Nelson Cornish, Author at Art Contact

Tom Waugh

Tom Waugh MRSS is a British sculptor based in Somerset. He has been an associate member of the Royal Society of Sculptors since 2018. In 2005 he gained a First in Architectural Stone Carving at the City and Guilds of London Art School and has spent time in India studying traditional carving techniques with the temple carver Raja Saceran.

‘I find it fascinating that sculpture has the ability to cause a shift in people’s perception. In my work I hope to challenge ideas of material value and make people look again at the things we take for granted.’

Tom Waugh carves stone and marble in minute detail to mirror the discarded waste of human consumption. These objects document the tiny imprints of human use. Plastic bags, cardboard boxes and tin cans are squashed, crushed and wrinkled whilst still displaying the traces of mass production.

His carving can be seen on St Pancras Station, St Martin in the fields and St Georges Chapel, Windsor. His Sculptures are exhibited widely and can be seen in the collections of Warwick University and Gladstone’s Library.

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Categories:

Sculpture

Type:

Exterior
Interior
Tabletop

Medium:

Stone

Subject Matter:

Hyper-Realistic
Still Life

Tom Waugh - Stone Carving in 'Leaving' by Nicholas Dimbleby

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I find it fascinating that sculpture has the ability to cause a shift in people’s perception. In my work I hope to challenge ideas of material value and make people look again at the things we take for granted.

Tom Waugh

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Sue King

Sue King is inspired by colour & light. She designs and creates vibrant kiln-formed glass for residential and commercial interior projects, including specialising in healthcare commissions. Her work also includes smaller items such as hanging panels and tableware using a contemporary style and colour palettes.

Originally qualifying with BA Interior Design. Sue worked for various hotel design practices, before running her own design consultancy for many years. She studied Glass with Architecture/Fine Art at Central St Martins College of Art & Design in 2002.

All of Sue’s work is imbued with a passion for colour, taking inspiration from artists, nature and pattern and her own photography/artwork. She has developed a fluid technique of working in a painterly style whereby coloured glass is cut freehand, overlaid onto clear glass and then fired at temperatures of around 810 degrees to fuse together. Her designs are all unique and one off pieces.

Sue King’s commissions are developed closely with clients using hand drawn watercolour sketches that are then translated into glass. This helps her clients to see a visual representation of their vision and ideas so they are fully involved throughout the commission process.

Sue enjoys exploring how glass interacts with light and often incorporates textural markings to bring out these qualities. Glass shows its best qualities when displayed in natural light, which then throws beautiful colour shadow washes into the surrounding space.

Larger commissions include panels for healthcare projects, as well as contemporary stylish sculptures for a Saudi Arabian hotel, panels for Molton Brown in New York and many glass installations for private homes.

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Categories:

Glass

Glass Type:

Accessories
Wall Panels

Mediums:

Mixed Media
Stained Glass

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Architectural
Interiors
Landscape

Sue King - Wall Triptych - Salisbury BCU

Sue King - Blue & Green Leaf Dish-Detail

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My commissions are developed closely with clients using hand drawn watercolour sketches that are then translated into glass. This helps her clients to see a visual representation of their vision and ideas so they are fully involved throughout the commission process.

Sue King

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BlinkArt

BlinkArt uses photographic and digital techniques to create art works with a strong emphasis on colourful layered imagery. By manipulating the colour, texture, light and shape of these layers they have developed techniques that allow it to enhance ideas, concepts, compositions, and subject matter. Inspiration comes from the development, experimentation and evolution of individual projects.

BlinkArt has been working closely with clients, designers and consultants for over 20 years creating original, bespoke commissioned artworks.

With an emphasis on architecture, nature and abstract elements they create dynamic large scale works using photographic and digital techniques. Works can be produced on various substrates including acrylic, aluminium and glass.

Amongst others BlinkArt has produced work for offices, healthcare, retail and private clients. Whilst working on site specific projects they can incorporate local architectural elements into the work to create original ideas that are both relevant and visually engaging.

