February 2012 Exhibition
24-26 2012
Candid Arts Galleries
5 Torrens Street
EC1V 1NQ
Exhibiting Artists
Lisa Andrews
Lisa only returned to painting 18 months ago after a 13 year gap and she is therefore a totally new and emerging artist. She has already exhibited with a number of respected international artists, including Mark Demsteader and Paul Lemmon. Her work has been reviewed by the Daily Mirror Art critic Martin Newman and appeared in numerous magazines. She has also been chosen to be one of the Judges for New Artist Fair's Online Art Competition 2011-2012 (coming soon!).
Lisa says: “My love of travel and my inspiration in the diversity of humankind that has led me to cover a range of fascinating studies from the media fuelled obsession with celebrity culture, to the calm reflective nature of the Dalai Lama. I love to use oil paint as the fluidity of the paint merges and flows to mirror my energy and emotions. I paint people and in particular their faces, as I find this both the most challenging and enjoyable. I paint to help me remember how beautiful life is, and to help others feel the same” Website www.lisajandrews.com Links to Articles http://bit.ly/ksqN3R http://bit.ly/m02SKz http://bit.ly/mg8dmZ    |
Charles A. Borrell
Chronos (Time), Hydor (Water), and Mneme (Memory) are integral components of my imagery. My visual language and inspiration are derived from the essence of changes and mood of the seas and skies and their intimate relationship with the horizon. Focusing on the memory of the image rather than the image itself, I explore the relationship of serenity, time and space, giving the viewer a glimpse into a world offering emotional solace.
Born at the foothills of Mount Pelion on the east coast of Greece, my work has assumed a fundamental association with the most formative memories of my childhood. 'As a child I would sit for hours breathing in the essence of the sea feasting my eyes on infinite horizons where mysteries and apprehensions, hope and beliefs would make my mind wonder, seeking the solace of a new beginning..." I relay my emotions and experiences onto canvas with a rhythmic and energetic yet serene and delicate manenr, exploring and experimenting with texture and media creating a contemporary and abstract representation of seascapes and endless horizons. Going beyond mere nostalgia, my paintings encourage the viewers to share the sentiment and theme of the painting while allowing them to create their own level of intimacy with the image according to their emotions and memories. Website: www.charlesborrell.com    |
Natalie Richy
Natalie Richy is a Latvian British figurative fine artist living and working in London, UK.
She is the co-founder & tutor of the Web Art Academy. Gaining an MA in Figurative Painting, Latvian Academy of Art, Natalie has participated in more than 30 personal and group exhibitions around Europe. Her artworks are held in private collections in Latvia, UK, USA, France, Russia, Lithuania, Denmark and Switzerland. Website: http://natalierichy.com/    |
Juliane Hundertmark
Juliane studied at the UDK Berlin and at the academy in Nürnberg. She describes herself as a "meisterschüler". After opening her own art gallery in Berlin, Germany for emerging artists, Juliane decided to show her work internationally.
The series of drawings she will be exhibiting at the New Artist Fair is about her fascination with imaginary animals and creatures. We see all these little creatures, dressed partly in costumes, that combine traits of both animals and men. Each animal has its own character but tries to capture and embody the transient emotions of the moment. Website: www.julianehundertmark.de    |
Amy Wright
my Wright explores the use of colour and texture. Her work is emotive and reflective, and relies on the viewer to interpret what they will. She works mainly in Abstract Expressionism, influenced by life, the people around me and artists such as Hans Hoffman, Mark Rothko, and Philip Guston.
Amy has a particular fascination with the use of colour; the emotion and versatility of the colours used. Each piece of art that she creates is determined by the qualities and colours of the paint and the act of painting itself. Amy studied Arts Therapy at the University of Derby where she first began to really explore the use of oil paints. What was of particular interest were the textures that evolved as the piece took on its form. After a short hiatus starting in 1999, Amy returned to painting in 2003, inspired by living in Greenwich, London. She joined a network of artists at the Cor Blimey Art Studios in Deptford in 2005 and further continued her explorations into colour and texture. In 2006 Amy moved to San Francisco. Here she found great inspiration in the creative energy that throbs throughout the city. Amy had a studio in Russian Hill and became a part of the Artist Community, participating in a number of exhibitions that can be found on her events page. Since moving back to the UK in 2008, Amy found a new inspiration in the vibrancy of the London (Space Studios), using that energy to spur her creative juices and more recently, moved to the Kent Countryside, enjoying the more tranquil and breathtaking inspiration that has to offer. Website: www.amywrightart.com    |
Nicola Berry
By day I run the rat race in the hustle and bustle of Canary Wharf.
