Rafaela de Ascanio Frigg Watercolour on Paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Rafaela de Ascanio is a Spanish artist living in London, and working across ceramic, painting and poetry. De Ascanio will present an installation of new work with accompanying performance at Berntson Bhattacharjee gallery this February 2022. Past exhibitions include a solo show at Liliya Art Gallery in 2021, and duo shows with Bowes Parris Gallery in 2020, Aindrea Contemporary in 2019 and at Lamb Gallery in 2018, and recent group shows with Tristan Hoare, Cob Gallery and Lychee One. Education Fine Art at Central Saint Martin's, Art History BA and MA at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and Painting at the Turps Banana Painting School. Select Exhibitions/Awards The Young Masters 2021 Emerging Artist Award Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork These watercolour sketches were made while researching the images of Norse goddess' Freyja and Frigg, flying on broomsticks and animals, found in Schleswig Cathedral. Dated around the twelfth century, they are the first images of witches riding through the sky and there is much speculation as to why these pagan idols appear in a catholic church.
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Rafaela de Ascanio Freyja Watercolour on Paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Rafaela de Ascanio is a Spanish artist living in London, and working across ceramic, painting and poetry. De Ascanio will present an installation of new work with accompanying performance at Berntson Bhattacharjee gallery this February 2022. Past exhibitions include a solo show at Liliya Art Gallery in 2021, and duo shows with Bowes Parris Gallery in 2020, Aindrea Contemporary in 2019 and at Lamb Gallery in 2018, and recent group shows with Tristan Hoare, Cob Gallery and Lychee One. Education Fine Art at Central Saint Martin's, Art History BA and MA at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and Painting at the Turps Banana Painting School. Select Exhibitions/Awards The Young Masters 2021 Emerging Artist Award Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork These watercolour sketches were made while researching the images of Norse goddess' Freyja and Frigg, flying on broomsticks and animals, found in Schleswig Cathedral. Dated around the twelfth century, they are the first images of witches riding through the sky and there is much speculation as to why these pagan idols appear in a catholic church.
Allison Gildersleeve Untitled (3) Ink and Gouache on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Behind Allison Gildersleeve's canvases, collages and drawings lies a singular proposition: places are not inert; they are repositories for all that passes through them. Gildersleeve deliberately returns again and again to familiar settings - wooded areas, home interiors, open highways, back country roads - to show that repeated visits to the same place invariably result in wildly divergent depictions. Gildersleeve received her MFA from Bard College in 2004, and her BA from College of William and Mary in 1992. Gildersleeve has exhibited widely across the United States and abroad. Notable solo exhibitions include Olle Nymans Ateljeer (Stockholm, SE), Asya Geisberg Gallery (New York, NY), Auxiliary Projects (Brooklyn, NY), Robischon Gallery (Denver, CO), Cynthia Reeves (Walpole NH), Valley House Gallery (Dallas, TX), The George Gallery (Charleston, SC) and Galleri Andersson/Sandstrom (Stockholm, SE). Selected group exhibitions include Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (NY), CRG Gallery (New York, NY), PS122 (New York, NY), Sharon Arts Center (Peterborough, NH), Dunkers Kulturhus (Helsingberg, SE) and Gana Art Space (Seoul, Korea). Gildersleeve was a 2018-2019 recipient of The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in Brooklyn, NY. She has been awarded a NYFA Fellowship as well as residencies at Yaddo, the Millay Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, the Liquitex International Research Residency in London and the Norman Bird Sanctuary in Newport RI. Gildersleeve lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Education BA College of William and Mary, MFA Bard College Select Exhibitions/Awards 2021 ASYA GEISBERG GALLERY, A Thousand Other Things, New York, NY VALLEY HOUSE GALLERY, Swiftly Flow the Days, Dallas, TX 2019 THE GEORGE GALLERY, Tilt-A-Whirl, Charleston, SC AUXILIARY PROJECTS, Paper Trail, Brooklyn, NY 2018 CYNTHIA-REEVES GALLERY, In the Retelling, North Adams, MA VALLEY HOUSE GALLERY, High Frequency, Dallas, TX 2017 GALLERI ANDERSSON SANDSTRÖM: OLLE NYMANS ATELJEER, Stockholm, Sweden LA GRUA CENTER, Beyond the Range of Sight: Allison Gildersleeve & Sue McNally, Stonington, CT ASYA GEISBERG GALLERY, Unruly, New York, NY 2015 VALLEY HOUSE GALLERY, Closer Than They Appear, Dallas, TX 2014 CYNTHIA-REEVES GALLERY, Walpole, NH ASYA GEISBERG GALLERY, Elsewhere, New York, NY ROBISCHON GALLERY, Within Earshot, Denver, CO 2012 GALLERI ANDERSSON SANDSTRÖM, Static Electric, Umeå, Sweden CYNTHIA-REEVES GALLERY, Written Under, Hanover, NH ASYA GEISBERG GALLERY, Let Me Show It To You Unfixed, New York, NY 2011 JOHANSSON PROJECTS, Bramblur: Katy Stone & Allison Gildersleeve, Oakland, CA 2010 CYNTHIA-REEVES GALLERY, Homeward Bound, Hanover, NH ALLEGRA LAVIOLA GALLERY, Eric Jeor & Allison Gildersleeve, New York, NY 2009 GALLERI ANDERSSON SANDSTRÖM, The Here and Then, two part exhibition: Umeå & Stockholm, Sweden 2007 MICHAEL STEINBERG FINE ART, Loss of Place, New York, NY 2005 650 MADISON AVE EXHIBITION PROGRAM, New York, NY 2004 SUPREME TRADING, Brooklyn, NY 2003 PS122 GALLERY, Allison Gildersleeve & Cynthia Innis, New York, NY 1999 SARAH NIGHTINGALE GALLERY, Allison Gildersleeve & Carol Hinrichsen, Water Mill, NY 1998 RED MILL GALLERY, Good Girl, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT Selected Group Exhibitions 2021 ROBISCHON GALLERY, Root + Branch, Denver, CO 2020 CYNTHIA-REEVES GALLERY, Forefront 2020, North Adams, MA 2019 1GAP GALLERY, Sense of Place, curated by Michael Holden, Brooklyn, NY 2018 PARK PLACE GALLERY, Sense of Place, Brooklyn, NY 2017 ROBISCHON GALLERY, Out of View, Denver, CO VALLEY HOUSE GALLERY, Trees, Dallas, TX 2016 THE DRAWING ROOMS, The Nature of Things, curated by Anne Trauben, Jersey City, NJ GALLERI ANDERSSON SANDSTRÖM, 140 Artists-15 Years, Umeå, Sweden SHARON ARTS CENTER, NHIA, Collaboration: The Artist and the Land, curated by Kate Lenahan, Peterborough, NH 2014 VALLEY HOUSE GALLERY, 60TH Anniversary Show, Dallas, TX VALLEY HOUSE GALLERY, Summer Cut, Dallas, TX TOMARPS KUNGSGÅRD, Atelje Larsen, Kvidinge, Sweden 2013 ASYA GEISBERG GALLERY, A.G.G.W.O.P., New York, NY GALLERI PERSSON, Mästargrafik från Atelje Larsen, Malmö, Sweden 2012 HEINER CONTEMPORARY, Housebound, Washington, DC 2011 DUNKERS KULTURHUS, Under Great Pressure, Helsingborg, Sweden STOREFRONT GALLERY, Color Schemes, Brooklyn, NY ASYA GEISBERG GALLERY, The Woods are Lovely, Dark and Deep, New York, NY 2010 SILAS MARDER GALLERY, The Big Show, Bridgehampton, NY HESKIN CONTEMPORARY, Natural Reaction, Brooklyn, NY 2009 DUMBO ART UNDER THE BRIDGE FESTIVAL, The Map is Not the Territory, Brooklyn, NY LAVIOLA BANK GALLERY, Summer Salon, New York, NY 2008 MICHAEL STEINBERG FINE ART, Back to the Drawing Board, New York, NY 2007 HESKIN CONTEMPORARY, Red Desert, curated by Sarah Trigg, New York, NY 2006 COLLABORATIVE CONCEPTS, Flow: Navigating the Super Paradigm, curated by Karlos Carcamo, Beacon, NY CRG GALLERY, Greater Brooklyn, curated by Alex Dodge and Glen Baldridge, New York, NY HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, First Look, Peekskill, NY 2004 SUPREME TRADING, Six, Brooklyn, NY MILTON AVERY GRADUATE SCHOOL, The Warm Weather is Holding, Red Hook, NY 2001 BAY AREA CENTER FOR THE CONSOLIDATED ARTS, Berkeley, CA 2000 BOWERY GALLERY, curated by Joan Snyder, New York, NY GANA ART SPACE, Cross Point, Seoul, Korea 381G GALLERY, Delicate, San Francisco, CA Awards & Residencies 2018 SHARPE-WALENTAS STUDIO PROGRAM AWARD 2018-2019, Brooklyn, NY NORMAN BIRD SANCTUARY ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, Middletown, RI LIQUITEX INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCY, Griffin Gallery Studios, London, UK 2008 NEW YORK FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS FELLOW, New York 2004 ELAINE DE KOONING MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP, Bard College 2002 YADDO, Saratoga Springs, NY 2001 MILLAY COLONY, Austerlitz, NY 1999 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER FELLOWSHIP, Johnson, VT 1995 WOODSTOCK SCHOOL OF ART, Woodstock, NY Gallery Representation Asya Geisberg, New York, NY. Robischon, Denver, CO, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TX. The George Gallery, Charleston, SC
Ruby Bateman Self Love Ink on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Ruby Bateman is a visual artist, working and living in London. Her work is often self-referential, (re)depicting and translating imagery across different materials and processes. In her drawings and paintings, Ruby often explores her relationship to (institutionalised) motherhood with a richly colourful and symbolic visual language, referencing her own fiction. Education Royal College of Art - Print Masters - 2018 - 2020 University Of Brighton - Print BA (Hons) - First - 2014 - 2017 Falmouth University - Art Foundation - Merit - 2013 - 2014 Select Exhibitions/Awards Exhibitions: Domenica Marland - Art Dealer - Gallery pop-up, J/M Gallery London - 2021 'My Love Is Your Love' - Everywoman Biennial, Copeland Gallery London - 2021 'Domesticity And The Feminine' - Joséphine-May Bailey, Online Exhibition - 2021 'Acedia' - Purslane Gallery, Online Exhibition - 2021 '2020 RCA' - Royal College Of Art Online Degree Show - 2020 'In Review' Southwark Park Gallery - 2019 Awards: The Fish Factory Artist Residency - 2021 Shortlisted for Birth Rites Collection New Works - 2020 Shortlisted for HIGH Award 2020 Gallery Representation Domenica Marland Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork The female story and the politics of womxnhood has always been at the centre of my practice, whether it being allegorical fiction or personal narrative. It is therefore a pleasure for me to create a series of drawings for charity, supporting womxn in need and bringing their stories to attention. My postcards explore 'freedom and love' from a womxn's perspective, in all its variations and joy.
