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Sally Gatie

December 17, 2013, 7:11 am
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Sally Gatie


Sally Gatie is a contemporary figurative painter, working from her studio at Woodend, in her home town of Scarborough, North Yorkshire.

The human figure has been Sally’s main source of inspiration, and continues to be central to her work, in conjunction with her exploration of colour, texture and pattern. The figure is an important starting point for her work, often an expression or a pose is her inspiration for the next composition. Working from sketches and photo montages, Sally creates her paintings using a grid system, which she has recently developed. ‘My working system is always in a state of flux, developing in small steps from painting to painting.’ She gives great importance to her thoughts whilst painting; Sally believes that the finished painting is a product of both her consciousness while painting, and her developing techniques as an artist.
ally paints both large-scale and small-scale artworks, using oil on canvas. Her love of pattern and texture is obvious in her expressive mark making techniques, depicting the figure gently cradled within a sea of patterned fabric. At first glance, the figures look at rest and peaceful, but steadily the viewer becomes aware that in fact the paintings are energetic, restless and animated. Sally uses the folds, shapes, intricate patterns and lively use of colour and brushwork to make the eye move around the canvas surface. There is a tension between the tenderness of the figure and the unease of the chaos created by the patterned surface.

Sally studied Fine Art Painting at the University of York’s Scarborough campus, under the tutorship of the realist painters Clive Head and Steve Whitehead. Sally shows her work at Art Fairs in London, Bristol and Edinburgh, and exhibits with Artsbank in Saltburn on Sea.

Sally’s influences include artists such as Albert Moore, Frederic Lord Leighton, Gustav Klimt, Lucien Freud and Alison Watt.


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Jilly Ballantyne

December 17, 2013, 7:33 am
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Jilly Ballantyne


Jilly Ballantyne was born (1967) and educated in Scotland, graduating from Grays School of Art in 1989 with a BA Hons in Art and Design. For the last 17 years she has been living, painting and teaching on the Cote dAzur.As a former Graphic Designer, Jilly's paintings retain a graphic style, recent works, her Roomscapes, have been influenced by painting in Matisse's former home in the French town of Vence on the Cote d'Azur.


Education

BA Hons Art and Design Grays School of Art, Aberdeen, Scotland
Recent Exhibitions Include
Solo show Toco D'Azur, Promenade des Anglais, Nice, France July 2008
Solo show The Burnside Gallery, Arran, Scotland Sep 2008
Summer Exhibition The Burnside Gallery, Arran, Jul 2009
Valbonne Contemporary Art Fair, Cote d'Azur Sep 2009

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Anca Danila

December 17, 2013, 7:48 am
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Anca Danila




About
Anca Dănilă was born in Romania in 1982, she studied Art at the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca. Her artworks reflect the social concern regarding the overweight of the individuals of contemporary society. The artist believes that people should ask themselves the question: “Do I live to eat or do I eat to live?” In its journey the human being often neglects the physical body by believing that this will follow him together with the psychical body, but if these two are not in balance one with the other they cannot function well together and cannot be in harmony with one another. Therefore in order to bring the balance and harmony in ourselves we need to cure both the physical and the psychical body. She plays the role of a psychotherapist who is making an analysis and asks straight questions so that people could find an answer on their own.

Education


Master Degree (MA), University of Arts and Design, Cluj-Napoca,
Romania
Area(s) of Specialization: Fine arts
University degree ( BA) issued by the University of Arts and Design,
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Area(s) of Specialization: Fine arts






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Cara De Angelis

December 17, 2013, 8:08 am
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Cara De Angelis


" I paint roadkill. "

Cara De Angelis


Artist Statement

The two central themes of my work are the Domestic and the Wild. These themes are embodied in my series on roadkill, which is presented through the rich and historically-loaded language of Still Life. My process involves finding the remains of animals that have been hit on the road and bringing them home. I set them up in compositions that both pay homage to, and satirize, 17th century Hunting Still Lifes. The still lifes, and portraits of animals on aristocratic laps, explore the long-standing confrontation between wildlife and an increasingly industrialized planet.

The inclusion of dolls and children’s toys in my paintings are used to symbolize nostalgia and the infantile. This creates a fascinating disparity between the two worlds forced together in an absurd union, they're also a means of finding some humor in tragedy.









