Warwickshire artist Annie Brenchley draws inspiration from the quiet beauty of everyday life—from sunlight filtering through woodland trees to fruit resting in pottery bowls. In this artist spotlight, she shares how plein-air painting, sketchbooks, and a strong local creative community shape her thoughtful and joyful approach to art.
The Kitchen Table Art Club brings a vibrant burst of creativity to Jephson Gardens Gallery, showcasing imaginative work by young artists from across Warwickshire. Featuring students from Lynne Gougeon’s Kitchen Table Art Club and ARISE Education, the exhibition spans playful, bold and thought-provoking pieces — with actor David Bradley also exhibiting for the first time. Running until March 8, it’s a cheerful antidote to winter.
Known for his highly detailed pencil and ink drawings, Chapman creates “stories without words” that blend technical precision with fantasy, humour, and layers of hidden narrative. Every piece invites you to pause, look closer, and discover something new — from tiny visual clues to subtle references shaped by his lifelong love of literature and imagination.
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.
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.