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Jonathan Page

Jonathan Page is driven by a desire to explore the boundaries between an aesthetic, harmonic perfection and the inherent imperfection of human creation. He celebrates the intricacies of artisanal craft within an increasingly mechanised world, incorporating visceral and instinctive approaches toward his art. He endeavours to explore ideas of purity and perfection within the boundaries of human consciousness.

Jonathan Page specialises in modern abstract sculptures finished in clay, fibreglass, bronze and steel.
“My sculptures are concerned with harmony, the natural world, aesthetics and beauty. I believe these concepts and phenomena are crucial to the integrity of art.”

Jonathan’s work is collected internationally and held in numerous private collections.

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Categories:

Sculpture
Wall Panels

Mediums:

Ceramic
Metal-Cast
Metal-Coldcast
Resin

Subject Matter:

Abstract

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My sculptures are concerned with harmony, the natural world, aesthetics and beauty. I believe these concepts and phenomena are crucial to the integrity of art.

Jonathan Page

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One Aldwych Hotel

Art Contact was engaged to undertake a full audit, including condition report, of One Aldwych Hotel’s wonderful art collection amassed over thirty years.

Several days were spent at the hotel collating and photographing 280 artwork hung throughout the hotel corridors and rooms including sculptures displayed in the public areas including works by Emily Young (limestone carved head of Dionysus), Andre Wallace (The Boatman with Oars) and Justine Smith (two pop-art paper mâché dog’s one decorated with Beano cartoons and the other English Pound notes).

The collection also includes works by Jaroslav Rossler, Keith Millow, Joost Beerents, Ronald Grierson and Enid Martin, Richard Bartle, Nick Malone, Arabelle Sim, Keith Grant and Philip Diggle to mention a few.

Art Contact were delighted to be engaged to start the process of bringing the artwork back to life by reviewing each artwork creating a detailed catalogue including replacement value and condition report being the first stage in developing a suggested care programme to maintain the collection.

Project Summary
Services Provided

Object – Audit of Art Collection including Condition Monitoring
Client – One Aldwych Hotel
Sector – Hotel and Leisure
Location – Aldwych, London
Status – Complete

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Hetty Haxworth

Oxford born, Hetty Haxworth studied at the Glasgow School of Art and has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad. Her work has been shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, The Scottish Society of Artists and selected touring shows to Ohio, Australia, LA, Denmark and Brussels. She now lives and works from a studio in rural Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Hetty Haxworth draws her inspiration from the ever changing colours and shapes of the Aberdeenshire landscape. As the countryside alters with the seasons, the work responds to transient shifts of light, capturing moments in colour.

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Categories:

Prints
Paintings

Mediums:

Paintings on Board
Prints – Artist
Painting Reliefs

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Landscapes

Available for Commissions

Hetty Haxworth - Light Falling through the Window

Hetty Haxworth - Sheer Drop and Massive Slabs

Hetty Haxworth - Ink Black Trees under Drifting Clouds

Hetty Haxworth - Heavy Dew on the Meadows

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The ever changing colours and shapes of the Aberdeenshire landscape is the inspiration for my work. As the countryside alters with the seasons, the work responds to transient shifts of light, capturing moments in colour.

Hetty Haxworth

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One Aldwych Art Collection Audit

One Aldwych Art Collection Audit including Insurance Valuation and Condition Report as part of our Art Collection Management Service.

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Patricia Mitchell

Patricia Mitchell draws inspiration from experiences gained through her extensive travels and conservation work in Africa, Patricia’s love of nature, botany and global culture and tradition clearly resonates through her work as a mixed media artist.

PAPER: From the magic of a murmuration of starlings; the plight of global deforestation; a myriad of majestic African animals; origami diamonds; sculptured paper fish; origami Japanese slippers to even a colourful selection of bees, dragonflies and beetles – every piece Patricia sculpts from paper comes with a thought provoking narrative.

MESH: The other genre of her portfolio are her signature abstract elephant sculptures made with aluminium mesh,

coated with a mix of 24ct gold and Fools Gold. Her golden elephants can either be seen in family herds or alone, marching along on pieces of ancient drift wood, sourced from the Jurassic coasts of New Zealand. “No other wood will do – drift wood has withstood the test of time, yet it still holds its beauty, strength and power, much like our beloved elephants.”

Behind the awe inspiring intricacy of Patricia Mitchell’s paper and mesh sculptures, there always lies an empowering story which can be either be absorbed, be viewed in passing or can be used as an interesting topic to research and to discuss.

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Categories:

Sculptures
Installations
Wall Panels

Sculpture Type:

Internal
Table Top

Mediums:

Mixed Media
Gilded Aluminium Mesh
Sculpture – Paper
Sculpture – Wood
Sculpture – Other

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical
Geographical
Interiors

Patricia Mitchell - Walk of Life - Detail

Patricia Mitchell - School of Fish with Leaves

Patricia Mitchell - The Golden Elephants

Patricia Mitchell - Postcards from the Tropics

Patricia Mitchell - Pap Du Cong - Framed

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“No other wood will do – drift wood has withstood the test of time, yet it still holds its beauty, strength and power, much like our beloved elephants.”

