Glass

Elin Isaksson

Elin Isaksson is a professional glassmaker based in Dunblane, Scotland. Elin Isaksson was born in the Philippines by was raised in Sweden, where she began to learn about glassmaking using traditional techniques. Learning through apprenticeships in Sweden, France and Italy, she had formal trainging at the Orrefors Glass School in the famous region of Kingdom of Glass (south of Sweden). Following this she moved to Scotland, where she is a graduate of Edinburgh College of Art. She also gained an MA in Design and Applied Arts. Further training followed, including master classes with Dante Marioni and Simon Moore at North Lands Glass Centre in Lybster.

Now based in Dumblane, Elin has found her forever home and studio.

Elin’s work is beautifully simple and vibrant. She is inspired by the play of light, texture and movement in nature. Her work is all hand blown, tactile and decorative. Watermark Gallery is delighted to stock a range of Elin Isaksson’s work, from Glass Droplets and Candleholders to Liquid Ice Bowls, Ripple Vases and Rock Pools. Many are produced in a range of attractive colours.

To find out more about Elin, click here.

Elin’s work makes beautiful gifts, see our gift section for more.

Art & Contemporary Art

Pascale Rentsch

Pascale Rentsch RSW is based in the East Lothian region of Scotland where she makes the most of the surrounding hills and coastal landscape. She draws and paints outdoors, directly from nature in all weather conditions. This is a technique called en plein air painting. She works instinctively and spontaneously to capture nature and the elements.

Talking about her painting Pascale says, “My language is paint and like a conductor guiding an orchestra, I enjoy working outside with my materials, exploring mark-making and connecting with my surroundings, reacting to what I see, feel and hear. I love the fact that whenever I am in nature, I know I will always find something beautiful, something that touches me however small and insignificant it might appear“.

Originally from Switzerland Pascale trained in Scotland where she graduated with a BA in Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art in 1999. In October 2022 she was awarded full membership of The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW).

Pascale will be exhibiting in a solo show at Watermark Gallery in March 2023. Her previous exhibition in 2022 alongside Michele Bianco in Off The Beaten Track was a resounding success and we are looking forward to seeing new work in the forthcoming exhibition.

To see Pascale in action please watch her video on this website (below) called “This is my voice”.

Art & Contemporary Art

Jason Hicklin

Jason Hicklin captures the feel of the weather and light and its effect on the landscape. All of Jason’s work is begun outdoors. Carrying the minimum of equipment, he will walk and climb the desired area for days and sometimes nights, often in extreme weather. He describes working outdoors in these tense and exciting conditions as a tremendously connecting experience – feeling a part of the land itself.

The result is a striking record of the elemental collisions between earth, sea and weather. He conveys the bleak essence of driving rain, when the mist closes down, and masters the polarities of bright skies and shadowed rocks. His work is charged with an atmosphere born of an intimate knowledge of the landscape and a direct physical experience of its changing moods.

Jason Hicklin was born in Wolverhampton in 1966 and studied at St. Martins College of Art, where he was a student of renowned printmaker Norman Ackroyd. After completing a postgraduate course at the Central School of Art in 1991, Jason combined working as Ackroyd’s studio assistant and editioner with producing his own work and teaching printmaking at City and Guilds of London Art School.

Jason is currently Head of Printmaking at City and Guilds. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of Painting and Printmakers in 1993 and has had numerous solo and joint exhibitions in the UK and abroad.

Art & Contemporary Art

Louise Davies

Painterly images using intense layers of translucent colour and overlapping shifting shapes are pulled together by calligraphic lines that define the subject matter. This is the hallmark of artist Louise Davies RE. Her work covers a range of techniques including painting, etching and monoprints. All of which employ the artist’s individual approach to colour.

Much of this work stems from her formative years in the West of England where the countryside was her place of reference. Later moving to London the artist reminisced on the landscape by adding her own romantic notion of colour to emphasise the beauty of nature, induced by nostalgia for the past. Suns rising and setting; turbulent storms; calm and troubled waters, are all represented by the artist using her unique style of layering bold transparencies of colour that are all enveloping

Davies also uses drama and vibrant colour to depict London and cityscapes. Buildings are back lit by luminescent skies that add magic and excitement to the already vibrant city. The River Thames is set alight with neon colours that reflect the mood of the image. And yet, the addition of line adds structure to the scene giving it stability.

It is apparent in all of Davies work that her love of the environment is paramount and that her intuitive use of the media is testament to her mastery of these techniques.

Louise Davies R.E. is a fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and currently resides in London with her husband and family. She has devoted the last thirty five years to her art work having trained as a painter and printmaker.

