Our Art ........

Dan Baldwin was born in Manchester in 1972. He has a BA with honors in communication media illustration from Kent Institute of Art & Design. His superlative technique and conceptual brilliance position him at the forefront of the new Young British Artist movement. His work is internationally celebrated, championed and collected by an exclusive clientele around the world having had sell out shows in Basel, Miami, LA, Tokyo, San Francisco, London and New York.

John Mason is an artist whose work is inspired by the contradictions and paradoxes of contemporary culture.

In the late Eighties, at the age of fifteen, Sunil skipped school one afternoon, and walked into the North London offices of music legends, Soul II Soul with a bag full of paintings, he sold everyone of them. Present day and painting and Djing are still a very big part of his life. He was profiled in the groundbreaking book 'Stencil Graffiti' and has appeared in exhibitions and magazines worldwide.

Sunil's art echoes the world of DJ culture, sound system clashes and pop art, painting on found materials using a bold mixture of spraypaints, stencils and acrylics. His paintings are as loud and bold as the music that inspired them

Ben Allen lives and works in Brighton, UK.
He has worked with Levis, Virgin, Channel 5, The Hoxton Hotel and has exhibited his paintings in venues and galleries internationally as well as selling to celebrities such as Richard Branson, Stephen Dorf, Jade Jagger and DJ Dan Williams.
Ben's work is inspired by textures found in everyday life, surrounding us on the streets and buildings.
His work is in private collections throughout the UK, in Australia, New York, Barcelona, Japan and has featured in Design Week, The Observer, Elle Déco and GQ magazines to name but a few.

Following a 20-year career in insurance, Susan enrolled herself in London Guildhall University to study her first love of Art, graduating with a Fine Art Degree in 2001.
An abstract artist inspired by the volatility of the sky. Atkinsons work appears spontaneous with a small element of chance, although the method of making is, very controlled and quite difficult to repeat, with the use of spinning tipping and pouring of paint.

Lucie Bennett's work presents potent images of women in various guises; as haunting sirens, alluring pin-ups and supernatural nymphets; playing absorbing games with the viewer's preconceptions of these deceptively familiar archetypes.
Lucie has featured on BBC2's The Culture Programme, and was featured on BBC2's acclaimed series The Apprentice in 2005, as one of London's hottest emerging artists.

Sir Peter Blake is a major figure in the British Pop Art movement. He was there before Warhol did his Brillo Box with his 3d version of Captain Web matches. With a nostalgic 'Englishness' that arguably overshadows his work, Blake finds inspiration from observing his everyday surroundings. He is a collector of popular cultural memorabilia -the mainstay of much of his output.

Sadly Sandra Blow RA died on 22nd August 06 at the age of 80.
From 1941 Sandra studied at St Martins and the Royal Academy schools but it was in 1947 after moving to Italy that she started her painting career making her mark with strong tonal works using paint and collage

Jean-Marc Bustamante has been working intermittently on a series of photographic projects since 1977. The series includes more than 120 individual landscapes, photographs that are fragments but aspire to a whole, banal subjects which are classically composed but also reminiscent of commercial advertising.

Bob Carlos Clarke had a reputation as being a photographer of striking versatility as well as one of the world's finest photographic printmakers. After moving to England in 1964, he worked in journalism and advertising before electing in 1970 to study design. His interest in photography bloomed during his first year of studies and by 1975 he had completed an MA in photography at the Royal College of Art, London.

Rob Carter makes photographic stills that give the impression of a moving image, as if taken from the side window of a driving vehicle. Using a revolving lens camera, the artist has taken over four years to collect the work on his travels in destinations including Spain, Scotland, Holland, Portugal and Barbados.

Rob and Nick Carter work together to create what they describe as images without cameras and paintings without brushes.They appeared on BBC's The Apprentice in 2005 with Lucie Bennett.
Private collectors include Elton John, David and Victoria Beckham, Simon Fuller, Philip Treacy and Mathew Williamson, and their work is in the corporate collections of many large companies including The Virgin Group, Sainsbury PLC and Reuters.

Sometimes Pippa feels her way around and through her subject. At other times, she is more direct and with a single outline executed with masterly precision, can be immediately evocative

Peter Davies’ colourful lists rank modern and contemporary artists according to his opinions, such as The Fun One Hundred. Davies’ offers explanations as to why these artists are ’fun’, such as ’David Hockney - Pool Attendant’ and ’Vanessa Beecroft - Hanging Out’.
A Goldsmiths graduate, Davies’ text paintings debuted at the Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1997 and he has since exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and Saatchi gallery,

Susan Derges has established an international reputation with solo shows in London, Edinburgh, Cambridge, New York, San Francisco and Tokyo.
Her images are photograms, created without the conventional use of a camera lens. Instead Derges uses torches, moonlight and flash to capture aspects of nature directly onto photographic paper.