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Categories:

Prints
Photography
Digital
Wall Panels

Mediums:

Digital
Photography
Photomontage
Prints – Digital
Prints – Other

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical
Architectural
Cityscape/Urban
Geographical
Landscape

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Colin Rose

Colin Rose has worked as a sculptor for over thirty years. He has exhibited throughout the UK and Europe and has undertaken many public sculpture commissions.

He has undertaken public sculpture commissions for a very wide range of clients in various mediums. Colin usually works by taking a brief from the client and allowing the brief and the site to lead the design. Over the years he has worked in a variety of mediums from mirror polished stainless steel to stone. More unusually he has worked with Rope, Brick and even Coal Dust depending on the requirement of the brief.

While developing his practice Colin taught fine art and was head of Sculpture at Sunderland University from 2000 till 2006.

In addition to making sculpture, Colin Rose has a strong passion for drawing and the immediacy the process offers. The understanding gained through drawing is an important tool in the development of his designs and his working practice.

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Categories:

Sculptures
Paintings
Other

Sculpture Types:

External
Internal
Tabletop

Mediums:

Drawings
Paintings on Canvas
Sculpture – Metal Fabricated
Sculpture – Mixed Media
Sculpture – Resin
Sculpture – Other (Rope, Brick & Coal Dust)

Subject Matter:

Abstract

Selected Commissions:

‘Meteor’ – Jodrell Bank
‘Rain’ – Sheffield
‘You’ – Genome Centre
‘StarBall’ – EBI, Cambridge
‘Swirl Cone’ – Carmarthen
’10 Swirl’ – Gateshead

Selected Exhibitions:

Artlanta – Atlanta USA
Earthworks – NSW, Australia
Villes et Valises – Strasbourg

Selected Awards:

National Design Award
Henry Moore Foundation
Northern Electric Visual Arts Award

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Stuart Redler

Stuart Redler was brought up on a farm in Somerset, England. He moved to London aged 18 to study economics, then photography. After college he spent 15 years photographing advertising campaigns for companies such as Volvo, IBM and Deutsche Bank. Since then he has concentrated on fine art photography.

Stuart’s interest in far flung (and near) places and cultures has resulted in his unusual photographs of architecture, people and nature. The unexpected and sometimes humorous subject matter, combined with the intense contrasts of black and white and use of strong light, give his pictures their stark and unique style.

As well as appearing in numerous private collections his work is included in the permanent collection at The National Portrait Gallery in London and has also been exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

His work has appeared in publications including The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent on Sunday, Conde Nast Traveller and House & Garden.

Stuart Redler has received a number of awards, including six from The Association of Photographers who awarded him Gold for his portfolio of architectural images. He has also received awards from Graphis, PDN and Communication Arts.

To coincide with his exhibition Timbuktu to W2, and in conjunction with the Cultural Mission of Timbuktu, Stuart set up a competition to find a British town to twin with Timbuktu in Mali. Hay-on-Wye eventually won, having beaten off competition from over 40 towns and cities.

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Categories:

Photography

Mediums:

Photography
Pigment Prints on Cotton Paper

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Architectural
Cityscape/Urban
Portrait/Figurative
Landscape

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Louise Plant

Louise Plant creates sculpture inspired by the dynamics of movement. She works with marble, stone, bronze, cast iron and steel and has a particular feel for the direction the material wants to go. Her sculptures are visually striking with a wonderful sense of aliveness and  character.

Louise studied sculpture with the Open College of the Arts in 1992, whilst working full time as a teacher. Leaving teaching in 1994, Louise continued to study and make sculpture. She was elected Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors in 2003 and became Fellow in 2014.

Louise Plant has exhibited widely including MOCA, Cheeseburn Grange, Asthall Manor, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, the Usher and Wysing Arts.

Awards include the Brian Mercer Scholarship, Studio Sem, Italy, the KKV Bohuslän Scholarship, Sweden and the Year of the Artist Award, Arts Council England.

