Associate Artists
Featuring some of our Associate Artists
Jelly’s Associate members are a diverse group of more than 50 independent practising artists at different stages of their creative development with covering varied art forms who form a reciprocal support network. Our members currently include artists from Reading, the UK and further afield.
Associate Artist membership offers artists an experimental and supportive space to develop their creative practice and professional development.
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Linda Newcombe - Associate Artist Facilitator
Linda is an artist and award winning illustrator based in Reading. Rooted in printmaking techniques her practice features delicate naive storybook-like imagrey and suggests a folksy environment with emotive content. Her silent storytelling alludes to themes such as longing and loss. Her practice took on an additional dimension in 21/22 when she was awarded Arts Council funding to develop her 2D illustrations into animations. She now makes jewel-like stopmotion animation sequences using charming though crudely made puppets and sets to relate her narratives.
Instagram: @linda_newcombe
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Helen Westhrop is a printer and artist, who since undertaking an MA in Textiles at the School of Crafts and Design, University of the Creative Arts joined Jelly Reading and a hub of kindred souls.
She draws inspiration from a creative childhood where ‘make do and mend’ was the basis of her discovery of sewing and creation using textiles and found materials. Growing up, she then moved into a love of fashion and the clothing culture of a wide range of alternative music. Now, developed creatively into a world of Stop-Motion-Animation using a community of ‘Coat Hanger Dolls’ which is now her main area of preoccupation.
Her passion is writing, printing, drawing, and sculpting dolls when she allows her travel experiences and curiosity to guide her creative journey which she shares through her blog nelabligh.com.
While she is on the Instagram @coathangerdolls and @nelabligh her preferred domain is at Jelly Reading each Thursday where she has a tiny studio space to make films and watch the world go by and welcomes visitors to share tea, cake and experiences.
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Sue Malvern is a weaver who makes woven art works including experimental works in contemporary materials such as paper.
Her work is concerned with weaving as a metaphor for migration, where crossing borders merges and shifts identities. She investigates how these concerns can find form in woven work, in materials, structure and imagery. She has been weaving small pieces that explore the politics of cotton in Lancashire and India, and a project addressing the crisis of the Channel crossings. She is developing new works that further explore cloth as a cultural paradigm for migration, especially the textile as a portable form of cultural expression. Sue graduated in fine art, and completed a doctorate in history of art. She worked as an academic, publishing on modern and contemporary art, and trained as a weaver in London. She has exhibited her weaving in London and Denmark.
Instagram: @suebmal
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Chris’s visual art focuses on and is inspired by dance and music, elements of these vibrant arts lending flow and rhythm to her abstract and figurative paintings.
She recently featured in Feeling the Beat at South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell, a multidisciplinary project bringing artists and musicians together to work in responsive ways.
Website: www.chrisholleyart.com
Instagram: @chrisholleyart
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Sarah Wainwright’s subject matter, materials and processes are all closely linked to light, time, and the environment. There is an essential relationship between the themes addressed by her work and the act of their being made.
She is interested in photography in its most basic and immediate form - the action of sunlight upon a surface over a specific duration of time - and how the long exposures of lensless photography (photograms, pinhole images) reveal the essence of a situation or event not-quite-tangible to an observer in ‘real’ time or from a human perspective.
The materials that Sarah uses in her weaving have been altered by their photographic exposure to sunlight: they are time- and site-specific records of significant (or insignificant) moments. Weaving is a process by which timelines are constructed - these are superficially linear but inevitably they include elements of disorder and glitch.
Sarah’s approach to art-making is conceptual and experimental. She embraces uncontrollable elements, such as the variable strength of sunlight or effects of the weather, and enjoys the unpredictability of the outcome.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oh.hello.sarah/
Website: https://sarahwainwright.art/
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Peter creates very animated pictures, sculptures and films which have featured in many exhibitions and been broadcast widely.
He disregards established hierarchies and boundaries between disciplines. He paints sculptures, draws paintings and in his 3D work, he replaces concave with convex and material with emptiness. He is obsessed with imaginary still lives shot through with a distinct lack of stillness, non-existent sculptural monuments, and fictionalised nudes. Figurative, yet far from realistic, his work is lateral rather than literal. Filled with ideas, every picture tells a story and if the story happens to be fun, so much the better. He insists that fun and playfulness are intrinsic to creativity.
