Chiswick House and Gardens has long been a place where art and creativity is celebrated – and we’re proud to be continuing that tradition today.
Our artist and maker studios, created from refurbished historic sheds, stables and outbuildings in our underused ‘back of house areas’, officially opened in May 2025, with our first artists moving in later that summer.
With multiple Open Studios Days planned, we hope to foster a vibrant, inclusive creative community that fully reflects the diversity of our Hounslow borough and makes us part of a thriving, sustainable local economy. We also believe our studios address a growing need for accessible, fairly-priced art spaces: the London-wide waiting list for affordable creative studios totals over 3,000 people, and 67% of all affordable workspaces have closed since 2014.
Developed in partnership with affordable workplace providers ASC (Artist Studio Company), the studios form part of our ambitious new Community and Creative Campus, an exciting project designed to boost cultural and creative activity in the Hounslow area and enable us to continue to support our local community. They also form part of the wider Creative Enterprise West, led by the London Borough of Hounslow and the Mayor of London, and tasked with supporting artists and creative businesses across the area.
Chiswick has long been a home to artists, and this initiative ensures that tradition continues – offering affordable, inspiring workspaces in an extraordinary and beautiful setting in the capital.
Xanthe Arvanitakis, Director of Chiswick House & Gardens Trust
The Artist Studios are part of our wider Community & Creative Campus, which is currently in the midst of redevelopment.
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Meet our artists
Gillian Brett
Gillian Brett uses traditional skills to create contemporary sculptures of real people in ceramic or bronze. With experience of both public and private commissions, Gillian is currently able to offer a bespoke service giving you the chance to celebrate the important people in your life.
Jaixia Blue
Jaixia Blue, founder of ‘Peace of Heritage’, is a multidisciplinary storyteller whose textile art explores themes of home, identity, and ecology, rooted in her mixed British and Caribbean heritage. She has exhibited at galleries and museums across the UK, including Pitzhanger Gallery, NOW Gallery for London Craft Week, Chiswick House and Gardens and Gunnersbury Park Museum.
In her studio she plans to continue creating hand-dyed and naturally printed botanical textiles, alongside other textile crafts, borrowing from the wisdom of nature.
Amber Booth
Amber is an abstract painter and art photographer. She draws inspiration from the natural world, always looking at ways of interpreting not only the perfection found in nature but also the beauty in the decay, in both abstract and textural ways.
She is also interested in interpreting moods and atmospheres and exploring and capturing ephemeral and intangible moments, she likes to create space within her work for contemplation, reflection and interpretation both in her paintings, installations and photography.
Kimberley Burrows
Kimberley Burrows is an abstract expressionist artist whose work has evolved with her sight loss. Combining elements of painting, printmaking, and poetry, she explores and challenges the limits of painting, moving effortlessly between the visual and the sensory.
Sebastian Bergne
Sebastian Bergne is a British Industrial designer renowned for making everyday objects special with his essential and human approach to design.
Having graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1990, he founded his studio in the same year. His achievements have since been widely recognised with international design awards, frequent publications, exhibitions and inclusion in museum collections such as The Museum of Modern Art (New York) and the Design Museum (London).
Sarah Burton
Sarah started making sculpture fifteen years ago, which quickly led her to Heatherley’s School of Fine Art where she studied for 3 years on their full-time Sculpture Diploma and Post-Diploma programmes. Today, She works primarily in welded steel and in clay. Her interest lies in form and pattern, and in how form works with colour and in space. She has also been involved in curating multi-artist shows.
Her sculptor heroes include many of the famous 20th-century Modernists, such as Richard Serra, Venet, Giacometti, Donald Judd, Lynn Chadwick and Barbara Hepworth.
Julie Derbyshire
Julie Derbyshire is a photographic artist with a practice that is research based and process led. Informed by art history and by her own lived experience, she explores themes of fragility, transience and the universality of our shared human condition.
Rachna Garodia
Rachna trained at the prestigious National Institute of Design in India and The Royal School of Needlework in London. Her intricately woven textures are akin to viewing a landscape, capturing the atmosphere, tone and emotion from her daily walks.
Material exploration – bringing unexpected textures together in a warp has always been the starting point for Rachna’s work. She juxtaposes cotton, linen, silk, nettle, hemp and wool with found materials like paper, bark, seedpods, twigs etc. All her works are unique and bespoke; each one takes shape slowly in her studio in west London and is later crafted into screens, space dividers and framed textile art.
Her commissioned pieces are held in private collections in India, U.K and America. Her book ‘Contemporary Weaving in mixed media’ with Batsford was out in September 2022.
Lewis Hazelwood-Horner
Lewis Hazelwood-Horner is a painter whose work often explores craftsmanship, industry as well as the human stories behind traditional skills, capturing moments of focus and dedication with realism. Having studied at the London Atelier of Representational Art and as a member of the RBA, Lewis looks to promote the arts, striving to combine classical technique with contemporary themes.
Madina Joldybek
Madina Joldybek is a multidisciplinary artist, illustrator and educator born and raised in Jezkazgan (Kazakhstan, Central Asia). Her practice revolves around themes of women’s bodily integrity, sexuality, multi-dimensional motherhood, kelinism, identity, and authoritarian regimes.
Madina employs various mediums such as weaving, illustration, painting, collage, sculpture, video, and installation in her work. Joldybek is the inaugural recipient of the B. Bubikanova Art Prize and a member of the DAVRA, a research collective that fosters dynamic exchanges of experiences and knowledge to strengthen the Central Asian art scene. Her work is part of the public collection at the Kasteev State Museum of Arts, as well as private collections.
Dominika Karc
Dominika Karc’s work focuses on geometric abstract compositions. I believe in the universal language of abstract art and in the power of colour to shape mood and transform space.
Her studio practice is divided between designing artworks for city spaces and creating colourful paintings.
Farah Qureshi
Farah Qureshi specialises in ethical and sustainable jewellery in fine precious materials, including silver and gold. New collections are created each year on a variety of different themes, including botanical imagery, travels to different places and found objects.
Keira Rathbone
Keira Rathbone has been using a tool from the past to capture the present moment since 2003. Her journey into typewriter art came about by chance. She wanted to use this old orange typewriter (random teenage charity shop purchase) but no words came. The desire to type remained and she thought about the cool mix tape her friend Arthur made her, with ///s typed on the sticker and proceeded to type a row of L’s. LLLLLLLLL became a pattern, L just a shape, maybe a corner.
Keira had tuned into the characters as shapes & textures and now felt free to express herself, she didn’t have to make words.
She observes life and lets the subject dictate the character to use.
22 years on it is still the typing from life in public and the interactions with people of all ages and backgrounds that inspires Keira to keep exploring this medium.
Neerja Sehgal
Neera Sehgal is an Ealing-based artist whose work explores the intricate layering of patterns and images using Indian woodblocks.
Bela Golden
Bela Golden (a.k.a. Bela Goldenberg Taieb) is a visual artist whose drawing-based practice revolves around portraiture, printmaking and illustration.
Sangeeta Weatherley
Sangeeta is a self-taught artist from India living in London since 2012. Her passion is to attempt capturing the beauty around us through drawing and painting media.
Tomoko Yamanaka
Tomoko Yamanaka is a London-based knitwear designer and arts lecturer, with over a decade of experience working with British alpaca farmers.
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