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Susan Absolon - In my paintings you might see elements of landscape, abstraction, pattern and painterly expressionism; never figures, but sometimes traces of human presence and always the ambition to render an emotional dimension through colour and the physical properties of paint. more>
Emiko Aida - Emiko Aida is a painter-printmaker living in London. She was born in Jindajii, Tokyo, a town with a Japanese temple dedicated to the Water God. Water is worshipped there, and growing up, Emiko was surrounded by wetlands, streams and rivers. Emiko’s artistic outpourings show a quest to return to her roots. Living now in a London she finds arid, her images show a search for a more humid atmosphere. more>
Lucy Bainbridge - I engage with the exploration of removing definition from an image to the point at which the content and context lose clarity. This recent work originates from details of cityscapes reflected within architectural structures, resulting in a combination of organic and formal shapes. A variety of filtering techniques are used to strip away familiar visual cues, leaving space for the viewer to interpret the illusory depiction of the original subject matter that remains. more>
Tess Barnes - Tess is a sought-after portrait artist who uses oil, charcoal , pencil or pastel to create portraits alive with sensitivity and freshness.
“The art of portraiture for me is to capture the ‘essence’ of the individual, not just their physical features but also the way that particular person sits in a chair, the angle their head naturally inclines to, the expression which is unique to them. more>
Maria Beddoes – My work is primarily in glass, investigating hybrid cultural references. I merge visual narratives from personal histories, disparate experiences, travel, movement and popular culture. The inherent glamour of glass as a material is an inspiration. more>
Julie Bennett - British artist Julie Bennett was labelled one of Saatchi’s new stars by The Independent in November 2006 and shown by Saatchi Online Gallery in 2008. The starting point for Julie Bennett’s work is popular culture. Working with oil, gloss and acrylic and gestural brushwork, she creates new identities for the androgynous faces selected from the pages of glossy magazines. Her highly personal interpretations of the human face take the work to a place where paint and subject have equality, and the imagery of superficial mass culture is transformed into high art. more profile> Read an interview here>
Marcia Bennett Male - I deliberately work in a very traditional and classical manner. I want the work at first sight to be indistinguishable from a museum piece. Not until you look again will you notice a contemporary ‘something’ about it. I enjoy the process of carving stone to this academic level, pushing the medium as much as possible, and I get satisfaction in depicting sometimes what would normally be considered, domestic or insignificant. more>
Jacqueline Merry Bernard - Since having more time to continue with my personal work, I have tried to integrate my paper and canvas images with my love of textiles in particular felt making. My ’House’ Series takes on a stillness in contrast to my ’Travelling’ Series where movement is rushed and there is always a changing horizon. These houses are not specific structures and the life within is secretive, only the plant life and colour provides an indication of their location. Space, form and colour and their imaginative context remain my commitment. more>
Lene Bladjberg – Lene Bladbjerg’s work is mainly abstract acrylic paintings on canvas in large scale. Her work is influenced by her background as a graphic designer. Grids and typography is used throughout much of her work. more>
Sue Blandford – I am interested in poetic juxtapositions of objects, which are imbued with both their practical uses and their symbolic evocation. The magic in the seemingly mundane and the transformation of these objects. I am concerned with paradoxes of light and dark, peace and unease. more>
Katiushka Borges - My work is about passion, love and what draws people together in a space of intimacy, fun, friendship and attraction. LOVERS LIKE US™ is the interactive playground for people interested in love and relationships, a journey to improve our ways of communicating and relating to one another. more>
Gabrielle Bradshaw - My main activity has always been drawing. I work directly from the landscape using charcoal and it is the quality of the marks on the paper that interest me. By heating and beating lengths of steel at the forge I can recreate these marks in my sculptures. The lines jump off the paper and dance through the air. more>
