Creative Courses for Adults and Young Adults.
Well-City Salisbury works with four partner organisations – ArtCare at Salisbury District Hospital, Wessex Archaeology, Wiltshire Creative and Wiltshire Wildlife Trust. Meet some of the team below.
HOW IT WORKSMeet Our Team
Leigh Chalmers
Wessex Archaeology
Leigh is the Heritage Inclusion Manager at Wessex Archaeology, this means that she has the honour of creating and delivering cultural, heritage and wellbeing projects designed for people to engage with in a meaningful way. She has a background in arts and heritage participation and has worked with groups in prisons, in hospitals and several third sector organisations. Outside of work she is the lead for the TEDxSalisbury team.
Zoe Prichard
Wessex Archaeology
Zoe is the Project Coordinator for Well-City Salisbury; she has a passion for outreach and has worked within widening and participation for numerous educational institutes. Zoe is a keen printmaker and holds an MA in Visual Arts Printmaking and BA in Fine Art Printmaking. She exhibit’s frequently and her work features in several public and private collections in the UK and internationally.
Ruth Yoxon
Wessex Archaeology
Ruth is the Heritage Inclusion Officer at Wessex Archaeology, which means that she designs and delivers heritage wellbeing projects where archaeology is the springboard for creative, socially engaged, and meaningful interactions. She has a background in museum education and creating accessible resources for neurodivergent people. She is passionate about creating welcoming spaces for people to gather, be curious about the past and share stories.
Lesley Self
ArtCare, Salisbury District Hospital
Lesley has over 20 years of experience working for ArtCare as exhibition organiser and permanent art curator. She is also the ArtCare lead for Salisbury District Hospital’s archives and historic collections. Outside of ArtCare, Lesley is the Director of Hampshire Open Studios and Trustee for the charity Cranborne Chase Landscape Trust. She also enjoys volunteering with Dorset Wildlife Trust.
Cesca Myles
Wiltshire Creative
Cesca is a multi-arts Creative Practitioner working for Wiltshire Creative’s Take Part team, with an inclusion focus for Stage 65 Youth Theatres SEN/D performers. She has a private practice in Integrative Arts Counselling and is a group facilitator with over a decade of experience in health and social care and community arts engagement with diverse groups and their families. Her background in physical theatre and lived experience of invisible conditions focus her work on promoting accessibility, and her practice encompasses storytelling, co-created devising theatre, new writing, songwriting, music, and utilizing the arts & theatre to foster connection and a sense of belonging.
Gjenya Cambray
Wiltshire Creative
Gjenya Cambray is Community Relationships Officer for Wiltshire Creative; planning and delivering a range of arts outreach work from Salisbury Playhouse, Arts Centre and Festival. She has worked in community arts for over 20 years and has done everything from running pre-school arts workshops to projects for older people and everything in between!
Meet the Artists
Nick Andrew
I studied art and graphic design in Oxford, Cheltenham and London, and have exhibited widely since the early ‘80s with pieces in many public and private collections. At that time my work was entirely urban- based, often large scale commissioned artwork for corporate clients.
Since the mid ‘90s my home and studio have been at Bull Mill Arts on the upper reaches of the River Wylye near Warminster. Most of my work has been inspired by the immediate landscape and, in particular, a stunning three mile stretch of the river close to my studio, along with adjacent water meadows and nearby woodland. I walk here often, observing and drawing changes from day to day and season to season. In my paintings, I aim to convey a sense of the life, movement and ‘my own ‘solitary involvement’ with this landscape.
As a parallel field of work, I also undertake plein air drawing projects, including ‘Sticks in the Smoke’ which began in 2016, researching London public green spaces through mixed media drawings and a blog. ‘A Gap in the Market’ in 2021, documented a year in the life of Salisbury’s historic charter Market. ‘SPiRE’: in 2023, making drawings from as far out of the city as possible along 32 compass points towards the Cathedral spire (sometimes just a pinpoint on the horizon), And since last year, ‘Confluence’, exploring the sources, tributaries and confluences of the five chalk rivers (Avon, Bourne, Ebble, Nadder and Wylye) which define and shape the geography of South Wiltshire. This collection will be exhibited at Fisherton Mill, Salisbury from 30 August – 27 September 2025.
I coordinate the Wylye Valley Art Trail, a biennial open studios event in South Wiltshire which I founded in 2001.
Caroline Rudge
Caroline is a painter, printmaker, animator and illustrator, rarely seen without a tiny brush and even tinier paintbox.
