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FRANCES ACKLAND-SNOW Painting has always been a way to absorb myself into my own world. The actual act of putting paint onto the surface is a meditative experience. Each piece of work has come from the heart, without contrived effort. I paint purely from within using the landscape as inspiration. The paintings are a romantic response to the scenery surrounding us, transforming them into the surreal and exploring the mystery and emotion that lies beneath. |
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RUTH BARRETT-DANES Recent exhibitions 2011: Hampshire Artists Gallery, Selborne. Collections holding work: Portsmouth City Museum & Art Gallery, North West Arts Association, Welsh Arts Council, National Museum of Wales, British Council, Victoria & Albert Museum. London, Perth City Art Gallery & Museum. Australia. Melbourne City Art Gallery. Ulster Museum. Belfast. Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service |
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MATTHEW BURLEY Matthew Burley is a full time Artist who grew up in the village of Cookham. Matthew’s paintings, both abstract and realistic can be found not only in the living rooms and board rooms of his commissioners but can also be found on record sleeves, in select restaurants, music videos, sit-coms and T.V. Advertisements. Although he is perhaps better known for his realistic portraits, Matthews own current work centres around fluidity found in nature. These paintings range from very controlled photo-realistic representations of water, to abstracts made by pouring paint on to a service. This years Artspace shows Matthews return to a favourite subject, Fish |
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LYNDA CORNWELL
I hold a BA in Fine Art Practice and an MA in Drawing As Process from Kingston University. |
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| BRIDGET DAVIES has been fascinated by art and fashion since her childhood. She was trained at Bretton Hall, University of Leeds where she gained a 1st class BA in Fashion and Textiles. She then worked in the fashion industry for several years as an embroiderer. Eventually she returned to her first love, painting and illustrating, and now works as a freelance artist from her studio in Sussex. Her inspiration comes from the places she finds herself drawn to, both physically and emotionally. These have included the times in her life when she lived in the Far East, as well as a perpetual fascination for the elegant styles of the Forties and Fifties. Her passion for the bygone era encouraged her visits to second-hand shops in search of antique cutlery. These sliver gems in turn became the motivation behind a collection of watercolours. Davies effortlessly translates their unique history onto paper using ink, watercolour, gold and silver leaf. Words that define what she tries to express in her work include spontaneity, elegance, sensuality, beauty, line, freedom, luck and texture. |
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JANE FORD Studied Fine Art at Newcastle, Longton and Stoke Schools of Art. EXHIBITIONS 2006-2011: ING Bank, Battersea Art Fair, Affordable Art Fair, Manchester Art Fair, Dublin Art Fair, Brighton Art Fair, Pilgrims Way Artists Annual Event. 2004-2006: Commissioned to produce 200 paintings for the Cambridge Belfry Hotel. This was the first time a single artist was asked to do a complete hotel. 2008: Commissioned for paintings Spa Hotel, Tunbridge Wells. 2010: Royal Society of British Artists, London. 2011: Royal Society of British Artists. London. |
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CLARISSA GALLIANO
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CHARLOTTE HARDY
Charlotte regularly exhibits her mixed media paintings and silkscreen prints nationally in galleries and art fairs. Illustration work has included regular editorials for Waitrose Food Illustrated magazine, greeting cards for Paperchase and prints for John Lewis. Charlotte was the first artist in residence at the Affordable Art Fair, creating a large scale mural and wallpaper panels. |
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| CIARA HEALY. Studied for her BA, MPhil and Fellowship in Ireland. Using paint and antique natural history books, this work draws inspiration from the rural village where I live and reflects upon the impact, both transient and permanent that we have on our environment. Etched into the architecture, the pavements, even the allotments full of rhubarb and sweet pea around me are the traces of a history connected with nature. My work is a visual celebration of the layers of lives that have gone before and the traces they have left behind; the hands that tended the gardens, the horses who ploughed fields, the birds that sang at sunrise. Once a stranger to this place, I have been woven into its rich rural tapestry. Standing in my wellies, my chickens at my feet, I am aware, for the first time, of a sense of place, a connection, a home. My work is represented in many important public collections including Tate Britain and Dublin Zoo, where I have a permanent sculptural installation about nocturnal animals. As well as being an artist I work at a wildlife and domestic animal rescue centre. I also have 4 rescue battery hens, a small allotment, and a very grumpy but adorable rescue west highland terrier. I draw inspiration from my animals and my life in a rural village in East Sussex. I teach artist book making to adults in London and also on numerous short workshops around the country. |
