Painting
3D | Mixed Media
Printmaking
3D | Mixed Media
3D | Mixed Media
3D | Mixed Media
Glass
Textiles | Embroidery
3D | Mixed Media
Ceramics
Textiles | Embroidery
Textiles | Embroidery
Textiles | Embroidery
Textiles | Embroidery
Textiles | Embroidery
June 2025 Guest Artist - Josephine Butler
Biography
I have lived across the south coast of England my whole life but chose to settle in Southsea, Hampshire with my family 11 years ago.
I have worked in therapy and rehabilitation for the NHS, for 20 years. However, creativity has always been an integral part of my life. The family business was in sign writing and screen printing. At college I pursued the art of photography and in 2004 I gained a BA (Hons) Fine Art, from Cardiff Metropolitan University.
I am a mixed media artist and currently specialise in plaster relief casting. I began exhibiting and selling my art in 2024, under the name ‘Sentimental Castings’. I make 3D hand & feet casts, botanical & coastal 3D relief panels and relief impressions. I use the mediums of paint, clay and plaster in my creative process.
My botanical & coastal bas-reliefs are inspired by the beautiful landscape and coastline of the south of England. Plaster relief is an artform in which life andnature can be captured in time and preserved. Frailty, strength and resilience can be encapsulated and represented so well in this medium.
A relief cast is made by pressing foliage, flowers or beachcombing finds into clay and then carefully removing, to leave an impression. This impression in the clay becomes the mould in which the plaster is poured into and relief panel is formed.
I fell in love with this artform because of the time, process, detail and sensory elements required in creating each unique piece.