Artist interviews
James is a professional photographer based in Mid Sussex specialising in landscape and nature photography and has a particular interest in Ashdown Forest
Artist Interviews
The High Weald has been the inspiration for several artists, each drawing on different facets of the area. Between 1810 and 1818 Joseph Mallord William Turner captured the soft folds of the High Weald landscape around Jack Fuller’s Rosehill estate, near Dallington. In the 1850s the painter F.D.Hardy ‘discovered’ Cranbrook and for a few years a small group of artists – the ‘Cranbrook’ Colony’ – used the town as the setting for meticulously studied paintings. At the same time William Holman Hunt, one of the leading Pre-Raphelits painters, worked occasionally at Winchelsea and Fairlight, capturing the colours of the coast.
Our artist interviews provide an insight into how the landscape inspires them and the techniques that they use to capture its special qualities.
James Barrett
James is a professional photographer based in Mid Sussex specialising in landscape and nature photography and has a particular interest in Ashdown Forest
Carolyn Genders
Carolyn is a ceramist working in white earthenware clay. She is a handbuilder, known for her coiled vessels and sculptural forms and painterly surfaces.
Debbie Siniska
Debbie is a rag rug maker, and uses recycled textiles and traditional hand tools to make hooky and proddy rag rugs, banners and cushions
Annie Soudain
Annie Soudain trained at Canterbury College of Art. Her main craft has always been lino-printing, in which she employs four different techniques; her second craft is wax-resist painting on silk, using fabric dyes. Annie draws her inspiration from the play of light on landscape and other natural forms.
Will Taylor
Will Taylor is a fine artist and printmaker. He favours traditional line techniques in etching, pen, charcoal and silverpoint, and his work always contains a strong element of drawing.
Tim Pryke
Tim Pryke studied at Brighton Polytechnic and returned to Sussex after travelling through Asia and Australia. He draws his inspiration from the High Weald landscape, especially through the change of seasons, and the differences in light throughout the day.
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