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ARTISTS 2025
Artists taking part in the 2025 Cookham and Maidenhead Art Trail are shown here. Click on an image or a name for more information about the artist.
Wendy Mercer
In 2013 I exhibited successfully for the first time, and have continued to do so. I particularly enjoy showing my work in an environment where I am able to meet the public and discuss aspects of not only my work but art in general.
My work captures the world around me, family, friends, nature, scenery – I love being able to put what I see and feel onto paper or canvas, and watching a picture evolve.
Victoria Ennion
Victoria is primarily a textile artist who combines stitch with both paper and fabric. She is currently concentrating on print-making, including linocuts.
Art journals are a big part of her practice.
Carpark at entrance to Oaken Grove Park opposite the house. 2 steps up to entrance. Larger steps at rear of house to garden and other exhibitors.
Trudy Dredge
Trudy has adored and been fascinated with jewellery her whole life. Hours spent rummaging through jewellery boxes, tubs of beads and displays of gems are never wasted time. Favourite materials are silver and gemstones. Colour being the main inspiration and the end goal being jewellery that can be worn and enjoyed for years to come.
Small steps lead to the venue rooms. Plenty of parking.
Terri Jones
Clients come to me to create an artwork that is unique, that is symbolic of a time/place/emotion, that is created with love and treasured thereafter.
I studied oil painting, portraiture and figurative painting at Heatherley's School of Art in Chelsea.
I work in oils, acrylics, pastel and pencil – the chosen medium for a piece depends on the client's preferences and budget.
My paintings and drawings grace the walls of homes and businesses in the UK, France, Sweden, Italy, Canada, USA and Australia.
I've had work hung in a Royal Academy show and I've won the 'Best Oil Painting' prize at the prestigious Chelsea Art Society Show. I also have a Prime Ministerial Commission in my portfolio...
One small step to get into the venue.
Susi London
Based in Berkshire, Susi London works mainly in acrylic paint on canvas, occasionally mixing in other media. She comes from a design background, and took up painting a few years ago. Starting points for her work include people, the natural world, and sometimes just an idea or feeling. She continues to explore these themes and develop her style both representationally and in more abstract ways.
Susan Day
Susan enjoys the making process. Very soft clay responds differently to firmer clay and the patterns and textures will vary depending on the state of the clay. She makes her own clay stamps from found objects and use these to texture thin sheets of porcelain. The designs are abstract but inspired by nature such as frost and rain or flowers. Each image, texture and shape is a collaboration between the clay and the potter, with a final word from the kiln. At certain times of the year she uses flowers and leaves directly to make porcelain lamps which become a record of a time and place. These are always local to her Taplow home.
Carpark at entrance to Oaken Grove Park opposite the house. 2 steps up to entrance. Larger steps at rear of house to garden and other exhibitors.
Susan Carter
Sue enjoys painting landscapes especially in Scotland.
Small steps lead to the venue rooms. Plenty of parking.
Sruthi Nair
Influenced greatly by her Indian culture, Sruthi adapts her art with varied mediums; painting on woodslices, silks and with inks. She has specialised in watercolours and works through storytelling as well as traditional styles such as Kalamkari art. These themes visualise her ardent love of elephants and nature, made vibrant and colourful through inks.
Sayani Drury
Sayani is an accomplished artist, best known for her floral portraits which seek to portray the essence and character of the flowers she paints in a vintage manner, reminiscent of the Dutch masters with a modern twist.
Sayani lives and works in Reading and her studio is surrounded by the flowers she loves to capture in paint. Although the majority of her work is studio based, she also paints en plein air regularly, loving the immediacy of trying to capture light in a landscape before it changes. Rather than keeping a written journal, she tracks her days through her sketchbooks which are also where she plans her finished paintings in thumbnails.
Satu Vartiainen
Finnish born international artist, Satu is well known for her colourful semiabstract paintings often inspired by several years spent in southern France and for her soft toned winter landscapes where ice and snow play their game.
