Margot is a figurative artist working from direct observation. Her work concentrates on life in all its forms; people, plants, animals, seascapes and landscapes and occasionally still life, and uses a variety of media as deemed appropriate for each piece.

Margot studied at Southampton College of Art, concentrating on life drawing. She has exhibited regularly since 1989, including London, Southampton, Winchester, Salisbury, Lymington, Chichester and Romsey.

After graduating from Reading University Jill worked at the Design Centre in London before becoming an art teacher.

During three years in USA she worked in silk batik and painted in water based media. She has produced drawings of Winchester which are available as prints and illustrated books for Canterbury Press and for 2 local walkers guidebooks and also designed and co-directed the production of n embroidered Church Hanging.

Now painting mostly land and seascapes in oils she finds this challenging and exciting medium gives her great satisfaction and the chance to express her impressions of and feelings for her chosen subjects.

Lindsey was born in Poole Dorset. After leaving Poole Pottery as a ceramic artist in 1996, She is now a self taught Hampshire based Artist living in Ringwood practising in a wide range of subjects and matter. 

She became a professional artist in 2001 while studying at Bournemouth Arts Institute for 2 years gaining a Diploma in Fine Art. She now enjoys exploration and experimenting with various mediums creating texture enhancing colour, form and tone drawing her inspiration from the natural surrounding areas of the New Forest and the Dorset and Hampshire Coastline.

Lindsey exhibits her work nationally and runs successful workshops from her garden studio in Ringwood.

She has had TV exposure and won various awards for her landscapes (Artist of the Year 2016 Winner, New Forest Arts) and animal studies (Artist of the Year 2009 Highly Commended - Hare Study) (Artist of The Year Wildlife Winner 2011 - Hare portrait).

Lindsey is increasingly in demand for demonstrations and group workshops for many Art Clubs and Societies. She is currently a Professional Associate with The SAA (Teaching Arts).

Maureen has a BA in textile design from The Central School of Art, London. After working as a fabric designer and raising a family she was able to concentrate on painting. Now a member of the SWA she has had work selected by them and also the Pastel Society at The Mall Galleries. The Wykeham Gallery, Aubrey Fletcher Fine Art and Rums Eg now regularly exhibit her work.

My textile background has a strong influence on my work, colour texture and pattern being important elements. I am particularly inspired by the effects of light on the landscape and enjoy experimenting with different media.

Jackie is inspired by both landscape and seascape, enjoying the openness of the horizon and sky, but also enjoying the detail of the small things in our environment. Working in both oils and acrylics, the doing and making is all important. She enjoys the stimulation of being a member of Take 10 Artists and the chance to explore the wonderful local surroundings, considering herself lucky to have the freedom to do so.

Born in London, Jackie worked as a graphic artist for a television company for several years. On moving to Winchester she continued freelance work in this field, combining it with her interests in painting and drawing, starting a family and enjoying a life away from the city. An interest in the needle and thread led to a second career in teaching at Fareham College in Hampshire, a Certificate of Education with Greenwich University and a late career degree in art based stitched textiles, gaining a first class hons degree with Middlesex University. This in turn has allowed her to develop as an artist in a wide variety of media and found object with interests in painting and drawing being consistent throughout.

She has exhibited widely including London, Birmingham, Huddersfield, Harrogate, Winchester, Salisbury, Whitstable, Romsey and the New Forest.

Andy Redwood was born in Scotland, educated in Suffolk but has lived locally to Ringwood for over 20 years.

He was coached to ‘A’ level by two listed Suffolk artists, Ted Gentry and John Brooke at the Royal Hospital School in Holbrook, Suffolk.

He then attended Bournemouth College of Art between 1979 and 1983, where he attained his diploma in Art, Film and TV, but pursued a career in Information Technology at several major investment banks in the City until 2021.

Now retired, he has returned to oil painting and specifically palette knife work to capture the impression of contrasting light with form and colour on increasingly larger canvasses. He paints simultaneously with two palette knifes and rarely uses brushes.

Andy exhibits annually with the Ringwood Art Society in Ringwood and Salisbury. His current exhibition is in Brokers Wine Bar in Leadenhall Market, the home of Lloyds of London Art Club.

Martin is a retired Medical Laboratory technician who paints with Take 10
Artists, often in the New Forest but also further afield.
Martin also paints pictures of American Square dancing, which is his hobby.
Martin drew naked women for a year at Barton Peveril College evening classes and thereby obtained an A level in art in 1996.
Martin has exhibited regularly with Take 10 Artists.

My work is influenced mainly by the landscape of the New Forest and its coastline. It focuses on the interplay of light and the textures and patterns of the natural world. My favourite medium is pastel, allowing me to work quickly and capture the moment.

I studied at Ravensbourne College of Art, and on leaving gained my Postgraduate Teachers Certificate. I taught in secondary schools in Winchester and Romsey.

In 1994 I moved to Cornwall where I joined the Portscathe Society of Artists, a group meeting throughout the year to paint ‘en plein air’. The wonderful coastal scenery provided inspiration for my pastel and watercolour paintings.

I now live in the New Forest, and as a member of Take10 Artists I enjoy the support and encouragement of fellow artists.

Virginia is primarily a painter of contemporary landscapes and seascapes having been born and brought up in rural Northamptonshire with the freedom to roam and develop the love of the countryside which has always inspired her work.

Based in Cranborne Chase for over thirty years, she now feels a strong engagement with the rolling chalk downlands and woodlands close to her home, as well as the nearby New Forest. The rugged coastal areas of North Cornwall and Pembrokeshire, which she has visited regularly since childhood, are another deeply important influence.

Drawing on strong visual and emotional memories of these areas, as well as notes and sketches made in situ, and working mainly alla prima in oils using a painting knife, she seeks to capture the changing light, colour and atmosphere of the seasons and weather patterns in an expressive way.

More recently she has been experimenting with oil and cold wax, an exciting and versatile medium, which offers scope for more textural techniques such as layering, scraffito, printing and stencilling and gives the potential for more abstract interpretations.

She is a member of several local art societies and takes part in Dorset Art Weeks and Hampshire Open Studios. Examples of her paintings can be seen in the Salt Marsh Gallery in Lymington and her work is held in private collections both in the UK and overseas.

Deirdre was able to develop her life-long interest in painting once family ties were less demanding.
She developed her work through local and holiday courses and is intrigued by the changing light ,colour and atmosphere through the seasons.
Her subjects include landscapes, coastal and garden scenes.
Although her main love is water colour she also uses acrylic ink and pastel.
She exhibits locally and at Lymington, Salisbury and Winchester and is a founder member of Take Ten Artists.

Water colourist Joanna Williams is both a painter and illustrator. As illustrator she has worked for leading publishers, including Hamlyn, Heinemann and Macmillan. As a painter, she enjoys her native Hampshire landscape in and around the new Forest, but has travelled much further afield to work in Ghana, Nigeria and Tanzania, where she produced a series of drawings and paintings of the Tanzanian and Masai people. These were then exhibited in Salisbury where her work has been seen in several exhibitions.

Joanna’s subjects include landscape, studies of people and animals and still life and her work is seen in galleries in Hampshire, at the Mall Galleries in London and at the Coach-House Gallery in Guernsey.

She painted the public as part of an ‘Art in Action’ fortnight at the Oxmarket Centre in Chichester, and is happy to take on portrait commissions.