People's Art Fair: Winter Edition

Annie is an artist from Bristol, UK. she loves spending her time drawing and painting, mostly naked people and plants. Her work mainly explores vulnerability, and the quiet confidence which comes with being intimate with yourself. Looking at these moments of reflection that we all have, and bringing them to life with vibrant colour and strong lines.

Danny is a young Bristol based artist working with hand forged metal art.

DNT is a veteran Bristol street artist who’s work explores the paradoxes of 21st century life using varied media including stencils, papier mache, chess pieces, ink and paper. His artistic influences are as varied as his techniques ranging from, to comic book art to Art Deco.

I’m Gazu, an illustrator, artworker, and graphic designer mostly interested in people in my visual arts. I’m self taught in portraits and life drawing. In 2018 I have become interested in motion art. I’m currently studying animation course at UWE Bristol.

Wiltshire-based photographer, poet, consumptive Victorian werewolf in a bloodstained antique lace dress

Stokes Croft China’s very own Maryem likes to paint nudes.

Mr.Sleven is a sentient bean, helming from the never realms of middle earth (also know as the East Midlands). From an early age he’s been scrawling images on any form canvas he can get his grubby paint stained paws on. His canvasses and street work are heavily influenced by a long list of introverted musings to extensively long to mention.

Phil Constable is an artist and printmaker. Empty high-rise flats, a path in the woods and family photographs, all serve as subjects that comment on the economic and structural climate, reflecting the changing surrounding landscape. Layering images via screen print, utilising half-tone photography, symbols, mark making with gold and silver gilding on various surfaces including paper, board, and glass. Work expands from site-specific installations in New York to moving image light installations in London.
He currently lives in Cheshire and works in his studio that was previously a medical practice.

Zamzam (Zz) is a Bristol-based artist with a background creating murals, sets, signs and Illustration. Her work explores her love for nature, movement, mythology and the otherworldly – through striking and playful fantastical styles.

I have been working in a form of encaustic collage since December 2019. I enjoy the way that detail can be built up quickly using paper and coloured wax.
I work on boards found on the streets, using spray paint, images found in old books, beeswax, coloured wax and oil pastels exploring various techniques. Some boards are blank to start with others have existing paint and textures which I incorporate. I enjoy fashioning an idea or a fantasy out of objects that already exist.
During the restrictions of the Covid-19 lockdown it has been an invaluable means of expression. Over time I hope, like my ceramics, they will build to become a narrative of this unprecedented time in all of our lives.

Dan makes paintings and other objects to be displayed or worn as relics, exploring the theme of art pieces as objects with divine power by playfully meditating on their devolved roles as public and private property.

My art is expressive unplanned and intuitive which explores themes such as belonging and identity, what it means to be human.
Using the concepts such as the feeling of being an alien, the thoughts of the vast cosmos, nature and our place within the universe or a lone wolf (plus they’re fun to paint), I paint textured colourful energetic acrylic paintings.
I love the physicality of painting and it being its own form of communication to better understand myself and others, connecting to community where ever possible

Lisa Travers is a neurodiverse mixed media artist based in Bristol. Her works are heavily influenced by pattern and geometry and predominantly made from materials destined for landfill. They explore issues relevant to Lisa’s life such as feminism, health, social and environmental issues. Her three-dimensional collages resemble kaleidoscopes, her current obsession. These multi layered pieces are all painstakingly hand cut using optical surgery scissors and knives.

Octopus Odyssey is a linguist and multi-disciplinary artist based in Bristol. Her work spans between visual arts, audio installations, and physical theatre/clowning performances. Common themes amongst her work include; mental health, art as an explorative and healing tool, as well as social and environmental activism.

A Bristol based artist working on paintings, costume and set design, Stella is one of a number of artists joining the People’s Art Fair for the first time.

DIY punk illustrations and stickers

Vibrant, abstract paintings in acrylic on canvas. I work very spontaneously, regularly changing my palette and experimenting with different processes. I use acrylic paint and sometimes mixed media to create a rich surface texture with many layers, using pattern and contrast to add depth and to lead the eye across the canvas. Colour is paramount, with many different techniques contributing to my creative process.

Ru’s Nudes, known as @badgrl.ruru on social media sites, is a campaign to promote the realistic, honest and destigmatised representation of womxn’s bodies in art form, to reflect the forms of art they truly are. It began as a body positivity and empowerment movement which has grown and developed into an angry fight against the impermissibility of female sexuality and the policing of womxn’s bodies. This was sparked by both the policing of my artwork by instagram and the overwhelmingly positive response to my pieces of art. I drew a link between the reaction to the content I was creating and the current political context and contemporary debates such as around womxn’s rights, transgender rights and abortion law. Clearly, this is a conversation that needs to be had.

Photographer Cassidy Grace will be showcasing black & white documentary photography, focusing on some political issues that people in the UK have faced over the last 5 years.

You can see the people and architecture of Stokes Croft and Bristol leaking into local artist Mike’s work, which explores social commentary and societal anxieties, filtered through symbolism, dreams and mythology, in a richly detailed maximalist style. After drawing exclusively in Biro for several years, Mike has turned to colour since the first lockdown to bring warmth and empathy to his recent work during these anxious times.

These are one-off Cyanotypes that capture the detail of natural forms collected and stuffed up my sleeves on my morning jogs along the Thames and Severn Canal.
The process involves placing objects on sensitised paper in the sun, some exposures range from twenty minutes to three days. Each one varies depending on the intensity and angle of the sun on the sky.
Scientist, Sir John Herschel, originally pioneered the process in 1842, to reproduce diagrams and later went on to inspire Anna Atkins in recording her botanical forms.

Raluca Bobis is an artist inspired by the texture, shapes and colors of nature, transforming them into surreal illustrations and sculptures.