Satu is the Artistic Consultant of Cookham Arts Club and she has exhibited in London at Mall Galleries, Coningsby Gallery and Peter Blake Gallery.
Sarah Luton
Sarah is a landscape and portrait artist and works mainly in oil but also watercolour, pastel and charcoal.
She is passionate about nature and paints landscapes en plein air where possible.
She finds working outside challenging, especially in difficult weather conditions (including the snow) but believes the experience of direct observation, including taking in the sounds and smells, adds to capturing the atmosphere in the painting. Sometimes she completes a study in one go and for more complicated scenes she returns at the same time of day as well as completing the painting in the studio.
Water is a constant inspiration and recent work includes studies of the River Thames. Portraits are usually painted from life in oil. In 2020 she made a series of portraits of NHS workers as a thank you for their work. During the Pandemic Sarah drew a series of topical cartoons featuring the crow family called ‘Corvid 19’, inspired by a spelling mistake seen in an article about Covid.
Carpark at entrance to Oaken Grove Park opposite the house. 2 steps up to entrance. Larger steps at rear of house to garden and other exhibitors.
Sarah Clark
Sarah Clark @ La Forge Designs uk creates unique and individual designs for the person who wants that bold statement, a timeless piece to be treasured or just simply to tell a personal story.
Designs are made with creativity, energy and passion. Working predominantly in Sterling Silver, Brass, Copper and Aluminium, the piece often incorporates movement, line and texture. They are born from a strike of the hammer, a fold or curve of the metal, evolving organically through the making process. Lovingly made by hand in her small studio based in Berkshire.
Having studied and gained a 2:1 BA Degree in 3-D Design at the Surrey Institute UK, design is key in creating the final designs; from the initial concept, material and the scale chosen.
Parking on road outside property. Gravel driveway access
Phyllida Shelley
Phyllida is a visual artist exploring the depiction of humanity at sites of historical interest. Cookham’s past and present, is the inspiration for her recent work, developed whilst Artist in Residence at Cookham Abbey during the excavation of this Anglo Saxon Monastic settlement by archaeologists from University of Reading. Drawing is the foundation of her printmaking and 3D work and her training in Theatre Design and Sequential Illustration continues to inform her creative practice. Her exhibition of prints, drawings and 3D work comes at the end of this year’s archaeological dig and is located in the Parish Centre, near the excavation site.
No parking during church services.
Penny Murray
Penny ‘s work is focused on functional stoneware. She enjoys the huge variety of making useful pots. She uses a flecked stoneware that speckles through a white glaze and blue glaze spattered on this has been popular in recent months. Penny sees herself returning to darker colours using Chun glazes which run and react well in her gas firing. The double dipping is interesting in the reduction firing but can be risky.
Access through side gate to the left of the house. Only one low step to enter studio and other artists will be in the garden and that is flat. Parking on the drive or on the road.
Nicky Myerscough
Having started in Stained glass I’ve now been working in fused glass for many years. Over time I have experimented with several different techniques and developed my skills and style. I have a mixture of functional and decorative pieces and am gradually moving to more organic and abstract works.
Limited parking at the back of the hall and in surrounding streets
Monique Sharp
The work exhibited consists of pictures done with acrylic paints and resin and varnish coated.
Small steps lead to the venue rooms. Plenty of parking.
Michael Restrick
Michael Restrick was born in 1981. Studied at Winchester school of art and graduated in 2003.
Artist Michael Restrick explores the relationship between artist and sitter; reflecting a wider perspective of the human condition. The internal and external conflicts of the subject are expressed by colour, tone, and composition. Symbols illustrate an emotional state, colour suggesting mood, temperament, and desires.
Drawing on influential artistic movements such as Expressionism, Restrick has developed a unique style that is as unnerving as it is engaging. His earlier sculptural work is clearly visible in the broad shapes and colours.
A piece of work evolves through the process of painting; the composition and initial study suggests the paintings point of view and theme. The paintings can be reworked again and again as this residual history informs the resulting image of not only its own journey but that of both subject and artist.
One small step to get into the venue.
