Meet the family
Ruth, Simon and Noah Carter are a family of artists living and working in North East Essex. Their work has been exhibited nationally and internationally for many years, but in 2022 they exhibited together for the first time and after two successful pop up shops at Old Grocery, Wivenhoe they launched Carters Gallery online.
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Ruth Carter
Jeweller, artist and maker
Ruth Carter’s work is inspired by the landscape and coast of North East Essex and is exhibited in shops and galleries across East Anglia.
Her jewellery features handmade glass and polymer clay beads. She makes watercolours and hand-painted silk scarves, often depicting native insects or flowers cut from the garden, and her papier-mâché sculptures are life-sized representations of British birds found in the garden or the local rivers and estuaries.
Instagram: @createdbyruthcarter
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Simon Carter
Painter
Simon Carter is an artist and curator who was born in Chelmsford, Essex in 1961. He studied at Colchester Institute (1980–81) and then North East London Polytechnic (1981–84).
In 2013 he collaborated with artist Robert Priseman to form the artist led group Contemporary British Painting and then the ‘East Contemporary Art Collection’, the first dedicated collection of contemporary art for the East of England which is housed at the University of Suffolk, Ipswich.
www.simoncarterpaintings.co.uk
Instagram: @simoncarter11
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Noah Carter
Filmmaker and painter
Noah Carter (b. Essex, 1992) is a filmmaker and artist based in Wivenhoe, UK. He studied Architecture at University of Kent (2010-16). In 2018 he started a film production company which specialises in producing short documentary films about the visual arts.
He began exhibiting his own paintings in 2020 and was selected for the Royal Watercolour Society Open 2023. He won the RWS Young Artist Award and became a Guest member of the Royal Watercolour Society.
Instagram: @noahcarterstudio