By night I become my true self and am able to show my true artistic flair through my art. I have always been creative, as a young girl I used to paint with my Grandad who was also an artist. We would spend hours in the front room painting together. I studied art at school and begin A-Level art, but at some point I lost my confidence and decided not to continue. I didn't paint for quite a few years, in fact not until my Grandad passed away, and then I picked up my paintbrush again in his memory. Some years have passed since then and it is only within the last year, due to some self-reflection, that I have really realised my true potential. I now cannot wait to get home from work to paint, I day dream about painting and I am inspired by my night dreams and their vibrant & vivid colours. I really want people to enjoy my art work as much as I do creating them. It is through my art that I get my true confidence and I can shout louder than I have ever been able to before! Website: www.nicolaberryart.com    |
Stephanie Mackenzie
Award Winning Canadian-born Artist Stephanie Mackenzie is a vibrant up and coming new talent of the 21st century. Her sophisticated style is inspired by Pop Art and Surrealism but she is speaking through her own voice. “The style of my pieces is photography twisted with my imagination into a digital Art form” she explains. “My goal is to make them look as if they are coming to life in different dimensions”.
While looking at Mackenzie’s work, we are confronted with multiple layers and a rainbow of brash colours, featuring Men & Women, intricate design & textures, which is only the tip of the ice berg in which each piece is constructed. The process of creating each piece is complex. Models, costumes, lighting, set & story boards are important in the early stages of building the idea. Mackenzie will then use Adobe Photoshop to put the idea to life and create a contrast of dimensionality. With three suitcases and her camera by her side, Mackenzie got a one way ticket from Toronto to the largest hot spot for Art. Now residing in Paris France, Ms. Mackenzie is working internationally. Her award winning photography has been published & displayed in galleries in New York, Paris & London UK. Website: Deka Photography www.dekafoto.net    |
Niki Bedford
I was born and live in Cardiff, however I spent my childhood in Bahrain during the 1960's when most of the island was just desert - unsophisticated and sparsely populated.
I am attracted to objects which are weathered and show signs of wear and tear, erosion and history. I think this may be a subliminal reaction to my childhood in Bahrain where most everything eventually cracked, weathered and faded in the constant heat, sun, humidity and sand storms. My work is mainly using hand made paper on canvas which I tear, scorch, layer and pin, creating rough edges and depth representing weathering and natural decay. I have recently been working on a series of paintings of sailing boats in neutral tones, sand and plaster which give them a ghostly ethereal feeling. Website: [email protected] www.nikibedford.co.uk    |
Peter Norris
As a ceramic artist I am concerned with producing beautiful form, decoration which is an intrinsic part and “at one” with the form, and flawless shell-like surfaces.
I started my working life as a precision engineer, later graduating to industrial designer and it is this background which has given me the love of producing finely finished work. My working method as a ceramic artist is that I only work when I feel good about it, and have done a lot of experimentation with form & decoration to achieve the results I now get. I have a B.A. Ceramics degree from The Anglia Ruskin University and won 3D awards at the Beecroft Gallery, Westcliff on Sea. The Beecroft Art Gallery, Westcliffe on Sea, have purchased 2 of my pieces for their permanent collection I have exhibited at galleries in Llandudno and Conway, (North Wales); Maldon; Ingatestone; Chelmsford; Westcliff, and Anglia Ruskin University (Chelmsford). Influences include Lucie Rie; Alison Britton; spiral forms found in nature; smooth mat surfaces as in some plastics; eggshells; and fruit.    |
Leah Michellé
Leah Michellé's paintings seek to capture the abstract form of human emotions through mixed media and acrylic paint, specifically the feelings of contentment and happiness. Her technique of layering multiple coats of paint, paper and polyurethane on the surface of the canvas focuses on finding comfort in the visual relationship between the sensuality of form and the beauty of colour. The combination of vibrant warm colours with golds and beautiful patterns, and sometimes human forms, aims to stimulate an intimate feeling of happiness and contentment that only a product of beauty can initiate within the viewers. Predominately inspired by the Abstract Expressionists Mark Rothko and Hans Hoffman, Leah's paintings combine the intricacy of Modernism with the impulsiveness of Abstract Expressionism creating a contemporary genre of abstract painting that seeks to begin a dialogue of how viewers emotionally react to the relationships between colour and form.
