"Artist at Work" project
Art practice can be isolating. This project allows me to connect with other artists in spite of, or perhaps because of that isolation. Time to imagine, reflect and plan is vital to any creative process. Capturing other artists in those moments gives me great pleasure and reinforces our shared creative community.
We love to talk about our art, yet at the same time it can be difficult to put it into words. This project tries to solve that problem visually.
Cat Northfield
I paint portraits and figures, with a focus on emotional depth and deeper meanings: real or imagined.
I’m drawn to faces, but also to what is going on behind them, both emotionally and intellectually.
As humans, we are hard-wired for survival to read and translate emotion in facial expressions, yet there is no single ‘correct’ interpretation. We naturally project our own experiences onto the subject (accurately or not!), creating a highly personal space between the viewer and the portrait which strongly appeals to me.
Mike Barker
I draw in inks and paint with both watercolours and oils. My work focuses on landscapes and wildlife and especially aims at highlighting climate emergency effects and the biodiversity crisis.
It's a witness to the effects and advocacy for nature-based solutions nature recovery. There is a red ribbon buried in my oil paintings as an emblem.
It's essential and a small thing I can do to keep myself sane facing the urgency and danger we are saving up for our children.
To cheer myself up I distract myself with life drawing. These in inks (no pencils anymore - to inject jeopardy) and recently indigo watercolour washes.
Michael Mebane
I create oil paintings.
I dive deep into the archetypal symbolism that springs into my consciousness.
I have images that I don't choose always bubbling into my thoughts, so painting is a way of expressing and sharing those with the world. I also find much joy in beauty and creating.
Jodie Beardmore
I create stylised and conceptual photography, primarily working with portraiture.
My work explores identity, emotion, memory and our relationship with the world around us.
Photography gives me a way to explore ideas, preserve fleeting moments and create images that encourage people to pause and feel something.
Alexandra Baldeseroni
My core practice is rooted in painting and drawing, though it often expands into multimedia sculpture and textile work. I frequently integrate thrifted, upcycled, and foraged elements—such as hand-stitched salvaged canvases and custom-crafted clays. For me, making art is about working with tangible materials to reconcile how I process the world around me.
At its heart, my work explores the concept of existential fractality—the idea that the intense, internal landscape of our consciousness mirrors the universe outside us, from the infinite sky down to microscopic life. It touches on themes of intentionality, consumption, and the natural cycles of growth. Creating is an intrinsic, almost cellular process for me; ideas take root, mature, and eventually demand to be brought into physical reality.
On a personal level, making art is a vital necessity for my mental, spiritual, and physical well-being—it’s how I untangle a complex and often contradictory world. Externally, it matters because of human connection. Putting my work into the world creates a bridge to others; knowing that a piece has helped someone feel seen, offered them hope, or unlocked a question for them gives the work its ultimate purpose.
Darius Tiger
My artwork is currently mainly charcoal, pens and pencils. Drawings of all sizes on paper and walls. Only black and white. I'm not ready for colours. Even though I'm a musician by trade, I'm very visual.
I'm fascinated by the human body. For me, the female form is the pinnacle of beauty in our universe. I also draw abstract things sometimes, which is a door to the unconscious mind and this fascinates me.
Human beings have a unique gift of expressing ideas, emotions and feelings through art, I believe it's human nature. I just feel the need to do this everyday via music, drawing and poetry. I think all humans are artists, but not everybody pays enough attention to their own potential.
The extended series
