art @ the claremont

List of Artists for the May 2011 Exhibition.

2011-04-16T14:12:00.000-07:00

Rachael Adams
Gary Burns
Sue Blandford
Zoe Bailey
Sin Mui Chong Martin
Alexandra Dipple
Trudi Davies
Gary Eastwood
Barry Falk
Claire Fletcher
Rowena Gilbert
Sarah Harwin
Caroline Marie Higgs
Amy Hope
Kim Hollands
Rosie Irvine
Anna Kyriacou
Amanda Moss
Mary Moox
Rob Macdonald
Jesper Nors
Maria Rivans
Sacred Stitches
Alison Swan
Edmund Tucker
Tilly
Mia Underwood
Onneke van Waardenburg

Rachael Adams

2011-04-16T14:10:00.001-07:00

Rachael Adams is a painter who invites us to consider the status of the people, places and events that populate her pictures, whether they exist in direct or abstract realms, in personal or shared experiences.

www.scrutineer.co.uk

Trudi Davies

2011-04-16T14:09:00.001-07:00

I created Handmade & Vintage because I love old but ordinary household items, often handmade or hand decorated, and wanted to find ways to make them useful and appreciated once more.
I take vintage things and rework them to find a place in modern surroundings. Vintage postcards become lavender bags, vintage fabrics are used to create hat stands, lace and embroidered hankies become buntingand doilies are transformed into cushions. There are also small vintage collage pieces, bags from tea towels and quilts from vintage tablecloths... I'm pretty certain that reusing and recycling handmade goods will make a home a happier place!
Personalised commissions welcome.

www.handmadeandvintage.co.uk

Barry Falk

2011-04-16T14:08:00.001-07:00

Each city has its ghost town and it is particularly noticeable these days how many derelict buildings and empty shops there are. These are haunted places; metaphors of loss and abandonment. They are suffused with a disturbed sense of self, what Freud referred to as the unheimliche: something familiar which has become alienated through the process of repression. They are also analogous to a fragile sense of self. My photographs of ransacked rooms, graffitied walls, scattered detritus, peeling paint, bare brick, boarded exteriors, crumbling interiors and liver-spotted walls can all be read as inner disturbances – an internal landscape reflected in the abandoned urban environment. When entering these places we stand at the threshold where the self is exposed and begins to dissolve. There is a realisation that these abandoned structures are awaiting demolition, on the verge of a seismic upheaval and imminent collapse.

www.flickr.com/photos/51241173@N03

Sarah Harwin

2011-04-16T14:06:00.000-07:00

harwin.family@virgin.net

Caroline Marie Higgs

2011-04-16T14:05:00.000-07:00

I aim to capture what is on the periphery of visual perception and on the edge of our consciousness, often banal visions or subjects, taking the qualities and distortions generated by the interplay of light and object, and translate these fragments into densely layered paintings, concentrating on the interpretation of shadows, silhouettes, and reflections. The resulting images oscillate or occupy a space between figuration and abstraction, imbuing these ephemeral fragments with a subtle sculptural solidity and presence and thus objectifying light and arresting transitory moments in form.

Using traditional tools and methods in painting, drawing, and photography, she is exploring temporal and spatial perception in relation to memory whilst attempting to unravel relationships between the peripheral, banal and the uncanny.

www.carolinemariehiggs.com

Kim Hollands

2011-04-16T14:04:00.000-07:00

Being interested in the human form, I have focused on one aspect of the human body, in this case hair, to create a series of drawings using pencil and graphite. The nature of this subject offers an interesting texture which allows me to experiment with intricate detail and bold marks. I look to create compositions that are eye-catching and have the ability to reveal their graphic quality when standing at a distance, combined with the ability to draw the observer in closer to view the imperfections of the more delicate marks.

kim.hollands@hotmail.com

Amy Hope

2011-04-16T14:03:00.000-07:00

Amy Hope comes from a fine art background and is finally pursuing her own artwork after six years in graphic design.