Sandra Chevrier La Cage, Trouver L'espoir Mix Media on Paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) Sandra Chevrier is a Canadian contemporary / pop urban artist, known for her captivating portraits of women from The Cages series. Born in 1983, Chevrier got her Bachelor's degree in visual and media arts from UQAM - L'Université du Québec à Montréal. As a self-taught artist, Sandra Chevrier first fell in love with art as a kid, to her; Art rapidly became a language on its own. At first, she draws sketches of eyes, all the time. This initial obsession is highly visible in her present work. Sandra likes to describe herself as a "gaze collector" and her work; a dichotomy or a dance between power and fragility, freedom and captivity, the poison and the cure. Her work is exhibited internationally and her artworks are now in the collections of art collectors all over the world. Sandra produces work ranging over vastly fluctuating emotional enigmas and concepts that have set the standard of our modern communication, exposing the limitations of our world; our self-imposed expectations and the cages we have allowed to bar us from the fullness of life's experience. With work demanding to be dissected beyond its surface value, Chevrier's portraits are quite literally torn between the fantastical heroics and iconography of comic books and the harsher underlying tragedy of oppressed female identity and the exposed superficial illusion it conveys. In addition to exhibiting a male-dominated world within her 'Cages', Chevrier's subjects denounce the role given to the female counterpart therein, refusing to play the part of seducer or victim. In the greater body of Chevrier's work, the images used within the 'cages' range from scenes of conflict, triumph and defeat. They also represent the social limitations, which corrupt what truly is beautiful and lock women into prisons of highly-codified and narrow identities. By doing so, they are asked to become nothing short of superheroines. Sandra paints masterfully detailed portraiture, making her women seemingly emerge from a surreal world, onto the canvas, wherein a dance is performed between reality and imagination, truth and deception. The artist chooses to highlight the fragility of the superhero, their struggles and weaknesses, and exposes the humanity within the superhuman. Despite all the playfulness of the thing itself and all the "CRASH BAM POW," superheroes are also fragile. We are merely human men and women, and we are entitled to our flaws and errors.
Ruby Bateman The Best of Friends Love Ink on Paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Ruby Bateman is a visual artist, working and living in London. Her work is often self-referential, (re)depicting and translating imagery across different materials and processes. In her drawings and paintings, Ruby often explores her relationship to (institutionalised) motherhood with a richly colourful and symbolic visual language, referencing her own fiction. Education Royal College of Art - Print Masters - 2018 - 2020 University Of Brighton - Print BA (Hons) - First - 2014 - 2017 Falmouth University - Art Foundation - Merit - 2013 - 2014 Select Exhibitions/Awards Exhibitions: Domenica Marland - Art Dealer - Gallery pop-up, J/M Gallery London - 2021 'My Love Is Your Love' - Everywoman Biennial, Copeland Gallery London - 2021 'Domesticity And The Feminine' - Joséphine-May Bailey, Online Exhibition - 2021 'Acedia' - Purslane Gallery, Online Exhibition - 2021 '2020 RCA' - Royal College Of Art Online Degree Show - 2020 'In Review' Southwark Park Gallery - 2019 Awards: The Fish Factory Artist Residency - 2021 Shortlisted for Birth Rites Collection New Works - 2020 Shortlisted for HIGH Award 2020 Gallery Representation Domenica Marland Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork The female story and the politics of womxnhood has always been at the centre of my practice, whether it being allegorical fiction or personal narrative. It is therefore a pleasure for me to create a series of drawings for charity, supporting womxn in need and bringing their stories to attention. My postcards explore 'freedom and love' from a womxn's perspective, in all its variations and joy.
Ruby Bateman The Love of Making Ink on Paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Ruby Bateman is a visual artist, working and living in London. Her work is often self-referential, (re)depicting and translating imagery across different materials and processes. In her drawings and paintings, Ruby often explores her relationship to (institutionalised) motherhood with a richly colourful and symbolic visual language, referencing her own fiction. Education Royal College of Art - Print Masters - 2018 - 2020 University Of Brighton - Print BA (Hons) - First - 2014 - 2017 Falmouth University - Art Foundation - Merit - 2013 - 2014 Select Exhibitions/Awards Exhibitions: Domenica Marland - Art Dealer - Gallery pop-up, J/M Gallery London - 2021 'My Love Is Your Love' - Everywoman Biennial, Copeland Gallery London - 2021 'Domesticity And The Feminine' - Joséphine-May Bailey, Online Exhibition - 2021 'Acedia' - Purslane Gallery, Online Exhibition - 2021 '2020 RCA' - Royal College Of Art Online Degree Show - 2020 'In Review' Southwark Park Gallery - 2019 Awards: The Fish Factory Artist Residency - 2021 Shortlisted for Birth Rites Collection New Works - 2020 Shortlisted for HIGH Award 2020 Gallery Representation Domenica Marland Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork The female story and the politics of womxnhood has always been at the centre of my practice, whether it being allegorical fiction or personal narrative. It is therefore a pleasure for me to create a series of drawings for charity, supporting womxn in need and bringing their stories to attention. My postcards explore 'freedom and love' from a womxn's perspective, in all its variations and joy.
Ruby Bateman Mothering Love Ink on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Ruby Bateman is a visual artist, working and living in London. Her work is often self-referential, (re)depicting and translating imagery across different materials and processes. In her drawings and paintings, Ruby often explores her relationship to (institutionalised) motherhood with a richly colourful and symbolic visual language, referencing her own fiction. Education Royal College of Art - Print Masters - 2018 - 2020 University Of Brighton - Print BA (Hons) - First - 2014 - 2017 Falmouth University - Art Foundation - Merit - 2013 - 2014 Select Exhibitions/Awards Exhibitions: Domenica Marland - Art Dealer - Gallery pop-up, J/M Gallery London - 2021 'My Love Is Your Love' - Everywoman Biennial, Copeland Gallery London - 2021 'Domesticity And The Feminine' - Joséphine-May Bailey, Online Exhibition - 2021 'Acedia' - Purslane Gallery, Online Exhibition - 2021 '2020 RCA' - Royal College Of Art Online Degree Show - 2020 'In Review' Southwark Park Gallery - 2019 Awards: The Fish Factory Artist Residency - 2021 Shortlisted for Birth Rites Collection New Works - 2020 Shortlisted for HIGH Award 2020 Gallery Representation Domenica Marland Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork The female story and the politics of womxnhood has always been at the centre of my practice, whether it being allegorical fiction or personal narrative. It is therefore a pleasure for me to create a series of drawings for charity, supporting womxn in need and bringing their stories to attention. My postcards explore 'freedom and love' from a womxn's perspective, in all its variations and joy.