Her work is held in private collections globally and she has been commissioned by the MOD Northwood, the RNIB Loughborough, Durham County Council, Somerset County Council and the Waldorf Astoria Bangkok.

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Categories:

Sculptures
Prints

Mediums:

Drawing
Prints – Screenprints
Prints – Other
Sculpture – Metal-Cast
Sculpture – Metal-Fabricated
Sculpture – Stone

Subject Matter:

Abstract

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Lizzie Farey

Lizzie Farey’s intricate structures capture a still moment, a distillation and order. Calm after a storm.

Intimate forms provide a hint of the process of creation. We can see and even feel points of tension in the work. Our eye can follow the artist’s hand, the choices made in twisting and turning this flexible medium.

Born in Singapore, for the last 30 years Farey has been based in rural Galloway, in Scotland’s South West. The rural setting of home and studio are her guiding inspiration, her sensitivity with wood revealing an interaction with nature that is deeply personal.

Lizzie Farey grows much of her own pallet of artist’s materials. Planting, tending and harvesting a range of willow which is grown for both texture and colour.

Willow, it’s flow of flex and tension is often manipulated into rhythmic patterns, Artist, willow, form, each unique, reach a perfection as the work comes together, inner creative process and final form working as one.

‘My work engages with nature. I focus on recreating the essence of natural form through the medium of willow, larch, ash, hazel and other locally grown woods. Influences from Japan continue to inspire my attempts to capture the simplicity, practicality and beauty of the materials.’

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Categories:

Sculpture
Wall Panels

Sculpture Type:

Interior

Mediums:

Sculpture – Wood
Woven Willow

Subject Matter:

Abstract

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‘My work engages with nature. I focus on recreating the essence of natural form through the medium of willow, larch, ash, hazel and other locally grown woods. Influences from Japan continue to inspire my attempts to capture the simplicity, practicality and beauty of the materials.’

Lizzie Farey

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Jo Beattie

Jo Beattie – ‘Memories are those precious moments that tell our story’

Her work is a reflection on our own memories and also our shared past experiences expressed by ‘drawing with a sewing machine’. Shapes, textures, patterns and colours define us in a time, a place and a culture.

In the last few years the subject matter of her work has ranged from intimate scenes of everyday life to ‘Conversations’ within groups of people I have seen throughout my travels and more recently the discovery of the memories evoked by ‘Old Toys.’ I have been surprised by how emotional and important these can be.

Jo’s work uses shadow to reflect the image of our collective memories and identity. She has become interested in the way her artwork can enhance the idea of memory by having a shadow of the image reflected onto a plain background a distance away from the actual work. This enables the shadow to become larger and more defined. The work is produced in any way that best creates the atmosphere she is trying to evoke.

Jo Beattie predominantly uses a machine stitch with see-through backgrounds such as wire mesh and Perspex to allow shadows to become an integral part of the work.

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Memories are those precious moments that tell our story

Jo Beattie

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Martha Winter

Martha Winter was born and grew up in London. Her work is the unusual outcome of many influences. Growing up with minimal art and modern architecture influenced her visual language of reduced and economical form.

Martha is fascinated by systems, repetition and order, often working in series. She has regularly witnessed the extreme erosion of the coastline, which has given her an interest in the natural processes which form the landscape.

Martha Winter has developed her own unique processes, creating pieces reminiscent of satellite imagery and microscopy.

Through her work, she seeks to reach a combination of these ingredients, aiming for a point of tension and harmony where a frisson occurs.

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Categories:

Wall Panels
Paintings

Wall Panel Type:

Contemporary
Relief Panel Painting

Mediums:

Mixed Media
Painting on Panel

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Architectural
Geographical
Landscape
Seascape/Water

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Growing up with minimal art and modern architecture influenced my visual language of reduced and economical form.

Martha Winter

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Luke Elwes

Luke Elwes (b.1961) lives and works in London. He studied at Bristol University, Camberwell School of Art and Birkbeck, London University (Art History MA 2007).