Working from her studio at Pound Arts in Wiltshire, Caroline produces work across a breadth of mediums and subjects – ranging from large scale paintings encompassing themes of motherhood, storytelling and symbolism – to printmaking installation projects focussing on the natural world.
Animation projects have seen her producing shorts for CBBC, and many high-profile charities and organisations. She has painted immersive murals in schools, designed public artworks and has even been an ‘expert guest’ on tv with her animation!
Caroline’s passion for the arts is evident in her workshops and teaching, and she has led workshops for all ages exploring many different ways of making art.
Jane Staniland
The ceramic vessel tells the history of human life. I believe that the need to make is a basic instinct. Sorting out materials and figuring out thoughts through drawings is what I do. I delight in the process of making pots. I left Camberwell School of Art in Craft where I studied Ceramics in the mid 1980s, then worked on my own pots. After having children I became a pottery teacher.
In 2021 I took a leap of faith to finally set up my workshop at home and now work almost full time on my own ceramics again.
I also make pots for indoor plants.
My Pots are one-off pieces inspired by nature, moving figures and feelings. This is all supported by my drawings and the total joy and sense of freedom I get from making pots.
I hand build my pots then draw on them with a potter’s needle. I paint with coloured slips before I biscuit fire the piece. The next stage is to glaze the pot fully on the inside then with various brushes on the outside leaving some of the clay exposed. These pots are fired to stoneware and the planters are frostproof with drainage holes. I also make pots for indoor plants, vases and cups. Every pot is different however there are themes which make them work well in groups and collections.
To me each thing I make is like a 3 dimensional painting. I love the little shards of pottery found buried in flowerbeds. I make tiny pieces like shards out of little pieces of left over clay to make brooches. I also use these to try out new colours and ideas. I am usually seen wearing one of my brooches!
Although Ancient Greek pots have been a huge form of inspiration especially in the depiction of runners, in the last year I have been working on themes of mythology.
My instagram is @jane_staniland and my website can be viewed below.
James Aldridge
James Aldridge is a visual artist, based in Wiltshire, UK. James graduated in 1996 with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art (Sculpture) from UCA, Farnham and is an Associate Artist with CAS (Andover) and Climate Museum UK.
His practice combines individual and participatory approaches and researches the role of artful investigations of place in promoting learning and wellbeing (both individual and ecological).
James has carried out residencies and curated exhibitions for a number of arts and environmental organisations, provided professional development for artists and educators, and worked as a visiting lecturer at various Universities.
You can find me on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/jamesaldridgeart, and view my website below.
Tamsin Loveday
Tamsin Loveday is a multi-disciplinary artist with a special interest in paper, printmaking and book-arts.
Working from her studio in Salisbury she offers creative bookbinding solutions and services in addition to actively promoting creativity for wellbeing through creative workshop experiences.
Tamsin’s art practice is research and process led, more often about experience than product.
Key research themes are things that connect us to each other, to landscape, the past and traces of these things.
Tamsin makes art “by any means necessary”, responding creatively to research by matching ideas and materials in ways that resonate with the theme.
A large component of Tamsin’s creative practice is socially engaged, working with individuals and groups of people through participatory arts opportunities.
Tamsin regularly works with partner organisations and cultural providers including Art Care, Wiltshire Creative and Celebrating Age Wiltshire.
Discover more about Tamsin’s creative practice on her website.
https://www.tamsinloveday.com/
Jacqueline Rolls
Jacqueline creates sculptures from willow, as well as hedgerows and recycled materials.
She has worked for many years as an artist and loves meeting new people and sharing her passion for creating with others. You will also find her at events either demonstrating selling her creations, or providing activities. Before she became a full-time artist she used to work part-time as a community worker and she would always find ways to bring her love of creating into her work.
In recent years her time is divided between creating her own work and providing activities and courses for many different organisations, as well as offering her own workshops.
“I really enjoyed spending time with the participants of the Art Care course last autumn, we spent time weaving and experimenting with different materials, it was so good to have the time and opportunity to get to know each other and be able to share new experiences. together, it was lovely when members of the group carried on creating at home and brought their creations to show me I felt quite sad when we finished so it was great to here that Art Care are providing other activities and information for those who want to do more”.
Jayne Woodhouse
Jayne is the author of fiction and non-fiction books for children, short stories for adults and, more recently, stage plays. She also teaches creative writing in Salisbury for all ages and abilities, which gives her the opportunity to pass on some of the enjoyment writing always brings her. You can find out more about Jayne’s writing at