"My work is mostly pencil on paper, mainly black and white, and largely illustrates travels, experiences and encounters from my own life. "Website: andrewjacksondrawings.portfoliobox.netInstagram: @andrewjacksondrawings
Libby is a figurative artist, based in Leicester. She creates expressive and emotive fine art pieces with a focus on the human form. Libby loves to experiment with a range of materials, layering inks, pastels and even wax in mixed media pieces or exploring different textures and ways of markmaking in acrylics.
Louise Ellerington is a professional Fine Artist who has her own Gallery/Studio space in Clarendon Park, Leicester LE2 3AF.
Horses, Abstracts and mythological themes are the main subjects of Louise’s oil paintings which are often large-scale works. She produces special edition prints of some of her originals. Louise’s inspiration stems from an instinctive response to the world around her, often resulting in a myriad of shapes, lines and hues reflecting her emotions.
June - Helen Meheux
Helen started to paint once she stopped working and has been painting for 12 years. Her style has been described as symbolist but lately she has been painting decaying buildings and scenes from life, being attracted to Italy in particular. She loves mediterranean and autumnal colours and paints in oils but also enjoys working in pastel and graphite. She has painted portraits, symbolic subjects, myths & fantasy. Helen says she loves to paint & now knows that she is not complete unless she can paint!
July - Jodie Wilkins / Elizabeth Oldham
Jodie and Elizabeth are DMU photography students taking the opportunity to present their analogue film photography. They chose to present images that are representative of their individual photographic styles, with a focus on the contrast between man made and organic environments. The intricacies of architecture and floral photography complement each other and are reflective of their artistic practice.
August - Rebecca Simpson
Rebecca is a multi disciplinary artist based at Two Queens studios in Leicester Her work explores the tangled relationship between the body and the self, shaped by illness, repair, and the quiet moments of daily life. While rooted in personal experience, it sidesteps the clinical gaze—approaching discomfort with curiosity, tenderness, and a sense of play.Rebecca embraces the messiness of the lived experience and offers a perspective that is both intimate and quietly subversive. Her practice has become a way to process, to question, and to reimagine—holding space for the fragile, the resilient, and everything in between. Jugs, a series by Rebecca, reimagines the simple hospital jug as a vessel of quiet resilience—fully revealing, in its transparency, the labour of recovery and the constant vigilance of self-monitoring. It holds the tension between the need to rest and the persistent effort to maintain equilibrium, a balance required in order to heal. Some are rendered in fine, deliberate lines; others radiate with bold, unruly colour—contained by the very control they appear to resist. These works speak of exposure without shame, and the strength it takes to be both still and alert in the process of repair.
Instagram: @sumofabody
September - Janet Thorton
I started painting about fifteen years ago after spending much of my life either composing music or singing. Enjoying the freedom and spontaneity painting gives me l strive to express energy as it moves and changes from moment to moment, very often without a preconceived plan or idea. A conversation in colour and form.
October - Freddy Waterfield
Instagram: @freddywaterfield
November - Michelle Last
Michelle Last, also known online by the name Clambongle, is an emerging visual artist based in Leicester. Through their use of colour and composition, they inject an element of fun into pieces, inviting viewers to engage with the subject in a playful manner. Michelle draws and makes based on any ordinary subjects that interest them, including personal thoughts on different subjects (such as anxiety and overthinking), in a bold and unexpected way, challenging the audience's perception of these ideas. Michelle loves risograph printing their art to show the bold colours off to their full potential.
Instagram: @clambongle
December / January 2026 - Christine Wigmore
Christina is a mixed-media artist/designer from Leicester UK. Her art and design process involves building layers of imagery, manipulated to create mixed media prints, collages and textile pieces. With a DIY/Punk attitude to creating from what you have to hand, re-using materials and use of experimental mixed-media processes, inspiration comes from what’s happening in society and the unexpected and absurd in life. Her work also explores emotional attachment to textiles, objects and place, the positive aspects of nostalgia and the sense of wellbeing experienced from reconnecting with treasured objects from the past.
Instagram: @christinawigmoredesign
