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Corinne Natel

Corinne Natel is a contemporary artist specialising in abstract mixed media paintings. Corinne is based in North West London and is inspired by landscapes, nature, cities, travel, fashion and media. Her work investigates colour, form, space and texture.

Working with a variety of mixed media, a blank canvas takes on a new form and begins to develop a life of it’s own. A new entity, aiming to create vibrant and emotive works that allude to another world.

Corinne Natel has sold works in the UK and internationally, for homes, offices, hotels, restaurants and cruise ships. She has exhibited in solo and group shows at contemporary galleries and at renowned London Hotels and leading Art Fairs.

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Paintings
Prints

Mediums:

Acrylics on Canvas/Linen
Inks
Collage
Mixed Media

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Botanical

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Carl Rowe

Carl Rowe studied Fine Art at Manchester Polytechnic, graduating with an MA in 1985. He currently lives in Norwich and is a former Associate Professor and Course Leader in Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts. He is an artist member and studio holder at OUTPOST in Norwich and is also a member of the Printmakers Council. Carl Rowe has an international profile as both an artist and an academic. His work has been exhibited widely in the UK as well as in Germany, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Canada, US, Estonia, Japan, Malaysia and Egypt. In addition to studio production he has also worked on public art including billboards, print portfolios and hospital art. In 2018 Rowe was commissioned by Hospital Rooms to make work for Woodlands Mental Health Unit at Ipswich Hospital and is currently engaged in a new project with Hospital Rooms.

“My art switches back and forth between an engagement with socio-political issues and subconscious renderings.

I can’t escape my concern for the wrongdoing in the world and within my art a surface layer of humour, absurdity and the arcane masks a strong undercurrent of concern for humanity. When I ease off the direct engagement with current affairs, symbols, objects and graphic devices float up from somewhere in my memory and arrange themselves in unlikely compositions.”

Carl Rowe works with both paint, sculpture and print process. The materials that I use are often intrinsically connected with the images they portray such as the work Drool, an installation made with ink containing herbs and spices from the G20 countries and the Serbian paprika used in Deprecated Location, a screen print depicting Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Recent paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints present an obsession with clay pipe fragments, hazard warnings, cylindrical containers and clouds of particulates.

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Paintings
Prints
Sculptures
Installations

Mediums:

Collage
Mixed Mediums
Paintings on Canvas, Panel and Paper
Sculpture – Mixed Mediums, Recycled Materials and Wood

Subject Matter:

Abstract

Carl Rowe - Exceeding the Limits of the Box

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My art switches back and forth between an engagement with socio-political issues and subconscious renderings. I can’t escape my concern for the wrongdoing in the world and within my art a surface layer of humour, absurdity and the arcane masks a strong undercurrent of concern for humanity.

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Marina Emphietzi

Marina Emphietzi now lives in London and her work explores issues of time, life and memory.

She creates engaging artworks in a distinct semi abstract style inspired mostly by water and the marine environment.

With the sound of crashing sea waves and the hot feeling of sand under bare feet, Marina’s story starts in Famagusta, Cyprus. Her family’s childhood home built along the scenic coastline, she spent most of her days by the beach. It’s here that she came to know the limitless freedom of the Ocean. Surrounded by the vivid landscapes of Cyprus, art came naturally to Marina. Her heart’s desire was to study art, although she would pursue a successful career in hotel management and marketing before finally achieving her life-long dream. She has studied at the prestigious schools of Central St-Martins and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMASS).

At the age of 14, Marina Emphietzi lost her home in the trauma of war. The ocean and its waters, full of life and possibility, are a part of her most joyful memories. They are from which she draws inspiration from in her work and why her pieces have the power to evoke strong feelings of nostalgia and freedom. A world traveller, Marina has called many places home. The man-made beaches of Dubai, the crowded markets of Ethiopia, and now, the grey skies of London, U.K., each brings their own colour palette to Marina’s current work. Created with robust energy, her paintings have playful textures and a distinct style. They bring to surface lost memories of being near water, the sound of rumbling waves, the feeling of a warm breeze across skin. A metaphor of the transient human experience, her artwork suggests we flow through the journey through life, ever-changing and free.

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Paintings
Prints

Mediums:

Paint on Canvas
Paint on Paper

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Landscape
Seascape/Water

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I create engaging artworks in a distinct semi abstract style inspired mostly by water and the marine environment.

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Neale Marriott

Neale Marriott’s work explores our relationship with the places around us, whether the fleeting joy of the natural landscape or the complexity and enclosure of urban spaces. I see my artworks as constituting a journey in different ways. First, I want them to have an energy and sense of movement within themselves in order to replicate our interaction with the world. They also explore a journey from figuration to a more dynamic abstraction. Finally, in my sculptural work particularly, they are a reflection on a more generic human journey with references to history, progress, science and geography.