Website http://www.leahmichelleart.com/    |
Sophia Moseley
I used to hoard things as a child. I was a magpie. Anything I could get my hands on I did. They usually found a place underneath my bed or behind the curtains; until my parents caught on and confiscated whatever treasures I had collected.
I exchanged nicking things for collecting things I find, out and about on the streets of whichever city I happen to be in, keeping every note and scrap of paper anyone has ever given me. Antique stores and markets are a favourite hang out of mine, any old postcards or photos I snap up and keep hidden in my drawers, scattered around my studio/bedroom. My inspiration is a collection of saved dialogue in the form of old postcards, old letters and a hoard of handwritten notes, scraps of paper and saved memorabilia, which I sometimes incorporate in to my current work. I never like to physically incorporate them; they should be left as they are. Although. I have been using old photographs and text playing around with photocopying and incorporating different medium like charcoal and pencil, in a repetitive nature. This work is about repetitiveness and structure. I usually make the photocopies in groups of three but sometimes they end up as a whole book of repeated prints or patterns. I like to keep them simple. Not too many layers or mediums, very basic, very clean. Website www.postdarling.com    |
Charmaine Lenisa
Born in 1971 Capetown (South Africa) I lived in London and recently moved to Belgium. I spent part of my childhood in Canada and moved to Holland at the age of ten.
I began drawing in my early youth, such as illustrating for the school paper and drawing comics. When I was 18 years old, I began working with oil paint I soon became interested in Surrealism and Metaphysical art. With a flair for art and fashion, I studied fashion-illustration and got my diploma in 1994. This study taught me amongst other things, about anatomy and I became interested in painting nudes. Mainly autodidact I have also had lessons from a well known Metaphysical artist in Holland, Frans Erkelens. Surrealism still inspires a lot of my work. My work is a mixture of fantasy and realism where often mysterious figures melt between dreams and reality. I mainly use acrylics and or oils to express myself. Website: www.artistcharmainelenisa.yolasite.com.    |
Paola Guerra
I was born in Gorizia, Italy in 1964 and I lived in Cormons (Gorizia ) till a while ago. Now I live and work in Udine, Italy.
I didn’t attend art school but I have been devote to drawing since I was a child. I attended the Liceo Specializing in Scientific Studies “Duca degli Abruzzi ” in Gorizia and then I took a degree in Political Science at the University of the Studies of Trieste (Italy). At Secondary School having as drawing and painting teacher the painter Ignazio Doliach from Cormòns, I made a set of pictorial works on paper. In 1992 I attended in Gorizia a drawing course taught by the painter Franco Dugo from Gorizia. From 1992 to 2003 I worked as staff employee in a company. During the academic years 2005/2006 and 2006/2007 I attended the drawing and pictorial course taught by my first teacher Ignazio Doliach at the UNITRE of Cormòns and from this moment I begun to devote myself seriously to paint . From December 23 , 2011- January 12 2012, I will be exhibiting in a group exhibition “The Odissey within : an exhibition of fine art by greek and italian artists “at the Agora Gallery-Chelsea Area-, New York. Website: http://paolaguerra.blog.tiscali.it    |
Aiste Gureviciute
I am a 27 year old artist from Lithuania. I started to draw since my hand was able to grasp a pencil. I have been in UK for 8 years now and I continue expanding my skills as the creative world will always have the best of my curiosity. I have tried Decoupage, which brought my curiosity to painting on furniture and walls (murals). I have a great passion for product and furniture design, I love 'outside of the box' thinking and coming up with new, unseen ideas, which applies to my recent drawings/paintings as well. What I love about painting is the use of a mixture of materials and styles on the same canvas. With paintings we create energy which is transferred to a viewer, so for me it is very important to create a positive energy with every single piece of art I produce. This energy depends on color, sharpness of lines, intensity etc. My recent drawings are abstract. I have visualized dreams, as I think dreaming is most important factor in life and we are creating our destiny by dreaming about our future, so this subject always had my interest. Up until recently my art work was dedicated to family and friends. It was the greatest gift I could offer, but as I got better at creating something positive and original with each piece I had a desire to share it with more people, to spread the dreamy, positive energy, even if it reaches the viewer through a small glance. So now I am laying the path for my work to be seen by many, and I really hope it will bring at least a tiny amount of magic into someone's world.