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TOBY HUNT Toby has exhibited extensively in England, Germany and Denmark and has exhibited with the Barn Galleries annually since 2000. Education- BA (hons) Fine Art- University of Hertfordshire 1997- 2000. Currently Studying for an MA International practice Fine Art degree at The University College for the Creative Arts in Canterbury and The Bauhaus University in Weimar Germany. Publications - Artists and Illustrators Magazine- August 2006 and October 2007Daler Rowney front page competition 2004. I am fascinated by the possibilities for expressing strong or humorous emotions by stretching and contorting the faces of the characters that appear in my paintings. By now I think I must have produced a virtual village population of freaky looking types. I feel that they are really no different from supposedly normal people, if anything I think that I only capture perhaps only a small measure of the true level of the bizarreness of people. I think of humour as being the rocket fuel that is needed for me to put enough force and energy into a painting to make it work and stand on it's own. I want to make painting wicked, beastly fun. |
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ESTE MACLEOD Initially studied in her home country of South Africa then continued in England gaining a BA in Ceramics and Glass from BCUC (High Wycombe).In my practice as a ceramicist and fine artist I reflect on sentiments surrounding life, the familiar, domesticity and the comfort of habitual routine. Form, colour and gesture are utilised to express observations of humans, their interactions and environment. .Apart from my colourful paintings I also produce figurative ceramic sculptures and vessels, as well as crystal glass cast sculptures. I am constantly exploring the periphery of narrative ceramics. Objects that appear functional through form and association have been rendered impractical by piercing, slashing and adding of non-functional spouts and handles. Vintage domestic imagery intrigues me. By means of sand glass casting the domestic concept is continued through form and enamel inclusions containing symbolic imagery. I am continuing my research into ways of using ceramics and glass as expressive art form.January 2009: 6 week residency and ceramic symposium at the Guldagergaard research centre, Denmark. I made a range of sculptures inspired by the shape and symbol of the house. The house is used as a metaphor, expressing dialogue, fragility and comments on the transient nature of our world. Este shows regularly in the UK and overseas. estemacleod.com |
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EMERSON MAYES Yorkshire born artist who has experienced that rarest of things: success both critical and commercial since the beginning of his career as a painter. From the day the now 39 year-old graduated from Leeds Metropolitan University in 1994, he has enjoyed a growing reputation for a fresh, honest and uncontrived approach to his work. With his roots firmly in the British landscape –exploring both the fauna and flora, Emerson's work reflects his obvious passion for this vast and complex subject. Winning the Young Artist of the Year Award in 1995 was the first of a number of major awards he has received. This together with successful shows across the country and in London has resulted in Emerson having an ever-growing number of loyal collectors, both private and corporate, here in Britain and worldwide. All this makes Emerson one of the most exciting painters/printmakers working today. |
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DAVID MORGAN Lives and works in Devon. He is an en-plein-air artist and can often be found on a Devon beach or hilltop fulfilling his fascination for the ever-changing rhythms of light and dark, land, sea and sky. For the past ten years he has braved the climate in all seasons, using traditional methods and materials, to produce work which emits the sensations, feelings and emotions he has for the landscape. He sometimes paints in the Dordogne, France. He trained at Winchester School of Art. ‘I spend my time working, whatever the weather, outside in the landscape. Braving the elements brings its own set of unique challenges. There are logistical problems. Trying to get a huge canvas to where I want to paint can be a bit of a nightmare. It can get a tad hairy sometimes, what with the wind and rain. I paint ‘ả la prima’, starting and finishing a painting in a single session. This way of working can be hard work, but I love it and it is a life-giving release. All my work is painted outside. I am not a great lover of clear sunny days. I prefer to paint great expanses of light and space.’ David is a prolific painter and his work is in many private collections. |
