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 is a multidisciplinary artist, digital producer, and educator whose work in virtual worlds, immersive media, animation. She is director of dreamstudio.io.

Participants include Dalia Hartman, whose work with upcycled textiles and painting reflect her time between London and Tel Aviv. Anita Woolf, now 90, who moved from painting to ceramics, continues studio work, and her role with Maxability in Barnet, an award-winning organisation offering ceramics classes and workshops for disabled artists; a brief overview of students’ work may be included.

Also taking part are Yonat Nitzan Green, in the final year of a practice-led PhD at Loughborough University focusing on drawing, maternal subjectivity, and immigrant mothering; Tatiana von Beelen, a 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.