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Adam de Neige
Adam de Neige, a Franco-Iranian artist, challenges the spectator’s perception of reality by manipulating forms and bodies. His photography, drawings, paintings, installations and short films show a childlike joy in small things. He explores and reinterprets different media and objects – often within historic or violent scenes.
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Ali Kursun
Ali Kursun’s way of painting is deeply rooted in urgency: the absolute urgency to express, in spurts of pure sensitivity, those unpredictable bursts of emotion brought to peak in an instant through the intensity of a situation. The experience of an inner world passes through the act of painting.
Image: Forever, 120cm x 100cm, Ink & Acrylic, 2012.
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Angela Findlay
Angela’s paintings are glimpses of everyday scenarios, and reveal the beauty of tiny or intimate moments so easily overlooked. With her subtle colour palette and technique of photo-collage and oil, her work is a fascinating mixture of realism and painterly textures. Angela also gives talks about art’s role in prisons.
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Ann Russell
Australian artist Ann Russell works with odd spaces caught just outside real existence, creating tiny mystical worlds by means of poetic bricolage. Her fantastic assemblage sculptures incorporate found objects, fibre, fabric, glass, Perspex, beads and resin, drawing the viewer in to explore them with Alice-like wonder.
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Anne Plaisance
In collages, Anne’s intuitive artistic roots reach back to Dadaism. Her works are characterised by wonderful lightness and humour; a cheerful symbiosis of yesteryear and present-day beauty. Her studies of everyday objects, with a kind of surrealist astonishment and almost philosophical attitude, count among mythical occurrences.
This weapon is made in France. 44cm x 32cm, collage on paper bag.
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Anthony D’Angour
Anthony has completed portraits of many interesting personalities, as well as landscapes, in oils on canvas. Recently he began painting on a much larger scale and was inspired to produce larger than life portraits. His painting of Mikhail Khodorkovsky celebrates his 50th birthday and gives support to his cause for freedom. Prison Riotoil on canvas, 130 x 160cm
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Claire Marcus
Claire Marcus is a Massachusetts-based artist working in watercolour, monotype printmaking and mixed media collage. Colour, composition and design are most important in her work, and these qualities reflect her commercial art background.
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Dareen Hussein
Dareen Hussein is an American photographer based in Los Angeles, California. Through the use of portraiture, she is able to capture the nuanced sensibilities of the individual. Utilising photography as an unspoken language, she seeks to study and communicate ideas of the human condition.
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Dario Srbic
Taking art theory as a point of departure, Dario Srbic seems to dissect photography, isolating its distinctive elements, winking at Derrida’s deconstruction and use of semiotic analysis. Like a body fully aware of its parts, his art is a self-reflexive intuitive dance imbued with the dramaturgy of everyday life.
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Darron Davies
Australian artist Darron Davies’ widely exhibited digital and film-based photography is meditative, reflective and magical, exploring abstraction and the play of light, as well as metaphor. Darron’s nuanced and subtle imagery is evocative and mysterious, capturing landscapes, macro worlds and the beauty within the everyday. Atmosphere
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David Williams
David’s acrylic landscapes, inspired by atmospheric light and perspective, are a popular feature of the Brighton Festival of Artists’ Open Houses. Exhibition venues have included the Royal Academy and Whitechapel Gallery and he has work in the Australian and UK Government Art Collections. Fine Art prints are available from his website:
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Day Bowman
DAY BOWMAN at NORDART 2013
8 June – 6 October 2013
KUNSTWERK CARLSHÜTTE Vorwerksallee 3 D - 24782 Büdelsdorf, Germany
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Dominique Vari
Award-winning designer and artist Vari transforms photographs into digital works of art, retaining an essence of the original. Influenced by Klimt and Adami, her focus is on nature. Enigmatic and dynamic, the work dazzles viewers with colour and rhythm. She exhibits in the UK, Belgium and Italy. Limited editions are available on print, canvas and metal.
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Emin Toksöz
Emin Toksöz is a Turkish illustrator and designer. In recent years he has been working in an art deco style. His mentality is to seek the most efficient solution. The artist is currently working on jazz and blues band album covers.
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Eric Wiles
Eric Wiles promotes natural beauty and his fascination with man-made objects through still life, fine art, and landscape photography. His work has been published in the Sunday Travel Times magazine.
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Esther Nienhuis
Esther Nienhuis explores the human condition where Heimweh (longing for the known) and Fernweh (longing for the unknown) intertwine. In her painting Saudade, the troubling layer of water on a rain-covered windscreen represents the metaphorical boundary that isolates the here and now from other realities (past, future and imaginary). Saudade,150x200cm, oil on canvas
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Gilda Oliver
Gilda is an internationally recognised artist with additional and extensive experience of a longstanding commitment to community and transformational art projects. She is featured in the April-June 2013 issue of International Alternative Investment Review Magazine and is represented by LOVEED FINE ARTS New York. lnkd.in/jXfTTM
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Graham Kirk
Graham Kirk is best known for his SUPERHERO series: well-known figures transported into different surroundings. The images depict comic strip characters through the Tardis; actors through a space/time warp. He lives an isolated life high on Mount Taranaki in New Zealand. Marilyn in Ponsonby is a large painting. Archival prints are available.
