UK Festival 2022

Tim Vyner graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1988 and continues to work in education as Professor of Illustration at Bath Spa University. He travels the world drawing life as he experiences it on the vibrant streets of our cities. He records global sporting events, documents diverse communities and tours public museums. He works for galleries, publishers, newspapers and private collectors and has covered World Cups, Olympic Games and busy national events.

Kholoud is one of Qatar’s most recognizable artists. She graduated from Qatar University with a BA in Art Education and continued this passion on to her job, where she has been working for Jeem TV and Baraem, for 10 years. During her time there, Kholoud managed to expand her artistic skills and implement them into script writing and directing the animated series created locally in Doha. The series has successfully been on air, since 2015 covering 2 seasons with a total of 26 episodes.

Inspired by her home in Doha, Qatar, artist Muna Al-Bader remembers the sea and sky as she turns to art to express the numerous ways she uses the shades of blue in her artwork with their own meanings. Despite having a background in IT engineering and business analysis, Muna found her passion in art and has become known as the “Artist of Blue.”

Welsh artist VOZIE has been specialising in portraits and commissioned artworks for the last ten years, most recently concentrating on larger scale aerosol murals. Focusing mainly on bold monochrome pattern or colourful graphic pieces, VOZIE thrives off creating bold artworks that uplift and inspire the public. 

Beatrice Garcia (b.1994) is a Gibraltar born, Amsterdam based fine artist and illustrator. She has a first class degree in Finance and combines her artistic skills with her finance mindset. She has created artworks for a variety of personal and corporate clients and her work has been exhibited internationally with exhibitions in Gibraltar, Madrid and London.

Anya is in her final year as a Politics and International Relations student at the University of Bath. She uses her attentiveness for politics to use art as a form of visual activism and political campaign, creating works on the Civil Rights Movement and the Suffragettes.

Welsh artist Bryce Davies, AKA Peaceful Progress, has been painting Graffiti and Aerosol Art murals for over 20 years. Bryce’s work focuses on creating large-scale murals of exceptional quality, and is one of the finest in his field.