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| Annis, Mark (Painting) My main medium is oil painting, I use oils as a means to utilise the figurative with the abstract. To be able create the effect of flow, and form, to merge the figurative with the abstract. Main subject concern music, energy, colour and depth .....more |
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| Bell, Mike (Painting/Mixed Media) Inspired by 30 years living and working on the Northumberland coast and now in the wilds of Redesdale, near Scottish Borders. Fascinated by patterns of sand on beach, piles of seaweed/driftwood order and chaos together .....more |
| Bradley, John (Painting) My subject matter is derived from a five mile stretch of coast of Cardigan Bay in central Wales. This area is immensely varied ranging from sand dune landscape in the south to a rugged boulder strewn beach in the north .....more |
| Bradley, Pauline (Printmaking) The figure is consistently my primary subject, in particular its articulation when engaged in movement. The body language that reveals and expresses inner emotions intrigues me. The physical structures of the body often allow for and develop into abstract concepts of form .....more |
| Brown, Rita (Painting) Although my training has been in traditional drawing and painting skills, including trompe lfoeil, I have always been experimental in my approach. My work is figurative and as well as abstract. I start from observation of a place, a situation, a feeling .....more |
| Brownell, Raymond (Painting) My interest in painting has been lifelong, although my professional training and subsequent international career have been in architecture. Through my years with Utzonfs Sydney Opera House team in Denmark and Sydney I gained valuable insights into organic integrity in design development, which later influenced my painting approach .....more |
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| Catwright, Marlene (Painting) My name is Marlene Cartwright and I love art. My inspiration started at Grammar School but I was only in a position to attend University before retirement in 2006. I studied Fine Art at Twelve Quays Campus, part of John Moores University, Liverpool attaining a 2:1 with Hons .....more |
| Collins, Anne (Glass Arts/Jewellery) I love fused glass! In fact, I really love fused glass! And I passionately love creating fused and cast glass jewellery. The end results of layering the different colours and textures of the glass are endless. I enjoy cutting and assembling each piece of glass, not really knowing what the outcome will be until I open the kiln .....more |
| Creswell, Lee (Painting/Textile/Batiks) I grew up in a world of colourful batiks and silks gaining considerable experience in textile art during my years in Malacca, Malaysia. My main aim is to explore the versatility of batik and textile art by creating works on different materials with subjects ranging from botanical, seascape and marine life, the movement of water being one of my favourite subjects .....more |
| Cudlip, Chris (Sculpture) Chris with background in special effects working as a freelance figurative sculptor and prop maker in London working for companies as varied as English national Opera, Madame Tussauds and Pinewood Studios is now pursuing a solo career from the Arches Studios complex based in Southampton. .....more |
| Cuthbert, Penny (Mixed Media) I am a multimedia artist working primarily with collage and mixed media. Although born in Alberta Canada, I have spent most of my life resident in the south of England where, after career changes, I received my degree in Fine Art .....more |
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| Dunne, Emerald (Mixed Media) My background is in stained glass and I run my own business, Fire Horse Glass. Recently I explored painting and had three exhibitions of my work while living in Japan. Like many western visitors, I expected to meet a blend of the traditional and the innovative .....more |
| Dunne, Hiraly (Painting) I am largely self taught. having made the transition from lawyer to artist a few years ago and am a figurative painter, working with oils and metallic leaf. Part of my work reflects my love for and involvement with people I have met on my travels mainly in Africa, India, the Caribbean and Latin America, rich in tradition and culture .....more |
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| Enseki, Hiroko (Photography) Hiroko was born in Tokyo, Japan and spent her early years there before studying at the International School Bangkok. She completed her first degree in International Education at Tokyo Gakugei University. Hiroko started experimenting with her father's camera in 2002. In 2003 she entered the University of Westminister to study photography and she completed her degree in 2007 .....more |
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| Farrell, Nina (Other Arts (Photogram)) My relationship with the darkroom is very intimate; it is a personal space where darkness and light work in union together. The darkroom is my visual laboratory where I conduct experiments and form new creations .....more |
| Faulds, Gordon (Painting) Influenced by Buddhist teaching, my personal objective is to experience reality-'as it is', liberated from involuntary interpretations, references and associations.Pure and sublime. As an artist I'm seeking to give form to this awareness. The ancient alchemy of coloured pigment on ground .....more |
