A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM

Zena Blackwell is an award-winning figurative painter based in Cardiff, Wales, UK, working primarily in oil paint. She obtained her MFA at Central Saint Martins; BA at Wimbledon School of Art and most recently completed the Turps Correspondence Course.

Chloe Bonfield is a UK-based artist and illustrator whose multifaceted practice bridges the worlds of painting, drawing, and storytelling. Working as an illustrator since 2008, Chloe transitioned to painting in 2023, blending her foundational drawing techniques with an exploratory approach to paint.

Fernanda Cortes is a Mexican-Italian artist based in the UK, where she has developed her creative practice over the past nine years. Her studies in Paris and Canada led her to ceramics, a medium through which she explores the emotional layers of human experience.

Her work combines sculpture and storytelling, using anthropomorphic forms to examine vulnerability, resilience, and dehumanisation. 

Natalka Liber Stephenson’s practice is strongly founded in experimental drawing. She creates images to process her daily experience and the dreams that bookend them, interwoven with personal mythologies and esoteric concepts. 

Candice Tripp is a South African born artist living in the North East of England. 

Child-like subjects pluck at adult themes in paintings and sculptures whose narrative provides all the answers one could expect to find on a single page torn from a picture book. 

Occasionally playful, often sardonic, she levels her aim at the modern human experience through a lens inspired by her deep love for horror, folk art and story-telling.

Maud Whatley makes drawings which layer images and motifs taken from art-historical paintings, online archives, her camera roll and google image results. Her work intends to explore some of the politics of looking at things, the unexpected eroticism of placing different ideas in the context of one another and the ways in which the repetitive insistent touches of drawing can be sexy and weird.