Artists of the Season Winners - Summer 2025!
- ART from HEART
- Jun 9
- 5 min read
Updated: Jul 3
ART from HEART is excited to announce the Winners of the Artist of the Season featured in our SUMMER 2025 edition!
3 Artists, 3 Mediums, 1 Country:
Steve Hines - Mixed Media - UK
Ross Belton - Textile Art - UK
Leigh-anna Barber Corbett - Sculptural Mosaic Assemblage - UK
The competition is open to multimedia artists worldwide and was created to showcase, promote and raise the visibility of the work of emerging and mid-career artists. The winners are featured on our website and social media platforms and considered for any upcoming curatorial projects by ART from HEART. Artworks are selected based on creativity, originality, quality of work, and overall artistic ability.
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Artist Steve Hines - Mixed Media - Nottingham, UK
©Steve Hines, Mixed Media, All Rights Reserved
Left to Right: Nature/Nurture II, polyurethane foam, Erysimum cheiri root, acrylic paint 2021;
Cedar, found, double-sided, Cedar estate agent advertising board, 2020;
Nature/Nurture, salvaged Buddleia tree wood, acrylic paint, matt varnish, 2017
©Steve Hines, Twist & SHOUT Mixed Media Sculpture (Found State Agents Post, Paint, Recycled Concrete Paving Slab), 2020, All Rights Reserved
Artist of the Season Winner Steve Hines is a sculptor driven by curiosity, process, and material exploration. Working primarily with found objects—though not exclusively—his abstract sculptures draw inspiration from the natural world, architecture, and current social conditions. His work engages with materiality in a hands-on, intuitive manner, often incorporating materials such as wood, steel, concrete, fibreglass, acrylic, and PVC foam.
I am interested in formal aesthetics, geometry and Modernism, and also in the notion that art is "useless" and what this means today more widely and within the ‘art world’.
Born in Nottingham, England, Steve began his career in commercial printing before pursuing full-time education at Sunderland University, where he earned a First Class Honours Degree in Photography, Video and Digital Imaging in 1998. His artistic journey has since taken him from Newcastle to Paris and ultimately to London, where he completed an MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in 2005–06.
Over time, Steve’s practice has transitioned from photography and video to sculpture, where he finds lasting satisfaction in shaping physical materials and working within three-dimensional space.
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Artist Ross Belton - Textile Art - London, UK
©Ross Belton, The Weight of the World Installation, 2024, All Rights Reserved
©Ross Belton, Textile Art, All Rights Reserved
Left to Right: Invasion Sculpture, 2024; Stilllife Installation 2021
Artist of the Season Winner Ross Belton is London-based, and his practice is rooted in the intersection of nature and urban life. With a strong commitment to sustainability, he repurposes found and recycled materials, creating work that not only minimises environmental impact but also tells a story of place, identity, and quiet resistance.
Exploring the often-overlooked presence of nature within cities, Ross examines our personal and collective relationship with the natural world.
My work is informed by my own experiences of consumption, time, and personal history, and embraces imperfection, finding beauty in the flaws and fractures of both material and meaning.
Ross allows materials to guide his process. Woven, twisted, and reshaped, they evolve into sculptural clusters and organic forms that seem to grow of their own accord. Each piece develops a unique identity, inviting viewers to see the familiar in new, unexpected ways.
His recent work delves into the turbulent socio-political landscape, confronting themes such as the erosion of civil liberties, environmental crisis, gender alignment, and the global rise of extremism. With a fierce commitment to protecting human rights and the right to protest, Ross uses his practice to offer a form of artistic resistance, a call to awareness through making.
A textile artist with a background in digital media, Ross transitioned from a career in design and broadcast art direction to a life immersed in sustainable textile practices. In 2012, he chose to focus exclusively on natural colour and reclaimed materials, returning to study textiles and later apprenticing under the renowned natural dye expert Jenny Dean. Over four years at Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, Ross became a skilled natural dyeing tutor.
Ross is also the co-founder of moderneccentrics, an art and craft platform established with fellow artist Jonathan Dredge. Together, they promote sustainable creative practices through workshops, exhibitions, and community-based projects. Supported by Arts Council England, their collaborative work includes public programming and educational experiences.
Since 2016, Ross has exhibited nationally and internationally, including as part of Prism Textiles and The Florence Trust’s Artist-in-Residence Programme. Most recently, Ross and moderneccentrics delivered their acclaimed five-day course, Natural Dyeing: A Heritage of Colour, at the V&A Museum in South Kensington, which is now a permanent fixture in the V&A Academy curriculum.
Through material, colour, and form, Ross Belton’s work encourages us to pause, reflect, and reconnect with nature, with each other, and with the urgent need for care in a changing world.
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Artist Leigh-Anna Barber Corbett - Sculptural Mosaic Assemblage - UK
©Leigh-Anna Barber Corbett, Mixed Media Sculptures, All Rights Reserved
Left to Right: Gilded Currents, 2025; Hummingbird, 2025; Frida, 2025
©Leigh-Anna Barber Corbett, Wings of Legacy, Mixed Media Sculpture, 2024, All Rights Reserved
Artist of the Season Winner Leigh-Anna Barber Corbett is a UK-based artist whose intricate, one-of-a-kind sculptures transform forgotten objects into poetic works of art. Using repurposed and vintage materials—broken jewellery, discarded trinkets, worn keepsakes—she meticulously assembles expressive forms such as birds, animals, and nature-inspired mosaics that are rich with personal and symbolic meaning.
Rooted in sustainability and storytelling, her practice celebrates the beauty in imperfection and the emotional resonance of what is often cast aside. Each assemblage becomes a meditation on memory, healing, and the quiet power of transformation.
Leigh-Anna began her career as a Community Arts Practitioner after graduating from the University of Sussex, using creative expression as a tool for communication and emotional exploration with children and adults living with mental health challenges and learning disabilities. That sensitivity to the human condition continues to infuse her work today.
Driven by a deep respect for personal narrative and the hidden poetry of everyday relics, Leigh-Anna’s artistic process begins with the collection of once-loved, often broken objects. These are not just materials—they are stories waiting to be reassembled. Through an intuitive process of placement and response, she pieces them together like a free-form jigsaw, allowing unexpected relationships to emerge. Her work honours both the individual memory held in each object and the shared experience of resilience and renewal.
Her art is also profoundly personal. Having navigated her own journey through addiction and mental health struggles, Leigh-Anna speaks openly of reaching a point of profound fracture. In the act of creating, she discovered a path to healing. As she explains:
Each assemblage reflects survival and transformation, honouring life, time, and the beauty that can emerge from pain. The process of collecting, placing, and reimagining these objects is not just artistic—it is deeply human.
Leigh-Anna’s signature sculptures—featuring birds, fish, skulls, and natural motifs—serve as powerful symbols of freedom, mortality, and the cycles of life. She is drawn to the symmetry and organic rhythms of these forms, allowing them to guide her compositions. In her hands, order and chaos coexist: delicate jewellery, watch parts, and buttons become unified in dynamic tension and visual harmony.
With each piece, she invites viewers to look closer to discover hidden details, textures, and meanings that reveal themselves slowly over time. Her work is both personal and universal: a reminder that from fragments, something whole and hopeful can emerge.
Leigh-Anna has exhibited at prestigious venues including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and numerous galleries across the UK. As she continues to expand the possibilities of assemblage art, her work challenges us to find beauty in the overlooked, meaning in the discarded, and connection in the stories we carry with us.
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