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Jacqueline Real

Jacqueline Real was born in Zurich and studied in Switzerland and Austria.

“To me, painting means feeling intensely, living, expressing the inexpressible with paint. It means listening to your innermost self, being quiet, being impulsive, marvelling, hoping – seeing the light and being overwhelmed.”

Jacqueline Real’s pictures unearth landscapes and nature buried deep in the unconscious. Above all, it is the colours which, in their harmonious composition and their precise contrasts result in a subliminal experience.

She has had many Solo and Group Exhibitions in Switzerland, England, Germany and USA. Jacqueline is a member of Visarte, Switzerland and Fellow of Free Painters and Sculptors, London.

Jaqueline Real has work in many private and public collections including Risk Publications, UBS, CS, Tokio Bank, British Government, Crown Court Truro, Marc Rich, Johnson & Johnson, Strutt & Parker, Morgan, Lewis and Bockius, SmithKline Beecham, Holiday Inn Express etc….etc

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Categories:

Paintings
Prints

Mediums:

Collage
Painting on Canvas & Paper
Paper/Paper Pulp
Prints – Artist

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Landscape
Seascape/Water

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To me, painting means feeling intensely, living, expressing the inexpressible with paint. It means listening to your innermost self, being quiet, being impulsive, marvelling, hoping - seeing the light and being overwhelmed.

Jacqueline Real

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Philip Melling

Philip Melling works predominantly in metals creating an eclectic range of sculpture for exhibition, private clients and public installation.

He draws inspiration mostly from the materials he uses. Through concepts of movement and through experimentation he develops the shape of his sculptures.

His collection ‘Elements’ focuses on Earth, Air, Water and Fire and describing the reaction when those elements meet.

In developing the collection Philip Melling concentrated on using a repetitive form – curved metal bars, to generate concepts and capture the movement of elemental reactions.

Philip’s sculptures are designed to work as sculptures for the home, office and garden, as well as larger scale installations for private or public spaces.

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Categories:

Sculptures

Sculpture Type:

Exterior
Interior

Mediums:

Sculpture – Metal-Fabricated

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Architectual

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Alex Pearce

Alex Pearce is a painter of cityscapes and other landscapes.

The constant pushing and pulling of mediums has been a key element with in his paintings. This has allowed his exploration of cityscapes and the manipulation of light to be constantly moving forward and changing. As the cityscape changes with every new building or as the sun or moon changes with every new day.

The subject of his paintings is the manipulation of light in a cityscape and its modern architecture. It is the small details which help to build up his paintings. Through the use of photography and drawing Alex has been able to capture some of the development in London.

The details that can be seen in his work come from observing the city and its architecture. This has allowed Alex to experience the key details people notice. Why certain people stop to discover an architectural feature that catches their attention. It is these details that become noticeable in the drawings or paintings of architecture.

Alex Pearce’s painting style has taken on an abstracted yet romantic theme. The colours in his paintings being very nostalgic. This is key to creating the notion of silence and subtlety when being viewed. Together with this calming nature it is the dominant forms of the buildings and features that help to give presence to his paintings.

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Categories:

Paintings
Photography

Mediums:

Drawings
Mixed Media
Paintings on Canvas, Panels & Paper
Pastels
Photography

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Architectural
Cityscape/Urban
Landscape
Seascape/Water

Alex Pearce - The Moon through the Abyss IV

Alex Pearce - The Moon through the Abyss III

Alex Pearce - The Moon through the Abyss II

Alex Pearce - The Moon through the Abyss I

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The constant pushing and pulling of mediums has been a key element with in my paintings. This has allowed my exploration of cityscapes and the manipulation of light to be constantly moving forward and changing.

Alex Pearce

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Ian Turnock

Ian Turnock produces sculpture inspired by patterns and symmetry in nature. One of his main sources of inspiration are the silhouettes formed against the sky by tree foliage at different times of the year.

The spaces between the branches and leaves are just as important. A concept known in Japanese gardens as ‘Ma’, and is akin to the silences between the notes in music. Sometimes it is the gaps I am looking for just as much as the leaves themselves.

Ian Turnock has a background in graphic design which influences his exploration of form and line. Drawings and photographs are the starting point from which he develops organic, abstract and figurative sculpture.

Ian creates intricate and detailed drawings from which the final artwork is digitally cut. The designs can be cut in stainless steel, corten, aluminium, copper, reclaimed steel and plywood. This transforms the drawn line into a tangible object.

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Categories:

Sculpture

Sculpture Type:

Exterior
Interior

Mediums:

Sculpture – Metal-Fabricated

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical

Ian Turnock - Eye of the Hurricane on Wall

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I create intricate and detailed drawings from which the final artwork is digitally cut into stainless steel, corten, aluminium, copper, reclaimed steel and plywood, transforming the drawn line into a tangible object.

