Artist Focus - Stewart Hulbert

Stewart Hulbert

Our next featured artist for April is Stewart Hulbert. You can visit Stewart's Feature window at the Wynd Gallery from - April 21 - May 3 and find out more about Stewart and his

work below.

The Wynd Gallery is a co-operative art gallery run by local artists. The gallery offers an ever-changing exhibition of contemporary prints, paintings, sculpture, jewellery, photography, ceramics and textiles. The gallery promotes the Arts in Letchworth Garden City and provides an exciting venue suitable for artists working across a range of contemporary visual arts media. Throughout the year our artists will share their work through our feature window programme

You are our current featured artist at the Wynd gallery, with our featured artist window. Please tell us about what we can expect to see when we visit the gallery? A selection of my ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) photographs of the sea, landscapes and nature with some of my wooden bud vases.

Can you tell us a little about your journey into art?

I have always taken photographs from a young age and have always enjoyed it, capturing a moment in time, using the technique of ICM for the last couple of years enjoying the abstract nature of this type of photography. The wood bud vases have been a recent exploit as i also have a love of things made out of natural materials wood being my favourite.

What’s one tool you couldn’t live without?

My camera and my bandsaw.

Where do you draw inspiration from? Nature, people, emotions, or something else?

My photographs are all about the natural world we live in. My bud vases are about seeing the natural colour and grain in the wood and trying to show that in a vase.

What projects or ideas are you excited to explore next? I'd like to do a series of paintings depicting building work or road works. The changing industrial landscape and potential for growth and creation has fascinated me since childhood. Typography and bright coloured shapes within this scenery is an added bonus.

Do you have a ritual or routine that helps you get into a creative mindset?

I wish I did. I find I just put some music on, shut the door and get on with it.

Coffee, tea, or something else while you create?

Not a big Tea drinker, also i do not like coffee at all, normally water or juice.

What advice would you give someone who wants to start exploring craft or art themselves? Don't waste time thinking about, can i, should i, just do it and enjoy it, it might not lead to you making a fortune but that's not what art is about in my opinion. It is exploring the creative side of you.