Haviland Studios
BEAF have recently developed affordable artists’ studios at Bournemouth Foodbank in Boscombe. The priority is to provide a space for creativity to flourish from our diverse communities of artists and creatives at all stages in their careers, working across all media and to create a vibrant creative network.
What we offer:
18 lockable and fully accessible studios with shared facilities including wi-fi, kitchen, wash out area, meeting room and shared open space with workbenches. The studio has central heating and plenty of natural light and is accessible from 7 am to 10 pm. Studio holders also have access to the facilities at Bournemouth Foodbank including the cafe and hireable meeting rooms. The studio is secure and accessible via stairs or a lift.
We offer small, medium and large spaces. Small (2 x 2.4m) / (4.8m2) £141.20 per month. Medium (3 x 2.4m) / (7.2m2) £186 per month. Large (6 x 2.2m) / (13.2m2) £297 per month. If interested in joining, you will need to pay one month’s deposit in advance and one month’s rent and sign a 6-month contract.
Studio holders criteria:
- A commitment to an ongoing visual arts practice
- Interest in engaging and contributing to the artistic community in Boscombe
- Commitment to your professional practice
- An engagement with the wider visual arts context
- Interest in contributing to BEAF’s on-going programmes
- Willingness to participate in studio holder events, open studios, steering groups and public events
- Dedication to actively use the studio space
- Demonstrate how your practice will benefit from a studio space
- Understanding to treat all studio holders and Bournemouth Foodbank staff and users with respect and kindness
- Ability to pay rent fully and on time
We operate our allocation of space based on suitability for the particular spaces, whilst focussing on creating balance of different practices in the studios.
Studio Application Form
Please complete the application form. If we have spaces available we will be in touch and arrange a viewing. If there are no studios available, we will add you to our wait list and notify you when there is a vacant space.
Haviland Studio Artists
David Hall
David is an award winning British contemporary portrait artist currently working from Dorset, with a passionate deep love for creativity and self-expression. He embarked on his art journey at Poole College in 1999. Believing that art is a powerful medium that allows communication of emotions, stories, and perspectives in a way that words cannot, he enjoys experimenting with different styles and mediums to constantly challenge himself and grow as an artist.
David’s artistic style is diverse and ever-evolving. His work often combines realism, intricate details, and a touch of the contemporary to create visually engaging pieces.
Grace Carroll
Grace has been restoring and refinishing vintage furniture for over 15 years, most recently under the guise of Grace Redesign. She is entirely self taught and utilises a range of techniques to breathe new life into neglected and unloved pieces that may otherwise be destined for landfill.
Grace subscribes to William Morris’ view that one should ‘have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful’ and she aims to create practical pieces that serve both of these purposes; the iconic mid century and art deco furniture she primarily works on certainly fit the bill!
Carmel De'Lisser
Carmel De’Lisser known as Cathartic Brush, is a self taught intuitive artist. Her work is deeply rooted in symbolism and the journeys we take in transformation and awakenings. “I believe to bare your soul through a creative process is to breathe life into your own story.” Working in “flow state” and using meditation and ritual as part of her practice each piece is a direct response to time, place and emotional connection. She is a Multimedia artist who uses words, pictures and sculpture to tell stories and explores our connections to the natural and spiritual world and the place it has in our modern lives. Living and working in Boscombe, De’Lisser creates safe and inclusive spaces where others can explore their own creativity through wide ranging activities and experiences that foster a sense of self exploration, expression and play.
Mark Perry
Gary Ault
Jenny Tarr
Recently shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards, Jenny is a contemporary illustrator based in Bournemouth. Her drawing-based practice is loose and playful, using mixed media to explore people and the landscapes we inhabit.
Specialising in illustration within the publishing sector, as well as site-specific and place-making artworks for communal spaces, Jenny’s work celebrates the beauty of handmade marks on paper.
Recent projects include the Sway Train Station mural, a publishing commission for a cocktail recipe book and an art box collaboration for the Ukrainian community of the New Forest.
When not working on commissions, Jenny shares her passion for drawing with others. On Wednesdays, she hosts Sketch Book Club at Sobo Beach Café in Southbourne, supporting others to find their own unique voice through drawing.
