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Concepts There is no common theme to my work although areas of interest include perception, surveillance, watching and being watched, and seeing the bigger picture in the small details of things. I like to relate the theme and the method of working. Recent paintings in response to environmental concerns have focused on surface and the use...
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High visibility, reflective colour and fluorescence are some of the phenomena that work their way into my practice. I'm interested in these materials and colours that we encounter every day, those that are just outside our peripheral vision in order to alert and catch our attention. My practice explores questions around what constitutes as the...
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Concepts My interest is in expressing the beauty and mysterious qualities within landscape -colour, light and pattern. Expression is fairly loose and non literal, moving more towards abstraction. Influences Earliest-Samuel Palmer's sepia ink drawings; Nash, Lanyon, Hitchens - but for colour, Matisse and Bonnard and for colour and...
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Concepts Painter concerned with visual perception. Formal notions of light and movement within the second dimension. In addition, the concept of illusion and double meaning are particularly important. The notion that we may receive two contrasting visual experiences from a single visual stimulant. I am interested in playing with ideas of...
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"David Lucas has progressed from recording the landscape to a more subjective interpretative art which has allowed for a greater emotional and philosophical response to painting. Light, shafts of brightness and horizon lines are put into the work but his interest in the deeper aspects of infinity has widened the vision. He attempts to unravel...
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My work covers eclectic subject matter, often inspired by daydreams and my imagination, sometimes representational, using appropriated imagery from magazines and books and my own photographs; sometimes abstract. My practice is instinctive and intuitive, and encompasses photography, drawing and painting.
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The emphasis of my previous work has been the use of abstraction to portray a more atmospheric and ethereal view of our natural world. In order to achieve this I have used my observations of the natural environment and interpreted them through the use of colour, texture and line in order to create the sensation of oneself being encompassed within...
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I make watercolours, drawings and oil paintings. Over recent years they have been based on cities that I have lived in or visited. The base of all of my cities is probably derived from the view in fron of our house looking over Sheffield. Since 2000 I have kept experimenting with materials, homemade paints and media, recording the interaction and...
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I am an established Sheffield based artist working across landscape; seascape; the human form and an historical based research.  I use painting, drawing, printmaking and photographic images as the main methods and means for my work.  I am interested in the deliberateness of making marks on a surface, including the use of text whether...
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My practice is experimental and multi-disciplinary, often driven by an interest in contradiction or paradox. I use the appropriation and defacement of found materials to construct scenarios or images that manipulate the 'real' or recognisable. Fliers and newspapers are a surface of existing forms, which serve as starting points for...
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Normal 0 0 1 265 1514 12 3 1859 11.257 0 0 0 Normal 0 0 1 410 2342 19 4 2876 11.257 0 0 0 Morwenna has a degree in Art & Design and graduated with a Masters in Fine...
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In my work I strive to create a particular effect by combining a sense of the 'beautiful' with the 'grotesque'. I am interested in the uncanny and often try to convey an unsettling feeling or some kind of undercurrent to my work. My ideas are explored through the process of drawing, painting and photography, and often reference the...
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I graduated in 1997 from Norwich University College of the Arts. I have work in the Welcome Trust Collection and with private collectors. I have exhibited in including the RBS Gallery, Leeds City Gallery, the Cornerhouse in Manchester and the Saatchi Gallery. I have held residencies in High Royds and Rampton Hospital. I work with drawing,...
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Most recently, Jenny Parkin has been using architectural figures and cheap party food - custard, jelly, doughnuts, etc - to create little stage sets for her camera around themes of greed and consumption. In other work she has recycled and remade things that are already out there in people's homes and lives. She considers the history of...
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Dominic Mason is and artist based in Sheffield and Scunthorpe in the Yorkshire and Humber region of England. He is co-director of Bloc Projects, Sheffield and exhibitions officer at 20-21 Visual Arts Centre. 
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Tsendpurev Tsegmid is a Mongolian artist living in the UK, who investigates issues of heritage and identity from the perspective of her own cultural re-location. Originally trained in the discipline of traditional Mongolian painting, Tsendpurev now works in a contemporary art context. She uses photography and performance, combining both...
