relieved of the constant tug toward realism. I work from photographic references; from life where possible, though mostly from photos, edited and/or combined to facilitate the idea I am following.
My paintings explore the emotive connection between land/earth and human, and between history and the present. Sometimes poetically reimagining history. In most of my works the subject involves people within a suggested narrative.
The impetus for a new work is visual rather than conceptual; fragments of ideas usually clarify through the physical process of painting and visual decision making. This is the joy of being inside the maze and painting my way out.
Irina Dumbrell
Venue 4
Irina Dumbrell has painted with oil and acrylic media for many years, as well as creating successful resin sculptures which have found many happy clients. She has participated in numerous exhibitions with the Whitecroft Studio and Norden Farm in Maidenhead.
Irina Dumbrell has painted with oil and acrylic media for many years, as well as creating successful resin sculptures which have found many happy clients. She has participated in numerous exhibitions with the Whitecroft Studio and Norden Farm in Maidenhead.
Jacqueline Thorne
Venue 4
Jacqueline Thorne has exhibited her work in many local exhibitions, including Norden Farm,
Pinder Hall and Henley Fire Station, and has been on local committees selecting work for
shows in Maidenhead and Cookham, as a past secretary of the Maidenhead Painting Club.
Jacqueline Thorne has exhibited her work in many local exhibitions, including Norden Farm,
Pinder Hall and Henley Fire Station, and has been on local committees selecting work for
shows in Maidenhead and Cookham, as a past secretary of the Maidenhead Painting Club.
Jacqui Hogan
Venue 7
Jacqui is an primarily a watercolour artist, with some experimentation into other media e.g. pen and ink, pastels, acrylics etc. and sometimes incorporates these into her watercolours. She mostly paints wildlife, especially Penguins, although she has also painted landscapes from her international travels. Among the animals she's painted are, Tasmanian Devils, Alpacas, Elephants, Reindeer, Polar Bears and most species of Penguin. Her style is not your usual 'pastel' shades of watercolour, but vigorous use of colour to bring animals to life. Many of her landscapes are of glaciers, icebergs and other Polar regions, plus local en-plein-air sketches.
Jacqui is an primarily a watercolour artist, with some experimentation into other media e.g. pen and ink, pastels, acrylics etc. and sometimes incorporates these into her watercolours. She mostly paints wildlife, especially Penguins, although she has also painted landscapes from her international travels. Among the animals she's painted are, Tasmanian Devils, Alpacas, Elephants, Reindeer, Polar Bears and most species of Penguin. Her style is not your usual 'pastel' shades of watercolour, but vigorous use of colour to bring animals to life. Many of her landscapes are of glaciers, icebergs and other Polar regions, plus local en-plein-air sketches.
Jenni Costello
Venue 12
Jenni Costello is a jewellery artist who creates bold, one-of-a-kind pieces using silver, natural stones and repurposed objects. Drawing inspiration from found materials and organic forms, she combines traditional silversmithing techniques with an intuitive approach to design.
Her work often incorporates raw crystals, vintage silverware and reclaimed elements, giving each piece its own story and character. By allowing the materials to guide the process, Jenni creates jewellery that celebrates texture, imperfection and the beauty of natural forms.
Each piece is individually handcrafted, resulting in sculptural jewellery that is both wearable and expressive.
Jenni Costello is a jewellery artist who creates bold, one-of-a-kind pieces using silver, natural stones and repurposed objects. Drawing inspiration from found materials and organic forms, she combines traditional silversmithing techniques with an intuitive approach to design.
Her work often incorporates raw crystals, vintage silverware and reclaimed elements, giving each piece its own story and character. By allowing the materials to guide the process, Jenni creates jewellery that celebrates texture, imperfection and the beauty of natural forms.
Each piece is individually handcrafted, resulting in sculptural jewellery that is both wearable and expressive.
Jo Hall
Venue 10
Jo continues to work from observation and to explore colour playfully in various media, including acrylic, pastel and watercolour. Jo’s work reflects her travels and places nearer to home together with colours from the garden. Her interest in drawing is reflected in her membership of the Society of Graphic Fine Art, with whom she exhibits regularly, and earlier in the year has had work selected for the Society’s open exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London.
Jo also continues to enjoy tutoring lively painting sessions at Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead, which gives encouragement to others and is a great stimulus to her own work.
Jo Hall
Past President SGFA, AOI
www.jo-hall.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/jo.hall.7393/
Jo Hall, Artist
Jo continues to work from observation and to explore colour playfully in various media, including acrylic, pastel and watercolour. Jo’s work reflects her travels and places nearer to home together with colours from the garden. Her interest in drawing is reflected in her membership of the Society of Graphic Fine Art, with whom she exhibits regularly, and earlier in the year has had work selected for the Society’s open exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London.
Jo also continues to enjoy tutoring lively painting sessions at Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead, which gives encouragement to others and is a great stimulus to her own work.
Jo Hall
Past President SGFA, AOI
www.jo-hall.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/jo.hall.7393/
Jo Hall, Artist
Julie Bennett
Venue 3
Julie Bennett is a contemporary portrait painter, working predominantly in oil. A graduate of Camberwell College of Arts, her expressive portraits explore the relationship between portraiture, popular culture and photography through bold colour and confident brushwork.
Her work has been exhibited throughout the UK and internationally, including at the Mall Galleries, Arlington Arts, The Koppel Project, Norden Farm Centre for the Arts and the V&A Museum.
Bennett was recently longlisted for the Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize and her work has been featured in The Sunday Times, The Independent, The Guardian, Stylist and Classic Rock. Her paintings are held in private collections in the UK and internationally.