Helen Bridges - I assemble intricate visual worlds that navigate through familiar objects, structures and patterns extracted from the city’s fabric. I continually record surroundings with accumulations of photographs. Words are frequently included from observations, recorded moments, which introduce a surreal twist or a dream like narrative displaced from its context. more>
Jackie Brown - My world as a mother of 4 can become very insular. In the muddle of our existence it would be all too easy not to look out onto the world. Yet underpinning this existence are the changing rhythms and patterns of nature. Impossible to ignore, isolate or remove. more>
Julia Burnett - Julia’s paintings are rooted in the tradition of landscape painting and are emotional responses to the subject matter of change and how we hold it in our memory. There in the vast filing cabinet of recollections, details of place and event are store under many headings. These experiences are revealed and reconstructed from the atmospheric impressions of colour, weather, and light and shade. more>
Joan Byrne - I am a photographer and my passion is street photography. When I take photos I seek to capture the humour in life. At other times it’s the poignant, the poetic or the prosaic. (Of course they’re not mutually exclusive.) My focus has been London and, in particular, Peckham. more>
Liz Charsley-Jory - My recent drawings are monochromatic studies of the shifting patterns of light on the surface of the river Thames, based on photos taken from a water-level perspective while kayaking and walking along the river. I am interested in the relationship between time and the flow of the river, how by capturing the river’s motion in a drawing a moment of time has been frozen. more>
Carol Cooper - These 3 images respond to my Fulbright year in Albuquerque, USA in 2001-02. Like Edward Hopper’s Night Hawks, the Route 66 neon paintings reflect an isolated, transitory comfort gained from the light glowing out from the darkness like a roadside fire hearth or TV. The B&W photos use available, natural light to capture the essence of the wild South West as preserved by Ansel Adams. more>
Samara Couri - From a young age, I’ve always found drawing and painting the figure an extremely personal and spiritual experience. In my opinion, I believe this discipline has allowed me to perceive so much more of the true nature of reality and helped me to establish its veracity by representing it in its proper form, the subjective form. I have always asserted that paintings never lie and I strongly believe that, in some sense, they reveal more about the individual or object that is being represented than through mere sense-impression alone. more profile> Read an interview here>
Leonie Cronin - Leonie Cronin paints figurative paintings and draws in a variety of media. She enjoys painting people and likes to capture essences of human characters. Using symbolism and colour her paintings depict the subject in a context which draws upon the richness of their lives. more>
Julie Cummins - Julie Cummins’ paintings are fragments of time, place and emotion. Inspired by her daily walks in South London to and from her studio. The paintings are built of layers, gestures and marks, overlapped with glazes. Areas of activity contrast with reflective fields of still colour bringing depth to the canvas. Each painting is a fresh start a new beginning. more>
Irene Currie - My paintings are influenced by light and colour and I am particularly interested in the work of the 1950’s abstract expressionists. Much of my work has references from my travels, especially in the Far East, where I became interested in calligraphic marks and the art of propaganda posters. The paintings often contain distorted elements of this culture, reworked and repositioned from a western perspective. more>
Liz Dalton - Liz Dalton’s work makes reference to both traditional and more contemporary practices in painting. There is an interactive aspect to the images. The observer often believes they can see shapes suggestive of other forms; birds, animals, a baby’s fontanel or a face. more>
Gillian Devaney – My work is based on conveying feelings and emotion through the subject I paint whether it is through expression of the subject or the use of colour in a tangible way. I particularly like to work with the human figure and manipulate the images to change the feeling. more>
Liz Dickson - The tension of perpetual change, visible or microscopic, within an apparently static landscape is an interpretive challenge. I also like colour. I paint outside as much as possible, in watercolour, oil and pastel. Influences on my work include Hokusai, Dufy, Vuillard, Ivon Hitchens, Peter Lanyon, and Indian miniatures of the Pahari school.
