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I make images with paint, collage, drawing and camera. Work is from observation, directly from life, from drawings, from photographs, from screen images. Self-portraiture is central, partly because I'm simply the observable human figure in what I paint but also, through performance, it allows me to trespass into the worlds of other women and,...
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Concepts I am interested in how images speak, in the nuances of visual language and translation from one medium to another. I work figuratively as a route to narrative discursive painting based on photographs, both personal archive and found imagery. I assemble collections of selected images which offer connections both familiar and...
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Motivated by a basic urge to play and create, Diana’s painting is intuitive and visceral, although consideration and planning are part of it too. Other recent work has been driven by an attraction to materials, and their colour and texture. Often inspired by fabrics and having a background in tile-making, her work feels very akin to...
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The work is primarily concerned with exploring the tendency to nurture habit, ritual, routine and even obsessive repetition in a modern world teetering on the brink of dystopia where possibilities and choices are seemingly endless. My practice uses a wide range of media chosen to suit my ideas including drawing, animation, print, performance and...
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Concepts My central concerns are with image, memory, identity and landscape. I find that different conditions of light challenge habits of perception - where or what are things ? My work uses various illusionistic devices to portray this ambiguity of the nature and location of things, and to reflect their forms and qualities. I am also...
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Geraint Evans lives and works in Cardiff, Wales. Evans’ practice deals with themes such as: the sublime within catastrophe, social deprivation and social aesthetic. ‘I use drawing as a way to explore ideas and thoughts derived from my surroundings, memory and dreams. I often use traditional drawing and composition styles;...
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ConceptsI believe its important to vary the work I produce and the materials I use. Undertaking community and private commissions all over Wales inspiring people to contribute to the creation of artwork drawing inspiration from the natural world and its relationship to mythology.InfluencesCulture, Nature, Ancient cultures/MythsCareer...
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Concepts Most of the concepts I explore in my work arise from life experiences. I am particularly interested in 'journeys' - inner and outer, personal and universal. My initial working process is intuitive and often involves physical interaction with the landscape. I research widely, exploring all possible connections and reduce the...
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Richard Higlett works across a range of media while more recently has been involving elements of performance and sound, presenting as part of Soundworks, ICA London in june 2012. In 2011, be created a Sound Car that can be used as a portable gallery for sound art and featured in a number of projects in 2012. Recent exhibitions include Unseen:...
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My stance is akin to that of a Romanticist. There was a time in the early nineteenth century when to be a Romantic meant more than to be a dreamer or a love-sick youth. In fact it was as far back as the fifteenth century that Romantic was deemed to be all that was wild and fantastic;, that imagination which is most free. I find inspiration in...
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I am an outsider artist who works in sculpture and installation. I respond to place and site but my work always informed by the draw of opposites, light and time. In 2008 I became a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors (RBS).  In 2012 I was elected to council of the RBS. My work is often to highlight a moment, an emotion or...
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The work is concerned with pushing the parameters of water jet cutting technology.  Over the past five years Vanessa has been investigating the creative uses of water jet cutting for glass.  This has led to the development of new work that is utilising this cutting edge technology in an imaginative and unique way.  Cutting...
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My work is concerned with the forms that make up our modern landscape: the building, tower, skyscraper. The forms in which we live, work, love, communicate. They define who we are. We communicate through them. They have a relationship to us and the landscape. I have created a series of tower forms which relate to each other as figures. Given...
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The charcoal drawings that were featured in the Cheltenham Drawing Prize exhibition in 2000, had moved from the observational, the drawing of things as they were, to an exploration of ideas through drawing. The story within the drawing is not pre-planned; it emerges from and with the work of the hand as it develops, the eye and the mind following...
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I was born and raised in Lincoln and attended Lincoln College of Art. I then went on to Manchester Polytechnic, and have been a self employed potter since 1988. I now live with my wife on a small holding in the hills of Wales. I have been playing with clay since I was 10 years old. Since I set up my focus has been on teapots and drinking...
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Concepts  For the past 19 years I have painted the landscape of Pembrokeshire. In the last 6 years I have begun exploring glass as a medium and have begun making conceptual pieces in response to historical and poetic stimulus as well as to landscape elements. Influences Environment/Ecology, Nature, Landscape, poetry I completed a B.A....
