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Alex Mitchell
Alex Mitchell created a series of works (titled Argentina Heebie-Jeebies) a month before she left with her mother on a trip to meet members of her extended family and learn about her childhood. In these vibrant, playful works, Alex Mitchell captures her anxieties about the trip with a twist of humor-everything from will everything fit into her carry-on bag to how will she be
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Amanda Brisbane
Amanda is the UK’s foremost sand cast glass artist. Her
work has a masterful fluency that depends entirely on the
casting being completed in a single stage. As the molten
glass begins to solidify, she intervenes, manipulating it
with her hands, coaxing new shapes to materialise.
Each piece of glass is therefore a subtle collaboration of
artistry and chemistry.
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Andrew Hall
Andrew Hall was born in Ely, Cambs. in 1962 and after graduating from Exeter College of Art in 1984 worked as a photographer in London until emigrating to The United States in 2005.
Andrew Hall is currently dividing his work for advertising and design clients between studios in Los Angeles and New York, as well as numerous personal projects. He has exhibited in UK and
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Anthony Benjamin
Anthony Benjamin was born in 1931 in Hampshire. He studied with Leger at his Paris studio in 1951 and then at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London where he was awarded the Silver Medal for Painting in 1955. In the following year he was awarded the French Government Fellowship for painting and as a result studied with W.S.Hayter at Atelier 17. In 1960-61 Anthony Benjamin was
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Barbara Rae
Barbara Rae CBE RA has taken inspiration from the vivid sun-drenched colours of Spain in her latest silkscreen prints. Rae's paintings combine the influence of landscape and travel with painterly abstraction. When Rae was awarded a travel scholarship in 1966, it unleashed a love of travel that remains with her. Although she does not like the term landscape painter, the
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Bruce Mclean
Bruce McLean is one of the major figures of contemporary British Art. Born in 1944 he studied at Glasgow school of art and at St. Martin's in London, later teaching at the Slade school of art. His early reputation arose from his activities as a sculpture involved in performance art. Bruce Mclean has obtained international recognition for his paintings and prints, work with
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Charlotte Cornish
"Through my work, I try to explore ways of communicating what it feels like to be alive." Charlotte's paintings and prints all have figurative starting points. Her personal experiences and the imagery collected from travelling abroad are then gradually abstracted through the process of execution and emotional response. She has been painting and printmaking full time since
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Chris and Steve Rocks
Chris and Steve Rocks represent a unique phenomenon in the world of fine art. Twin brothers who were born only seven minutes apart, they have created an extraordinary artistic partnership, due to a closeness and understanding that is beyond the imagination of most of us. They have worked
together throughout their lives, and each of their striking oils on canvas is a true
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Dave Lee Travis
DLT was born in Buxton, Derbyshire, he spent his early life in Manchester where he developed an interest in both the music business and photography.
In 1964, he talked his way into a job on Radio Caroline South after doing some DJ work round the Manchester clubs. He spent two years on the ship before moving to Carolines north ship off the Isle of Man. When pirate ships
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David Garcia
With decades of international travel enhancing his artistic vision, David Garcia enjoys exploring abstract concepts and states of feeling in his work. Born of Portuguese-American parents, he studied at the Acadamie Julien in Paris and received both B.A and M.A degress in Fine Art from California State University in Los Angeles. A well established artist, his work hangs in a
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Debra Stroud
Debra was born in Guildford, Surrey and has travelled far and wide. She has always had a creative mind and as a child she used to send her inventions to various toy manufacturers. One of her designs was for an all enclosed sledge.
