Rosie Leech is an Oxford based illustrator and designer. Her work is focused around observational drawing trips as well as imagined scenes and characters, exploring ideas with analogue processes, primarily risograph printing. Her work is colourful and intricate, usually on a very small scale with focus on the details of each illustration. Rosie is showing a collection of three colour risograph prints for ‘Gather Round’.

“In my drawings and paintings, I want to celebrate earthly beauty and humble experience. Using colours that resonate with emotion, and conversing with the rich visual poetry of flowers, I make simple lines and shapes to try to depict just the essence of the subjects. I take notes from the changing seasons, flowers and the simplicity of everyday objects.
I paint and draw from my imagination, the pictures in my mind’s eye, or my memory.  I’m interested in the feeling a colour or a flower gave me, or the recollection of an image.
Femininity and the female body… symbolised by pots and vessels, curved shapes to depict a harmony of strength and softness.

The ephemeral and the eternal.”
Pascale Cumberbatch, November 2024

Jynsym Ong is a studio potter making high fired mostly functional ware. She has studied ceramics at Clay College in Stoke On Trent and was selected as a Daiwa Scholar enabling her to undertake an apprenticeship at Mitoh Kama in Karatsu, Japan. She is interested in patterns that are found in nature that have subtlety and variation. To achieve this she uses natural materials like ash, found clay and rocks. The pots are then fired for up to 70 hours in an Anagama (wood-fired cave kiln) which creates additional volatility in the kiln atmosphere creating unexpected surfaces from the fly ash and flame paths. With her work she is looking to enrich people’s lives in a little way every day, hoping to bring joy to the quotidian and an exaltation of the domestic.

“My aim is to create ceramics that can be used in everyday life. The base material primarily consists of Kutani clay from Ishikawa Prefecture. One of my main decoration features is type of painting process using a blue pigment known as Annande technique. I’m also committed to exploring new methods of expression through trial and error, without being limited to a single glaze. About the Work: Annande style refers to pottery made in the Annan region of Vietnam. The patterns drawn have a tendency to blur and flow due to the transparent glaze, resulting in a soft flowing finish. As …

Sarah Mossop studied sculpture at Chelsea School of Art before pursuing a career in art education and curating. After several years teaching she moved to working in the publicly funded gallery sector in community engagement, learning and curatorial positions at the Crafts Council, Modern Art Oxford and Arts at the Old Fire Station. Her freelance collaborations include working with Tate Britain, Royal Academy, South London Gallery and the Ashmolean Museum. Re-engaging with her sculptural practice in 2018, her work focusses on ceramics as the central material while also using drawing, photography, collage and assemblage. Currently she is working on two …

Claudia is a British artist based in rural Northumberland. She was born in London in 1964. Her Mother, an antique dealer, specialised in Oriental porcelain. Growing up surrounded by beautiful ceramics and decorative objects has led Claudia to a life long love of museums, historic houses, auctions and flea markets. Following a Foundation Course at Wimbledon School of Art she studied Fine Art at Canterbury College of Art from 1984 – 1987. Claudia then completed her M.A in Sculpture at University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. As an art student, Claudia worked in clay alongside various other media. At that time …

Raykhan Laing is a UK-based contemporary artist working primarily with clay.  Raykhan lives and works between London and rural Oxfordshire. Her practice explores the relationship between material, transformation, and the human spirit with focus on fissures, cracks and layered surfaces as expressions of fragility and renewal. Working primarily with clay, including wild clay. She also engages with metal, textiles, collages and other materials as part of evolving practice.  After earning a law degree and spending a decade in the corporate world, she returned to art. Raykhan is an Associate Member of the Craft Potters Association (UK) and was selected for Artists …

Copperplate engraving in Paris. In January 1995, I had no idea I would be moving to Paris or working in copperplate engraving.I had been working at a pearl company in Kobe for almost two years, and although I was quietly waiting for a change, I had no idea what form it would take. What I could have never imagined, however, was that this change would manifest in the form of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake.I endured the shock of the disaster and the subsequent months of chaos without really understanding what was going on, and before I knew it, I was …

‘My works are a celebration of my love of colour, texture and form. I have tackled them with gusto, creating the first few images unsatisfactorily and then almost destroying them to allow me to free up and push them past the point of being something safe to something much more exciting. They are textured, overworked and rubbed and scratched back. Sometimes nothing of the starting image remains visible, I never know what the final image is going to look like until it appears. Future memories.’– Emma Davis Emma studied Fine Art at both John Moores University and Wolverhampton University and …