His animation work has been seen at festivals, broadcast and exhibited internationally and even won an award or five.
As well as all that, he illustrates books, conceives picture books, games apps, devises instances of Augmented Reality, teaches animation, runs stop-motion animation workshops and sometimes even writes blurb about himself.
Website: www.veryanimated.com
Instagram: @coodonttweet
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Susan Cunningham is an artist who explores the presence or absence of ‘nature’ within urban environments. This involves documenting her experience as an artist, following the Western tradition of landscape painting from the 18th and 19th century. Responses are made by drawing and painting in the open air, utilising sketchbooks, creating model landscapes and building artefacts.
It is an investigative process and asks questions: what is ‘nature'? and how do artists contribute and shape ideas about ‘nature'?
The practice is often site-specific and embedded in discourses surrounding the construction of landscape and nature, including: Lucy Lippard 'The Lure of the Local’, Jean Beaudrillard 'Simulacra and Simulation' and Hal Foster 'Return of the Real’.
website: www.susancunninghamart.co.uk
Instagram: @susancunningham_artstudio
Twitter: @SuzanC9
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Julie a visual artist, working with mixed media. She is predominately a 3D artist, drawn to creating figurative and illustrated pieces. Most recently, she has been working on using a sewing machine as a means to draw and create collages. Using the sewing machine to draw is a tactile and meditative way for her to create. Needle work gives her a sense of permanence and strength. The images she creates draws on gender equality and unheard voices.
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Matt Pearce is a painter mainly working in oils on portraits and figurative pieces.
Most of his work deals with themes that include identity, family and interpersonal relationships.
In a departure from his usual area of focus, he is currently working on a series of landscape paintings influenced by the New Zealand landscape.
Website: www.mattpearcestudio.com
Instagram: @mattpearcestudio
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Charlotte Hollis is a neurodivergent textile artist, exploring historic embroidery techniques through modern materials, imagery and sensibilities. She has been a ‘maker’ for as long as she can remember, but only began to accept ‘artist’ or ‘artist-maker’ since the ‘unstitched coif..’ project in 2023. Her contribution to this project has recently been accepted into the Fashion before 1800 collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, which has encouraged her to follow her artistic ambitions.
Charlotte's work seeks to combine traditional textile methods with modern subject matters. With nods to pop culture, feminist history and the natural world, her work demonstrates the pull of history running through our present times. For example, the Lady Ratcliffe project (begun as part of Jelly Residency January 2025) sought to capture women/womxn/AFABs of Reading in blackwork, as a rebuttal to the lost identity of a 'Lady Ratcliffe' in Tudor court painter Hans Holbein's preparatory sketches.
Her work is full of heart and humour, and seeks to bring textile history to the forefront whilst soothing herself and others through turbulent modernity.
Instagram: @anewlystitchedcoif
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Peter Driver (b. Littleport, UK, 1962) has an MA in Fine Art from Winchester School of Art. He taught on the BA Fine Art course there, retiring in 2022 to concentrate on making art and watching birds. His diverse output includes printmaking, painting and writing, usually grounded in the experience of walking and exploring edgeplaces. He works from his studio on a farm in West Berkshire, collaborating widely and exhibiting in solo and group exhibitions.
Instagram: @peterdriverstudio
Website: www.peterdriver.art
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Wendy works in mixed media, with a particular passion for incorporating collage and text into the layers of her work. She is inspired to capture the everyday beauty in the world around her, from a favourite mug, to the trees and plants on daily walks. Wendy also draws regularly on location around the Reading area capturing local, familiar scenes.
She has a strong sketchbook habit, which is a place to be experimental and playful, documenting daily life as well as exploring materials and drawing from life. She enjoys work that looks “unfinished”, leaving something of the process or the hand of the artist evident.
