Bert Holländer was born in the Flemish region of Belgium. She qualified as a teacher at the Ecole Normale pour Instituteurs de Bruxelles and in Fine Arts at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts d'Anvers, where she specialised in Painting, Drawing and Ceramics.
David Bache was born in Australia, moved to the UK in 1960 and has lived in London since 1979. Following a BA in Graphic Design at Kingston Polytechnic he became professionally involved in photography, initially working as a photographer’s assistant in London in the ‘80s.
Gillian Clegg is co-compiler of the archive for the Chiswick House and Garden Trust. She has lived in Chiswick for 35 years and is the author of many articles and books about the area, including Chiswick Past and The Chiswick Book Past and Present.
Born in England into a creative family, Jennifer Copley-May has been passionate about all forms of art since early childhood. As an adult she studied botanic illustration and continued to develop her artistic talents in several other areas: portraiture, landscapes, animal portraits and more recently, abstracts, graphics and illustrative work.
Sylvia Selzer LRPS is the current photographer in residence at Action Transport Theatre, a company specialising in work for, with and by young people.
Catherine Hiller began writing in a diary when she was ten and now has dozens of spiral-bound journals, which she never rereads. She grew up in Greenwich Village and Brooklyn, and was educated at Brooklyn College, Sussex University and Brown University, where she received a Ph.D. in English.
David Selzer was born in London in 1942 but has lived in Chester for most of his life. He began writing poems when he was 14. His collection, ’Elsewhere’, edited by Harry Chambers and published by E.J. Morten in 1973, was one of the first in the Peterloo Poets Series. He is an Eric Gregory Award and Felicia Hemans Prize winner.
Grace Margarita Lee was born and lives in London where she is in her final year of studies at school. She has been involved in art and image making since she could first dip her hand into paint and grasp a crayon.
Merlyn Chesterman was born in London and grew up in Hong Kong. After a BA in Fine Art (Painting) she later took a diploma in education. Her printmaking business Hartland Printmakers was set up in 2002.