Sophie Levygaley Red and Pink Acrylic and Ink on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About As an abstract expressionist painter, Sophie's work is defined by a parallel exploration of creativity and colour, capturing the moment of inspiration on canvas. Her study of the process of creation stretches through decades and a change from acrylic to oil paints. Every canvas illustrates this relentless research in technique and mindfulness, articulating the relation between inner and outer landscapes into a meaningful conversation. Sophie Levygaley was born in France. Early on in her education she pursued the arts, culminating in a Master's degree from ESAG Penninghen, where she also won the Saturday Designer competition and composed her first paintings. In the following years, she held creative positions at Yves Saint Laurent and Nina Ricci as she refined her style. Sophie's artistic achievements have been recognised in her appearance at The Other Art Fair presented by Saatchi Art in London, as well as multiple exhibitions in the Philippines, France and the United Kingdom. Her community involvement as an art teacher has helped foster creative potential in developing artists since 2000. She continued this work by founding and leading LevygaleyStudio in 2009. Inspired by the Federal Arts Project of the 20th century USA, Sophie's work as a teacher is an integral part of her research as an artist. To teach art is to phrase what is otherwise left unsaid in the artist's work. While Sophie searches for what art can express that words cannot, phrasing this research and transmitting it becomes a growing experience for her and her students. This social commitment fuels Sophie's identity as an artist, allowing her to be recognised as an artist in the dialogues between teacher and student, painter and audience.
Sophie Levygaley Blue 1 Ice Water Acrylic and Ink on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About As an abstract expressionist painter, Sophie's work is defined by a parallel exploration of creativity and colour, capturing the moment of inspiration on canvas. Her study of the process of creation stretches through decades and a change from acrylic to oil paints. Every canvas illustrates this relentless research in technique and mindfulness, articulating the relation between inner and outer landscapes into a meaningful conversation. Sophie Levygaley was born in France. Early on in her education she pursued the arts, culminating in a Master's degree from ESAG Penninghen, where she also won the Saturday Designer competition and composed her first paintings. In the following years, she held creative positions at Yves Saint Laurent and Nina Ricci as she refined her style. Sophie's artistic achievements have been recognised in her appearance at The Other Art Fair presented by Saatchi Art in London, as well as multiple exhibitions in the Philippines, France and the United Kingdom. Her community involvement as an art teacher has helped foster creative potential in developing artists since 2000. She continued this work by founding and leading LevygaleyStudio in 2009. Inspired by the Federal Arts Project of the 20th century USA, Sophie's work as a teacher is an integral part of her research as an artist. To teach art is to phrase what is otherwise left unsaid in the artist's work. While Sophie searches for what art can express that words cannot, phrasing this research and transmitting it becomes a growing experience for her and her students. This social commitment fuels Sophie's identity as an artist, allowing her to be recognised as an artist in the dialogues between teacher and student, painter and audience.
Sophie Levygaley Blue 2 Deep Water Acrylic and Ink on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About As an abstract expressionist painter, Sophie's work is defined by a parallel exploration of creativity and colour, capturing the moment of inspiration on canvas. Her study of the process of creation stretches through decades and a change from acrylic to oil paints. Every canvas illustrates this relentless research in technique and mindfulness, articulating the relation between inner and outer landscapes into a meaningful conversation. Sophie Levygaley was born in France. Early on in her education she pursued the arts, culminating in a Master's degree from ESAG Penninghen, where she also won the Saturday Designer competition and composed her first paintings. In the following years, she held creative positions at Yves Saint Laurent and Nina Ricci as she refined her style. Sophie's artistic achievements have been recognised in her appearance at The Other Art Fair presented by Saatchi Art in London, as well as multiple exhibitions in the Philippines, France and the United Kingdom. Her community involvement as an art teacher has helped foster creative potential in developing artists since 2000. She continued this work by founding and leading LevygaleyStudio in 2009. Inspired by the Federal Arts Project of the 20th century USA, Sophie's work as a teacher is an integral part of her research as an artist. To teach art is to phrase what is otherwise left unsaid in the artist's work. While Sophie searches for what art can express that words cannot, phrasing this research and transmitting it becomes a growing experience for her and her students. This social commitment fuels Sophie's identity as an artist, allowing her to be recognised as an artist in the dialogues between teacher and student, painter and audience.
Johanne8 Snowy Shoe Acrylic and Posca Painting on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Born in Lyon in 1974, Johanne 8 now lives and works in Sceaux. She has exhibited her paintings and sculptures since 2008 in recognized galleries. Johanne 8 imagines bright and colorful paintings in her studio that all tell a story. Her history. Recognised and chosen by big names in fashion - Paul&Joe, Karl Lagerfeld (Chanel) and Olivier Rousteing (Balmain) - and French gastronomy - the three-starred chef Anne-Sophie Pic -, Johanne 8 continues to evolve and renew her work. In her paintings you will undoubtedly find references to those who have always inspired her - Basquiat, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Erro or Julio Le Parc. Her work is also inspired by is also the Pulp, the comics of the 50s, as well as international news and major social issues. As for the number 8 attached to her first name, it is the day of birth of her son Mattia, a lucky charm.
Johanne8 Snow Life Acrylic and Posca Painting on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Born in Lyon in 1974, Johanne 8 now lives and works in Sceaux. She has exhibited her paintings and sculptures since 2008 in recognized galleries. Johanne 8 imagines bright and colorful paintings in her studio that all tell a story. Her history. Recognised and chosen by big names in fashion - Paul&Joe, Karl Lagerfeld (Chanel) and Olivier Rousteing (Balmain) - and French gastronomy - the three-starred chef Anne-Sophie Pic -, Johanne 8 continues to evolve and renew her work. In her paintings you will undoubtedly find references to those who have always inspired her - Basquiat, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Erro or Julio Le Parc. Her work is also inspired by is also the Pulp, the comics of the 50s, as well as international news and major social issues. As for the number 8 attached to her first name, it is the day of birth of her son Mattia, a lucky charm.
Hermione Carline Outside In Ink and Wash on Paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Hermione Carline is a London-based English multimedia artist and oil painter inspired by abstraction, architecture and the natural world. Hermione's paintings are strong yet delicate and are imbued with an intriguing sense of ambiguity. Hermione was born into a family of artists, many of whom are represented in public collections across the UK including Tate Britain. She studied Fine Art at Camberwell School of Art followed by an MA in Textile Design at the Royal College of Art. Hermione co-founded an international textile company, The Collection, where she sold her designs to leading fashion houses including Pierre Cardin, Christian Dior and Ralph Lauren. After working and travelling for 15 years with The Collection, Hermione returned to painting in 2004; though her love of fabric, intricate paper cut stencils and design shines on through her work. Education Hermione studied Fine Art at Camberwell School of Art followed by an MA in Textile Design at the Royal College of Art. Select Exhibitions/Awards Recent collaborations have included projects with the Mayo Clinic, Claridge's Hotel and Visto Images. She has exhibited with Gallery Elena Shchukina in Mayfair, The Other Art Fair and the Affordable Art Fair with Mint Art Gallery. Her work can be found in private collections in the UK and overseas. Gallery Representation Mint Art Gallery Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork In my recent drawings, Kyoto Dawn and Outside In, I have been revisiting some of the seminal moments from my first visit to Japan in 2013. I have never forgotten waking up at dawn as light filtered through the Shoji screens in our ryokan. The simple interior forming a beautiful silhouette against the rising light seen against the paper screens and the outside space. Exploring themes of light and shadow, translucence and opacity through my paintings and drawings, I aim to imbue my work with an immersive and atmospheric quality, creating pieces that are often abstracted but firmly rooted in the material world.
Ella Devi Dabysing The Lingerie of Liberation Series I Digital Drawing on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) Education BA FINE ART & ART HISTORY - MANCHESTER SCHOOL OF ART ART FOUNDATION DIPLOMA - KINGSTON SCHOOL OF ART Select Exhibitions/Awards 2021 | Named Space - Grateful for Co Ve, Mar House 2021 | KingDom - The Feathers of Deadalus Circus @Art Hub Studios 2020 | Virtual Exhibition - The Little Pink Gallery 2020 | ATA RODO LONDON @Deptford does Art 2019 | Woke Women London - Her Truth @EartH 2019 | City of Secrets, Bristol @Liberty House 2019 | NASTY WOMEN, Portugal @Galeria Monumental 2019 | The Primary Movement - The Divine Feminine @Georgia State University 2018 | Manchester Artist Collective - Under One Roof @Sandbar 2018 | Inkbigstudent - Voices without Limits @Mile End 2018 | Tech Your Time @BBB, London 2018 | Mania - Simple Life @AATMA 2018 | J Luna - First Showcase @The Crypt Gallery 2017 | L Southgate - Between @Kosmonaut 2017 | Final Year Degree Show @Manchester School of Art 2017 | Three & A Half Indians Collective @Revolution, Manchester 2016 | Course Fundraiser @Manchester School of Art 2016 | Second Year Show @Manchester School of Art 2015 | First Year Show @Manchester School of Art Gallery Representation TRiCERA Artist Support Iamfy Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Ella's current practice looks into portraying women in an abstract, natural and contemporary light. By reverting away from preconceived conceptions that we have been led to believe throughout art history; her work takes a sincere and revised approach to capturing what is real. Through various life drawing sessions, conversations, drawing studies and readings, she has adapted a style that taps into drawing from these women's interior rather than exterior in an abstract way. Everything about Ella's work goes against the norm and traditional standards, making the viewer question the constructs that women face and why they haven't been able to be seen in a truer light such as this. Ella has created an intimate, and playful series for Art on a Postcard's International Women's Day Auction; these women are dressed in 'delicate' lingerie, but stand strong because they are a force to be reckoned with.