I have always been interested in exploring different materials on which to paint including metal, concrete, glass & Perspex.

In using these materials, I’ve always sought to blur the boundaries between the illusory nature of paint and the physical properties of materials.

Neale Marriott’s paintings and painted construction pieces on layers of acrylic Perspex and concrete try to take painting into new spatial and sculptural areas by creating an experience that subtly shifts and changes as the viewer moves around them. The aim is to create more interactive spatial artworks that better represent our experience and explore different contexts and narratives.

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Paintings
Sculptures
Installations

Medium:

Paint on Glass
Paint on Clear Acrylic
Sculptures- Concrete/Plaster

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Cityscape/Urban
Landscape

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I have always been interested in exploring different materials on which to paint including metal, concrete, glass & Perspex. In using these materials, I’ve always sought to blur the boundaries between the illusory nature of paint and the physical properties of materials.

Neale Marriott

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Gina Parr

Gina Parr is a Painter who also “paints with a camera” when traveling.

The image of the sea and the Artist’s thoughts about memory and identity are ever present in her work. Her childhood, spent diversely in wide-open spaces, fishing for Mackerel with her father, and her mother with her hoarding and mental health issues defined the Artist’s relationship to the sea and land, the uncertainty of the deep, the spirit and memory of the open space, evoking freedom and connectedness. She does not wish to recreate those experienced places, but to unearth the truth, to centralise the feelings and emotions that were and are present, to not be afraid of the material of her past. The Artist’s work is an expression of the intermingling of both joy and pain: the human condition.

Gina Parr was originally trained as a Fine Artist, graduating with a First Class BA Honours Degree.

She went on to Chelsea College of Art to study set design, leading to a 25 year career Production Designing many prestigious shows for television.

She returned to her Artist’s practice in 2007.

She has also lectured in art and design at Chelsea College of Art and Nottingham University, is widely exhibited in galleries and art fairs in the UK and Europe. She is an Associate member of The Society of Women Artists in London and has works held in collections Worldwide including; Keble College Oxford, Director Jestico + Whiles Architects London, President Boston’s Children’s Museum USA, Senior Economist Goldman Sachs, Argentex and Vedanta Headquarters in London, and Commissions in UAE, Belguim + London.

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Paintings
Photography

Mediums:

Mixed Media
Paintings on Canvas
Painting on Panels
Photography

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Landscape
Music
Seascape/Water
Emotional
Psychological

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The image of the sea and my thoughts about memory and identity are ever present in my work.

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Liesha Yaz

Liesha Yaz paintings are an emotional response to a feeling, experience or place, I see the work as the atmosphere and sense of place made physical; marks are not made to describe but to elicit and emote, to forge a connection.

The studio is filled with music, I meditate and read poetry in an attempt to find the state of mind and the creative space within where my painting can flow. Liesha Yaz is driven by intuition, each painting an unplanned journey, a celebration of the physicality of paint and surface.

The surface of these oil paintings are untamed, highly worked and layered, difficult to look away from, I use oils and mixed media to create texture and form in my paintings.

Emotional creativity is the heart and soul of my paintings these images are totally unique in every sense.
My work is widely collected by both national and international private and corporate clients.

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Paintings

Mediums:

Paintings on Canvas
Mixed Media

Subject Matter:

Abstract

Leisha Yaz - Turbulence Passes and a Calm Descends

Leisha Yaz - Where Softness Touches the Earth

Leisha Yaz - Age of Aquarius - Diptych - 2

Leisha Yaz - Age of Aquarius - Diptych - 1

Leisha Yaz - As Softness Descends Upon the Earth

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The surface of these oil paintings are untamed, highly worked and layered, difficult to look away from, I use oils and mixed media to create texture and form in my paintings.

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Hetty Haxworth

Oxford born, Hetty Haxworth studied at the Glasgow School of Art and has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad. Her work has been shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, The Scottish Society of Artists and selected touring shows to Ohio, Australia, LA, Denmark and Brussels. She now lives and works from a studio in rural Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Hetty Haxworth draws her inspiration from the ever changing colours and shapes of the Aberdeenshire landscape. As the countryside alters with the seasons, the work responds to transient shifts of light, capturing moments in colour.

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Prints
Paintings

Mediums:

Paintings on Board
Prints – Artist
Painting Reliefs

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Landscapes

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Hetty Haxworth - Light Falling through the Window

Hetty Haxworth - Sheer Drop and Massive Slabs

Hetty Haxworth - Ink Black Trees under Drifting Clouds

Hetty Haxworth - Heavy Dew on the Meadows

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The ever changing colours and shapes of the Aberdeenshire landscape is the inspiration for my work. As the countryside alters with the seasons, the work responds to transient shifts of light, capturing moments in colour.