Cara DeAngelis



Biography

Cara DeAngelis was born and raised in Connecticut. She is a recipient of the CT Office of the Arts Fellowship Grant for 2012, as well as the Barbara Deming/Money for Women Grant. She has had full fellowships at both the Vermont Studio Center and the Prairie Center of the Arts. In 2010 she was awarded residency at the Terra Foundation in Giverny, France. She is also a recipient of the Rudolph Zallinger Painting Award. In 2011, Cara graduated with her Master’s degree from the New York Academy of Art .


Education

New York Academy of Art '11 MFA
Painting

Harford Art School '07 BFA
Painting

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MBI
July 2006-Present
Norwalk, Connecticut
Artist

Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
June 2011 - January 2012
Ridgefield, Connecticut


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Oleg Tchoubakov - Олега Чубакова - Oleg Chubakova (part II)

December 17, 2013, 8:44 am
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Oleg Tchoubakov - Олега Чубакова - Oleg Chubakova (part II)




Born in 1969 in Minsk, Belarus
Education:
1981-1985 - Arts School - Minsk , Belarus
1990-1995 - Belorussian Academy of Arts - Minsk, Belarus



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Loui Jover

December 17, 2013, 12:13 pm
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Loui Jover



"Right now I like making ink drawings on adhered together sheets of vintage book paper, there is a fragility to these images that I find interesting (as if the wind may blow them away at any moment) and the hand drawn stark black lines against the intricate printed words of the book pages offer a strange fusion and depth that seems to give the images a kind of 'meaning' and back story, even though unconnected in a contrived way. I never pick the image for the pages or visa-versa they just collide as chance permits, any meaning they may have is purely created by the observer and their own imaginings."


I have drawn since childhood and as other children stop at some point in their development i never did.

I draw obsessively every single day filling books with ideas, cartoons and drawings.

So my drawing abilities seem to have developed in natural progression giving me the ability to freely use a number of distinct styles and approaches.

I have formally studied commercial and graphic art and hold an advanced certificate in visual communication.

I was employed and served as an 'illustrator reprographic' in the Australian Army, This job included regimental photography and related darkroom proceedures .

I have held three solo exhibitions, and have been included in numerous group and collective shows.

My work has been acquired and is included in interesting private,corporate and public collections, throughout the world.

My illustrations, cartoons and artworks have been reproduced in books and other printed periodicals.

I am a self represented full time artist.

I primarily like to work with ink on paper, but am versed with oils and acrylics and enjoy making and using collage.

I also (as well as the book page drawings) am currently working (slowly) on a series of large oil paintings based on childhood memories.

I live in Queensland Australia with my wife Fee and young daughter Jazz.

I have a small studio in my backyard where i hide and work.

I immigrated to Australia from Europe with my parents when i was a young child.

I have travelled extensively throughout Asia and Europe.

The rest is yet to come.

thank you for your interest.

prints can be offered on request.


"A wonderful artist" - The Sir HON Ronald Arculli OBE


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Kitty Jujube aka Sandi FitzGerald

December 17, 2013, 2:10 pm
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Kitty Jujube


"My name is Sandi FitzGerald and I am an artist working from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. My work includes many mediums from knitwear to painting. For the past 2 years I have been mainly focusing on painting. I have never really thought of myself as a painter but more of a compulsive doodler. In 2009 I decided it was time to turn my "doodles into paintings and I have enjoyed every minute of it. I hope that you enjoy looking at my work as much as I have creating it! Most of my paintingings are also posted at kittyjujube.flickr.com. Check it out!"

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MEKHZ

December 18, 2013, 1:00 am
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Michelle Seo aka Hongmin

December 18, 2013, 1:22 am
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Lisa Lindholm

December 18, 2013, 3:44 am
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Lisa Lindholm


Lisa Lindholm lives and works in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, Texas. She completed studies in computer visualization at Texas A&M University in 2000. After serving time in assorted cubicles in assorted large corporations making computers do assorted things, she leapt into life as a full-time artist in 2005. Lindholm currently works as a painter, graphic designer, and proprietor of FreeLisa Designs and Banner Theory. Her current series of works deals with the relationships between an organic and natural existence with a created and imagined presence.