Throughout the 1990s he travelled extensively, discovering and revisiting remote desert and mountain locations in India, Asia and North Africa. In 1998 he was artist in residence on an expedition to Mount Kailash, a holy mountain in western Tibet.

Since 2000 he has worked for extensive periods on an island off the East Coast of the UK. In 2013 he was awarded a grant to study at the Vermont Studio Centre and in 2015 he was resident artist at the Albers Foundation (USA). In 2011 he was invited to give an ‘Artist’s Eye’ talk at the National Gallery.

The idea of a journey is central to Luke Elwes paintings, both its physical and temporal unfolding and its recollection in memory. As well as recording particular journeys, the paintings reveal, like a hieroglyphic text, the many layers of history buried beneath the surfaces of these places. Rooted in the particular, the images also probe an interior space. They become maps of the ‘geographical unconscious’, suggesting both the trail of our presence and the passage of time.

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Categories:

Paintings

Mediums:

Mixed Media
Paintings on Canvas
Paintings on Paper

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Landscape
Seascape/Water

Selected Exhibitions:

Broadbent Gallery – London
Adam Gallery – London
Frestonian Gallery – London
Browse & Darby – London
Art First – London & New York
Galerie Vieille du Temple – Paris
Galerie Marceau Bastille – Paris
Grand Palais – Paris
Palazzo Lanfranchi – Pisa
Galleria Ceribelli – Milan & Bergamo
Royal Academy – London
Estorick Collection – London
Kettles Yard – Cambridge
Young Gallery – Salisbury

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The idea of a journey is central to my paintings, both its physical and temporal unfolding and its recollection in memory.

Luke Elwes

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Pierre Diamantopoulo

Pierre Diamantopoulo has two distinct strands to his figurative style. They seem to be intellectually and emotionally worlds apart, but they share the same impetus.

One is a cool and measured response to a profound sense of unrest. In this work, figures fly in defiance or are challenged by their environments. They ‘trippingly’ negotiate upheaval or uncertainties — each work is a balancing act, a metaphor for a precarious state of living or existence. Androgynous and anonymous human figures tilt and fall away – on and off objects that also teeter on a chaotic or shifting stage. Figures may be set free against strongly convergent lines, shapes and forms.

The other strand of Pierre Diamantopoulo’s practice is ambiguous, allegorical and atavistic, but still concerned with mercurial forces. Here, he works on impulse— mixing dark foolery, the poetic and the literary with theatre and folklore— blended with a sort of logical nonsense. This may be a voyage into the past, personal or absurd, diverted by the raw and primitive, with the wit, the mimic and maverick on board. These works are often executed with an immediate, freer hand, exploiting the texture of the raw material.

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Categories:

Sculptures
Paintings

Sculpture Type:

Exterior
Interior
Tabletop

Mediums:

Metal-Cast Sculpture
Metal-Fabricated Sculpture
Paintings on Canvas
Paintings on Paper

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical
Portrait/Figurative

Pierre Diamantopoulo - Once I sat Upon a Promontory

Pierre Diamantopoulo - Flight of Langoustine

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There are two distinct strands to my figurative style. They seem to be intellectually and emotionally worlds apart, but they share the same impetus.

Pierre Diamantopoulo

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Dorothy Brook

Dorothy Brook became a sculptor in a roundabout way. She had studied Graphic Design at St Martins School of Art and worked as a freelance designer for about 10 years. When circumstances changed, a friend suggested she join a sculpture class. She loved it having no idea that she would be able to work in three dimensions having been used to seeing everything from a graphic and linear perspective.

To her surprise her graphic background gave her work a very different look. The lines and curves have to flow when viewed from every angle. The form is pared down until all that is left is its essence. Ultimately the aesthetic of the piece is the most important element.

