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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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Categories:

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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Categories:

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.

Deborah Lanyon

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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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Categories:

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.

Jonet Harley-Peters

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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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Categories:

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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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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Categories:

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.

Dominic Pote

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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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Categories:

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.

Chris Wood

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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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Categories:

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.

Claire Burke

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Charlotte Cornish

Charlotte Cornish is a well established artist producing prints and paintings. The dominant theme of her work is the nature of human experience. Creating tensions and harmonies through the use of colour and form.

Much of the initial inspiration for Charlotte’s work comes from places she has visited and have significance to her. Often using photographs as a starting point, and as the compositions develop, combining elements taken from the photographs with imagery drawn from personal experience. Charlotte is fascinated by the possibilities of colour and colour relationships and the infinite potential they have to create dynamic connections and reactions.

Charlotte Cornish uses acrylic paint for her paintings as it dries relatively quickly. I like to build up numerous layers of poured paint in thin veils, which contrast with more thickly applied paint, creating a raised surface on the canvas. Waiting until the paintings are dry before applying each subsequent new mark allows her the opportunity to remove or modify painted areas, without affecting the preceding layers. I work with the canvases flat on the floor for much of the time. The paintings take at least eight weeks to complete.

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Categories:

Paintings
Prints

Other Artwork Types:

Monotype Printing Techniques with Acrylic on Paper

Mediums:

Paintings on Canvas
Prints – Artist-Screen Prints
Prints – Artist-Mono-prints

Subject Matter:

Abstract

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Much of the initial inspiration for my work comes from places I have visited and have significance to me.

Charlotte Cornish

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Jo Gorner

University, Jo was taught printmaking by Jean Lodge, who studied with S W Hayter at Atelier 17, Paris and who was inspirational in her rigorous approach and experimentation. Jo went on to complete an MA in print at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Printmaking is central to Jo’s practice, though it does not dominate the narrative or dictate the expression. The relief and etching techniques Jo Gorner uses allow space and time to consider an image facilitating the passage from thought to paper.

The quality of the marks Jo achieves, the presence of the hand and incidence of chance, are all integral to her work.

The restorative value of the creative process and the impact of the natural landscape both underpin Jo’s practice. The artwork which results is a sensory, embodied, response to this immersion in the natural environment and her relational encounter with a landscape.

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Categories:

Prints

Mediums:

Prints – Artist
Etchings

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Geographical

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2016 Familiar Land,: Northern Print, Newcastle
2014 Fields of Vision: Land Art Project, Pennines
2012 Littoral : Flowers Gallery, London

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019 Works on Paper: Campden Gallery
2013 – 2018 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2018 New Light Exhibition: Bowes Museum, Bankside Gallery, London, etc
2017 The Original Print Show, Zillah Bell Gallery
2013 Print International, touring, Oriel Wrecsam

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The restorative value of the creative process and the impact of the natural landscape both underpin my practice.

Jo Gorner

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Mark Beattie MRSS

Mark Beattie MRSS is a British award winning sculptor who lives and works in London.

In 2015, Mark won the Midlands Open, The Xerxes Sculpture Prize and was elected a Member of The Royal Society of Sculptors (MRSS). In 2017 Mark was shortlisted for the Open Contemporary Young Artist Award run by the Biscuit Factory Gallery in Newcastle and long-listed for The Secret Art Prize by Curious Duke Gallery and also for the international Rise Art Prize.

Working with various metals in all their contrasting properties of texture and finish, Mark can make industrial materials appear fluid, malleable and delicate. He continues to study different metals, looking at ways to manipulate and add movement to the material.

Over the past 3 years Mark has been developing ways in which neon and LED’s can complement his sculptures, adding to the movement of a piece and catching the viewer’s eye.

Mark has a strong academic background in art, having studied a BA Hons (International) in Contemporary Art Practice at Leeds University, with a period at the Australian National University at Canberra, and after an MA in European Arts Practice at Kingston University, Surrey. To date he has now exhibited in over 60 exhibitions, solo and group and has a strong following from collectors both in the UK and abroad.

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Categories:

Sculpture
Wall Panels

Sculpture Type:

Exterior
Interior
Tabletop

Mediums:

Sculpture – Metal-Fabricated
Sculpture – Mixed Media
Sculpture – Light

Subject Matter:

Abstract

2018-Commissioned by Art Contact for the London Digestive Clinic

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2019 – London Art Fair
2019 – Battersea Affordable Art Fair
2019 – The Other Art Fair
2018 – London Art Fair
2018 – Capital Club, Dubai
2018 – Eight from Nyne, Park Lane, London
2018 – Henley Festival
2017 – Young Artist Award
2017 – ‘Orbital’, Cafe Royal Hotel, London
2017 – The Other Art Fair, London
2016 – Artists of the Future, London
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I strive to make industrial materials appear fluid, malleable and delicate and continue to study different metals, looking at ways to manipulate and add movement to the material.

Mark Beattie

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