WHO ARE WE?
CORE TEAM
Jim is Artspace’s Development Director, working with Arts Council England and other key funding organisations to ensure that our work continues to support disadvantaged people in Cinderford and the wider Forest of Dean communities. Jim also looks after mindSCAPE, a creative wellbeing project that works with older people with dementia and their carers in the Forest.
When he isn’t at Artspace, you might find Jim playing his ukulele at forest open mic nights, usually being upstaged by his significantly more talented 6-year old son.
Sue has worked for Artspace for 12 years and is the Adult Education Administrator.
She enjoys walking and riding her bike in the woods with her Jack Russell, Rufus, who you may have met at Artspace!
Dan is Artpsace’s receptionist, administrator and marketing officer. He deals with administrating Artspace’s Saturday Series and Young Creatives courses. Dan is the in-house graphic designer, creating and distributing Artspace’s marketing and advertising material. Dan manages Artspace’s online presence such as social media and website. Dan also curates the exhibitions at Artspace.
When Dan isn’t Artspace, he likes to spend time with his wife and 3 kids, and producing music under the alias Dan Guidance.
Adult Education, Youth Arts and MindSCAPE are just some of the fabulous sessions Jo is involved with. Performance and modelmaking are her two greatest loves. She is the prop department here at Artspace!
When not creating and performing she is likely to be roaming the Forest with her dog, searching for interesting bugs!
Grace has worked on projects across the arts, education, and healthcare since 2015. Her focus is on helping arts charities become more resilient, scale up their projects, and make the arts accessible to everyone. Grace holds a degree in Arts & Festival Management from London South Bank University.
In her free time, Grace can be found dancing, having trained in numerous genres over the years from tap to foxtrot. She also finds happiness perusing and curating art galleries, designing beautiful spaces, exploring new places, and enjoys walks along rivers and canals.
BOARD MEMBERS
ARTSPACE TUTORS
Lizzie Godden
Courses
Developing Ideas For Textiles
Lizzie is a textiles artist living in the beautiful Forest of Dean She loves so many textiles techniques. For example hand and machine stitching, felt making, weaving, paper making, upcycling unwanted garments.
Lizzie loves making plant dyes to colour fabric and thread. She loves slow hand stitch, has been slowly stitching for a long time. She enjoys ecoprinting onto fabric and paper, ecoprinting onto garments, making cards, constructing items using ecoprinted fabric and paper. She loves to walk and gather – old rusty items, pieces of fallen bark in the woods, leaves, fruit – and use them as inspiration and for dyeing and printing.
Warren Day
Courses
Fun with 3D Fonts, with Warren Day
Extra-Ordinary MASH-UP SCULPTURES!
Warren Day is a landscape painter specialising in trees, forests and rural landscapes predominately of the Forest of Dean, Wye Valley and surrounding area showing paths and trackways, undergrowth and scrubland, a variety of deciduous and evergreen trees, and forms of integrated man-made activity.
What distinguishes his work are the real earth samples that are integrated into the artwork adding texture and literally a piece of the scenery reinforcing the connection between the landscape and the painting. On closer inspection one can see small fragments of leaves, seeds and other organic matter within this ‘living painting medium’. Mixed media and gouache painting capture the exquisite and highly detailed beauty.
From university to commercial illustrator working for clients such as Punch magazine and the Radio Times, Warren has spent the last 23 years as an Art and Design teacher. He lives in the Forest of Dean with his family where he tutors in an exciting local arts centre and works from his studio located on the edge of the forest. He exhibits regularly and enjoys cross country running through this inspirational landscape that is a continuous reference for his paintings.
Nicky Payne
Courses
Tessellating Patterns!
Nicky loves nature, colour and things that are covered in pattern, spring is her favourite season although she does love a scuffle in autumn leaves.
You’re most likely to find her walking the dog, painting with her daughter or drinking tea!
Cherry Lyne
Courses
Paint Like the Pros
Cherry Lyne has had a very varied life with art always in her heart. Despite being a trained exploration geologist, a librarian, not-for-profit company director, and a lollipop lady, she has also created artwork for magazine covers, textiles, knitwear and jewellery. She is a competitive archer, holding national and world records, and is passionate about salukis, galgos and greyhounds, of which she has rescued several over the years. She is about to embark on her next adventure: back to university to study Fine Art for three years. You are never too old to learn
Jo Jarratt
Courses
Discover Drama
Circus & Performing Arts
Young Creatives
mindSCAPE