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Bob Aldous

Bob Aldous is primarily an abstract painter using wide range of media that are applied to silk that has been treated and sized, so that thicker impasto can work alongside delicate watercolour glazes.

He works in a way by which each mark interacts and inform the next brush stroke he is about to make. Using a wide range of brushes, broad marks are made with decorator’s brushes or large Chinese brushes and finer mark making are made with fine sable brushes or pencil. Central to my mark making is an aspiration for spontaneity. This spontaneous quality is sometimes hard to achieve, silk is an unforgiving surface in which each mark needs to be placed confidently. “After meditating on a work for some time I use my “minds eye” to contemplate where the next mark is to be placed, I will then work rapidly and instinctively.”

The paintings are inspired by water in all its forms: this may be a mountain stream, a calm lake reflecting the sky or a tumultuous sea tempest. Silk is an ideal surface as a substrate to my painting technique as it has a fine translucent surface, which is ideal for recreating the transparent quality of water. Throughout his career Bob Aldous has sketched water and been fascinated by trying to capture its movement and vitality. These sketches have been absorbed into his painting vocabulary and he now paint from memory. This gives the work a quality that “crosses the boundary between reality and dreams”.

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Paintings

Mediums:

Paintings on Canvas
Paintings on Silk

Subject Matter:

Abstract

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After meditating on a work for some time I use my “minds eye” to contemplate where the next mark is to be placed, I will then work rapidly and instinctively.

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Steve Johnston

Steve Johnston was born in Glasgow in 1956

The original photographer and inventor of the ‘Straight Up’ style of photograph at i-D magazine.

Steve Johnston’s work has been published in many books and magazines and is represented in the permanent collection of the Arts Council of England.

He has exhibited widely including Tate Britain, The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, Hayward Gallery London, Victoria & Albert Museum, Scope Art Miami Beach and various i-D touring exhibitions worldwide.

Returning to his first love of painting in 1991 Steve has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad.

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Paintings

Mediums:

Paintings on Canvas
Oil
Acrylic
Mixed Media

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Cityscape/Urban
Portrait/Figurative

Steve Johnston - Everyone Loves the Sunshine

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Amy Salisbury

Amy Salisbury is never happier than when she has got paint between her toes…..literally! ‘I guess you could say I’m a converted art conservator and designer who prefers to get her hands dirty.’

She has produced commissioned art which is dotted around hotels, offices and private homes from London to Warsaw. Amy studied at UCL and The Courtauld Institute of Art, and has worked in the arts for over 25 years.

Amy Salisbury’s latest collection is inspired by the BBC series ‘Blue Planet’ and the underwater world and aerial shots of our beautiful world. The free flowing nature of the paints and technique used reflects the natural patterns – uncontrollable and moving to its’ own rhythm.

Different forms of nature can be seen within these paintings – and I hope each viewer will see something new for themselves.

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Paintings
Prints

Mediums:

Paintings on Canvas
Paintings on Panel
Prints – Artist

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical
Landscape
Seascape/Water

Amy Salisbury - Fairy Pools - Isle of Skye

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Never happier than when I’ve got paint between my toes…..literally! I guess you could say I’m a converted art conservator and designer who prefers to get her hands dirty.

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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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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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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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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.

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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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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.

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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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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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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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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.

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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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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

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.

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

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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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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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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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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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My art switches back and forth between an engagement with socio-political issues and subconscious renderings. I can’t escape my concern for the wrongdoing in the world and within my art a surface layer of humour, absurdity and the arcane masks a strong undercurrent of concern for humanity.

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I create engaging artworks in a distinct semi abstract style inspired mostly by water and the marine environment.

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I have always been interested in exploring different materials on which to paint including metal, concrete, glass & Perspex. In using these materials, I’ve always sought to blur the boundaries between the illusory nature of paint and the physical properties of materials.

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The image of the sea and my thoughts about memory and identity are ever present in my work.

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The surface of these oil paintings are untamed, highly worked and layered, difficult to look away from, I use oils and mixed media to create texture and form in my paintings.

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The ever changing colours and shapes of the Aberdeenshire landscape is the inspiration for my work. As the countryside alters with the seasons, the work responds to transient shifts of light, capturing moments in colour.

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After meditating on a work for some time I use my “minds eye” to contemplate where the next mark is to be placed, I will then work rapidly and instinctively.

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Never happier than when I’ve got paint between my toes…..literally! I guess you could say I’m a converted art conservator and designer who prefers to get her hands dirty.

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

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