She draws most of her inspiration from the coasts around the South West, she has been very much inspired by places further afield such as the
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Donald Hamilton Fraser
Donald Hamilton Fraser has exhibited his highly acclaimed work in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Zurich and many other cities around the world. The list of galleries that own, or have exhibited his work is phenomenal. Donald has participated in many of the most significant exhibitions of British work, including the Royal Academy's 25 Years of British Painting, where he is also a
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Edward Curtis
Born in 1868 near Whitewater, Wisconsin, Edward Sheriff Curtis became one of America's finest photographers and ethnologists. When the Curtis family moved to Port Orchard, Washington in 1887, Edward's gift for photography led him to an investigation of the Indians living on the Seattle waterfront. His portrait of Chief Seattle's daughter, Princess Angeline, won Curtis the
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Francis Aliefeh
Francis Aliefeh is a self-taught fine art photographer. He feels that the medium of photography momentarily suspends time; presenting him with opportunities to capture images that will never occur the same way twice. He derives a great sense of pleasure and fulfilment from his work and feels proud to present his collections of images.
Francis Aliefeh has a great affinity
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Heidi Konig
Heidi first introduction to printing was through her grandfather who produced many woodcuts and linocuts. As a small child she was fascinated with the various printing techniques and all the different tools that he used. Today Heidi works on her prints in a very spontaneous way, using the etching plate as a drawing board. Heidi will then hand colour every print with many of
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Henderson Cisz
Born in Brazil in 1960, Henderson Cisz grew up in a small village near Maringa. His talent for painting was clear from as early age, but he never considered pursuing a career as an artist. Instead he entered the banking profession and continued to enjoy painting as a hobby. By the mid 1980s however, Henderson had become convinced that art meant more to him than banking! In
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Issam El-Said
Issam El-Said 1938 - 88 was born in Baghdad and achieved a BA Architecture from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1961. He studied art at Hammersmith College of Art and Design, London in 1962-4 and prepared for a PhD on the Methodology of Geometric Proportioning in Islamic Architecture at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1988, which was sadly not completed due to
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Jay Versluis
Jay and Julia are a husband and wife team of artists who use the medium of kinetic photography.
Inspired by cityscapes as well as artificial light sources, vivid colours are their theme. Jay says, "I wouldn't call our images "photographs" in a traditional sense, but rather Light Paintings. We're holding a portable canvas in our hands and every light source becomes a
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Jonathan Shaw
Jonathan Shaw was born in Leeds in 1959 and grew up watching his father, a professional painter, working. Jonathan Shaw always felt he was destined to follow in his father's footsteps, but after leaving school found himself working in a variety of jobs, and finally finding a creative position as an interior designer. Jonathan Shaw knew that this was not the life for him and
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Julia Ogden
Julia has always had a keen interest in art. She studied a BTEC National Diploma in art and design at Leeds College of Art and Design. and completed this course with distinction in 1996. At Edinburgh College of Art she gained a BA Hons in Visual Communication, specialising in illustration When this course drew to a close she decided to start an MA in sequential Illustration at
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Kate Fensom
What started as a three week holiday turned into a pivotal moment in Kate Fensom's life. She came back to England kindling a small spark about becoming an artist. Returning to the country that had fired her imagination Kate Fensom began to paint, inspired by the magic of the Mediterranean, by October 2002 she had enough paintings to hold her first exhibition at the Dome Hotel,
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Lee Crew
Lee Crew studied at the School of Art in Cheltenham, where his work became increasingly abstract. During this time the St Ives artists such as Sir Terry Frost and the American Abstract Expressionists particularly influenced him. He continued to paint full time after college. Lee was first attracted to screenprinting because of its creative possibilities. Lee Crew says of his
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Lee Fearnley
Lee Fearnley was born in Mirfield, West Yorkshire in 1969. Having
studied at Batley College of Art, Lee Fearnley embarked on this career working for a greetings card company in their design studio. In 1995 he became a freelance artist an Illustrator, with many clients both in the UK and abroad, Fearnley�s work now hangs in private collections across the world.
