Profiles

Discover the rich diversity of Wandsworth’s creative scene here by exploring profiles of incredible local artists, cultural organisations, projects and groups. To search for specific art forms, areas, or profile types use the filters below.

Artist / Individual

Helen Rawlins

Wandsworth Town

Helen Rawlins paints from a limited range of everyday crockery. Playing with ideas of repetition and rearranging, she uses the same objects repeatedly, combining them into paintings and drawings that reveal the material poetics of…

Artist / Individual

Peta Cottee

Putney

Peta Cottee learned to sew as a child, but was inspired to start again, in 2016, having found her old sewing machine gathering dust in the attic. She mainly makes handbags using leather, tweed, tartan…

Organisation

Scariofunk Collective CIC

Battersea

From the beginner’s first steps to a level of artistic excellence, Scariofunk is a vehicle for individuals to develop their ability, to grow in strength, confidence and independence. Scariofunk Collective CIC (Community Interest Company) is…

Artist / Individual

Ann Hawksley

Putney

Ann is a painter who has exhibited widely. She has taken part in Wandsworth Open House since it’s inception . Subject matter includes London streets and river, beach scenes and much more. Her style is…

Group

SW15 Social Life Drawing

Wandsworth Town

Drink and Draw Life Drawing sessions with DrawSW15. A friendly drawing group based in an Edwardian pub, The Cats Back, with a relaxing chilled atmosphere and fun vibes! All levels are welcome, with total beginners…

Artist / Individual

Dairo Vargas

Battersea

Colombian by birth, Dairo Vargas is a contemporary fine artist who draws influence from the Renaissance and Baroque periods to cast a connection with our behaviour in modern society. His abstract work directly references the…

Artist / Individual

Stella Tooth

Putney

Stella Tooth is a figurative artist and commissionable portrait artist. She creates striking original drawings and oil paintings, inspired by buskers and performers in venues, bathers and the natural world. She aims to capture the…

Artist / Individual

Anastasia Scudamore

Tooting

Anastasia Scudamore is a full time abstract painter exploring balance and harmony through colours. Her minimal and geometric style aims to display painting as pure abstraction and solely about relationships of colour, form and surface.…

Artist / Individual

Richard Fitchett

Tooting

Richard Fitchett is a playwright based in Tooting who has received 5 star reviews and been commended for an Offie for his work. He tried out work as part of the Wandsworth Arts Festival in…

Artist / Individual

Ella Feld

Roehampton

Since the beginning of lockdown I have been working on a project of paintings based on endangered species

Organisation

Share Community Ltd

Battersea

Share Community is a registered charity in Clapham Junction providing support to adults with learning disabilities, autism and other support needs. Alongside other initiatives Share runs a creative learning programme using a range of art…

Artist / Individual

Stephanie Marinosci

Southfields

Stephanie is a London-based practising artist who loves drawing and vibrant colours. They are fond of mythology and their work is often based on antique statues. It is about transforming the drabness of the grey…

Artist / Individual

Cathy Green

Southfields

Cathy Green is a ceramicist based in Southfields. She has recently graduated with an HND in Ceramics from Morley College achieving distinction. She creates sculptural and functional ceramic pieces using a wide variety of different…

Artist / Individual

Rebecca Yates

Putney

Rebecca is an artist and designer - creating abstract prints, stationery and typography designs. She creates vibrant stationery using abstract paintings and hand lettering to create something unique. Her designs include personalised stationery and planners,…

Artist / Individual

Andrew Wilson

Putney

With the financial crash of 2008, Andrew Wilson was left with a burning issue, what to do now? In his early 50's starting something new was perhaps brave but with his current business having been…

Artist / Individual

Nick Eisen

Wandsworth Town

Nick Eisen is a writer and performer who uses poetry as a form of theatre in which the audience become partners on a journey offering glimpses of a world that is by turns comic, disturbing…

Artist / Individual

Mike Hawthorne

Putney

Mike Hawthorne’s art is figurative and expressionist, strongly based on an original drawing style. He is based in West Putney and has travelled widely, gaining some recognition for his images of African, Caribbean music and…

Artist / Individual

Azharullah Khan Mani

Southfields

After completing degree in fine arts from Pakistan, Mani did his post graduation in Germany. He works in oils and acrylic. He exhibited his work in Geottingen, Hamburg (Germany) and in London. He runs a…

Artist / Individual

Chris Lessware

Furzedown

Chris Lessware is a male abstract and figurative artist living and working in Furzedown. At the moment, he mostly works in oils on canvas, often 100x100cms. His paintings are mostly abstract and expressionist and develop,…

Artist / Individual

Anni Nolan

Battersea

London based Artist/Graphic Designer. Screen Printing is my passion and my favourite mediums. Pop Art is my style because you can layer up the print and get some lovely effects and the perfect marriage of…