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ARTISTS 2026
Printable list of Artists will be available nearer the trail time.
The following Artists will be taking part in the 2025 Cookham and Maidenhead Art Trail. Click on an image or a name for more information about the artist.
Yrene Howell
Maria Yrene has had a wide range of diverse experiences in her life, but lists art as the best. She paints much loved memories, and brings them to life.
Whitecroft Studio
Whitecroft Studio has become a nurturing space for artists of all levels, backgrounds, and ages. Artists are encouraged to choose their own style and subject matter, exploring different media to express themselves authentically. Donna assists each artist to bring their visual ideas to life.
Wendy Mercer
Wendy loves bold colours, and the natural world always inspires her. With this in mind she’s ventured into looser, abstract and mixed media styles, which you can experience across the weekend.
Thea Weavers
Thea works in acrylics watercolours and mixed media. She enjoys the mindfulness of painting and drawing in a loose style. Using colour Thea shares her impressions on paper and canvas.
Susi London
Susi London is a Berkshire based artist working mostly in acrylics on canvas. She studied at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication and is very interested in both our earthly environment and our extended Universe. She paints large scale, mainly in acrylics and in varying degrees of abstraction.
Susan Day
Susan works in porcelain, taking her inspiration from the landscape. Both sweeping vistas of hills and valleys and the delicate patterns of individual leaves and flowers inform her work. She makes vessels and lamps with impressed leaves and flowers recording season and place and creates sculptural vessels with abstract images using a colour palette drawn from the landscape, changing with the season. Along side this she makes small collections of wheel-thrown functional ware, with the surrounding landscape influencing form and decoration.
Sue Carter
Sue took up painting shortly before she retired with no former qualifications. Sue works mainly in acrylics and oils taking inspiration from nature, land and seascapes. She enjoys en plein air and studio painting using her own photos , often for the latter. Sue is inspired by colours , mood and light and tries to use these to create atmosphere in her work. She shows her work at local exhibitions throughout the year.
Sonia Scott-Job Art
Sonia uses most media but particularly adores charcoal's elemental qualities and the discipline working with its restrained palette affords her as a landscape artist in creating mood and atmosphere, and in capturing those fleeting moments in nature that make her gasp with delight - most typically, the wildness of the waves as they crash against her beloved Cornish coast. Her technique is what she calls '2-D sculpting' in which she melds her marks into the paper, layering and lifting, then repeating until she’s happy she’s achieved the desired dynamic effect.
Sonia Maycock Art
Sonia Maycock creates striking, soulful wildlife portraits in pastel and paint, beginning each piece with hours of detailed hand drawing to capture the quiet intensity and raw instinct of the animal. She then combines her original artwork with bold, contemporary backgrounds and layered text — blending traditional technique with a modern mixed-media approach.
Her work feels both playful and powerful, celebrating the beauty of wildlife while exploring the idea that the qualities we admire in animals — confidence, resilience and individuality — exist within us too, sometimes simply waiting to be reignited.
A proportion of every sale supports wildlife charities connected to the animal portrayed, making each artwork not only beautiful to own, but meaningful as well.
Satu Vartiainen
Satu is a Finnish born, international artist who started her artistic journey in Paris where she studied at L'Ècole d'Art Martenet. Satu has exhibited in London in four galleries over the years and in several local venues as well. Her interest lies mainly in semiabstract works but she takes commissions on portraiture and pet portraits too.
Satu is on the committee for Cookham Arts Club where her role is Artistic consultant.
https://www.instagram.com/Satupainter/
Sarah Luton
Sarah works mainly in oil, also watercolour and pastel and she loves drawing in charcoal. She works en plein air where possible, enjoying the challenges of changing light and weather conditions. In 2024 she was selected to be one of six artists to demonstrate painting at Windsor Castle for a private event to promote the Windsor Plein Air Competition. Sarah regularly paints portraits from life. She has shown at the Mall Galleries in the ING Discerning Eye and the SGFA exhibition and at Bath Society of Artists Open.
Sarah Horlock
Sarah is a visual artist, predominantly working in ceramics, with a background in landscape archaeology. Her work explores the layers, traces and stories of our past. She brings her archaeological sensibility and training to her artworks, with research into landscape history and heritage, archives and artefacts all informing her creative practise. Sarah creates archaeologically inspired functional and decorative ceramics, alongside more conceptual and sculptural artworks.
Alongside other work, Sarah will be sharing pieces inspired by an engagement with the Cookham Abbey excavations and the surrounding archaeological landscape with artist Philippa Shire-Oudekerk and the 2026 ‘Artist in Residence’ ceramicist Emma Przygrodzka. The Friends of Cookham Abbey initiated this collaborative artistic opportunity as part of their ongoing artistic engagement with the archaeology of the site.
Ruby A Ceramics
Andrea is a Cookham-based potter who works mainly by hand with slabs, coils, fingerprints and all; and occasional help from the wheel. She makes fun, functional ceramics designed for everyday use: pieces that can hold your coffee while also holding their own personality.