Stanley Donwood is well known for his collaboration with Radiohead, having produced the artwork for the bands album and single record sleeves since 1994, when he designed the artwork for My Iron Lung. Since then Stanley has gone on to produce artwork for Radiohead’s ’The Bends’(1995), ’OK Computer’(1997), ’Kid A’(2000), ’Amnesiac’(2001), ’Hail To The Thief’(2003) and all the associated singles, posters, websites and official merchandise.

In the late 80s, Anoushka Fisz was apprentice to a portrait photographer named Plichta, who worked in Hollywood in the 40s and 50s. Ever since, her own work has carried a distinct influence from her former mentor - Fisz has since produced a series of self-portraits with a heightened theatricality - giving a contemporary twist to traditional portraiture.

Known for his soft-focus paintings of cellular clusters, Mark Francis has been associated with the ’Young British Art’ phenomenon while steadily forging his own highly original path. Francis’ work has been collected by numerous public museums - including the Metropolitan Museum, New York, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London - and has been exhibited in major venues such as London’s Tate Gallery and the Royal Academy.

Never afraid to embrace life as a learning process, Johannesburg born Minne Fry’s work has consistently both embraced and expressed change in a medium where the continuity of the ’trademark’ brush stroke have long been held to be the norm.
Having firstly built a substantial reputation based on her work in oils, Fry then began using watercolours in the 1980’s and furthermore went on to study printmaking at Morley College.

Ralph Gibson’s high-contrast pictures - usually focusing on one geometric element (the corner of a room) or a single human gesture (the curve of a hand) - form a kind of dream-narrative when gathered together.

Greg Gorman is the only person I’d let photograph my corpse’, said filmmaker John Waters. Unusual praise for a portrait photographer, but perhaps understandable for one so adept at producing contemporary icons

Gunn's impressive canvasses are built from layers of pigment and gesso and punctuated by chance occurrences in the surface, as the canvas splits and cracks during a unique process. The heavily worked gesso is waxed and polished allowing the artist to regain a sense of control. Areas of the paintings become reflective, inviting a dialogue between voyeur and object. The fissured grounds suggest resilience and delicacy and the rich pigment brings depth and solemnity to the canvas.

Whilst some works are part of a series they are all, unique - no two paintings are the same. The works are impossible to replicate due to the intricate & evolving nature of the processes used. Each piece develops differently and retains its own identity.

Damien Hirst continually challenges the boundaries between art, science, the media and popular culture, whether in the form of a cow and her calf sawn in two or house paint flung onto spinning canvases.
A graduate of Goldsmiths College, London, Damien Hirst was the leader of the Young British Artists movement, having organised the now infamous Freeze exhibition whilst still at college. His work is collected by Charles Saatchi, who included several of his pieces in his 1992 exhibition Young British Artists. Hirst was awarded the Turner Prize in 1995 and in 1997 took part in the Royal Academy's Sensation show.

Born in Bradford, David Hockney studied at the Bradford School of Art and went on to study at the Royal College of Art, London. He was awarded the RCA Gold Medal in 1962 and was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 1991.

Jim Kavanagh’s paintings of haunting, shifting skyscapes and landscapes are imbued with Celtic mysticism.
Formed using the techniques of the Old Masters; glazes of colour, scumbling, encaustic and stand oil, applied vigorously, the canvas is laid on the floor to let the transparent glazes and colours interact with each other.

Doug Kemp has his own comic book and Pop Art oriented style and produces large canvases and hand made lino cuts of great fun and style.
Studied at:1959-1969, Walthamstow College of Art,Royal Academy Schools
Teaching Fellowship at Glousestershire College of Art (2 years) . He has a huge amount of teachin experience
1969-1993, and has exhibited widely in the UK and around the world.

William Klein’s wide-ranging career has encompassed groundbreaking ’snapshot aesthetic’ photographs of New York, some of the most iconic fashion photography, and proto-Pop films. Yet this varied output is unified by his uniquely idiosyncratic and consistently experimental approach. His work has been shown in major venues across the world, including the Museum of Modern Art de la Ville, Paris and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Kate Lowe graduated from the University of the West of England, Bristol in 2000. Since then she has taken part in a number of collaborative and solo exhibitions in London, Bristol, and East Anglia, including "On the Wall Art Fair", Olympia and "Fresh Art" Fair, Islington. Kate uses paint in an expressive manner, combining chalk pastel and oil paint on canvas. Her vibrant paintings are a celebration of colour and mark-making.

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 sculptor involved in performance art. He has obtained international recognition for his paintings and prints, work with film theatre and books.

Described as Caravaggio meets Manga and Bacon in Disneyland, Antony Micallef's beautiful yet disturbing images are inspired by the works of Old Masters, graffiti, fashion magazines and Japanese cartoons.
Micallef has had solo shows in London, Milan and Bulgaria and has exhibited alongside Tracey Emin, Marc Quinn, Jamie Reid and Banksy.

Growing up in West Africa impressed Nigel on certain colours, light and textures, that would resurface years later.
There have been many teachers that opened new ideas or ways of seeing. Some "teachers" came in the form of books or from the briefest of meetings, others via their work over many years.

