Previous Artists of the Week
Our Artist of the Week window exhibition changes fortnightly on Fridays, showcasing the work of one featured artist or maker in our front gallery window.
These rotating displays are an opportunity to discover original artwork, handmade collections and emerging creatives from across the local area and beyond.
Each feature offers a closer look at the artist behind the work, celebrating their style, inspiration and creative process through a carefully curated window exhibition. Many of our featured artists are exhibiting with us for a limited time only, making each display a unique opportunity to discover something new.
28th August - 11th September 2026
Anna Dalzell
Anna Dalzell is a Chichester-based artist creating bold and vibrant paintings inspired by the beauty of the natural world. Working primarily in acrylics, her varied portfolio includes landscapes, cityscapes and wildlife, painted on both canvas and paper and ranging from smaller works to larger statement pieces.
Born in Liverpool in 1981, Anna studied Fine Art at Wirral Metropolitan College, completing her BTEC Diploma in 2005. Since then, she has continued to develop her practice and distinctive painting style, building a varied portfolio of original artwork. In 2017, she also established her online shop, ArtByALCD.
Anna particularly enjoys capturing the character and personality of wildlife through her work. Rather than aiming simply to reproduce what she sees, she brings her own expressive style to each subject, using confident colour and bold mark-making to create paintings that feel full of life.
Whether depicting an animal, a landscape or an urban scene, Anna’s work is united by her love of colour and her appreciation for the world around her, resulting in distinctive, uplifting pieces designed to bring colour and character into the home.
14th August - 28th August 2026
Pip White
Pip White is a textile artist who creates beautiful needle-felted landscapes and coastal scenes with a wonderfully soft, painterly quality.
Born and brought up in Salisbury, Pip discovered needle felting relatively recently and found it offered a completely new way to explore her creativity.
Rather than using paint, Pip works with layers of fibre, carefully building colour, texture and detail to create the illusion of watercolour or pastels.
Much of Pip’s inspiration comes from the landscapes and coastline of the south-west of England, as well as beautiful places from further afield that have captured her imagination. Her finished pieces have an atmospheric quality that beautifully captures the colours, textures and changing character of the natural landscape.
We’re delighted to showcase Pip’s work at Sage and Salt Studio and introduce our visitors to this fascinating way of creating art with fibre.
31st July - 14th August 2026
Jo Gough
Cheshire-born artist Jo Gough has always had a passion for painting, but initially followed a very different path, spending 30 years working in IT. In 2016, she decided to follow her dream and become a full-time artist.
Entirely self-taught, Jo has developed a distinctive style combining realism and abstraction. Inspired by nature, flowers, trees, landmarks and hearts, her vibrant acrylic paintings are filled with colour, texture and positivity. She uses techniques including blending, splattering and layering to create lively, highly textured pieces.
Jo's original paintings and prints are sold internationally, and she has worked with Portfolio Cards and The Art Group, as well as creating a bespoke animal collection for Chester Zoo.
Jo continues to explore and experiment from her home studio near Chester, accompanied by her beloved dog Ted.
17th - 31st July 2026
Alison Hemmings
Alison is a wonderfully versatile artist and maker whose creativity seems to know no bounds. Always keen to explore new techniques and materials, she has a real talent for putting her own distinctive personality into everything she creates.
Alison is perhaps best known for her beautifully quirky needle-felted sculptures, including her fabulous Luscious Ladiesand wonderfully characterful cats. More recently, she has discovered a love of zendoodling, using intricate hand-drawn patterns to create striking cards and artwork. Whether she is working with wool or pen and ink, Alison’s work is full of detail, individuality and a lovely sense of fun, making each piece unmistakably her own.
3rd - 17th July 2026
Jay Foster
Jay Foster is a self-taught wildlife artist based in Ash, Surrey, creating beautifully detailed coloured pencil drawings inspired by British wildlife and the natural world.
For Jay, capturing an animal is about much more than simply recreating how it looks. His work focuses on expression, character and presence, from the softness of fur and the brightness of an eye to those subtle details that give each animal its own personality.
Working predominantly in coloured pencil, Jay carefully builds up layers of colour, texture and fine detail to create wonderfully lifelike pieces that celebrate the wildlife we know and love.
Jay rediscovered his love of drawing during lockdown in 2020 and has since developed Art by Jay alongside family life and a full-time job, often creating his work in the evenings once the house has settled.
His collection includes original artwork, limited edition prints and nature-inspired gifts, all designed to bring a little of the beauty and character of the natural world into our homes.
