Adrian is an award winning artist based in Wiltshire, working primarily with Graphite and Oils from his studio in The Lacock Gallery, Lacock. Subjects include portraits, still-lifes and landscapes.

My journey as an artist has been anything but conventional. My initial exploration into creativity began with Fine Art at Plymouth College of Art and Design, followed by illustration at Swindon College’s Oxford Brooks department, where I immersed myself. Focusing on illustration, a medium that allows me to blend my passion for the world around me with visual expression.
The turning point came in January 2022 when I took a leap of faith and opened The Corsham Gallery. This venture not only provided a platform for my work but also allowed me to cultivate a vibrant community of local artists.

Ali’s art celebrates the beauty in both the everyday and the extraordinary, from ethereal landscapes to intricate still life and expressive animal portraits. She enjoys exploring different styles and techniques, creating work that resonates with both art lovers and casual admirers. Excited to host her first solo exhibition as part of The Peacock Trail, Ali welcomes you to discover her work. Follow her creative journey on Instagram (@alioutlawart) in the coming months.

I create vibrant impressionistic landscapes which depict the essence of the landscape, but at the same time, bring inspiration and excitement to your walls.

I see colour as therapy, with a profound ability to influence emotional wellbeing. Through my work, I aim bring my unique sense of colour to the viewer, transforming the home environment and making it a happier place to live. I use a playful palette to ignite the senses and allow the viewer to be transported to new and adventurous places.

Candice is a pastel artist based in Wiltshire.  Realism connects her to the subject she is painting and enjoys the challenge of capturing the beauty and ‘feel’ of what she is seeing. Soft pastel is her choice of medium as she loves the feeling of holding the pigment in her hands and the direct approach of putting the colour straight onto paper.

I am a watercolour artist & art teacher living in Dauntsey. I trained as a Graphic Designer in 1987 & now work in my own art studio in the beautiful Wiltshire countryside.
The inspiration for my art is the miracle of Gods creation in the nature that surrounds us. My hope in creating my paintings is that they convey the incredible beauty of this world that we live in.
Most of my prints are hand finished with gold & silver leaf. Limited edition paintings come with a certificate of authenticity. I also offer commissioned work specialising in children & animals

I work in the traditional Medieval medium of Egg Tempera, to create modern day icon paintings exploring themes of self & motherhood.

Working with intricate & multi-layered techniques & media, I explore myself as characters through realistic portraiture & symbolic found natural objects, such as taxidermy, eggs & nests.

As a printmaker & illustrator, I work in drypoint/tetrapak printmaking, exploring the natural world - particularly butterflies & moths - often using folktale & narrative elements.

I am a largely self-taught artist with a passion for creating highly detailed, almost photographic artwork. Inspired by the natural world and my surroundings, I work primarily with acrylics, building depth through a meticulous layering process. By continuously pulling lighter tones forward and then softening them with rich, translucent glazes, I create a sense of depth and dimension to my work. I love sharing my techniques during workshops held at my studio.

Retired builder, now enjoying watercolour painting in my self built studio in my garden.

Chloe is a Wiltshire based artist, who works with free-flowing movement, to create textured and colourful acrylic pieces inspired by nature. Using a unique and multi-layered technique, Chloe adds texture and depth to her paintings giving them organic vivacity. Her work is focused on natural water sources, in particular the geological surroundings and weather patterns that impact the flow of water. By capturing areas of light and shade refracted through the water's surface, Chloe draws the viewer into the uncompromising energy, elegant forms and unyielding motion of natures tidal strength.

Throughout the creative journey Chloe uses a variety of mediums to convey a concept. Exploring ideas, techniques and processes are a big part of her work, focusing on texture and mark making. Often the pieces evolve throughout exploration allowing the work to be about materials and their potential. Her abstract pieces are often seen as poetic paintings, a narrative intertwined in an atmospheric landscape. Offering a familiar feeling to each viewer, her paintings transfer a unique memory of place, taking on a different identity each time they are viewed.

