The Home Gallery at HADLEIGH PARK AVENUE SS7 1SA is open from 12th-14th June
Friday 12th June 12-5pm
Saturday 13th June 10-4pm
Sunday 14th June 11-4pm
COME & MEET THE ARTISTS
Come & chat to the artists about their work, find out what makes them tick.
HOME GALLERY:
Friday 12th:
| 12-2pm | 2-4pm |
| Tina Robertson | Annabel Barry |
| Leda Szemeredi | Leda Szemeredi |
| Nicola Osborne |
Saturday 13th:
| 10-12pm | 12-2pm | 2-4pm |
| Nicola Osborne | Vadims Pjatrikovs | Nicola Upton |
| Alison Bournes | Tina Robertson |
Sunday 14th:
| 11-1pm | 1-3pm |
| Tina Robertson | Annabel Barry |
| Leda Szemeredi | Leda Szemeredi |
| Alison Bournes |
Annabel Barry
Working predominantly with wire and papier-maché Annabel, creates sculptures of animals, flowers and other objects. In these sculptures, she is expressing her love of form, colour and nature. They are objects of exploration, that will last a lifetime.A sculpture starts with an idea and evolves through design, construction, painting and finishing before becoming what she hopes is an interesting and tactile object. Working intuitively, each piece starts with an initial outline made from robust wire. Annabelthen continues to add thinner, flexible wire to stabilise what she is working on, creating more detail. Eventually a recognisable shape is formed. It can take her a few hours of fiddling about with the wire until suddenly there is a magic moment when the piece begins to finally evolve and take on a personality of its own. Annabel’suse of the armature or structure of the sculpture becomes a part of the finished form. Her considered use of papier-maché, fills some of the negative space, allowing the viewer to ‘fill in the gaps’ for themselves.
Alison Bournes
Alison enjoys working with the theme of the human condition, often choosing to work in clay as it is such a responsive medium.
The human figure, human stories and historical information often inform her work, she enjoys exploring the light and shade of lives lived.
Julia Hart
Julia Hart is a mixed media artist working in inks, acrylics, watercolours, & print media.
Based in Benfleet, Essex she finds the everchanging views, light & landscape of the Estuary a constant source of inspiration. She is also greatly inspired by animals, photographs, myths, poetry, art processes and concepts.
Whatever the subject it is always through the prism of colour. Her work is largely impressionistic as she seeks to create the emotional response a subject can generate.
Julia has been a (mostly) self-taught artist for seven years. Recently, attending a Print (Etching) course at the Royal Drawing School, London.
You can currently find Julia’s work on the Leigh Art Trail, at exhibitions with Southend Art Club and at the Old Leigh Artists Market.
For the past two years alongside artists Alison Bournes & Nicola Osborne she has been working hard at creating, and delivering a new successful Art Trail – ‘CAOS’ (Castlepoint Artists Open Studios) with workshops, events & an Art Exhibition hosted by Hadleigh Old Fire Station Arts Centre (HOFS).
Julia is now delighted in 2025 to work from a studio at HOFS. Visitors are very welcome – just contact her for a time you would like to visit.
Nicola Osborne
For Nicola, painting is more than a visual experience — it’s an emotional dialogue between colour, form, and viewer. As a former art teacher turned full-time artist, Nicola brings both technical skill and intuitive depth to her mixed media practice
Working primarily with acrylics and vibrant acrylic inks, Nicola creates layered, expressive works that shimmer with colour and emotion. Her fascination lies in how colour affects the human spirit.
Her process is intuitive, embracing the unexpected. Patterns emerge. Shapes repeat. Lines and geometry intertwine with bold washes of colour. She draws inspiration from kaleidoscopic imagery and the structured chaos of the natural world, using visual rhythm to draw viewers in.
Vadims Pjatrikovs
Vadims, is a UK-based printmaker working in silkscreen printing and linocut, often blending traditional printing techniques with experimental approaches.
Since the beginning of his artistic journey in 2005, he has been deeply engaged in exploring visual storytelling, initially through the medium of art photography. Photography played a crucial role in shaping his artistic voice, allowing him to capture and frame moments of both reality and imagination. However, his creative path has evolved, and he is now fully dedicated to printmaking, where he finds the freedom to express a broader and more complex vision.
His work moves between abstraction, portraits, and scenes from everyday life—each print balancing precision with experimentation, tradition with personal expression.
Tina Robertson
Tina is a self-taught artist working from her home studio. Generally working in acrylic paint, applied with a palette knife, spray paint and Posca pens, Tinacreates bold, bright and dynamic images. She also makes striking soft pastel and ink/acrylic illustrations. As an intuitive painter, Tina enjoys the immersive freedom that these materials give her. Mark-making evolves naturally through her process, along with strong and painterly elements. Her, work is quirky, striking and far from conventional. Her subject matter is the female form, inspiration coming from the inner strength and beauty of women. Tinacelebrates an alternative view of beauty. Her mark-making and semi-abstraction, seeks to convey, that perceived imperfection is beautiful. We should not strive incessantly for outward beauty, but embrace our ‘flaws’ and ‘imperfections’.
Michael Slade
Michael Slade Wood Art started in 2020 and features individual artisan hand crafted wooden pieces created in my workshop in Westcliff. I hand turn items on the lathe and craft items by hand using a variety of techniques so every item I make is unique. Wherever possible I use locally sourced materials which have been selected for their quality and sustainability. I enjoy breathing new life into old wood, and I frequently recycle wood that would otherwise be burnt or disposed of to create something completely new which has purpose and is pleasing to the eye.
Léda Szemerdi
Léda, the self-taught 3D artist from a Hungarian village—where upcycling was the way of life—now crafts under her brand Edigumi (edigumi.co.uk) in the UK. Years ago, amid life’s wild winds, she wove newspaper baskets, their rhythms a fun, relacing fortress against paper trash and tough times, turning junk into joyful gems.
Skills soared; she sculpted animals mold-free, debuting at Southend’s New City Gallery with sparkle. She continues weaving where function meets fancy, her repertoire layered: paperwoven keyrings, home pots, quirky jewellery, to bold sculptures from clingfilm, foil, plastic, cardboard, and driftwood, cloaked in papier-mâché and bumpy paperclay with hidden notes.
Her motifs delve deep: Transformation, rebirths of discarded materials into vibrant visions—like a newspaper fox slyly renewed—echoing life’s shifts from chaos to charm, rooted in her heritage. Accommodation shows beings bending gracefully amid constraints, as a paperclay cat cosies on driftwood, blending her farmer smarts with relocation tales. Human ambivalence dances duality in mythical or archetypical figures mid-laugh or sigh, juggling joys and woes, layering emotions in pet and human portraits.
Ever experimenting with paperclay fused to nature and scraps, Léda’s art invites chuckles at change, cosy compromises, and split selves—resilient whimsy in every giggle from the garbage.
You will also find the work of the 8 artists who are exhibiting at HADLEIGH GALLERY over the weekend at The Home venue.
Dates & times for Hadleigh Gallery : 13th -21st June 10-4pm