| Furuta, Mariko (Illustration/Etching) I have liked drawing ever since I was a child. I might have been influenced by both my grand mother and my mother who also used to paint. We had lots of grand motherfs paintings displayed on the walls. My grand mother had a studio, but it was rather deserted and unapproachable yet attracted my curiosity .....more |
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| Garyu, Tensei (Mixed Media) Painting came, out of the blue, into my life in spring 1987. I was as young as 37 years old. Life is stranger than fiction. It is because of a tiny dream I had at that time that I ended up devoting the next 10 years of my life to realize it .....more |
| Gill, Lloyd (Painting) My work embraces the simulated world, focusing attention on the interchange-ability of real and imaginary, actual and virtual. My work studies the relationship between spatial dimensions and perception in conjunction with art .....more |
| Glasser, Bruce (Painting) My work has featured on the BBC, ITV, and regional television. It has also been published in two national newspapers. I have had exhibitions in the USA, Europe, and Scandinavia. I paint complex pictures in acrylic that visually reflect the times we live in .....more |
| Gordon, Linda (Photography/Installation) I make site-specific work, inspired by naturefs processes of change and transformation. I would say that the work is about eplacef and about making oneself at home in the world. Photography and writing are both important aspects to my practice .....more |
| Gurr, Graham (Painting/Design) I am a 56 year old British artist living in Malta.I began my training at the London College of Furniture from 1967 to 1971 studying Interior Design.After working for 5 years as a designer I then studied fine art for two years at Sir John Cass School of Art London .....more |
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| Hall, Shaun (Ceramics) I graduated from Middlesex University in 1998, where I sold my graduate work to Selfridges and Co. I have exhibited at a small number of prestigious galleries, including the CPA gsetting outh, New Ashgate and Buckenham Galleries .....more |
| Hammond, Michael (Photography) Presently I am in the post production of an edited 100 images taken from Japan. This body of work is a collaboration of landscapes, facades, people and a mix of the three telling a story of the everyday Japan that I was a part of between the years 2003 2006 .....more |
| Hayashi, Masami (Mixed Media) Trees and flowers in the nearby park pleasure my eyes throughout the year. The pond is filled with lotus flowers and birds swim in it. It transforms its colours in autumn, which is a joy to see. I recently started using rice paper to create abstract objects. I have an emotional attachment to the warmth and texture of rice paper .....more |
| Hughes, Jo (Drawing) I specialise in hand-drawn designs on white or cream paper using Rotring Technical Pens, Black Ink, Rulers, Protractors and Compasses. Although I have experimented with coloured inks and paper, I feel the impact is not the same or as effective as black on neutral. However, I do use touches of red, gold and silver to enhance and create depth .....more |
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| Itoh, Hero (Painting) Without my kowing it, somehow my expression have led people to label my works. Whether they are "good" or "bad", considered "the truth" or " a false". They all come from my heart and soul. My works are presently called "painting", "sculpture" and "performance art" in the difference of the form of the outer layer. |
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| Jackson, Angel (Other Arts) I like to have choices. So I have chosen to create my life the way I feel I am. Like the sculptor finds his object of beauty in a stone or chunk of wood I have been carving my life's features from the clay that is life. God shaped Adam from clay .....more |
| Jackson, Maz (Other Art (Pentra)/Painting) Maz has spent a lifetime living and painting in Norfolk, UK. Her work has a surreal, spiritual quality and has been exhibited and collected worldwide, exhibiting in galleries and museums in the UK, Europe, USA, Japan and Mexico. This month she will be exhibiting in London and Beijing as well as locally. She was invited to represent the UK at the Florence Biennale in 2003, 2005, 2007 and recently, 2009 .....more |
| Jones, Libby (Printmaking/Digital Arts) I am a printmaker, painter, sculptor and installation artist. My work is concerned with natural, scientific and man-made phenomena especially of an ephemeral nature. Trained initially as a sculptor I became interested in print as a way of capturing these phenomena through cast paper impressions (used as printing plates), photography and direct images (e.g. rust prints of old tools)) .....more |
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| Kato, Miki (Drawing/Painting) Paris based artist Miki Kato draws image by mixing nature and people. Her work consists of countless unique animals, insects, flowers and letters. The delicate fine line is her characteristic. She is inspired by nature and the human relations found in the everyday world. .....more |