Ian Turnock

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Wellington North

As part of the ongoing refurbishment project Art Contact was asked to supply artworks for the ground floor of the Wellington North Hospital. Working with the project management team a series of bespoke images were commissioned to complement the theme of the ground floor.

In keeping with the overall design the images were printed onto acrylic panels and installed using stainless steel stand-off fixings

Bespoke photographic collages were commissioned by Art Contact as artworks for the Wellington North Ground Floor to both enhance the design and to create a link to the local community.

A photographer was commissioned by Art Contact to photograph local landmarks and to create a series of photographic collages to enhance the design of the department and to create a sense of place within the locality.

Project Summary
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Object – Source & Select Artworks for the Ground Floor
Client – HCA Wellington North Hospital
Sector – Healthcare
Location – St John’s Wood, London
Status – Completed

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Curry Lover Lover

Curry Lover Lover required art to help improve the ambience of their restaurant – The Tamarind in Potters Bar. They had recently refurbished the restaurant and needed art to further enhance the ambience.

Art Contact sourced and selected the art which the client decided to rent rather than buy as it helped their cash flow following the refurbishment.

A large mirror was also included to bring more light into an otherwise slightly dark area in the restaurant.

The artworks were framed very simply in polished wooden frames and installed out of hours at the request of the client.

Project Summary
Services Provided

Object – Source & Supply Rented art for Restaurant
Client – Curry Lover Lover Ltd
Sector – Hotel & Leisure
Location – Potters Bar
Status – On-going

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Max Mortiboys

Max Mortiboys paintings are as much about the denial of gesture as being a celebration of gesture. His work involves drawing, painting and scanning practices, with the idea of extracting and magnifying constantly.

His large scale paintings arise from an instinctive, almost chaotic process. This involves pulling apart and reassembling visual and material components.

The thick and unforgiving house gloss paint he uses, corresponds directly with the heavily primed white canvas, elevating every mark.

Hidden in the clean finished aesthetic of the paintings, a few tricks and games subtly occur. Be it the sudden ruptures in movement or variations in line and colour.

For his latest body of work, he uses a limited and bold colour palette on large scale canvas, translating the essence of his textural inspiration in a stripped back style into his own gestural language.

Max Mortiboys graduated from Chelsea College of Arts in 2018.

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Categories:

Paintings

Mediums:

Paintings on Canvas

Subject Matter:

Abstract

Max Mortiboys - Don't Be Blue Peter - 2018

Max Mortiboys - As Edgy as a Satsuma - 2018

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My large scale paintings arise from an instinctive, almost chaotic process. This involves pulling apart and reassembling visual and material components.

Max Mortiboys

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David Dodsworth

David Dodsworth is a well established artist. The most common question he is asked is; “what kind of thing do you do”? The answer is always a different, generally reflecting the most recent works that he has been involved with.

In previous work he has looked closely at the imagery of prehistory, and calligraphy in many different language systems, using paint and print.

A commission for a series of glass bowls and sculptures being made in Los Angeles took his work in a totally new direction.

David Dodsworth has a wide range of interests and many of the pieces are derived from nature, architecture, and geometric composition. However, some things; his love of music, and its resonance for instance, is best expressed abstractly.

His approach is best described as eclectic (n) one who uses a method or approach that is composed of elements drawn from various sources or (in art) selecting what seems best from various styles, doctrines, ideas, methods, etc.

At the moment he is looking at the way that technology and digitisation can be used to obscure, reveal, or degenerate a figurative image, combined with layers of consciousness.

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Paintings
Prints

Other Categories:

Glass – Sculptural Bowls

Mediums:

Paintings on Canvas
Paintings on Panels
Paintings on Paper
Prints – Artist Limited Editions

Subject Matter:

Abstract

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At the moment I am looking at the way that technology and digitisation can be used to obscure reveal or degenerate a figurative image combined with layers of consciousness.

David Dodsworth

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Tamarind Restaurant Art Rental

Restaurant Art Rental – to introduce colour to the space. Bold colourful prints were selected to create the desired ambience at a competitive price.

Jacqueline Real, painter and print maker, whose pictures unearth landscapes and nature buried deep in the unconscious. Above all, it is the colours which, in their harmonious composition and their precise contrasts result in a subliminal experience.

Annette Routledge, painter and print maker who studied at Brighton, Camberwell and Trinity College Dublin.

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Susan Andreae

Susan Andreae is a sculptor and printmaker based in London.

Having grown up in London, she is fascinated by the complexity of living in the city – the crowds, commuters, architecture and energy of urban life.

She also travels frequently to Southern Italy and is inspired by the simplicity of the ancient architecture and colours of the Mediterranean.

Ideas evolve for Susan Andreae from things she sees and experiences and always from drawings made in situ, which start the creative process. She then experiments with techniques of layering using multiple images superimposed to arrive at a final image, eluding to the passing of time and historical change.