Surface is explored through texture and layered glazes, combining tested approaches with open experimentation. Process plays a central role in her work, and through regular documentation on YouTube she shares both successful firings and the insights gained from less predictable results.
The work exhibited here represents the pieces that emerged intact, functional, and ready for life beyond the kiln.
Philippa Shire Oudekerk
Philippa is a multi-disciplinary artist working primarily with alternative photography, print and film. Her work reflects on the social constructions and historical and ecological realities that govern human relationships with land, exploring our ethical awareness of our inhabited environments. Alongside other work, Pippa will share pieces inspired by an engagement with the Cookham Abbey excavations and the surrounding archaeological landscape with artist Sarah Horlock and the 2026 ‘Artist in Residence’ ceramicist Emma Przygrodzka. The Friends of Cookham Abbey initiated this collaborative artistic opportunity as part of their ongoing artistic engagement with the archaeology of the site.
Nao Hayashi-Green
Nao Hayashi-Green's paintings are an emotional response to the landscape. They are a record of the feelings that came to her when she experienced the scene and she hopes that they will in turn evoke an emotional reaction in the viewer. Scenery, especially a beautiful sky, strikes a chord within her, creating a sense of transience, reminding her that she is living a moment that will never be repeated. That realisation makes the moment precious and that emotion is what she is conveying in her paintings.
The style of her art is peaceful and quiet, but is also full of life and wonder. She would like the viewer to feel the wind in the trees, hear the silence of the atmosphere or see the movement of forest life. Nao's landscapes often include living creatures as they add a sense of movement and bring the paintings to life.
Nao endeavours to keep her mind and heart open to her surroundings and look out for scenes that trigger her desire to paint.
https://naohayashigreen.com/
Martin Westrop
Martin studied Graphic Design at Chelsea School of Art in the 70’s, and it was there that he first became interested in relief printing (lino cutting and wood cutting). He went on to become an Art Director, then a freelance illustrator/visualiser. The process of separating out colours for printing has always fascinated him – in a way, more than painting, and in recent years his artistic output has been exclusively about printmaking. He is interested in portraying objects and scenes which others might just pass by, and also cycle sport. Picasso's linocuts, German Expressionist woodcuts and the work of Edward Bawden have been his inspirations over the years.
Maria Morris
Maria Morris is an observational artist who is inspired by nature and natural forms. Her artwork brings context to the places she visits, her walks with her dogs and her friend and family relationships.
Maria Chernyak Belenky
Maria Chernyak Belenky is an artist and designer with a diverse creative background. She holds a Master’s Degree in Art & Spatial Design from New Bucks University. Her work explores human perception, revealing how light, colour, materials, and space shape our experience and the impact they have on us as viewers. Recently, she has been working in a more realistic manner in both painting and sculpture, expanding her study of observation, visual storytelling, and how her work occupies and interacts with space.
Website: http://www.mm-studio.co.uk
Maidenhead Painting Club
Maidenhead Painting Club is an inclusive art club for all ages and abilities. It was set up in 1978 and has been promoting and encouraging arts and creativity (particularly in painting and drawing) ever since.
The Club organises a number of regular classes and workshops, where members are free to learn and practise visual arts ( watercolour, acrylics, oils and mixed media ). The Club meets at a number of venues in and around Maidenhead. Membership costs and fees are kept as low as possible but depend on venue hire. We also organise art demonstrations, critiques and visits to exhibitions on visual arts as well as offering classes tutored by experienced artists.
The Club arranges various summer sketching and painting venues, art demonstrations and critiques during the year as well as occasional art exhibitions. Members who use e-mail (the club’s preferred way to communicate) may also receive occasional reminders, newsletters and updates.
There are 3 newsletters a year giving useful, up-to-date information for members. The newsletter is produced digitally but please contact the club if you are unable to receive any electronic versions via email. Please also contact the Newsletter / Social Secretary if you have something you would like to be included in the newsletter. Recently the Club have introduced Bulletins to provide more urgent communications on new outings and exhibitions, etc.
Maggie Farmer
Maggie began printmaking after she retired from working in education. She went to Bucks college on a course and became fascinated with various techniques for making images. Her main love is collographs as it enables her to add detail and atmosphere. The inspiration for her work is the landscape of the Yorkshire Dales where she grew up - particularly Swaledale which is beautiful.
Maggie then began to use the same inspiration for fused glass work suing glass powder and enamels to make pictures.
Lena Tomasik
Lena Tomasik is a Fine Art graduate from Aberystwyth University, where she received First Class Honours in Painting. Her practice centres on abstract figurative oil painting, alongside watercolour and pencil drawing. She has presented a solo exhibition at Ben & Jack’s Studio and participated in a group exhibition in Milan. Working intuitively, her work explores the subconscious through layered mark-making, memory, and shifting traces of human presence.
Laura Hol Art
Laura Hol is an artist who captures the essence of places, emotions, and memories through her vibrant and deeply expressive paintings. Her work is a visual journey of colours and moods, each brushstroke infused with meaning. She loves surprising the viewer using colours in unexpected ways.
Kirsty Brooks Architectural Glass
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.
Kirsten Dhanda
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.
Katrina Luff-Scott
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.
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