Patricia Mitchell

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Bob Aldous

Bob Aldous is primarily an abstract painter using wide range of media that are applied to silk that has been treated and sized, so that thicker impasto can work alongside delicate watercolour glazes.

He works in a way by which each mark interacts and inform the next brush stroke he is about to make. Using a wide range of brushes, broad marks are made with decorator’s brushes or large Chinese brushes and finer mark making are made with fine sable brushes or pencil. Central to my mark making is an aspiration for spontaneity. This spontaneous quality is sometimes hard to achieve, silk is an unforgiving surface in which each mark needs to be placed confidently. “After meditating on a work for some time I use my “minds eye” to contemplate where the next mark is to be placed, I will then work rapidly and instinctively.”

The paintings are inspired by water in all its forms: this may be a mountain stream, a calm lake reflecting the sky or a tumultuous sea tempest. Silk is an ideal surface as a substrate to my painting technique as it has a fine translucent surface, which is ideal for recreating the transparent quality of water. Throughout his career Bob Aldous has sketched water and been fascinated by trying to capture its movement and vitality. These sketches have been absorbed into his painting vocabulary and he now paint from memory. This gives the work a quality that “crosses the boundary between reality and dreams”.

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Categories:

Paintings

Mediums:

Paintings on Canvas
Paintings on Silk

Subject Matter:

Abstract

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After meditating on a work for some time I use my “minds eye” to contemplate where the next mark is to be placed, I will then work rapidly and instinctively.

Bob Aldous

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Steve Johnston

Steve Johnston was born in Glasgow in 1956

The original photographer and inventor of the ‘Straight Up’ style of photograph at i-D magazine.

Steve Johnston’s work has been published in many books and magazines and is represented in the permanent collection of the Arts Council of England.

He has exhibited widely including Tate Britain, The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, Hayward Gallery London, Victoria & Albert Museum, Scope Art Miami Beach and various i-D touring exhibitions worldwide.

Returning to his first love of painting in 1991 Steve has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad.

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Categories:

Paintings

Mediums:

Paintings on Canvas
Oil
Acrylic
Mixed Media

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Cityscape/Urban
Portrait/Figurative

Steve Johnston - Everyone Loves the Sunshine

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Hugh Hamshaw Thomas

Hugh Hamshaw Thomas received critical acclaim in the 1990’s for his large scale installations that categorised found plastic flowers into pseudo botanical collections. These works explored ideas of mortality, trace and memory through a finely balanced play of what was being represented through simulacra.

Recent work continues the reconfiguration of pictorial and historical associations through digitally manipulated photographs of Landscape that pose challenges to how seeing is mediated by the language of art.

The work of Hugh Hamshaw Thomas depicts intimate picturesque scenes familiar to the decorative arts, trees meeting waters edge of pond or river quoting the arcadian, idealised representations of historical contexts.

In so doing pictorial conventions of colour schema and style are exposed as the signifiers of meaning.

There is a subtle negotiation of how experience, memory, nostalgia and cliche are embedded within the pictorial conventions of what Landscape depiction is so often associated.

There is an imbued sense of dwelling with nature as the mirror. Nature and our gaze on it as the mediation as to the viewers place in what we experience and how we represent it.

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Categories:

Prints
Photography
Digital

Mediums:

Digital
Photography
Prints – Other
Textiles – Wallhangings

Subject Matter:

Historical
Landscape

Hugh Hamshaw Thomas - The Blue Tree - Holcombe 2019

Hugh Hamshaw Thomas - Pink Lake - Sweet Arcadia 2017

Hugh Hamshaw Thomas - Lakes End (Charcoal) 2018

Hugh Hamshaw Thomas - Lakes Edge (Strawberry) 2019

Hugh Hamshaw Thomas - Jerusalem (Wedgewood) 2019

Hugh Hamshaw Thomas - Fallen 2019 (Blue)

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Jad Oakes

London-based Jad Oakes explores the possibilities of photography and the moving image for sculptural installations, prints and photogravures.

His works are presented as collections or bodies of work that are connected by their process, theme and technique. The main thread that ties these bodies of works together is a fascination with memory and time.

Since 2014 he has developed and nurtured an ongoing series of small scale silent looping film installations housed in wooden sculptures titled Vessels.

Condensed Vessel Videos:

Dreams of Somewhere Else
Moonscape 50
Memory Vessel

Using timbers of Oak, Walnut and Bog Oak these moving image sculptures seek to connect with the viewer by projecting them into an alternative space and time.

Of the Vessels series he notes a desire to “create intimate emotive sculptures, enticing contemplation and memory.”

Jad Oakes was awarded the Aesthetica Prize at the 2019 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition.