| Kiyokawa, Itsuko (Painting) Since childhood, I have been exposed to the philosophy that we should respect nature. There is an invisible power in mountains, trees, water, and even in the sound of wind. When I wander through nature, the composition of colors and shapes, and the smell of air, speak to my spiritual core .....more |
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| Leventon, Rosie (Painting/Installation) She makes sculpture, landart, installations and drawings which can be for in or out of doors. Some of her installations comprise radical interventions into the interior architecture of a building. She has constructed false floors that float on water and which shift under foot .....more |
| Lyle, Yvonne (Painting) I am an oil painter living and working in Edinburgh. I work in oils on canvas and enjoy drawing with charcoal. My work can loosely be grouped as follows: Abstract/Architectural ? My family have lived for generations in Midlothian and were involved in the mining industry .....more |
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| MacGregor, Elaine (Painting) Woo-MacGregor, a Scottish artist of Chinese heritage, has recently returned from a residency at the Academy of Fine Art in Guiyang, in the south-west of China. The new paintings, developed back in the Studio in Glasgow, are a reflection on her experiences of China, resurfacing aspects of her Chinese heritage and dealing with cross-cultural concerns .....more |
| Maekawa, Hiroko (Painting) I was brought up by parents who love art and have been drawing pictures even before I can remember. I graduated from an art university, worked for a while, got married, gave birth, and experienced a job relocation. Ifve gone through a series of life events, yet fortunately, Ifve been able to paint continuously throughout this time .....more |
| Mali (Painting/Mixed media) One of the anonymous artists from Mumbai India he is the backbone of today's contemporary art from this continent. Mali is known in the UK as a network artist, his admirers consider him to be a exceptional conseptual artist. In 2004 his work was sold in Christies, he gives seminars at various colleges, schools and community centres .....more |
| McArthur, Alexandra (Painting) I seek to create visual haiku in surfaces suggestive of transience but where the stillness of the painting may counter the restlessness and passing sensations of contemporary life. Depictions of nature can symbolize older rhythms of time not dependent on technological invention or progress and more akin to our metabolic processes, velocities that coexist with high-speed modernity .....more |
| Mitchell, Alison (Sculpture) In 1979 and 1982 I studied kasuri on the island of Kumejima, near Okinawa. I was a tapestry weaver and had been awarded a Royal Society of Arts bursary to study weaving and dyeing in Japan. This experience changed my work forever, introducing me to the subtleties of resist dyeing .....more |
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| Nguyen, Lan (Painting) His an Nguyen was born and grew up in Hanoi, Vietnam. She began painting when she was 12 and won a scholarship to the Fine Arts University of Hanoi, where she specialized in graphic arts. Lan painted full-time after graduating .....more |
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| Ogawa, Masako (Painting) I find inspiration in the process of painting the SPACE World, which is based on blue, and combinations of chaos and cosmos. . |
| Oshima, Kumiko (Painting/Mixed media) Glad to have been born on the miracle planet "the earth". There's only one beginning, and it is connected with everything. The energy in the cosmos is connected with you. All of us become aware of the beauty and value of our own spirits .....more . |
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| Panchamia, Deepa (Design) Deepa Panchamia's philosophy towards design is to challenge the conventional perspectives of textiles. Blurring the boundaries between Textiles, Fine Art, Fashion and Interior Design, she creates sculptures, site-specific installations, abstract art forms, interior hangings and avant-garde wearable art .....more |
| Paul, Sylvia (Painting) My paintings are both colourful and textural and encompass a wide range of subjects. I particularly enjoy building layers of paper collage and acrylic paint to create texture and depth. My oil paintings are worked over an acrylic underpainting and are vibrant and expressive .....more |
| Pickett, Lindsay (Painting) My main practice involves painting with oils on canvas, linen and board. I start with a basic study of a composition idea, take it further as a small watercolour painting as a final idea and then develop it more as the finished oil painting. I also use photographs to create a visual reality that can be convincing at times and especially if I want to get the likeness of a person's face .....more |
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| Sanca, Alan (Drawing/Illustration) eAlan Mercel-Sancafs lush and intricate drawings -- which often focus on woodland and forest scenes ? shy away from major landmarks, draw attention instead to small local sites, or to those comparatively unknown spaces around famous areas .....more |