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Gunilla Daga
Swedish artist Gunilla Daga works with earth colours in acrylic on canvas. Her pieces have depth even though they are so abstract; the surface is the personal and contains life.
Image: Feel Free, 2012. 46cm x 45cm, acrylic on canvas.
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Gwen Brinton
Candescent candid “snaps” reflect a collection of colliding mental states, within an underground setting. This unseen nuance connects Brinton to the world she stands on the periphery of. Digital snapshots represent her appreciation for photojournalism and magazine montage. Influenced by cinematic nostalgia and desire, her work contains narrative.
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Henningham Family Press
Artists David and Ping Henningham present An Unknown Soldier: a body of work using security patterning and their “anti-font” to satirise the call-up posters of WW1. The featured screenprint reads “You must have a body for this body of men,” and was recently acquired by the V&A Museum.
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Ilua Hauck da Silva
Ilua Hauck da Silva studied at Goldsmiths and has exhibited in Brazil and across the UK, including with The National Trust and The Royal Landscape. Concerned with ever-pertinent aspects of the human condition, her work is highly conceptual and yet poetic. Veins of Vanity is a life-sized cast in optical glass.
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Istvan Farkas
Having lived in both the East and West, award-winning photographer Istvan Farkas is an artist with diverse influences. While his subject matter ranges from portrait to the abstract and experimental, his works all have in common a search for an inner light and beauty; the extraordinary in the ordinary.
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Izzy Hutchison
Whether in landscape or still life, Izzy’s work conveys hard and reflective surfaces in a mesmerising and spiritual way. Her seascapes and river scenes mirror the quality of light on water through soft pastel and tempera on textured surfaces. She has exhibited widely, and one of her Thames paintings features alongside Turner in the 2012 Parliament Week App.
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Jack Beswick
The Consequence of Blue
Blue put down, not one or two but more blue. Any visual realism is corrupted by bold fragments of disorder, the need to interrupt with random bright movements of insignificance or even dull tempered marks of significance. Whatever, it comes out of the blue!
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James Thurgood
James Thurgood is a recent graduate from University College Falmouth with a BA (Hons) in Photography. His self-reflexive practice aims to grapple with the explicit human tendency to attribute meaning to images and objects in order to make sense of them.
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Jill Abbott Green
An artist working in acrylics and oils.
“Art came at my lowest. My inside world was pushing out; a raw emotion. My creative drive started moving me forward, like a tool of the mind. I started drawing – I couldn’t help it, and once I started I couldn’t stop. I believe it’s in all of us. I’m happier now.”
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Jo Aylmer
Jo Aylmer uses sculpture, installation and photography to investigate physical and psychological responses to material and form. She works with materials that have the capacity to be structural as well as change their state, such as clay, rubber and salt.
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John Salvi
Printmaker John Salvi combines traditional printmaking techniques and digital imagery to produce “tradigital” lithographs. His alchemical process achieves paradoxical results in an amalgam of colour, movement and majesty. Mercury Retrograde, his limited edition lithograph, celebrates the mystery, awe and power of the heavens.
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Joseph Losonczi
Joseph Losonczi is a Hungarian-born artist living and working in the United States, where he is a citizen and a resident. The subjects of his landscapes are related to the Catskills and its surrounding area, depicting a peaceful, harmonious nature.
Image: Winter Scene in the Catskills. 16 inches x 20 inches, oil on canvas.
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Kate Orme
Emerging artist Kate Orme employs sculpture, monoprinting and drawing to express her curiosity about life, death and the scientific world. Her belief that a work should be able to stand alone, outside its original context, and yet still engage the viewer drives her use of process and visual aesthetic.
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Khilna Shah
London-based visual artist Khilna delves into the philosophical reflections of “life”. What transpires from these ideas is a series of layered, tactile empirical creations that incorporate natural elements of ground pigments and liquid metals. Her abstract works have evolved from the study of the traditional fine art disciplines.
Image: Fourth Dimension. Oil, acrylic, gilt varnish and liquid leaf on wood, 3f x 3f.
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Kitty Cann
Kitty Cann’s photographs are timeless records of fleeting macro worlds that capture the light and textural nuance of the unique Pilbara region. A response to the vast Australian bush, each image captures the small and intricate to reveal a detailed and intimate view of the natural beauty that surrounds us.
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Leigh Davis
There is an inherent love of form, structure and simplicity in the works of Leigh Davis. He effortlessly creates moods, characters and situations with a few deft strokes of pen or brush, breathing life and humanity into his abstract pieces, which appear caught in a moment of natural stillness. Leigh Davis’ recent paintings are exhibited at the Robert Fogell Gallery, Stamford, from 1 to 22 June.
Image: Pale Nude. 39cm x 26cm. Oil on board.
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Lucinda Denning
Lucinda Denning’s work is vibrant and poignant. Representations of figures and landscapes using rich colour and patterns are rendered in oil and gouache paints. She has exhibited extensively and is collected worldwide. Lucinda is based in London and works on her own projects and on commissions.
