Konrad is a Southampton-based photographer specialising in 360 degree panoramas. “I began making these around twelve years ago out of curiosity, in recent years it has turned into a passionate obsession. I love using this versatile technique to explore and reconstruct spaces to create new, often unexpected perspectives to draw in and fascinate the viewer. Much of my work is set in the New Forest, where I enjoy going off the path searching for ancient woodland, gnarled trees and tranquil locations to catch my eye”

Junko is a Japanese fine art painter who primarily works in traditional Japanese paints made of natural mineral pigments ‘Iwaenogu’. Her main inspiration lies in the Japanese spatial and temporal concept of ‘Ma’. In her recent works, it is expressed in the form of abstract to embody space with a sense of time-passing and a charged atmosphere, underlined by a sense of calm. Her work was selected for Works on Paper 2023 and Summer Show at Gallery Green & Stone, and was also shortlisted for Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2022. ‘The Flow of Words’, which she created for the Inspired by the Words exhibition at Winchester Cathedral in 2017, as a part of Jane Austen 2000 events, was longlisted for the John Moore Painting Prize 2018. In 2015, her work was shortlisted for the Ashurst Emerging Artist. She has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad, including solo shows, Homewards (2023) in Tokyo, Monyou (2023) and Strata (2022) at Burgh House in London, Colours of Rocks (2019) at Basingstoke Museum, and group shows in Berlin, Paris and Florence. She has taken part several times in the prestigious The Other Art Fair. Junko gained her MA and BA from Winchester School of Art. Born in Tokyo, she now lives and works in Winchester. Junko is a Japanese fine art painter who primarily works in traditional Japanese paints made of natural mineral pigments ‘Iwaenogu’. Her main inspiration lies in the Japanese spatial and temporal concept of ‘Ma’. In her recent works, it is expressed in the form of abstract to embody space with a sense of time-passing and a charged atmosphere, underlined by a sense of calm. Her work was selected for Works on Paper 2023 and Summer Show at Gallery Green & Stone, and was also shortlisted for Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2022. ‘The Flow of Words’, which she created for the Inspired by the Words exhibition at Winchester Cathedral in 2017, as a part of Jane Austen 2000 events, was longlisted for the John Moore Painting Prize 2018. In 2015, her work was shortlisted for the Ashurst Emerging Artist. She has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad, including solo shows, Homewards (2023) in Tokyo, Monyou (2023) and Strata (2022) at Burgh House in London, Colours of Rocks (2019) at Basingstoke Museum, and group shows in Berlin, Paris and Florence. She has taken part several times in the prestigious The Other Art Fair. Junko gained her MA and BA from Winchester School of Art. Born in Tokyo, she now lives and works in Winchester.

Jilly is a visual artist based at the Arches Studios in Southampton. “I use Craft to make Art to Provoke Thought. Looking at the hidden aspects of life, exploring themes seemingly as diverse as graffiti to domestic labour, thinking about unseen people and the things they make and do. In my cross stitched versions of local street tags I’m wondering who is making them and why, seeing them as a creative way of claiming space in the city rather than an act of vandalism, taking them out of context and seeing the beauty in them.”

Max makes large scale paintings of the places he visits, attempting to recreate the sense of vitality and motion he observes by applying thick layers of oil paint with a palette knife, and then scratching lines and marks into the surface in the sgraffito style to imply movement, as well as scraping back layers of paint and reworking his surfaces to give a three dimensional feel to the image. He has worked from locations in the UK and Europe. Max’s artworks have recently been shown at London’s Decorative Fair, Olympia Art, LAPADA, the Bruton Art Fair, and the ‘A Way To Break Through’ show and are currently on show in White water Contemporary Gallery (Cornwall) and the Catharine Miller Art Gallery (London)