Tutors - Shute Farm Studio

Tutor Information

All of our tutors are professional artists providing excellent teaching and guidance.

Laurence Tindall - Tutor: Stone / Sculpture

Laurence Tindall is an experienced sculptor and Fine Art graduate who has been involved in the restoration and conservation of many historic buildings throughout England, including the West Front of Wells Cathedral.

Laurence was a founding Director of Nimbus Conservation and is now working as a sculptor for private and corporate clients. His Millennium Commission, a life-size sculpture of the 'Resurrection of Christ', was dedicated on Easter Day at Bath Abbey.

Kate Semple - Tutor: Stone / Sculpture

Kate Semple comes from an Art School background, and has spent seven years in the stone masonry trade gaining the practical experience to produce her own work.

Kate looks to historic Stone carving for inspiration, especially Norman and Mediaeval, but also realises the great potential of stone when used in contemporary and innovative ways.

David Chandler - Tutor: Drawing

David Chandler is a professional artist specialising in watercolour. Entirely self-taught, he previously worked in the music industry and has also written drama and comedy for BBC Radio.

His watercolour painting holidays in Tuscany were the subject of a Channel 4 documentary in 2001.

Shane Whitehead - Tutor: Bronze Casting

After studying Art and Design at college, Shane Whitehead then trained in Furniture Design and Construction. Spurred on by his interest in decorative arts and sculpture he moved into 2D graphic work. Using some of his highly ornate and intricate patterns, Shane transferred these ideas into jewellery making, producing bronze, silver and gold pieces, which are exhibited in various galleries across the UK. In turn this has created an interest in working with metals and sculpture.

For the last four years he has managed a bronze foundry in Shepton Mallet, whilst also sculpting and casting his own work in bronze.

Celia Smith - Tutor: Wire Sculpture

CELIA SMITH studied Fine Art Sculpture at Wimbledon School of Art, giving her the chance to experiment with many different materials and techniques, but wire became her most favoured medium. The wire is sourced form scrap yards and recently most sculptures have been of British birds, as the wire seems to lend itself to their fragility and suggest movement.

She previously worked as ‘artist in residence’ at King Arthur’s School in Wincanton.

Nick Inns - Tutor: Ceramics

Nick Inns studied ceramics at Bath Academy of Arts 1986 - 1989, where he concentrated on developing his throwing and handbuilding skills. He is now an experienced maker of thrown garden pottery and slip decorated earthenware, specialising in marbling techniques.His work sells at a variety of outlets, including crafts and ceramic galleries, the National Trust, and specialist nurseries. He also takes individual commissions.

His work sells at a variety of outlets, including crafts and ceramic galleries, the National Trust, and specialist nurseries. He also takes individual commissions.

Nick teaches part time in ceramics for children and the disadvantaged.

Neil Bousfield - Tutor: wood Engraving

Neil Bousfield is a printmaker and engraver with a background in the arts & crafts and teaching. With professional experience across a wide range of media, Neil has concentrated his own personal practice upon relief printmaking and engraving since 1994.

He completed an MA in Printmaking in 2007, awarded with distinction, from the University of the West of England.

Jill Barker - Tutor: Wood Engraving

Jill Barker is a Wood Engraver and has been running workshops over the last twenty years in schools, colleges, art centres and private studios in the U.K and the United States. Jill's aim is to introduce people to the techniques of wood engraving and provide a greater understanding of its historical development in printmaking.

Wood engraving courses are not frequently taught by one so skilled in teaching this traditional art form.

Anthony Griffiths - Tutor: Wood / Sculpture

Anthony Griffiths is a wood sculptor and commercial wood-carver with wide experience in life modelling and life-size figure carving.

His work has been exhibited at the Beaux Arts gallery in Bath and in Gloucester Cathedral. He has also fulfilled commissions for the Houses of Parliament, Conock Manor, Devises, and for Highgrove, where he has created a pair of carved benches for HRH the Prince of Wales.

Ian Edwards - Tutor: Sculpture

Ian was born in Somerset in 1974, after leaving school he started a five-year apprentiship specialising in early 16th to late 8th century ornamental woodcarving. It was here that he developed his skill and love for sculpture.

For many years Ian has enjoyed sharing his knowledge with others, and holds workshops in his studio in Somerset. He has taught in community colleges and in the private sector. Ian offers expert guidance, but mostly he enjoys helping the student discover their creative potential.

Tony Pizzey - Tutor: Stem Sculpture

Tony Pizzey retired recently from a 36 year career in Avon, latterly as the Art Advisory teacher for the County, and formerly as Head of several departments and faculties. He also contributed to the introduction of G.C.S.E. and the National Curriculum, served as a Team Leader and Moderator, and still lectures to P.G.C.E. students.

He has delivered a variety of courses as residencies in diverse circumstances including Kings College Cambridge, a Prison, ...and a Nunnery!

