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 Directory: THE VISUAL ARTS
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list photographers, illustrators, painters, cartoonists,
graphic designers, printmakers, and typographers.
CREATIVE & DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHERS
:: Roger Brightmore,
a commercial/advertising photographer based in Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Mark Campbell.
is a professional reportage photographer, based in Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent.
There's also a further web-page about his mid-90s project on
The Free Miners of the Forest of Dean.
:: Robert Egan,
fine-art photographer, specialising in the degraded landscape.
Based in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
:: Jennifer Byron - a photography graduate based in Stoke-on-Trent, with a primary interest in fashion photography.
:: Vicky Martin - based in Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Mark Welsh - based in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
:: Jeremy Crick - based in North Staffordshire.
:: Chris Lees - based in
Stoke-on-Trent. Chis can also undertake family photography and
boudoir photography.
:: Red Dog Photography
:: Catherine Buca - based in Cliffe Vale.
:: Rob Spuffard - a product, model, portraiture, head-shots and stills photographer, with a studio based in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent. Also has a
fully mobile studio set-up.
:: Sarah Nadin - specialising in community arts photography projects.
:: Rachel Marsden - is a North Staffordshire artist and also a curator, photographer and bookbinder.
:: Planet Vision Photography -
based in Hanley.
:: Chris Hepburn is a talented young photographer from Staffordshire. He has a
special talent for making stock images, and his work is for sale at iStockphoto and Getty Images.
:: Katie Fox, based in Stoke-on-Trent
and a 2005 photography graduate from Staffordshire University.
:: Martin Shakeshaft
- an experienced Staffordshire photojournalist who also works as a
lecturer in Photography at Stoke F.E. College.
His latest project is to re-visit & re-photograph the people
& places he saw during the 1984 miner's strike.
:: Jonathan Ayres Photography
offering press and events photography (as a member of the N.U.J.).
Jonathan is also a wildife and landscape photographer.
:: Mark Wood: 'Constructed Spaces'.
Mark was featured in an extensive interview on the Spring 2003 front-page of
Creative Stoke.
:: James Nisbeck, a Stoke-on-Trent -based freelance photographer.
:: Paul Deakin
- specialist underground & cave photographer.
:: Peripheral Anomaly
- specialist rock & pop band photographer. Has a very extensive online portfolio,
featuring just about every band that's played recently in North Staffs.
:: Sarah Thompson
has a web-site featuring her extensive photography of rock concerts.
:: Mark Heath - digital event photographer
from Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Hell Fire Photography - based in Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Iconic Images - based in Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Mikee Jones photography - based in Cheadle.
:: Robert Such — a Stoke-on-Trent -based architectural photographer and journalist.
:: Matthew Stansfield Photography is based in Talke, Stoke-on-Trent.
Matthew specialises in photography of fashion, food, interiors, plus lifestyle portraits.
:: Mr Will - Newcastle-under-Lyme photographer specialising in live music,
particularly jazz.
:: Tom Walker - based in Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Carrie Adlington.
:: Paul Haywood.
:: Peter Knight - lecturer
at Keele, landscape photographer & painter, and also the web-site editor for Stoke's Penkhull Festival.
:: Aerial Eyes — specialist low-altitude aerial photographers, based in Dresden, Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Chris Lees Photography — specialist in outdoors sports photography.
:: James Ball photography.
:: Dan Matthews Photography.
:: Jess Leeson-Kemp Photography.
:: Karen Sale Photography.
:: Shoot that tiger! - creative & stock photography, based in Stone.
:: Octave Photography.
:: Futurilla -
based in Cliffe Vale, Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Venture -
creative portrait studios in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Local Peak District National Park landscape & wildlife photography training for photographers.
:: BBC Radio Stoke's
photography gallery, Chrysalis, profiles the
work of B.A. (Hons.) Photography students at Staffordshire University.
PHOTOGRAPHERS: Camera Clubs and Photographic Societies
:: Photographers' Collective North Staffordshire.
:: Stoke-on-Trent Flickr group.
:: Stoke-on-Trent Camera Club.
:: Blythe Bridge Camera Club.
:: Alsager Camera Club.
:: Nantwich Camera Club.
:: Crewe Photographic Society.
:: Leek Photography Club.
:: Stafford Photographic Society.
:: Burton-on-Trent Photographic Society.
:: Cannock Photographic Society.
:: Cheadle Photographic Society.
 Newcastle-under-Lyme Camera Club meets
Mondays at 7.30pm, at The Assembly Rooms, Merrial St.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Supplies & services
:: Dark Arts - an alternative model agency based in Stoke-on-Trent, and is run by photographer
and performance artist Asha Tank.