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Hermien Buytendijk

December 18, 2013, 6:35 am
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Hermien Buytendijk



Hermien Buytendijk was born in Groningen in 1948. She spent the bigger part of her youth in Heerlen. Her study of clinical psychology was briefly interrupted by drawing and painting lessons she got from the artist Harry Koolen (1904-1985). After successfully completing her studies she took etching lessons at the Vrije Academie of The Hague from 1975-1979. She got her first baking oven for making ceramic art in 1988. Soon this hobby turned into her daily work.

Her first exhibition was in 1991, since then she has done exhibitions on a regular basis.
Hermien gets her inspiration from everyday life, from a fantasy, a dream. She puts every idea to paper. During the working process the sculpture gets a more definite shape and its own unique title. This title influences the sculpture and it defines its final shape. Humor is a key factor in her sculptures.
Many recurring themes are hollow-round sculptures (opposing shapes), openwork sculptures, seats and sofas, musical instruments and other shapes that grow together into human or animal figures. Her sculptures are made of a coarse grain clay and baked at 1200 degrees Celsius, this is known as stoneware. It's a very hard material with a muted color. After baking the sculptures are painted with pigments in earthy and blue tones after which they are glazed. Hermien makes her own glazes. The final touches and decorations are made in gold leaf before and sometimes after baking.














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Kaikaoss

December 18, 2013, 8:30 am
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Kaikaoss - Kai Kaoss -  Ali Kaikaoss Kamal

Born in 1965, I (Kaikaoss) studied in Minsk at the art academy where I did my master of art.

 I have lived and worked in Germany since 1991 and consider myself a global citizen, for art has no borders. My experiences in various cultures have allowed me to find my own unmistakable style. I am and have been present at many single and group exhibitions in Germany, Belgium, France, the USA, Belarus and .














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Mikaël Kerboas

December 19, 2013, 1:00 am
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Mikaël Kerboas


Né à Troyes en 1961, Mikaël KERBOAS vit et travaille dans le Var.
Son œuvre est une interrogation essentielle et permanente sur l’existence.
Mickael KERBOAS s’intéresse à des motifs différents qui retiennent son attention par l’intérêt plastique qu’il y trouve. Il travaille alors ses toiles par séries, afin d’en explorer toutes les possibilités. Il regarde, interroge, décline, pour mieux l’approfondir, un thème ou un modèle, sans le limiter ni l’enfermer.
Résolument contemporain, l’artiste capte le mouvement en travaillant avec une caméra numérique, composant ainsi un véritable carnet de croquis. Puis il recompose les images et se les approprie.
« C’est le cerveau qui construit les images. Je me demande toujours à quoi peut bien ressembler le monde réel ? Personne n’en a la même perception, puisqu’elle ne se fait qu’en fonction de la perception de chacun. C’est assez étrange de songer à cela. En fait, je vis beaucoup plus dans la peinture que dans le monde réel. Je tente de reconstruire ce que j’ai vu, une fois que j’ai fermé les yeux ». Porté par la matière, il pose la couleur par touches, signifiant moins d’improbables lumières que célébrant la splendeur de la peinture. Celle-là même qu’il aime déceler dans les toiles des maîtres.
Dans la série, Visite au musée du Louvre, l’artiste étudie le thème du regard et du mouvement des visiteurs d’un musée autour de l’histoire immuable de la peinture. L’artiste utilise la mise en abyme dans tous les tableaux de cette série pour inviter à la réflexion sur le dialogue entre passé et présent.








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Modest Almirall

December 19, 2013, 1:12 am
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Modest Almirall

MODEST ALMIRALL


(España, 1959)
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Katie Hoffman

December 19, 2013, 1:30 am
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Education
2004 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO




 "Using paint, I strive to convey inner realities: the push and pull of fleeting thoughts, the longings and ambiguities of things unspoken.
I start with a nonobjective under-painting and no preconceptions but texture and color to enter into a dialogue with the paint itself. Though this approach to a start is indebted to Abstract Expressionism, the paintings are not completed in one dynamic session. They are returned to over a period of weeks or months, as more layers of paint, wax, and various media are added and some areas are abraded or scraped down to reveal earlier layers, in a mimicry of fragmented memory and experience residing in an invented space.
My creative process is largely intuitive. I bring recognizable imagery to the surface if it suggests itself during the process, but attempt to retain some of the ambiguity of the original vision. "

Katie Hoffman


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Nikolay Fedkovic - Nikolaj Feďkovič