Margaret Banks - Tutor: Wreath Making

Margaret Banks, a farmers' daughter, has been making wreaths and garlands for many years in the traditional style. She enjoys sharing her skills by teaching at Downhead, where she spent her childhood, and has since continued to collect her holly from Green Farm.

David Brown - Tutor: Letter Cutting

David Brown is a letter-cutter working in Somerton.
His work includes inscriptions, memorials, plaques and name-plates, but he specialises in commissioned stone sundials.
He has won awards for his work from the Salisbury Civic Society and from The British Sundial Society of which he is a founder member.

David is a member of the Guild of Master Craftsmen.

www. DavidBrownSundials.com

Richard Langford - Tutor: Sculpture

Richard works with a wide range of materials, including stone, metal, plaster, glass and wood along with other natural and found materials. He uses a variety of techniques to carve, weld and cast his creations.

He sometimes uses materials in combination to express a particular idea of feeling, otherwise individually as in a piece of stone sculpture.

Mary-Jane Evans - Tutor: Porcelain Ceramics

Mary-Jane’s work is about pushing her materials to extremes and experimenting with new techniques. She uses the kiln as a time machine to scar and erode pieces. Mary-Jane’s preferred materials are slate and porcelain which are exciting and unpredictable.

Using paper clay and dipping materials in liquid porcelain leads to individual and unusual finishes which lead to unique finished pieces which can be hung on the wall. With the addition of oxides, glazes and glass the pieces become even more interesting.

Mary-Jane is currently artist in residence at Kingswood School, Bath where she has her own studio as a practising artist and works with a number of age groups. Mary-Jane encourages the students to be experimental and take risks with their work.

Anna Gillespie – Tutor: Life Modelling

Anna creates figurative sculptures in a variety of materials including masking tape, bronze, plaster and clay. Her work varies in scale from life sized, life like masking tape figures presented in groups to form an installation, to the much more intimate and domestic pieces. The focus of Anna’s work is strength of emotion and simplicity of form. The work does not attempt to capture movement, but rather still moments. Anna qualified as a stone mason in Bath before travelling to Italy to study with the sculptor Nigel Konstam. She then completed an MA in Fine Art at Cheltenham. Her work has been shown in galleries across the UK.

Jane Hamilton - Tutor: Portrait Sculpture

Jane Hamilton studied sculpture at Falmouth Art School and then at City and Guilds School of Art in London, later going on to study part-time at the Sir John Cass School in London. She has been exhibiting sculpture professionally from 1979. The bulk of her work during the last 15 years has been commissioned portraits. She also holds classes at her studio in Oxfordshire

The bulk of her work during the last 15 years has been commissioned portraits. She also holds classes at her studio in Oxfordshire.

Lizzy Oakley and Jos Pinto - Tutor: Collographic Print Making

Lizzy and Jos are both qualified secondary school art teachers, with over 32 years experience between them! They have a wealth of expertise in a variety of materials and techniques and teach in a creative, yet methodical way. They have been working together for over 2 years running workshops for adults and children. Their aims are to ensure students learn a new skill they can continue to explore at home and their courses are a relaxed, enjoyable experience.

Andy Southwell - Tutor: Willow Work

Andy Southwell is a professional basket maker and experienced workshop tutor. Previously an art school graduate and teacher, he now works making traditional baskets using willow from the somerset levels and different coloured home grown willow varieties.

He likes to experiment with willow and other related materials.

Sean Slater - Tutor: Drawing and Painting

Sean Slater is a professional representational painter and freelance illustrator based in Somerset. His work is concerned primarily with the accurate depiction of the natural world and the human form.

Sean graduated from the Bristol School of Art, Media and Design with a BA(Hons) in illustration and has since gone on to produce illustration and design for a number of clients as well as numerous private portrait commissions. His illustration like his painting largely focuses on the figure and its capacity to portray an involving visual narrative.

Ganesh Bhat - Tutor: Traditional Indian Sculpture

Ganesh Bhat, born in Idagunji, a little town in the coastal area of Karnataka, SW India, is a Brahmin of the priestly sect whose family have been priests for nearly 600 years. A State Award winning sculptor of renown, Ganesh works in a range of traditional styles. His commissions are for religious icons in stone and wood, the style based on that of the temples of Chalukyan and Hoysala.

He also has great knowledge of the ancient books known as Shilpashastras, which explain the proportions and design of human figures, particularly the way of bending a figure in three (Tribangha) or many places (Bahubangha). Ganesh teaches in a school specialising in traditional Indian carving.

Caroline Waterlow

Caroline waterlow is a visual artist who finds inspiration in working with people, animals and birds. Although she works in a variety of mediums she considers drawing as her primary discipline, as a means of information as well as a guide to releasing works in other mediums whether in pastel or steel.

Because of her interest in dance, her work increasingly focuses on shape of movement. To compliment her studio work, she also runs drawing workshops, giving people the opportunity to open doors to their own creativity.