Unfiltered Sessions

Emma is a wine buyer, educator and consultant based in Frome. After studying Biomedical Sciences, she quickly realised she'd rather spend her time talking about wine than science, and hasn't looked back since.

Over the last 15 years she's taught wine qualifications, sold wine to everyone from restaurants to superyachts, and now sources wines from around the world as a buyer. Along the way she's indulged her love of travel, meeting producers and discovering new regions. She has also embarked on the notoriously difficult Master of Wine programme, and hopes one day to be one of only 422 in the world.

In that time she's watched English wine grow from a niche curiosity into one of the most exciting categories in the wine world, and she can't wait to share a few brilliant bottles with you.

Matt Loughlin is a traditionally trained letter-cutter and stone carver based in Somerset. Originally from New York, he worked as a graphic designer for over a decade before pursuing a career in craft. After several years apprenticing to a master letter-cutter, he started his own practice, The Memorial Workshop, taking on international commissions for fine art sculpture and bespoke memorials. Recent clients include St. Edmund's College, Cambridge and the Royal Literary Fund.

Toby Gawler

Toby Gawler is an Australian-born British artist living and working in Margate. After a Fine Arts degree in Painting in Sydney and over a decade immersed in tattooing, he trained in traditional oil painting at London Fine Art Studios, where he now teaches. Working live, his painting explores selfhood, memory and nostalgia, drawing on 20th-century Australian portraiture and masters such as Sargent, Sorolla and Goya.

He has exhibited with the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Royal Society of British Artists, the New English Art Club and the Chelsea Art Society, and has appeared on Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year.

Cristina Vercesi

Cristina Vercesi is an Italian-born artist living and working in London, where she trained in the traditional atelier method at London Fine Art Studios and now teaches. Grounded in classical technique but moving beyond academic realism, her work turns to symbolic imagery, atmospheric colour and the inner life of images, informed by ideas from Jungian psychology. She has exhibited with the Royal Institute of Portrait Painters, the Chelsea Art Society, the Society of Women Artists and the Royal Society of British Artists, and is a de Laszlo Scholar.