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Lucy Duke – Whether landscape, still life or interior it is the artists challenge to find the exact equivalent for a panorama of different perceptions. I draw directly with watercolour or pastel on paper allowing an immediacy to engage with the here and now. Influences on my work include Giovanni Bellini’s paintings , Bonnard’s drawings , Turner’s watercolour sketches. more>
Edori Iris Fertig - I am an artist who pays tribute to lost histories by combining print, painting and carving in delicate assemblages and mixed media wall pieces. I transform found objects such as old photographs and textiles into a new narrative. Through exploring personal stories through artefacts, I hope to present an alternative and more diverse interpretation of history. more>
Suzanne Rees Glanister – These paintings (oil on canvas) are influenced by the work of the 18th century Japanese woman Haiku master, Chiyo-ni. Each painting is fed by a particular poem, as can be seen from the titles. The idea of the haiku which represents the theme, the moment and the season is reflected in these works. more> Read an interview here>
Anne-Marie Glasheen - I manipulate layers of digital photographs and/or scanned images to transform reality into sur- or un-reality. These ‘visions’ sometimes correspond to the themes and symbology at the heart of my poetry. My images are ‘visual poems’ which occasionally combine image and word (English and French, to reflect my dual heritage). more>
Jolie Goodman - The highly expressive, black and white, charcoal drawings are part of an ongoing series which explore the changing face and gentrification of Lordship lane, East Dulwich ’s popular high street.
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Julia de Greff - My work is about expressing the rawness of life – its pain, beauty, randomness and its ordinariness. It could be in the delicacy or fragility of a flower or the strength and vulnerability of a figure. more>
Kate Hall - I am a print maker, I make spray paintings on canvas and I draw. I live and work in London and St Ives in Cornwall, my studio is in an old stable, a park near Carshalton. The sea and the countryside influence my work a great deal, as do people and the general hubbub of the city. Everything in life is constantly changing but within that change there are moments of stillness and reflection, places of reference, horizons. more>
Eveliina Hartikainen – My works are three-dimensional. They combine two differing applications of textile technology and painting method. I try to capture lived space experience in its complicity of emotional and intuitional aspects. My space doesn’t have secure dimensions, and the nature of spatiality shifts from the optical to be almost haptic. more>
Lynette Hemmant - Lynette Hemmant is one of the decreasing number of artists who generally work outside, behind the easel, from life. The intention being to try to synthesize a place, a subject, in limited windows of time, in sessions over several days. She favours the more considered approach, taking time to explore the relationships between the traditional landscape subjects, trees, land, sky and water, or the more complex layers of a garden. more>
Lisa Hendricks My work is eclectic, it’s principle concerns invite the viewer to participate in the act of perceiving. My work expresses what is not apparent on the surface of situation, its placement is often domestic but contains formal enquiry into line, form, gesture and colour more>
Cassie Herschel-Shorland - Cassie presents a collage of experiences; impressions captured during transient moments on journeys; urban or natural landscape and details; words from poems or narrative which capture the quality of a view or subject. Influences include the effects of time on objects such as crumbling castle walls, the sculpting of waves on a beach or the polishing of a shell by the sea. more>
Jane Higginbottom - Jane Higginbottom is a sculptor and painter, currently working in carved stone. She works on the theme of the fragility and chance elements of life. Her sculptures have been described as natural forms which might exist in a parallel universe. more>
Lisa Hook - To express my concern and love for the countryside, and particularly that of the North East of Scotland, which I know very well from over 30 years of visiting this part of the British Isles, has over this time become imperative. The huge skies are familiar from my childhood spent in Northern Germany, not then appreciated as now Scotland. more>
Ornella Iannuzzi - Inspired by Nature and Alchemy, Ornella’s jewellery is formed through a number of experimental approaches. She is fascinated by growth patterns within the natural environment and geological formations – characteristic of the French Alps where she grew up. Her passion for the history of earth’s creation and the genesis of life determines her choice of her materials. more>
Deanna Jackson - Deanna Jackson paints in oil, encaustic and watercolour and makes small wax figurative sculptures. Observational drawings provide the basis for the images. Urban life in London has always been the core inspiration. more>
Moira Jarvis – My paintings and drawings are a response to the changing seasons and the passage of time in both the French and English landscape. I am influenced by my early career as a textile designer so in many paintings the materiality of the canvas is explored; threads are drawn from the surface and incorporated into other areas before the painting begins. more> Read an interview here>
