Contemporary Painting & Abstract

17th – 28th August

Private view: 17th August, 6:00 – 8:30pm

This exhibition will present the work of UK and international artists working with Contemporary Painting and Abstract Art.
The focus of this exhibition will be on emerging and mid-career artists.
We hope you can join us at the opening on the 17th of August from 6 to 8.30 pm

Valeria Puzzovio – @ valeria_puzzovio

Valeria Puzzovio (1985) was born and still lives in Maglie, a town in the south of Italy, where she works as a freelance illustrator. She has created illustrations for books, theater posters and music albums’ covers. She participates in individual and collective exhibitions, like fairs (The House of illustration Fair London 2018), cultural and artistic events (“Mercado de obra grafica” of Barcellona, Lucca Comics&Games), artistic residences (Lago Film Fest 2018).

She currently creates drawings, collage artworks and artist books where she investigates  memories and  feelings of the essence of human soul, focusing on the theme of melancholy.

She loves to imagine scenarios and tell stories that speak about each one of us.

 

Dinah Wakefield -@dinahwakefieldart

Dinah is the daughter of Larry Wakefield, the abstract artist from Southampton, UK. She moved to Australia in 1988 and begin her own work as an artist a few years later. Dinah is known all over the world for the tremendous sense of movement and energy she captures in her paintings and the beautiful ambience her work creates.

Dinah’s work can be categorized as a new way of looking at the environment. Rather than our traditional approach where the natural world is considered a resource to be utilized, Dinah has more of an indigenous perspective whereby the landscape around us has its own intrinsic worth. Dinah looks past the outer forms to the essential essence that permeates the natural world and expresses that essence onto canvas.

 

The Cameron Twins – @cameron.twins_art

The Cameron Twins are a collaborative artist duo of identical twins who work together in a range of different media including screen print, painting, collage, photography, casting, sculpture, and installation. Their work has an overall strong and garish style using an oversaturated bright colour palette to create a surreal quality. The vivid colours and child-like naïve aesthetic with chaotic ensembles of images allows them to work playfully, exploring the ideas surrounding childhood imagination and dreams within their art practice.

These montages and prints incorporate old paintings, photographs, notes and drawings collected from their own childhood belongings. The process of using these then acts as a visual conduit to their past and childhood memories. They draw upon a shared sense of nostalgia which is then expressed through their practice, suggesting they are also collaborating with their past selves.

The print process is a very important element of the Cameron Twins’ practice, as it allows them to explore the idea of repetition, doubling and mirroring, which relates directly to their personal experience as twins, and the process can create a strange, unsettling quality.

 

 

Michel Jesse c/o Rose Annett – @jesse.artpower

“For my works, I use special colors on plexiglass to create a composition and then seal it. Thanks to this technique, the colors of my works appear even brighter and more radiant in an extraordinary shine. There is an explosion of colors on the plexiglass with color drops that give my works dynamism and immediacy. Through my my play between colors and technology, I want to create a unique visual world.”

 

Wednesday Wiseman – @wednesdaywiseman

As a neurodivergent artist with ADHD my artwork represents the vibrant chaos of my hyperactive mind.

I explore the hidden workings and landscapes of my mind tapping into visions of my deepest subconscious. My art shows the limitless expanse of possibility – my preoccupations and obsessions. I drift through mindscapes touching upon objects and objects lessness.

My art is inspired by: Gothic novels and the way in which they are permeated with a mist of mysteriousness and unpredictability.

Movements such as Surrealism and Abstract modernism which I studied in my Art History degree.  Self-taught artists such as Jean Michelle Basquiat

Brutalist & Bauhaus architecture.  Street style and skate culture

My art is an expresion of not insanity but super sanity as my lack of focus morphs into my superpower – hyper focus. My childhood and the mischief I got up to with my brothers; our favourite movies, tv shows and video games.

My experience growing up and living in London. Observing the faces of commuters on tubes: their frowns, boredom, nonchalance, drunken antics, headphones that are too loud, glazed eyes. Inserting narratives in my mind onto my subterranean comrades. My electricity is the commotion of modern life – transactions, interactions,  phone fixation.

 

Kelly Glithro – @kellyglithroabstractart    

I’m Kelly Glithro, a free flow expressive abstract artist using mixed media on large stretched canvas to create unique & original artwork to uplift and inspire.

Living half my year between a mountain overlooking the sea near Marbella and the beautiful Suffolk countryside, I’m inspired to paint the colours I see and joy I feel with wild abandon. I was born in London, so love spending time here too.

After Intuitively choosing a palette to evoke free spirit, I use a technique I created to help harmonise the ‘party of colours’ so that they talk to one another and become convivial on the canvas.

As you can see … My artwork is diverse and bold because I step into my yes, trust & follow a spontaneous vibe where it takes me.

I only paint when I feel full, and I love to paint a lot.

Be it serendipity, euphoric or bohemian; it evolves onto the canvas in front of me.

Joy … is contagious, and I hope you enjoy my paintings as much as I enjoyed creating them.

Thank you for taking an interest in my abstract art.

Feel free to follow my social media for fresh off the easel artwork updates.

Do contact me directly if you’d like to treat yourself to a commission to fit a particular wall, colour scheme or feel in your home or workspace.

QR codes to scan for ease are next to my paintings.

Enjoy buying unique & original paintings direct from the artist by contacting me kellyglithro@hotmail.co.uk

 

Emily Bourne – @ emilybourneart

The ‘Summer’ collection is inspired by sunsets and the ocean, the natural elements of the season that create a sense of serenity and a visualisation of beauty. Each piece has had various layers and through the exploration of mediums I have been able to create depth to reflect the complexities and energies of the ocean

 

Tanika Swaby – @ tanika_912

THE ART DRAWS A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON THE RELATIONSHIP AND METHODS THE MIND CREATES IN ORDER TO PROCESS LANGUAGE AND EXPERIENCES, SPECIFICALLY THROUGH ARCHETYPES AND SYMBOLOGY.

SYMBOLISM IS USED AS AN INITIATION AND PROVOCATION, CREATING A SENSORY COMPOSITION. USING VIVID COLOURS, EXAGGERATED SHAPES AND SYMBOLS AS A VISUAL ARTICULATION OF THE REPRODUCTIVE PATTERNS AND COMPLEXITIES FORMED IN MIND AND THOUGHT.

ACRYLIC AND OIL PAINT ARE THE MAIN MATERIALS, BUT THE WORK OFTEN INCORPORATES OTHER MATERIALS TO CREATE TEXTURE AND NUANCES. TANIKA IS AN INTUITIVE BODYWORKER AND WRITER.

 

Louise Forster-Smith – @louiseforstersmith

I’m an Abstract Artist exploring bold colours and hand-painted surfaces to create unique, playful work inspired by nature. Painting intuitively, I draw from the ebb and flow of daily life; the seasons, relationships, movement, and the tricky art of finding balance.

I’m from Devon and currently live and work in Bristol in the UK. I studied Fine Art Critical Practice at Central St Martins in London and Visual Performance at Dartington College of Arts in Devon. I have since worked in several different roles Managing Creative Projects & Experiences and now combine working part-time between this and painting.

 

Ilan Galkoff – @ilangalkoffstudio

I’m Ilan Galkoff, a 19 year old British artist. I’ve worked across a variety of mediums, but primarily I’m an acrylic painter. I began painting at the age of 16, however my journey as an artist began much earlier, at around age, 10, with a love for digital art and Graphic Design.

I find interest in still life subjects, often including well known, iconic brands, and a bold colour palette. I like my artworks to take something we already know and love, and show it in a bold new light.

 

 

 

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