December 19, 2013, 2:14 am
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Nikolay Fedkovic - Nikolaj Feďkovič


Nikolaj Fedkovic wurde 1945 in Uzgorod geboren. Er machte sein Abitur auf der Kunstgewerbeschule in Brünn und schloss 1972 sein Studium der Malerei bei Prof. Zdeněk Sklenář auf der Kunstgewerbehochschule in Prag ab. Sein Konsultant bei der Abschlussarbeit war S. Libenský. Im Jahr 1976 fing er als Fachlehrer an der Kunstgewerbeschule in Košice an und wurde zwölf Jahre später zu ihrem Schulleiter. Im Sommer 1989 ging er aus politischen Gründen ins Exil nach Deutschland.

Diese sehr ungewöhnliche Erscheinung der europäischen Kunstszene und eine Legende der slowakischen bildenden Kunst stellt nach ihrem zwanzigjährigen Wirken in Deutschland in Köln am Rhein wieder in der Slowakei aus. Seine magischen Bilder voller Figuren und Geschichten ziehen ihre Betrachter durch ihre Authentizität und liebevollen Humor in ihren Bann. Geheimnisvolle Damen in Hüten, Schwimmer im azurblauen Wasser, Polospieler oder sinkende Titanic, all das lässt den Betrachter hineintauchen in alte Zeiten voller Noblesse und Aristokratie. Jedes Bild hat seine eigene Geschichte und der Autor selbst wird mit einem Pinsel in der Hand zum Erzähler. Er zögert nicht, Symbole, Metaphern und versteckte Bedeutungen zu benutzen. Manche Sachen müssen nicht sogleich entdeckt werden, es geht eher darum, sie zunächst einmal zu erahnen. Seine Bilder wachsen ähnlich einem Bauwerk – in der Architektur wird zunächst der tragende Teil eines Hauses erstellt, dann werden weitere Stockwerke und Etagen hinzugefügt. So ähnlich baut er bei seinen Bildern immer weiter aufeinander auf, und spiegelt mit diesem malerisch-architektonischen Vorgehen das Leben selbst wider. Ein ähnliches Bauprinzip wählt Victor Hugo, in dessen Werken aus einem kleinen Fluss seiner Geschichte, genährt durch viele kleine Nebenflüsse, der Gesamtfluss des Romans entsteht. Im Linienstrom dieser gemalten Geschichten dominiert Menschlichkeit, Harmonie und innere Suche des Autors nach dem Wesen des Menschlichen.

Die Malerei von Nikolaj Fedkovic ist inspiriert von der holländischen Genremalerei des 17ten Jahrhunderts, von der gotischen Tafelmalerei, von der Leipziger Schule, von den russischen Autoren der Miniaturmalerei und von dem magischen Realismus eines Werner Tübke. Der Autor definiert seine Arbeit als moderne Orthodoxie. Über Werner Tübke, der die Leipziger Schule berühmt gemacht hatte, sagt man, dass er ein Vertreter eines mit magischen Elementen durchsetzten traumhaften Realismus sei; paraphrasiert könnte man es auch auf Nikolaj Fedkovic anwenden. Bis zu einem gewissen Grad haben seine Handschrift aber auch russische Ikonen geformt, deswegen kehrt er häufig zu altmeisterlichen Techniken der Ikonenmalerei zurück. Gleichzeitig ist er auch ein groβer Bewunderer der Kalligraphie. Die Liebe zum geschriebenen Wort ist greifbar in konkreten Texten, die er aussucht, um sie mit den Mitteln seiner Kunst zu gestalten. Zunächst sind es Texte des deutschen Dichters Hölderlin, oder des slowakischen Samo Bohdan Hroboň, der in Einsamkeit und Armut seinen literarischen Traum lebte. Mit einer überaus originellen Handschrift schaffte er es, auf die Leinwand jenes feine Schaudern hinzuzaubern, das aus Unfertigkeit und Offenheit gegenüber dem Zuschauer entsteht.