Katherine Jones - Using an otherworldly visual language, recent work follows today’s sensitivity towards issues of protection and security. Ideas for many of the prints come as a result of working with contemporary writers and poets and responding directly to their work. more>
Marion Jones - Nets, wire, fences, drapery, folds, layers and filters provide the structure for my paintings. As the repeated forms build up, the eye is led across the surface and this visual movement provides the subject of my paintings. In my most recent paintings I have been more interested in how forms relate to the centre and sides of the surface of the canvas or paper. more>
Joan Kendall - Notions of diversity and unity are important in my life and are reflected in my work. I am fascinated by objects both natural and ‘manmade’, which hold the energy of a particular cultural time and place. My desire is often to release the energy or ‘message’ within an object through the colours, textures and form of the weaving that emerge to support the object. more>
Beata Kozlowska – My practice is deeply rooted in drawing practice as a process of thinking and articulating bodily gesture, and is closely related to an exploration of the ‘feminine’. I use fabrication processes, mixed media and installation as a holistic experience of creating my own Alternative Syntax rooted in aesthetic discourses. more>
Linda Litchfield - My work is about reinterpreting, reinventing my experiences and my internal world in a way which I hope may trigger a response, a memory, a smile in the viewer. I love the integrity of textiles and hand-processes, particularly stitch, and I use them to make 2-dimensional, wall-based pieces, which often incorporate text and found objects, to suggest a narrative. I also make artists books with a textile dimension. more>
Pauline Little – In the recent paintings Pauline continues to combine her fascination with the modern environment with her practice of painting the formal portrait. She plays with humorous references to the paintings of figures from past centuries and places them in a contemporary, often urban, setting. Sporting events appeal, not least because of the signs, texts and logos. more>
Anne Lynch – Often my work creates an atmosphere that is warm,humorous and uncanny. Figures are can be isolated and vulnerable but curious about their relationship to their surroundings. I want the work to bring you close into the story, to create a curiosity in the viewer.The arrangement of everyday objects interwoven in the work hopefully evokes memories, secrets or thoughts. A sense of a story that never reaches a conclusion. more>
Tina Mammoser My seascapes are created from cycle journeys around the English coast. As a colour field painter I’m trying to capture the colours of the sea and sky, the light and weather of each specific place. The process is about the simplicity of the horizon and the interaction of horizontals between shore, horizon and edges of the canvas. My own American background comes into the work strongly, with my experience and aesthetic for vast empty spaces of the Midwest. more>
Mary Mellish – A shell is precipitated from the sea and ‘shell’ as a memory/ experience of a place is an idea often incorporated into my work. Playing with the idea of a solid form made from solution, experiences of landscapes have precipitated into a series of abstract acrylic paintings on canvas or paper. Paintings reflect fleeting moments recalled from Britain and abroad. more>
Jennifer Merrell - My most recent project has been a series of portraits inspired by a verse from W B Yeats “A Woman Young and Old”: “If I make the lashes dark / And the eyes more bright / And the lips more scarlet, / Or ask if all be right / From mirror after mirror, / No vanities displayed: / I’m looking for the face I had / Before the world was made.” more>
Laura Moreton-Griffiths – My paintings explore the tension between the real and the imagined landscape. A current theme is my enquiry into representing my experience of nature, which is largely mediated through memory. Maintaining the distance, I have revisited the landscape of my childhood in the hinterland of suburbia via the internet. A single narrative will not suffice; I juxtapose images to tell a complex tale of the urban countryside. The paintings appear idyllic; on the surface lies beauty though below lurk dystopian undercurrents, psychological and cultural threat, and menace… more>
Sarah Morgan – Living in London so much of my world is full of buildings, noise and people all of which can make for a claustrophobic atmosphere. I am fascinated with depicting the sky. Constantly moving and shifting cloud formations, changes of colour in the subtlest and the most dramatic sense and the ever changing effects of light. more>
Gil Mutch - Having worked outside for many years Gil Mutch has developed a rapid painting style to convey the sensation and capture the memory of the experience, colour texture and innovative use of the paint are very important in gaining this experience. Close inspection of her work will reveal many layers, some works taking up to ten years, some ‘happen’ relatively quickly, though much thought and pre sketches go into them. more>
