Make Merton Merry are delighted to announce our first artist to come onboard with the project is Katie Parsons.

Katie works out of her studio in Wimbledon and has a particular passion for collage and printmaking. Katie also tries to use recycled materials where possible and recently completed an artist’s residency at Queens College Prep School in Regents Park.

We are loving her colourful, simple, yet sophisticated approach to her work and are looking forward to seeing what the children come up with in her workshop!

See more of Katie's work at, Katie Parsons Creates

Our latest artist to join Make Merton Merry is Portia Dadley, who possibly a bit confusingly, works with a number of fellow creatives under the umbrella of 'Made in Merton'! 

As the name suggests they are very much a Merton collective delivering lots of projects throughout the borough we know that their workshops are bounds to produce some great results!

See more of Portia's work at, Made In Merton

Ieva Pazemeckaite is an artist and owner of bee creative art hub in Merton Abbey Mills. Her work is predominantly inspired by nature and spiritual wisdom resulting in colourful, abstract symbolist works.

Ieva loves to be part of community and build an environment where we can all benefit; she is passionate about children developing their own personal talent and to guide them to have a healthy creative mindful life.

See more of Ieva's work at, Bee Creative Art Hub

Alicia Ongay Perez, is an experienced educator and artist and lives in Merton.

Having worked orginally in Design and Architecture for over 15 years Alicia developed a passion for delivering community engagement projects and now runs 'Hands On Big Ideas' which offers socially engaged, making events and experiences for children and adults; combining workshop delivery with commission based community artworks.

Alicia works with a broad variety of mediums and techniques including textiles, illustration, painting and sculpture.

See more of Alicia's work at, Hands On, Big Ideas

The Artist Dickie W currently splits his time between Merton and the North East of England. Previously he served as an independent councillor for Merton Park Ward, as part of his passion was to see Morden Regeneration get underway (it didn't, despite numerous funding opportunities) However, the experience and insight did give him the idea of connecting artists with local schools and to display the work in local businesses to help encourage people to vist their local high streets and engender a sense of civic pride; and so he decided after stepping down as a councillor, to apply for funding to do carry out the project.

Dickie already had proof of concept as he had for many years produced an annual Chirstmas Window for Turner Property in Morden, using work created by Children at St Teresa's Primary School. Gathering lots of interest from the parents and pupils and the general public, who recognised the simple joy and value of seeing colourful, window displays brighten up the high street.

Follow Dickie on insta: theartistdickiew