The work falls somewhere between art and craft and has been well received in Brighton shows. Combining her interest in maps and British wildlife, Amy makes illustrative images out of paper. Every piece is painstakingly put together, first drawn then cut with a scalpel. As each sliver of paper is cut out it reveals another colour beneath. Maps are often incorporated in the work, contextualising the subject matter geographically.

www.amyhope.co.uk

Rosie Irvine

2011-04-16T14:02:00.000-07:00

www.rosieirvine.com

Amanda Moss

2011-04-16T14:01:00.000-07:00

Dip. AD. Sculpture. High Wycombe.
Diploma in Textiles and Ceramics. Swansea.
Cert.Ed. Swansea.

Teaching Art and Design and Design and Technology in London
and Brighton secondary schools since 1978.

I record subjects that people can relate to when they are out walking. Sea and landscape, industrial design, space and movement. These powerful starting points are expressed in a wide variety of media, from acrylic painting and collage to pencil and pen, it depends on mood and location.
Sometimes abstract and decorative other times technical and realistic. My drawings/paintings/prints are sculptural with emphasis on colour and line, quite free and atmospheric.

I start on location then work at home on a variety of papers. Size is from A5 to A1.

Jesper Nors

2011-04-16T14:00:00.001-07:00

www.nors.co.uk

Maria Rivans

2011-04-16T13:58:00.000-07:00

www.mariarivans.com

Tilly

2011-04-16T13:56:00.000-07:00

www.runningforcrayons.co.uk

Mia Underwood

2011-04-16T13:54:00.000-07:00

www.woodfolk.co.uk

Onneke van Waardenburg

2011-04-16T13:49:00.000-07:00

Onneke is a Dutch designer and illustrator with a love for airmail envelopes, stamps, vintage wallpaper, old books and brown paper bags. Onneke makes collages, digital work, pen and ink drawings and personalised illustrations like family trees.

www.onneke.blogspot.com

Ted Davis

2010-09-04T10:11:00.003-07:00

Ted Davis completed his Fine Arts degree at the University of Ottawa in 2002. This collection of photographs is from a larger body of work that addresses beauty and atrophy in cut flowers. Photographing floral specimens when they are in their late stages and isolating them against a luminous background, Ted aims to reveal the individual character of each flower with a sense of intimacy. The size and scale of the prints play an important role in dialogue between subject and viewer. These are portraits of flowers that have become familiar to the photographer and whilst their aura may have become humble and their poise slightly withered, they sustain and emit a silent and dignified demeanor. Ted Davis was born in Toronto Canada and now lives in Hove where he owns and operates a photographic portrait studio.

www.studio323.co.uk

List of Artists for the September 2010 Exhibition.

2010-04-23T09:51:00.000-07:00

Zoe Bailey
Sue Barnes
Sue Blandford
Janet Brooke
Ted Davis
Amy Douglas
Patrick Edgeley
Gary Eastwood
Sally Elford
Rowena Gilbert
Sarah Jones
Victoria Langdon
Sin Mui Chong Martin
Mary Moox
Nick Patchitt
Eve Poland
Flo Snook
Anna Tilson
Liz Toole
Ed Tucker
Rory Walker
Paul Walsh

Zoe Bailey

2010-04-23T09:46:00.000-07:00

Klara Cservenka

2010-04-23T09:40:00.000-07:00

Central Saint Martins trained Klara Cservenka serves up a collection of delicate and naïve drawings for this series of limited edition prints and originals, some which are taken from the gorgeously rugged pages of her sketchbook, all mounted in antique frames, reclaimed and scrubbed up from Brighton’s markets.

www.myspace.com/klaracservenka
www.klaracservenka.com
klaracservenka@googlemail.com

Claire Fletcher

2010-04-23T09:38:00.000-07:00

After a foundation year at Central School of Art, Claire went to Kingston University to study illustration before going on to the Royal College of Art to do an M.A.
Claire is currently working on a book for children published by Puffin Australia.
Claire exhibits her work at her studio, The Black Winkle, in Hastings and also at Made in Hastings, a shop that she runs with four other artist/makers.

www.madeinhastings.co.uk

Rowena Gilbert

2010-04-23T09:34:00.000-07:00

Searching for the perfect fusion of strong design, innovative style and spontaneous expression. The clay vessel is my bold canvas; strong, simple and unfussy in form. Layers of clay echo periods of time, memories; slow, controlled, ordered. The surface evokes moods, tensions, actions, reactions.

