Meet the Artists
Alastair Gordon
Alastair Gordon (b. 1978, Edinburgh) is a London-based artist working in painting and drawing. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art and Wimbledon School of Art, and his work has been shown in galleries and museums in the UK and internationally, including recent exhibitions at An Lanntair in Stornoway and Cynthia Corbett Gallery in London. Early in his career he won the inaugural Shoosmiths Painting Prize, and has since been shortlisted for a number of awards including the Griffin Art Prize and the Threadneedle Painting Prize.
Alongside his studio practice, Gordon teaches and supports emerging artists. He is Course Leader for the Professional Practice programme at Leith School of Art and co-founder of Morphē Arts Trust, which provides studios and residencies for early-career artists. His paintings often focus on everyday objects—feathers, matchsticks, postcards—using them to explore wider themes of memory, truth, and the passage of time.
Abi Joy Bowen
Abi Joy Bowen is a British illustrator and artist based on Norway’s west coast. She studied Illustration and Children’s Picture Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art, where she developed a love for visual storytelling and experimental image-making. Working across a variety of mediums, she particularly enjoys combining collage, digital illustration, landscape painting, and mixed-media abstract work to create layered, playful pieces.
Her creative journey has taken her from being artist in residence at Lee Abbey to running an art club in a Maasai village in Kenya, and later working in design and communications with Operation Mobilisation. Now a mother of two young children, she creates from her home studio, drawing inspiration from family life, nature, and the small moments of wonder found in everyday life.
Paul Hobbs
Paul Hobbs makes both celebratory abstract paintings, and painting and sculpture that consider contemporary social issues in the light of biblical values. He exhibits frequently, and gives workshops and talks about his artwork, its themes and his method of working.
Lucinda Metcalfe
Lucinda Metcalfe works from a studio in London. She creates vivid, multi-layered paintings of artificial landscapes that explore humanity's obsession with digital imagery and travel. She blends fluorescent underpainting with complex subject matter, often involving swimming pools. Lucinda has been greatly inspired by her time spent in Cyprus and California as well as artificial British landscapes like the amusement arcades and piers of Clacton-on-Sea.
Bethany DeVries
Bethany DeVries is a visual artist working in a variety of media— primarily ink, acrylic, watercolour, and chalk pastel. She lives in the United States, in Colorado, caring for her family and teaching art to secondary students.
Meghan Salisbury
Meghan Salisbury’s oil paintings fizz, droop and drool, giving visual language to the processes and forms people are made up of, but often cannot see or feel. Salisbury is the Artist in Residence at The Royal High School, Bath (2024-2026). Recent exhibitions include: ‘Porphureos’, Gallery daSein, Shenzhen (2025); ‘Home Bodies’, Unit 2, Hastings (2025); 'Fizz, Droop and Drool’, City Lit Gallery, London (2024); ‘The Slade School of Fine Art Undergraduate Degree Show’, London (2024).
Jane Taylor-Weekes
Jane Taylor-Weekes studied Fine Art, Sculpture at Bath Spa University and Central St Martins. She sees her art work as a form of visual poetry, taking Biblical concepts and expressing them in a visual format.
Rachel Bowers
Rachel Sinclair Bowers is a freelance dance artist living and working in North Wiltshire and has 30 years experience working as a dancer, teacher, choreographer and educator. She currently works as artistic director of Createmovedance as well as working with Texture Dance Company and as the children and teen program director with SAFE (Services in Asia for Family Education), where she delivers creative curriculum for families living and working in a mission context in Asia. Rachel trained at the Hammond School of Dance in Chester and Stage 7 School of Dance in California. She also has an MA in Dance and Education from the University of Surrey. Rachel is passionate about using the arts to support family relationships and build community. She loves to explore new ways of combining artistic languages such as the spoken word, visual art, puppetry into her work.
Su Ann Ward
Su Ann Ward is a contemporary dancer and choreographer. She is Artistic Director of Texture Dance Company and has been working with professional and community dancers creating performances, productions and workshops for over 12 years. She trained as an apprentice with Springs Dance Company and works primarily with text and its historical context while exploring the human condition. Her work is concerned with the authenticity of diverse individual movement, its process, and its connections with the heart, mind and body. She also works as a GP. She will be performing with other dancers, movers and singers in the ‘Life Is Beautiful Production’