With over twenty years teaching experience, Kat Blockley recently made the decision to focus and prioritise her creative practice. Using stitch, paint, print and song, Kat’s work explores the interface between tradition and modernity in everyday life. Her fascination with social narrative and how the ephemeral and eternal intermingle, led her to catalogue and archive news cuttings, photographs, prints and drawings, which she then uses to inspire new stitch-work pieces, paintings, songs and illustrations under the title A Common Treasury. Her studio is based in Talaton, East Devon.

Having graduated from Aberystwyth University last year
with a First Class degree in Fine Art, Ocativia is keen to
become a professional artist. She is based in East Devon and works primarily with paint and print-making to explore the interconnections between art, science, and nature. Her most recent work focuses on the lichens, mosses and ferns found in the ancient Wistman’s Wood on Dartmoor, and invite audiences to look beyond the surface of the landscape, urging them to consider the smaller details that reflect broader environmental changes.

Winner of the 2024 Joanna Radford prize

After completing a Fine Art Painting degree in London
last year, which was experienced mostly online due to Covid restrictions, Willow is now seeking to be a part of
a community of practicing artists. Based in North Devon, Willow works with oil and acrylic, with an occasional appearance of embroidery. She has an interest in exploring patterns found in nature, and creates surrealist scenes using Automatism, art therapy concepts, and Carl Jung theories. Willow will be showing her work during Devon Open Studios at the CREATED 24 event at Abbotsham, hosted by The Big Sheep in Bideford.

Georgi has returned to full time creative practice recently and channelled her energy to focus on ceramics, having a degree in 3D Design specialising in ceramics would seem to make this the obvious choice. Working from a multidisciplinary perspective, the shapes of her tableware take inspiration from contour lines on OS maps. Found objects make their way into and onto some of her functional wares crossing the gap between function and sculpture. She is also showing some ceramic sculptural work in progress using bone china, journals, photographs and projections exploring themes of internal dialogue. You can see her work during Devon Open Studios at Unit L Pottery in Totnes.

Following a recent reassessment of her work-life
balance, Jacqueline made the decision that creativity had to be an integral part of her life again. She began
to explore various mediums, but it was the discovery
of glass that ignited a new creative passion. Jaqueline describes glass as the perfect medium for interpreting colour and light within the landscape, and her work draws inspiration from the diverse beauty of Dartmoor and the Devon coastline. You can see more of her work during Devon Open Studios at Riverside located between Moretonhampstead and Lustleigh.