Six Seeds Succeed: Year 2 Fine Art & Craft Exhibition

Dates: Friday 13th–Sunday 28th February 2026 @ ArtBomb

Opening Hours: Please keep an eye on ArtBomb's Instagram stories and the ArtBomb calendar for daily opening times and updates.

The Six Seeds Succeed exhibition showcases work by Year 2 Fine Art and Craft degree students from University Campus Doncaster, celebrating creative learning rooted in the local community. 

Through experimentation with materials, ideas, and making, the works share developing practices and warmly invite visitors to connect with the area’s emerging creative voice.

Together, the six Doncaster-based artists featured in this exhibition spotlight the practical skills they have developed through the studio-based Fine Art and Craft degree programme, each bringing their own personality, research interests and lived experience to their creative process. 

Lovingly dubbed “the lab", ArtBomb's high street gallery is a place for artists at all stages of their creative career to experiment with new ideas and to share this experimental process with passersby. Following a successful exhibition last year, ArtBomb were delighted to invite a new cohort of Year 2 Fine Art & Craft students to take over the  lab and to present their work outside of the classroom for the first time.

Special thanks to Michael Bunn & Andrea Sutton (Programme Leaders, BA (Hons) Fine Art and Craft, University Campus Doncaster.

Ahead of their exhibition launch, ArtBomb's Jennie caught up with the artists to learn more about the inspiration behind their work. Learn more about the artists below!

James Warner

@jamesemmanuelwarner

“I'm inspired by the Czech creatives that shaped the media in my childhood: Jiří Trnka and his gorgeous puppets and stop motion, Josef Lada and his illustrations that could be found in just about every classroom calendar and so on."

“Art has always been something I excelled at, often being a safe haven for self-exploration and creativity. Being creative means being myself: I simply wouldn't be me without it."

Debbie Blackmore

“I've always loved crafting, and I used to do lots of craft activities with my girls when I was a Rainbow Guide leader, but I'd never really been into actual art."

“When I moved to Telford in 2016, I signed up for a ‘Clay Making for Mental Health' short course. The tutor, Anne-Marie Lagram, also ran local craft & art groups which I joined. After attending Anne-Marie's art group for two years, she urged me to study further and so I attended Telford College, where I earned a foundation diploma in Art & Design. I later attended Wolverhampton University, where I was studying a degree in Glass & Ceramics, but unfortunately the course ended early. When I moved up to Wakefield last year, I got the opportunity to complete my degree by attending Doncaster College, where I am now."

“I can't say who I'm inspired by. I like trying many different things, but my initial inspiration was Anne-Marie Lagram who encouraged me to study further."

Shirley Werner

“I have always been creative from being a small child. I have a highly active and creative imagination and often perceive the world not as it is."

“I am very instinctual in my work-led processes. Sometimes, I find the mundane and ambiguous stimulating. At other times,  it is great works of art that can move and inspire me. My influences include Abstract and German Expressionism, Bauhaus, Cubism, Paul Cézanne and Pablo Picasso in his many periods  and countless contemporary artists all play a part. I feel like a sponge soaking up the visuals around me."

Kwai Chang Kibble

“The inspiration for my current work is based on the symbols found on a Chinese Dragon robe of an emperor of China. It made me think of how I would convey my own thoughts of happiness, good luck, protection and longevity to my family and friends. The work aims to show this through the use of motifs and colours found amongst the objects in my home and the rituals we carry out."

“I have always been creative since I was a child. I could be found drawing, colouring, cutting up different papers for collage. My teachers through the years were very encouraging of this, my parents not so much. I returned to this creative path a few years ago, and it is very rewarding."

Kath Boughton

“I have been influenced by many visits to art galleries, artists' open events and workshops over the years plus a very inspirational art teacher at school.I have always enjoyed painting portraits and landscape, having attended Stourbridge Art College before going to Royal Worcester Porcelain to train as a figure paintress."

“I like the work of John Piper, English painter and printer. His use of vibrant colours and architectural studies fascinate me."

Denisa Feniser

“The main inspiration behind my work is really myself, my childhood and the way my ideas have developed and changed through the years. I like exploring personal memories and how they continue to shape my creativity over time."

“To me, creativity means being able to imagine, experiment, and turn simple ideas into something meaningful. I’ve been creative since I was a child, always playing with paper, cutting out different shapes, and enjoying making things with my hands."