Ella Devi Dabysing The Lingerie of Liberation Series II Digital Drawing on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) Education BA FINE ART & ART HISTORY - MANCHESTER SCHOOL OF ART ART FOUNDATION DIPLOMA - KINGSTON SCHOOL OF ART Select Exhibitions/Awards 2021 | Named Space - Grateful for Co Ve, Mar House 2021 | KingDom - The Feathers of Deadalus Circus @Art Hub Studios 2020 | Virtual Exhibition - The Little Pink Gallery 2020 | ATA RODO LONDON @Deptford does Art 2019 | Woke Women London - Her Truth @EartH 2019 | City of Secrets, Bristol @Liberty House 2019 | NASTY WOMEN, Portugal @Galeria Monumental 2019 | The Primary Movement - The Divine Feminine @Georgia State University 2018 | Manchester Artist Collective - Under One Roof @Sandbar 2018 | Inkbigstudent - Voices without Limits @Mile End 2018 | Tech Your Time @BBB, London 2018 | Mania - Simple Life @AATMA 2018 | J Luna - First Showcase @The Crypt Gallery 2017 | L Southgate - Between @Kosmonaut 2017 | Final Year Degree Show @Manchester School of Art 2017 | Three & A Half Indians Collective @Revolution, Manchester 2016 | Course Fundraiser @Manchester School of Art 2016 | Second Year Show @Manchester School of Art 2015 | First Year Show @Manchester School of Art Gallery Representation TRiCERA Artist Support Iamfy Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Ella's current practice looks into portraying women in an abstract, natural and contemporary light. By reverting away from preconceived conceptions that we have been led to believe throughout art history; her work takes a sincere and revised approach to capturing what is real. Through various life drawing sessions, conversations, drawing studies and readings, she has adapted a style that taps into drawing from these women's interior rather than exterior in an abstract way. Everything about Ella's work goes against the norm and traditional standards, making the viewer question the constructs that women face and why they haven't been able to be seen in a truer light such as this. Ella has created an intimate, and playful series for Art on a Postcard's International Women's Day Auction; these women are dressed in 'delicate' lingerie, but stand strong because they are a force to be reckoned with.
Ella Devi Dabysing The Lingerie of Liberation Series III Digital Drawing on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) Education BA FINE ART & ART HISTORY - MANCHESTER SCHOOL OF ART ART FOUNDATION DIPLOMA - KINGSTON SCHOOL OF ART Select Exhibitions/Awards 2021 | Named Space - Grateful for Co Ve, Mar House 2021 | KingDom - The Feathers of Deadalus Circus @Art Hub Studios 2020 | Virtual Exhibition - The Little Pink Gallery 2020 | ATA RODO LONDON @Deptford does Art 2019 | Woke Women London - Her Truth @EartH 2019 | City of Secrets, Bristol @Liberty House 2019 | NASTY WOMEN, Portugal @Galeria Monumental 2019 | The Primary Movement - The Divine Feminine @Georgia State University 2018 | Manchester Artist Collective - Under One Roof @Sandbar 2018 | Inkbigstudent - Voices without Limits @Mile End 2018 | Tech Your Time @BBB, London 2018 | Mania - Simple Life @AATMA 2018 | J Luna - First Showcase @The Crypt Gallery 2017 | L Southgate - Between @Kosmonaut 2017 | Final Year Degree Show @Manchester School of Art 2017 | Three & A Half Indians Collective @Revolution, Manchester 2016 | Course Fundraiser @Manchester School of Art 2016 | Second Year Show @Manchester School of Art 2015 | First Year Show @Manchester School of Art Gallery Representation TRiCERA Artist Support Iamfy Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Ella's current practice looks into portraying women in an abstract, natural and contemporary light. By reverting away from preconceived conceptions that we have been led to believe throughout art history; her work takes a sincere and revised approach to capturing what is real. Through various life drawing sessions, conversations, drawing studies and readings, she has adapted a style that taps into drawing from these women's interior rather than exterior in an abstract way. Everything about Ella's work goes against the norm and traditional standards, making the viewer question the constructs that women face and why they haven't been able to be seen in a truer light such as this. Ella has created an intimate, and playful series for Art on a Postcard's International Women's Day Auction; these women are dressed in 'delicate' lingerie, but stand strong because they are a force to be reckoned with.
Ella Devi Dabysing The Lingerie of Liberation Series IV Digital Drawing on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) Education BA FINE ART & ART HISTORY - MANCHESTER SCHOOL OF ART ART FOUNDATION DIPLOMA - KINGSTON SCHOOL OF ART Select Exhibitions/Awards 2021 | Named Space - Grateful for Co Ve, Mar House 2021 | KingDom - The Feathers of Deadalus Circus @Art Hub Studios 2020 | Virtual Exhibition - The Little Pink Gallery 2020 | ATA RODO LONDON @Deptford does Art 2019 | Woke Women London - Her Truth @EartH 2019 | City of Secrets, Bristol @Liberty House 2019 | NASTY WOMEN, Portugal @Galeria Monumental 2019 | The Primary Movement - The Divine Feminine @Georgia State University 2018 | Manchester Artist Collective - Under One Roof @Sandbar 2018 | Inkbigstudent - Voices without Limits @Mile End 2018 | Tech Your Time @BBB, London 2018 | Mania - Simple Life @AATMA 2018 | J Luna - First Showcase @The Crypt Gallery 2017 | L Southgate - Between @Kosmonaut 2017 | Final Year Degree Show @Manchester School of Art 2017 | Three & A Half Indians Collective @Revolution, Manchester 2016 | Course Fundraiser @Manchester School of Art 2016 | Second Year Show @Manchester School of Art 2015 | First Year Show @Manchester School of Art Gallery Representation TRiCERA Artist Support Iamfy Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Ella's current practice looks into portraying women in an abstract, natural and contemporary light. By reverting away from preconceived conceptions that we have been led to believe throughout art history; her work takes a sincere and revised approach to capturing what is real. Through various life drawing sessions, conversations, drawing studies and readings, she has adapted a style that taps into drawing from these women's interior rather than exterior in an abstract way. Everything about Ella's work goes against the norm and traditional standards, making the viewer question the constructs that women face and why they haven't been able to be seen in a truer light such as this. Ella has created an intimate, and playful series for Art on a Postcard's International Women's Day Auction; these women are dressed in 'delicate' lingerie, but stand strong because they are a force to be reckoned with.
Mekia Machine Open Fly w/ Red Hot Nails Acrylic, Gouache and Flashe on Paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Mekia Machine is a multidisciplinary artist and music composer. She was born in Jamaica, migrated to the US as a child with her family, and grew up in Queens, NY. Her art investigates the aesthetic and societal norms through conceptions of time, identity, the senses, memory, and place, specifically in cultures where loss is a substantial part of daily life, and addresses the lived experience of conflict and trauma. Mekia's prolific creative practice, which spans music, painting, drawing and sculpture, is all part of a search for what she calls the 'real real' - the innate essence of a person. But she is also searching for herself, creating the affirmational artworks that she as a Black woman longed for as a young girl; a recognition and celebration of the abundant and heterogenous beauty that is Blackness. "I paint Black bodies and the essence of the Black figure, bold, abstracted, vulnerable, soft, positioned in spaces that are colourful, vibrant and lively." Education Mekia graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Visual Arts (2019) Select Exhibitions/Awards Mekia was one of the winners of This Art is Your Art, 2016 with Artsy, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and the White House Historical Association, for her short film on painting artist Alma Thomas's portrait which was part of a 4-month installation and she was invited to join First Lady Michelle Obama at the Celebration of 20th Century Art in the White House. Additionally, she was awarded the fully funded Liquitex | Just Imagine Residency in 2021. Gallery Representation Smithson Gallery Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork "Inspired by photos I've taken of friends, these paintings are postcard versions of larger paintings. Portraiture of dualism, how the body serves to communicate the self, the feminine and masculine. I'm thinking of the Dogan people's creation mythology of male/female, of psychoanalyst's Carl Jung notion of femininity the "anima/animus" and the structure of our biological existence, XY chromosomes. How the body is presented defines the self, but as we tend to hide as much as we express, and being far more interested in painting the self, these portraits attempt to present femininity-masculine, playful and vibrant, what's presented to the world as well as alluding to something hidden."