Maria Meerstadt
Maria is passionate about her art. She has a huge love of colour, a fact reflected in how her painting has changed over the years. Maria is at her happiest when she has at least seven paintings on the go, and her chaotic studio is testament to this! Maria exhibits regularly, and also teaches.
Small steps lead to the venue rooms. Plenty of parking.
Len van Zyl
A contemporary artist who paints on canvas applying vivid colours and textures, using self designed stencils in the process
Park as one would for the Nicholson’s Centre
Kusum Shabong
As a largely self-taught artist living in Wokingham, Kusum finds inspiration in the natural beauty and the world around her. She is driven by a profound fascination with the interplay of light, nature, and human-made structures. Her work is an exploration of the delicate balance between the organic and the constructed, often seeking to capture the beauty that emerges at their intersection. Through her art, she aims to convey the serenity she finds in the world's harmonious coexistence, and it is this intrinsic harmony that motivates her to translate her observations into visual expressions.
Her chosen medium is watercolour, a medium she has ardently embraced for its unpredictable nature and ethereal transparency. In her artistic journey, she gravitates towards a loose impressionistic style to try to create vibrant pieces. She deconstructs a subject to its different stages and then gradually builds up the layers in transparent washes. Her Indian roots and heritage are also a source of inspiration, and she finds herself instinctively drawn to bright, bold colours. She is constantly constantly learning and enjoying the journey.
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Kirsty Brooks
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's public artworks in town can be found in the gardens at:
One Maidenhead
Queen Street, SL6 1LR
and behind Bardo Lounge building accessed along the footpath by the stream:
Waterside Quarter
Maidenhead, SL6 1QG
Kirsty will be talking about the public artworks created for the One Maidenhead development in town. There will be a chance to ask questions and view the work - Saturday 14th September at 6.00pm in the gardens at the One Maidenhead development off Queen Street.
Julie Bennett
Julie Bennett creates bold, unapologetically confident portraits with an overly exaggerated painted surface as a juxtaposition to our digital world. Working mostly in oil, she captures the emotional state of the individual whether that is a fictional character, a friend, or a person of interest. The physicality of paint is central to her practice.
One small step to get into the venue.
John Percy
John is interested in the process of painting as a metaphor for life which begins from different starting points and proceeds via the choices available, the decisions made, and chance events which can affect or completely change the direction initially chosen or forced by those initial conditions.
He sets up a starting point on the canvas, a ground colour or collaged strips of canvas, then selects colours and decides how and where to place them, usually finishing with a chance element which can destroy or make the work.
He aims to make paintings that will stand just as paintings rather than pictures of something. They are enigmatic, contemplative objects, carrying a certain poetic power and, at the same time, a statement of personal ideals and an expression of his sense of the orderly disorder around us, the process and the continual struggle between necessary social order and desirable personal anarchy.
The venue is an ordinary house used as a gallery. The studio is upstairs but there are 12 paintings on show all over the house. There is room for one or two cars on the drive if parked neatly
Jo Hall
A former biologist Jo continues to find inspiration in the natural world and also in the changing face of the land and how nature can soften the appearance of domestic and industrial derelicts. Favoured media include charcoal, pastel, watercolour and acrylic sometimes with elements of collage and printmaking. Much of Jo’s work is rooted in observation but experimenting with materials often leads to a more playful and imaginative approach with landscape, still life and colour.
This year Jo has revisited her love of flowers in watercolour and acrylic and has also produced several more imaginative mixed media works that either evoke places or narratives.
Jo continues to teach adults locally and is an Honorary and Past President of the Society of Graphic Fine Art, with whom she exhibits regularly, and earlier in the year had work selected for the Society’s open exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London.
Jill Chadwick
My passion for glass and colour started almost 30 years ago. I love to explore the endless possibilities of working in glass and relish the anticipation of opening the kiln to see a new creation or creating a stained-glass window design for a customer. I make fused glass artworks and stained glass and am happy to take commissions. This year I will have a large selection of discounted items for sale to make way for a new style of work next year.
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