Using additions of metal oxides for the reds, blacks and blues, the coloured clay layers are brushed on the slip cast vessel or inlaid in incised lines and marks. The surface marks are created using various sgraffito tools when the clay vessel is in a leather-hard state. Rowena bisque fires, then masks areas on the outside of the vessel using wax resist, glazing the inside and the unmasked areas with a transparent gloss with the final firing at 1160°C. All pieces are hand made and have Rowena's signature mark on the base.

www.rowenagilbert.com

Stella Harding

2010-04-23T09:32:00.000-07:00

I live in one of the largest cosmopolitan cities in the world, a place where sometimes the natural world is oddly juxtaposed against the cultural. It is this cross-fertilisation of culture and nature from which I draw inspiration and seek to reflect in the work.
I am excited by the life and energy in natural materials but seek to transform and defamiliarise them in different ways. I use painting, mark-making, stencilling, scratching and sanding to add surface texture and pattern whilst retaining many of the characteristic signs of movement and growth. Stencilling and spray painting is both a reference to the tradition of mark-making on wicker basketry and a way of connecting with the myriad forms of textual expression which are written onto the fabric of the urban landscape.
I prefer using materials that I have grown or collected myself, yet having only a small garden forces me to consider ways of making the most of limited supplies of materials as well as wider issues of sustainability, economy and waste. I often re-work finished pieces or recycle elements that have had a previous life.
I enjoy working on a large scale with open, linear, abstract forms. Having learned recently that several of my pieces are based on the spatial geometry of hyperbolic paraboloids I am keen to learn more about the relationship between basketry and mathematics as a means of experimenting with form and space.
I welcome commissions and requests to run workshops.

www.basketryplus.org/StellaHarding/gallery.html

Sylvie Howitt

2010-04-23T09:27:00.000-07:00

Wood, Water and Energy...a simple recipe that for thousands of years has given inspiration and life to artists and writers work around the world... Paper!
I love paper, all kinds of paper! especially paper from a different era with its unique texture, colour and smell.
With a chance discovery of a collection of vintage maps in a dusty attic, my imagination was fired by a mixture of works from Victorian woodcuts to Hans Christian Andersen and my current favourite artist Rob Ryan.
Papercutting as an art form has existed for thousands of years, during which people have been cutting paper, transforming it into art as unique and diverse as their culture, from simple folk art, to elaborate mathematical masterpieces.
For me, the use of recycled vintage materials seemed the perfect way to express a simple story of hope and love, with a material from a golden age of adventure, romance and hope.
I hand cut paper from my own freehand drawings. I love the physical process of cutting into paper with a sharp blade, sometimes scissors, releasing that one off image and design as a result.
There is something very appealing about the immediacy of this medium and the challenge of keeping the entire delicate image intact within the frame of the paper without the whole piece falling apart.
I love the symmetry of the designs and the way it tells a story. You will find that my designs vary from the contemporary to the traditional folky look depending on my mood and inspiration.
The paper I use has its own story, sometimes adding meaning to my paper cut and therefore bringing life into it.
Whether it is the colours, the musical notes, the maps or the place names, I hope there can be something to trigger a connection, joy, memories ...

www.sylviehowitt.com

Ed Tucker

2010-04-23T09:22:00.000-07:00

I am a freelance illustrator based in sunny Brighton in England. I work in a variety of media for a variety of clients, and like two of everything, especially variety.

clients thus far have included:

