Maria Merridan

Maria Merridan is a Bedfordshire-based artist and printmaker and part-time lecturer in art and design. Her work is about creating unusual relationships between personal experiences and the following themes: science, natural history, navigation, weather and journeys.

Awarded The Peoples Award in 2015 for an artwork titled ‘Making Materials Come Alive’ – a large, mixed-media composition produced for Cambridge’s Pint of Science Festival in collaboration with group leader at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy at Cambridge University, Dr Stoyan Smoukov.

Maria’s work was recently selected by the Circus of Illustration to exhibit in their Love Conquers All Exhibition and in 2015, was selected for Summer Exhibitions at Courtyard Art Gallery, Hertford and The Babylon Gallery, Ely. She has also exhibited with the arts collective Mark 5 at the Michael Heseltine Gallery in Oxford and Courtyard Art Gallery in Hertford.

Vicki Clark

Vicki Clark is a talented artist and illustrator who has now launched her own creative business. Vicki can offer anything from a small sketch of your beloved pet up to a huge statement piece for your home, business reception area, party, wedding or corporate event. Contemporary and modern, or more traditional, Vicki has it all, plus graphic design services. Visit Vicki’s blog for the latest news.

Sam Darlow

Sam Darlow is a freelance illustrator and designer based in St Neots, Cambridgeshire. Every project undertaken is approached intelligently, communicated creatively and crafted with care, from editorial design, branding and so much more. He believes in developing lasting relationships with clients to build a strong foundation on which considered thinking and design can add value to their businesses and realise their visions.

Jelena Jordanovic-Lewis

Jelena Jordanovic-Lewis is an illustrator, born in Yugoslavia and grew up in Germany. She learnt art when she was young from a classical Serbian artist but she focussed on science in her studies and has only just recently returned to her passion of drawing and painting. Jelena’s main focus is illustrating children’s books and creating cute adorable characters using watercolour. Jelena lives with her brave, adventurous baby girl and her lovely husband in St Neots but tends to move where the winds of life take her.

Rich Gemmell

Rich Gemmell has been a full time designer and illustrator for over ten years and has worked for The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Hodder publishing house and many others. His illustration work is mainly digital and focuses on travel, environments and food.

Ivy Fung

Ivy Fung is an environmental graphic, signage and wayfinding designer, artist and illustrator. She has an artistic mind with an adventurous spirit, Ivy’s creations are embodiments of history, heritage and technology. Currently, she is a freelance graphic designer.

She has about 14 years of experience in environmental branding and signage and wayfinding in Hong Kong before relocating to St Neots. She worked in a Hong Kong developer and worldwide architectural and interior design firms before. Her projects covered different disciplines like culture, shopping mall, workplace, hospitality and entertainment.

She is innovative and contributed to creative and original design solutions. She works from conceptual design and develops it until completion. She has the good interpersonal skill within the project team and has a good sense of space to design and locate environmental branding graphics.

Ivy is also an artist and likes to experiment with a range of mediums and formats of expression, from public art to video and illustrations. She is also featured in Hong Kong Eye, one of the world’s most important publications showcasing Hong Kong artists.

Solrise Walker

I got a BA(Hons) in Fine Art back in the day. It taught me a lot about professionalism and exposed me to a wide range of artistic inputs, techniques and equipment. Now I am freelance. I love putting paint, pens and pencils on paper. I love using real art materials and touching art equipment. Getting messy. I mostly use pencil and gouache for illustration work, but spill out into other media as diverse as acrylic on canvas to computer lead svg creations as the need arises.

I have worked for such entities as the Wintringham Housing Association and Scripture Union; as well as taking personal commissions.

Check out my website (link in the corner) to see my portfolio and feel free to contact me at solrisewalker@gmail.com

Stephanie Drake

Stephanie Drake runs Bébé Bicyclette, an independent studio that designs and illustrates children’s products. She also provides freelance services to anyone looking to bring their ideas or publications to life through tailored design solutions and illustrative support.

Stephanie studied fine art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art before working the best part of a decade as a professional illustrator, textile designer, and children’s book designer. Through this range of experience, she focussed her efforts and created something she is truly proud of – Bébé Bicyclette.

The catalyst for this has been the most arduous creation to date; her children. Eddy and Felix are the two little people who have, one way or another, shown Stephanie where her priorities lie. Now her work harmoniously coexists alongside raising her family and gives her a platform to create her best work to date.

Carli Hall

Carli is a freelance graphic designer who is in love with the process of craft as well as ideas generation and believes in the use of good design for positive social change. Carli has a background in Logistics Management within the Telecommunications sector and is highly creative bringing together professionalism, organisational skills, project management and excellent communication skills. Carli recently won a commission for Wells & Co’s new Brewpoint brewery corporate identity and packaging design, from concept and art direction through to execution.

Andrew Foster

Andrew Foster is qualified in graphic design and illustration and has studied at both Bath and Bedford College. He has loved drawing since he was little and continues to love it now that he’s not so little.

He’s currently working as a designer and illustrator at agency Bonfire Creative Intelligence and all the work featured on his website are all personal projects created in his own time.

He is proud to be one of the founding members of the Circus of Illustration – a group of professional and amateur illustrators in the Bedfordshire area. As a group they are dedicated to promoting illustration in all its forms. They hold exhibitions of illustration and are involved in various smaller events such as Drink & Draw get-togethers. They have also published their own themed ‘zines’.