Joanne Rowland is an artist who deals primarily with portraiture of animals, mainly in the medium of coloured pencils. Come read about how she has reached the level of incredible detail and attention to character and emotional depth of the animals she portrays.

Narbi Price was the Journal Culture Awards Visual Artist of the Year 2018, and the winner of the Contemporary British Painting Prize 2017. He was featured in Phaidon's Vitamin P3 - New Perspectives in Painting and was a prizewinner in the John Moores Painting Prize 2012.

He has recently completed an AHRC funded PhD at Newcastle University in partnership with Woodhorn Museum.

The following interview and studio visit took place in 2009

Jim is well known in the North East for his cityscapes and landscapes and he is also someone I enjoyed chatting with on a frequent basis in the period during which I occupied a studio downstairs from him at The Mushroom Works. This turned out to be as comfortable and accommodating chat as I’d ever shared with Jim