Mekia Machine Red Lips Yellow Sash w/ Polkdots Acrylic, Gouache and Flashe on Paper Signed 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Mekia Machine is a multidisciplinary artist and music composer. She was born in Jamaica, migrated to the US as a child with her family, and grew up in Queens, NY. Her art investigates the aesthetic and societal norms through conceptions of time, identity, the senses, memory, and place, specifically in cultures where loss is a substantial part of daily life, and addresses the lived experience of conflict and trauma. Mekia's prolific creative practice, which spans music, painting, drawing and sculpture, is all part of a search for what she calls the 'real real' - the innate essence of a person. But she is also searching for herself, creating the affirmational artworks that she as a Black woman longed for as a young girl; a recognition and celebration of the abundant and heterogenous beauty that is Blackness. "I paint Black bodies and the essence of the Black figure, bold, abstracted, vulnerable, soft, positioned in spaces that are colourful, vibrant and lively." Education Mekia graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Visual Arts (2019) Select Exhibitions/Awards Mekia was one of the winners of This Art is Your Art, 2016 with Artsy, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and the White House Historical Association, for her short film on painting artist Alma Thomas's portrait which was part of a 4-month installation and she was invited to join First Lady Michelle Obama at the Celebration of 20th Century Art in the White House. Additionally, she was awarded the fully funded Liquitex | Just Imagine Residency in 2021. Gallery Representation Smithson Gallery Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork "Inspired by photos I've taken of friends, these paintings are postcard versions of larger paintings. Portraiture of dualism, how the body serves to communicate the self, the feminine and masculine. I'm thinking of the Dogan people's creation mythology of male/female, of psychoanalyst's Carl Jung notion of femininity the "anima/animus" and the structure of our biological existence, XY chromosomes. How the body is presented defines the self, but as we tend to hide as much as we express, and being far more interested in painting the self, these portraits attempt to present femininity-masculine, playful and vibrant, what's presented to the world as well as alluding to something hidden."
Mekia Machine Top Red Hot Pink Nails Acrylic, Gouache and Flashe on Paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Mekia Machine is a multidisciplinary artist and music composer. She was born in Jamaica, migrated to the US as a child with her family, and grew up in Queens, NY. Her art investigates the aesthetic and societal norms through conceptions of time, identity, the senses, memory, and place, specifically in cultures where loss is a substantial part of daily life, and addresses the lived experience of conflict and trauma. Mekia's prolific creative practice, which spans music, painting, drawing and sculpture, is all part of a search for what she calls the 'real real' - the innate essence of a person. But she is also searching for herself, creating the affirmational artworks that she as a Black woman longed for as a young girl; a recognition and celebration of the abundant and heterogenous beauty that is Blackness. "I paint Black bodies and the essence of the Black figure, bold, abstracted, vulnerable, soft, positioned in spaces that are colourful, vibrant and lively." Education Mekia graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Visual Arts (2019) Select Exhibitions/Awards Mekia was one of the winners of This Art is Your Art, 2016 with Artsy, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and the White House Historical Association, for her short film on painting artist Alma Thomas's portrait which was part of a 4-month installation and she was invited to join First Lady Michelle Obama at the Celebration of 20th Century Art in the White House. Additionally, she was awarded the fully funded Liquitex | Just Imagine Residency in 2021. Gallery Representation Smithson Gallery Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork "Inspired by photos I've taken of friends, these paintings are postcard versions of larger paintings. Portraiture of dualism, how the body serves to communicate the self, the feminine and masculine. I'm thinking of the Dogan people's creation mythology of male/female, of psychoanalyst's Carl Jung notion of femininity the "anima/animus" and the structure of our biological existence, XY chromosomes. How the body is presented defines the self, but as we tend to hide as much as we express, and being far more interested in painting the self, these portraits attempt to present femininity-masculine, playful and vibrant, what's presented to the world as well as alluding to something hidden."
Chitra P Merchant Devakad - Noesis (Sacred Grove) Drawing, Painting and Screenprint on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Chitra Parvathy Merchant grew up in India and currently works as an artist in Bristol, U.K. After completing a B.A Degree in Psychology, she left India to work for a year in an artist's studio in West Africa. She came to England in the early nineties and completed a B.A (Hons) Degree in Illustration from U.W.E Bristol ('98) where she was first introduced to printmaking. In 2001 she based herself at Spike Print Studio where she prints, exhibits and works to commission on a regular basis. Education 2005: PGCE, UWE, Bristol, U.K 1999: Post Extn Studies in Illustration, UWE, Bristol, U.K 1998: BA Hons Illustration, UWE, Bristol, U.K 1995: Foundation Studies in Art and Design, Leeds, U.K 1993: BA Psychology, Bangalore, India Select Exhibitions/Awards 2021: Upcoming show at Candida Stevens Fine Art, Sussex 2020: Royal Academy Summer / Winter Show, London 2019: Solo show at Hidden Gallery, Bristol 2018: Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London 2018: Art Rooms Fair 2017: 'Good Nature', Candida Stevens Fine Art, Chichester, UK 2017: Brighton Print Fair, UK 2017: SKETCH 2017, Rabley Drawing Centre, Marlborough, U 2017: 'Drawn', RWA Bristol 2016: NEO: Print Prize 201 2016: 'ICON', Candida Stevens Fine Art 2016: 'The Story in Art', Candida Stevens Fine Art 2016: Small Print International, Leicester Print Studio 2015: 'Pressing Identities' West Yorkshire Print Studio 2015: 'In The Studio' Videoed by the Royal Academy of Arts 2015: 'Encre 39 / 93' Atelier aux Lilas, Paris 2014: Royal Academy Art, Painter / Printmakers show 2014: AAF Battersea, London 2014: 'Multiplied', Christies, London 2014: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London 2013: AAF Battersea, London 2013: 'Multiplied', Christies, London 2013: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London 2013: BV Open Studios, Bristol 2013: Prema, Performing Arts Space, Gloucester 2012: Winter Show, Rostra, Bath 2012: AAF, Battersea, London 2012: 'BITE' Artists Making Prints, Mall Galleries, London 2012: Bristol Affordable Art Fair 2012: May Open Studios, Spike Island, Bristol 2012: London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy, London 2012: Group Show; Victoria Art Gallery and Museum, Bath 2011: Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London 2011: 'BITE' Artists Making Prints, Mall Galleries, London 2011: Small Print Big Impression, U.K 2011: Affordable Art Fair, Bristol, U.K 2011: May Open at SPS 2010: Group Show at the Create Centre, Bristol 2010: Invited Artist at SNAP Gallery Bristol 2010: R.A Summer Exhibition 2009: IMPACT '09 2009: RWA Open Print, Bristol, U.K 2009: Solo show at BIYC Bristol, U.K 2009: May Open at Spike Print Studio, Bristol, U.K 2009: IMPRESS, GPC, Stroud, U.K 2008: S, M,L,XL, Spike Print Studio, U.K 2008: Solo show at Room 212, Bristol, U.K 2008: Group Show at RUH, Bath, U.K 2007: BABE, Arnolfini, Bristol, U.K 2007: Spike Print, Spyglass, Bristol 2006: Spike Print, Paintworks, Bristol 2005: Solo show at Bristol Old Vic 2004: May Open, Spike Print, U.K 2003: Christmas Show at Spike Print Studio, U.K 2002: May Open, Spike Print, U.K 2002: Christmas Show at Spike Print Studio, U.K 2000: Group Show at Centre Space Gallery, Bristol, U.K 1998: Degree Show at Angel Islington art Gallery, London
Chitra P Merchant Devakad - Rememberance Drawing, Painting, Screenprint and Pyrograph on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Chitra Parvathy Merchant grew up in India and currently works as an artist in Bristol, U.K. After completing a B.A Degree in Psychology, she left India to work for a year in an artist's studio in West Africa. She came to England in the early nineties and completed a B.A (Hons) Degree in Illustration from U.W.E Bristol ('98) where she was first introduced to printmaking. In 2001 she based herself at Spike Print Studio where she prints, exhibits and works to commission on a regular basis. Education 2005: PGCE, UWE, Bristol, U.K 1999: Post Extn Studies in Illustration, UWE, Bristol, U.K 1998: BA Hons Illustration, UWE, Bristol, U.K 1995: Foundation Studies in Art and Design, Leeds, U.K 1993: BA Psychology, Bangalore, India Select Exhibitions/Awards 2021: Upcoming show at Candida Stevens Fine Art, Sussex 2020: Royal Academy Summer / Winter Show, London 2019: Solo show at Hidden Gallery, Bristol 2018: Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London 2018: Art Rooms Fair 2017: 'Good Nature', Candida Stevens Fine Art, Chichester, UK 2017: Brighton Print Fair, UK 2017: SKETCH 2017, Rabley Drawing Centre, Marlborough, U 2017: 'Drawn', RWA Bristol 2016: NEO: Print Prize 201 2016: 'ICON', Candida Stevens Fine Art 2016: 'The Story in Art', Candida Stevens Fine Art 2016: Small Print International, Leicester Print Studio 2015: 'Pressing