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Katie Oudot
I am 28 years old and have loved art since I was a teen. I used to mainly do charcoal sketches and have only really been painting on canvas for the past 6 years. I attended London Metropolitan University and graduated in 2005 with a BA in film. I attended college for a year in America in 2009/2010 and took the opportunity to travel all over the country. Art is my passion and i mainly paint popart pieces. I currently am trying to catch a break and get into the art world as I don't believe there is enough popart out there right now to be enjoyed.
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BJ Broekhuizen
Art and its visions were always part of Bj's life growing up in South Africa. As a teenager he set up a very successful, and highly awarded, pottery studio in Cape Town.
A growing desire to explore the intersection of art and science saw him shift his work into drawing and painting. A move to London followed. Working out of his South London studio Bj is exploring his passion for medical imagery and currently focusing on a series of cross medium pieces based on the life of human cells.    |
Sally Faure
I used to paint portraits of the people I was representing, articulating between legal knowledge and my rhetorical figures. After leaving Paris and the Judiciary world, I have been able to reopen on a daily basis the dusty chapter of painting.
Painting from memory provides me with complete fulfillment, probably because I feel like I am releasing the People, the Elements, so that they express freely without any sort of formalism or membership. I am often told that I paint the way a photographer would use his camera, it probably has to do with my childhood years of devouring Adventure Novels and National Geographic! This endless search of those faces and elements, not only went through Travelling but Painting. Oil paint is my favourite medium as it expresses all the diversity nature can offer as well as it saves the surprises of unexpected detours. It has as well the capacity of evolving with full autonomy and independence without any motive. That is the path I intend to explore at the moment along with the endless quest of the Light! Website: www.sallyfaure.com    |
Alice Lenkiewicz
I am an artist based in Liverpool.
I was brought up in Cornwall and Devon. From an early age I was interested in writing and illustrating short stories and poems. Later I moved to Lancashire where I studied Art and English BA and went on to an MA in fiction and poetry. My MA thesis, an illustrated novella, 'Maxine' was published in 2005. My first debut collection of poems and illustrations, 'Men Hate Blondes' was published by Original Plus 2009. I have organised various poetry readings and art exhibitions. I edit the poetry magazine, Neon Highway and run the arts initiative, The Toxteth Art Gallery. I have exhibited my work in Liverpool and London. My artworks are subjective and worked with passion. Each item is unique and personal. I also work to commission. My work is primarily painting and digital art. My style is surrealism, conceptual and decorative. Websites: http://alenkiewicz.com/ https://www.facebook.com/HerOtherWorld    |
Bianca Bellissima
I am 43, born in Sicily, living in London for the past 22 years.
I am graduated in Fine Art at the “Accademia di Belle Arti” (Art Academy) in Italy. Travel around Europe earning my living and having fun as Portrait street Artist. Landed in London and fallen in love with one of the most amazing city in the world. I have a passion for psychoanalysis and studied at Birbeck London University Psychoanalytic Psychology.....really a great trip! Mostly of my work reflects the inner process of my psyche. I work in my studio and I have illustrated two published books. Website: www.ovumbianca.com    |
Sapnaa Chotai
Sapnaa was born in Enfield in 1987 and began her art as a Henna tatoist. She completed a degree in Education Culture and society ( BA) and specialised in the Visual Arts in the community at the Goldsmiths College University of London.
