TOSH Artists
TOSH Studio Artists
A community studio space at TOSH for artists to develop their practices in a supporting environment.
If you’re interested in joining TOSH Studios please join our waiting list.
Zsuzsanna Bimbo
Zsuzsanna grew up in a large family in the Socialist Hungary. She loves painting landscapes, people, florals and animals. Acrylic paint is her favourite medium but she also loves using inks, oil paint, collage, gold leaf etc. Her works reflect that happy and loud inner child which had to be hidden away in her early years.
Daisy Kate
Rachael Lee
Rachael Lee is a contemporary figurative painter whose work explores memory, childhood, and the complex experiences of girlhood and womanhood. Working primarily in acrylic and gouache, she often incorporates stitching threads into her work. Her paintings draw on art history and fragments of popular culture to create staged interior scenes that feel both intimate and unsettling.
Through reworking existing imagery and narratives, Rachael investigates how females have been represented within painting and wider culture, questioning ideas of power, vulnerability, and agency.
She is currently studying MA Painting at Arts University Bournemouth and works from her studio at the Old School House, where she continues to develop narrative paintings that explore the emotional and psychological possibilities of paint.
Roanne Legge
Roanne makes figurative paintings, usually in oils, and drawings in various mediums that include needle drawings on zinc plate. These include ‘otherworldly’ archetypal motifs, currently bird and bird-man, arising from the unconscious through what Carl Jung calls a ‘big dream’.
Roanne is interested in how we can realise more of our organic potential. She sees this as an inherent ‘charge’ awaiting ignition.
Her ideas come through inner space, silence, aloneness, nature, dream.
Little Oak Prints
Milly Martin
Milly is a children’s book illustrator specialising in character-led, inky and energetic characters which frequently end up in difficult situations! Milly is thoroughly attached to her dip pens and ink pots, which she combines with water-colour, charcoal and Photoshop to develop texture and atmosphere.
Milly loves to draw en plein air and can frequently be found drawing in cafés and on Bournemouth beach, sketchbook in hand! She lives with her two sons and dreams one day of owning her own goat herd. When Milly isn’t illustrating books or fetching her kids from football, she runs a course at Arts University Bournemouth in Digital Character Design as well as working as a visiting lecturer of Fine Art.
Aizhan Omarova
Aizhan is a mixed media intuitive artist based in Bournemouth, originally from Kazakhstan. Her work is rooted in an exploration of the deeper layers of life — the unseen, the symbolic, and the emotional undercurrents that shape our experiences. By combining various materials, textures, and techniques, she creates pieces that invite viewers to pause, reflect, and connect with something beyond the surface. Ultimately, her goal is to evoke a sense of wonder, curiosity, and recognition — as if each piece opens a small doorway into the inner world of the soul and the greater mysteries of existence.
Shell Righini
Shell Righini is the founder of We Recover Loudly, creating bold t-shirts, jewellery and prints that turn lived experience into wearable rebellion. She also runs WRL Merch Studio, supporting artists and creators to produce merch and collaborative editions.
Taylor Stainer
Taylor Stainer is an AUB MA Painting Alumni, based in Bournemouth. She uses painting to explore the relationship of self, body and land. Her work talks on the topic of belonging/unbelonging and the tender human state and its fragile condition within the space we are situated in.
taylorstainerart@gmail.com
The Footprints Project
Time and space for creativity can make a big difference to the mental health and emotional wellbeing of the women supported by The Footprints Project.
Our ‘Second Chances’ art project involves small group sessions, run by established Dorset artist, Samantha March, and facilitated by Footprints Art Co-ordinator, Helen Hempstead. We make items such as totes, tees, jewellery, greeting cards and prints, most of which we sell at The Shire Hall Museum in Dorchester.
These weekly sessions provide focus, friendship and a sense of self-belief for the women who attend. To refer a woman to the session, please contact helen@footprintsproject.co.uk
Photography by Erin Down
