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Andy Welland

Kaleidoscopic rainbows collide, prints sing, and pink is everything in the world of Andy Welland. Positioned as a contemporary artist for the next generation, Welland’s work blends vibrant abstraction with a graphic sensibility shaped by his background in design. His practice moves fluidly between painting, sculpture and product collaborations, with projects appearing through retailers and partners including Liberty London, Lush and Co-op Live Arena.

Raised in Doncaster by a trio of creative and influential women—his mother, grandmother and aunt—Welland developed an early appreciation for making and visual culture. He later studied Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University, graduating in 2007, before working within the luxury division of M&C Saatchi and across boutique design studios in the UK.

This background informs Andy Welland’s distinctive visual language. His energetic compositions are built from colliding shapes, bold colour systems and collage-like forms. Drawing inspiration from childhood imagination, nature and human connection, his work celebrates togetherness, imperfection and the joyful complexity of being human.

Play sits at the heart of Welland’s practice—both as a mindset and a method. Through experimentation with colour, material and process, play becomes a creative tool that encourages curiosity, unexpected discoveries and joyful accidents, opening space for new ideas and meaningful connection.

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Paintings
Prints
Digital
Sculptures
Installations
Wall Panels
Textiles & Rugs
Accessories

Mediums:

Collage
Digital
Installations
Mixed Media
Painting on Canvas
Painting on Paper

Subject:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical

Selected Commissions:

Colour, Play, and Everything In-Between — BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Brighter in Real Life — Bloc Projects, Sheffield
Loose Ends 319 — Millennium Gallery, Sheffield
Loose Ends 300 — Newcastle Quayside public artwork
Light Up Kilburn — public art commission
Ashford Unframed Mural Festival — large-scale mural
BBC — broadcast artwork collaboration
Amazon — commercial artwork collaboration
Liberty London — retail collaboration
LUSH — Knot Wrap design collaboration

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Hugh Hamshaw Thomas

Hugh Hamshaw Thomas received critical acclaim in the 1990’s for his large scale installations that categorised found plastic flowers into pseudo botanical collections. These works explored ideas of mortality, trace and memory through a finely balanced play of what was being represented through simulacra.

Recent work continues the reconfiguration of pictorial and historical associations through digitally manipulated photographs of Landscape that pose challenges to how seeing is mediated by the language of art.

The work of Hugh Hamshaw Thomas depicts intimate picturesque scenes familiar to the decorative arts, trees meeting waters edge of pond or river quoting the arcadian, idealised representations of historical contexts.

In so doing pictorial conventions of colour schema and style are exposed as the signifiers of meaning.

There is a subtle negotiation of how experience, memory, nostalgia and cliche are embedded within the pictorial conventions of what Landscape depiction is so often associated.

There is an imbued sense of dwelling with nature as the mirror. Nature and our gaze on it as the mediation as to the viewers place in what we experience and how we represent it.

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Categories:

Prints
Photography
Digital

Mediums:

Digital
Photography
Prints – Other
Textiles – Wallhangings

Subject Matter:

Historical
Landscape

Hugh Hamshaw Thomas - The Blue Tree - Holcombe 2019

Hugh Hamshaw Thomas - Pink Lake - Sweet Arcadia 2017

Hugh Hamshaw Thomas - Lakes End (Charcoal) 2018

Hugh Hamshaw Thomas - Lakes Edge (Strawberry) 2019

Hugh Hamshaw Thomas - Jerusalem (Wedgewood) 2019

Hugh Hamshaw Thomas - Fallen 2019 (Blue)

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Lucy Cooper

Lucy Cooper is a London-based artist and print maker whose current work explores the theme of reflection. Water reflections feature in many of her prints, while reflection in the broader sense of contemplation and consideration also runs through her art.

Lucy’s prints invariably feature everyday sights of her local Docklands neighbourhood, which she photographs and then develops digitally. With a lifelong fascination with water and its constantly changing colours, textures and moods, she is particularly interested in the way light plays on the surface of water and the distortions made by reflections in water and glass.

Recent work exploring reflections, colours and patterns in contemporary London architecture expands this to the built environment. Exploiting the seemingly infinite possibilities and potential of working digitally, Lucy Cooper explores unusual and often unexpected combinations of colour and pattern, transforming the original photograph into a semi-abstract artwork inviting the viewer to consider the subject from a different perspective.

These images are then output as limited edition fine art giclée prints.

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Katayoun Dowlatshahi

Katayoun Dowlatshahi graduated in Fine Art Printmaking from Edinburgh. Received an MA in European Art from Barcelona and Winchester. Katayoun was awarded a Doctorate (PhD) in Drawing and Photography from The University of Gloucestershire with a specialism in Carbon Photography (a 19th century photographic process). Since 1995 she has lectured in a number of universities as well developing her practice as a full-time professional artist. In more recent years she has worked with children within school settings.

She has been awarded several national and international residencies, fellowships and has continued to exhibit regularly, both in the UK and abroad.

Katayoun Dowlatshahi works in fine print, analogue/digital photography, drawing and architectural glass, using combinations of these in her work. She creates site responsive works that link landscapes with memory and place. Her major achievements are in public art and in her unique constructed photographic artworks, some of which have been acquired for private collections.

One of Katayoun’s skills is her ability to collaborate with urban design teams on significant regeneration projects across the UK, to integrate art into the fabric of new developments and heritage sites. Placemaking is at the heart of her practice.

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Categories:

Prints
Photography
Digital
Installations
Glass

Mediums:

Collage
Digital
Mixed Media
Pastel
Photomontage
Prints – Etchings & Screenprints
Video/Film

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Architectural
Landscape
Seascape/Water

Katayoun Dowlatshahi - The Birds Stone Chat

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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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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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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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