Identities' West Yorkshire Print Studio 2015: 'In The Studio' Videoed by the Royal Academy of Arts 2015: 'Encre 39 / 93' Atelier aux Lilas, Paris 2014: Royal Academy Art, Painter / Printmakers show 2014: AAF Battersea, London 2014: 'Multiplied', Christies, London 2014: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London 2013: AAF Battersea, London 2013: 'Multiplied', Christies, London 2013: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London 2013: BV Open Studios, Bristol 2013: Prema, Performing Arts Space, Gloucester 2012: Winter Show, Rostra, Bath 2012: AAF, Battersea, London 2012: 'BITE' Artists Making Prints, Mall Galleries, London 2012: Bristol Affordable Art Fair 2012: May Open Studios, Spike Island, Bristol 2012: London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy, London 2012: Group Show; Victoria Art Gallery and Museum, Bath 2011: Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London 2011: 'BITE' Artists Making Prints, Mall Galleries, London 2011: Small Print Big Impression, U.K 2011: Affordable Art Fair, Bristol, U.K 2011: May Open at SPS 2010: Group Show at the Create Centre, Bristol 2010: Invited Artist at SNAP Gallery Bristol 2010: R.A Summer Exhibition 2009: IMPACT '09 2009: RWA Open Print, Bristol, U.K 2009: Solo show at BIYC Bristol, U.K 2009: May Open at Spike Print Studio, Bristol, U.K 2009: IMPRESS, GPC, Stroud, U.K 2008: S, M,L,XL, Spike Print Studio, U.K 2008: Solo show at Room 212, Bristol, U.K 2008: Group Show at RUH, Bath, U.K 2007: BABE, Arnolfini, Bristol, U.K 2007: Spike Print, Spyglass, Bristol 2006: Spike Print, Paintworks, Bristol 2005: Solo show at Bristol Old Vic 2004: May Open, Spike Print, U.K 2003: Christmas Show at Spike Print Studio, U.K 2002: May Open, Spike Print, U.K 2002: Christmas Show at Spike Print Studio, U.K 2000: Group Show at Centre Space Gallery, Bristol, U.K 1998: Degree Show at Angel Islington art Gallery, London
Chitra P Merchant Devakad - Lumen (Sacred Grove) Drawing, Painting and Screenprint on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Chitra Parvathy Merchant grew up in India and currently works as an artist in Bristol, U.K. After completing a B.A Degree in Psychology, she left India to work for a year in an artist's studio in West Africa. She came to England in the early nineties and completed a B.A (Hons) Degree in Illustration from U.W.E Bristol ('98) where she was first introduced to printmaking. In 2001 she based herself at Spike Print Studio where she prints, exhibits and works to commission on a regular basis. Education 2005: PGCE, UWE, Bristol, U.K 1999: Post Extn Studies in Illustration, UWE, Bristol, U.K 1998: BA Hons Illustration, UWE, Bristol, U.K 1995: Foundation Studies in Art and Design, Leeds, U.K 1993: BA Psychology, Bangalore, India Select Exhibitions/Awards 2021: Upcoming show at Candida Stevens Fine Art, Sussex 2020: Royal Academy Summer / Winter Show, London 2019: Solo show at Hidden Gallery, Bristol 2018: Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London 2018: Art Rooms Fair 2017: 'Good Nature', Candida Stevens Fine Art, Chichester, UK 2017: Brighton Print Fair, UK 2017: SKETCH 2017, Rabley Drawing Centre, Marlborough, U 2017: 'Drawn', RWA Bristol 2016: NEO: Print Prize 201 2016: 'ICON', Candida Stevens Fine Art 2016: 'The Story in Art', Candida Stevens Fine Art 2016: Small Print International, Leicester Print Studio 2015: 'Pressing Identities' West Yorkshire Print Studio 2015: 'In The Studio' Videoed by the Royal Academy of Arts 2015: 'Encre 39 / 93' Atelier aux Lilas, Paris 2014: Royal Academy Art, Painter / Printmakers show 2014: AAF Battersea, London 2014: 'Multiplied', Christies, London 2014: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London 2013: AAF Battersea, London 2013: 'Multiplied', Christies, London 2013: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London 2013: BV Open Studios, Bristol 2013: Prema, Performing Arts Space, Gloucester 2012: Winter Show, Rostra, Bath 2012: AAF, Battersea, London 2012: 'BITE' Artists Making Prints, Mall Galleries, London 2012: Bristol Affordable Art Fair 2012: May Open Studios, Spike Island, Bristol 2012: London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy, London 2012: Group Show; Victoria Art Gallery and Museum, Bath 2011: Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London 2011: 'BITE' Artists Making Prints, Mall Galleries, London 2011: Small Print Big Impression, U.K 2011: Affordable Art Fair, Bristol, U.K 2011: May Open at SPS 2010: Group Show at the Create Centre, Bristol 2010: Invited Artist at SNAP Gallery Bristol 2010: R.A Summer Exhibition 2009: IMPACT '09 2009: RWA Open Print, Bristol, U.K 2009: Solo show at BIYC Bristol, U.K 2009: May Open at Spike Print Studio, Bristol, U.K 2009: IMPRESS, GPC, Stroud, U.K 2008: S, M,L,XL, Spike Print Studio, U.K 2008: Solo show at Room 212, Bristol, U.K 2008: Group Show at RUH, Bath, U.K 2007: BABE, Arnolfini, Bristol, U.K 2007: Spike Print, Spyglass, Bristol 2006: Spike Print, Paintworks, Bristol 2005: Solo show at Bristol Old Vic 2004: May Open, Spike Print, U.K 2003: Christmas Show at Spike Print Studio, U.K 2002: May Open, Spike Print, U.K 2002: Christmas Show at Spike Print Studio, U.K 2000: Group Show at Centre Space Gallery, Bristol, U.K 1998: Degree Show at Angel Islington art Gallery, London
Chitra P Merchant Devakad - Liminal II Drawing, Painting and Screenprint on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Chitra Parvathy Merchant grew up in India and currently works as an artist in Bristol, U.K. After completing a B.A Degree in Psychology, she left India to work for a year in an artist's studio in West Africa. She came to England in the early nineties and completed a B.A (Hons) Degree in Illustration from U.W.E Bristol ('98) where she was first introduced to printmaking. In 2001 she based herself at Spike Print Studio where she prints, exhibits and works to commission on a regular basis. Education 2005: PGCE, UWE, Bristol, U.K 1999: Post Extn Studies in Illustration, UWE, Bristol, U.K 1998: BA Hons Illustration, UWE, Bristol, U.K 1995: Foundation Studies in Art and Design, Leeds, U.K 1993: BA Psychology, Bangalore, India Select Exhibitions/Awards 2021: Upcoming show at Candida Stevens Fine Art, Sussex 2020: Royal Academy Summer / Winter Show, London 2019: Solo show at Hidden Gallery, Bristol 2018: Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London 2018: Art Rooms Fair 2017: 'Good Nature', Candida Stevens Fine Art, Chichester, UK 2017: Brighton Print Fair, UK 2017: SKETCH 2017, Rabley Drawing Centre, Marlborough, U 2017: 'Drawn', RWA Bristol 2016: NEO: Print Prize 201 2016: 'ICON', Candida Stevens Fine Art 2016: 'The Story in Art', Candida Stevens Fine Art 2016: Small Print International, Leicester Print Studio 2015: 'Pressing Identities' West Yorkshire Print Studio 2015: 'In The Studio' Videoed by the Royal Academy of Arts 2015: 'Encre 39 / 93' Atelier aux Lilas, Paris 2014: Royal Academy Art, Painter / Printmakers show 2014: AAF Battersea, London 2014: 'Multiplied', Christies, London 2014: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London 2013: AAF Battersea, London 2013: 'Multiplied', Christies, London 2013: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London 2013: BV Open Studios, Bristol 2013: Prema, Performing Arts Space, Gloucester 2012: Winter Show, Rostra, Bath 2012: AAF, Battersea, London 2012: 'BITE' Artists Making Prints, Mall Galleries, London 2012: Bristol Affordable Art Fair 2012: May Open Studios, Spike Island, Bristol 2012: London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy, London 2012: Group Show; Victoria Art Gallery and Museum, Bath 2011: Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London 2011: 'BITE' Artists Making Prints, Mall Galleries, London 2011: Small Print Big Impression, U.K 2011: Affordable Art Fair, Bristol, U.K 2011: May Open at SPS 2010: Group Show at the Create Centre, Bristol 2010: Invited Artist at SNAP Gallery Bristol 2010: R.A Summer Exhibition 2009: IMPACT '09 2009: RWA Open Print, Bristol, U.K 2009: Solo show at BIYC Bristol, U.K 2009: May Open at Spike Print Studio, Bristol, U.K 2009: IMPRESS, GPC, Stroud, U.K 2008: S, M,L,XL, Spike Print Studio, U.K 2008: Solo show at Room 212, Bristol, U.K 2008: Group Show at RUH, Bath, U.K 2007: BABE, Arnolfini, Bristol, U.K 2007: Spike Print, Spyglass, Bristol 2006: Spike Print, Paintworks, Bristol 2005: Solo show at Bristol Old Vic 2004: May Open, Spike Print, U.K 2003: Christmas Show at Spike Print Studio, U.K 2002: May Open, Spike Print, U.K 2002: Christmas Show at Spike Print Studio, U.K 2000: Group Show at Centre Space Gallery, Bristol, U.K 1998: Degree Show at Angel Islington art Gallery, London
Gabrielle Rul A Window to Escape Watercolour and China Ink on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Gabrielle Rul is a French artist living in Paris. Her work is imprinted with poetry and a subtle touch of melancholia, at the border of dreams and reality. Education She studied fashion design and then started modelling which took her all over the world. During these trips she built her artistic universe as a response to the loneliness she was meeting on the road. Select Exhibitions/Awards Otium Cafe Decoration (2020) Fresco for Women's Day, Le Pavillon des Canaux (2020) Fresco for L'Exception, a concept store in Paris (2020) Fresco for Origines Restaurant and Crozes Hermitage (2021) Duo show "+" with Etienne Quesnay in Paris (2021) L'officiel, Spain Le Bonbon Papier Crayon Interview for Konbini (2021) Artlife in Moscow (2021) Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork The artwork I created for AOAP are representative of the need to communicate on paper in an era where digital comes first. It also represents the desire to escape our places or offer a bit of the place we stand when we write postcards.
