The Hayward Studio is a participating venue for Hampshire Open Studios 2024, an annual art trail where art enthusiasts can explore the creative spaces of local artists, free of charge. It's a unique opportunity to connect directly with artists, discover their inspirations and buy original artwork. The Hayward Studio is pleased to be hosting some brilliant local talent whose work will be exhibited throughout the event. Find out more about them below.
The Makers House
Home of crafting & creativity
The Makers' House is a small creative studio in Fareham which offers a variety of high quality workshops classes in a friendly, relaxed space. Regular evening and weekend classes include glass fusion, silver smithing, silver clay, pyrography, needle felting and so much more, all run by experienced and friendly local tutors. Pottery painting is available everyday, and there is a small gift shop featuring locally handmade items.
Jennie Farmer
Celebrate colour and the happiness it brings.
Jennie’s artworks are playful and positive and show influences from nature in amongst multiple layers of vibrant colour and decorative detail. Her signature artworks combine paint, collage, and pattern to create radiant and memorable art works that give a gentle nod to life and gratitude. Jennie’s favourite mediums to use are acrylic paints, spray paints and paint pens. Jennie says ‘You will always find my art desk surrounded with stencils, sponges, and brushes. Bright coloured paints, decorated papers and fine liners are very much part of my go to kit. I love playing with all of these things, layering pattern upon pattern and adding hand drawn imagery and words to create bespoke artwork and murals’. She has also been a secondary school Art and Graphics teacher for the last 20 years and loves her second role which supports pupils well being. Jennie also runs adult and young people’s art workshop at The Hayward Studio. She says, ‘I love that I get to inspire the next generation of budding artists and designers, it's so exciting to me’.
Helen Carter
Colour pencil realism specialist
Helen Carter is a colour pencil artist specialising in highly detailed photo-realism of colourful and often complex subjects. Focusing on everyday nature, bright intricate florals are a firm favourite, but her love of light, form and tricky textures can be seen in her backlit portrait of Seren, as well as her quirky still lifes. As a late returnee to art, Helen says she has a lot of catching up to do, and her journey into drawing and creativity extends to many mediums. She is a respected Artist Ambassador for Derwent, producing work in a range of styles to suit their needs, including the new Inktense100 tin. Helen is a full-time artist, based in Winchester. She is currently learning to paint.
Southsea Mudlark (aka Lynn Nicholls)
Abstract and figurative ceramics
Lynn mainly makes hand-thrown functional ceramics decorated in both abstract and figurative forms. She explores surface decoration and colour as well as sgraffito designs when working in black and white. Whilst she often works in a series, most of the pieces are one of a kind.
Julie Mcrae
Colourful, moody, atmospheric, acrylic/oil and mixed media art inspired by impressionism, Japanese art and a deep connection with nature.
Originally from Bristol, Julie grew up in the north of England, studying at Manchester University where she attained a B.A. Hons in Textiles. Julie then returned back to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School for a post-graduate certificate in Theatre Design and Scenic Art. She followed this with six years employment in the Theatre Industry and six years in interiors, culminating with 25 years in art education. Recent exhibitions include the Hampshire Open Studios, exhibiting with the group ‘Painters on the Green’ and the Titchfield Annual Art and Craft show. Recently retired, Julie is now enjoying exploring and developing her own work, inspired by memories, places, people and nature. In July 2023, she was awarded a ‘longlisted’ certificate by the VAA, an online platform for the VAO . The UK & International Emerging Artists Award.
Janet Hammerton
Paintings of natural landscapes, both real and imagined, with studies of wild and garden flowers.
Janet trained as a mature student in Printed Textile Design at Winchester School of Art, graduating in 1990 and then retrained as a Museum Conservator, specialising in ceramics and glass conservation, graduating from West Dean College in 1996. Working in Museums and Conservation, Janet continued to produce design work for textile design agents and galleries then changed direction and worked for 22 years as an Environmental Educator. This later career teaching children in the outdoor classroom sharpened the artist's interest in nature and changed the direction of the design work. A keen desire to share the love of wild spaces and wild places led most recently to paintings of local landscapes and wild plants. Janet has taught children but also adults as co -tutor on the Art, Sound and Meditation course at the Sustainability Centre. The intention behind her art is to encourage others to value the natural world and find beauty within its bounty by sharing paintings of the images that inspire her.
Bridget Bradshaw
Award-winning jewellery designer and maker
Bridget Bradshaw is a graduate from Birminghams School of Jewellery and now based in Fareham. She has been creating one-off designs in precious metal for over 20 years. Each piece she makes is unique and something to treasure.
