Lois Pedley
Lois is a fantastic presence on the local art scene. She has a huge variety of styles which makes her work very appealing to lots of audiences. She can often be seen at local craft fairs and will be constantly working...unless she is by the sea...then she is soaking up inspiration! We love her work and love sharing her work with our customers!
Steve Neal
Steve has a fabulous studio in Ashby Parva, where he paints his own amazing pieces, and teaches other local emerging artists. His work is bursting with atmosphere and versatility. Steve is clearly inspired by nature and the changing patterns of the sky. It is always an honour to have his work in the gallery!
Trish Craddock
Trish is based in rural Leicestershire and has been painting for many years. She is heavily influenced by nature, and spends alot of time in amongst the local landscape, observing and finding inspiration.
She isn't glued to any one medium or style, and loves to experiment. It depends on the painting she is doing as to which medium she will use. That's what makes her work so fabulous!
Trish is a regular and popular artist at the gallery and we are really excited to share her work.
Dipa Vaghela is a Leicestershire based abstract expressionist. Her acrylic works are bold and large scale combining texture, vibrant colour, and intricate forms to invoke moods.
She likes to make paintings that create a mood. Dipa loves detail, and her paintings are made to be touched and viewed from different angles to see every different colour and texture.
Come and have a look...you can see for yourself!
Helen Soames
Helen has always loved art and has always had a passion for landscapes and animals, so it is no surprise that her work sparkles with the natural world.
Whether it is a portrait of a bird or a gate on a familiar Leicestershire country road, she does it in a way that makes you connect emotionally.
There's a peace in every stroke of her watercolours and we love bringing that to our walls.
Dipa Vaghela
Jackie Terrett
Jackie has recently started exhibiting her work in the gallery and our walls love her for it.
She is inspired by the effect that time has on landscapes that she knows well, and North Wales and Leicestershire are her landscapes of choice. Changes of seasons, weather and light are all things that spark an idea or excite her, and off she will go, painting or drawing - there is no medium that she will not consider - she is drawn to one for each creative idea and works from there.
Jackie has been drawing since she was a small child, and it was this passion that moved her into doing a Fine Art degree at Coventry University, furthering her educational knowledge with a degree in History from Warwick and finishing with a Masters in Art and Design History at Birmingham University. From there, Jackie continued in education, this time as a teacher in schools, colleges and Universities for the whole of her career. She loved it, you can tell, and I am certain that her students loved her, as well.
Once she had retired, she was then in the divine position of being able to focus more solidly on her own work. And she has done that with the same verve and vigour that I am sure she gave her students throughout her career.
She has successfully exhibited work in many galleries including The Royal West of England Gallery in Bristol, Leicester Art Gallery & Museum, The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Gallery, Rhyl Arts Centre in North Wales, The Lewis Gallery in Rugby, The Atkins Gallery in Hinckley. And now, Lilypad has the honour!
Mike Gale
Mike is an artist who is passionate about the local natural landscape. He can often be found exploring the county's stunning countryside, looking for that perfect spot to capture and when we say walks, he can do many miles in one day!!
His work is truly beautiful. Stunning skies, dramatic rolling hills, babbling brooks, he has it all. And hes sharing it with you!
Nigel Smith
After a career working in Graphic Design abroad, Nigel has resettled in Leicester working as an artist. And a fabulous one he is, too.
His artworks, he considers, are 'meditations on nature, spirit and memory capturing moments of mood in an ever changing environment'.
There's nothing we love more than a picture that sends us into a state of calm!!