Katherine Bernhardt Pikachu V Max Acrylic on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Bernhardt's boundless visual appetite has established her as one of the most energetic painters working today. She first attracted notice in the early 2000s for her paintings of supermodels taken straight from the pages of fashion magazines such as Elle and Vogue. In the decade following, she began making pattern paintings that feature an ever-expanding list of quotidian motifs. Tacos, coffee makers, toilet paper, cigarettes, E.T., Garfield, Darth Vader, and the Pink Panther make unlikely visual combinations within expansive fields of exuberant color. She takes pleasure in variety, and fully investigates each of her obsessions before moving to another. Bernhardt's trust in the fundamental underpinnings of painting gives her the freedom to depict anything she wants, and the democratizing surfaces of her canvases work without illusion, perspective, logical scale shifts, or atmosphere. With Bernhardt's blunt yet lyrical approach, each painting has the feel of a complete thought that engages the artist's rich and raucous free association. Through her index of images, from childhood sticker books to a ketchup bottle seen during travel, Bernhardt chronicles her life and the broader culture, synthesizing her visual material with hard-won ease. Her influences span from Henri Matisse and the Pattern and Decoration movement to Peter Doig and Chris Ofili. She is an artists' artist, admired by many contemporary peers working today as a singular voice in painting. In a palette that ranges from restrained to vivid Day-Glo, Bernhardt paints the canvases face up on her studio floor, employing spray paint, puddles of thinned-out acrylic, and utilitarian brushwork to emphasize aspects of her motifs. Bernhardt's process is improvisational and loose, at times inviting accident and chance into the works, as well as asserting an equal relationship between artist and material.
Gabrielle Rul Stories Come To Life Watercolour and China Ink on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Gabrielle Rul is a French artist living in Paris. Her work is imprinted with poetry and a subtle touch of melancholia, at the border of dreams and reality. Education She studied fashion design and then started modelling which took her all over the world. During these trips she built her artistic universe as a response to the loneliness she was meeting on the road. Select Exhibitions/Awards Otium Cafe Decoration (2020) Fresco for Women's Day, Le Pavillon des Canaux (2020) Fresco for L'Exception, a concept store in Paris (2020) Fresco for Origines Restaurant and Crozes Hermitage (2021) Duo show "+" with Etienne Quesnay in Paris (2021) L'officiel, Spain Le Bonbon Papier Crayon Interview for Konbini (2021) Artlife in Moscow (2021) Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork The artwork I created for AOAP are representative of the need to communicate on paper in an era where digital comes first. It also represents the desire to escape our places or offer a bit of the place we stand when we write postcards.
Shannon Bono I Am Here Acrylic, Spray Paint and Image Transfer on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Shannon Bono's (b. 1995, London) paintings embody an afrofemcentrist consciousness, sharing muted narratives and projecting the black women's lived experiences. She is invested in producing layered, figurative, compositions embedded with symbols and scientific metaphors that centralise black womanhood as a source of knowledge and understanding. Enamoured by African spiritually, Christian iconography and renaissance art she employs its purpose of cultural impact, liturgy and instruction for an improved society within her works. Shannon explores the internal body as well as the external, by merging the design of notable fabrics from Africa with biological structures and chemical processes in living organisms for the backgrounds of her works and using the anatomy as a second canvas in the foreground. She views the body as a powerful signifier that provokes dialogue, playing with pose, gesture and the gaze to challenge reality. Education Bono received her MA in Art and Science from Central Saint Martin's University (2019) and a Postgraduate Certificate in from University of the Arts London (2021). Select Exhibitions/Awards In 2021, Bono presented her first solo exhibition titled "The hands that hold you," at the Anderson Contemporary, London and she has been selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries award 2021 showing at Firstsite and The South London Gallery. Recent exhibitions include "Love is the Devil: Studies after Francis Bacon" presented at Marlborough Gallery (2022), "Bold Black British," presented at Christie's (2021), "Reclaiming Magic" Royal Academy Summer exhibition and 'WOP' Avant Arte x WOAW Gallery Hong Kong (2021-2022). Other notable exhibitions she has participated in include The Lee Alexander McQueen Sarabande Foundation, Workplace Gallery and the Copeland Gallery. Shannon has been featured in Dazed Magazine and online press by Elephant magazine, Wallpaper magazine, Bustle, i-D and Soho house. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork 'I AM HERE' was inspired by an inspirational and informative conversation I had with Julia the National female prison coordinator of the HepC trust. Julia shared with me the amazing and important work the trust are doing and emphasised the importance of reducing the stigma of HepC and aftercare for these women. I wanted the piece to speak to the strength of the women and their journeys those in prison and the women offering support working with the trust. The background design is based on the viral structure of Hep C and the hybrid female figure symbolises the strength of the women. I titled the piece after a poem I read in the I AM magazine which was created for the women in lockdown.
Sofia Echa Thinking Of You Mixed Media on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Sofia Echa was born in 1992 in Vladivostok, Russia and settled in New York City in 2013 to continue her pursuit of a career in art after she received a bachelor degree in Economics and Japanese studies at Federal University of Vladivostok, Russia. She graduated from the National Academy School in New York. Before that, Sofia studied fine arts in Art School in Vladivostok and in Cambridge School of Visual & Performing Arts, Cambridge, UK. Her works are in private collections in the United States and Russia. She is honored to have donated work to the 2015 National Academy Gala auction honoring National Academician, Eric Fischl, with a Lifetime Achievement Award, and to the Bailey House Auction in 2016, 2017, and 2020. In September 2015, she had her first solo show in the Center of Contemporary Art Sol' in Vladivostok, Russia, and in 2017 - the first solo show in New York (Sonia Gechtoff gallery, National Academy Museum and School). In September 2018 her work was auctioned off at the Phillips auction house in New York. Education BA in Japanese studies, Federal University of Vladivostok, Russia Cambridge School of Visual & Performing Arts, Cambridge, UK Studio Intensive Diploma Program, National Academy School, New York Select Exhibitions/Awards Solo Exhibitions 2018 Illusions of reflection, Oyster Bay Gallery, Oyster Bay, NY 2017 Traversing a Space, Sonia Gechtoff Gallery, National Academy Museum & School, New York, NY 2015 Fluidity, Sol' Center for Contemporary Art (Artetage Museum of Modern Art), Vladivostok, Russia Selected Group Exhibitions 2020 Spring pop-up show, Oakcliff Sailing Center, Oyster Bay, NY Bailey House auction, New York, NY 2019 Treat America Project, Foley Gallery, New York, NY Treat America project, Satellite Art show, The Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX Pop-in/Poppin, pop-up show,198 Allen St., New York, NY 2018 New Now, Phillips auction, New Nork, NY Friends of the border, The Border project space, Brooklyn NY LANDSCAPE: Representation of where we inhabit, Experimental Space gallery, Reis Studios, Queens, NY 2017 Memories of Our Town, Maritime Garage Gallery, Norwalk, CT Creative Mischief, National Academy Museum, New York, NY 2014 Year-End Exhibition Prize, National Academy School of Fine Arts Gallery Representation Arti NYC Gallery
Hannah Tilson Glimmer Homemade Paint on Watercolour Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Tilson is interested in the human form, pattern and colour. She makes intimate self-portraits composed of bright colours and vivid patterns, elevating ordinary objects and placing herself in a vibrating space filled with patterns. Tilson recently started making her own paint and camouflages herself in buzzing, fragmented spaces, viewing her body and the fabrics she is encompassed in as a landscape/pattern-scape. Education Hannah Tilson graduated with a Bachelors in Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2018, studied on exchange at the New York Studio School and recently finished a scholarship programme at the Royal Drawing School in London. Select Exhibitions/Awards Tilson was recently long-listed for the Ruth Borchard self portrait prize, 2021 and has previously exhibited at the Royal Academy, Guts Gallery, Bonhams, Christies, the Saatchi Gallery, The London Art Fair. She has recently had press coverage in Elephant Magazine. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork During the first lockdown I found myself away from my world that I was used to drawing/ making work in and had to seek inspiration from elsewhere. I ended up staging theatrical sets in my room, hanging patterned fabrics and lighting them. I would then dress myself up head to toe in patterned clothing and film myself moving around in the space. The clothing matches the background, allowing myself to camouflage as much into the surrounding patterned area. I then draw and work from these film stills. I am interested in how the figure camouflages into the scintillating surfaces of the patterned backgrounds. Allowing the shapes to vibrate together. By working from a film it allows me to capture the figure in motion as well as helping me find new compositions. These pattern portraits were made with my homemade watercolours.
