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WILMSLOW ART 2026

Wilmslow's contemporary art fair, an annual event designed to showcase the very best artists, makers and potters from around the North West. Our annual show is located in Wilmslow in the heart of the 'Golden Triangle', an affluent area closely connected to Alderley Edge, Prestbury and Knutsford.

Our 2026 event is held on the first weekend in October. There is no charge for admission.

When:

Friday 2nd October, 6-8pm

Saturday 3rd October, 10-5pm

Sunday 4th October, 12-4pm

Where:

URC Church Halls, Chapel Lane, Wilmslow, SK9 1PR

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We are delighted to present our exhibiting artists for 2026

TKaye Ceramica

I work with burnished porcelain and stoneware, often textured or burnished. The tactile, silky-smooth surface of burnishing gives comfort to touch, like the smoothness of a flower petal or shiny pebble.

Stoneware sculpture decorated using various oxides to emphasise and exaggerate the contours of the sculpture. Alternative firings, such as smoke and pit-firing, and raku, are also used to capture the spontaneity of the fire and smoke, acting like a natural weathering force, bringing a source of energy in the designs, bringing them to life.

Margaret Veldman-Jones

Margaret is a mixed media artist from the Netherlands, now based in Wilmslow. Although drawn to art in childhood, it was a career in research science that first brought her to the UK.

A Foundation Degree in Art & Design later on led her to establish a home studio, where she developed a distinctive style blending texture, print, and pattern. Working mainly in acrylics, she often incorporates collage elements and vibrant colours to create dynamic, uplifting compositions. Her work, while mainly representational, explores the boundary between abstraction and realism, aiming to create a piece that does not reveal itself in one glance.

Passionate about wildlife, Margaret frequently portrays endangered animals and has been a finalist in London’s Sketch for Survival exhibition, with her rhino 'Ukoo' shortlisted for the 2025 Artist of the Year award. Margaret isn’t restricted to any subject or style though and instead allows herself to follow her artistic journey wherever it leads.

Sara de Grauw

My current work explores the concept of "painting with light" in its purest form, a phrase that has resonated with me for many years. Returning to photography after a long hiatus, I felt compelled to rediscover this technique, not through digital manipulation, but as a tangible, exploratory process. This desire to work directly with light led me to a simple, almost utilitarian approach: the use of readily available household torches to illuminate still life arrangements of florals. Through long exposures and careful manipulation of these light sources, I strive to create a studio-quality effect, revealing the inherent beauty and subtle nuances of my subjects in a way that feels both organic and deeply personal. This process of "painting" with light allows me to explore the interplay of illumination and shadow, uncovering hidden dimensions within the familiar and transforming everyday objects into studies of light and form.

Sylvia Glover Ceramics

Sylvia’s work explores the intersection of form, function, and surface through hand-thrown ceramics. She is drawn to soft, organic shapes and the rich, tactile possibilities of stoneware glazes – each one developed in her studio through a process of ongoing experimentation and a deep curiosity about the chemistry of materials, and carefully tailored to bring the pots to life with colours and textures that become ever more engaging, the more closely you look.

In addition to her signature miniature vessels, Sylvia creates everyday pieces – mugs, bowls, plates – that are designed to be lived with. Her work invites touch, feels comfortable in the hand, and is dishwasher-safe and microwave-friendly, to fit seamlessly into daily life.

Sharon Lea Ceramics

I create wheel-thrown and altered vessels in porcelain and stoneware clay bodies. The stoneware vessels are the majority of my work and are fired in reduction with a wood-fired look. I aim for a complex glaze surface so add ash and flashes of other glazes and raw materials on top of my own recipe carbon trap shino for a wide spectrum of colour, including white, black, oranges, browns, green and blue. I dig clays from our family farm to use as slips, inclusions and glaze ingredients, cementing the relationship between vessel and place of origin.
I trained mainly at Clay College Stoke, where I am now the appointed evening class tutor.

Peter Aitchison Photography

I live in the rural north, but I need the noise of a city to feel fully awake.

I trained in an advertising studio in London, learning how to shape light and build a frame with intention. After that came years in national newspapers and PR, where things moved quickly and instinct mattered as much as craft. Those experiences gave me a foundation — but they also left me with a hunger for real, unfiltered moments.

Now I’m based in the countryside, surrounded by space and quiet. I value that stillness, but I rarely photograph it. When I want to feel inspired, I head for the buzz — streets, stations, markets, anywhere there’s movement and unpredictability. I need people brushing past each other, fragments of conversations, shifting light on concrete. That energy sharpens me.

I don’t see a real difference between travel and street photography. Both are about stepping slightly outside your own life and paying attention. Even if I’m only a train ride away, I’m looking for that sense of discovery — the small, human moments that make a place feel alive.

I suppose I live in one world and photograph in another. The balance between the two keeps me curious.

Nastassia Blahadava

Nastassia is a ceramic artist working primarily with porcelain, creating abstract sculptural forms that explore fragility and resilience. Originally from Belarus and now based in the UK, her work is influenced by personal experiences of distance, memory, and a search for beauty in everyday life.

Her process is intuitive and hands-on, using hand-building techniques to shape delicate forms that are often gently distorted during making and firing. She is drawn to porcelain for its unique balance of strength and fragility, allowing each piece to develop its own character. Her sculptures reflect a love of material, process, and the quiet beauty found in imperfection.