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Categories:

Prints
Photography
Sculpture

Sculpture Type:

Interior
Tabletop

Medium:

Collage
Digital
Mixed Media
Photography
Photomontage
Prints – Artist
Prints – Other
Sculpture – Wood
Sculpture – Other
Video/Film

Subject:

Historical
Landscape
Portrait/Figurative

Selected Exhibitions

2019

Discerning Eye Aesthetica Award
ING Discerning Eye – Mall Galleries
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair

2018

Residues – By Other Means Gallery, London
ING Discerning Eye – Mall Galleries
Meet the Members – London Print Studio
Identity – Kindred Studios, London

2017

Unique Beauty – Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield
Affordable Art Fair, London
Portrait 17 – Degree Art, London

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Equatorial Traders

Working directly with the client, Art Contact was asked to curate and manage the relocation programme for Equatorial Traders artworks to their new offices.

Our brief included; the review of existing framing, assessment of any restoration/conservation requirements to the artwork, printing and framing of previously commissioned photographs.

In advance of the move Art Contact pre-arranged the artwork layout for Equatorial Traders new offices, which was presented to the client for approval.

Art Contact over saw and managed the printing and framing of the new photographs, prior to installing them as arranged. Most of the artworks were re-framed in house, to suit the decor in their new offices.

Project Summary
Services Provided

Object – Curate, Frame & Install
Client – Equatorial Traders
Sector – Office & Corporate
Location – Kings Cross, London
Status – Complete

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Andrew Bylo

Andrew Bylo is an artist and illustrator with 38 years’ experience in the worlds of Advertising, Design & Editorial: 2019 finds him working mostly for a major client in Japan via Far East agent Cross World Connections based in Tokyo. He will shortly be starting on the 2020 collection.

Andrew’s core skill is working from life, swiftly and accurately in media from pencil/pencil crayon to gouache or acrylic. Stylistically, his work ranges from economical line drawing to full atmospheric colour. Spontaneity is the hallmark of his work.

During a rich & varied professional career, he’s had afternoon tea with Ian Dury at The Waldorf Astoria as part of a book project for Faber & Faber on emerging creatives, and been sent to Patrick Moore’s house to draw his portrait from life on behalf of Mitchell Beazley, only to be told by the celebrated astronomer that the drawing was ‘a grotesque caricature’. The publishers had warned Andrew it might not go well…

Drawing and painting people from life is his real love, and he was appointed in October 2017 as ‘portrait-painter-in-residence’ for London-based agency ‘krow’ and has painted all 54 of krow’s team. Malcolm White, chief strategy officer and founder of krow, said: “Andrew Bylo’s genius is in working quickly to seize a recognisable impression of an individual. We commissioned him to celebrate the role our people play in the success of the agency, and to make our office walls far more personal.”

Andrew Bylo is an avid keeper of sketchbooks, dating back to the 1970s, about 130 or so at the last count, and in his spare time, curiously enough, he rather likes to draw and paint.

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Categories:

Paintings

Medium:

Drawing/Caligraphy
Painting on Canvas
Painting on Paper

Subject Matter:

Architectural
Cityscape/Urban
Interiors
Landscape
Music
Portrait/Figurative
Seascape/Water

Andrew Bylo - Institute of Practioners in Advertising

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Rebecca Gouldson

Rebecca Gouldson creates elegant, bespoke metal and enamel wall pieces for private, corporate and public spaces.

The beautifully etched, rich metallic surfaces are created using techniques more traditionally used by printmakers. These expressive, reflective surfaces engage the viewer as they transform with the changing light of the day.

Rebecca draws inspiration from diverse subject matter, including architecture, the rural landscape, and maps. Working closely with her clients, each response to a commission brief involves taking photographs, and making drawings, prints and collages on paper. This imagery is combined, manipulated and then etched in to metal. Layers of processes, including electroplating and chemical patination, are used in innovative sequences, which push the boundaries of metalworking, to create unique objects.

Having established her studio in 2003, Rebecca Gouldson quickly rose to acclaim at first nationally, receiving awards from the Crafts Council and Crafts Magazine, and then internationally, exhibiting in the USA at prestigious shows such as SOFA Chicago and Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show. Back in the UK, her work was sold at London and Edinburgh Art Fairs.

Since then, she has been working on projects as diverse as superyachts, board rooms, and luxury jewellery and fashion brands in the US, Japan and the Middle East. In 2014, Rebecca extended her artistic practice to include vitreous enamel, which has extended the potential of her commission work in to architectural facades and outdoor sculptures.

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Categories:

Sculptures
Installations
Wall Panels

Medium:

Enamel
Installation
Sculpture – Metal Fabricated
Sculpture – Mixed Media
Other

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical
Architectural
Cityscape/Urban
Geographical
Historical
Landscape
Seascape/Water
Sporting
Still Life

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Cadogan Estates

Cadogan Estates approached Art Contact to source and supply appropriate artworks for the entrance of their building in Sloane Street used as a multi purpose office space.