:: www.1stcameras.co.uk are based in Newcastle-under-Lyme,
and is the internet trading-arm of Cornwell's Imaging Centre, on Newcastle High Street.
Cornwell's offers affordable digital printing onto Fuji's archival
photographic paper, up to 15"x10" size,
using their fantastic £400k Fuji Frontier printer.
:: Multiprint Imaging
- professional print lab in Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Lehmanns in Boothen,
Stoke-on-Trent - official Canon camera service-centre, and they have been
recommended as a reliable service for the cleaning of the main sensor
inside Canon digital cameras. They also service many other types of camera.
PAINTERS & FINE PRINTMAKERS
:: Paine Proffitt is a Newcastle-under-Lyme painter, specialising in sports pictures and pictures that
successfully weave between many definitional boundaries; such as magic realism, surrealism, vorticism, and L.S. Lowry.
:: Gordon Dale
- fine-art landscape artist, based in Biddulph.
:: Sid Kirkham - specialist football and football fans artist.
:: Monica Grohmann - a ceramicist and artist, based at Knighton.
:: Richard Dawkes - a
contemporary abstract landscape artist based in Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Bernard Charnley - one of the key artists with a working studio at the
AirSpace gallery in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Nicholas Hudson Paine - a Stoke-on-Trent artist.
:: Famous When Dead - a Stoke-on-Trent
artist and illustrator.
:: Debbie Buxton - a fine artist based in Leek, and also a graduate of Staffordshire University.
:: Georgina Vinsun - a painter based at Biddulph Moor.
:: Nicholas Ferenczy - an artist based at Nantwitch.
:: David Lawrence Barber - a painter from Newcastle-under-Lyme.
:: Micheal Pritchard - a fine-art printmaker based in the Staffordshire Moorlands.
:: Jo Williams - a specialist equestrian artist from Audley.
:: Fine printmaker and glass designer Naomi Greaves.
:: Steve Russell of Alsager is an architect, working at
Stoke-on-Trent architects Hulme Upright Manning;
and he's has www.steve-russell.co.uk
as a personal site for his projects and paintings.
:: Ian Naylor - visual artist working across a diverse
range of media, from life-drawing to community art. Artist
in Residence 2003, RAF Museum. Based in Cheadle,
Staffordshire Moorlands.
:: Laurie Clarke - a designer and maker of acrylic paintings and mixed-media collage works.
:: Rob Pointon - a freelance artist based in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Krystyna Komar, an artist based in Leek.
:: Eddy Donkin - a Stoke-on-Trent painter in oils, whose website has many local scenes of the Potteries and the region's mining industries.
:: Roger Taylor - a painter based in Meir, Stoke-on-Trent, specialising in local scenes.
:: John Dodridge - a landscape painter based in Alsager.
:: Icon Portraits.
:: William Eccleston.
:: Simon Plant - vibrant 'naif-art' paintings and fresh religious icons.
:: Lindsey Hambleton
- painter based in the Moorlands.
:: David Finney
- professional wildlife artist, based in Alsager. His clients include the RSPB and Spode.
:: Jo Walker Art - a Staffordshire visual artist, specialist painter, muralist and creator of handpainted furniture.
:: Paul Culley -
a digital illustrator based in Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Otherworld Illustrations - Stoke-on-Trent based fantasy-artist Chris Bell.
:: Lampros Kalfuntzos - a digital fantasy artist based in Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Rita Banks
- fine-art landscape painter, based in Stone.
:: Joyce Iwaszko.
:: Debra Wagner - based in Stone.
:: Tony Beresford
- watercolourist, inspired by the landscapes of the
Staffordshire Moorlands.
:: Angela Munslow - figurative painter and sculptor, Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Christine Mallaband-Brown - painter from Stoke.
:: Phil Hardaker - mosaic maker from Stoke.
:: Anthony Forster's Art Classes - art tutor based in the Potteries. Anthony
also specialises in rural scenes and Cow Pictures.
:: Peter Eccleston
- a fine-artist & sculptor from Stoke-on-Trent.
:: John Myatt - an art faker, and proud of it!
:: Neil Taylor-Cashmore -
based in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Specialist in seascapes, shoreline buildings,
and boats.
:: Barewall - a showcase for the work of visual artists in and around North Staffordshire.
:: Stafford Art Group.
:: James Rushton - portraitist based in Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Invent Canvas - offering personalised wall-art based on your photographs.
:: Joanna's Portraits - based in Ipstones.
Arthur Berry Trust. Gives the annual Arthur Berry Fellowship award,
to a graduate of one the three local visual arts courses at
Staffordshire and Keele universities and the Alsager campus of MMU.
The Award provides £1,000 living expenses and material costs
during a month as artist-in-residence at the New Vic Theatre.
