Cuckoo Farm Studios

20 Associate Artists

& Honorary Associate Artists

Members without studios

  • Angela Godwin

    CERAMICIST + POTTER

    Godwin uses white earthenware clay to make functional pieces on a potters wheel. She explores decorating, using stains in slip and sgraffito, altering some forms into torsos and stains in clay to create agateware.

  • James Lejeune

    ILLUSTRATOR + ARTIST + STORYTELLER

    Lejeune’s art is greatly inspired by history and geopolitics. He finds great joy in visually translating meanings from the world's sadness as well as it’s beauty. He uses a mixture of digital and traditional mediums.

  • Cal Greenwood

  • Jane Frederick

    ARTIST + EDUCATOR

    Essex Gardens Trust Artist in residence. Leading the Garden Seekers Project, an exploration of formal gardens now showing in the Robert Adam Rooms, Audley End House and Gardens. Tutor V&A Academy and B.A. Fine Art UCC Colchester.

  • Jevan Watkins-Jones

    ARTIST + EDUCATOR

    The inter-disciplinary work of artist and gardener Jevan Watkins Jones is underpinned by drawing and a sensitive interest in the nature of things.

  • Laurence Cawley

    PHOTOGRAPHER

    Social and documentary photographic artist seeking unturned stones.

  • Lynn Foster

    FUSED GLASS ARTIST+ MULTI MEDIA SCULPTOR

    My fused glass works are largely abstract and asymmetrical, often referencing modern art or Japanese design. My sculptural practice includes assemblages comprised of welded steel, often embellished with found objects.

  • Mandy Bonnett

    CERAMICIST + PAINTER + SCULPTOR

    During my time as a teacher, I rediscovered my love of ceramics and sculpture. I try to find the essence of the subject, be it figurative, handbuilt animals, still life or a landscape of my beloved East Anglia.

  • Martin Bridges

    POTTER + MAKER + EDUCATOR

    Currently Working at University of Lincoln

  • Paul Warren

    DESIGNER + ARTIST

    Working designer/artist with a feral tendency. Trying to honour those that inspire:

    Paula Rego, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, John and Alice Coltrane, Amy Winehouse, Peter Saville, Margaret Calvert and the artists at Cuckoo Farm.

  • Penny Nichol

    ARTIST

    Nichol’s artwork explores nostalgia, dreamlike narratives, femininity, personal histories and the creative life of an artist.

    A range of motifs are woven in, in displays of expanded painting, assemblages, ready-mades and textiles, blurring ideas between craft and fine art, within sustainable art.

  • Ruth Lyne

    PAINTER

    Ruth Lyne paints abstract landscapes and seascapes inspired by the flatlands of East Anglia. She uses acrylic paint and a variety of tools to create a feeling of calm and quiet within her art.

  • Simon Carter

    PAINTER

    Painting generated by walking and drawing in the coastal landscape.

    President of Colchester Art Society, co-founder of the artist collective Contemporary British Painting, director of The Art of Frinton and occasional curator.

  • Wendy Bailey

    DRAWING + MARK MAKER

    Bailey creates semi abstract atmospheric Landscapes & Still Life. Making Marks with found objects, ink, charcoal, watercolour, pastels and other media. Drawing is at the heart of her art practice and process.

  • Stuart Bowditch

    SOUND + INSTALLATION ARTIST

    Stuart’s practice is rooted in places and communities that exist on the fringes, both geographically and socially, with a particular interest in the sonic landscape, capturing overlooked and overheard noises and using sound as a documentative and creative medium.