They were keen that the artwork reflected their involvement in the area.

A photographic collage created from photographs of local landmarks and sculptures in various Chelsea gardens not usually seen by the public to create a link between the building, the locality and Cadogan Estates.

The collage was printed onto the reverse of 5 panels and installed on stainless steel stand-off bolts.

Project Summary
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Object – Source and Supply Striking Artwork for Reception
Client – Cadogan Estates
Sector – Office & Corporate
Location – Chelsea, London
Status – Completed

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Lucy Cooper

Lucy Cooper is a London-based artist and print maker whose current work explores the theme of reflection. Water reflections feature in many of her prints, while reflection in the broader sense of contemplation and consideration also runs through her art.

Lucy’s prints invariably feature everyday sights of her local Docklands neighbourhood, which she photographs and then develops digitally. With a lifelong fascination with water and its constantly changing colours, textures and moods, she is particularly interested in the way light plays on the surface of water and the distortions made by reflections in water and glass.

Recent work exploring reflections, colours and patterns in contemporary London architecture expands this to the built environment. Exploiting the seemingly infinite possibilities and potential of working digitally, Lucy Cooper explores unusual and often unexpected combinations of colour and pattern, transforming the original photograph into a semi-abstract artwork inviting the viewer to consider the subject from a different perspective.

These images are then output as limited edition fine art giclée prints.

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Amy Salisbury

Amy Salisbury is never happier than when she has got paint between her toes…..literally! ‘I guess you could say I’m a converted art conservator and designer who prefers to get her hands dirty.’

She has produced commissioned art which is dotted around hotels, offices and private homes from London to Warsaw. Amy studied at UCL and The Courtauld Institute of Art, and has worked in the arts for over 25 years.

Amy Salisbury’s latest collection is inspired by the BBC series ‘Blue Planet’ and the underwater world and aerial shots of our beautiful world. The free flowing nature of the paints and technique used reflects the natural patterns – uncontrollable and moving to its’ own rhythm.

Different forms of nature can be seen within these paintings – and I hope each viewer will see something new for themselves.

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Categories:

Paintings
Prints

Mediums:

Paintings on Canvas
Paintings on Panel
Prints – Artist

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical
Landscape
Seascape/Water

Amy Salisbury - Fairy Pools - Isle of Skye

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Never happier than when I’ve got paint between my toes…..literally! I guess you could say I’m a converted art conservator and designer who prefers to get her hands dirty.

Amy Salisbury

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Living Wall Murals

Living Wall Murals is the duo Mary West and Clara Wilkinson. Mary studied Fine Art at the Slade and Clara studied at St. Martins and Camberwell before training for a career in interior design.

Our murals came about through a love of painting and a shared aesthetic in design and interiors. We began by experimenting in colour and scale on the walls of our own homes and then, through word of mouth our business grew. We now specialise in botanical and abstract murals for domestic or commercial interiors. Our projects range in scale from bold and bonkers, to delicate fine foliage.

Living Wall Murals have created many murals in London and Brighton over the past two years. Our latest commissions include a 13 metre mural in a private house in Highgate. A 5 metre mural at Huddle London and a new commission for a 25 metres mural for a London hospital. Our paintings and prints are also available.

We like creating art that doesn’t add more stuff to the world. We bring beauty and a little bit of ‘up-cycling’ to your wall.

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Categories:

Paintings
Installations
Other – Murals

Mediums:

Mural – emulsion and oil paint
Paintings – oil on canvas
Prints – digital prints on oil paintings

Subject Matter:

Animal/Botanical

Living Wall Murals - Dark & Pink by Clara

Living Wall Murals - Huddle Mural - detail

Living Wall Murals - Highgate Mural - Detail

Living Wall Murals - Highgate Mural - Detail 1

Living Wall Murals - St John's Wood Mural - Detail

Living Wall Murals - Yellow 2 by Mary West

Living Wall Murals - Tropical Pink by Mary

Living Wall Murals - Brunswick School Mural

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We like creating art that doesn't add more stuff to the world. We bring beauty and a little bit of 'up-cycling' to your wall.

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Katayoun Dowlatshahi

Katayoun Dowlatshahi graduated in Fine Art Printmaking from Edinburgh. Received an MA in European Art from Barcelona and Winchester. Katayoun was awarded a Doctorate (PhD) in Drawing and Photography from The University of Gloucestershire with a specialism in Carbon Photography (a 19th century photographic process). Since 1995 she has lectured in a number of universities as well developing her practice as a full-time professional artist. In more recent years she has worked with children within school settings.

She has been awarded several national and international residencies, fellowships and has continued to exhibit regularly, both in the UK and abroad.

Katayoun Dowlatshahi works in fine print, analogue/digital photography, drawing and architectural glass, using combinations of these in her work. She creates site responsive works that link landscapes with memory and place. Her major achievements are in public art and in her unique constructed photographic artworks, some of which have been acquired for private collections.

