Artists and Designers

The creative practitioners have provided the centre with an aesthetic that sets it apart from any other community centre. They have set up social enterprises and small businesses that have helped make the centre a marketplace for innovative design, high quality products and unique artworks. They have also shared their skills with disadvantaged community members so that they can grow, be creative and develop their own self confidence.

Many creative people have contributed, but the ones that continue to be important players are to follow. Please click on the highlighted name to reach their private websites and emails.

Flyover Arts members:

Frank Creber

Frank is Creative Director at the centre and was a founding artist in 1986. He runs arteast, the social enterprise that supports adults with disabilities and learning difficulties in the making of public art and design and print merchandise.

Frank is also the official Water City artist, documenting the rapid changes happening to the local community and their ever-changing skyline.

Margy Creber

Margy was a founding artist in 1986.

She has worked with children and families connected to the centre ever since, always introducing new creative ways to engage and teach.

Margy currently manages the Marner Centre, a local family centre that shares clients with the Bromley by Bow Centre.

In her private practice she paints interior scenes and studies of classic works.

Lydia Gardner

Lydia is an artist and entrepreneur with residencies in four London schools. She works in painting and sculpture.

Lydia has a history of supporting the centre's creative social enterprises with marketing and development and currently works for arteast and artychoke under the Working Wonders programme.

passenger Paula Haughney

Paula is the resident sculptor with a studio on-site. Many of her large works adorn the centre's grounds. She works mainly in stone and continues to take on large commissions.

Paula teaches for various bodies and also runs weekend workshops here at the centre.

Her other work for the centre is with Young at Art, an art club for people aged 50 and over, part of the Working Wonders programme.

battle sheenagh Sheenagh Mckinlay

Sheenagh is a resident artist running a stained glass business from her studio at the centre. She is a stained glass maker, specialising in working with salvaged painted glass. Sheenagh works to commission and also runs workshops for the community, corporate groups and private clients.

murude bowl Mürüde Mehmet

Mürüde is a resident ceramics artist running a pottery studio at the centre. She runs workshops and tutorials for community group and private clients.

She produces public artworks to commission and also sells ceramic wares with her business partner John Crabb under the company name Müjo.

Paul Shaw glass Paul Shaw

Paul creates bespoke and ready made window panels for private clients, working mainly in abstract styles. He runs glass fusing workshops from the centre studio where he shares a space with Sheenagh.

He also co-runs Young at Art, an art club for people aged 50 and over under the Working Wonders programme.

Freelance artworkers:

maria head Maria Alvarez-Echenique

Maria has worked with the centre's creative enterprises since 2003. She works for the young people's enterprise Signs of Life and has also run workshops for community care groups and arteast.

Maria's private practice is in ceramics and she exhibits her unique work world-wide.

Nicky Creber

Nicky is a painter and carpenter whose private work often involves building large three-dimensional installations. As a member of the Fish Island artist community, his paintings are often exhibited as part of the Water City initiative.

For the Centre, he also assists in the running of art workshops for people with disabilities and learning difficulties.

Freelance designers:

furniture group yew table Nick Coughlan

Nick has designed and built furniture in the centre carpentry workshop for close to ten years. He works mainly for health centres, fitting out receptions and consulting rooms with bespoke furniture. His sustainable outdoor furniture is also a great feature in uban spaces across London.

signs of life workshop Rick Levene

Rick is a designer and entrepreneur working with young people. He manages the centre's young people's public art enterprise Signs of Life. His other work includes SHED involving performance, music and recording. He also designs for Furniture on the Street engaging young people in the making of urban furniture. Rick's consultancy practice is called The Invisible Man.

Green Dreams Landscape Design Team

The Green Dreams practice as an award-winning group of landscape architects and designers and successful trading arm of the Bromley by Bow Centre. Please click on the title to go direct to their profile.

Chiu Mayes-Loh

sparrow design