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My subject matter is what Virginia Woolf called ‘moments of being’, those moments in life which, despite their ordinariness, seem charged with meaning and significance. My paintings are filled with narrative but resilient to any attempts to extract any clear story or message. Often cropped to the point of illegibility the images...
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Landscape, Place and Memory The Attic Gallery, 26 High Street, Pinner, Middlesex HA5 3rd November and 5th – 8th November 2012 The images of landscape in this exhibition describe places once or many times visited. The terms place and memory refer to concepts which are used to interpret a landscape image. Influenced in part, by 19th...
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Consistent themes explored within my work are the tendency for escapist behaviour and segregation in the context of human interaction, arising from a distorted desire to belong. Examples of specific themes explored are the reliance of individuals on identity, religion or nostalgia. The work frequently questions what lies behind socially...
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I'm utilising a hybrid language of materials to create accidents and chance encounters; drawing upon memory traces and observational details, trying to balance layers of imagery with a sense of translucency, wondering between form, space and colour.It's exciting to merge figurative and abstract painting. I'm sourcing inspiration from...
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Our relationship with the past is changing. 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 material in favour of a clean, hi-tech future – living orderly lives free of clutter and the traces of what we once were. With...
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Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Jane Oldfield is developing work concerning flying. This provides a focus which connects the variety of her visual work – mainly painting on a variety of surfaces, but also 3D pieces with wire and cutouts. Flying has always been an obsession for mankind. We have only conquered...
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Concepts My work has changed significantly since I began painting. My earlier work was concerned with making imaginative and symbolic connections to my relationship with classical Indian music, to the natural world, and to my Jewish heritage. In later years I have focused my attention on one particular subject - it is that of...
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The humour in my work is dry and dark, but warm, and delivered with love. Through its absurdity, laughter and sense of freedom and joy, I hope for the audience to recognise the situations presented as relevant to their own lives. Underneath the humour, lays a seriousness which talks about our behaviour in the big Society.I start with paintings...
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I am a painter, and I am fascinated by the formal and material things of painting, but in the last few years I have been exploring 3D, having small bronze figures made, as well as developing ceramic work, and in my recent painting I have been trying to reconcile these 3D explorations, embodiment, characterisation, shifts in scale, with composition...
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Paula MacArthur is a painter. Her work has matured into an increasingly painterly style, with bold use of colour and a commitment to naturalistic draughtsmanship. Working quickly and instinctively she places colour onto the canvas working with wet on wet glazes, merging oily translucent layers with the brush and dropping colour onto the canvas...
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I live on the east coast. Each day I make drawings about things happening in the landscape; often returning to the same places for months at a time, sometimes just walking and seeing what happens. I use these drawings in the studio to improvise and rehearse possible ways to turn observation into painting. I look for things in the drawings that...
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I try to make things. Neill Sheasby: April's Artist of the MonthEach month we select an artist from the directory to feature as our Artist of the Month. In April's Artist of the Month, Ruth talks to Neill Sheasby about his appreciation of the ordinary, his time as a studio user at North Tyneside Art Studio and getting...
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Concepts Julie Brixey-Williams is a British artist who lives and works in London, where she has exhibited regularly. Her work explores the relationship that the body shares with space and architecture and the gestural marks that we leave behind. Working in various media, including photography, video, installation, performance and drawing,...
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Concepts Lately my activity has involved selecting and processing fragmentary images from multiple sources, and most particularly those related to our engagement with the virtual world of the internet. Throughout previous work there has been a dominant theme of the layering of imaginary visions onto elements of perceived reality. However,...
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Between Narratives and Altered states. There are central themes that i have become interested in and deal with in different ways encompassing print , interactive instillation, film, silhouettes and drawing. These themes deal with broad and open ended interpretations of narrative events both personal and public ( for example the Protest prints...