Nikolaj Fedkovic arbeitet in seinen Werken mit einem Gleichgewicht an abstrakten und realistischen Elementen; kultiviert, mit durchgespielter technischer Gestaltung seiner Bilder, Ideenreichtum, Tiefe und wunderbarer Phantasie nimmt er den Zuschauer für sich ein. In einer Welt, in der wir uns langsam schämen, das Wort „schön“ zu benutzen, wirkt seine Arbeit in ihrer Schönheit und Grazie der Durchführung wie eine Erscheinung. Sie führt uns vor die Augen ein unikates Theatro mundi, mit den Menschen als Bühnenschauspielern in einer Inszenierung des Lebens. Die einzigartige Atmosphäre seiner Bilder wird durch ein geheimnisvoll glimmendes Licht vollendet. Fedkovics Kunstwerke verlangen dem Zuschauer eine innige Aufmerksamkeit ab, ein Hineintauchen in die eigenen, innersten Quellen des Erlebens. Sein Kurator, Herr Horvath, nannte den Autor einen Trubadour der modernen Zeit. Dieser Klassiker der postmodernen Malerei bringt uns nun in seinen Bildern all das, was wir in der Weihnachtszeit am meisten brauchen – Harmonie und Momente des Friedens.












Nikolaj Feďkovič (1945)


Nikolaj Feďkovič sa narodil v roku 1945 v Užhorode. Študoval na Strednej škole umeleckých remesiel v Brne a roku 1972 absolvoval štúdium na oddelení užitej maľby Vysokej školy umeleckopriemyslovej v Prahe u prof. Z. Sklenářa (konzultantom bol prof. S. Libenský). Roku 1976 sa stal pedagógom na Strednej škole umeleckého priemyslu v Košiciach a o dvanásť rokov neskôr aj jej riaditeľom. V lete roku 1989 odišiel do exilu do Nemecka.

Nikolaj Feďkovič je nevšedným zjavom na európskej aj slovenskej výtvarnej scéne. Legenda slovenského výtvarného umenia po 20 ročnom pôsobení v Nemecku v Kolíne nad Rýnom opäť vystavuje na Slovensku. Magické obrazy plné postáv a príbehov sú príťažlivé svojou autentickosťou a láskavým humorom. Tajomné dámy v klobúkoch, plavci v neznámych azúrových vodách, hráči póla alebo potápajúci sa Titanic pripomínajú časy aristokracie a noblesy. Každý obraz má príbeh a autor sa stáva rozprávačom so štetcom v ruke. Neváha použiť symboly, metafory a skryté významy. Niektoré veci nemusia byť prvoplánovo videné, skôr ich stačí vycítiť. Obraz často vzniká ako stavba. V architektúre je vytvorená nosná časť, základňa a k nej sú pridávané ďalšie poschodia, nadstavby. Tak k svojim obrazom pridáva, buduje až architektonickou formou stavia a stvárňuje život. Podobný stavebný princíp si zvolil Victor Hugo, keď z malého toku príbehu sa stáva veľtok napájaný mnohými malými prítokmi – vzniká román rieka. Nad dejovou líniou dominuje ľudskosť, harmónia a hľadanie človečenstva v nás.

Maľba Nikolaja Feďkoviča je inšpirovaná holandskou žánrovou maľbou 17.storočia, gotickou tabuľovou maľbou, Lipskou školu – magickým realizmom Wernera Tubke a ruskými autormi miniatúr. Autor svoju tvorbu definuje ako moderná ortodoxia. O Wernerovi Tubke, ktorý preslávil Lipskú školu sa hovorí, že je predstaviteľom magického realizmu so surealistickými prvkami. Parafrázujúc uvedené je potom Nikolaj Feďkovič predstaviteľom snového realizmu s magickými prvkami. Do istej miery formovali jeho rukopis ikony, preto sa často sa vracia k staromajstrovským technikám písania ikon a zároveň je veľkým obdivovateľom kaligrafie. Láska k písanému slovu je hmatateľné v konkrétnych textoch, ktoré si vyberá aby ich zvečnil vo výtvarnej podobe. Napr. texty nemeckého básnika Hölderlina alebo slovenského Sama Bohdana Hroboňa, ktorý žil v samote a chudobe, ale sníval svoj sen. Nadmieru originálnym rukopisom dokázal na plátno dostať jemné chvenie, akoby istý stupeň nedokončenosti a otvorenosti voči divákovi.