Being a Abstract Expressionist Painter in her teens she began to use her travels around the world to inspire her more figurative pieces. She is a secondary Art teacher by proffession and teaches and lives in North West London.    |
Amanda Houchen
Amanda
is a self-taught artist, specialising in contemporary oil painting and
based at V22 studios Bermondsey. Her work aims to evoke emotion through a
heightened sense of colour and shape. The portraits convey an
exaggerated state of
awareness and the sensory experience of just looking. The work includes
text, as a child would label their pictures, deliberately drawing the
viewer's attention towards certain details. These pieces are designed
above all to be fun and fulfilling; creating positive feelings through
bright colours and patterns, so appealing to people on an instinctive
level. They have a stylised and tactile quality to them that is inspired
largely by graphic design. Amanda fuses figurative and abstract
elements to form a contemporary style. She works mainly from her own
photographs; influenced by the glamour and contrived composition of
fashion photography.
Website: www.amandahouchen.co.uk    |
Spencer Mitchell
Spencer Mitchell was born and raised
in the English county of Northamptonshire. Exposed from an early age
to a fascinating and defining juxtaposition of the industrial landscape
and the rural countryside surrounding him; Spencer began to view the
world through the lens of a camera.
For him, every photograph is a journey in perception, an exploration in seeing, “I want to record all those everyday things that people just pass by” With no control over weather, light or geography a photographer must study the subject/landscape and place himself in the most unique position as to arrange all the variables in what will become an interesting composition. Spencer captures with his camera, the most everyday and often overlooked subject, he challenges the viewer to see through his eyes, where the mundane and ordinary become something incredibly beautiful. Website: www.photographyimagenation.co.uk    |
Stacey Williamson
Stacey Williamson has known since childhood that she wanted
to be an artist.
After working as an editorial make-up artist for 11 years, Stacey decided to concentrate on her artwork and founded her company Two For Joy Art in 2010. Stacey creates paper artwork, with each design delicately cut away from a single sheet of paper. Her philosophy is to create whimsical artwork that creates a sense of joy and intrigue for the viewer. Stacey has exhibited work in the UK and in an international group show in St John's, Canada. She is keen to use her artwork to help raise money for charity and has donated work to the Hidden Artist auction for the past 2 years, raising money for the NSPCC. Website: www.twoforjoyart.com    |
Sabrina Collares
Sabrina Collares is a Brazilian artist from Rio de Janeiro. She has been living in London since 2009. Typically,
her compulsion for vivid colour, geometric forms and female figures
frequents her drawings. This stems from the exciting, passionate and
tropical culture of her native Brazil. It is also an interpretation of
her vivid imagination and fiery personality.
Sabrina started her fledgling career a raw artist, drawing and colouring everything free hand. She does not draw traditionally, that is to say shading with pencil or graphite, due to the plethera of concentrated, intense colour in her art. She says of her career: I ran away from being an artist for many years of my life, but the more I tried to push it away, the more it took hold of me. I work methodically, putting my original designs down on paper, often filling the entire picture plane, creating busy, sometimes surreal settings. She is fascinated by the human and animal body-its organs, muscles and bones. This comes from her studies in Brazil in animal and livestock care which bridged livestock management with ventinary practice. Her fundemental inspiration is her personal view and perception of the world. She strives to portray her unique feelings and opinions through distortion, confusion and hypnotic imagery. Her work is very personal and exposes a lot about the person she is.    |
Screen Art
Ana Garel-Jones and Sophie Hayes met at Art College and subsequently
started ScreenArt London, a small bespoke screen printing business, run
from their studio in Wimbledon. They specialise in unique individual
hand printed pieces or small limited editions with no more than a run of
five. The inspiration for their latest pieces comes from the desolate
landscapes of the West of Spain, where they have captured the ethereal
beauty of the trees in the area surrounding the Gredos mountain range in
Avila.
In the last year they have exhibited at the National Open Art Exhibition, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Decorative Arts Fair and the Affordable Arts Fair. Website: www.screenartlondon.com    |
Elsie Bell
Elsie Bell, based in Kent, England, is a digital mixed media artist. Her
portfolio shows and eclectic body of work as she applies the new skills she
learns throughout her artistic journey. With a passion for photography most work
starts out with something that has caught her eye on one of her many jaunts
around the UK and abroad.