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Is a landscape painter – and so much more. His landscapes lead us into unknown territory, freed by knowing that no painting is of a particular place but is a composite of his imaginings, his ramblings on the moors he knows so well. “Although my paintings are derived from my love of nature and landscape, I think that my initial intentions result in work which moves beyond a visual record. I do not use reference material but instead allow the paint itself to suggest my direction. This is an exciting challenge as at any point each work can be transformed by unpredictable and surprising nuances of the oils, to which my subconscious responds. In my opinion this process delves into a well of experience, not just those that relate to my chosen subject. My hope is that the acceptance of this will unlock similar recognition of experience and emotion in others as they view the paintings and long after" James studied in Bolton and Leeds. His work sells throughout the UK where he exhibits regularly and his work is in numerous private collections. jamesnaughton.com |
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CHRISTINE O’SULLIVAN
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SHELLEY ROSE Shelley began his artistic career as a printmaker for the distinguished artist Michael Rothenstein RA in the early 70’s, and went on to teach at Goldsmith and Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London. He lives in Kent and has exhibited extensively in London and the South-East.
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LUCY RYAN. B.A M.A 2011 M.A Printmaking-Bucks New Univeristy.1993-95 B.A Hons in Contemporary Arts - Nottingham Trent University. Much of my work uses poetry, film, photography and sound. I will always draw, print, write songs, poetry and make sculpture. I do not see a separation between the mediums. Whatever suits the work must be used. I have been a practising artist for 15 years. I have continually shown in galleries, worked on commissions and completed many residencies.I have experience of working in the arts, the design and the film industry. I also trained as a bronze patinator.2003/06: founded a sculpture foundation in Zimbabwe2000/02: worked with the late Kenneth Armitage, producing his large scale sculptures. (Skills learnt in the film industry and foundries) I filmed Kenneth Armitage during this time and have been building a film archive of artists, curators and collectors ever since. Interviewees include: the late Donald Hamilton Fraser, Tom Hammick, Liz Butterworth, Robert Hiscox, Peter Millican and Rungwe Kingdom.I undertook an M.A in printmaking in 2006 to expand my skills, to enhance my own artwork, better equip me with techniques to explore my own work and for collaborative projects. This has taken a little longer than expected as I gave birth to our daughter, Christobel, in 2008.2011: employed by Future City, the public art company, for a collaborative art project in High Wycombe.I have recently taken on a new studio space in High Wycombe to enable to me concentrate fully on my own artistic practice again. lucy-ryan.com |
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PHILIPPA SIBERT MA Fine Art – Aberystwyth SOA Wales 2009 My childhood was spent in Africa and I now live and work in a beautiful part of West Wales. The extremes of these landscapes have had a profound effect on my life and art work, which is predominately about my relationship and experiences of the natural world. This is the place where I feel most at home. My paintings and drawings are made with mixed media and the materials I use play a significant role in the development of my thoughts and ideas. I don’t start with any particular plan other than ways to interpret these ideas and while I work I am presented with options and choices that I follow intuitively.My working practise is very hands on and I apply layer upon layer of paint and media, which is put through a process of scrapping, scratching and sanding in order to reveal previous layers. As well as brushes I try an assortment of tools in order to create marks that become ‘second-hand’ and unintentional – removed from conscious thought. I eventually consider a painting finished when it feels as if I have come to the end of a journey via the process of mark making and layering. This journey is revealed as a visual narrative through the traces, marks and nuances of colour that are left behind on the completed work. |