Nikolaj Feďkovič využíva vyvážene abstraktné aj realistické prvky. Kultivovanosť, prepracovanosť, myšlienková hĺbka a nádherná fascinujúca hra fantázie si podmania vnímavého diváka. Vo svete, kde sa pomaly hanbíme použiť slovíčko pekné pôsobí ako zjavenie krásy a graciózneho prevedenia. Rozohráva pred nami unikátne Theatro mundi, kde každý človek je hercom na scéne života. Jedinečnú atmosféru dotvára zvláštne mysteriózne, mihotavé svetlo. Jeho dvorný kurátor pán Horváth nazval autora trubadúrom moderných čias. Tento klasik postmodernej maľby prináša to, čo v čase Vianoc najviac hľadáme harmóniu a chvíle pokoja. Výtvarné diela Nikolaja Feďkoviča vyžadujú stíšenú pozornosť diváka, ponorenie do vlastných duchovných zdrojov.
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Kerry Darlington

December 19, 2013, 2:58 am
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Winner of 'Best-Selling Published Artist 2012' from the Fine Art Trade Guild

“My figurative painting is a combination of pattern, nature, the colour of energy and an ephemeral, nostalgic subject matter. I cannot offer a more detailed explanation for these paintings, they have a title and they have a ‘feeling’. The feeling I give to the painting and that which the painting gives back to me as I paint it, can be its’ only explanation.”




orn in 1974 on a coastal town of North Wales, Kerry Darlington's talent was fuelled by beautiful old picture books (Rackham, Dulac and Beardsley were favourites) which developed into gaining a degree in illustration in 1996. Following university she left the UK to work in Bolivia, South America, an adventure which intensified the vibrancy and creativity of her work.

On her return to Wales she worked as a designer for an exclusive company specialising in sculptured clay murals for private residences in the Middle East, United Arab Emirates and the U.S.A.

Kerry now works independently, from her studio at home in North Wales, using all of these influences and her artistic flexibility to create pieces of art on a wide variety of subjects.

Kerry worked for years in pen and ink perfecting her drawing skills before diversifying into watercolours and later, a variety of mediums, acrylic and oil. Following her experience with the clay murals, she became interested in painting upon heavy textures and experimented widely to produce original effects.

Her acrylic paintings are uniquely formed upon board or canvas first, using texture and gessos. The colour is then built upon with several transparent layers to create depth. Her abstract pieces were initially based upon satellite photographs of Earth which created the 'Volcanic' collection in 2005/2006. This has since diversified to include contemporary landscapes and figure work, all carrying her unique style.

Kerry's work has become increasingly sought after by collectors, and in 2007 she was a finalist in the 'Best Up-and-Coming Published Artist' category in the Fine Art trade Guild Awards, as voted by sales in UK Galleries.

Her work continues to evolve, and she is currently experimenting with figurative oil paintings, using her contemporary style alongside the realistic painting.









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Colin Thompson

December 19, 2013, 12:56 pm
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Colin Thompson

I was born in Ealing, London on October 18th 1942 - so now I am 70!! Until I was eleven my name wasn't Colin Thompson it was Colin Willment. Willment was my father's name and my mother changed it to Thompson when she married my stepfather. Looking back I wish she hadn't. She cut my father off completely and I only met him once when I was nineteen. Now he's dead so it's too late, though I recently made contact with his family through searching on the internet and found a first cousin, Robert Willment, who lives in America. So now I have a whole new family. He and his wife came over to Australia when Anne and I got married in 1999.
I went to boarding school in Yorkshire, grammar school in West London and spent two years at art school in Ealing and Hammersmith where, to my dismay, I met people who could draw much better than I could. I met my first wife at art school and not long after, met my first daughter, Charlotte.

I have worked as a silk-screen printer, a graphic designer, a stage manager in the theatre but never as a lumberjack in Canada or a sailor on a tramp-steamer in the South Seas. I studied film making for a year, got married for the second time and worked for a while making documentaries at the BBC.


In my early twenties I suffered with terrible depression and, on three different occasions, spent three months in three different mental hospitals - Springfield Hospital in south London. St Lawrence's in Bodmin in Cornwall and a long since closed down experimental unit also in south London where you actually had to 'audition' in front of the other patients and staff to be admitted! That was probably the only place that did me any good as I seemed to be surrounded by self-pitying people who saw mental illness as a competition where the aim was to be worse than everyone else. Seeing a lot of the other 59 patients being so pathetic probably made me become determined not to end up like them.

For no reason I have ever been able to explain, my depression went when I was 25 and has never returned.

