Our Regular Course Tutors
Simon Manfield
Simon Manfield is a much-respected artist and illustrator. He is currently our life drawing tutor and delivers Fine Art courses for the Open College for the Arts. His primary interest and one that is integral to his art practice is the process of drawing. His drawings often explore narratives that describe disquieting stillness, or a breathless moment caught in time.
Katch Skinner
Katch Skinner is a maker and tutor in ceramics, who has had her work on show across Yorkshire. Katch has a wealth of public engagement experience from working in audience development and gallery education and we are delighted to be able to use her skills and creativity within our Northlight Art School.
Rachel Red
Rachel Red is a local printmaker and Northlight studio holder. She has successfully developed printmaking for Northlight Art Education and brings her own knowledge and expertise to the printmaking classes. Rachel is able to teach a wide range of techniques including lino printing, drypoint, collagraph, screen printing and monoprint.
Dominic Vince
Dominic Vince studied at Canterbury Christchurch where the paintings of Euan Uglow had a profound effect upon his understanding of painting and what paintings could be about. Later he studied at the Princes Drawing School, London. After many painting trips to Dartmoor and the Hebrides he now focuses almost exclusively on landscapes, enjoying the rather ragged but beautiful areas of Calderdale and the Western Isles. He has exhibited at The Royal Academy, The Lynn Painter Stainers Prize, The Dean Clough Galleries, and has work in the Royal Collection. He is the tutor on our Painting - Approaches to Landscape, Painting towards Abstraction and Painting Workshop.
Emma Wilkinson
Emma Wilkinson is a Todmorden based textile artist. She specialises in sculptural work but is well versed in the full range of textiles techniques. "I make sculptural insects made using various different techniques and fabrics which tell stories of their own. I work in an intuitive manner connecting with my materials and subject. Butterflies are often used in my work as I am drawn to their fragility and beauty. I also take great inspiration from my surrounding environment. My passion for textiles comes from its versatility and its many forms which can be manipulated, dyed, stitched and embellished.” Emma is teaching two Art of Textiles classes and a workshop where you can come and work on different projects with her expertise at hand.
Lauren Law
Lauren Law teaches our Monday Art Foundations classes. She is an experienced educator, of all age groups, and brings a lot of inspiration and technical teaching to the classes.
Amanda Allan
Amanda teaches the two evening Art for the Terrified classes and the Young Northlight art class and brings a range of artistic and teaching experience.
Her own work is often conceptual using film, photography and drawing, exploring memory through imagined and found objects using ink and pencil.
Heather Boxall
Heather teaches our Tuesday morning Art for the Terrified and brings a lot of teaching experience.
She gained a degree in Fine Art from Winchester School of Art in 1981 and later completed an MA in Printmaking at Bradford School of Art. She is a painter and printmaker. Her practice is concerned with the ‘stuff of colour’.