Art, Ceramics & Contemporary Art

Louise McNiff

Louise McNiff is inspired by vast open moorland and the steep rocky edges that look down onto deep sweeping valleys. Dark patches of tree belt, stone walls and hedges fragment the land. The landscape of The Peak District, is the place that inspires Louise’s work.

Louise McNiff creates prints and produces hand-built ceramics in her studio, situated on the edge of the Derbyshire Peak District. Using techniques which draw on her background as a Printmaker, Louise ‘etches’ sgraffito lines into the leather hard clay with handmade tools. Coloured slips are monoprinted, painted and stencilled to build layers of drawing, mark making and colour. She works intuitively, until Louise feels that she has reached a balance of colour, shape, line and the experience of the landscape has been conveyed. The vessels are then taken to stoneware temperature in an electric kiln.

See more of Louise McNiff’s work here.

Art & Contemporary Art

Rob Moore

Rob Moore is a full time professional artist and was formerly Dean at Hull School of Art and Design. Educated at Sheffield College of Art and Design, Rob has been committed to his practice as a painter and printmaker since being awarded the prestigious Granada Fellowship in Fine Art at The Institute of Advanced Studies at Manchester Polytechnic. Rob Moore has an impressive track record of exhibitions across the UK with many works in public and private collections. His work is highly sought after and collected.

Rob’s work does not fit neatly into a category and he continually modifies and explores his ideas and processes free of fashionable consideration. His work demonstrates a sensibility and craft that results in images that are sensitive and memorable. In recent years after a long interest in the abstract his work started to show the influences of his rural location and many visits to high places in Europe and further afield with a sense of landscape shimmering through obsessive exploration of marks and surfaces.

Art & Contemporary Art

Colin Black

My work is primarily mixed-media and landscape based. My most recent series focusses on the monasteries and priories of Yorkshire. It’s their juxtaposition of architectural geometry and irregularity of decay that holds my attention. Even though it is their physical locations that inspire me it is back in my studio that a piece will take emotional shape, and the spirit of the place is realised. I love colour and express this through a variety of materials that includes oil, acrylic and water-based paint, oil pastel, collaged imagery, particularly maps, I will add and take away until its required “rightness” is achieved, through the creative process of distillation.

I studied at the Royal College of Art and the Chelsea School of Art in London. I worked as a graphic designer and taught art and design for many years. I spent twenty-five years living in Scotland, and now live in York with my wife Sallie, where we run Seek Art School. I work and teach in Seek Studio.

I have had work exhibited in solo and annual group exhibitions for the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Scottish Society of Watercolours and Visual Art Scotland. I have also been accepted for York Open Studios for the last two years.

Jewellery

Annabet Wyndham

Annabet Wyndham is a professional jeweller and silversmith who is based in the Rose Hill studios in Brighton.

Annabet specialises in making small functional pieces using primary materials silver and vitreous enamel. She also uses painted and shaped plywood in her designs. Her most recent work is inspired by still-life especially those of artists such as William Scott.

Jewellery

Amy Wilkinson

Having graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2003 with First Class Honours in Three Dimensional Design, Amy Wilkinson has continued to design and hand-make jewellery using precious metals.

Amy is based in Manchester where she has a studio at the Manchester Craft and Design Centre. She has created a number of collections and continues to experiment and develop new work. Her main inspiration is driven from layering and drawing simple forms to build intricate three dimensional structures that play with shape and shadows.

Watermark Gallery is delighted to include Amy’s Abstract Butterfly Collection as part of it’s current range. As Amy says, “These delicate arrangements of small silver pieces have been flattened, distorted, textured, folded and soldered together, to resemble clusters of butterflies. The simple abstract shapes and the textured surfaces play with light and shadow to create a fluttering effect when worn”.

When she is not in her studio, Amy uses metal work skills as an armature maker at Mackinnon & Saunders making stop-motion animation puppets in films such as The Corpse Bride, Fantastic Mr Fox, Frankenweenie and ParaNorman and the Sainsbury Christmas Advert 2016. She has also helped create children’s TV programs such as, Postman Pat, The Clangers, Twirly Woos, Raa Raa and Tobys Travelling Circus.

Archives: Artists

Glass

Elin Isaksson

Art & Contemporary Art

Pascale Rentsch

Art & Contemporary Art

Jason Hicklin

Art & Contemporary Art

Louise Davies

Art, Ceramics & Contemporary Art

Louise McNiff

Art & Contemporary Art

Rob Moore

Art & Contemporary Art

Colin Black

Jewellery

Annabet Wyndham

Jewellery

Amy Wilkinson

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