Elected to the Society 1989 Ceri Allen studied Fine Art Painting at The City & Guilds School of Art , London . She has exhibited widely and her work is represented in public and private collections in the UK and USA.  Collections include Tullie House, Carlisle, St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington and Corpus Christi College, Oxford .  She has been selected for …

Elected to the Society 2008  Born in 1958 and lived in Ambleside until moving to Kendal once married. Now living back near Ambleside, at Loughrigg. Self taught artist with no formal training but had a passion for drawing and painting from a very early age. Likes to paint mainly in watercolour and enjoys many and varied subjects – trying to …

Elected to the Society 1983 Marion Bradley was born in Lancashire in 1946. She worked in textile design for six years before moving to Ambleside in 1969. She began landscape painting in oils, followed by detailed studies of flowers and fungi in gouache, then acrylics. She “likes to paint flowers in landscape from a sort of rabbit’s eye view, so …

Elected to the Society 2005 Dawn was always artistic from a very early age when she used to draw upside down! Mr. Morris; her art teacher at secondary school, encouraged her to paint, but she had to leave his class when her parents separated, and had a rocky few months going from one school to another before settling in the …

Elected to the Society 2009 Kevin Chester studied Art and Design at Lancaster and Illustration at Manchester, where he gained a degree in illustration in 1987. Initially working as an illustrator in advertising, he later concentrated on Fine Art, painting a wide variety of subjects and also restoring antique frames and pictures. In 1996 he was elected to be a …

Elected to the Society 2010  To sculpt in stone, is to transform the raw substance of the planet, into an object entirely envisaged by the human imagination. Concepts and emotions made tangible. Sculpting the human form subtly, is the most difficult of artistic engagements, few contemporary artists dare try, let alone have the technical capability. Danny Clahane is one of …

Elected to the Society 2006 She paints out in the landscape using gouache and mixed media capturing the wonder and transience of nature.Fiona Clucas’s inspiration comes from the landscape and wildlife around her home in South Cumbria, favourite locations in Scotland and in her own garden which has become a haven for wildlife. Fiona believes the best way to express …

Elected to the Society 2008 My work has been mainly figurative for the past 20 years and though mostly ceramic (stoneware clay ), is now developing to include other materials. Ethnography and Archaeology are recurring interests and the work probably has some base in these disciplines, though it is difficult to state categorically where it comes from. I like to …

Elected to the Society 1970 Stephen J Darbishire was born in the English Lake District in 1940. He trained under Da Fano and obtained a scholarship to the Byam Shaw School of Art, studying under Greenham and Garrard. He has exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition; The Royal Society of Portrait Painters; The Royal Institute of Oil Painters; The …

Elected to the Society 2018 Rebecca was born in 1968 in Cumbria. Her fascination for wild flowers found on the fells, in meadows and hedgerows, began as a child walking home from the village school. During her twenties she studied fine art finishes in London which lead to commissions in both furniture, paintings and interiors.  When she returned in 2001 …

Elected to the Society 1993 Michael Fennell has a special interest in what might be called ‘the human condition’ through portraiture and figurative painting. And whilst the portrait artist is not always thought of as the most avant-garde through constraints of likeness, he still finds the necessary disciplines bound by portraiture engagingly challenging. Through experimentation over 20 years, he has …

Elected to the Society 2017   Mark Gibbs intertwines nature with history; his artworks are a meditation on the fragility of life, and the tragedy of obsolete power. His animals are made from thousands of wire strands, while the bird sculptures are made feather by feather from newspaper or combine raku ceramic with mixed media. The horseman and vessel series …

Elected to the Society 1993 Susan Glassford has been a member of the Society since 1993 and has exhibited in many local and national exhibitions including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Laing Landscape prize,The Royal Society of British Artists, and prize winner at the first Cumbrian Open Exhibition amongst others over a long career. Visitors to her Meadowbank Farm …

Elected to the Society 2009  Rachel Gibson lives and works in the north of Cumbria. Her response to landscape and nature has been founded in her love of the North Cumbrian and Pennine Fells. ‘Rachel’s work reflects an intuitive connection with experience and memory. Using references from the natural world, she explores the perception of nature as an entity which …

Elected to the Society 1999 1962 – Born – Marsden, Yorkshire. 1979 – 1981 Studied Nelson and Colne College (Foundation course) 1982 – 1985 Exeter College of Art, Awarded First Class Honours Degree in Fine Art (Painting) “I think his painting is superb – the images a striking fusion of arresting myth and exquisite landscape – he gives great picture!” …

Elected to the society 1982 Yorkshire born artist, Phil Hobbs has lived and worked in The English Lake District for over 40 years. Working predominantly in pure watercolour he has participated in many national exhibitions and had a number of solo shows in the UK, USA and Europe. He has contributed articles to many of the national and international art …

Elected to the Society 2017 Janet Kenyon is an award winning watercolour artist who as gained an enviable reputation for her innovative use of watercolour. Over the course of her career, Janet has received an impressive number of accolades, including winner of the prestigious Sunday Times/Smith & Williamson Cityscape Prize twice, first in 2009 with her painting entitled: ‘Northern lights, …

Elected to the Society 2017 My current work uses imagery from abandoned buildings, waste materials, boarded up buildings- anything that smacks of disintegration. The intention is to evoke a sense of puzzlement or unease, although there is underlying humour. Starfish crowding together in their tank managed to be unsettling and beautiful at the same time. I work mainly in relief …