Chris Dunn is a watercolour artist and children’s book illustrator, influenced by Beatrix Potter, Arthur Rackham and Norman Rockwell. He will be showing a collection of original illustrations, drawings, signed limited edition prints, cards and his latest illustrated books.

Through the use of oils, ink, and charcoal and a soft, muted palette, my work invites you to step into a peaceful world. It encourages a moment of reflection on the beauty of nature and the quiet charm of everyday objects, offering a chance to appreciate the simple, often overlooked details that surround us.

I have loved drawing and painting since being a small child and come from a family of artists. I studied Fine Art painting at Winchester School of Art under the late Gillian Ayres. I work across a number of genres: Life Studies, Landscape, Still Life and Abstract painting.
My artwork is influenced by the natural world and my ongoing search for ways to capture its energy - particularly through colour and line. I endeavour to build fluency using a variety of mediums.
I live and work in North Wraxall, Wiltshire, and I am very happy to take on commissions. Deirdre Elphick

Affectionately known as “The Beautiful Mind Artist.” Emelie’s journey is testament to the transformative power of creativity and resilience. From a young age, Emelie found solace and expression in the world of colours. This early passion blossomed into a distinctive fusion of pop and street art, creating a unique and recognisable style. Emelie’s art has met with notable attention from esteemed figures, including Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason and his wife Annette, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth ll, and entrepreneur Theo Paphitis. Join Emelie on this journey of resilience and beautiful self discovery.

Mostly figurative painting from life: still life, portraits, landscape etc. Also abstract work with an emphasis on colour and rhythm.

Colourist Hetti Dysch draws on Folk and Naïve art traditions in her diverse body of work. Across landscapes and still life she uses bold and loose gestures to capture the play of light, instinctively layering pigment to create a luminescence and cohesion across her portfolio. Mostly painting en plein air, there is an elemental and wild feel to the finished pieces and in the Peacock Trail exhibition, she has included a range of paintings from the past 5 years showing a trajectory in style that is increasingly impressionistic.

I am an oil painter with a love of birds and animals and the stories that they can tell. I was always taught in writing to ‘Show, not tell’ and I think that translates perfectly into art. To tell a story through one image is something I find exciting. I love the idea of bringing the outdoors into people’s homes with my paintings and I believe that a connection with nature is so important to our mental and physical wellbeing.
In 2024 I exhibited at the Mall Galleries with the Royal British Art Society.

Ione Parkin RWA creates atmospheric abstract paintings and intricately textured mixed media works on paper inspired by the rich imagery of space and her on-going dialogue with astronomers. She co-leads the international Art-Science project www.creativityandcuriosity.com. Her intriguing duotone photopolymer etchings are created from microscopic photographs of her own work. She has exhibited extensively and her work is in numerous private and corporate collections. Prices start at £90.

I have painted all my life, and having completed a Fine Art Degree at Bath Academy of Art Corsham, I also worked as a freelance, full time, illustrator for 20 years for over 30 British publishers. I am now working as a fine artist, with work in galleries, shops, and art trails.

Joy has been painting in watercolour for three decades. Landscape & the built environment inspire her. She does however have fun with mixed media, creating collage in a variety of ways. Her popular depiction of the Wiltshire Landscape named "Wiltshire Wanderings" was recently Highly Commended in the popular Oexmann Art Award Competition. With a drive to bring the benefits of creativity to others Joy spends time encouraging and helping other fellow artists to enjoy painting, whilst developing their own individual styles. To this end she runs two small and fun art groups.

Julie Bolton is a soft pastel artist who is inspired by the beautiful Wiltshire landscape and her love of animals. Mainly a self taught artist, she loves to experiment and play with colour, mark making and texture.
Her commissioned work of animals, pets and people requires realism and representation, so landscapes and seascapes are a place for exploration and play.
Julie has collectors around the globe and has exhibited in local galleries and open exhibitions around Wiltshire.
She is currently accepting commissions for 2025.

