Born in 1989 in Staffordshire, Elliot showed a passion for wildlife and art from a young age. Described as one of the 'young stars' of the international art fair circuit by Belgravia magazine, he is influenced by the animal sculptures of Rembrandt Bugatti and Antoine-Louis Barye. 

He focuses on capturing the life and grace of the subject, concentrating on their key features but allowing spontaneity to make up the main body of the sculpture. Largely self-taught, Elliot takes inspiration from the countryside, initially in Staffordshire and Derbyshire, Elliot now travels the country to observe and photograph animals in their natural habitat. Alongside life size sculptures, he also scales down large animals creating more manageable sculptures. 

Focusing his art on British and international wildlife, Elliot's clay sculpures are then cast in bronze. He works closely with the team of skilled craftsmen at the bronze foundry in Birmingham where his work is cast using the ancient lost wax process.

All of Elliot's sculptures are small limited editions with each sculpture taking several weeks to complete.

Michelle Hall has developed a wonderful skill for creating birds and animals in a variety of materials. 

She says: 'Growing up in Somerset with an artistic family background, I soon developed my own artistic identity shaped by my love of animals and the countryside.

My work begins through a process of photography, drawing from life and making experimental moquettes. I construct my original sculptures using traditional materials such as clay, wax, plaster and often incorporate found objects. A mould is made from my original and my finished pieces are made from ceramics, bronze and bronze resin.

Through my sculptural practice I seek to celebrate natural forms, capturing the vitality, essence and presence of the creatures I depict; a tangible glimpse of the natural world.

I hope to covey the importance of the relationship between animals, humans and the environment.

I previously worked in a bronze casting foundry, where I developed a range of sculptures. Recently I have focused on producing a body of work in ceramics, which I cast and fire myself. I am also concentrating on creating some larger scale sculptures in bronze resin.'

David Meredith was born in Leicester, England in 1973. He studied at the Leicester College of Art where he aspired to a job as an illustrator. However, a chance meeting with his future employer at the end-of-year exhibition led David to a career in the pewter industry.

He started as an apprentice model-maker, working in minute detail, for the jewellery and giftware industry. Within two years he had become the head sculptor at Alchemy Carta, but he felt it was the right time to leave and follow a career as a full time sculptor of his own work. This he pursued through exhibiting his work in galleries and from private commissions.

During the early years he continued to work for the giftware industry freelance and sculpted for many of the leading names of the time.

David has worked professionally as a sculptor for over 20 years. 

Having lived in Africa, Asia and the USA, he has taken inspiration from his time spent in each. However his subject focus in recent years has been wildlife, mainly in his chosen medium of bronze.

His work is exhibited in galleries throughout the United Kingdom and worldwide. David’s work is also in great demand through private commissions from clients around the globe.

I am a keen scuba diver and my work is inspired directly by the marine wildlife that I encounter whilst diving. I am currently qualified to BSAC Advanced and IANTD Advanced Nitrox levels. I am a self-taught sculptor having initially studied Graphic Design. I have also enjoyed a long and successful career in the video game industry.

My work is regularly exhibited with the Society of Wildlife Artists' annual exhibition as well as the David Shepherd annual exhibition both at the Pall Mall Galleries, London.

I dive all around the UK and abroad with my partner and dive buddy Rose. Our favourite dive destinations are sites around Lamorna Cove in Cornwall and the St. Abbs marine reserve in Berwickshire.

The sale of my work has also helped me to buy a small RIB which has extended our diving range and we are now exploring the reef structures in North Wales' Cardigan Bay known as Sarn Badrig or St. Patrick's Causeway in search of new subjects as well as travelling aboard to encounter more exotic species.

As a ceramic artist I am largely self-taught, starting pottery as a hobby in evening classes over 30 years ago. 10 years ago, I decided to turn my hobby into a full-time profession.

My work is mostly thrown on the potters-wheel and then altered and sculpted. I like to make decorative ceramics either for display in the garden, on a balcony or on a patio or indoors.

I am inspired my natural forms, flowers and seed-heads. When I make my pieces, I try to emphasize the characteristics of an instantly recognisable shape. For example, my poppy seed heads have large crowns which are even more pronounced by the vibrant colour of bottle-glass in the middle.

The use of white stoneware clay enables me to fire the pieces to high temperatures and it allows the colours of the glazes to come through.

All work is either fired in an electric kiln or under reduction conditions in a gas-fired kiln to stoneware temperatures. This makes my work frost-proof and suitable for outdoors all year round.

I mix all my glazes from raw materials and the experimenting never stops! I want to let the glazes tell a story inspired by nature, travel, landscape and environment: my way of painting with minerals and fire.

Jane trained at Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, graduating in 1973, after which she had a busy career in teaching at secondary level. During some of that time she was able to continue with her own work, but since her retirement she has relished the opportunity to devote herself once more to her ceramics. 

