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MEMBERS' WORK

This page showcases the work of Blue Monkey Network members.  Please click on thumbnails to find out more.

Current Blue Monkey Members, please click on link to find out how to upload your work to your own profile page

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Kathleen Dawson

Painter

I work on themes around the interaction of geography and history.

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Nikki Davidson-Bowman

Conceptual Artist 

I am a conceptual artist & curator working with found photographs, ephemera, words & natural things to explore female stories of resilience. 

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Cat Ingrams

Constructions & Printmaking

I have been making small box constructions with minimal black and white interior elements for almost twenty years...

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Judy Martin

Mixed Media artist

I moved to Brighton from London 35 years ago and have sustained my art practice alongside working in adult education teaching and mental health, using art in both contexts. 

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Stephanie Grainger

Artist, animator

My work involves drawing, photography, and digital techniques.

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Cliff Crawford

Visual Artist

As a visual artist, I use both traditional and digital media to explore real and perceptual change through repetition, re-evaluation and reduction.

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Geraldine Franklin

Artist

Franklin is a consummate colourist manifesting force harmony.

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June Nelson

Artist

I make art out of prosaic stuff hoping for some poetry.

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Marie Linsdell

Artist & Printmaker

My creative practice often begins with photography, capturing a personal perspective and relationship with the natural world – exploring within it the infinite variety and constant state of flux.

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Kathleen King

Textile Artist

My work is an exploration, a representation, and sometimes a provocation.

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Roger Adams

Painter

I regard myself as a painter who places the figure at the heart of my practice.

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Ray Burnside

Animator

I am an animator, video-cameraman and photographer.

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Jenny Shorter

Photomontage & surface pattern design

I use photographs to create complex montage pieces which filter the every day through the prism of myth and story-telling.

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Clive Whitburn

Composer

I write music in quite a wide range of styles and genres.

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Anne Barrell

Ceramicist

I am interested in how we look at the world and in how we bestow meaning on objects. 

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Gaynor Sadlo

Ceramicist

I construct ceramic vessels in white stoneware, coiled and slabbed, mainly to create a complex shape on which to paint intricate designs in underglaze colours.

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Judith Alder

Artist

My recent project, Vital Signs, is informed by numerous sources from science and nature to sci-fi and speculative fiction.

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Clare Dales

Printmaker and Book Arts

A range of lino print and hand-drawn illustrations, books and the popular Miniature High Street.

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Kitty Oakly

Printmaker, Painter, Zinemaker

Studied illustration at Brighton Uni and at Anglia Ruskin in Cambridge, where I was an associate lecturer.  I’m now a printmaker, painter, and maker of zines.

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Sue Hamer

Painter

I make small paintings of mostly overlooked subjects, exploring familiarity, memory and strangeness.

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Loupe Cooper

Visual artist and Writer

I am a visual artist and writer, mainly of poetry. The two aspects are essential to each other, my visual work often being loaded with meaning.

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April Yasamee

Paper Sculpture

I work principally with paper as a 3D sculptural material, combined with mixed media, including wire, wood and metals.

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Adrian Chappell

Artist and Writer

I live and work in Eastbourne since moving from London in 2022. One of the first things I did was join the Blue Monkey Network and Towner Gallery. I also regularly participate in Eastbourne’s Artists Open House and Studios.

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Ivilina Kouneva

Visual artist, Educator

I am a painter, a cut-outs maker and educator, tempted by words, relative mythology and magic realism. 

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Danny Manning

Art Jeweller

I create experimental pieces of jewellery and sculptures from litter, waste clothing and found materials.

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David Rice

Painter

I am an art director and painter based in Eastbourne. Working mainly in oils and acrylics, I mostly make paintings inspired by the landscape of the South Downs National Park.

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Caroline Pick

Sculptor and film-maker

Artist, sculptor and film-maker. Am keen on repurposing objects for fun and profundity

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Annalynn Cooke

Painter, mixed media artist

My work is ever evolving with themes consistent around exploring identity (personally and in a broader sense) using my interests in botany & architecture, peppered with astronomy and anthropology to create visual representations that symbolise my ideas, opinions & projections.

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Maxine Morgan

Artist/Designer

I am a painter and creative mentor living in Eastbourne. When painting the medium often used is acrylic though mixed media occasionally too.

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Andrea Mindel

Artist

I am an interdisciplinary artist with a practice that spans technical hand embroidery positioned as fine art, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, film and performance. 

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Steve Bannatyne

Artist

His practice is rooted in environmental protection, working primarily with discarded materials.

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Catherine Ade

Artist printmaker

I am an artist exploring drawing and lithographic printmaking.

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Joanna Goodwin

Fine Art Photography

I'm a photographer driven by colour, light, texture, and the quiet power of what’s often overlooked. 

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Madelaine Hennessy

Multi-media artist

I am an Eastbourne-based artist who works across painting, ceramics, textiles and animation. I love to create art about the feminine experience, the mind and spirituality. 

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Peter McNally

Artist, Painter and Printmaker

My artwork is rooted in my upbringing in a slate mining town in the rugged North Wales landscape. 

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Chris Hughes

Artist

My current work explores the ‘site of trauma’. I’m interested in how some places are ‘defined’ by the events that happen within them, and whether the aura of trauma remains, either in the places or in our representations of them.

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Linda Lethem

Painter and Printmaker

After completing a BA Hons degree in Fine Art Painting followed by a Master's Degree in Printmaking, I have pursued a career as an artist over the last forty years. 

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Elaine Ruth White

Writer and visual artist

As a writer and visual artist with a clinical background in mental health, my work often has a strong social or environmental emphasis. 

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Philip Edwards

Photographer

Having spent a lifetime in design, my creative outlet now is monochrome photography.

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Jo Collins

Artist

My work is rooted in a deep connection with nature and the quiet, often unseen, relationship between landscape, memory and emotion. 

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Teri Walsh

Printmaker

My artistic practice embraces a wide range of media (2D and 3D), investigating the intrinsic structure of natural and man-made objects based on my own photographs.

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