Lisa Payne My practice is very much process based with a respect for the intrinsic qualities of the materials I use. I choose materials and processes that require both an investment of time and physical labour. This allows me to have an intimate relationship to the work, exploring surface, substance, movement and density. more>
Sam Payne - My work falls into two categories – drawing and textiles, each fuelling the other. Primarily, I am concerned with mark making and the structure of textiles; the way in which repeating marks can evoke a memory of a surface, either man-made or natural. My drawings explore this more figuratively whilst, in my textiles, marks are pared down, reminding one of a sense of landscape or plant forms. more>
Chiara Perini – I am particularly interested in exploring the use of visual arts as a vehicle to address, analyze and discuss social and anthropological issues. Gender and educational systems are dominant themes in my work. While referring not exclusively to the art world for my research, I am distinctly inspired by the work of Marlene Dumas. more>
Marnie Pitts I am interested with how we connect/disconnect to our environments, both natural and man made. I like to observe the texture and feel of objects and I am fascinated by light and its effect on things This led me to work for over 10 years in film studios making Special FX for movies which in turn brought me to London. more>
Charlotte Posner - My works are mainly in oil paint on canvas. My work is about my life, my thoughts and feelings as a young woman artist. It also touches into social and political points of view. My work is about memories, how some things stick with me and others do not. Feelings; how I feel when meeting and talking to different people, what I am attracted to and why, and emotions. more>
Kate Pritchard Isolation, multiples, architecture, the human form and illusion are the main themes which influence my work. The work is a manifestation of both conscious and sub-conscious thought, and observations taken from both life and literature. more>
Pia Randall-Goddard - I am a photographer, designer and 3d maker. My photographic work is about the nature of spaces. My images reveal the micro-architectures of objects (currently mechanical musical instruments), and the macro-architectures of empty landscapes, mainly seen from a moving car. My 3d work, objects which sit right in the middle of the sculpture/craft divide, is driven by a need to re-interpret traditional craft skills, emphasising ‘recycling’, and ‘hand-made’. more>
Gwen Ramsay - Over and over and over and over, like a monkey with a miniature symbol. The joy of repetition really is in you. GWEN RAMSAY is Toronto born artist working predominantly in painting and mixed media installations. Since 2004 her work has brought together patterns of motifs as vehicles for examining repetition, and the ways in which excess and emptiness shape everyday life. more>
Izzi Ramsay – Photography for Izzi Ramsay is concerned not only with the image itself, but also with the underlying, and sometimes subversive, meaning in what is represented. Recent photographs are of formal gardens showing that they are not only places of natural beauty, but also have a wider recreational and cultural significance for people of all ages and abilities. more>
Kate Redfern - I generally make water-colour sketches of places and things that I find interesting and work into oils at home. I do also use pastel, but not so frequently, as the weather outdoors is often too damp in this country. I think I respond to humour in a scene or, alternatively, to the strangely magical. I find it hard to be inspired by a ‘chocolate box’ image more>
Jenny Ronay – I believe it is important for me to keep experimenting and learning through a broad-based approach to creative work, to increase this process, I regularly attend classes in etching, life drawing, painting and sculpture. My main interest is figures, portraits and industrial landscape. more>
Serena Rowe - I had always wanted to paint people but when I couldn’t find anyone who would sit for me I started to find things that would : pieces I found around me in my studio, in my grandmothers’ house, in the woods, or brought in by the tide on the shore. My foraging resulted in a cuckoo’s nest of characters. These things – random belongings of humans and nature – have memories, meanings and characters – just as people do. They had their stories to tell as well. And so I began to paint their portraits. more>
Angela Schutz – My work is about expressing intuitive images that come to me in meditation and in every day life situations. These images aren’t necessarily visual, they can rise as feelings, sensations or insights that then find visual expression. The starting point is inside me, in my personal experience. Once that experience starts taking shape on the canvas it becomes a dialogue between the inner and the outer. I often ask my paintings: “What do you want to be?” more>
Susan Short – The images depict the public spaces of city landscapes. The woodcuts, using a natural material, are a traditional method of printing. The method contrasts with the modern architecture and contempory life. The rhythm of the woodgrain sliced with the geometric lines of man-made structures is a metaphor for humans caught in the infrastructure of the city. more>
Chrissy Silver - I am currently working with porcelain, porcelain slip and flax paper clay.Working from my studio at home I am strongly influenced by its environment in the garden. Being a gardener and coastal walker I have had cause over the years to stop and wonder at natures ease at producing some of the most complex forms imaginable! more>