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Categories:

Prints
Sculpture

Sculpture Type:

Interior
Tabletop

Mediums:

Prints – Artist-Etchings
Sculpture – Metal-Cast
Sculpture – Concrete/Plaster/Ceramic

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Architectural
Landscape
Urban

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Having grown up in London, I am fascinated by the complexity of living in the city – the crowds, commuters, architecture and energy of urban life.

Susan Andreae

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Stella Corrall

Stella Corrall has delivered site-specific well-being solutions for healthcare, public sector and corporate buildings since 2004.

This broad portfolio of ambitious commissions is centred on delivering original concepts through to installed premium permanent artworks. She does not approach projects with preconceived ideas; rather the aim is to create a distinct and individual identity which is relevant and sensitive to each context with both material solutions and overall aesthetics.

With her wealth of experience and designed material combinations varying with each project’s requirements, from printed transparencies to our innovative in-house recycled plastics, clients can be sure to receive truly refreshing outcomes.

Stella Corrall is currently producing a suspended work for Huddersfield University’s new Art, Design & Architecture ‘Barbara Hepworth’ building using our bespoke recycled polycarbonate balanced with unique profiles housing LEDs.

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Categories:

Installations
Wall Panels
Other

Mediums:

Installation
Light
Mixed Media
Prints – Transparencies
Plastic
Other

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical
Landscape
Site Specific Subject/Theme

Selected Commissions

Sale Grammar Sixth Form College, Manchester
Walton Centre, Neurology Hospital, Liverpool
One Newall Street, Birmingham
Franking Sense Offices, Bolton
Waitrose, Solihull, Birmingham
Leisure Centre, Huddersfield
Horton Wing, St. Luke’s Hospital, Bradford
Bolton at Home Offices
Bert Williams Leisure Centre, Wolverhampton
Horton Wing, St. Luke’s Hospital, Bradford

Stella Corrall - Suspended Facade Artwork

Stella Corrall - Suspended Atrium Artwork

Stella Corrall - Office Partitioning Transparency

Stella Corrall - External Facade Artwork

Stella Corrall - Corporate Office Transparency

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I do not approach projects with preconceived ideas; rather the aim is to create a distinct and individual identity which is relevant and sensitive to each context with both material solutions and overall aesthetics.

Stella Corrall

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Julia Brooker

Julia Brooker paints on aluminium because she was seduced by the way it reflects light off its metal surface through veils of transparent colour. She revels in the sumptuousness of paint as it sits on the cool surface and is driven in the attempt to make beautiful paintings.

Some of her paintings have the instant appeal of vivid jewel like colours. Others are more subtle and layer veils of sepia, black, white and grey. Increasingly she combines drawing with painting to make multi layered paintings.

‘When the viewer gets close I hope they will enjoy the tiny accidental droplets that fall, the ‘hand-made-ness’ of the paintings. Closeness should offer up more, a desire to touch the surface, a stillness.’

Julia Brooker studied ceramics before she became a painter. Those luscious crystalline glazed surfaces like cake icing on coarse clay, and her love of gorgeous textiles are both reflected in the surface qualities of her paintings. She finds ways to weave layers of paint and textures together. Julia is always pleased by the way people want to touch her paintings to see how they feel.

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Categories:

Paintings
Wall Panels

Mediums:

Painting on Panels
Acrylic Paint on Aluminium Panels

Subject Matter:

Abstract

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'When the viewer gets close I hope they will enjoy the tiny accidental droplets that fall, the 'hand-made-ness' of the paintings. Closeness should offer up more, a desire to touch the surface, a stillness.'

Julia Brooker

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Irma Irsara

Irma Irsara has a special interest in ecology, conservation and climate change. These have always guided her creative practice. She was brought up in the foothills of Monte Croce in the Italian Dolomites. Where her paternal grandfather managed significant areas of woodland in Fanes National Park. This has always influenced he artwork.

Irma studied at the Scuola d’Arte di Ortisei & Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino, both in Italy, and St Martins School of Art. She also studied Country Care and Conservation at Capel Manor Horticultural College to develop her knowledge of Conservation.

Her work encompasses a broad range of media and techniques: installations, video, bookworks,

photography, prints and the pulp/cotton fibre works which represent a large part of her output.

Her fibre art ‘pulp‘ work uses organic material and storm debris such as fallen bark. This is combined with pure cotton to create lyrical reflections of changes in natural forms. For example, her series ‘Watermarks’ explored rising water levels as evidenced in the lines on canal walls.

Irma Irsara has shifted her focus to invisible nature, micro pollution and micro fibre plastics. Through the use of micro-photography, film and time lapse she has created a new range of artworks.

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Categories:

Prints
Photography
Digital
Installations
Other – Paper Pulp Artworks

Mediums:

Digital
Installation
Light
Paper/Paper Pulp

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Landscape

Irma Irsara - Rugiada nel giardino delle delizie

Irma Irsara - Il gelo e la fessura-triptich

Irma Irsara - Il colore e di chi lo sa canzonare

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My fibre art ‘pulp‘ work uses organic material and storm debris such as fallen bark. This is combined with pure cotton to create lyrical reflections of changes in natural forms.