19th June - 3rd July 2026
Madeleine Dawson
Madeleine Dawson is a landscape artist whose work is inspired by the places that make us stop, breathe and appreciate the world around us. Drawn particularly to the mountains and wild open spaces, she creates paintings that capture not just how a landscape looks, but how it feels.
Working from her own experiences and travels, Madeleine is fascinated by the changing light, colours and atmosphere found in nature. She hopes her paintings evoke the sense of calm, freedom and joy that she feels when surrounded by these special places, creating pieces that bring a little of the outdoors into everyday life.
For Madeleine, art is about connection. Whether it's a favourite mountain, a treasured holiday memory or simply the feeling of being outside in nature, her work invites viewers to pause and reflect on the landscapes that mean the most to them.
Her collection at Sage and Salt Studio celebrates the beauty of the natural world and the memories and emotions that our favourite places can hold.
5th - 19th June 2026
Nicky Chubb
Nicky Chubb is a Surrey-based mixed media artist whose work is inspired by the changing seasons and the quiet beauty of the natural world. Best known for her distinctive tree and floral paintings, she creates uplifting pieces that evoke a sense of hope and happiness through vibrant colour, texture, and light.
Originally trained in fashion design at Central Saint Martins, Nicky's love of pattern and textiles shines through in her artistic style. Working with paint, collage, ink, and recycled materials, she embraces both spontaneity and sustainability in her creative process. Her work is collected internationally and has been exhibited across the UK and Europe.
22 May - 5th June 2026
John Darnell
John Darnell’s passion for photography began long before the digital age. Starting his professional career in photography in 1959, before spending more than 40 years working in television as a camera operator and later TV Director, image-making has remained a constant thread throughout his life.
Now retired from television, John devotes more time to creating photographic works inspired by landscape, light and atmosphere. His approach goes far beyond capturing a scene. For John, photography is an artistic process that begins with observation and light, then develops through careful editing and craftsmanship to realise the final vision. Every photograph is personally printed by John, with larger pieces professionally framed behind specialist AR70 glass to enhance clarity and reduce reflection.
Working under the philosophy that photography is simply another way of making pictures, John’s work invites viewers to pause, look closely and connect emotionally with a moment in time. His collection Images from Landscape explores not only what is seen through the lens, but also how imagination and interpretation can shape the final image.
As John says: “It begins with the light and the editing eye… but often the creative juices begin to see more in a particular image and how that moment begins to play on the imagination.”
8th May - 22nd May 2026
Clare Dryden
Clare is a mixed media artist working with acrylics and watercolours, often combining paint with her love of textiles. Her creative surfaces range from richly textured Merino wool felted backdrops, into which additional felts and papers are fused, to more traditional canvas compositions layered with paint.
Her inspiration is drawn from everyday life: observations of people and places, the colours and forms discovered through travel, and walks with her dog. Landscapes, rivers, shifting contours and, in particular, trees, feature strongly within her work, reflecting a deep connection to the natural world and the quiet patterns found within it.
24th April - 8th May 2026
Shelley Perry
Based in Southbourne, artist and teacher Shelley Perry creates vibrant, expressive landscape paintings inspired by coastlines and places explored with her family. Using bold, often neon colours, her work captures the energy and feeling of a landscape rather than fine detail.
Shelley paints entirely with her hands, embracing an intuitive and tactile process that focuses on colour, texture and spontaneity. Her work is driven by a fascination with colour itself, leading to her unique framed ‘Colour Palette’ pieces made from layers of dried acrylic paint.
More recently, Shelley has begun painting with her non-dominant left hand to further release control and encourage freer, more instinctive mark-making. Her uplifting work reflects a belief in creativity as a process of presence, exploration and letting go.
10th - 24th April 2026
Sally Ann Stone
Sally Ann Stone, originally from the South West and now based in Hampshire, has worked professionally in photography for over 25 years. Following early retirement from teaching Photography, Art and Media in Further Education, she now focuses on developing her own portfolio, particularly her passion for cyanotype photography.
This historic photographic process, developed in the 19th century, is known for its striking blue and white tones created using UV light and light-sensitive chemicals. Sally creates unique botanical prints using plants gathered from local walks and her garden, embracing the changing seasons and the unpredictability of the process, meaning no two prints are ever the same.
Alongside exhibiting her work nationally as an Associateship member of the Royal Photographic Society, Sally also teaches cyanotype workshops for both children and adults.