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Maiju Tirri
Finnish artist Maiju Tirri creates large and rough paintings depicting wild thoughts and strong emotions, capturing the mind. The spectator feels calm, meditative and mentally moved. Works challenge your consciousness. Earth, Water, Air and Fire find their metaphorical expressions in the human imagination. Paintings tell many stories and are open to various interpretations.
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Marcus Cain
Artist Marcus Cain depicts life forces in alternate states of emanation and collapse. Using a painterly process of stippling and dripping, Cain’s portraits of chemical energy are a particulate view of the human condition, merging form with atmosphere and locating the figure within pixelated states of transformation.
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Margaretha Gubernale
Margaretha Gubernale’s mystic oil paintings find their source in the philosophy of Anthroposophy, developed by Rudolf Steiner, which the artist describes as a source of spiritual knowledge and a practice of experiencing one’s inner life. In this work she describes the second tree of Ogham.
Image: The Druides Ash, oil on canvas, 100cm x 80cm, 2013.
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Melvyn Robinson
The main body of Melvyn Robinson’s work essentially explores regular geometrical tessellations. These forms seem to represent the basic foundation of many structures and raise the question of a visual philosophy. His forthcoming retrospective takes place at the Mile End Art Pavilion in London from 2 to 13 July.
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Mina
Mina experiments with various media and materials including metal, sand and any other found items to create texture, vibrancy and movement. Pieces of her work have been compared to Jackson Pollock’s abstract impressionist pieces and drip style paintings.
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Natasha Kimstatsch
Norwegian artist Kimstatsch is influenced by the High Kitsch movement, initiated by living old master Odd Nerdrum, combining classical painting and a mystical approach to artistic language. She was Nerdrum’s third generation student, taking tuition from his ex-apprentices at the Florence Academy. A Magical Realist painter, she accepts portrait commissions.
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Olivia Boa
This is Olivia Boa’s new collection, Blind. It is a pure expression of the present moment. In a society based essentially on a visual relationship, Olivia Boa wanted to be freed from this constraint by painting her canvas with bandaged eyes: blind.
Image: Enjoyment, acrylic on canvas 80cm x 100cm.
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Pascale Oakley
Pascale Oakley graduated from The Glasgow School of Art in 2012. Her work focuses on everyday objects, and while keeping with the tradition of painting, images are portrayed in a contemporary context. She has exhibited in Glasgow and London, with works drawn from these exhibitions having been acquired for private and corporate collections.
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Phoebe Salmon
An exciting young West Country artist and photographer who was longlisted in the 2013 Aesthetica Art Prize, Phoebe maintains an unusual and adventurous approach to her photographic and abstract art works. Concentrating on arousing strong interaction with the viewer, her pieces project a depth which invites and encourages individual interpretation.
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Ruth Eckstein
Image Credit:
Ruth Eckstein, House tree or else. Oil on canvas. 48 x 30 inches.
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Sandra Menant
Sandra is a French artist who lives and works in London. Her emerging style is expressive and vibrant, a flow of emotions pours into colours and textures, creating spontaneous and explosive canvases. From abstract to semi-figurative work, the result is highly decorative and original.
Image: Solar Wave. 101cm x 101cm x 4cm.
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Shimon Pinto
Pinto’s art emerges from the inner space of memories mixed together into a new image on the canvas. The works are populated with images drawn from his childhood in the town of Arad. They correspond with the Israeli experience as portrayed in the artist’s own consciousness by using happiness and humour.
Image: Geologist, 2011. 130cm x 150cm, oil on canvas.
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Sophie Abbott
Sophie’s dramatic and colourful paintings are a spontaneous reflection on the world around her. Inspired by a beach, an allotment or a flipflop, she paints what she sees in her own unique way. Her style is bold and experimental. See her work at Hampstead AAF, London, with Fourwalls Contemporary, 13 to 16 June.
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Stef Bauer
Stef Bauer’s paintings are about a search for harmony in a world full of chaos. Inspired by nature, shapes and colours coalesce onto the surface of the painting, opening up the viewer’s mind to multiple interpretations. Stef lives in Los Angeles and her paintings are in private collections in the USA and Europe.
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Stephen J.E. Davies
Stephen is a Graphic Artist and Illustrator specialising in black and white, and colour pencil high intensity drawings. Current ranges feature Aviation, Automobile, Military and Scenic artworks.
Image: Supermarine Spitfire Mk11 – Victory Over Dover
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Susan Preston
Preston’s paintings – oil on canvas or mixed media on primed paper – explore an abstract visual language in which elements are layered between veils of colour. Her work is in collections in Europe, the USA and Asia.
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William Pearce
As a landscape photographer, William Pearce explores and documents the relationship between the natural and the man-made. From cliff face to forest, he attempts to capture how these two subjects interact within a space, whether it be their co-existence or conflict.
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Yonca Yucemen
Yonca Yucemen is a London-based artist who works with all ideas of the non-human in order to create a parallel narrative and pseudoscientific fantasy for her human understanding. Following a Foundation at Central Saint Martins and an Art degree from Goldsmiths, she is now practising in her London studio.
yoncayucemen@yahoo.com