Although Dorothy may start a sculpture with an armature and an idea of what she is going to make, it very often changes during the process. It is the sculpture that dictates where it is going and she follows, refining the lines as it progresses. Usually working in plaster as she finds it is easier to achieve the sharp edges and smooth surfaces that define her style. ‘I love to capture the split second that epitomizes the dynamic of a movement, just as a photograph would – the frozen moment.’

Dorothy Brook still loves the process as much as she did in that first sculpture class. The realisation that her drawings can and have come to life is very satisfying, not bad for a Graphic Designer!

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Categories:

Sculpture
Paintings

Sculpture Types:

Exterior
Interior

Mediums:

Sculpture – Metal-Cast
Sculpture – Resin
Painting on Paper
Pastels
Drawing

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Figurative
Landscape

Selected Exhibitions:

Wizo/Ben Uri Gallery – London
Waterstone Gallery – Birmingham
24 London – Berlin, Barcelona & Milan
Expression of Movement – Grove Hotel – Watford
Great British Sculpture Show – Hatfield House
Henley Art Festival

Selected Commissions:

Winterthur House – London
Unilever – London
Compaq – London
Maughan Library Garden, Kings College – London
WIZO – London
Hong Kong Finance – Hong Kong

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'I love to capture the split second that epitomizes the dynamic of a movement, just as a photograph would – the frozen moment.'

Dorothy Brook

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Artful Dodger

Artful Dodger is widely credited with being one of the first Aerosol Writers/Urban Artists to emerge from the UK, serving as an influence to some of today’s top UK Urban Artists. Over the years, he has evolved professionally to have clients which include the BBC, Channel 4, EA Games, LucasFilm (Star Wars), MTV, The South Bank Show, as well as a well-known breakfast cereal.

On the community arts side of his portfolio, he has a strong background in both organising and facilitating a variety of creative mural projects and workshops. Working mainly in inner cities with disadvantaged youth and other young people (through children’s arts charities such as SP8 Of The Art).

He has also been involved in projects in the US, Italy, France, Spain, Hungary, Romania and Ukraine, as well as all over the UK. One of his projects on the now fallen Aylesbury Estate in SE London, even won an award from the late Princess of Wales.

Employing an eclectic palette of media, ranging from spray-paint and acrylics to pastels and graphics tablets, he takes the inspiration for his paintings from the intrinsic beauty of nature, as well as a vast range of musical styles, urban and pop culture influences. Along with this, he describes his work as being a combination of ‘liquid light’ and ‘visual music’.

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Categories:

Paintings
Prints – Artist
Digital
Wall Panels
Other – Murals

Mediums:

Digital
Mixed Media
Paintings on Canvas & Paper
Photomontage
Spray paint Graffiti
Video/Film

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Architectural
Cityscape/Urban
Interiors
Music
Portrait/Figurative

Artful Dodger - Bride of Frankenstein - Canvas

Artful Dodger - New-X Workshop - Digital Print

Artful Dodger - New-X Development - Digital Print

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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.

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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.

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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I find it fascinating that sculpture has the ability to cause a shift in people’s perception. In my work I hope to challenge ideas of material value and make people look again at the things we take for granted.

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My commissions are developed closely with clients using hand drawn watercolour sketches that are then translated into glass. This helps her clients to see a visual representation of their vision and ideas so they are fully involved throughout the commission process.

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‘My work engages with nature. I focus on recreating the essence of natural form through the medium of willow, larch, ash, hazel and other locally grown woods. Influences from Japan continue to inspire my attempts to capture the simplicity, practicality and beauty of the materials.’

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Memories are those precious moments that tell our story

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Growing up with minimal art and modern architecture influenced my visual language of reduced and economical form.

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The idea of a journey is central to my paintings, both its physical and temporal unfolding and its recollection in memory.

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There are two distinct strands to my figurative style. They seem to be intellectually and emotionally worlds apart, but they share the same impetus.

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'I love to capture the split second that epitomizes the dynamic of a movement, just as a photograph would – the frozen moment.'

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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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Tamarind Restaurant Art Rental

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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