One of Katayoun’s skills is her ability to collaborate with urban design teams on significant regeneration projects across the UK, to integrate art into the fabric of new developments and heritage sites. Placemaking is at the heart of her practice.

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Categories:

Prints
Photography
Digital
Installations
Glass

Mediums:

Collage
Digital
Mixed Media
Pastel
Photomontage
Prints – Etchings & Screenprints
Video/Film

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Architectural
Landscape
Seascape/Water

Katayoun Dowlatshahi - The Birds Stone Chat

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Tom Waugh

Tom Waugh MRSS is a British sculptor based in Somerset. He has been an associate member of the Royal Society of Sculptors since 2018. In 2005 he gained a First in Architectural Stone Carving at the City and Guilds of London Art School and has spent time in India studying traditional carving techniques with the temple carver Raja Saceran.

‘I find it fascinating that sculpture has the ability to cause a shift in people’s perception. In my work I hope to challenge ideas of material value and make people look again at the things we take for granted.’

Tom Waugh carves stone and marble in minute detail to mirror the discarded waste of human consumption. These objects document the tiny imprints of human use. Plastic bags, cardboard boxes and tin cans are squashed, crushed and wrinkled whilst still displaying the traces of mass production.

His carving can be seen on St Pancras Station, St Martin in the fields and St Georges Chapel, Windsor. His Sculptures are exhibited widely and can be seen in the collections of Warwick University and Gladstone’s Library.

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Categories:

Sculpture

Type:

Exterior
Interior
Tabletop

Medium:

Stone

Subject Matter:

Hyper-Realistic
Still Life

Tom Waugh - Stone Carving in 'Leaving' by Nicholas Dimbleby

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I find it fascinating that sculpture has the ability to cause a shift in people’s perception. In my work I hope to challenge ideas of material value and make people look again at the things we take for granted.

Tom Waugh

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Sue King

Sue King is inspired by colour & light. She designs and creates vibrant kiln-formed glass for residential and commercial interior projects, including specialising in healthcare commissions. Her work also includes smaller items such as hanging panels and tableware using a contemporary style and colour palettes.

Originally qualifying with BA Interior Design. Sue worked for various hotel design practices, before running her own design consultancy for many years. She studied Glass with Architecture/Fine Art at Central St Martins College of Art & Design in 2002.

All of Sue’s work is imbued with a passion for colour, taking inspiration from artists, nature and pattern and her own photography/artwork. She has developed a fluid technique of working in a painterly style whereby coloured glass is cut freehand, overlaid onto clear glass and then fired at temperatures of around 810 degrees to fuse together. Her designs are all unique and one off pieces.

Sue King’s commissions are developed closely with clients using hand drawn watercolour sketches that are then translated into glass. This helps her clients to see a visual representation of their vision and ideas so they are fully involved throughout the commission process.

Sue enjoys exploring how glass interacts with light and often incorporates textural markings to bring out these qualities. Glass shows its best qualities when displayed in natural light, which then throws beautiful colour shadow washes into the surrounding space.

Larger commissions include panels for healthcare projects, as well as contemporary stylish sculptures for a Saudi Arabian hotel, panels for Molton Brown in New York and many glass installations for private homes.

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Categories:

Glass

Glass Type:

Accessories
Wall Panels

Mediums:

Mixed Media
Stained Glass

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Architectural
Interiors
Landscape

Sue King - Wall Triptych - Salisbury BCU

Sue King - Blue & Green Leaf Dish-Detail

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My commissions are developed closely with clients using hand drawn watercolour sketches that are then translated into glass. This helps her clients to see a visual representation of their vision and ideas so they are fully involved throughout the commission process.

Sue King

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BlinkArt

BlinkArt uses photographic and digital techniques to create art works with a strong emphasis on colourful layered imagery. By manipulating the colour, texture, light and shape of these layers they have developed techniques that allow it to enhance ideas, concepts, compositions, and subject matter. Inspiration comes from the development, experimentation and evolution of individual projects.

BlinkArt has been working closely with clients, designers and consultants for over 20 years creating original, bespoke commissioned artworks.

With an emphasis on architecture, nature and abstract elements they create dynamic large scale works using photographic and digital techniques. Works can be produced on various substrates including acrylic, aluminium and glass.

Amongst others BlinkArt has produced work for offices, healthcare, retail and private clients. Whilst working on site specific projects they can incorporate local architectural elements into the work to create original ideas that are both relevant and visually engaging.

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Categories:

Prints
Photography
Digital
Wall Panels

Mediums:

Digital
Photography
Photomontage
Prints – Digital
Prints – Other

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical
Architectural
Cityscape/Urban
Geographical
Landscape

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Colin Rose

Colin Rose has worked as a sculptor for over thirty years. He has exhibited throughout the UK and Europe and has undertaken many public sculpture commissions.

