This Zoom event, organised by Julia Holt and Maureen Kendal, brings together an inspiring group of artists, designers, and educators to share how working in Britain has influenced their creative practices. Through short talks and images, the speakers reflect on materials, processes, teaching, and community, and on how British cultural life, education, and local contexts have shaped their work.

Julia Holt, a painter and printmaker, explores storytelling through expressive, textural mark-making that combines narrative atmosphere with psychological insight. 

Maureen Kendal, an artist, author and digital producer, whose art practice includes immersive media, drawing and animation. She is director of dreamstudio.io.

Dalia Hartman Bergsagel, an artist creates up-cycled textiles and painting to reflect her time between London and Tel Aviv.

Anita Woolf, an artist moved from painting to ceramics, continues studio work and her role with Maxability in Barnet, an award-winning charitable organisation offering ceramic classes and workshops for disabled artists.

Yonat Nitzan Green, an artist in the final year of a practice-led PhD at Loughborough University focusing on drawing, maternal subjectivity, and immigrant mothering.

Tatiana von Beelen, designer and writer whose work explores Jewish creativity and visual storytelling in Britain.

Monica Petzal, artist, art historian, and curator.

Eva Edery, a glass artist creating three-dimensional wall works.

Ariella Green, a textile artist specialising in mixed-media fabric collage.

Judith Devons, painter, printer and ceramicist, recently drawn to universal imagery connecting heaven and earth, the secular and the spiritual - across religious boundaries and polarities.