Time magazine // Pearlfisher Design //Mountain Bike Rider // Ransom Publishing // IPC Media // Liquid Records // The London Magazine // Plan B Magazine // Cookchick Design Free Radical Sounds Records // GeoActive Magazine // Earthforce Clothing // Cuff Cuff Jewellers // International Academy Of Colour Therapeutics

www.edtucker.biz

Anna Wenger

2010-04-23T09:19:00.000-07:00

Anna set up her company Sacred Stitches.co.uk after graduating with a BA(Hons) in Illustration. Taking inspiration from traditional Mexican folk art and old school tattoo imagery she creates hand-embroidered cushions, screen printed clothing, original artwork, homewares and gifts.
All items are hand made, unique and full of individuality. Each cushion’s intricate motif is hand drawn before being free hand embroidered, using varied threads and stitches to form a tactile design.
She has recently collaborated with Brighton tattooist James Robinson to produce an exciting range of limited edition prints.

www.sacredstitches.co.uk

Debbie Ayles

2010-04-23T08:45:00.001-07:00

I have a continuing fascination with structure, form and shape. Overarching themes in my work are East Anglian barns. Often overlooked, the ramshackle barns evidence the passage of time in their unkempt and ravaged appearance. I attempted to re-evaluate and recreate their importance by juxtaposing line and colour into intricate patterns and shapes.

The starting point is always based in observed reality. Layering is used as a technique to make images more complex, allowing viewers a richer visual experience. Line is an important part of the paintings or prints, offering the means of conveying movement, shifting view points and the mutability of the source material. It is then segmented, deconstructed and manipulated, finally being rebuilt as enigmatic and individual narratives. The bright, multicoloured images that formed my reconstructed barns a couple of years ago now are complemented by complex linear decisions or as different colour choices. Each new painting seems to suggest the possibility of further exploration and development.

The study of my environment and travelling around East Anglia looking for such barns is quite an adventure. I feel I am recording a part of local history for future generations. It is impossible to say how many of these may exist in a few years. Judging by their resilience in the past, they may be around for a while. However two of the barns are now residential properties and one is a tennis court.

www.debbieaylesartist.co.uk

Lulu Allison

2010-04-23T08:39:00.000-07:00

I work in direct response to the site, with newsprint and other found printed paper which is essentially a waste material. By cutting holes into it, it may become in some way valuable again. The technique is incredibly simple, all children know about folding and cutting snow flakes and this easy technique combined with a poor material in some ways could create a valueless result. It doesn't even last so can't be bought or sold. But we value things in interesting ways and the fact that I have bothered to make it, and I am called an artist may be one of them. Of course, "value" is a subjective quantity and for some, it will only be a cheap material and an easy technique.

Another aspect is that of mould or fungus, a thing that is poor or ignored but often has great beauty. Somewhere between the invasion of a mould and the architecture of the space is where I try to place my work.

www.luckylulu.co.uk

Sue Blandford

2010-04-23T08:36:00.001-07:00

I am interested in poetic juxtapositions of objects, which are imbued with both their practical uses and their symbolic evocation. The magic in the seemingly mundane or everyday.

I am concerned with paradoxes of light and dark, peace and unease. Also relationships between man made objects or interventions in natural situations.

I never go anywhere without a camera looking for photographs in their own right but mainly for material for paintings. Objects in context but slightly out of place. I am interested in what happens in the golden 30 minutes in the evening when the light is low and transformative giving glimpses of something other. When objects glow out of dark spaces or as with glasshouses, become beacons filled with mystery and seemingly inner light.

My work is a visual diary of observations that chime with internal states or life phases.

www.sueblandford.com

Sin Mui Chong-Martin

2010-04-23T08:33:00.000-07:00

Most of my work is an observational and a personal interpretation of the intricate ways nature interrelates and informs humanity. My association with plant culture holds an enquiry into this interrelationship. This practice engages me with the process of looking, selecting, collecting and recording, which is translated into 'specimens' like drawings.
Apart from using pencils, my drawings are achieved through layers of colouring with colour pencils. Some are cut out by hand and presented in boxed frames.
My studies aim to reflect aspects of the human practice and desires with the use of plants as multi-demensional representations. The reference point for my practice is a construct of nature-society relationship where I exploit plants as cultural symbols fostered to suit our milieu.