Blending reality with fantasy Elsie loves to experiment with colour and texture. The pictures that will be exhibited at NAF February 2012 are part of a series I’m building up. It focuses on Great Britons/Great Britain: At work, at play and the architecture. Website: www.elsiebell.co.uk    |
Sam Leake
I am a fourth generation native Texan
although my family’s roots are deeply imbedded in the naval history
of England. A love of water is surely part of my DNA.
My photographic images are the result of a fascination with repetitive patterns in nature. Often my images are abstractions derived from reflections on water or glass. Photography coincides with my other interests: Sculling, fly-fishing, and wildlife. These activities provide opportunities to be on or near water and beautiful parts of the planet. Most of my photos are taken where I spend as much time as possible: the Rocky Mountain streams and rivers of Colorado, the lakes of Texas, and the reefs and salt flats of the Caribbean.    |
Mark Powell
Since graduating from Huddersfield University, in which I accidentally
enrolled onto the fine art course, I have had shows across the UK and
the US with more showcasing my paintings in the near future.
My practice centers around my drawing and painting of whatever slips into my mind at any particular time and so may seem abstract and unrelated, though this is never the case. Website http://markpowellart.tumblr.com/    |
Craig Hudson
Hudson is a young emerging artist based in rural Suffolk, who uses
a vibrant communication through wax and bronze as his chosen mediums.
He is somewhat of a rare breed of artists, a founder-sculptor. He has an
intimate relationship with the work he makes,
from the birth of an idea up until its realisation. This allows for
many opportunities throughout such as the process, the technical
experiment and the evolution of objects open to few others.
Once an object has been cast it is not always left in its organic state, but painted. This application of paint disguises the fact that these sculptures have an intrinsic base value, which they could be made with a cheaper, more affordable material – but they are not, giving the work a permanence that they deserve. Each figure that he makes is a self-portrait. Employing his love of comics, tattoos, and film, his fascination with disease and mutilation, the love of his family and friends, and his interrogation to the process’s of making things. Taking his emotions, his feelings, his memories even his humour and culminating these ideas into three-dimensional representations. To own one of his sculptures you own a little of the artists soul.    |
Heloise Toop
Faces have always fascinated me above everything else. I was always
scribbling the expressions of my parents and sisters when I was young
and preferring to doodle at school than concentrate on the subject at
hand.
In my mid teens I became very interested in the Pre Raphaelites and began seeking out portraits in galleries which radiated the same beauty, elegance and glow, determined to try to create something so beautiful myself. I started painting faces seriously during my A levels, undertaking a few commissions and holding some exhibitions. My painting 'Young Man' was chosen to be exhibited at the Mall Galleries, London, when I was Seventeen. After I finished school I spent a couple of years painting and travelling where the colours and atmosphere of places like South America and Europe became a part of me that had to be included in my work. My colours became more vibrant and my compositions more bold. After travelling I struggled to find an art college that shared my passion for portraiture but finally found my sanctuary in the 'Heatherleys School of Fine Art' in Chelsea, London. There I had the privilege of painting lots of different people from life, and the guidance of some wonderful tutors. There, my portrait 'Circle of Friends' won the Schools 2007 prize for a three figure composition. I finished my two year course in portraiture in May 2008 and from then on I have concentrated almost purely on capturing people through the medium of paint.    |
Alan Griffiths
I
started my creative career in the early 80’s playing synthesizers and
any other instrument available to me, on most Sundays I would be at
speakers corner, taping the speakers views and then later putting them
to an industrial soundtrack. By the mid 80’s I was a freelance
photographer, photographing bands for publicity shots and working on
album covers. I also started experimenting with photography using
different materials, it was these early experimentations that would
become a driving force later in life. My work is a photographic image, transparent in places, printed on to a
sheet of aluminum 75 x 110 cm and 3 mm thick - this is hung by a
floating frame. The
metal work goes under the heading; “The slow decay, trapped energy and
the realism of paint against time”, concentrating on the elements and
how they interact with man made objects, the slow decay of metal into
rust and the paint that begins to peel with age. There is no escaping
the elements. With this process an emergence of new colours and pattens
arises. From these areas of decay is a new form of beauty. The textures
and colours of rust and peeling paint and the form of natural pattens
occurring.
Website http://www.alangriffiths.net    |
William Savage
William
is a figurative artist trained at Camberwell College of Art and
Lavender Hill studios in traditional painting and drawing techniques in
the atelier technique.