Julie Bennett is a contemporary portrait painter, working predominantly in oil. A graduate of Camberwell College of Arts, her expressive portraits explore the relationship between portraiture, popular culture and photography through bold colour and confident brushwork.
Her work has been exhibited throughout the UK and internationally, including at the Mall Galleries, Arlington Arts, The Koppel Project, Norden Farm Centre for the Arts and the V&A Museum.
Bennett was recently longlisted for the Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize and her work has been featured in The Sunday Times, The Independent, The Guardian, Stylist and Classic Rock. Her paintings are held in private collections in the UK and internationally.
Julie Gardner Art
Venue 11
Julie Gardner is a lino print artist who works from her garden studio in Maidenhead, Berkshire.
Inspiration for her prints often comes from fashion shots and patterned, colourful fabrics, but she also loves drawing anything botanical. All her artwork starts as an original pencil drawing which is then traced onto traditional grey lino. Then the real fun begins as she meticulously cuts away parts of the lino that won't be printed. But her absolute favourite part of the process is the first roll of ink, it's like Christmas!
Julie Gardner is a lino print artist who works from her garden studio in Maidenhead, Berkshire.
Inspiration for her prints often comes from fashion shots and patterned, colourful fabrics, but she also loves drawing anything botanical. All her artwork starts as an original pencil drawing which is then traced onto traditional grey lino. Then the real fun begins as she meticulously cuts away parts of the lino that won't be printed. But her absolute favourite part of the process is the first roll of ink, it's like Christmas!
Karen Comber Art
Venue 6
Karen has always loved art and is particularly inspired by landscape and wildlife. The Mediterranean is a particular passion from narrow shady alleyways to the glorious colours of the Mediterranean Sea. Karen also enjoys painting local scenes and loves capturing the enchanting world of wildlife.
Karen comes from a background of Graphic and Web Design, and since retiring a few years ago now has the time to fully immerse herself in acrylic painting. Light and colour are key factors in Karen’s paintings with aims of reflecting the beautiful colours and scenery of the world.
Karen has achieved a few awards and shortlists over the years both nationally and locally. The most recent including the British Art Prize shortlist for 2023/2025.
Karen has always loved art and is particularly inspired by landscape and wildlife. The Mediterranean is a particular passion from narrow shady alleyways to the glorious colours of the Mediterranean Sea. Karen also enjoys painting local scenes and loves capturing the enchanting world of wildlife.
Karen comes from a background of Graphic and Web Design, and since retiring a few years ago now has the time to fully immerse herself in acrylic painting. Light and colour are key factors in Karen’s paintings with aims of reflecting the beautiful colours and scenery of the world.
Karen has achieved a few awards and shortlists over the years both nationally and locally. The most recent including the British Art Prize shortlist for 2023/2025.
Katrina Luff-Scott
Venue 7
Katrina enjoys working in Watercolour, Acrylics, Oils, whether a small detailed piece or a large abstract on canvas. She is inspired by the natural world, the beauty that surrounds us and the every changing colours of the seasons. Katrina was an Art Teacher at the P.R.U. for eight and a half years, teaching at GCSE level. Her painting commissions have taken around the world.
Katrina has taught watercolour techniques at Maidenhead Painting Club for a few years, and Mixed Media for 'Seasons' in Henley. She also does private tutorials, masterclasses and commissions.
Katrina enjoys working in Watercolour, Acrylics, Oils, whether a small detailed piece or a large abstract on canvas. She is inspired by the natural world, the beauty that surrounds us and the every changing colours of the seasons. Katrina was an Art Teacher at the P.R.U. for eight and a half years, teaching at GCSE level. Her painting commissions have taken around the world.
Katrina has taught watercolour techniques at Maidenhead Painting Club for a few years, and Mixed Media for 'Seasons' in Henley. She also does private tutorials, masterclasses and commissions.
Kirsten Dhanda
Venue 1
Kirsten’s work explores landscape as a sensory and emotional interaction rather than as a static place. Using layered paint, mixed media and gestural marks, she creates surfaces that reflect the movement of weather, differing terrains and timescales. Situated between abstraction and representation, the work suggests fragments of paths, horizons and solitary forms, capturing the atmosphere and quiet presence of standing and moving through a landscape.
Kirsten’s work explores landscape as a sensory and emotional interaction rather than as a static place. Using layered paint, mixed media and gestural marks, she creates surfaces that reflect the movement of weather, differing terrains and timescales. Situated between abstraction and representation, the work suggests fragments of paths, horizons and solitary forms, capturing the atmosphere and quiet presence of standing and moving through a landscape.
Kirsty Brooks
Venues 2 & *
Kirsty Brooks is an architectural glass artist creating site-specific artworks for the public realm. Artworks are created to respond to and create a dialogue with a space and its surrounding location.
Kirsty’s work involves collage, printmaking and digital layering. It invariably grows out of archive research, site analysis and community interactions.
Texture, light, shadow and material qualities feature heavily in her work and are key aspects of her panels in the One Maidenhead landscape near the station. She has also created a collage-based artwork within the Waterside Quarter development featuring found slides and archive photographs.
Kirsty Brooks is an architectural glass artist creating site-specific artworks for the public realm. Artworks are created to respond to and create a dialogue with a space and its surrounding location.
Kirsty’s work involves collage, printmaking and digital layering. It invariably grows out of archive research, site analysis and community interactions.
Texture, light, shadow and material qualities feature heavily in her work and are key aspects of her panels in the One Maidenhead landscape near the station. She has also created a collage-based artwork within the Waterside Quarter development featuring found slides and archive photographs.
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