www.axisweb.org/artist/sinmuichongmartin

Gary Eastwood

2010-04-23T08:30:00.000-07:00

Gary Eastwood is travel and landscape photographer. His work covers both illustrative and interpretive landscape photography, with an emphasis on light, form and space, as well as on natural and man-made patterns within the landscape. His more interpretive work seeks to explore wider themes of longevity and timelessness. Gary is a former UK Landscape Photographer of the Year, and is currently working on a photographic book, entitled Panoramic Sussex, which is due out later this year.

www.garyeastwood.co.uk

Sally Elford

2010-04-23T08:28:00.000-07:00

Sally is an established Brighton based illustrator and print maker with a passion for mid-century design and pattern. Like many artists, she is also inspired by the natural world; it is generally the British landscape and wildlife that provide this artist with an infinite source of inspiration.
Sally’s popular prints are currently exhibited and sold in contemporary galleries and design led shops throughout the UK.
Since having some of her prints published in greeting card form by Art Angels, her work has gained a wider international following.

www.sallyelford.co.uk/prints

Rhona Garvin

2010-04-23T08:27:00.000-07:00

Born in Northern Ireland, I moved to Hove in 2001, having worked at the Science Museum in London for 5 years, curating contemporary art projects. An MA in Sequential Design and Illustration followed at Brighton University and in 2004 I joined Eastwing illustration agency and began working in editorial illustration. Recently, between commissions, I have been making screen prints. These are influenced by printed ephemera, children’s illustrations from the 60’s and 70’s, political posters, folk art and outsider art. My next move will be to experiment with printing designs onto fabric.

www.rhonagarvin.com

Vicky Langdon

2010-04-23T08:21:00.000-07:00

Graduate of Brighton printmaking MA
Printmaker’s council prizewinner 2009
I am a silkscreen printer working with paper and fabric prints. The subject of my most recent set of prints is the honeybee. The much-publicised disappearance of the honeybee prompted me to take a closer look at the insect itself. The co-dependent, hard working creatures, their symbolism of industry, and their ancient connection to the spirit world, as well as the mysterious phenomenon of their puzzling vanishing, equally fascinate me.

Previously I have made prints of urban birds, particularly the pigeon. I print images of pigeons with mutated appearance, which are also the birds with the most characterful expressions. For me the pigeons symbolise the city itself. I am overall interested in studying things that exist in the corners of our perception such as the pigeon or the honeybee.

"Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind."  Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher.  The Genealogy of Morals, "Preface," sct. 1 (1887; tr. 1956).

Vicky.langdon@gmail.com
www.dewolfprints.com
plushpatterns.blogspot.com

Alison Swan

2010-04-23T08:17:00.000-07:00

I hand-build solitary or grouped sculptural objects and vessels which act as metaphors for emotional and physical states as well as interpersonal relationships. I am fascinated by antiques and collectibles, discarded and found items with a patina of age and wear. The worn, scarred or damaged surfaces of such objects bear testament to their use and give rise to imagined histories. Ceramic and found materials are often combined to add visual and tactile interest. Individual elements are carefully positioned to emphasise the implied narrative in each grouping.

www.alisonswan.com

Justin Sainsbury

2010-04-23T08:13:00.000-07:00

I prefer an intuitive response in getting pictures as this leads to more surprises. A picture tends to work for me, if it has elements of humour, absurdity or poignancy. The challenge is to make an essentially ordinary situation stand out.

www.flickr.com/photos/jsainsbury

List of Artists for the February 2010 Exhibition.

2010-04-18T07:27:00.000-07:00

Anja Lubach
Alex Dipple
Anna Kyriacou
Anna Tilson
Cassie Beck
Charlotte Squire
Deborah Batt
Emma Harding
Gary Burns
Jan Lee Johnson
Jane Denman
Jo Higgs
Julie Milton
Kate Osbourne
Lucy Jefferys
Luke Hutson
Mary Moox
Natalie Martin
Nicholas Wriglesworth
Phil Lyddon
Rob Macdonald
Robin Clare
Rory Walker
Toby Smith
Wendy Pye