He has undertaken public sculpture commissions for a very wide range of clients in various mediums. Colin usually works by taking a brief from the client and allowing the brief and the site to lead the design. Over the years he has worked in a variety of mediums from mirror polished stainless steel to stone. More unusually he has worked with Rope, Brick and even Coal Dust depending on the requirement of the brief.

While developing his practice Colin taught fine art and was head of Sculpture at Sunderland University from 2000 till 2006.

In addition to making sculpture, Colin Rose has a strong passion for drawing and the immediacy the process offers. The understanding gained through drawing is an important tool in the development of his designs and his working practice.

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Categories:

Sculptures
Paintings
Other

Sculpture Types:

External
Internal
Tabletop

Mediums:

Drawings
Paintings on Canvas
Sculpture – Metal Fabricated
Sculpture – Mixed Media
Sculpture – Resin
Sculpture – Other (Rope, Brick & Coal Dust)

Subject Matter:

Abstract

Selected Commissions:

‘Meteor’ – Jodrell Bank
‘Rain’ – Sheffield
‘You’ – Genome Centre
‘StarBall’ – EBI, Cambridge
‘Swirl Cone’ – Carmarthen
’10 Swirl’ – Gateshead

Selected Exhibitions:

Artlanta – Atlanta USA
Earthworks – NSW, Australia
Villes et Valises – Strasbourg

Selected Awards:

National Design Award
Henry Moore Foundation
Northern Electric Visual Arts Award

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Stuart Redler

Stuart Redler was brought up on a farm in Somerset, England. He moved to London aged 18 to study economics, then photography. After college he spent 15 years photographing advertising campaigns for companies such as Volvo, IBM and Deutsche Bank. Since then he has concentrated on fine art photography.

Stuart’s interest in far flung (and near) places and cultures has resulted in his unusual photographs of architecture, people and nature. The unexpected and sometimes humorous subject matter, combined with the intense contrasts of black and white and use of strong light, give his pictures their stark and unique style.

As well as appearing in numerous private collections his work is included in the permanent collection at The National Portrait Gallery in London and has also been exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

His work has appeared in publications including The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent on Sunday, Conde Nast Traveller and House & Garden.

Stuart Redler has received a number of awards, including six from The Association of Photographers who awarded him Gold for his portfolio of architectural images. He has also received awards from Graphis, PDN and Communication Arts.

To coincide with his exhibition Timbuktu to W2, and in conjunction with the Cultural Mission of Timbuktu, Stuart set up a competition to find a British town to twin with Timbuktu in Mali. Hay-on-Wye eventually won, having beaten off competition from over 40 towns and cities.

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Photography

Mediums:

Photography
Pigment Prints on Cotton Paper

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Architectural
Cityscape/Urban
Portrait/Figurative
Landscape

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Louise Plant

Louise Plant creates sculpture inspired by the dynamics of movement. She works with marble, stone, bronze, cast iron and steel and has a particular feel for the direction the material wants to go. Her sculptures are visually striking with a wonderful sense of aliveness and  character.

Louise studied sculpture with the Open College of the Arts in 1992, whilst working full time as a teacher. Leaving teaching in 1994, Louise continued to study and make sculpture. She was elected Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors in 2003 and became Fellow in 2014.

Louise Plant has exhibited widely including MOCA, Cheeseburn Grange, Asthall Manor, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, the Usher and Wysing Arts.

Awards include the Brian Mercer Scholarship, Studio Sem, Italy, the KKV Bohuslän Scholarship, Sweden and the Year of the Artist Award, Arts Council England.

Her work is held in private collections globally and she has been commissioned by the MOD Northwood, the RNIB Loughborough, Durham County Council, Somerset County Council and the Waldorf Astoria Bangkok.

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Sculptures
Prints

Mediums:

Drawing
Prints – Screenprints
Prints – Other
Sculpture – Metal-Cast
Sculpture – Metal-Fabricated
Sculpture – Stone

Subject Matter:

Abstract

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Lizzie Farey

Lizzie Farey’s intricate structures capture a still moment, a distillation and order. Calm after a storm.

Intimate forms provide a hint of the process of creation. We can see and even feel points of tension in the work. Our eye can follow the artist’s hand, the choices made in twisting and turning this flexible medium.

Born in Singapore, for the last 30 years Farey has been based in rural Galloway, in Scotland’s South West. The rural setting of home and studio are her guiding inspiration, her sensitivity with wood revealing an interaction with nature that is deeply personal.

Lizzie Farey grows much of her own pallet of artist’s materials. Planting, tending and harvesting a range of willow which is grown for both texture and colour.

Willow, it’s flow of flex and tension is often manipulated into rhythmic patterns, Artist, willow, form, each unique, reach a perfection as the work comes together, inner creative process and final form working as one.

‘My work engages with nature. I focus on recreating the essence of natural form through the medium of willow, larch, ash, hazel and other locally grown woods. Influences from Japan continue to inspire my attempts to capture the simplicity, practicality and beauty of the materials.’