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Linda Charles
Linda was born in 1969 in London. After studying textiles at Herriot Watt University in Galasheilds, Scotland, she went straight on to become a full-time artist. Linda describes herself as a "contextual" painter, who views each composition as part of a whole imagined interior landscape. She is a firm believer in the connection between colour and mood, and Linda's positive
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Louisa Boyd
Louisa studied embroidery at the Manchester Metropolitan University and graduated in 2001. She exhibited her work at the New Designers Show that year and won two prestigious awards - The Paperchaser Future of Design Award and a high commendation from the judges of the New Designer of the Year. This led to her work being shown in two solo exhibitions, the first at Paperchase's
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Mark Spain
After art college, Mark decided to open a print making studio in Kent where he developed his etching and collagraph techniques. He was commissioned in 1997 to produce a limited edition etching of Kew Gardens after the great storm. Mark has had many editions published by and his collagraphs have been exhibited at Mall Galleries, and abstract oils at the 20th Century British Art
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Nancy Wood
Born in London in 1961, Nancy enjoyed drawing and painting from an early age. While still at school, she discovered a gift for portraiture and started sketching her friends and family, but despite her obvious talent she decided to pursue a successful career in industry. Although she continued to spend most of her spare time producing striking watercolours which were hugely
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Nel Whatmore
Nel studied at Wolverhampton University for a Foundation Course in Art & Design, going on to study for a BA degree at Trinity & All Saints College, Leeds. In 1990 she represented the "Princes Youth Business Trust" at the Chelsea Flower Show in 1990.
Nel has exhibited work at the Albert Docks, Liverpool, the Chelsea Flower Show and the NEC Birmingham as well as a one-woman
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Peter Blake
Peter Blake was interested in art from a young age and attended Gravesend Technical College for three years before completing his National Service in the Royal Air Force. He carried on his studies at the RCA, and upon completion Peter Blake was awarded a scholarship which took him travelling across the globe for a year. This inspirational time led to his early works being
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Peter Wileman
Peter Wileman was born in 1946 in Middlesex. On leaving school he went straight into his first job as a studio junior for a card company, where his innate artistic talent was recognised. Here he spent 5 years studying lettering and design - his first artistic training - which gave him a solid grounding in colour awareness and formal structure.
Peter Wileman then moved on to
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Rib Bloomfield
Rib Bloomfield was born in 1948 in London. He was educated at Croydon College of Art from 1966-1968 and then at Maidstone College of Art where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1971. Rib Bloomfield soon began to carve himself a successful career as a painter with one man shows at the 'Talent Store' the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) and DM Galleries in London in
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Robert Hurdle
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Sanders Nicolson
Sanders Nicolson has always been passionately committed to fine art photography and printmaking. He became very excited at the possibilities presented by IRIS printing system and has been closely involved with it since it's introduction to the UK in the early 90's. For years Saunders Nicolson was dissatisfied by the limitations in texture of the photographic print and by the
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Sandra Blow
Born in London in 1925, Sandra Blow's innovative approach to painting during the 1950's insured her position as one of the leaders of the post war British abstract movement. Sandra studied at St. Martin's (1941-6) and then the Royal Academy School's, before leaving for Italy. Alberto Burri introduced Sandra to the potentials of collage and the tensions between textures
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Shigeki Kuroda
Born in Yokohama, Shigeki Kuroda attended Tama University of Fine Arts in Toykyo. He began making intaglio prints in 1972. In 1979, he exhibited at the Bradford International Print Biennial in England. His etchings are mostly know for depicting bicycles and umbrellas. He uses only these images to "express the change, flow and expanse of time in a pictorial dimension".
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Studio Evolution
Studio Evolution is an Artist Collective, combining the talents of various artists who hold a special interest in natural sources and elements of the earth.
Each dedicated artist specialises in specific areas, from construction techniques involving-textures using a multitude of materials and media, to a pigment and dye specialist who will source vivid, vibrant colours from
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Sue Guthrie
Sue was brought up in a small village in Buckinghamshire surrounded by fields and woods and given as much freedom as a child could hope for. She enrolled on an art foundation course and that same year her mum took her to the Tate, as she had never been to a gallery before. She loved her foundation course, commenting that it was like being back at play school.
She applied to
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Terry Frost
Sir Terry Frost RA was one of Britain's most successful and highly acclaimed artists of the Twentieth Century. This was recognised in the 1998 New Years Honours List when Sir Terry Frost RA was granted a Knighthood.
Born in 1915, Sir Terry Frost RA discovered his artistic talent during the four years he spent as a Prisoner of War in the Second World War. On his return to
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