Irma Irsara

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Alberto Fusco

Alberto Fusco creates wall panels made up with folded and manipulated paper. The intricately folded paper is transformed into textural geometrical forms becoming sculptural pieces in their own right.

In recent years his work has developed and is widely exhibited and is included in several corporate collections.

His work is often displayed behind a perspex cover to protect the artwork from damage and the ingress of dust. This also gives the artwork a jewel like property.

Alberto Fusco now concentrates on site specific commissions for both corporate and private collections.

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Installations
Wall Panels

Mediums:

Mixed Media
Printed Paper Folded and set into Panel

Subject Matter:

Abstract

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Claire Brewster

Since Claire Brewster could first pick up a pencil, art was the only thing she was really interested in. Her journey to become a professional artist has involved living in Spain and Romania and working for a high profile architects practice. All the time working away developing her art.

Claire grew up in Lincolnshire and has been living and working in London for over 20 years. She has been pursuing art as a profession since 2000 and recently made the jump to work on my sculptures full-time. She is grateful to have had the opportunity to exhibit her work widely – from Manchester Art Gallery to Sydney, Australia.

Claire Brewster has also been lucky enough to have her work published in many magazines and books including – Vogue, World of Interiors, Marie-Claire Maison, Casa de Arbitrare, Paper, Tear, Fold, Rip, Crease, Cut – Black Dog publishing and Underground Maps – Lund Humphries.

Claire is pleased to say she was invited to be an inaugural member of the Perrier Jouet Art Salon and Prize. The salon met twice a year and awarded a prize to an artist/designer within 5 year of graduating.

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Categories:

Paintings
Installations

Mediums:

Mixed Media
Collage
Acrylic Ink and Paint on Canvas
Sculpture – Paper

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Portrait/Figurative
Animal/Botanical

Claire Brewster - A Rose is a Rose is a Rose

Claire Brewster - Always Thinking of You

Claire Brewster - Maintaining the Mystery

Claire Brewster - We Just Want to be Invisible

Claire Brewster - What Were You Expecting

Claire Brewster - You Are Always on my Mind

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Michelle House

Michelle House is an abstract artist with over 20 year’s experience creating unique textile artworks and digital art prints. Her inspiration comes from the patterns and geometry within architecture. As well as the physical mixing and layering of colours, the texture of cloth and the print process.

Michelle House moved from painting and collage on paper to applying the same approach with textiles. Taking photographs and making drawings, she then edits and designs on a computer, before transferring her photographic images to silkscreens.

Michelle uses screens in conjunction with hand-cut stencils as a palette from which to select and build up her final composition. Using imagery and colour in an abstract way to create focal points, balance and space.

The dye’s and pigments, in combinations of transparent and opaque layers, are screen-printed and painted on to differently textured fabrics, which are then meticulously sewn together to make a single piece, or series of related works.

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Prints
Digital
Wall Panels
Textiles & Rugs

Textile Type:

Textiles
Wall Hangings
Rugs

Mediums:

Collage
Digital
Prints – Artist
Prints – Other

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Architectural
Cityscape/Urban
Interiors

Michelle House - Crafted City - Orange & Pink

Michelle House - Chevron Looking up Reeds

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My inspiration comes from the patterns and geometry within architecture. As well as the physical mixing and layering of colours, the texture of cloth and the print process.

Michelle House

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Zac Greening

Zac Greening draws his inspiration principally from nature – ‘the ultimate sculptress’. He finds the sculptural forms created by the sun, moon, waves and trees particularly inspiring as symbols of sustainability.

He works in a wide range of media from discarded plastic bottles to organic matter. Often these materials are fused together to reinforce the aesthetic or narrative that he’s looking to express.

A narrative is created that highlights the relationship between man and the natural environment.

Common themes found in his work often abstractly express or make a comment on current issues. Issues such as sustainability, environmental degradation, or consumption. Alternatively they may simply be an expression of the marvel and awe he sees in a sunset or the kinetic and meditative experience found in the rolling of sea waves.

Zac Greening communicates and reminds the viewer of mankind’s inextricable socio-economic and spiritual link with the natural world

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Categories:

Sculptures
Installations
Wall Panels

Sculpture Type:

Exterior
Interior

Medium:

Mixed Media
Recycled Materials
Wood
Other

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical

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A narrative is created that highlights the relationship between man and the natural environment. Common themes found in my work often abstractly express or make a comment on current issues.

Zac Greening

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Allan Forsyth

Allan Forsyth (b. 1971) is a photographic artist based in London. Forsyth’s work explores a breadth of themes, reflected in the range of techniques he employs. Analogue and digital exposures taken by the artist exist in his work, alongside computer generated imagery, photograms, and photographic collages from historic magazines and vintage postcards.