| Shida, Itsuko (Sculpture) Previously I have been making ceramic sculpture using my memories of childhood for reference this has also helped me to keep beautiful memories in storage in my sculptures. The memories are my past, so they maybe a romantic view of my childhood, I remember the good parts more than the bad, but they are real memories .....more |
| Southwood, Pat (Ceramics) After a lifelong love of clay I was able to study ceramics through to Degree level. After graduating I was selected by The Potters Association of Great Britain as one of the most promising graduates of e99. After leaving college I set up my workshop, gCosseyfs Yardh next to Salhouse Broad in Norfolk .....more |
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| Takahashi, Kyoko (Mixed Media/Paper Cutout) The Otsu picture is an origin, and the clipping Japanese paper and the kimono consult and paste to my work with the leaving cutter my stop of the draft on a black form with the putting stapler, and pasting the part of a black brush. The picture of the battledore was made a character .....more |
| Takahashi, Mari (Mixed Media) I create a foundation for my work by arranging materials such as Japanese paper, plaster, clay, sand, and fabric on a single board. The focus of my work at the moment is the creation of this underlying foundation; from this point on I would like to experiment with new forms of expression in the later stages of my creative process .....more |
| Takayasu, Jun (Painting) I try to create the color effect and multilayered space that emerge from thin films of paints gently spread over the canvas. When I start on a work, I always talk this to myself: "The color comes before the form, and the color makes the form." .....more |
| Tanaka, Ayako (Design) Ayako Tanaka (hammond) creates original, quality jewellery which is contemporary, delicate and crisp with a hint of bitter-sweetness. Her jewellery features sterling silver, some with semi-precious stones such as amethyst, rose quartz, garnet, tourmaline, moonstone and onyx. |
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| Wakeham, Penelope (Digital Art) I would like to emphasise that my work, although produced using a computer, is not a print and cannot be reproduced as such. Each piece is unique and unrepeatable in much the same way as a painting .....more |
| Wagstaff, Carol (Visual Art) The world around us is my starting point, ever changing, fascinating, always interesting. From early observations of the minutia of nature, the beauty and mystery of our universal landscape, to the complexities of human relationships these are the issues that inform my art practice......more |
| Warren, Wayne (Painting) Drawing pictures for me means that I see something and think about it within MYSELF, NATURE and SPACE. In our civilized clamour and the flood of things, I am thinking of, and am looking for, somewhere like the homeplace for earth people's SPIRITS .....more |
| Watanabe, Keisuke (Painting/Mixed Media) I was a musician to begin with. My deepest influences came two flautists, Moyse, and Yoshida Masao; I took in everything about them- their musicianship, their artistry, their whole way of living. The towering spiritual presence of both of them is the basis of my art and the source of my inspiration .....more |
| Wenwieser, Vanessa (Photography) My images are about travelling and being immersed in different cultures and involve the symbolism of the past, present and future of the city environment through the observation of streets, factories and graveyards .....more |
| Whitehead, Rhonda (Painting) Rhonda Whiteheadfs career began in the 70fs after leaving the Royal College of Art. Her first solo exhibition was at the Commonwealth Institute Gallery, London in 1975. Since that date she has had 22 more solo exhibitions here and abroad .....more |
| Wilson, Catherine (Painting) In her painting in oil on canvas, as well as installation and site specific work, Catherine explores themes of journey, memory and migration. The artist transforms aspects of visual, cultural and sensorial memory into an abstract visual language .....more |
| Wishart, Myra (Ceramics) Myra has been a professional Potter for over 18 years, and her work is sold in Galleries, and exhibitions mainly in the South East, and is in private collections throughout the world. Over the years she has also been teaching adults as well as developing her own style in ceramics. She has enjoyed making masks influenced by the Taureg tribes in North Africa .....more |
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| Yasukawa, Keita (Photography) I used to work as a fashion stylist in Japan. I don't know why, but in November 1999 I started to travel all over the world from Asia to Europe with just one purpose to do something about fashion. And then, I've changed my mind as I've taken pictures of local people in the world everywhere .....more |
| Yates, Ben (Sculpture) The basis of my work is in photography, but the addition of a third dimension gives each piece an originality otherwise lacking in the medium. Each extruded picture becomes an abstract colour study, or an optical illusion, changing appearance as the viewer walks around it .....more |
| Yoneyama, Aya (Painting) I have a vivid memory of a long summer in my early childhood. Spending what felt like endless days in the bathroom, mixing colours in water and being enraptured by the 'magic of colour'. Against the backdrop of the greyness of post-war Japan, my world became filled with colour .....more |