Jane’s bird forms reflect her ongoing love of birds by the exaggeration of their forms, features and movement. Quirky, often humorous, she aims to capture the essence of their character and behaviour - their very ‘birdness’. Each piece is hand built and totally unique, using pinching, coiling, and slabbing techniques as appropriate. She fires mainly to stoneware, although in some cases to 1100º, using a range of clay bodies, coloured slips and glazes.

Jane’s work has been exhibited widely in the UK, including Cornwall, Powys, Shropshire, Surrey, East Sussex and North Yorkshire, and is regularly stocked in a number of galleries. She was a finalist for last year’s Surrey Artist of the Year 2018.

Vivienne was born in Glasgow in 1958 and spent every summer in the village of Kildonan, Isle of Arran. She is now able to divide her time between living in Chesterfield, Derbyshire and also regularly visiting Kildonan several times a year where much of her ceramics are produced.

Trained at Grays School of Art, Aberdeen (1976 -1981) she specialised in sculpture and ceramics. Soon after graduating she started a 30 year period of working in Arts Administration, Gallery Education and Lecturer in Art and Design, working in Sunderland, Cumbria, Sheffield and Chesterfield. Having worked at helping others to show, appreciate and create artwork she has now returned to focus on her own creativity. Vivienne has been working as a full time artist for 6 years.

She exhibits and sells her work the length of the British Isles from Guernsey to Orkney in over 20 galleries. 

Vivienne is a compulsive beachcomber. Every walk along the shore provides a starting point for another piece of work. Streamlined, fluid shapes of birds and sea creatures are a source of inspiration for her as a sculptor in clay. She employs diverse materials such as seaweed, banana skins, heather, coffee grounds and avocados in the smoke firings to create the random markings on the surface of each piece. Each work is unique and cannot be repeated.

Terri Smart's secluded pottery workshop nestling next to the garage of Cherry Cottage, Back Lane, in East Clandon affords a peaceful view over open fields of Surrey. Here, enjoying the quiet and solitude, save for the companionship of BBC Radio 4, with her own wheel and kiln, her clays, glazes, and colours, she creates a unique range of pottery items. 

For Terri, her work is a passion, even a compulsion. She is fascinated by the feel of the clay, the adventure of experimenting with new techniques and the excitement of taking the finished article out of the kiln.

I have always drawn and designed and love the energy of random lines or marks, from a sketch, painting or found on stones or peeling paint. I still draw and paint and I enjoy how a simple line or mark can completely alter a piece.

My work is a collection of thrown, uncluttered porcelain forms. I throw and turn the pieces to a fine finish which, when left unglazed, gives the porcelain a paper-like, tactile quality. I use stains, oxides and slips, splashing or sponging away areas and inlaying lines, aiming to create imperfect and unpredictable marks. I usually work on the wheel to capture a feeling of movement and spontaneity. Porcelain is much stronger than it looks and all of my work can be used and washed.

I’m based near Farnham in Surrey.

I was born in Scotland and studied ceramics at Harrow College and then Fine Art at Portsmouth University. My studio for the last 20 years has been in my garden at my home in the Midlands. Here I have aimed to create an inspiring space to work in which I can be both relaxed and focused.

I make slab built vessel forms but these essentially act as 3D canvasses for me to explore the apparently infinite possibilities for mark making that can be achieved with a clay surface and ceramic materials. I want my work to evoke a feeling of landscapes and places that are effected by time over both short periods or eons and I want to appreciate landscape not only as grand open vistas but also as small scale intimate spaces. Although I am based in the Midlands I spend precious time around the coastline of Devon and Cornwall, this is particularly influential in the development of my work yet I can also be inspired by the apparently mundane and often unappreciated landscapes in day to day existence. The activity of collecting and exploring ideas through sketchbooks is an important part of my create process and has remained with me from my student days. In sketchbooks I can push boundaries, be playful, record and investigate in an unpressured way and this helps in the continuous development of my work.

Although I work in ceramics I have a strong appreciation of other art forms and an interest in the create process of a broad spectrum of other artists. I especially enjoy the work of artists like Cy Twombley, Antoni Tapies and Ben Nicholson.

I exhibit my work at respected galleries across the UK and Europe and my work is held in many private collections.

Living and working in the countryside near Lamberhurst, Kent, I make individual models of many animals and birds, as well as some traditional pottery and mixed media sculpture.

I like to combine materials with the ceramics, with the aim of producing a depiction of movement by the use of metal armatures and wooden stands. The use of vintage tools and reclaimed timber gives a contrast in surface and texture.

I am intrigued by alternative firing methods, such as Raku, Obvara and Pit firing. These lend their own unpredictable effects to the surface, with multi-tonal blacks created by smoke from the process.

Specialising in birds and animals, observation is a key factor, and much time is spent watching birds and visiting animal parks. This specialism came through a lifelong interest in birds, and in trying to depict them in drawings, prints, and clay following birding trips.

I am currently artist in residence at Birdworld, near Farnham, working from life with clay and sketching the birds in this special environment. Much of this work highlights the endangered and at-risk species that the park helps to breed and protect.​