Helmut Newton was perhaps the twentieth century's most influential, intriguing and controversial photographer. His work carries a heavy erotic charge and combines humour with decadence, voyeurism and elements of sado-masochism.
Having worked extensively as a fashion photographer, Newton's work has appeared in many magazines including French Vogue, Elle, Paris Match, Playboy and Marie Claire.

John Nicholson works on galvanised sheet steel, i.e. iron protected from rusting by a thin layer of zinc. The science of his art is to attack this defence, to corrode the zinc and produce pigments in the process. The black pigment is copper, whose atoms grow into dark crystals, like tiny pine trees covering a shiny landscape. The greens are salts of copper and nickel; the blues, browns and purples are compounds of iron and cobalt.
The surface is protected with an acrylic resin sprayed on and into the pigments to bind them in place and prevent further corrosion.

Mauricio Ortiz’s paintings depict single objects floating in the middle of the canvas like stars in space, elemental and monolithic. His technical skill with paint is dazzling, with an attention to detail that makes these giant subjects hyper-real, drawing the viewer into an almost trance-like state.

As fans of this giant of TV comedy might expect, Vic Reeves’ art works mix the surreal and the mundane in a seriously amusing way. Ram-raiding disparate sources of contemporary iconography from celebrities to wildlife and explosives, Reeves’ playfully deranged works are held together by their stylistic tact and control.
Although Reeves primarily is known as a comedian, he is also gaining a reputation as an artist, having studied at Sir John Cass College in Whitechapel in the mid 80s.

Artist, Situationist, Druid, Activist, Jamie Reid is the man who cut-and-pasted the Punk movement of the late 70’s. Responsible for the Sex Pistols legendary ’Never Mind the Bollocks’ artwork, Reid is the man that put the safety pin through Her Majesty’s lower lip.

Marc Riboud was given his first camera as a 13-year-old boy in 1936. 16 years later, after serving in the French Resistance, he traveled to Paris to meet Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa, the founders of Magnum Photos. His ability to capture fleeting moments in life through powerful compositions was already apparent, and this skill was to serve him well for decades to come. He has twice won the Overseas Press Club Award

Linda Richardson and Steve Fogg combine two different techniques to produce one very distinctive style. All the works are acrylic on canvas, using airbrush and traditional painting .
Both artists work jointly on the canvasses, although they have separate studios.
Working together the two artists are experimenting in producing art with visible and invisible elements, as well as the purely visible paintings.,

Please contact the gallery as we usually hold a good selection of Zoe's work

Colin Self (b. 1941) came to prominence with the Pop art scene of the 1960s. He is now recognised as an important and innovative artist.
Self was born in Norwich. He attended the Slade School from 1961 to 1963. At this time, he got to know David Hockney and Peter Blake, who began to collect his work.

Please contact the gallery as we usually have a good selection of Colin's work available to view.
The "Heart" series of 5 pieces forms part of a suite of apx 40 works, all hand etched from multople plates.

Tony Soulié has participated in over 200 exhibitions throughout Europe. He works as a painter, photographer, installation artist, and writer. He uses his numerous travels as inspiration and is fascinated by wide open spaces.

Henrietta Stuart's evocative oils naturally traverse the expanse between field and Colour Field. Her landscapes,
Inspired by the work of Braque, Cezanne and Motherwell, she considers painting to be a "translation . . .the imaginative interpretation of . . .infinitely complex visual reality."
Henrietta Stuart has exhibited widely in London, France and St. Ives.

American artist, avant-garde filmmaker, writer and social figue Andy Warhol needs little introduction. Originally from Pittsburgh, Warhol moved to New York in the 1950s where he enjoyed a successful career as a commercial artist, winning several commendations from the Art Director's Club and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. His work was published in Vogue, the New Yorker and Glamour magazine.
In the 1960s Warhol begain to make large paintings and silkscreen prints of famous products, including Campbell's soup cans and Coca-Cola, in his Union Square studio 'The Factory'. Warhol was one of the founding members of the American Pop Art movement, alongside Roy Lichtenstein and Jasper Johns.

Often working to a narrative with symbols gathered over many years Ian Wilkinson is constantly trying to depict emotions and situations which are either personal or observational. With surface playing a key roll in Wilkinson’s work print provided the perfect medium to translate the artists interests into an intelligent body of work.

Member of the Contemporary Glass Society and Artworks.
Liz uses many different materials, in recent years specializing in solid cast glass, sometimes combined with other materials such as wood, concrete, steel, or bronze. In particularly she likes to contrast clear with coloured glass and polished with partially-polished /unpolished surfaces.

Marc Quinn’s sculptures, perhaps more than any others, have come to stand for the willful sensitivity to the body and mortality that was fostered by British art in the 90s. His controversial work has been exhibited globally, with prestigious solo shows taking place in such institutions as London’s Tate Gallery and Italy’s Prada Foundation.

In her unique oil paintings, Josie McCoy captures the here and the now to subvert the very nature of the 21st century’s celebrity culture.
McCoy celebrates the virtual, those who do not exist, suspending our disbelief and drawing us in, supplementing facts with questions. Are we looking at a character or an actor? Is it a painting or a photograph?