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| KELLY SWEENEY is a Brighton based artist who produces paintings and limited edition screen prints. All images are her own original drawings and are created using pen and ink. The scribbled creations that develop are illustrative in style and draw from the facets of nature that capture the artists attention. Ink is often applied to each print individually fusing the practices of printing, painting and drawing together. Recent work has become intricate and ornate developed using her imagination and obsession with detail to explore visual contradictions and relationships, for example forgingthe realistic with the fantastical and planned execution with spontaneous gestural markmaking. Inspiration for the work originates from an experience with something that will appeal to her sense of curiosity and intrigue. These are experiences that usually happen by chance. The artist aims to capture something about the character of the subject using symbology and imagery that emerges from the intricacy of the drawing. Kelly has exhibited around the UK including Nottingham, London and Brighton and was shortlisted and selected last year for the Cork Street Open. |
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FRANK TAYLOR Frank moved from a career in art education (Head of Fine Art and Graphics, Salisbury College of art and Design) in the 1990s to devote his time entirely to painting. He has exhibited with the NEAC, ROI, RBA, RI, RSMA, RWS with numerous solo shows in London and the south east as well as representation at Art Fairs in the UK and USA. Frank has been a finalist in the Sunday Times Watercolour competition, the Hunting Prize and the Laing Landscape Painting competition. His work is in many private collections and in public collections including the National Museum of Wales, Surrey University, Art for Hospitals, the Houses of Parliament and local authority collections. Prints and printmaking are an enduring interest. Limited editions, open editions and cards of his work have been published by leading fine art publishers: CCA, the Art Group and IKEA publishes posters of his work. |
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KATHERINE THORN studied BA (Hons) Film at York St John University, MA Film at American University, Washington D.C and a PG Dip in Photojournalism at London College of Printing. I went on to cover stories in the UK, USA, Cuba, Mexico, Syria and Cyprus. My work has been published in The Washington Times, The Independent on Sunday magazine, The Guardian, and The Daily Mail magazine. I continued both as a photojournalist and as a news and documentary producer for Channel Four until starting a family. It was then that I discovered the beauty of Photopolymer Gravure which took my work in a new and exciting direction. I started exhibiting in 2011. |
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LIZ TOOLE 2006 Cardiff Institute, South Wales. BA Hons ceramics (2:1 ) 2004 Cumbria College. HND ceramics (distinction) Selected exhibitions 2011: Rostra Gallery, Bath, Palace Art Fair, Fulham, London - Liberty Gallery. October- AAF Battersea, London. July -The Haymakers, Hay-On-Wye. June - Castle Gallery, Inverness, Scotland. April - Printfest, Ulverston, Cumbria. March -Hybrid gallery, Devon. Print matters. Feb -New Ashgate gallery, Farham, Surrey. Colour matters. 2010: Brighton Art Fair, Brighton, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle Upon Tyne, The Hop Gallery, Lewes, Sussex. The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park. 2007. Barn Galleries, Henley On Thames. Artspace. Collaborative artwork: May 2007 Jubilee Library, Brighton, E. Sussex. Residencies: April-July 2006. Artist in Residence, The Highland Print Studio, Inverness, Scotland. June 2005. Artist in Residence. Scarborough Hospital, Scarborough, Yorkshire Awards: April 2002 Professional Development grant South East Arts( Arts Council, South East) |
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CAROL TYLER BA Fine Art from Wolverhampton in 1986 |
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KATE WALTERS Kate works with the numinous, ephemeral, feminine and archetypal manifestations of consciousness in her work. Training included Fine Art at Brighton University and post-graduate studies at University College Falmouth. The work focuses upon the surfacing impulses of the ancient feminine wisdom principle which is sometimes known as Sophia. " In this work I explore feelings around the body, my body, animal bodies, and how I learn about the world through all my senses. I see that we are all connected, that boundaries are subtle, fluid; I see that a superimposition or interpenetration can occur." Her watercolour paintings have been shown in many national juried shows including the Royal Academy, Royal West of England Academy (prizewinner in 2011), the Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2003 and 2008, and the Artsway Open; in November 2012 she will be having a solo show at the nationally renowned Newlyn Art Gallery. |
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