Haviland Studio Artists
Haviland Studio Artists
A community studio space in Bournemouth Foodbank (Boscombe), for artists to develop their practices in a supporting environment. To keep up to date with their work and upcoming exhibitions follow @haviland_studio
If you’re interested in joining Haviland Studios please join our waiting list.
Jeffrey Baggott
Jeff Baggott is an Emeritus Professor of cinematics (Arts University Bournemouth) and a visual artist who works across a range of disciples (film, sculpture, painting). He is currently making paintings about recollected spaces and the everyday, glimpsed and rendered in a manner somewhere between realism and abstraction.
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Email: jeffbaggott@me.com
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.
Simon Bentley
Always having an eye for art and music at school, I wasn’t afforded the opportunity to go to art college. Instead I left school at 16 in 1985 with only counter culture as my guiding light. Somehow in a romantic old school way I found Soho and a path into the music industry. Working with artists from the pop and indie world at labels and as a manger across 30 years. Delivering other peoples art was my art.
Finally at the age of 57 in January 2026 I took a 10 week course. The Art Of Screen Printing at AUB. This gave me the confidence and opportunity to find art inside myself, develop and discover new skills, so I could finally start work on my own ideas. Now in this new space I can work freely and thru self expression produce what’s inside.
Bob(by) Brewer
Bob(by) Brewer is an artist from rural Dorset who has been evolving his practice in painting and illustration for over ten years. His work is visually playful and fluid, but something is often off kilter in the cartoonish joy of bright colours and playful lines, which are juxtaposed by hints of danger.
He has completed several murals in Swanage, Bristol and Cardigan, and is excited to have more on the horizon. Mural art is where he hopes to grow and thrive. As Arts by the Sea Associate Artist in 2025, he made a larger-than-life willow woven sculpture of an open hand and has since received several commissions to make large willow sculptures for conservation charities. This ties into his background both growing up and more recently as a countryside ranger, and he is currently enjoying the process of taking this traditional rural craft and making it his own.
Carmel De'Lisser
Carmel De’Lisser is a self taught intuitive artist of mixed heritage. 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 direct response to time, place and emotional connection. Multiform artist using words, pictures and sculpture to tell stories and explore her connection to the natural and spiritual world and the place it has in our modern lives.
Exhibiting with her collective (B.R.A.C: Boscombe Radical Arts Collective)Connected Grounds 2024
We Rise 2025 and solo work in Home 2025
Immersive Installations : The Wilding, a forest of emotions 2025
The Wintering : 2025
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.
Shayna Fonseka
Shayna Fonseka (she/her) is a British-Sri Lankan artist working with a range of organic and synthetic materials, from clay, steel, paint, wallpaper, stickers, foliage, and bricks. She holds an MFA from the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University, a BFA from the Slade School of Art and a diploma from Central Saint Martins. Her work examines urban spaces as personal sites of transcendence, exploring how sensory and spatial experiences cultivate a grounded sense of being amid growing instability.
Fonseka was recently awarded the Erna Plachte Award 2024 and shortlisted for the Oxford Review of Books Art Award. Select exhibitions include: TYFBAF, Silian Gallery, London, 2025; Questions on Drawing, Exvoto Gallery, London, 2025; Carry on Baggage, Galeria Augustine, Lisbon, 2023; Can’t Take My Eyes off You, Indigo + Madder, London, 2022; A Generous Space, Hastings Contemporary, 2022, amongst others.
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.
Emilie Giles
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.
Jeff Hunter
Jeff’s present work investigates attachment through the shifting language of domestic interiors. He treats the living room as a stage where attachment plays out in the arrangement of pattern, decoration, and everyday objects.
Wallpaper, paint, pictures, photographs and bric-a-brac serve as material analogues for the dynamics of connection: safety and belonging, as well as rupture, dislocation, and attempts at repair. By reconfiguring familiar elements of interior space he explores how environments hold or fail to hold us, how they mirror our relational templates, and how the pleasures, textures and pressures of home shape our ongoing experience of attachment.
Frida Korang
Frida is an interdisciplinary artist, DJ and currently a Fine Arts student at Arts Bournemouth University, exploring identity, memory, and emotion through film photography, screen printing, and tactile materials like clay, wood, and metal which are rooted in her African heritage.
Born and raised in Italy, she cherishes memories and a sense of belonging. Through her experiences in some west African countries and western societies—she reflects on the complexity of everyday life, the weight of memory and the strength of underrepresented voices.
Guided by imagination and emotion rather than rigid plans, she create art that honours vulnerability, challenges norms, and embraces imperfection.
Her practice is a space for truth, transformation, and connection—where memory and material come together to tell stories that are often unseen but deeply felt.
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.
Mark Perry
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.
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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.
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