Working with reclaimed wood and metal, Warwickshire-based artist John Simpson transforms discarded materials into bold, functional artworks. Blending sculpture, design, and sustainability, his practice is led by aesthetics, shaped by function, and rooted in a belief that beauty and value can emerge from what we too easily throw away.
The Leamington Studio Artists marked the successful conclusion of its 2025 Bursary Exhibition with a month-long showcase at The Art Room. Featuring work by four emerging artists, the exhibition highlighted a year of artistic development across environmental printmaking, commercial photography, atmospheric painting, and optical illusion..
The Abstract JGG Open Competition showcased a diverse range of contemporary abstract practices, celebrating innovation, material exploration, and confident mark-making.
Now showing at The Art Room, the 2025 LSA Bursary Exhibition brings together four emerging artists whose practices have been shaped by a year of creative support.
We’re offering four bursaries of £500 to help emerging artists develop their practice, realise creative projects, and take confident steps into the professional art world.
For Anya, landscape painting is less about depicting a place and more about capturing its feeling—a space where memory, intuition, and imagination meet. Her images hover between the real and the dreamlike, using layered surfaces and shifting light to draw viewers into landscapes that feel familiar yet remain unbound by geography.
LSA proudly marks the success of its first-ever Leamington Mini Print Competition, a national showcase of 10×10 cm prints hosted at the Royal Pump Rooms. With strong entries, enthusiastic visitors, sold artworks and the support of leading printmaking partners, this inaugural event sets the stage for a growing annual celebration of printmaking in Leamington Spa.
Lorna Ashworth’s artistic journey offers a deeper understanding of her work. Rooted in giving overlooked materials new life, she draws inspiration from recycled tins—their colours, patterns, and hidden histories. Trained in jewellery at the Kent Institute of Art and Design, she shapes these humble containers into organic forms, transforming the ordinary into intimate, wearable art.
Julie Swinsco’s artistic journey is shaped by the city itself—her muse and mirror. Drawn to the movement, light, and reflections of urban life since studying Fine Art in London, she captures the fleeting choreography of people, cars, and weather. Whether in Prague’s summer glow or Birmingham’s rain-lit streets, she finds beauty in the blur where energy, emotion, and environment meet.
For Mark Godfrey, photography is as much about observation as it is about expression. What began in his teenage years with film cameras has become a renewed passion in the digital age, where he seeks out fleeting street moments in bold colour or quiet black and white.
Rooted in the beauty of the natural world, Fiona Metcalfe’s work explores the dialogue between landscape, light, and memory. From the rugged coastlines of her Scottish childhood to the softer contours of Warwickshire, she translates these environments into layered expressions of colour, texture, and form. Working across painting, textiles, and printmaking, her practice is guided by curiosity, experimentation, and a balance of play and perseverance.
Lucy Burton’s art is rooted in discovery, discipline, and experimentation. Working alla prima in oils, she embraces spontaneity—each brushstroke full of energy and intention. From flowers to pets, her work balances boldness with sensitivity, revealing beauty through close observation.