Caroline Banks is a mixed media artist interested in the circularity of energy and of memory. Her gestural abstract pieces are often made to commission with work in private and corporate collections including Claridge’s, Raffles OWO London and the Berkeley Group. She founded Drawn to Think Differently to encourage creativity in adults.
Fine Artist - Musician - Poet. As a creative, Damel Carayol embraces a diverse range of artistic disciplines. Gambian born and UK resident, as a fine artist Damel is essentially a painter in oils. Drawing inspiration from the Gewel (Griot) tradition of his homeland, he aims to narrate stories of historical and contemporary human relationships, challenging injustices and elevating marginalised voices. Damel is internationally recognised and has recently exhibited at Tate Modern 2024 and Tate Britain 2025
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Fiona Carson
Textile Artist –I enjoy manipulating ‘stuff,’ working in series and using different making strategies – weaving, knitting, felting, applique, ink drawing I-pad Prints, Collage and Photomontage. Shape, outline and touch are important. I strive to make objects that surprise, confront, have presence. I like working with found, recycled and donated materials. These small works are inspired by the birth of a second grandchild in December 2025.
Liz Collini
I work at the boundary of text and image and am currently exploring the language of science, most recently, the science behind migraine. Everything is approached as an experiment.
D.R. ink is a design partnership, based in North London. Formed in 2004 by
Emil Dacanay and Sian Rance. We have an eclectic client base spanning every sector from music to non-profit, food to high-end finance. Our aim is to combine original image creation and graphic design to achieve outstanding results.
Lucille Dweck is a London-born painter from an Egyptian Jewish background, known for portraits that explore presence, intimacy, and connection, alongside nature-based works mostly focused on water, where light becomes a vehicle for transformation.
Her practice centres on capturing the spaces—both human and elemental—where individuality dissolves into higher experience.
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Amy Heffernan is a freelance Interiors stylist and creative consultant based in London, styling interiors photoshoots, shaping spaces for developers and curating showrooms.
As Style Editor-at-Large for Elle Decoration, Amy creates trend-led features for the magazine. In between projects, Amy enjoys painting, exploring colour palettes, shape and balance.
Viktoria Kostruk
I’m a London-based hair artist working across hair, sculpture and image-making. My practice explores hair as a material beyond traditional hairstyling, creating sculptural pieces, wearable forms and visual projects. I’m interested in experimenting with shape, texture and scale, and finding new ways to use hair within contemporary art and fashion.
Tina Leslie
These new abstract paintings are considerations of shapes and forms derived from cityscapes. They began to develop their own colour, energy and mood as I worked on each of them. Some of these paintings are reminiscent of my previous abstract ceramic pieces.
London Academy of Beauty
We are a nails and beauty training academy, offering a wide range of fast-track NVQ qualifications and accredited short courses, in nails and beauty. With flexible start dates and bespoke package available, courses are suitable for individuals wanting to enter the industry, and professional seeking to extend their services.
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Magnus Long designs furniture and lighting for esteemed domestic and international brands.
Whilst most of his work is available exclusively via those channels, during this year’s Open Studios, Magnus will sell samples of his Barricane Chair as well as display a new version of Standing Hanger, a clothes valet for Lobby, launching during the London Design Festival.
Vaughan Melzer
Vaughan’s artworks – paintings, drawings, photomontage, small 3-dimensional pieces are inspired by visual, political, and emotional memories, including an intense love of nature and landscape. From 2019/20, she made abstract pictures and, a series of small sculptural pieces using waste food materials. Scotland, her husband’s home, is her special love.
Shez Nicholls is a multidisciplinary artist whose organic practice reflects a deep environmental consciousness. Working with found and gathered materials, she creates sculptural, three-dimensional paintings with strong narratives. Her work draws inspiration from her surroundings, everyday encounters and the people and incidents she crosses paths with, transforming them into tactile stories.
Ruma Nowaz
Ruma is a painter/fine artist based at 40 Cumberland Road, North London. Her work comprises of abstract, semi abstract paintings and photographs drawn from nature, the urban environment and her imagination. She creates subtle dreamscapes and images through the language of oil painting, allowing the viewer to immerse themselves in the paintings.
Helena Park
Aesthetically, my paintings have shift between loosely figurative and totally abstract subject matter. I embrace fundamental pictorial elements like line, shape, and colour to evoke a particular emotional register or narrative within each painting. This simplified language of graphic motifs has liberated my imagination and through it I can paint with a greater freedom. I paint in thin washes to create layered transparencies which bring depth and a play of subtle light effects to the canvas. The painting process is one of exploration and playful discovery.
Henry Perks
Current strands in my work follow: Location, local landmark Alexandra Palace features as a regular motif. Reflections intrigue me, paintings that feature water in landscape, recently works where a glass plane facilitates both the outside and inside views at the same time.
Helena Roden creates large scale artworks for public spaces. Her favoured material is painted metal with dimensions up to 6 metres high. Community input is often integral to the design development. Commissioned by local authorities and housing associations, you can find her works across the South East.
Jo Roscoe’s practice was born from navigating her way through cancer, fertility treatment and motherhood, so painting is both a coping mechanism and an act of reclamation. Thoughtful compositions anchor the viewer and unusual colour palates, drips and scrapes throw us. What remains the same is a drive to process the surreal and raw realities of the human experience through the medium of paint.
A qualified saddler, Steph Rubbo specialises in making beautiful bespoke leather goods using traditional saddlery tools and techniques and materials.
Items are made to order and the range includes satchels, bags, belts, card wallets. Steph accepts commissions for one-off pieces and also repairs many leather items.
Lindsay Simons
Images of women are at the heart of my painting process. I use self portraiture or photographs of family or friends to explore themes of female agency and identity.
I have exhibited in the UK, Europe and the USA and most recently collaborated with Liz Collini on an exhibition exploring the images and myths of the ancient Sibyls.
Yana Stajno
Artist. I create workshops, giving kids, elders, locals the chance to paint. My paintings are a response to everything I see. Colours come from an African childhood, figures are caught in bafflement, buildings are wonky. I work in all media and on all surfaces, including walls and cars.
Non Worrall
An abstract painter, I experiment to find appropriate ways to capture and represent the subjects I select. Organic shapes, lines and colours - arising partly from deconstructed observations from life and partly from the push and pull of materials used - are vital aspects of my work.
Anna Wright is a figurative artist, whose practice focuses primarily on painting from life. This response allows for authentic mark making and depth of colour. My work hovers between close observation and a more gestural approach. I have a particular passion for colour, the physicality of paint and Visible colour layering, which is key to my approach.