Anja Lubach

2010-02-26T13:16:00.001-08:00

Anja Lubach's work explores the smooth, translucent and pure material properties of porcelain, through experimental manipulation of the soft clay surface. Figurative details are taken from religious figurines, the human body as well as a range of ornamental surfaces. These are then transferred as delicate 3D relief back onto the wheel thrown vessel walls, appearing to push through the surface of the vessels with a sense of animation and metamorphosis.The textures and forms are evocative and the viewer will create their own narrative, depending on personal memory and imagination.

www.anjalubach.com

Alexandra Dipple

2010-02-26T13:14:00.000-08:00

Alexandra’s work describes an ongoing fascination with the written/printed word. Newspapers are the starting point and she has been working on two distinct bodies of work; one using full stops and dots and the other utilising dashes and hyphens. These graphic symbols are dissected from the body of the newspaper by hand and presented as collages. The missing words vibrate like dark matter and the finished piece becomes a delicate balancing act shaped by unseen forces.

www.re-title.com/artists/Alexandra-dipple.asp

Anna Kyriacou

2010-02-26T13:08:00.000-08:00

Award winning artist Anna Kyriacou has a naïve style that is seductively simple. Her images of childhood journey through social and religious limitation and sensitively approach the expression and restriction of sexuality. Also her strong interest in the human condition has drawn her to explore the subject of school bullying.>In recent years Anna has won 3 awards for her artwork, including the Brighton Fringe Festival Visual Arts Prize in 2008.

www.annakyriacou.co.uk

Anna Tilson

2010-02-26T13:06:00.001-08:00

Anna Tilson trained in Textile Design at St. Martins School of Art and is now an enthusiastic practitioner and teacher of mosaic making living in Brighton.
Each piece of her mosaic work is inspired and informed by the materials she uses. Car Boot sales and charity shops are scoured for interesting vintage crockery and mirrors. Items that were once in everyday use are transformed and given a new lease of life full of nostalgia.

www.crossstreetworkshop.co.uk
www.areaatlas.com/mosaic

Cassie Beck

2010-02-26T12:57:00.000-08:00

Cassia Beck is a Brighton based photographer. She loves all things vintage and tries to bring it into her work, often using old cameras. Imperfections are a big part of Cassia's work; dust, scratches and blurs, all these flaws add to the atmosphere and character of the images she produces.

www.cassiabeck.com

Charlotte Squire

2010-02-26T12:55:00.001-08:00

This work was created for a Portuguese cafe inspired by a global trade established between Portugal and China & Japan 500 years ago. I have reconstructed traditional motifs from Jingdezhen ceramics and Japanese laquerware but my materials here are empty drinks cans from the Portuguese café, with their bright seductive branding printed on aluminium and steel.
Part of my work process is to recreate new work from discarded and rejected materials, to recycle and reuse as a way of seeing things differently.

www.axisweb.org/artist/charlottesquire

Deborah Batt

2010-02-26T12:52:00.001-08:00

Although my paintings have become increasingly non-objective over the years, all my work still originates from the idea of community, the towns we build, the cities and the way we shape and destroy the rural landscape. This was influenced by my interest in maps and aerial photography and looking at things from a different perspective. I hope to show within the limits of non-objective painting the shape of the environment as it changes, as it diminishes in one direction, grows in another. Non- objective artwork is an exercise in geometric abstraction, space related to shape. My subject being the painting itself.

www.deborahbatt.co.uk

Emma Harding

2010-02-26T12:50:00.000-08:00

Maker of detailed paintings and objects using mixed media. I work in layers of drawing and paint and make objects that are modified in construct, surface and meaning. Recent works are inspired by certain forms and interpretations of ornamental animals and their imagined communication. Renewal of interpretation is a constant theme with these familiar objects as with my Charity Shop Orphans Project.I have exhibited in London and the South East and do sometimes accept commissions.

www.emmaharding.com

Gary Burns

2010-02-26T12:48:00.000-08:00

I like drawing with black pens and obsessive dotting. I have a huge love for art from the east and the south pacific, and it is a constant source of inspiration for what i make. I screen print occasionally and I am a tattooist.

