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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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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Selected Commissions:

Presbyterian Hospital – New York
John Lewis Restaurant – London

Selected Exhibitions:

Royal Academy Summer Show – London
Society of Scottish Artists – Edinburgh
Glasgow Print Studio
O3 Gallery – Oxford
Brechin Town House Museum – Angus
Tatha Gallery – Newport-on-Tay
Rheded Centre – Penrith
Glasgow Print Studio

ARTIST SUMMARY

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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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.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Selected Exhibitions & Commissions

Nadia Waterfield Fine Art, Hampshire
Libby Blakey Interiors, Hungerford
Great Scotland yard Hotel, London SW1
Annoushka, London SW3
Annoushka, London W1
Annoushka, Claridges, London W1
Cricket Fine Art, London & Hungerford
William & Son, London W1
Hollandridge Group, Oxfordshire

ARTIST SUMMARY

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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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Selected Exhibitions:

Circle Contemporary – Cornwall
One Paved Court – Richmond, London
Gregg Baker Contemporary – Notting Hill, London
McAllister Thomas Fine Art – Godalming, Surrey
Amanda Aldous Fine Art – Hook, Hampshire
Cricket Fine Art – Chelsea, London
Affordable Art
London Art Fair
Lapada
Other Art Fair – London & New York

ARTIST SUMMARY

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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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Selected Exhibitions:

Tate Britain
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Hayward Gallery, London
Victoria & Albert Museum
Scope Art, Miami Beach
i-D Touring Exhibitions Worldwide

ARTIST SUMMARY

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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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Selected Exhibitions:

2018 Summer Exhibition – Royal Academy
2018 Woolwich Print Fair
2019 GBS Fine Art – London Art Fair
2019 GBS Fine Art – FFS – Saachi Gallery
2019 Woolwich Art Fair
2020 GBS Fine Art – London Art Fair

Recent Publications:

2019 Featured in the Sunday Times

ARTIST SUMMARY

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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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

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

ARTIST SUMMARY

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

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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.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Selected Commissions:

Dessin – Japan
Krow Communicatins
Shipton Mill
P&O Ventura
Transport for London
LTA – Wimbledon
Esquire
GQ
Vogue
Tatler
National Theatre
Volkwagen
Virgin
Faber & Faber

ARTIST SUMMARY

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.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Selected Exhibitions:

London Art Fair
Collect
SOFA
Art Palm Beach
Edinburgh Art Fair
Origin

Selected Commissions

Barclays Wealth
Tiffany & Co
Legal & General
Crest Nicholson
Warburg Pincus
Royal York Hotel Toronto
Colston Hall Music Trust Bristol,
The Atlanta Falcons
Liverpool Hope University
TIC Dubai
SAID Bahrain

ARTIST SUMMARY

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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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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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Selected Exhibitions:

Southbank Printmakers, Gabriels Wharf, London
Crystal Palace Artists Open House
The Douglas Fir, Crystal Palace, London
Elizabeth James Gallery, London
The Paxton Centre, Crystal Palace

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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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