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Sculpture
Wall Panels

Sculpture Type:

Interior

Mediums:

Sculpture – Wood
Woven Willow

Subject Matter:

Abstract

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‘My work engages with nature. I focus on recreating the essence of natural form through the medium of willow, larch, ash, hazel and other locally grown woods. Influences from Japan continue to inspire my attempts to capture the simplicity, practicality and beauty of the materials.’

Lizzie Farey

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Jo Beattie

Jo Beattie – ‘Memories are those precious moments that tell our story’

Her work is a reflection on our own memories and also our shared past experiences expressed by ‘drawing with a sewing machine’. Shapes, textures, patterns and colours define us in a time, a place and a culture.

In the last few years the subject matter of her work has ranged from intimate scenes of everyday life to ‘Conversations’ within groups of people I have seen throughout my travels and more recently the discovery of the memories evoked by ‘Old Toys.’ I have been surprised by how emotional and important these can be.

Jo’s work uses shadow to reflect the image of our collective memories and identity. She has become interested in the way her artwork can enhance the idea of memory by having a shadow of the image reflected onto a plain background a distance away from the actual work. This enables the shadow to become larger and more defined. The work is produced in any way that best creates the atmosphere she is trying to evoke.

Jo Beattie predominantly uses a machine stitch with see-through backgrounds such as wire mesh and Perspex to allow shadows to become an integral part of the work.

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Memories are those precious moments that tell our story

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Martha Winter

Martha Winter was born and grew up in London. Her work is the unusual outcome of many influences. Growing up with minimal art and modern architecture influenced her visual language of reduced and economical form.

Martha is fascinated by systems, repetition and order, often working in series. She has regularly witnessed the extreme erosion of the coastline, which has given her an interest in the natural processes which form the landscape.

Martha Winter has developed her own unique processes, creating pieces reminiscent of satellite imagery and microscopy.

Through her work, she seeks to reach a combination of these ingredients, aiming for a point of tension and harmony where a frisson occurs.

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Wall Panels
Paintings

Wall Panel Type:

Contemporary
Relief Panel Painting

Mediums:

Mixed Media
Painting on Panel

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Architectural
Geographical
Landscape
Seascape/Water

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Growing up with minimal art and modern architecture influenced my visual language of reduced and economical form.

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Luke Elwes

Luke Elwes (b.1961) lives and works in London. He studied at Bristol University, Camberwell School of Art and Birkbeck, London University (Art History MA 2007).

Throughout the 1990s he travelled extensively, discovering and revisiting remote desert and mountain locations in India, Asia and North Africa. In 1998 he was artist in residence on an expedition to Mount Kailash, a holy mountain in western Tibet.

Since 2000 he has worked for extensive periods on an island off the East Coast of the UK. In 2013 he was awarded a grant to study at the Vermont Studio Centre and in 2015 he was resident artist at the Albers Foundation (USA). In 2011 he was invited to give an ‘Artist’s Eye’ talk at the National Gallery.

The idea of a journey is central to Luke Elwes paintings, both its physical and temporal unfolding and its recollection in memory. As well as recording particular journeys, the paintings reveal, like a hieroglyphic text, the many layers of history buried beneath the surfaces of these places. Rooted in the particular, the images also probe an interior space. They become maps of the ‘geographical unconscious’, suggesting both the trail of our presence and the passage of time.

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Paintings

Mediums:

Mixed Media
Paintings on Canvas
Paintings on Paper

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Landscape
Seascape/Water

Selected Exhibitions:

Broadbent Gallery – London
Adam Gallery – London
Frestonian Gallery – London
Browse & Darby – London
Art First – London & New York
Galerie Vieille du Temple – Paris
Galerie Marceau Bastille – Paris
Grand Palais – Paris
Palazzo Lanfranchi – Pisa
Galleria Ceribelli – Milan & Bergamo
Royal Academy – London
Estorick Collection – London
Kettles Yard – Cambridge
Young Gallery – Salisbury

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The idea of a journey is central to my paintings, both its physical and temporal unfolding and its recollection in memory.

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Pierre Diamantopoulo

Pierre Diamantopoulo has two distinct strands to his figurative style. They seem to be intellectually and emotionally worlds apart, but they share the same impetus.

One is a cool and measured response to a profound sense of unrest. In this work, figures fly in defiance or are challenged by their environments. They ‘trippingly’ negotiate upheaval or uncertainties — each work is a balancing act, a metaphor for a precarious state of living or existence. Androgynous and anonymous human figures tilt and fall away – on and off objects that also teeter on a chaotic or shifting stage. Figures may be set free against strongly convergent lines, shapes and forms.

The other strand of Pierre Diamantopoulo’s practice is ambiguous, allegorical and atavistic, but still concerned with mercurial forces. Here, he works on impulse— mixing dark foolery, the poetic and the literary with theatre and folklore— blended with a sort of logical nonsense. This may be a voyage into the past, personal or absurd, diverted by the raw and primitive, with the wit, the mimic and maverick on board. These works are often executed with an immediate, freer hand, exploiting the texture of the raw material.

