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Concepts/themes/ideas My journey as an artist began when I gave up my business in 1990 and began to paint. In 1998 I graduated with a First Class BA with Related Arts with Honours. I have exhibited mainly in the South of England and have particular interest in the 'art and health' as well as 'art and faith arena'. I am represented by 'The art...
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Billie Ireland has a fascinated not only of the natural world but in the rituals of painting; particularly in her own process and also in religious and spiritual creative practice. Billie Ireland paints and carves into these finely prepared surfaces. The paintings have illusionary areas of depth created by obsessive layering, allowing conscious...
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Statement It's about the Shape of the Journey...a documentation of works on paper and canvas in book form and sound scapes exploring our footsteps in the environment using screenprinting and photography I explore the natural forms and geometric patterns and anything else which can be used to pin down a thought, a feeling, a memory I'm drawn...
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The history of painting has always captured the spirit of its era, and my work is no different. I am researching the contemporary phenomenon of an age of 'awkwardness', where information and images are floating around on the Internet in no particular order. Even though we seem to live in a world of impermanence (this is not a new thought, the 1972...
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My current projects explore landscape in two quite different ways; the first is working with “straight” un-manipulated photography, recording the sometimes abstract or surreal qualities of both the natural and constructed environment. When light hits a surface and mixes with the elements, (such as a breeze on the water), or is reflected in...
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Andrew Burton's most recent work explores bricks. Working in Britain, India and the Netherlands, he formed thousands of tiny bricks from clay and constructed these into various sculptures. Each sculpture would be painted or glazed, but then broken up and its constituent parts used to form the next. In this way the sculptures are continually...
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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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I have a deep rooted affinity with the countryside and its resources, in part informed by my family's long association with farming. The cyclical element of the processes in nature inspires me, as do the insignificant details that we might often pass by. I am interested in ways that we work with or against nature; how we react and intervene,...
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The Quick and the Dead.....An Expression of the aliveness and intensity of living, loving, and dying..... Aliveness comes only in the present moment. Once any thing becomes manifest, it is part of History in which the living has died. It serves then, as documentation of a living moment in creation. It is this moment of creation which matters.....
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Recalling the shimmering late works of J.M.W. Turner, Penman Sweet manipulates oil paint with the subtlety of watercolour... Annemarie Lopez 2012 Arts writer for Australian Art Review, The Sydney Magazine and The Week UK Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE ...
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Concepts What you see depends on your visual intelligence and appetite. I search for new subjects and innovative ways of expressing these. How those subjects look within the frame interests me. I always compose at the time of photographing and print the whole frame. I am interested in how "what I photograph" is transformed by...
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Jony Easterby Artists Statement. Having worked in the public realm for over twenty years and have gathered a broad range of skills that I bring to each new project. I live and work on 3 acres of Welsh hillside which is also my ‘plant laboratory’ and studio, and there my passion for and knowledge of ecology, horticulture and the...
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I am an artist who makes work across the fields of visual art, writing, performance and curatorial practice.  Inspired by the clown and the fool, I make mischief that is playful - defiant, teasing and delivered with a dry wit and humour, and often in the form of pranks. The pranks and performances I create instigate dialogues, which are...
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I am inspired by the painterly process and its relation to abstraction, and feel passionate about engaging with the subject of borders, edges and peripheries.  I have always been drawn to places which could be described as borderlands, geographically and psychologically but also which have been rendered throughout history by painters and...
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ConceptsTo the viewer the paintings look like elitist depictions of bourgeois living.  These have been painted from photos which I have taken myself from my travels or from lifestyle magazines.  I am interested in the notion that some things never go out of fashion and are classic. This is what good life is about and its contents....
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Concept  I studied Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art and completed my degree at Camberwell School of Art London where my work explored photography and film/video slide projected installations , computer art and sculptural relief making and stained glass. I then wanted to push and explore these mediums further through...
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My work sets out to explore the loss of utopia and failure of modernism to connect with the human condition.Through the use of space and displaced characters, and their juxtaposition with monumental architectural structures, these works aim to mirror the emotional turmoil and unbalance we experience in the midst of a constrained, yet...
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In my work I construct allegorical settings in order to explore, comment upon and sometimes confront injustice and violence. Although my work has serious intent, I poke fun at myself and use humour, pathos and the unexpected to engage my audience. I have used a range of media, and shown installations, drawings and work in new media. I have...
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Paper is a medium, a document a catalyst, a message, a creative act, it transforms for the better or worse, it travels, it is solid in a semi transparent world, it holds value, it proves, it also us to share information and ideas, it sorts us into groups of accepted and rejected, it covers up temporarily, it can be destroyed easily, it is...
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I utilise a variety of media and forms to realise my work, though lens-based media, painting and 3D installation have formed the core of my previous practice. My work has also incorporated drawing, specialist imaging techniques (e.g. using Scanning Electron Microscopes), and tattooing. Past projects have involved developing...
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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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My practice is a playful response to the constraints of society, institutions and authority. I create interventions, displacements and disruptions in a variety of media including performance. My work is frequently inspired by my love of language, is often discursive and usually collaborative. I enjoy the synergy of creating work with others.
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Intentions, Propositions and Influences The minimum of figurative content and subject matter in these paintings draws attention to their form and language and to their process of production which involves a set of rules and methods from which new and unforeseen forms will emerge. Each work involves a number of progressions based on...
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My art practice begins as an enquiry into place, with the relationship between myself and immediate surrounding environment providing a starting point for investigations.  Drawing upon a rich source of experience stemming from the return to my childhood home in 2004, after a ten year absence, paintings develop in which physical and...
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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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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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Most of my art touches on childhood, on growing up and its anxieties. It is as much an exploration of memory as of physical experience. Not necessarily concrete memories, more moods and atmospheres, interwoven with elements from myths and fairy tales. Using some of the techniques traditionally linked to a girl's world I work with papers, wools...
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My sculptural work is abstract in nature and reflects my interest in the collection and reuse of everyday materials sourced from my immediate surroundings. These materials are used to explore and develop mixed media works which contain elements of archaeology and archival records. The individual pieces are bright and colourful and make use...
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I am an artist printmaker working in the relief and intaglio processes, which include etching, carborundum and woodcut prints. My work is inspired by the subject of work/industry and I have made drawings in a wide variety of industrial locations which have included sewage pumping stations, a distillery, building sites and a bell foundry, etc. The...
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I use a systematic approach to painting that involves an intensely controlled working practice, where I test the physical limits of paint by carefully building up layers of small marks to form a gradation of tone across a flat surface. I value craftsmanship skills in art and want the precision brushwork I use (reminiscent of egg tempera...
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Artist Statement My work has a continuing preoccupation with museums, collecting, fragility and transience. Inspired by family history, personal memorabilia often become incorporated into the forms and structures I create. Gloves are cast in plaster and printed with fragmented texts from different eras, resembling fragile relics. Old recipes...
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