PAINTING: Muralists
:: Painted Worlds - specialist in
murals for interior spaces.
:: Icon Portraits.
PAINTING: Concept artists
:: Alex Figini on Concept Art World / Alex Figini on DeviantArt.
Alex is based in Stoke-on-Trent.
PAINTING: Supplies
:: Genesis Artist's Colours
- based in Stoke-on-Trent. Specially formulated "dry on demand" artist's paints.
:: Webberley is the area's best-known large artists' materials shop.
Based in the city-centre at Hanley, it's still family-run & independent.
Art Studio Framing - based in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Recommended by many of the area's artists and photographers.
PAINTING: Restorers
:: Ruth Tappin - based at Leek, Ruth is one of the country's top restorers of mirrors, picture frames, and similar gilded items.
GRAPHIC DESIGNERS
:: Reaction Graphics.
:: Octave Design.
:: Agog Marketing & Design.
:: Creative Avenue Ltd - which claims "18 years commercial & corporate design experience".
:: Project Design - based in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
:: Jackson Hammond Design -
full service graphic design company, based in Trentham, Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Peter Rose - an advertising & branding consultant
based in Stafford.
:: Mandy Wong
- an illustrator & graphic designer, based in Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Slave to Design.
:: DK Design - based in Newcastle-Under-Lyme, providing design services in graphic design, web, print, and signage.
:: Step Beyond.
:: Bomark Studios - based in Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Paul Simpson
- a creative designer and illustrator, based in Stone.
:: Grace Han - a freelance graphic designer, web designer, and illustrator based in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
:: Andrew Johnson - a freelance designer and illustrator based in Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Keywork Design - a firm based in Cheddleton, offering
digital illustration for various business sectors, bespoke on-line media tools for management, and the design of specialist infographics tools
:: Repeat Pattern - fresh collage design.
:: Tim Hickman - a creative designer and illustrator, based in Stone.
:: Les Jones is a Stone-based designer
offering "Unique Graphic Art Based on your Name".
:: Jack Design Limited - based in Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Tim Hickman - a graphic designer and illustrator based in Stone.
:: Mook 109 Design - an illustrator and graphic designer, based in Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Revive Creative - freelance graphic-design and creative artwork service in Stoke-on-Trent,
with over 13 years of studio experience in marketing design.
:: Sue Landon Design
:: NK Williams, Film and Graphic Design.
:: Choose Industry.
:: Graham Shapiro Design.
:: Hope Creative.
:: Nuko Ideas.
:: Pin Media
:: Mother.
:: Verso Communications.
:: Woo@, the online
portfolio of graphic-designer Stephen Woowat.
:: Imagees - creative graphic design for advertising & marketing.
Also offer Bureau production facilities, colour output.
FONTS
:: D'log fonts - typography
for the web, and custom truetype screen fonts.
GRAPHIC NOVELISTS, CARTOONISTS, ILLUSTRATORS
:: Graphic-novelist and illustrator Andi Watson.
Andi was nominated for an Eisner Award (the world's 'graphic-novel Oscars') for
his acclaimed Breakfast After Noon -
the story of the everyday lives of a young Stoke-on-Trent couple
Rob & Louise as they face redundancy. He also set his later graphic-novels Dumped, and the currently-serialised Little Star
in the city. After a sojourn in the USA, he now lives and works in Audley, North Staffordshire.
:: Duncan Bourne - a cartoonist from Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Steve Roberts Caricatures. Buy prints, or commission a caricature picture of your friends, family, workmates, or even your own fave celeb.
Steve is a cartoonist based in Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Famous When Dead - a Stoke-on-Trent
artist and illustrator.
:: Emma Ridgway - a Staffordshire illustrator. Emma also has
an active weblog.
:: Matt Buckingham - an illustrator located in Alsager.
:: <Klair Scattergood - Staffordshire-based children's artist and illustrator. Klair also has
an Etsy shop
selling her unique artwork, jewellery pieces, journals and cards.
:: Rob Conway.
:: Otherworld Illustrations,
the web-site of Stoke-on-Trent based Chris Bell.
:: Nic Winstanley - a freelance illustrator based in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Christopher Guest - based in Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Chris Altham - cartoonist and Macromedia Flash animator.
:: Lee Baker - a graphic designer and illustrator based in Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Valerie Greeley - is a local author/illustrator.
:: Repeat Pattern - fresh collage design.
:: Images Unlimited,
the web-site of Stoke-on-Trent illustrator and cartoonist Chris Horne.
:: Christopher Guest.
:: Christopher Leach.
:: Gaz Roberts an
professional illustrator. He has a strong online portfolio, including a complete children's
story-book, Giant.
ARTIST-LED NETWORKS & GROUPS
(See the bottom half of Creative Stoke's Support page)
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