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Sculptures
Paintings

Sculpture Type:

Exterior
Interior
Tabletop

Mediums:

Metal-Cast Sculpture
Metal-Fabricated Sculpture
Paintings on Canvas
Paintings on Paper

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Animal/Botanical
Portrait/Figurative

Pierre Diamantopoulo - Once I sat Upon a Promontory

Pierre Diamantopoulo - Flight of Langoustine

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There are two distinct strands to my figurative style. They seem to be intellectually and emotionally worlds apart, but they share the same impetus.

Pierre Diamantopoulo

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Dorothy Brook

Dorothy Brook became a sculptor in a roundabout way. She had studied Graphic Design at St Martins School of Art and worked as a freelance designer for about 10 years. When circumstances changed, a friend suggested she join a sculpture class. She loved it having no idea that she would be able to work in three dimensions having been used to seeing everything from a graphic and linear perspective.

To her surprise her graphic background gave her work a very different look. The lines and curves have to flow when viewed from every angle. The form is pared down until all that is left is its essence. Ultimately the aesthetic of the piece is the most important element.

Although Dorothy may start a sculpture with an armature and an idea of what she is going to make, it very often changes during the process. It is the sculpture that dictates where it is going and she follows, refining the lines as it progresses. Usually working in plaster as she finds it is easier to achieve the sharp edges and smooth surfaces that define her style. ‘I love to capture the split second that epitomizes the dynamic of a movement, just as a photograph would – the frozen moment.’

Dorothy Brook still loves the process as much as she did in that first sculpture class. The realisation that her drawings can and have come to life is very satisfying, not bad for a Graphic Designer!

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Categories:

Sculpture
Paintings

Sculpture Types:

Exterior
Interior

Mediums:

Sculpture – Metal-Cast
Sculpture – Resin
Painting on Paper
Pastels
Drawing

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Figurative
Landscape

Selected Exhibitions:

Wizo/Ben Uri Gallery – London
Waterstone Gallery – Birmingham
24 London – Berlin, Barcelona & Milan
Expression of Movement – Grove Hotel – Watford
Great British Sculpture Show – Hatfield House
Henley Art Festival

Selected Commissions:

Winterthur House – London
Unilever – London
Compaq – London
Maughan Library Garden, Kings College – London
WIZO – London
Hong Kong Finance – Hong Kong

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'I love to capture the split second that epitomizes the dynamic of a movement, just as a photograph would – the frozen moment.'

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Artful Dodger

Artful Dodger is widely credited with being one of the first Aerosol Writers/Urban Artists to emerge from the UK, serving as an influence to some of today’s top UK Urban Artists. Over the years, he has evolved professionally to have clients which include the BBC, Channel 4, EA Games, LucasFilm (Star Wars), MTV, The South Bank Show, as well as a well-known breakfast cereal.

On the community arts side of his portfolio, he has a strong background in both organising and facilitating a variety of creative mural projects and workshops. Working mainly in inner cities with disadvantaged youth and other young people (through children’s arts charities such as SP8 Of The Art).

He has also been involved in projects in the US, Italy, France, Spain, Hungary, Romania and Ukraine, as well as all over the UK. One of his projects on the now fallen Aylesbury Estate in SE London, even won an award from the late Princess of Wales.

Employing an eclectic palette of media, ranging from spray-paint and acrylics to pastels and graphics tablets, he takes the inspiration for his paintings from the intrinsic beauty of nature, as well as a vast range of musical styles, urban and pop culture influences. Along with this, he describes his work as being a combination of ‘liquid light’ and ‘visual music’.

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Paintings
Prints – Artist
Digital
Wall Panels
Other – Murals

Mediums:

Digital
Mixed Media
Paintings on Canvas & Paper
Photomontage
Spray paint Graffiti
Video/Film

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Architectural
Cityscape/Urban
Interiors
Music
Portrait/Figurative

Artful Dodger - Bride of Frankenstein - Canvas

Artful Dodger - New-X Workshop - Digital Print

Artful Dodger - New-X Development - Digital Print

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Never happier than when I’ve got paint between my toes…..literally! I guess you could say I’m a converted art conservator and designer who prefers to get her hands dirty.

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We like creating art that doesn't add more stuff to the world. We bring beauty and a little bit of 'up-cycling' to your wall.

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I find it fascinating that sculpture has the ability to cause a shift in people’s perception. In my work I hope to challenge ideas of material value and make people look again at the things we take for granted.

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‘My work engages with nature. I focus on recreating the essence of natural form through the medium of willow, larch, ash, hazel and other locally grown woods. Influences from Japan continue to inspire my attempts to capture the simplicity, practicality and beauty of the materials.’

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Growing up with minimal art and modern architecture influenced my visual language of reduced and economical form.

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There are two distinct strands to my figurative style. They seem to be intellectually and emotionally worlds apart, but they share the same impetus.

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