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Sheena Symes Colour is the most important aspect of my work, and I experiment with the use of oils, acrylics and texturing pastes to create paintings which have an interplay of vibrant hues and more subtle depths. I sometimes enjoy alluding to landscapes, but none of my paintings are primarily form based more>
Jennifer Talbot - My painting is is reflection of many interests. I have a fascination with the depiction of space and form on a flat surface. This is informed by my love of the dynamic shapes of contemporary architecture and the magic of baroque paintings such as those painted by Caravaggio. So I approach my paintings as though they were sculptures, using illusion to create a sense of space and the tactile potential of paint to create sensations such as immediacy and gravity. more>
Tate Sisters - The Tate Sisters use bold colors, images and typography to express their ideas which are inspired by things seen and personal experiences. Fabrics such as canvas and denim provide a starting point. Paint is then applied in blocks, or stenciled. As siblings, the Tate Sisters exert a constant influence on each other when developing their art. They give one another a steady stream of both inspiration and constructive criticism. more>
Kim Thornton
Janet Tod Still Life has always been a way of combining shapes, colours and patterns. My studio is filled with favourite objects and junk shop finds, and the occasional plant comes and goes along with fruit and flowers from the local market. more>
Eithne Twomey - Eithne started with an initial interest in botanical painting. Her subject matter now includes seascapes, interiors, garden landscapes and everyday objects. She interprets these through a variety of processes such as drawing, collage and photography. Pattern, colour, light and shadow all play an important role in the development of collages which become the basis for the paintings. more>
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Olivia Urquhart - Olivia is a self taught artist, with a background in fashion and textiles. Her work is motivated by a passion for the visual experience of the present. Using her native Scottish landscape as a point of departure she explores freely with texture and colour for a unique visual experience.
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Virrgo - Virrgo’s work encompasses both abstract, figurative and elements drawn from variety of sources. Throughout the last few years Virrgo made the surrealist inspiration more visible. Highly detailed blur paintings and drawings showing post-apocalyptic, mistic environment and scapes, deformed figures and symbolic deserts. more>
Karin Marie Wach
Sally Elizabeth Ward - I trained as a sculptor and although I now also paint I am still interested in the material aspect of art. Katherine Gili was my tutor at St. Martin’s and her methods of construction still influence me. I start with an initial idea, such as a visit to a Chateau (Saint Ulrich) in Alsace, and then allow the materials I am using to develop freely. more>
Patricia Whiting - I am very much under the influence of early twentieth century art movements, particularly the work of Picasso, Braque, Matisse and Leger. My drawings and prints explore faces and the female form in space, reclining, sleeping or dancing. I also use these images integrated with digital photographs to create experimental animations. more>
Torie Wilkinson My recent work focuses on urban street scenes, each imbued with an inherent lightness or human touch. Cityscapes that may seem impersonal at first are all affected by and have the mark of their inhabitants on them giving them, I believe, a humanising and ultimately optimistic feeling. more>
Sara Willett - Through a gradual build up of the repeated mark I establish movement and progression; minute changes can determine, advance or arrest the flow; the implication of time passing being embodied in the activity itself. Working on a substantial scale I uses heavy boards, onto which I systematically layer acrylic paint. I then return to interrupt the layering by excavating into the acrylic with repeated circular gestures. more>
Fiona Williams
Mandy Williams - I am interested in the social dynamics arising from contemporary culture – particularly how personal identity is affected by environment and how our social and affective lives interconnect. In Presence, an exhibition of photography, video and sound, the work explores the conflicting desire to create a home or connection with a stranger balanced by the need for distance and anonymity. more>
Beth Wintgens - My experience of the landscape is the source of my work. I aim to describe a space, what it is to move through, round, over a landscape, touching and being touched by the elements. My painting is to try and understand this vast thing of which we are a part, where spectator becomes an active participant in my reaction to place. more>
Susan Wood
Elly Wright During the last twelve months my work has changed. The organic forms (with a life of their own) found in the landscape have been replaced to take in a wider view of the rural area in France where I spent time working in a stable studio, but also of the beautiful scenery of Oaks Park more>