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Artist Statement Concepts My work is concerned with the experience of landscape and the notion of a sense of place. This is drawn from the North European landscape tradition, mediated by practice, a material awareness always to the fore, but post modernism, the work of the archaeologist and the continuing search for a public role for the things...
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Concepts I work with all media producing a wide range of work from simple tinplate automata to complex interactive installations. Imagery is drawn from extensive travel, folk/naive art and 'The Book of Wonder'. Influences Folk art, Ancient cultures/Myths Career path Qualifications: 1986 Higher Diploma,...
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ConceptsMy work consists of machines that either move or have a latent element of movement. Many works have a particular object at their core that is animated, subverted or celebrated. Some machines require intervention by the viewer, others work continually and others are static. Each has a character beyond my design.They embrace uncertainty,...
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ConceptsI lead a dreamlike inquiry into the spirit of place, seeking evidence in a visual form, working with light and shade in two and three dimensions, vainly hoping to crystallise the fourth. Glass is my love because of its sensuality and mystery, but I am not monogamous. Architecture and the environment provide the stage, the role changes...
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Concepts I live a quiet and simple life in the hills of mid-coast Wales, and my work reflects that. I am inspired by trees and the sea. In my personal history they mean refuge, but it isn't important to know that to appreciate the work. It is just where I'm coming from and why there is the affinity. I really like the fact that they appear...
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ConceptsSince starting to work in three-dimensions, I have developed the ability to visualise potential in unlikely objects. This has meant that my imagination has been exercised continually for 30+ years - and it continues to be so, either by requests from clients, or by my own ideas. 'Aero-engines', 'Plumbing', 'Early photography' 'Oil rigs',...
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The most basic ecology of the contemporary art scene would place the uber Contemporary Art Museum at the top of the food chain, with dealers, collectors, art fairs and biennales scrapping it out for second. Next up would be the galleries, art prizes, art magazines, journalists, funding bodies and the spaces the support jostling for...
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Concepts My desire to produce powerful, emotional paintings which are read for their content, their colour and their abstract elements. I have to be emotionally and mentally taken over by my paintings. They are seemingly direct ; I paint about the studio, the kitchen, the artist, my children, childhood memories. So imaginative and observational...
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My work possesses a chameleon like identity, floating between the practices of craft, fine art and design technology. It explores painting within its 'expanded field', in terms of its overall presentation and use of materials. A process of research and experimentation aims to subvert and transcend the conventional definitions of meaning...
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Nicola Kelly explores photography’s relationship with vernacular portraiture, death, and the memento mori. Her photographic images and installations are densely coded with both explicit and implicit references to the history of photography and photographic theories on indexicality and the uncanny.This is particularly evident in the work she...
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ConceptsThe body of work made by Alison Lochhead reflects upon the memory of actions and experiences of people over time. The earth retains the marks made by humans and their presence which they leave behind. Humans appear to make very slow social and political process. The mistakes and behaviours of the past are constantly repeated, little...
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Concepts My work is currently based on the exploration of natural and urban landscape. It is about experiencing landscape, having encounters with new landscapes and creating an intuitive, evocative rhythm. Colour is an important element. A new series of Talking Heads explore portraits and foliate heads I juxtapose collaged layers of glass,...
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My paintings in appearance are abstract, but are conceived as a combination of juxtaposed figurative elements, which are then camouflaged by imposing a strict systematic approach to the development of the work. Through this organised process, disparate narrative images connect and combine, creating an optical, formal, abstracted whole.Through the...
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I navigate the cultural geography of contemporary rural Wales, using as content the customs I am witness to in order to dissect my own identity and that of those around me. I appropriate disciplines prevalent in this culture such as sketches and humorous poetry along with text and film to interpret what it may mean to live in this particular...
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Visit www[dot]samuelhasler[dot]co[dot]uk for more information and images Text based response to Cafe Artistique event, held at Ten Feet Tall, Cardiff. The market. Late into the night, as city spots shut down, deflate, evict... this room clicks. As Cardiff waits for the next day, a small spot hangs on to the last one. Drags every living...
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