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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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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Selected Exhibitions:

Waterloo Gallery, London
NosDa, Cardiff
Amsphere, London
St Canna’s, Cardiff
Boundary Art, Cardiff
Blackwater Gallery, Cardiff
Royal Opera Arcade, London

Awards:

2020 – Royal Arts Prize

ARTIST SUMMARY

Categories:

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.

Amy Salisbury

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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.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

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

ARTIST SUMMARY

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

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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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ARTIST SUMMARY

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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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

ARTIST SUMMARY

Categories:

Paintings

Mediums:

Mixed Media
Paintings on Canvas
Paintings on Paper

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Landscape
Seascape/Water

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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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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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Widely Exhibited both Nationally and Internationally.

Selected Commissions:

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

ARTIST SUMMARY

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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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.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Selected Exhibitions:

Orbit Art Show – Oxo Tower, London
Black Gates Gallery
Safe House 1 & 2
Chelsea College of Arts
Camberwell College of Arts

ARTIST SUMMARY

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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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.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Education:

Foundation – Camberwell College of Art
Fine Art – Chelsea College of Art

Selected Exhibitions:

Orbit Art Graduates Show, Oxo Tower
Chelsea College of Art, Degree Show
The Workshop, Lambeth
Black Gates Gallery
Safehouse 1 & 2 Gallery
Blank 100 Gallery

ARTIST SUMMARY

Categories:

Paintings

Mediums:

Paintings on Canvas

Subject Matter:

Abstract

Max Mortiboys - Don't Be Blue Peter - 2018

Max Mortiboys - As Edgy as a Satsuma - 2018

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

Max Mortiboys

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David Dodsworth

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Selected Exhibitions:

Many Solo Exhibitions most notably in:

UK
Japan
South Africa
USA

Selected Commissions:

Elton John
Deutsche Bank
Nomura, Japan
JP Morgan

Lectures in:

ARTIST SUMMARY

Categories:

Paintings
Prints

Other Categories:

Glass – Sculptural Bowls

Mediums:

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

Subject Matter:

Abstract

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

David Dodsworth

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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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Public & Corporate Collections

The Great Northern Hotel, London
The Corinthia Hotel, London
The Caledonian Hotel, Edinburgh

Claire’s work is featured in hotels, cruise ships, medical centres, hospitals, restaurants and financial institutions as well as many private collections all over the world.

Claire is available for site specific commissions.

ARTIST SUMMARY

Categories:

Paintings
Installations

Mediums:

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

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Portrait/Figurative
Animal/Botanical

Claire Brewster - A Rose is a Rose is a Rose

Claire Brewster - Always Thinking of You

Claire Brewster - Maintaining the Mystery

Claire Brewster - We Just Want to be Invisible

Claire Brewster - What Were You Expecting

Claire Brewster - You Are Always on my Mind

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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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