www.myspace.com/zoidling

Jan Lee Johnson

2010-02-26T12:46:00.000-08:00

My paintings explore the language of paint, with the motif and repeat patterns of vintage fabric, which often form the canvas on which I paint: working from photographs, particularly from my childhood and family archive, a translation from image to painting, resulting in a game of visual Chinese Whispers between the photograph and myself, the painting and the viewer. By setting limitations of palette, scale, and the task of interpreting, endless possibilities emerge with brush and canvas and fabric.
Jan worked at BBC TV as a scenic artist and now lectures part time in London

www.janleejohnson.co.uk
www.axisweb.org/artist/janleejohnson

Jane Denman

2010-02-26T12:44:00.000-08:00

Jane Denman lives and works as a full time artist in West Sussex. One of her latest paintings, 'Painted Kittens in the Night', delves into the lyrics 'God is in the House' by Nick Cave and is inspired by a scene from the film 'An American in Paris' and three Cuban cats. Jane’s inspiration and excitement to produce work often stems from other artforms, one of which is a particular interest in drawing dancers at speed.

www.janedenman.com

Jo Higgs

2010-02-26T12:43:00.001-08:00

Paintings and drawings inspired by animals - anthropomorhization, playing with the romanticism of animals in the natural and urban landscape. Animals in a world without people, behaving like people. Exploring painting and mixed media, using photographic references and memory.

www.johiggs.wordpress.com

Julie Milton

2010-02-26T12:40:00.000-08:00

Julie’s latest work focuses on blocks of colour, texture and the effect of the elements on wood and brick. Self-taught and still inspired by her surroundings, Brighton-based Julie enhances her photographs by experimenting with contrast and colour saturation, creating unusual impressions of everyday subjects.

www.juliemiltonphotography.com

Kate Osborne

2010-02-26T12:39:00.001-08:00

I studied textile design in the 1970’s and worked in the industry for 20 years, including five years in the States, for one year living in a shack in an old coal mining town, painting wildlife and botanical subjects, and selling through a gallery in Santa Fe. As an illustrator I have worked for various clients including London Transport, Sainsbury’s and Quarto Press. Painting has gradually taken over and I now work very freely in watercolour, with the minimum of compositional drawing; this gives the paintings an unpremeditated look, which attempts to express the beautiful but transitory nature of the still life and natural history subjects.

www.kateosborneart.com

Lucy Jefferys

2010-02-26T12:37:00.001-08:00

Lucy Jefferys is a local stencil artist who produces multilayer, spray-painted artwork on canvas and other surfaces as well as wall murals. Her inquisitive imagination and keen eye for detail takes her on varied explorations of subjects and locations. By using stenciling at a technique, Jefferys deconstructs the image, breaking it down into individual elements, and then rebuilds it in a more polarised form. Jefferys’ current body of work focuses on the warm tranquility of Brighton’s densely populated areas at night. She is happy to consider commissions.

www.stencilmoose.co.uk

Luke Hutson

2010-02-26T12:35:00.000-08:00

I am a self taught artist who experiments with drawings and photography, expressing a reality in both my mediums. I am attracted to the hidden beauty of city life and the large range of human emotion. My motivation is to capture intense detail in my drawings and a cinematic feel to my photos. The vision of my art is to seduce the audience and the drive to keep an originality within my work.

cool.hand_luke@hotmail.co.uk

Mary Moox

2010-02-26T12:31:00.000-08:00

Inspired by all things vintage and recycled I create wall mounted and free standing boxed sculptures out of a combination of found objects & collected materials. My boxed creatures draw from my own childhood memories and the 'make do and mend' thrifty nature of times past.

www.marymoox.co.uk

Natalie Martin

2010-02-26T12:28:00.000-08:00

Born in 1972, Natalie grew up in an environment dominated by art and literature. Graduating from the University of Brighton in 2003 with a degree in sculpture, she continued to work in conceptual installation until discovering a talent and love for painting. Focusing primarily on depictions of urban architecture, her painting has developed into a highly detailed, representational style that still retains painterly qualities.