Instagram: @artywendscreates
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Anna Snowball is a documentary filmmaker based in Berkshire who tells stories about underdogs chasing and achieving impossible dreams. Her work focuses on character-driven nonfiction, shaped over long periods of time and made in creative collaboration with her subjects. Her films have screened internationally at festivals including BFI London, Big Sky and AFI Fest. Her latest short, Iranian Yellow Pages, won the Netflix Documentary Talent Fund and was nominated for both a Grierson Award and a Critics’ Circle Award. Anna has over a decade’s experience making short nonfiction films through her company Snow Films, with projects for Netflix, BBC, Arte, Radio 4 and Channel 4. She was named a Screen International Star of Tomorrow in 2025 and recently served as a juror for the International Emmy Awards. She is currently developing her first feature documentary, a creative film about late-diagnosed neurodiversity in women, which she is working on during her residency. Anna is an alumna of the National Film and Television School Documentary MA, where she now teaches as a visiting tutor. Passionate about widening access to the screen industries, she is also the co-founder of Gatecrash Films, a non-profit organisation bringing practical filmmaking workshops to young people outside mainstream education.
Instagram: @anna__snowball
Website: www.annasnowball.co.uk
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Laura de Moxom is a Socially Engaged Artist, Activist and empathy-led Cultural Manager.
In her personal practice she describes herself as a mixed media alt-photo artist, who creates alternative archives. She explores her past, collective memory and forgotten places to tell stories. She explores memory; its attachment to objects and the materiality of photographs, using a visual language of historic alternative photographic techniques, image transfer, assemblage and paint.
Her practice is inextricably linked to her past life as a librarian. Inspired by her activism she is currently exploring sustainability in relation to her practice, thinking about kinder materials and processes.
Website: www.laurafrancesd.com
Instagram: @alibraryoflaura
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Originally from Belfast, Heather McAteer studied BA Fine Art at Belfast School of Art before relocating to Reading in 1992 to complete a Master of Fine Art degree. Working predominately in graphite, her drawings investigate themes of identity, memory and history.
Recent works on paper depict beautiful, cruel landscapes suffused with a melancholic sense of loss and absence. They attempt to reconcile ideas of place and home, in terms of longing and belonging.
Website: www.heathermcateer.co.uk
Instagram: @heathermcateerart
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Robert Fitzmaurice makes paintings, prints and ceramics characterised by figurative and abstract elements contained by networks of vibrant colour. His small scale works include references to historical narratives and the art of the past, especially medieval and Indian art, where the figure often emerges in a frontal stance that suggests some sort of encounter with the viewer.
He grew up in Coventry, where contrasts between the old and new cathedrals, the history of the blitz and his father's accounts of being a prisoner of war fuelled his imagination. After studying Fine Art at Sunderland he took a studio with Sunderland Artists Group for a year before moving to Reading to take his MFA. Early encounters with the painters John Emanuel and Adrian Heath went on to become lasting friendships and their insights into materials, processes and approaches to abstraction important touchpoints in his own studio practice.
Selected group exhibitions include Whitworth Young Contemporaries, Manchester; International Print Center, New York; NN Contemporary, Northampton; and APT Gallery, London. Solo exhibitions include 'Artist of the Day,' Angela Flowers Gallery, London; 'No Eden' Greenham Control Tower, Newbury; and currently 'No Sudden Moves', West Berkshire Museum.
He lives and works full-time on his art in Reading, Berkshire.
Website: www.fitzmaurice.works
Instagram: @Robert_fitzmaurice
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Eoghan Collins works predominantly from life using a mix of marker pens, colour pencil, pencil and inks.
Influenced heavily by the graffiti, comic books and vibrant west Reading community he was immersed in during the 80s and 90s.
Eoghan rediscovered the value and importance of art for managing serious anxiety - he finds the act of focusing so intensely on something that has no right answer provides a mental reset.
This, perhaps, is what drives the sense of energy and exploration in his work.
As an Associate Artist, Eoghan is using the opportunity to learn what's possible and how to grow his approach and thought processes.
Instagram: @eoghancollins
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Miranda lives and works in Oxford, UK. Since 2018 Miranda has been making hand cut analogue collage works using a variety of vintage ephemera and papers. As a creative hunter-gatherer Miranda is fascinated by the mundane items we decide to preserve, and conversely what we decide to abandon. Of particular pertinence to Miranda’s practice is how reminiscence, memory and nostalgia can be both collective and individual.