Forsyth’s work conveys his love of the drama of nature, seeking to expand the beauty of natural forms that we sometimes overlook in everyday life showing an extra dimension in his work. The resulting works are mesmerising, vivid images of flora and fauna created by Forsyth using various photographic techniques to enhance colour and create movement.

Allan Forsyth often uses extensive digital manipulation in editing his images, resulting in a photographic aesthetic that is highly stylised and immediately recognisable. He identifies himself as ‘an artist that uses photography’ rather than a photographer, emphasising the importance of the image over the tools and processes. This move away from the camera has also led Forsyth to explore camera-less photo imaging techniques like the photogram, a Victorian Era process in which light projected onto photosensitive paper captures the silhouette of an object placed in front of it.

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Categories:

Photography

Mediums:

Photography
Photomontage
Photograms

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical
Still Life

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My work conveys my love of the drama of nature, seeking to expand the beauty of natural forms that we sometimes overlook in everyday life showing an extra dimension in his work.

Allan Forsyth

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Kim Baker

Kim Baker bases her work on nature and nature morte as a motif. She combines this with abstract expressionism and the materiality of paint. She uses the motifs of flora, forests and fauna whilst retaining a gestural and layering technique. Kim often paints over an existing painting which can give the works a sense of history and depth.

Influences include Dutch 17th Century floral still life’s, the baroque painting of Murillo, the chiaroscuro of Caravaggio and American abstract expressionism of the 1950’s especially De Kooning.

“Kim Baker’s striking oil paintings take inspiration from the memento mori tradition as it evolved in seventeenth century Dutch still life’s. Her canvases thus feature flowers, birds and insects, the traditional motifs of these earlier works, while retaining a spontaneous technique characteristic of more recent times. Baker often reworks her canvases repeatedly, painting one image on top of another until the finished work tells an additional story; that of its own genesis.”

Nature Morte. Contemporary artists reinvigorate the Still Life tradition.
Michael Petry
Thames and Hudson.

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Categories:

Paintings

Mediums:

Paintings on Canvas

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical
Still Life

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Kim Baker’s striking oil paintings take inspiration from the memento mori tradition as it evolved in seventeenth century Dutch still life's.

Michael Petry - Thames and Hudson

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Mark Godwin

The motif of Landscape has been a major part of the work of Mark Godwin for over 30 years. He has been greatly influenced by the 18th century Romantic notion of the Sublime, and our longing for an emotional encounter with nature.

These paintings are about finding a visual equivalent for his sensation before nature. They are paintings about the poetic idea of landscape. There is a nostalgia, and timelessness about his work, and a conscious blurring of the boundaries between abstraction, and representation. They are landscape of the imagination. They are paintings about feelings.

Mark Godwin began his artist training at Stourbridge College of Art and progressed on to Central School of Art, the Royal College of Art and Cite Internationale des Artistes in Paris. Following his training Mark went onto work as a copperplate printer for Palm Tree Editions, Albion Editions and London Contemporary Art.

Since then Mark has set up his own studio to develop his practice concentrating on painting and printing. He has exhibited extensively and his work has been included in many collections both private and corporate.

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Categories:

Paintings
Prints

Mediums:

Painitngs on Canvas
Paintings on Paper
Screen Prints
Etchings

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Landscape
Cityscape
Seascape

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These paintings are about finding a visual equivalent for my sensation before nature.

Mark Godwin

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Claire Malet

Claire Malet produces work is inspired by natural forms and landscapes. Fragments of sea-worn shells, the rock formations of a battered coastline, a curl of split bark, the dancing light and shadow of woodland all give inspiration.

I also draw inspiration directly from the characteristics of the medium. Working intuitively is key, allowing the metal to suggest a direction and find a relationship with the subject matter. I work in silver, copper, steel and ‘found metals’

Claire Malet is exhibited internationally, with gallery representation in UK, USA, Australia and Ireland.

I have pieces in several public collections, including the Victoria & Albert Museum and the National Museum Cardiff. Awards include Goldsmiths’ Fair Best New Design Award 2014.

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Categories:

Sculpture
Installations
Accessories

Sculpture Type:

Interior
Tabletop

Mediums:

Sculpture – Metal-Cast
Sculpture Metal-Fabricated
Gilding

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Natural Forms

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My work is inspired by natural forms and landscapes: fragments of sea-worn shells, the rock formations of a battered coastline, a curl of split bark, the dancing light and shadow of woodland.

Claire Malet

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Helen Lack

Helen Lack is a contemporary artist working in the UK and producing large format and statement art. She has a unique style which is energetic, individual and vibrant with an urban edge.

Her work has been described as having a richness of colours with a Pollock style, depicting the Abstract Expressionist movement. This has created a significant level of interest among galleries and collectors. As well as a healthy demand by companies requiring “office art”.