“Architecture stands as an artificial construct in the natural landscape and yet, like the human beings that build and inhabit the structures, they suffer at the passing of time, decaying and withering, the wear and tear a record of the lives and movement occurring in and around it, an archive of events told in erosion, oxidisation and rot.
There are no figures in my paintings but the absent hand of many can be seen through the very existence of the structures and the character they have developed. There is a sense of solitude but with serenity rather than loss. I also hope to create a sense of movement but only on the part of the viewer, the still structures inviting passage physically or from one state of mind to another.

I’m currently working on a new series of paintings exploring the idea of levels of reality, fictions and narrative.”

Natalie first exhibited her paintings at the Brighton Art Fair in 2007 and has expanded her portfolio by painting full-time since then. She has had work accepted by The Bath Society of Artists, The Society of Women Artists, The London Group and The Royal Academy.

www.nataliemartin.co.uk
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Nicholas Wriglesworth

2010-02-26T12:26:00.000-08:00

Nicholas studied at the Slade in London. The subject of his work is mainly the urban environment and dramatic effects of light found within overlooked spaces. A constant source of inspiration is the immediate surroundings of Brighton and Hove, where the artist lives and works.

www.nicholaswriglesworth.co.uk

Phil Lyddon

2010-02-26T12:23:00.000-08:00

I am a professional member of the Craft Potters Association, and have been making pots in Brighton since the 1970’s. I am interested in the idea of the miniature and concentrate on small-scale works, mainly hand-thrown porcelain bowls. I aim to make graceful forms with restrained surface decoration, and I often distort the piece after throwing to add an element of asymmetry.I have featured in many exhibitions, and I currently sell my ceramics in galleries in Brighton and throughout the UK.

www.phillyddon.co.uk

Rob Macdonald

2010-02-22T11:44:00.000-08:00

My photographic practice explores the delicate balance between presence and absence in the detail of the urban environment. My distinct approach to Street Photography takes as its subject the contemporary cityscape – its centre and its margins. My image-making in locations including Tokyo, Budapest, New York and San Francisco doesn’t concern itself with representing those cities individually or specifically but instead searches for what is resonant yet unseen within them.

In a sense there are definite echoes of Painting in my approach to Photography and I am inspired by the purity of Barnett Newman, the geometry of Callum Innes and the bold, flat colours of the Scottish Colourists. I aim to create photographs that assert a heightened visual presence.

My images scrutinise tensions and divisions within dynamic and definite compositional relationships. In evolving my own rigorous visual language I inhabit the space between making a picture and capturing an image.

www.robmacdonaldphoto.com

Robin Clare

2010-02-22T11:42:00.000-08:00

Robin Clare works and lives in Brighton. Born in Belize to Jamaican parents, Robin has lived in Jamaica, Canada and the UK. She takes her inspiration from everyday life and blends them with acidic colours and hand-stencilled patterns inspired by her tropical background.

www.robinclare.com

Rory Walker

2010-02-22T11:35:00.000-08:00

Rory Walker is an established and well regarded artist and illustrator working professionally in Brighton. He's worked in the arts and publishing industry locally and internationally for over 10 years. His recent illustrations have appeared in publications such as Country Life magazine and Macmillan books. This series was created from inspired views of regional England in pen & ink, and watercolours. Commissions undertaken.

www.roryroryrory.com

Toby Smith

2010-02-22T11:12:00.001-08:00

Over a year in the making, “Light After Dark” is an aesthetic and conceptual ‘re-visioning’ of energy and British landscape. Throughout 2008 and 2009, I made repeat visits to all 32 power stations of England. My images are captured on Large Format negative with colour exposures ranging from 5 minutes to 5 hours and no digital post-production.

www.shootunit.com

Wendy Pye

2010-02-22T11:01:00.000-08:00

Wendy Pye has been working in the creative industries for over 20 years. She recently returned to study and successfully graduated with an MA in Photographic Arts from the London College of Communication in December 2008. Over the last year her personal project 'Beachy Head' has been selected for a variety of exhibitions, including the 'Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed' show at The Photographers Gallery in London and she continues to develop her personal practice alongside her commercial photographic business.