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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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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Jude Evans - My work reflects my personal experience of nature. I grew up in a seaside town on the Sussex coast, not far from the South Downs: constant exposure to the sea and the countryside changing with the weather created a storehouse of mental images that became a vital source of inspiration. more>
Emily Faludy - I am currently working on a project that I have entitled ‘facebook generation’. Through my own facebook group of the same name I request and receive photographs of peoples’ nights out, which I then turn into paintings. My inspiration for this project has been the 19th century writer Charles Baudelaire more profile> Read an interview here>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Natalie King - Using my own photographic images and artwork as the basis for my ideas, I then enhance, or sometimes recreate the mood and theme with graphics. Applying different colors, shapes and lighting to make a statement, whether it be still or full of life. I’m inspired by the world of freedom to capture an image and then to explore another window of expression using my own creativity and themes. more>
Claire Lindner - When you take a mass of soft clay and stretch it from inside, it enlarges and metamorphoses while all the interventions engendered by the hand remain imperceptible. The form appears to move and transform by itself, giving the curious impression of being alive. more>
Cecilia Magill - How pregnancy is seen in society today has changed from every other generation. The way I choose to work reflects the modern contemporary space.
Women photographers have evolved in the same light, to draw on the narrative of the strength of women, it is shown as a reflection from in front of and behind the camera. 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>
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>
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>
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>
Agnieszka J Pytlik - I am a tourist in the 21th century. Why do I do photography? Because I have no talent for painting. Photography for me is an opportunity to take a closer look onto everything that ever caught my eye. I aim to reveal emotions locked up in people’s faces, silhouettes and interpret those moments into a visual language. 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>
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>
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>
Nicola Saysell - As an artist, I am fascinated by the relationship between form and light. I will paint in any medium on any surface and of nearly any subject – all I need is to feel inspired by the form or image to begin work. more>
Maya Selway - The way we interpret and evaluate the world around us has fascinated me for as long as I can remember. I am primarily interested in the way we perceive and decipher three-dimensional information, often filling in the gaps using such clues as shadow, highlight, memory and logic. I enjoy bringing together contrasting ways of working silver, such as the highly reflective finish of polished sheet and the more organic forms
created through hand raising and forging. I make use of the ways in which silver lends itself to the exploration of optical effects and illusions. 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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