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My artistic practice encompasses a number of different styles of drawing and painting and a variety of different creative strategies. I use these to explore aspects of our physical and emotional relationship with nature. The complexity of this subject matter demands a complex response, so my work ranges from detailed, representational drawings to...
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Our relationship with the past is changing. We receive and consume images and media consciously and unconsciously at a rate unfathomable to those born just a generation before. Through subtle coercion driven by commercial interests and rapid developments in consumer technology, we are being encouraged to loosen our grip on the physical and...
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My practice explores the hinterland between Art and science particularly focusing on the relationship between an 'event' and then its subsequent reconstruction' within the gallery space. Time as some kind of elastic plain of study is a constant issue in my work through the capturing and portrayal of it to the viewer.Aesthetically...
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Abu Jafar is an acclaimed leading International Artist and Philosopher of the Arts Born on March 21, 1968 in a small village called Jhilna, Patuakhali, Bangladesh. Since 1991 he lives and works in United Kingdom. He studied fine arts, painting and drawing at the Institute of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh 1984/89, Master Drawing of the...
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For me portraiture needs to be more than a likeness, more than a visual recognition or resemblance. The face should hold our attention so that within these isolated single heads an emotional atmosphere with uneasy undertones is evoked by using distortions and exaggerated features, causing an interaction between portrait and viewer. The subject...
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With my current paintings I am very much revisiting the feelings and impressions of living in Arabia during the mid 70's when I was a child. The strangeness of arriving in a place that was still being built, the surreal expanses of concrete foundations for houses, shops, hospitals etc. that would one day form a town, empty of site workers on...
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My artworks often use words or a combination of text and image; I am intrigued by the ability of words to evoke other senses and call up myriad associations. My work attempts to tap into what might be called a ‘collective cultural imagery’ – the associations and mental images that people carry with them already, that they have...
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My art practice crosses the boundaries between new and traditional art forms using; collage and mixed media, digital photography and image manipulation. Different landscapes, seascapes, natural forms and found objects fuel my inspiration. Ideas are explored through various digital and paper media, creating work which is atmospheric and...
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My work stems from an engagement with objects, the places they occupy and the interfaces between object, space, light and time. The constant activity of looking is a fundamental part of this engagement. Influences are drawn from the natural environment, particularly in Yorkshire; ancient surfaces; hand-made objects where the human touch of...
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My work mainly revolves around identity - autobiographical to some extent but encompassing universal recognition of emotion and sensuality.These are not portraits of individuals in the formal sense, more a broader exploration of self-perception and how others perceive us, often recognised through ambiguous, fragmented images. There is universal...
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Richard Bartle's practice combines sculpture, collage, painting, video and installation to reflect upon the contradictions of the modern condition, often focusing on faith, politics, economics and social activity and referencing the ideas within philosophy, religion and pop culture. Bartle says about his work: ‘I have always sought to...
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Concepts The spirit of a place and the particular qualities of light have often been my starting point. I try to find ways of using colour, layering and mark-making that express memory and mood in a meditative and contemplative way.After a break in my production lasting about three years, due to health problems, I find I am...
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As a painter, the physical process of transformation has always been a significant part of my practise. The physical properties of paint or materials used, and the the way they adapt or change as the transformation takes place, creating a sense of spontaneous aesthetic balance. The creative act becomes part of how the work is interpreted, and...
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I'm interested in how forms and spatial relationships hold onto meanings, even when abstracted away from the world. I see my method as a form of phenomenology; as a way of grasping the world of phenomena and their meanings and as an exercise in stripping away the extraneous to arrive at the essences of (visual) experiences. A writer who has...
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Follow me on Twitter at; Matthew Spencer@MatthewSpence18  I am interested in our landscape, our everyday environments, how our world is represented to us through visual information and how this influences our comprehension of the world around us, including the process’s and materials that we form our landscape with and in turn how...
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Since moving to Scarborough several years ago, I have been interested in documenting the fishing industry. In 2004, after making enquiries to the Harbour Master, I rented a baiting shed on the harbour's West Pier to use as a studio. In this time I have seen Scarborough's fishing fleet decline in number, with owners selling their boats and gear....
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