Helen paints by combining many layers and thick brushstrokes using mixed media and drip techniques. She conveys emotion in all her works, which is received by the viewer as intriguing and involving.

Her works are inspired by current events and environmental concerns. Her paintings showing passion and vibrancy as well as reflection and colour to her audience.

Helen Lack has displayed her collections in contemporary shows, collaborated with other artists and curated her own solo exhibitions. All have attracted media interest in the UK and Europe and have received much acclaim.

Her works have been exhibited in many prestigious galleries in London and New York, creating a truly international appeal. In addition, one prestigious gallery has asked for her works in Italy for very high-profile collectors.

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Paintings
Prints
Installations

Mediums:

Collage
Mixed Media
Large Statement Paintings on Canvas, Panels and Paper
Prints – Artist and Other

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Cityscape/Urban
Geographical
Interiors
Landscape
Portrait/Figurative
Seascape/Water

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My work has been described as having a richness of colours with a Pollock style, depicting the Abstract Expressionist movement.

Helen Lack

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Deborah Lanyon

Deborah Lanyon is based in Twickenham, London. She has been painting since the age of 15. In the late 1970’s Deborah trained at St Martin’s and the Byam Shaw School of Art.

Throough the years she has exhibited extensively in London, the UK and Internationally. Including Art First in Cork Street and more recently at the Jenny Granger Gallery in Whitstable.

Deborah’s work is collected by both private and corporate collectors including the Glass House Restaurant in Kew, the Square Restaurant in Bruton Street and in the Park Lane Hotel.

Deborah Lanyon works primarily in acrylic producing large scale abstract landscapes. She likes to emphasise both structure and colour in her compositions.

She has been influenced by the St Ives artists such as Roger Hilton, Patrick Heron and Ben Nicholson. From Roger Hilton she learned the importance of mark making. From Patrick Heron about colour and from Ben Nicholson the significance of structure to hold the painting together.

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Paintings

Mediums:

Painitngs on Canvas
Acrylic on Canvas

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Landscape

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My work is primarily in acrylic. I work on large scale abstract landscapes. I like to emphasise both structure and colour in my compositions.

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Jonet Harley-Peters

Jonet Harley-Peters takes the natural world as her starting point. She interpret the effects of light on plants water and earth. As well as the shapes and shadows that float on the surface of fragile and changing nature.

‘I’ve always been drawn to symmetry and pattern and first started to explore geometry and proportion in my last year at Art school. Part of my childhood was spent in East Africa and the rest on the edge of Dartmoor. Africa gave me colour, pattern and red earth – while Dartmoor was full of mood, mist and water.’

Jonet works with basic geometry using raw pigments and photography to make low relief constructions and photo-montage. Her work is based on what I see in the natural world.

‘I take photographs and cut shapes to produce fragments and then take what I need to reconstruct to make a new ‘version’ and tell a new story. I am currently using triangles but my response varies due to the demands of the material.’

Raw pigments have an intensity of colour and photo-montage shows the extraordinary detail and texture of the natural world. Simple geometric patterns provide a solid structure on which to base explorations with colour and image.

Jonet Harley-Peters works mainly in low relief construction with curved and cut shapes backed with heavy weight paper and cardboard , when mounted the constructed shapes appear to float away from the surface. All the work is box framed .

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Photography
Other

Mediums:

Photography
Photo montage
Low Relief Construction

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical
Still Life

Jonet Harley-Peters - Moonflower and Columbine

Jonet Harley-Peters - Indras Alizeran Symmetry VIII

Jonet Harley-Peters - Geometry of the Lost Circle IX

Jonet Harley-Peters - Sweet Water Bitter Lake V

Jonet Harley-Peters - Geometry of the Lost Circle I

Jonet Harley-Peters - Fruit Plants & Trees VI

Jonet Harley-Peters - Acanthus & Bramble

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I take photographs and cut shapes to produce fragments and then take what I need to reconstruct to make a new 'version' and tell a new story.

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Thurle Wright

Thurle Wright works with books, maps and words on paper.

Her delicate paper reconstructions stem from an interest in the systems and structures of language. As well as the ordering of knowledge and the collecting, storing and accessing of words.

She cuts, folds, weaves and stitches lines of words into a new visual format. Traces of the original mingle with personal, often playful or poetic interpretations.

Originally from Zimbabwe, Thurle works from her studio in Folkestone’s Creative Quarter.

She has exhibited widely both in the UK and internationally, including Collect2019 at the Saatchi Gallery, the Bookarts Triennial in Lithuania, Deptford X, and Brussels Art on Paper.

Numerous residencies include work for the V&A Museum of Childhood, Perth Central School of Art and Design, Camberwell Arts and various schools and colleges in the UK.

