Sheena Beaton is seeking to find her own way to interpret what she sees around her through colour, mark making and texture – allowing for experimentation and all possibilities. She finds inspiration in the shapes and forms found in the landscape, from groups of man-made found objects to exploration of organic patterns and marks. She uses ideas from sketches and memory, looking for interesting compositions and simplified shapes to capture her observations. She is drawn to the detritus and industrial shapes found in a boatyard, the curved forms of boats and the reflections in water, as well as the land as seen from the sea. Sheena has exhibited in Studio 44 Gallery in Largs, The Big Art Show in Paisley and in The Beacon Arts Centre in Greenock. Instagram: @sheenabeaton

Zoe Darbyshire has a career as a therapeutic theatre practitioner. Zoe’s fine art practice examines and renders portraits of the shimmering, resonant places that lie between creation and perishing. Interests lie in the complexities and imperfections of being human in relation to time, space and place. Using embodied, improvisational, and playful processes to make work, she harnesses a range of disciplines across drawing and painting, sculpture, poetry, performance, installation, and sound. Surfaces are unfolded to disclose or unmask hidden or partially exposed elements of objects, materials, and stories. Her intention is to, in some way alter perspectives and gracefully expose the tender, vulnerable and fragile. Gestural and fluid, her work re-frames her subjects, exploring ambiguous codes and shifting boundaries between public and private selves. Instagram: @darbyshirezoe

James Doak is a painter who has an improvisational approach to mark-making and painting. Recently his work has reflected his interest in combining figurative representation with abstracted landscape and nature. Jim has attended art courses and retreats both in Scotland and St Ives, Cornwall. His work has been used on album covers and advertisement posters. Instagram: @doakjim

Fiona Gibson is a full-time author who loves to express herself visually as well as in words. From her early childhood in rural West Yorkshire, she has always loved nature and drawing. After raising a family, Fiona was keen to rediscover her childhood love of art, and she has since attended many art courses and retreats both in Scotland and St Ives, Cornwall. Fiona’s outdoor sketchbooks trigger her imagination and provide her starting point for working in inks, watercolours and oils. She loves to work quickly and dynamically in capturing the landscape around her. She has exhibited at Nicholls Gallery, had work selected for a show at House for an Art Lover, both in Glasgow, and her illustrations have been published in several national magazines. Instagram: @fiona_gib

Anne Goldrick is a visual artist who defines the underlying premise of her practice as ‘further inquiry’, painting and drawing in the magical Scottish landscape. “And all had, after long acquaintance, at last understood that familiarity with a place will lead not to absolute knowledge but only ever to further inquiry.” Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot Instagram: @anne.goldrick

Alison Harley is an independent practitioner whose work explores creative and cultural narratives through publication and exhibition. She has integrated her early interest in design archive collections and the ephemera of practice into a body of publications, which focus on the unique voice of the contemporary maker/ practitioner and their creative process. Examples include the fully-illustrated books, The Making of Marthe Armitage: artist and patternmaker, (2019); and Bernat Klein (2022) with contributions by designers, curators, archivists, architects, photographers, artists and collectors. Her curatorial work examines new ways of contextualising practice to engage audiences in an appreciation of original and contemporary practice, and their influence on each other. Established early in her career through the gallery system, Alison’s studio practice continues to inform and underpin her ideas about creative practice. Through painting and the silkscreen process, she is currently developing a new set of work that explores some of her favourite subjects. Instagram:  @alisonjharley

Aileen Henry made the decision to attend one of Fraser Taylor’s drawing workshops in 2021, reignited her lifelong interest in art and design.  Principally as a result of having never explored any creative route since leaving school some thirty years previously. Aileen has embraced her inner creativity and is excited to continue on this journey of learning and exploring aspects of contemporary art. Aileen draws on her West coast of Scotland vernacular for inspiration in her work with both land and seascapes. Mainly working in charcoal, pencil, watercolour and acrylics. She attends an art group at the Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock, which is facilitated by artist Beth Shapeero and is also a member of an Art Group which she attends regular life drawing classes. Aileen is excited to advance her practice further, exploring different aspects of design, with processes, materials and mediums such as mono-printing and mixed media.

Natasha Marshall is a London based artist and designer. Natasha’s work is shaped by her love of colour and works across multiple disciplines. Natasha takes daily photographs and sketches of what she sees in front of her. She is fascinated by architectural spaces, facades and nature – the colour, patterns and lines created by light. As a trained textile designer her printmaking and oil paintings are built-up layers of colour and pattern. Natasha predominately works by Mono and Mokulito Printing in oils, exploring the depth and tonal values of colour. Instagram: @nminterior

Hilary Nicoll paints from the natural and cultivated landscape. At times painting colourless washes onto uncostly papers. She is a GSA Environmental Art gradate, Art Teacher and founder of Nicolls Gallery. Instagram: @hilaryjnicoll

Lily Paine is a visual artist and poet based in Glasgow. She is the recipient of the London Writers Award (2018) and of the Dawson Murray Award (2024) from The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour. Lily’s recent solo exhibition ‘Vivacious Creatures’ at Nicolls Gallery in Glasgow, presented drawings of reinvented and reimagined “Greek” goddesses. Her artwork is often imaginative, with people and places appearing spontaneously and organically onto the paper. She weaves text into her drawings, which include poetic captions and titles. As well as drawing and painting she is interested in creating tactile and functional artworks such as board games, playing cards, wrapping paper and t-shirts. Instagram: @painepoetry

Caroline Scott is a theatre designer, maker and architect and has made a career spanning an eclectic range of productions, live events and public art, focussed on creating work that connects to diverse audiences. On this residency she is taking the plunge into her own self to explore her love of colour, landscape and the interface between the built environment and the natural world.

Fraser Taylor studied Printed Textiles at Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art. He co-founded The Cloth, a creative studio focused on contemporary textile design and production. Since 1983 he has developed an interdisciplinary art practice and exhibited internationally, and his collaborative works includes projects with visual artists, designers, and contemporary dance. As an educator he has lectured at leading fine art and design institutions, and from 2001 until 2017 was a Visiting Artist and Adjunct Full Professor in the Department of Fibre and Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2017 he returned to live in Glasgow and was awarded an Honorary Professorship from Glasgow School of Art, University of Glasgow. Taylor is currently the Curator at the Beacon Arts Centre in Greenock, Scotland. Instagram: @haxtonstudio

Simon Townsend’s independent flower business BULBOUS launched in 1996. Since 2000 situated behind the wrought iron gates of Christopher Wrens St James’s Church BULBOUS has become a florist of choice for businesses and galleries in central London. Working with flowers and foliage on a daily basis, playing with colour, form and texture are instinctive to Simon. Simon’s art process takes a different angel, preferring an unknown outcome to his mark making, the unruly chaos of juxtapositions, where shapes and lines making their own defining way onto the page. Acrylics, oil pastels, household paint and inks layered and distressed, applied and removed. Emotion over reason. Instagram: @love_the_velvet_hat

In 2018 Lisa Woolley started to run artists residencies with Fraser Taylor.  As a result of this she began to make her own work. During lockdown she became interested in the connection between meditation, yoga practice and the creative process. Lisa’s work always reflects a personal connection to her subject and she has a passion for ceramics and the shapes they hold. She is also a yoga teacher and a coach and is currently training in Qui Gong and Tai Chi. Lisa has enjoyed three prior residencies at Cove Park as an active member of The Flames, a Tricky Hat performance company for the over 50s, devising work based on personal stories and experience. Instagram: @lisawoolleyband