I am a mixed media artist. After achieving a Degree in Art and Education, I have been teaching for 25 years, both in school and running workshops. My current work explores botanical form, using bold shapes and colours with Acrylic on board and canvas. I spend my time in the studio on our family farm in Dyrham, just outside Bath, drawing inspiration from nature and my surroundings to fuel my creativity. When not painting or running workshops, I enjoy walking the dogs, riding my horse, and spending time with my four boys and partner. You can find me at www.clayandpaper.art

I paint gently humorous watercolours featuring local villages, towns etc, populated by well dressed animals going about their daily lives.

Laura's paintings provide a calming space to contemplate and consider. Embracing a world familiar yet unknown. Evocative oil paintings full of depth, light and feeling. Drawing on the powerful connection of the natural elements, subtle suggestion, and memories.
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Creating instinctively, Laura allows time to play and work to develop organically, it’s all about the power of the process. Starting with gestural mark making, pouring, later building up layers of oil paint, forming shapes of abstracted land and sea and finally refining.​

My work reflects my enjoyment of the countryside and my garden. I love growing flowers to fill my home and my artwork makes the most of these.
I love to work loosely on large colourful pieces as well as my more precise collection of botanical illustrations of birds and other small animals.
With a background in textile design and many years working with interior decorators on large scale murals I find my art has a design quality about it and a love of colour.

I'm a contemporary abstract artist & I love to create large abstract expressionistic paintings, that are full of texture, colour, marks & light. I am in awe of how a vision from within can be transformed onto a canvas, inspired from a visit to the coast or a walk in the countryside.

I feel my art creates a calm, serene atmosphere in this busy world we live in!

Michael's work embraces punchy colour and fragmented form. Using oils and acrylics, his approach to painting is often free-wheeling and improvisational in the early stages and pieces evolve to find structure while allowing the chaos of the beginnings to peek through.
Michael became a full-time artist in January 2024 and demand for his work has increased significantly during this period.
His work has featured on the lockdown version of Sky Arts' Portrait Artist of the Year as well as Landscape Artist of the Year.

With a passion for art since childhood, Niranjana is a self-taught artist who explores varied subjects from wildlife to landscapes and portraits. Her favourite source of inspiration is birds, bringing them to life on canvas using colour and texture to share her unique perspective.

After years of developing her artistic skills, Niranjana has exhibited her artworks in solo and group shows inviting viewers into a world of imagination. She also runs a small business selling her art on products like coasters, compact mirrors, mugs, art prints and greeting cards.

My work is inspired by connection to the natural environment and noticing patterns of life around us. I enjoy working on large scale paintings, using mainly oil paint as my medium of choice. Spindles Bike shop are very kindly showing my work in their window as part of the trail.

As an Artist and Teacher of Art, my work is experimental and includes oil paints and mixed-media on canvas or board. Inspiration comes from many visits to the coasts of Cornwall and my current home in Wiltshire but always expressing the mood of the day. Always inspired by nature and the environment around me the variations in style are also due to time restrictions which is the nature of a teaching job, busy family life and the desire to constantly evolve as an artist.

I am drawn to natural themes and dramatic times of day, I enjoy natural contrasts, with light and shade and particularly enjoy clouds, trees and waves. The majesty and the beauty, power and movement.Nature is so inspirational.

Simon Griffiths is a self-taught artist influenced by surrealism, lowbrow, fantasy, street and pop art, tattoos, comic books and death.  He painted sporadically when he was younger. In 2008 he experienced life changing trauma, and as a consequence of this encountered the visionary artist and tattooist S V Mitchell.  These two events were pivotal in the development of his art. He then became inspired to paint in earnest and since then has painted continually, as a matter of necessity and compulsion. His art is colourful with large amounts of humour, satire and irony.  Simon paints in oil.