Her work is held public and private collections including Brisbane State Library

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Sculpture
Installations
Wall Panels

Sculpture Type:

Interior

Mediums:

Installation
Paper/Paper Pulp
Sculpture – Mixed Media
Sculpture – Mobile

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Architectural
Geographical
Historical
Geometric
Patterned
Text-based

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My delicate paper reconstructions stem from an interest in the systems and structures of language. As well as the ordering of knowledge and the collecting, storing and accessing of words.

Thurle Wright

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34 Circus Road

As part of an ongoing project at the HCA Wellington North Hospital, Art Contact was asked to select artworks for 34 Circus Road which has been recently refurbished as an Out Patient Centre.

Bright and colourful Limited Edition prints by Angela Edwards were selected and they were framed in a Pewter moulding to full conservation standard.

In the reception Art Contact commissioned a bespoke photographic collage applied directly to a pair of unsightly doors. The image is based on the Regents Park Bandstand being a local landmark.

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Object – Source and Supply artworks for 34 Circus Road
Client – HCA
Sector – Healthcare
Location – St Johns Wood, London
Status – Completed

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Wellington North Hospital Imaging Department

As part of the ongoing refurbishment project Art Contact was asked to supply artworks for the Wellington North Imaging Department on the first floor. Working with the project management team a series of bespoke images were commissioned to complement the theme of the department.

In keeping with the overall design the images were printed onto acrylic panels and installed using appropriate fixings to allow for the complex constraints of this department.

Bespoke photographic collages were commissioned by Art Contact as artworks for the Wellington North Imaging Department to both enhance the design and to create a link to the local community.

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Object – Source & Select Artworks for the Imaging Department
Client – HCA Wellington North Hospital
Sector – Healthcare
Location – St John’s Wood, London
Status – Completed

Artwork for Wellington North Imaging Department

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Dominic Pote

Dominic Pote is an artist working somewhere between the film maker and the still photographer. His exposures lasting as long as he keeps moving. Framed by the physical act of walking, his images are both literal and metaphorical journeys. Movements through space so that there remains something of the organic feel of their making. His work reveals the underlying spiritual significance of place. Whether an open landscape or the middle of a city, he presents us with the human experience. That which lies between movement and stillness, between the visible and invisible, between time and eternity.

Dominic Pote studied Photography at Nottingham Trent University from 1997 – 2000 where he attained a 1st class honours degree in Photography in Europe. During his second year his study was divided between two European institutes: Die Hochschule fur Grafik und Buchkunst – Leipzig, Germany and Famu School of film and photography, Prague, Czech Republic

Dominic’s large-scale works have been placed in many private homes as well as public and private collections. Commissioners of his work include Barclays Bank, The British Council and P&O.

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Photography
Wall Panels

Mediums:

Photography
Photography Printed on Panels

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Architectural
Landscape
Seascape/Water
Cityscape/Urban

Education

Nottingham Trent – BA Hons Photography in Europe
Die Hochschule fur Grafik und Buchkunst – Leipzig
Famu School of film and photography, Prague

Selected Exhibitions

Art Moorehouse, London
Envie d’Art Gallery, Paris
Shorelines, Hellenic Centre
Woolff Gallery, Shoreditch

Selected Commissions

Birmingham Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Scarborough Hospital
Salisbury Hospital
Gloucester Royal Hospital
Goscote Monumental Art Project

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My work reveals the underlying spiritual significance of place. That which lies between movement and stillness, between the visible and invisible, between time and eternity.

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Chris Wood

Chris Wood’s medium is light. She uses a range of high and low-tech optical materials to harness patterns of light that suggest ephemeral glimpsed moments in the natural world.

Her sculptures are simple arrangements creating kinetic patterns in response to the environments in which they are placed. Her work brings a wistful romanticism to a minimalist aesthetic. Chris Wood orders the accidental and makes us reflect on the experience of seeing.

After studying Furniture Design at Middlesex University in the mid 1980s. She then went on to study glass at the Royal College of Art, where she worked on architectural scale projects dealing with light and space.

Chris Wood produces innovative installations for gallery exhibition. She has shown extensively throughout the UK and internationally. Her work is represented in a number of private collections as well as the Shanghai Museum of Glass.

She also produces work to commission and has created works for Fendi Fashion House, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Premier Inn Hotel and a Scandinavian cruise ship. Chris is currently working on her largest project to date in Taiwan.

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Sculpture
Installations
Wall Panels
Glass

Sculpture Type:

Exterior
Interior

Glass Type:

Dichroic Glass Wall Panels

Mediums:

Installations
Light
Mixed Media
Sculpture – Mixed Media
Sculpture – Glass

Subject Matter:

Abstract

Education

Middlesex University – Furniture Design
Royal Collage of Art – Glass Design

Selected Commissions

2019 – Nangang Exhibition Centre – Taipei
2019 – Light Pattern – Park Lane, London
2018 – Great Ormond Street Hospital Facade
2018 – Lade School, Trondheim
2017 – Mein Schiff 6 – Cruise Liner
2016 – ‘Hues of Light’ for Fendi Fashion – Paris, London, Milan & New York
2015 – Shanghai Museum of Glass

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My sculptures are simple arrangements creating kinetic patterns in response to the environments in which they are placed.