Kathryn Stevens - Sculptor

Kathryn creates sculptural forms inspired by technical drawings from the ship and boat-building industries, reflecting the heritage of her birthplace. Her work tells a story of connection and belonging, documenting the rich history of her local area.

By formulating her own clay bodies and glaze recipes using local raw materials and industrial waste, Kathryn captures the geological essence of her surroundings. This innovative approach grounds her work in the field of narrative ceramics, blending artistry with a deep sense of place and memory.

Judy Musselle

I am an award-winning multidisciplinary artist currently living in Southport, Merseyside.

I worked as a freelance illustrator following my degree from Bradford College of Art and my designs were sold worldwide for greeting cards, publishing and advertising. I am still illustrating but away from the restrictions of commercial design my paintings focus on representing visual narratives. My work lives within the realm of magical surrealism and I have always been concerned with storytelling, often inspired by mythology and folklore from around the world, with particular interest in the strong female characters and their relationship with enchanted creatures. I have high quality limited edition giclee prints made from my paintings which are all signed and numbered. My three-dimensional models are taken from the characters in my paintings and are made from hand-painted resin. I show my models, prints and paintings regularly, in solo and joint exhibitions. Galleries recently showing my work include The Atkinson in Southport, Eden Gallery in Lancashire, Heart Gallery in Hebden Bridge, Castle Gallery in Inverness, Ferrers Gallery in Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Velvet Easel in Edinburgh.

Cherry Mae Whitehead-Howse

Cherry-Mae Whitehead-Howse is a self taught printmaker with an MA in Creative Writing.

After discovering linocut back in 2020, it has become her primary artistic outlet. Her work ranges from simple figures in modern or mythical settings to complex nature scenes with delicate creatures at their centre. Sometimes sadistic, sometimes tender, her prints explore themes of established narrative, childhood, and the anxious struggles of daily life to create a broad collection of story driven artworks.

Katie Brooks Prints

I am a printmaker and illustrator who is inspired by being outdoors in the beautiful countryside of Derbyshire where I live. I love to create vibrant screen prints of landscapes, which often feature trees and flowers, that celebrate the patterns and colours within nature.

All of my designs are based on original drawings and my screen prints are all hand-pulled originals. I also design and illustrate images for a small range of giclée prints and greetings cards. I have recently enjoyed developing a small range of colourful, handmade lampshades featuring my own textile designs.

Greta Vilidaite

Greta is a Lithuanian-British oil painter based in Sheffield, creating impressionistic landscape, figurative and still life paintings. Working both in the studio and directly from life, she paints alla prima (“all in one go”) to capture the immediacy of the moment and respond instinctively to light, form and atmosphere. Much of her landscape work begins outdoors, where she observes and interpret the shifting moods of the landscape.

Greta became a full-time artist after leaving her previous career in Neuroscience and receiving an Arts Council grant to paint the English farmland. Greta has won multiple awards and regularly exhibits her work in local and national exhibitions. She is also a regular contributor to “The Artist” magazine and runs painting demonstrations and workshops in Northern England and the Midlands.

Harriet Love Stained Glass

I am a Stained Glass Artist based in North Shropshire making unique hand painted and fired leaded panels. My work is based from botanical references and patterns with British Wildlife as its theme. I particularly love painting birds for their symbolism which inspires my designs.
I make a variety of pieces that vary in complexity from miniatures to larger panels and commissions. I also specialise in memorial panels and windows for clients homes.

Janet Mayled

My artwork is rooted in my observations of everyday life. Through a distinctive layering technique, I record these moments using mainly acrylic paints, which allows me to create a sense of depth and enrich the surface quality of each piece. The inspiration for my work emerges from the way I see the world: I am constantly seeking scenes and subjects to express on canvas or paper.
I aim to capture moments that resonate with me, whether that is my family, the wonder found in places like allotments, or intriguing people and situations I encounter. In all my compositions, I strive to guide the viewer’s eye through the painting by using a harmonious palette of colour alongside line, shape, and form, ensuring a cohesive and engaging visual experience.

Diane Jones

Diane has been a freelance Designer/Maker since completing her Art degree in the late 1980's.
She largely works with printed, hand painted and Devore textile techniques and supplies an exclusive range of scarves, accessories, cards and prints to many galleries, museums and craft outlets throughout the country alongside selling directly at fairs and shows.
Her designs reflect her fascination with colour, pattern, light, rhythms and silhouettes found in the natural environment and enjoys the layering and depth that experimenting with Devore, monoprinting and collage can demonstrate.

Fiona Newby

I am a person who rarely sits still, creating is my absolute passion. My ceramics have many influences, Mother Earths from my university days and life drawing classes, the female form and her evolving shape during pregnancy. Emotions and how we rarely express ourselves honestly, currently I am exploring in clay. I use no glazes, creating fabulous patination’s and colours in my saggar and naked raku firings.

Claire Troughton Jewellery

Claire Troughton's Jewellery is inspired by the fragility of nature, the romanticism of the sea and the mythical stories she heard in childhood. She creates tiny treasures focusing on the little details and patterns of natural forms she notices while walking her beloved dog. Working in silver and gold she aims to produce pieces which are easy to wear as well as to admire and love.