Miranda has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally and has had her work included in several magazines, publications and books including Contemporary Collage Magazine, Kolaj Magazine, The Cutting Chaos, Collage Care, and several publications Edinburgh Collage Collective publications. Miranda has several works in the prestigious Kanyer Art Collection. In 2022 Miranda was a winner of a Contemporary Collage Magazine Award.
Instagram: @scissorspaperpaste
Image title: sweet tooth (2023)
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Caz Dowall is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Earley. During the day Caz teaches ceramics and mindful art classes in the local community. In her spare time Caz can be found in her art studio painting, in her bedroom creating music or somewhere outside on an adventure. Her most recent work is based on the two places she feels most herself; hiking the mountains and on the dancefloor listening to her favourite electronic music.Drawing inspiration from the techniques of Bob Ross, she uses a palette knife to layer the textures of the landscape on bold abstract backgrounds. The music she listens to whilst painting informs her abstract mark making, responding to the repetitive beats and sounds of electronic music such as deep house, melodic breakbeats and drum and bass. These abstract marks are echoes of the dancefloor as the lights and sounds cascade through the senses.Caz finds the process of painting these scenes is synonymous to being in these places as they allow her to embody a deep sense of mindfulness. Those moments when the only thing that matters is right now, an absolute present moment, the only thing that ever really exists at any moment in time.
Instagram: www.instagram.com/cazdowdallart
Facebook: www.facebook.com/cazdowdallart
Website: www.cazdowdallart.co.uk
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Dr Jenna Fox is a British multimedia artist whose work explores atypical spaces. Common themes underpinning her practice are the connections of identity, place and home. The inside, the outside, boundaries and the movement between them. She uses playfulness and humour as a mechanism to explore complex, often troubling topics in an accessible way. Her PhD research examines how alter egos can be used as an expanded space to explore alternative creativity, discourse and identities. She has an MA from RCA and an MBA from Brunel. She has exhibited extensively across the UK and was selected for Wells Contemporary 2022 for an installation of huge flowers. Her work is on show at Reading station with a mural 10m x 3.3m and at the Reading Festival site with a huge mural painted in June 2025. In May 2023 she held a solo show at Guildford Cathedral and the Sunbury Gallery. She has exhibited at The National Trust, for The RSPB, Earley Station, Trowbridge Town Hall, Cromwell Place Gallery and The Crypt Gallery London, and is on permanent display at South Western Rail, The Sculpture Park Farnham, The War Horse memorial at Royal Ascot, Frimley Park Hospital and West Swindon Parish Council. She has just completed a huge mural at Oxford Road, Reading for NWR in September 2025.
Instagram: @JennaFoxArtist
Website: www.jennafoxartist.weebly.com/
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Claire Bennett is an American born artist living and working in the UK. Originally trained as an illustrator at the Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC, Claire’s personal work has moved into larger scale, mixed media paintings and collage. She primarily paints in oil and acrylic but also has worked using a variety of drawing media, including pen and ink, pencil, gouache, watercolour, and pastels. She has also created limited edition lino prints and photographic prints. Claire recently returned to her fine art practice after taking a break to focus on commercial graphic design. Her most recent body of work draws inspiration from the natural world, complicated family histories and psychological concepts, often exploring the intersection of the three. Claire’s paintings have been featured in the Footprints: Portrait of a Brooklyn Neighborhood exhibition along with other smaller shows in Brooklyn and lower Manhattan. In addition to painting and drawing, Claire works as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator and runs a music festival with her family.
Instagram: @kinderclaire
www.behance.net/clairebennettdesign
Website: clairebennettdesign.com
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Rae Mason is an Artist and Art Therapist. Her intention is to help people to express their internal world through image and metaphor. She works intuitively in oil pastel and ink, with dreams, myth and metamorphosis as her main inspiration.
Instagram: @raemasonart
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Helen is a painter who explores emotion and experience through mark making. She works in an abstract, experimental way incorporating debris like rusted objects and manipulating the paper surface. Transitions interest her, whether it be erosion, emotional or chemical processes.