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Claire Burke

Claire Burke’s current work is the culmination of 20 years dedication to making beautiful abstract statements. Meditative, tranquil compositions playing with the picture plane with the suggestion of a horizon and landscape. Two textured surfaces juxtaposed, the subtle differences between them emphasised by their apparent simplicity, the work revealing itself to be deceptively detailed upon more prolonged examination. The work is fashioned from Gold and Silver Leaf. The timeless nature of the precious metals and the fascination they hold, adding to the works allure.

A truly international artist, Claire’s work has been sourced for clients both private and corporate. Examples include a gorgeous private ski chalet, The Four Seasons Royal Suite in Riyadh, the cruise ship Brittania, private yachts and of course many beautiful homes. Kleinwort Benson has acquired a significant work for their collection.

Claire graduated from Falmouth School of Art for her foundation, progressed immediately to Central St. Martins to complete her BA(Hons) Painting in 1994 and has never looked back.

Unusually by today’s standards, Claire’s degree show sold out and she was able to continue her career as soon as she graduated. Some of those early relationships with Galleries and Dealers still exist today.

Claire’s work has been exhibited on a global scale in Miami, New York, Switzerland, Singapore and Hong Kong. Claire continues to work with a broad network within the art sector, including interior designers, galleries and consultants.

Much of Claire’s work is now acquired by commission from her purpose built studio and her new works are in high demand.

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Installations
Wall Panels

Mediums:

Gilded Panels
Distressed Wall Panels

Subject Matter:

Abstract

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The work is fashioned from Gold and Silver Leaf. The timeless nature of the precious metals and the fascination they hold, adding to the works allure.

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To me, painting means feeling intensely, living, expressing the inexpressible with paint. It means listening to your innermost self, being quiet, being impulsive, marvelling, hoping - seeing the light and being overwhelmed.

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The constant pushing and pulling of mediums has been a key element with in my paintings. This has allowed my exploration of cityscapes and the manipulation of light to be constantly moving forward and changing.

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I create intricate and detailed drawings from which the final artwork is digitally cut into stainless steel, corten, aluminium, copper, reclaimed steel and plywood, transforming the drawn line into a tangible object.

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My large scale paintings arise from an instinctive, almost chaotic process. This involves pulling apart and reassembling visual and material components.

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At the moment I am looking at the way that technology and digitisation can be used to obscure reveal or degenerate a figurative image combined with layers of consciousness.

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Having grown up in London, I am fascinated by the complexity of living in the city – the crowds, commuters, architecture and energy of urban life.

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I do not approach projects with preconceived ideas; rather the aim is to create a distinct and individual identity which is relevant and sensitive to each context with both material solutions and overall aesthetics.

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'When the viewer gets close I hope they will enjoy the tiny accidental droplets that fall, the 'hand-made-ness' of the paintings. Closeness should offer up more, a desire to touch the surface, a stillness.'

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My fibre art ‘pulp‘ work uses organic material and storm debris such as fallen bark. This is combined with pure cotton to create lyrical reflections of changes in natural forms.

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My inspiration comes from the patterns and geometry within architecture. As well as the physical mixing and layering of colours, the texture of cloth and the print process.

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A narrative is created that highlights the relationship between man and the natural environment. Common themes found in my work often abstractly express or make a comment on current issues.

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My work conveys my love of the drama of nature, seeking to expand the beauty of natural forms that we sometimes overlook in everyday life showing an extra dimension in his work.

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Kim Baker’s striking oil paintings take inspiration from the memento mori tradition as it evolved in seventeenth century Dutch still life's.

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These paintings are about finding a visual equivalent for my sensation before nature.

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My work is inspired by natural forms and landscapes: fragments of sea-worn shells, the rock formations of a battered coastline, a curl of split bark, the dancing light and shadow of woodland.

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My work has been described as having a richness of colours with a Pollock style, depicting the Abstract Expressionist movement.

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My work is primarily in acrylic. I work on large scale abstract landscapes. I like to emphasise both structure and colour in my compositions.

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I take photographs and cut shapes to produce fragments and then take what I need to reconstruct to make a new 'version' and tell a new story.

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My delicate paper reconstructions stem from an interest in the systems and structures of language. As well as the ordering of knowledge and the collecting, storing and accessing of words.

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My work reveals the underlying spiritual significance of place. That which lies between movement and stillness, between the visible and invisible, between time and eternity.

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My sculptures are simple arrangements creating kinetic patterns in response to the environments in which they are placed.

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The work is fashioned from Gold and Silver Leaf. The timeless nature of the precious metals and the fascination they hold, adding to the works allure.

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