If you suffer with depression ALWAYS REMEMBER it is NOT something you should ever be ashamed of and try to hide. I CAN'T EMPHASISE THIS ENOUGH. IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT. It is a genuine illness just the same as breaking your arm or having a cold. IT IS NOT SOMETHING YOU CAN JUST SNAP OUT OF and losing the shame and seeking help is the BEST THING you can do. There is always someone who will listen and understand, you just have to look for them. After all, no matter what stupid people might think, no one would ever deliberately choose to be depressed. I think I was lucky because I never felt any shame at anyone knowing I had depression. If they couldn't handle it, that was their problem.


In 1968 I went to live in Majorca but less than a year later moved with, my second wife, to a tiny island in the Outer Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland where we spent seven years trying to stand upright in the wind and began twenty years working in ceramics. I also tried living off the land but all I got was an acre of weeds, backache, a pet chicken and two more daughters, Hannah and Alice, though not necessarily in that order.


Here I am weaving Harris Tweed in my shed on the island of Great Bernera which is a dot off the west coast of The Isle of Lewis. The loom was worked by foot power which was a bit like riding a bike underwater and no fun at all. The pay was lousy too which is why we started making pottery.


In 1975 I moved to Cumbria where I lived and worked in an old farmhouse on the edge of a forest for twenty years. During this time I planted hundreds of trees and made a lake that is now home to a family of mediaeval carp. At one time my house was home for five rescued dogs and three cats.
I now have five grandchildren Ella 28, Duncan 26 and Ruth 22 who are Charlotte's children. Then there's Walter who was born in January 2006 but is actually 324 years old. Walter is Alice's son and September 2007 he got a baby brother called Donald..

In 1990 I started writing and illustrating children's books and had my first book published in March 1991. Since then I've had over 65 books published.

In March 1995 I visited a school in Sydney, Australia and fell so much in love with the place that two weeks later I came back to live here. And on April 9th 1999 I married Anne, the teacher librarian who organised my visit to the school.

In February 1999 we moved to Bellingen, inland from Coff's Harbour and about seven hours north of Sydney. It is probably the most beautiful place on earth. Click on the button below to visit Bellingen and see what in interesting place it is. In fact, why not come for a holiday?


I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic should never end. I feel that if a children's book cannot be enjoyed properly by adults there is something wrong with either the book or the adult reading it. This of course, is just a smart way of saying I don't want to grow up.
My favourite fruit is cherries and my favourite music is Rock and Roll and old Blues records and I am now an Australian citizen. I am left-handed and colour-blind.



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Sophie Ploeg

December 20, 2013, 5:35 am
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Sophie Ploeg




"Born and bred in The Netherlands, moved to the UK in 2000. Painting portraits, figures and still lives, especially when there are fabrics and draperies involved. Love painting lace and silk.
Have exhibited with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Pastel Society UK, Royal West of England Academy of Art, amongst others.



Awards
Winner of the BP Travel Award 2013
Winsor & Newton Choice Award at the Society of Women Artists annual exhibition 2011
'Self Portrait’ (pastel) was a finalist in the Artists & Illustrators Magazine Self Portrait Competition and published in the November 2007 issue."













Sophie Ploeg
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Lawrie Williamson

December 20, 2013, 7:28 am
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Lawrie Williamson




Lawrie Williamson – Born 1932 – FRSA. RBSA. AROI. NDD.
He became a Major Exhibitioner' at the age of 16 then to Nottingham College of Art, University of Nottingham and L'ecole des Beaux Arts Paris. Winner of both 'Stanley Grimm' and Cornellison prizes at the Annual exhibition of The Royal Institute of Oil Painters.

Lawrie Williamson established himself by painting memories of Nottingham and Derbyshire in the 1940's and 1950's. As well as studying at Beaux-Arts Paris with Arthur Spooner he also sketched with L.S. Lowry. Lawrie moved to Ireland and has been painting local Irish scapes and figurative paintings the style of which is unique to him and instantly recognisable.

His paintings are sought after by Major Institutions and Collectors worldwide. Lawrie says: " I paint the first thing God made – Light "

Brian Sewell – Broadcaster and Art Critic of the Year " Few if any, handle the medium of oil painting as well as Lawrie Williamson "

Medium: Oil on Canvas & Watercolour on Art Paper




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