Exhibitions include The Last Gasometer and Reading's Changing Skyline at The Turbine House, Reading 2021, the Contemporary Watercolour Exhibition at the RWS Bankside Gallery London 2018, Solo show at New Era Theatre in Newbury 2016 and Wallflower, In Transit site specific mobile art space, Cornwall 2009.
www.instagram.com/helenlunnartist/
Image title: Regrowth
Rust, ink and pencil on paper
40cm x 60cm
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Lucinda Anderson’s work explores perception, connection, and transformation, revealing hidden links between nature, the self, and the universe. She uses fractals and organic forms to symbolise infinite patterns, where the ordinary becomes extraordinary and the familiar takes on new meaning.
Exploring themes of oneness, spirituality, and the human experience, she blurs the line between the internal and external world, inviting viewers into a space beyond surface perception.
With a background in photography and fashion, Anderson studied photography at college before completing a degree in fashion design at Falmouth University. Her practice has since evolved into painting and sculpture, merging these disciplines to translate sculptural forms onto canvas.
Her first exhibition, Under Ice, was held at 54 The Gallery, Mayfair, in February 2025. Through her work, she seeks to capture the balance between chaos and calm, presence and absence, inviting reflection on the interconnectedness of all things.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lucindaanderson/
Site/portfolio: https://lucindaanderson.com/
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Stage designer, scenic & mural artist, painter, and sensory journey maker.Lisa graduated in Technical Arts Interpretation at the Wimbledon school of Art in 1998 and has 24-year experience in working and collaborating with teams in the theatre industry. Lisa currently is a freelance artist (2023) she still does stage design and facilitates in local theatres, Reading Rep Theatre & College, Theale green School and previously at the University of Reading (2003-2023)
She uses mixed media to create stage sets, projections, fabrics, and re purposing materials to constructed scenic works.
Lisa specialises in large scale scenic art works, murals and now in has her own painting practice. Lisa’s artwork is based on the natural world and she embraces inventive painting on a large canvases, playing with colour and texture using acrylic inks, paints and foils.
She also runs Art clubs for Primary and Secondary age children from the ‘Art Shed’ her studio based in Burghfield Common.
Lisa’s previous and current clients are:
The Royal Opera House, Watford Palace Theatre, Perth Theatre, Euro Disney in Paris, Reading Rep theatre, Watermill Theatre, Sonning Mill Theatre, Rabble Theatre and Make sense theatre for SEND children & adults.
Website: http://lisaclarkart.co.uk
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Catherine Paiano is a freelance illustrator based in Surrey, UK. She specialises in illustration for editorial, publishing and advertising. She uses print making processes in her work such as screen-print and mono-print with digital processes to finish. Catherine has produced work for clients such as US Vogue, The Covent Gardener Magazine, The Big Issue, Bob Dylan and Sir Paul McCartney.
Instagram: @catherinepaiano
Website: www.catherinepaiano.com/
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Christian is a mixed media artist, photographer and writer. Grounded in traditional drawing, painting and printmaking practices, his recurrent themes include: natural history, storytelling, folklore, landscape, collective and personal memory, social history, and environmentalism. Gravitating towards romantic traditions. His creative approach is playful and exploratory: ephemeral paintings on glass, monoprints, book / zine art, abstract miniatures, art from found object - dismantled / re-imagined crime novel sculptures, sardine tin pocket theatres. Conceptual surprises from wordplay, serendipity, openness, and perseverance. Drawing, photography, and creative writing underpin Christian’s practice. In a flow state through eye, hand, line, lens, or text. Expression through concentrated acts of discovery, balancing ideas, values, materials: choices, compositions, re-calibrations. In recent multimedia experiments, Christian combines traditional works -paintings, prints, texts- with digital techniques, creating intricate stop-motion animations. Christian is part of The Engine Room and an Open Hand Open Space (OHOS) Associate Member. Recent exhibitions: ‘Colour Visions’ (July 2024) ‘The Engine Room Sound Lab’ (Dee Space, November 2024) Antarctica… Shall we say the walk is cancelled? (July 2025) * ‘Nostos’ (August 2025) The Engine Room commission at the Museum of English Rural Life, within the MERL’s Nook (Spring 2026-27). ‘Blood, Sweat and Tears’ part of Jelly’s Open for Art festival (June 2026) * Turbine House Gallery, Reading * OHOS
Instagram: @christianscottheal
Website: www.theengineroomsite.com
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