@jenniferjennyjen.illustration
Jeff Hunter
Working in a range of media including video, drawing and collage, Jeff is presently exploring how humans and other intelligences might meet, connect and communicate. What is the connection between art and magic?
Using art he explores the ‘in between,’ that tangled, spirit haunted place where human settlement and the uncultivated wild beyond intersect.
Can art practice be part of the re-enchantment of the world? A way between the ordinary and extraordinary? A transitional space by which people can slip between one realm and another? And the ‘others’ can enter the human world?
He has exhibited in this country and internationally.
Instagram @conversingwithparadise
Sally Eyre
Sally is an artist and illustrator whose work focuses on nature and the natural world, our connection to it and our disconnection from it. Her aim is to encourage people to spend more time in nature and to learn more about it for our own benefit and wellbeing and also so we have an awareness to protect it and care for it.
She is currently studying an MA in Illustration with Falmouth University (online). She also runs art workshops at Hengistbury Head Visitor Centre once a month teaching people how to keep a nature journal.
Instagram- @sal.eyre
Luke Dawson
Eleanor Ball
Eleanor is a confessional and conceptual contemporary artist working in collage and mix media. Eleanor is a Dorset based artist and holds a BA Hons in Fine Art. Eleanor explores themes of identity and womanhood and how media influences our views of who we are.
Eleanor’s current collage series is influenced by surrealist styles, using found images to create simplistic landscapes that reflect the humanity of emotional confusion.
Eleanor also reflects on female representation across art history and pop culture and how this has shaped gender politics and her own identity as a woman.
Jeffrey Baggott
Jeff Baggott is an artist currently making paintings about recollected spaces. The ‘everyday’ glimpsed and rendered in oil paint in a manner somewhere between realism and abstraction.
Instagram: @jeffbaggott_art
Email: jeffbaggott@me.com
Claire Everett
Claire’s approach to textiles design centres around combining contemporary processes with traditional materials and methods. Recently graduated from AUB with a degree in Textiles she specialises in laser cut and digital designs with a focus on sustainable materials. Seeking inspiration from the past to inform the present and create beautiful pieces which combats todays’ tendency towards a throwaway culture.
A recipient of SPFUK funding Claire offers personalised services, upholsters furniture, and makes accessories and trinkets. Claire is always looking for new ways to grow as an artist and collaborate with others!
Instagram: @ctetextiles
Emilie Giles
Ben Stewart
Ben is an internationally exhibited and award-winning contemporary artist working predominantly in collage and mixed media. His work plays with space, time, scale and form, often pointing to ideas around consciousness as the primary reality.
#benjcstewart_art
Sarah Banerjee
Karina West
Karina is a Poole-based artist whose work draws from her lived experiences. Through mixed media, including painting, textiles, tufted art, punch needle embroidery, sound, and installation, Karina explores themes of identity, growth, and resilience. Her work often incorporates symbolic and uplifting imagery, such as vibrant colours, feathers, celestial motifs, and natural elements, to reflect the complexities of dual heritage and the ongoing journey of self-discovery.
Karina’s art is deeply personal, with recurring motifs that celebrate authenticity, inner strength, and the imperfect beauty of becoming. She invites viewers to engage with her evolving narrative, inspiring conversations about hope, transformation, and the layers that shape who we are.
Instagram: @karinaart13_
Claudia Lilly
Recent BA Fine Art and MA Painting graduate and Postgraduate Prize Winner, Claudia is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist currently focusing on contemporary painting. She is originally from Cardiff, now based in Bournemouth with hopes to use art to support others.
Her practice works to quietly address themes of complex trauma and instability, and the extreme difficulty of healing whilst trapped in a system that is hastily falling apart.
She has a growing interest in the narrative behind folds and creases in fabrics – and how they conceptually link to both literal and metaphorical concepts of comfort and discomfort, disturbance and truths that lie within the folds. Through this, she aims to document the story of her own personal journey, whilst continuing to advocate for others going through similar experiences.
instagram: studiocha0s
Megan Lewis
Niall Gallagher
Niall Gallagher aka Times New Roadman is a Bournemouth based painter, reflecting on British culture and experience. His witty artwork comedically capture current trends as well as touching on more political occurrences, though always with a sarcastic yet light hearted twist.