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.
Don Myers
Don Myers is an established painter and printmaker whose figurative work is exhibited and collected internationally. He is a highly experienced teacher of art at all levels. Don is currently teaching a drawing class, a painting class, Art for the Less Terrified and Explore 2D Art.
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.
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.
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.
Sally Barker
Sally is a feminist artist exploring our relationship with the natural environment. Her work explores themes of power, control, fragility/strength & success/failure. Currently working with bras, deconstructed mens business suits and poisonous plants. And teaching a weekly class in sculpture at Northlight Art School.
Karl Theobald
Karl Theobald is a freelance Stained Glass artist and technician who works mainly to commission on restoration projects as well as designing and making wonderful contemporary windows. He was trained as a technical Fine Art Sculptor and has worked on major projects including Henry Moore sculptures, Tussauds and The British Museum. He has restored windows by leading stained glass craftsmen, working on church restoration projects throughout the UK. Karl teaches stained glass weekend courses for all levels.
Dorothy Simister
Dorothy Simister is our number one stand in tutor! She is a practicing artist and teacher. She has an extensive teaching expertise in drawing and painting in higher and further education in London, to teaching in primary schools in Burnley and Halifax. She successfully took a fine art degree course at Camberwell School of Art in London and Art Teachers Certificate at Sussex University. She has taught at Camberwell School of Art pre foundation course, Wandsworth College, Putney School of Art, Croydon Art College and for Lewisham local authority and the North Downham Training Project. More recently she taught in a primary school in Burnley for 3 days a week but has now retired from this to concentrate on her own art work. She has had a studio in Hebden Bridge at Beehive Mill