His primary interests are interiors and portraiture. Much of his work mixes collage, drawing and traditional painting techniques, where, on a canvas of carefully selected magazine images he applies acrylic, inks and coloured pencils to produce rich, tonal images. Many of his spiced image collages, partly inspired by John Stezaker's surreal images, will also be on display. These apply a surreal or political treatment to interior or architectural themes. He works out of Clockwork Studios in Camberwell. Website: http://williamsavage.co.uk    |
Esmira Gulahmedova
In my paintings I’m mix two styles – impressionism and avantgarde. The most frequent materials I use are oil colors and canvas. My preference is painting people. While doing it I want to show their inner world – emotions, feelings and their thoughts. Always the beauty of inner world is more attractive for me than external one. And I’m trying to express it on my paintings. I also like experimenting with ideas, using bright colors and drawing unusual shapes.
Art has become an important part of my life. It gives me an opportunity to implement my creative skills, to express myself, to apply my imagination, my emotions, my view, my inner world to something tangible – a piece of art. It is the way of providing my message to the external world. I actively participate in exhibitions and competitions on a local level. And I hope this exhibition will be a step forward to my further development in art career. Contact: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Esmira-Gulahmedova    |
Matthew Chapman
I am an artist, mainly figurative living in London. my work is
influenced by Japanese imagery , Manga and comic books and the faces of
people i see every day.
My work is sometimes beautiful, sometimes slightly disturbing, but always striking. I studied Fine art at Sunderland University, graduating in 1992 , but only started painting seriously again in March last year, following redundancy after 16 years in music retail. I exhibited at the Art in Mind , Brick Lane Gallery in November and recieved positive feedback. Website: http://matthewchapman.deviantart.com/    |
Giusi Tomasello
Sicilian born lady from Polish mother and Italian crazy father. I have
always been in love with the impressive art and beauty of these
countries as of their excesses.
I studied in Art School and finished my MA in Industrial Design in Milan. Times were changing and my passion for new ideas and the excitement coming from the north took my path to London where I moved in 2004. Since then I experienced working as an artwork and graphic designer for fashion luxury label based in Milan, London and Paris. These opportunities allowed me to work using different media and techniques from collage, to digital generated images and painting end sewing. Soon I realized the creative limits of briefs and trends so I started my own work using mixed media, inspired also by my roots. This will be my first exhibition.    |
Simon Kirk
My
work draws from images and text collected in my sketchbooks which
through free association create playful abstractions.
I am interested in ambiguous, subjective ‘hidden’ narratives where the 'story' remains oblique or partial, ambiguous and undeclared. The work is multidirectional and open ended. Meaning is inherent but impossible to pin down precisely. Website: www.simon-kirk.co.uk Facebook page: www.facebook.com/simonkirkfineart    |
Pamela Manson
Pamela Manson
studied Fine Art at the Belfast College of Art in the late 60s early
70s. She taught Art and Design for 32 years and took early retirement
to fulfill a lifelong ambition to paint professionally. Now she divides
her time between Banbridge Co Down and South Donegal.
The inspiration for her work comes from the dramatic scenery of the Mournes Co. Down and South West Donegal. She works mainly in oils on canvas and is inspired by the bog lands of both areas which, to her, are quintessentially Irish. She has exhibited her work in Northern Ireland, Dublin, and had a successful one woman show in Donegal in 2011. Her work is in private collections in Dubai, South Africa, Switzerland and USA. Pamela is an Associate Member of the Art Society of Ulster. Website: www.pamelagmanson.com    |
Alexa Aulds
I am a self-taught artist born in Bristol and living in London. Travel and the study of languages have largely contributed to my inspiration from other cultures. Most of my work is painted using acrylic on canvas board and often incorporates metallic leaf and inks.
The beauty of the human body takes central role in many of my paintings, largely inspired by the decadence of the 1920s and the smells, textures, colours and sounds of nature, all the senses that evoke emotion from the abyss of the human soul. I am currently working on a new series of paintings incorporating the Latin phrase "memento mori" with the purpose of reminding people of their mortality, an artistic theme dating back to antiquity. Website: http://alexaaulds.tumblr.com/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Alexa-Aulds/103004569801100    |
