Margaret Hinchliffe trained as a research scientist but turned to painting later in life. She has trained with various artists including Terry Kerman and latterly John McCombs.

Margaret has a passion for colour, life studies and flowers and has been able to combine these in most of her work. She has an expressionist style which brings out the full emotional elements in her subject and which is reminiscent of that of Pierre Bonnard.

It has been frequently said that her style is joyous.

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Hilary Clegg-Mullany, who was born in Littleborough in 1944, has been an artist all her life.

She is essentially a people painter who composes most of her work around life situations with focus on the human condition but extends it to include interiors, still life and some outdoor observation within the composition.

Hilary's life's work so far is culminating in a particular style which is her own but she has been influenced by and learned from many painters, including Giotto, Michelangelo, Goya, Degas, Rossetti, Morris and Bonnard.

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Sonia Ratcliff, a former journalist, is exhibiting her latest oil paintings.

She has exhibited throughout the UK, and twice in Australia.

Her work has been accepted by the Royal Academy and Manchester Academy and has been purchased for public and private collections here and abroad.

Venues for one-woman shows include the Edinburgh Festival and Bond Street London.

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