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Artists

Fiona Bell – Textiles

Fiona has been working with us for a number of years and her textile work is where she is happiest. Although Fiona does love performing, she enjoys designing and creating her own characters and puppets more. Her sewing and embroidery is beautiful, and her colour placement for both printing and embroidery creates stunning pieces. Download […]

Haltwhistle Film Project

FilmAnimation

Vicky Jones and Marc McKiernan have been running Haltwhistle Film Project (HFP) for 21 years, making films and animations. We work across many sectors, Arts, Heritage, Education, Health, Police, Learning disability, Charities, and with other artists. Within HFP, we run FilmAble, also a film production company run by and for people with learning disabilities and […]

John Lake – Emerging Visual Artist

Visual ArtsPencil, paint,

John Lake is inspired and intrigued by the life of Kurt Schwitters, a German refugee artist, who sought sanctuary in Britain and came to work in Elterwater, Cumbria and began creating his third Merzbarn . John has found a particular affinity to Schwitters, through researching his life and influences. John plans to paint a series […]

Jessie Lowes – Visual

VisualPaintingCharcoalPencilSculptingPoetry, Storytelling

Meet Jessie Lowes, an artist hailing from Cumbria. Her creative journey began as early as she can remember, and she has always been passionate about creating art, even during her school years. She pursued this further by studying Art in college before enrolling at the University of Cumbria for a three-year degree program in Conceptual […]

Chloe Maitland – Visual

VisualPaint. pencil, pen, pastelSculpture

Chloe Maitland is a visual artist based in Cumbria, England. Drawing is her thing, be that with pencils, pens, paint or pastels. The possibilities are endless. Her practice is always developing, sometimes taking on more sculptural forms. Recently Chloe has learnt to sew on a machine and has made myself a pair of trousers! She finds it […]

Jack Maxfield – Visual art and performance

Visual art and performance

Jack recently joined us at The Laal Collective after a break from developing his art. His quirky style brings lots of life and character to his work. Jack likes drawing and collage but is also a keen performer. He is good at devising and developing ideas and is looking forward to developing characters for puppetry […]

Vicki Maxfield – Theatre

TheatreMask, ComedicDevising

Vicki began her theatre career in the North East, where she is from, working in local theatres and Arts Centres and forming a street theatre company ‘That’s the way to do it’, that performed at local festivals as a human Punch and Judy show. While training at Cumbria Institute of the Arts in Carlisle (Now […]

Ali McCaw – Puppetry and design

Puppetry DesignTheatre

Ali has designed for a variety of theatre companies, touring nationally and internationally. Since returning to Cumbria, she has continued designing and producing a number of theatre productions, both touring and site specific. Ali has worked across schools and community settings on a variety of projects and developed ways of working with children and young […]

Mark Newport – Musician & Coder

MusicCoding

Mark Newport is a professional musician with extensive knowledge and experience of the music industry. As a performer, composer, arranger, and music producer himself, Mark can help anyone to achieve their musical ambitions. As a violinist, Mark has played with a variety of bands and performers. Working with Storytellers to playing in Celtic Rock Bands, […]

Ostara O’Clumhain- Visual Arts

Drawing, Textiles, design

Ostara is a visual artist who can turn her hand to anything. She has a distinguishable drawing style that is cartoon like and all her drawings are happy and playful. Ostara has discovered a love for sewing and textile work. Her work is immaculate and she takes pride in the detail of it. Ostara has […]

Harvey Tye – Drawing

Drawing

Harvey has always had a love of drawing, finding it relaxing and enjoyable. Over the years he has developed a unique style of bold colour, pattern and detail that is instantly recognisable. Harvey loves to draw characters and buildings and landscapes and takes his inspiration from the local area while out exploring. Harveys work has […]

Helen Walsh – Textile Artist

TextilesEmbroidery

Helen Walsh is an Artist and Creative Practitioner specialising in drawing and textiles, in particular embroidery. She is continually fascinated by the natural world and our connection to it. She is particularly interested in birds and their feathers and uses them as symbols in her work to explore the human desire to transcend. Choosing to […]