Meet the Artists

Linda Brown

Linda Brown is an artist living and working in St. Albans. She has a background in art, art therapy and Jungian analysis.

After completing a BA in Fine Art at Norwich School of Art she studied on the postgraduate diploma in art therapy in 1975-1976 in St Albans. Since then she has continued to work in the field of psychotherapy and analysis alongside continuing her own art practice.

In recent years she has focussed mainly on printmaking, glass art and oil painting on canvas. The work she is exhibiting here are all original hand-inked prints made at Bodenpress studio near Tring.

She views her work as experimental, using colour and texture to create different atmospheres and impressions. She prefers her work to have a semi abstract quality allowing the viewer to make their own interpretations.

Inspiration is often drawn from a journey, or exploring difference, for example East /West. Another influence is Jung’s idea of ‘The Night Sea Journey,’ an immersion into the depths of the unconscious.

She has exhibited her work in London, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Recent exhibitions include: The University of Hertfordshire, ‘Firm Foundations 2, The Legacy of St Albans School of Art’ and ‘Wild Impressions’ at The Collective Gallery in St Albans. Kimpton Arts Fair 2026.

She is currently exhibiting at Brise Barn in Swanborne as part of Bucks Open Arts weeks.

Virginia Corbett

Virginia Corbett studied at St Albans School of Art (now University of Hertfordshire) after initially training at Goldsmiths in education. She taught in London and Hertfordshire. She has shown her work in joint and solo exhibitions in London, Suffolk and Hertfordshire and abroad.
 
A contemporary painter, Virginia works mainly in oils with a subject matter based on landscape, the model and still life. She also uses printmaking and mixed media processes.
 
She attaches importance to her work being based on initial investigative drawings and returns often to those as a primary source material.
 
She lives near St Albans and works from her studio, a converted dairy, on her farm.

Anna Goldsmith

I am an artist living and working in St Albans. My themes and inspirations are diverse, and some are quite fleeting: a shadow on the table; the land and sky before sunrise; the outcome of a thought or feeling; a dead wasp; nature in general; art.
 
The outer world is an endless supplier of subject matter, and our own nature is perhaps always looking for symbols, somewhere to attach itself.
 
I trained at St Albans School of Art on the Post-Graduate Art Psychotherapy training and later, as an Analytical Psychotherapist, having previously gained a degree in Fine Art (Printmaking) at Leicester Polytechnic. As an Art Psychotherapist I worked for over 35 years, mostly in psychiatry in St Albans. This was a career rich in experiencing the variety of ways people used this to unfold and explore their own subjectivity, personal meaning and enhanced capacity for being.
 
My own special experience of art was as a teenager, where apart from a burning interest and love, it was the delight in creating something where there was nothing before, in its personal value in helping build my identity, and in the consolation it provided during difficult times. Small miracles.

Roger Harlow

After art foundation at St. Albans School of Art and a degree in graphic design at Lanchester Polytechnic (Coventry), I spent my working life in IT. I now dabble in sketching, illustration, printmaking, sculpture and film making.

I have an allotment and enjoy cooking (especially outdoors) and eating out a lot. In my spare time I play the ukulele. I live in St. Albans.
 

Dione Verulam

Dione Verulam was brought up in Sussex and went to Exeter University where she read History and Archaeology. At the start of her artistic career Dione worked with her mother, trading as Verona Stencilling, looking after private clients, interior decorators, hotels, restaurants, and several churches. Dione then founded the Gorhambury Group, and studied painting under a succession of art masters over a period of 15 years. She lives at Gorhambury, St Albans and is an occasional student at the University of Hertfordshire.
 
Nowadays, Dione focuses on making collages. The tearing, cutting and laying of one coloured shape beside another gives her the freedom she enjoys. Her work is informed by family life, foreign lands, and the people she meets along the way. Over the years, Dione has designed carpets, Corten steel cutouts, painted and stencilled screens, stencilled curtains, cushions and a weathervane.
 
In 2026, Dione worked on a volunteer project to produce six large backdrops (105 x 240 cm) for the Young People’s Puppet Theatre, for a production of The Soldier’s Tale by Igor Stravinsky.
 
Dione’s work is in collections in the UK, Australia, America, Switzerland and Spain.

Esther Wragg

Through the process of extracting shapes from landscape, trees and figures, Esther explores the relationship and crossover between figurative and abstract painting. The juxtaposition of colour, pattern, shape and texture are always an important consideration in her work. Currently favouring matt acrylics and gouache, her work has a directness and honesty of mark.
 
Esther Wragg trained as a textile designer graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1982. Her use of collage and mixed media result from her interest in texture and mark making. The natural world is a recurring theme in her work, from her wood and bone sculptures to her painted paper pieces. The process is often initiated through her photographs, seeing the world through her camera lens.
 
“My father was a photographer so from a young age I was aware of the importance of composition within a frame, the changing light and observing how that affects the colour as well as the image. This is a significant part of my working process and how I approach my drawing and painting.”
 
MA Royal College of Art, London 1980-82
BA (Hons) Textile Design, Liverpool 1977-80
 
Lives and works in St Albans, keen ‘wild’ gardener, photographer, husband, 3 children, 6 grandchildren and a dog.

Stephen Wragg

Stephen Wragg studied Fine Art (Painting) at Cambridge and Chelsea Schools of Art 1976-80.
 
“I tend to focus obsessively on a particular subject for an extended period in an attempt to derive maximum visual and metaphorical meaning.
 
I am currently visiting trees daily to draw and learn from them. I want to understand their story, to make a visual field recording of the marks and scars and historical injuries written into their bark and marvel at their self-healing processes; their extraordinary resilience in the face of multiple threats.
 
Lastly, I would add that this is art created solely outdoors, in all weathers. My proximity to the subject is essential: to the feel, the presence and essence of the tree in front of me as I stand under or within the protection of its branches.”
 
Stephen Wragg – May 2026