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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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I allow my paintings to “happen” like a Freudian slip or a slip of the tongue. In doing this I am able to tap into archetypal imagery, symbols and fragments of the psyche in a backdrop of landscapes that seem remote and out of this world. Here, I playfully master the technique of catching the painting while it isn’t looking. ...
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My process of painting continually evolves within different stages of concentration, one that is figuratively minded and one based on abstract formal decisions. I find that these types of mindset are activated by one anothers absence. It starts with the conscious decision of trying to do something back to front, an interest in figurative...
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Alex Dipple’s painted-over newspapers present the classical information mediumfree from its content as tender and vulnerable but mysteriously beautiful „skins.“ With a similarly sort of a „foreign view“, the artist examines newspapers and their formal structure. She discards lines, which are...
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Working in sculpture & installation, I manipulate seemingly mundane objects to reveal the strangeness of the everyday and the paradoxical language of the readymade. Within my work, an object is not encountered as a concrete 'thing' with a concrete meaning but as a nameless 'something' in a constant state of becoming. Through minimal...
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Concepts I make prints and paintings responding to the local landscape. In a mostly arable landscape I necessarily engage with current farming techniques as well as the natural changes that occur. The work is intended to be a document as well as an expression. Colour has become increasingly important to me as an expression of mood and...
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The lure of the ‘false’ in painting forms the foundation of my work. Constructed landscapes and the psychology of fictional spaces make up the stage for an exploration of painting as a simulacra, not a representation. Ultimately, my paintings seek to picture something tangible, conjured up from our obsession with simulations and...
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Using tools of performance and image making, my practice adopts an approach of practical philosophy. Combining dialogical methodologies and performative strategies, the work centres on the nature of the image and sets out to create an encounter that goes beyond representational means, towards a more experiential engagement. By creating...
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I make images of space and structure. I seek to document the place in which I exist by indexing the personal, social and political. I can only work from the experienced. The contours of the 'man-made' negotiated daily within the high street and suburban dwelling form the structure of much of my work. My intention is not to illustrate environment...
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Tam Joseph is an artist who likes to keep moving forward with his practice. Some artists choose to develop what they hope will be distinctive styles with which to find a place for themselves in the art world. Others might spend years in search of what they hope will be a recognisable signature. Tam Joseph is an artist determined to let his...
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Lock's practice straddles fact and fiction, truth and the fake. Weaving new narratives of history and myth through a complicated and sometimes mysterious tale of heartache of heartache, lust and delusional thinking, Lock allows her practice to accumulate, take unfathomable journeys and elicit deceit to create part encrypted biography and...
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(11.12.12) On Axis playpaint’s artworks comprise 20 paintings compressed into 6 paintings, 1 painting divided into 2 parts and 8 paintings. Or; 6 reclaimed painting, 13 reenacted paintings, 3 repeated paintings and 7 absolute unique paintings. (20.10.12) On Axis playpaint’s artworks comprise 14 paintings compressed into 5...
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I work from imagination to create my own poetic vision of the world. Over time, I have developed a number of themes and characters, largely with origins in childhood, memory and dream imagery. My subject matter reflects my interest in, myth, folklore, history and  magic and my characters express both the light and darker sides of human nature...
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My work is abstract and is inspired by landscape and environment.  Strongly characterised by colour, rhythm and movement, I seek to express the excitement of travel and new experiences. Artist statement 'Rhythm' (2007) comes from a body of work made from abandoned derelict artefacts found in a rural environment. In its painted form, this...
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I am absorbed with the way light changes and defines places, constantly transforming the same piece of land, wood or coastline. The changing quality of light and elements against the permanence and stillness of the landscape are central to my work; clouds across a hill, flashes of light through woods, shadows along a track. I use a range of...
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My practice draws inspiration from man, nature and our reconnection, and encompasses exploration, experimentation, heritage, sustainability and responses to surroundings and situations. Projects are diverse but the central theme remains. In 2008 I graduated MA Art as Environment from Manchester Metropolitan University and importantly my work...
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