Members – Watford Area Arts Forum

Watford Jazz Junction

The Watford Jazz Junction is a new music festival for Watford focused on sharing live jazz & blues with local people. For our inaugural festival 19-22 May we’ll be putting on a range of shows featuring some fabulous musicians. The full listings are: 19 May 2022 – 19.30 Gala Concert at the Watford Palace Theatre:…

Christine Cornwell

I am a self taught artist and enjoy painting animals and landscapes in Acrylics or Oils. I have RA and find painting takes my mind away from the pain thoughts. Painting is an excellent therapy.

Mark Davies

I am a self-taught artist who has used a variety of film and digital cameras since I was a child. I experiment with standard photographic techniques like composition, perspective, exposure and shutter speed to record images. After several decades I decided to move to a more abstracted form of image capture. As I stood with…

Andrea Neidle

Hi. I’m Andrea, a poet and author from Bushey. My background is in advertising, copywriting and teaching. Before retirement, I was the course leader of the Watford Postgraduate Diploma in Advertising at West Herts College. I am the author of How to Get into Advertising (Cengage Learning). My poetry has been published both here and…

Lydia Nicholson

I am an enthusiastic creative who loves creating and sharing with others. I trained in Graphic Design. In my career, I mainly concentrated on packaging design and illustration for food presentation. Whilst I raised my family, I continued with freelance and when my children reached school age, I began teaching art to children and adults…

Carolyn Storey

Hello, I’m Carolyn, a freelance Artist originally from Bushey. My artwork largely centres on character design and my passion for storytelling, music, film and spirituality come out through my psychedelic patterns and quirky figures. Each has their own tale to tell and their dream-world surroundings are sometimes taken from observation studies. But sometimes they are…

Barry Saunders

I originally took up photography as a means of recording my holidays, but it grew to be a hobby in its own right. I have had holidays in many parts of the world including Christmas Island, the Falkland Islands and Alaska. I haven’t ignored our own country and I enjoy visiting the traditional seaside towns…

Amanda Ramsey

I am a photographer from Watford. I have been taking photos for about 15 years now and really love it! I have been really lucky to exhibit my photography with the Watford Area Arts Forum, which I have really enjoyed. I mainly take photos of flowers and London as that is passion. My photos are…

Ann Kopka

Ann Kopka is a visual artist and curator. Ann has exhibited her work in London, the UK, Denmark, Germany, Italy and the USA. She has been selected for solo and group exhibitions and for exhibitions by national charities and Interfaith organisations. Ann has exhibited in art galleries, museums, hospitals, churches, libraries and non-conventional spaces. Her…