Artist Ambassadors Board
Meet Artfinder’s Artist Ambassadors Board, a newly created advisory board giving the power to our artist community to shape the future of Artfinder and of the art world.
What will the board do?
Our new Artist Ambassadors Board is a body of 12 Artfinder artists, selected after careful consideration amongst our team members - who we will work closely with on all things Artfinder. They will be a voice for the wider community and will be representing the diversity of the art and artists we have on our platform. We hope that the Ambassadors Board will help us shape the future of Artfinder and the wider art world.
Artists Ambassadors will help us better understand the needs of artists, will help us prioritise our wider work, as well as perform deep dives into complex issues. As we face the challenges of running a global marketplace whilst staying true to our B Corp ideals, there’s a huge opportunity for us to connect more closely with all our artists, i.e. those who we are here to serve.
Meet our ambassadors
To ensure that we keep delivering the best possible experience for our community, we want to ensure our artists are represented in our decision-making. Meet the 8 Ambassadors who will accompany us on this exciting journey!
Ta Byrne
Ta, artist & author from Thailand Ta paints people but not as you may know them but dramatic, emotional, sometimes theatrical but always with feelings and always special. Her work is hanging on walls in 67 countries and in addition to her success as an artist, her book Egg Island is in bookshops and available worldwide, not bad for a girl who left school at 12 to work in the rice fields.
Simon Shepherd
Simon is a London born artist, now based in Brighton. His work explores the distinctions between the familiar and the unfamiliar. It looks for and develops the beauty and aesthetic of the everyday object and invites the viewer to reassess their expectations and preconceptions of it. Simon has featured in numerous solo and group shows both in the UK and internationally.
Lil Nutter
Lil is a professional artist, based on the Isle of Wight, mainly working in acrylic paint on canvas. Most of her work consists of highly textured, abstract impressionistic seascapes, which are observations of ever-changing surroundings and seasons. Mid 20th century fabrics and ceramics also play their role
Paper Draper
UK based Paper Draper works mainly in collage and acrylic and gives new life to original vintage ephemera creating new scenes and stories that play with humour, scale and perspective. Her love of everything mid-century is her biggest source of inspiration and lends well to her make-believe world.
Preston M. Smith
Preston, a professional artist and podcaster, has been creating art professionally for 20 years, and his art style paintings. Preston’s work, which spans from moody Pop Surrealism to highly textured and vibrantly coloured Abstracts, has been showcased alongside David Lynch and at the Inaugural Purple Ball for President Obama’s Inauguration in 2009, where he was commissioned to paint 12 portraits of the President.
Maxine Gregson
Maxine is a contemporary artist who combines typography, photography, grid layering and nostalgic imagery to create intriguing artworks and prints. Her artworks, often described as 'Nostalgic Futurism', are hand-pulled screen prints with a unique union of vintage motifs and futuristic compositions. Often inspired by lyrics music and literature, she uses vintage photographic elements mixed with new imagery and elements to create new realities.
Alex Cassels
Alex is a photographer specialising largely in Travel and Landscape photography. Commissions from travel/holiday companies, hotels and property development companies helped to provide the means to follow his passion in capturing images of the great outdoors. A move to France in recent years has enabled him to broaden his range of genres to include cityscape & street photography.
Ana Hefco
Ana Hefco is an artist based in the United States who is fascinated with nature and obsessed with the ocean. In her artistic process, Anna employs unconventional methods to capture its fluid and transparent nature, using a variety of mediums and as tools her hands, blowtorches, heat guns, etc. Her paintings have been featured in numerous solo exhibitions nationally.