Hannah Tilson Glide Homemade Paint on Watercolour Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Tilson is interested in the human form, pattern and colour. She makes intimate self-portraits composed of bright colours and vivid patterns, elevating ordinary objects and placing herself in a vibrating space filled with patterns. Tilson recently started making her own paint and camouflages herself in buzzing, fragmented spaces, viewing her body and the fabrics she is encompassed in as a landscape/pattern-scape. Education Hannah Tilson graduated with a Bachelors in Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2018, studied on exchange at the New York Studio School and recently finished a scholarship programme at the Royal Drawing School in London. Select Exhibitions/Awards Tilson was recently long-listed for the Ruth Borchard self portrait prize, 2021 and has previously exhibited at the Royal Academy, Guts Gallery, Bonhams, Christies, the Saatchi Gallery, The London Art Fair. She has recently had press coverage in Elephant Magazine. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork During the first lockdown I found myself away from my world that I was used to drawing/ making work in and had to seek inspiration from elsewhere. I ended up staging theatrical sets in my room, hanging patterned fabrics and lighting them. I would then dress myself up head to toe in patterned clothing and film myself moving around in the space. The clothing matches the background, allowing myself to camouflage as much into the surrounding patterned area. I then draw and work from these film stills. I am interested in how the figure camouflages into the scintillating surfaces of the patterned backgrounds. Allowing the shapes to vibrate together. By working from a film it allows me to capture the figure in motion as well as helping me find new compositions. These pattern portraits were made with my homemade watercolours.
Hannah Tilson Peep Homemade Paint on Watercolour Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Tilson is interested in the human form, pattern and colour. She makes intimate self-portraits composed of bright colours and vivid patterns, elevating ordinary objects and placing herself in a vibrating space filled with patterns. Tilson recently started making her own paint and camouflages herself in buzzing, fragmented spaces, viewing her body and the fabrics she is encompassed in as a landscape/pattern-scape. Education Hannah Tilson graduated with a Bachelors in Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2018, studied on exchange at the New York Studio School and recently finished a scholarship programme at the Royal Drawing School in London. Select Exhibitions/Awards Tilson was recently long-listed for the Ruth Borchard self portrait prize, 2021 and has previously exhibited at the Royal Academy, Guts Gallery, Bonhams, Christies, the Saatchi Gallery, The London Art Fair. She has recently had press coverage in Elephant Magazine. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork During the first lockdown I found myself away from my world that I was used to drawing/ making work in and had to seek inspiration from elsewhere. I ended up staging theatrical sets in my room, hanging patterned fabrics and lighting them. I would then dress myself up head to toe in patterned clothing and film myself moving around in the space. The clothing matches the background, allowing myself to camouflage as much into the surrounding patterned area. I then draw and work from these film stills. I am interested in how the figure camouflages into the scintillating surfaces of the patterned backgrounds. Allowing the shapes to vibrate together. By working from a film it allows me to capture the figure in motion as well as helping me find new compositions. These pattern portraits were made with my homemade watercolours.
Eleanor May Watson And Outside It's Winter I Watercolour on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Eleanor Watson is a visual artist working primarily in paint and print based between London and Kent. Creating images of home and domesticity in which to contemplate memory, longing, desire and belonging. Education 2018 - 2019 City and Guilds, MA Fine Art 2015 - 2016 The Royal Drawing School, the Drawing Year 2009 - 2012 Wimbledon College of Art; BA Fine Art Painting (First Class Honours) 2008 - 2009 Chelsea College of Art; Level 4 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design Select Exhibitions/Awards Selected Solo and Joint Exhibitions 2022 - Curtains Drawn, Wilder Gallery, London 2021 - Un | Veiled, two person show with Tanaka Mazivanhanga, curated by Mollie Barnes from She Curates and Lizzie Glendinning, Brocket Gallery, London 2017 - Dear Reader, Derby Museum and Art Gallery Selected Group Exhibitions 2021 - A Strange Kind of Knowing, Arusha Gallery, curated by Olivia Penrose Punnett This is Where We Meet, curated by Tim Patrick, Carousel Space, London 2019 - Tender with The Violet Hour 2018 - Art Basel Miami with Cynthia Corbett Gallery 2017 - Christie's, St. James' - Best of the Drawing Year at Christie's 2015 - Sluice Art Fair with Paper Gallery Simmons & Simmons, curated by Jonathan Sharples - Piercing the Veil Selected Awards 2021 - Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair Eames Fine Art Award 2019 - ACS City and Guilds of London Art School Studio Award 2019 - Slaughterhaus Print Prize 2016 - The Jonathan Vickers Fine Art Award - winner Gallery Representation Brocket London Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Warm, intimate, very personal depictions of small moments at home. In which to contemplate feelings of contentment, solace, desire, belonging. Overwhelmingly, gratitude.
Eleanor May Watson And Outside It's Winter II Watercolour on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Eleanor Watson is a visual artist working primarily in paint and print based between London and Kent. Creating images of home and domesticity in which to contemplate memory, longing, desire and belonging. Education 2018 - 2019 City and Guilds, MA Fine Art 2015 - 2016 The Royal Drawing School, the Drawing Year 2009 - 2012 Wimbledon College of Art; BA Fine Art Painting (First Class Honours) 2008 - 2009 Chelsea College of Art; Level 4 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design Select Exhibitions/Awards Selected Solo and Joint Exhibitions 2022 - Curtains Drawn, Wilder Gallery, London 2021 - Un | Veiled, two person show with Tanaka Mazivanhanga, curated by Mollie Barnes from She Curates and Lizzie Glendinning, Brocket Gallery, London 2017 - Dear Reader, Derby Museum and Art Gallery Selected Group Exhibitions 2021 - A Strange Kind of Knowing, Arusha Gallery, curated by Olivia Penrose Punnett This is Where We Meet, curated by Tim Patrick, Carousel Space, London 2019 - Tender with The Violet Hour 2018 - Art Basel Miami with Cynthia Corbett Gallery 2017 - Christie's, St. James' - Best of the Drawing Year at Christie's 2015 - Sluice Art Fair with Paper Gallery Simmons & Simmons, curated by Jonathan Sharples - Piercing the Veil Selected Awards 2021 - Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair Eames Fine Art Award 2019 - ACS City and Guilds of London Art School Studio Award 2019 - Slaughterhaus Print Prize 2016 - The Jonathan Vickers Fine Art Award - winner Gallery Representation Brocket London Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Warm, intimate, very personal depictions of small moments at home. In which to contemplate feelings of contentment, solace, desire, belonging. Overwhelmingly, gratitude.
Eleanor May Watson And Inside It's Spring Watercolour on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Eleanor Watson is a visual artist working primarily in paint and print based between London and Kent. Creating images of home and domesticity in which to contemplate memory, longing, desire and belonging. Education 2018 - 2019 City and Guilds, MA Fine Art 2015 - 2016 The Royal Drawing School, the Drawing Year 2009 - 2012 Wimbledon College of Art; BA Fine Art Painting (First Class Honours) 2008 - 2009 Chelsea College of Art; Level 4 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design Select Exhibitions/Awards Selected Solo and Joint Exhibitions 2022 - Curtains Drawn, Wilder Gallery, London 2021 - Un | Veiled, two person show with Tanaka Mazivanhanga, curated by Mollie Barnes from She Curates and Lizzie Glendinning, Brocket Gallery, London 2017 - Dear Reader, Derby Museum and Art Gallery Selected Group Exhibitions 2021 - A Strange Kind of Knowing, Arusha Gallery, curated by Olivia Penrose Punnett This is Where We Meet, curated by Tim Patrick, Carousel Space, London 2019 - Tender with The Violet Hour 2018 - Art Basel Miami with Cynthia Corbett Gallery 2017 - Christie's, St. James' - Best of the Drawing Year at Christie's 2015 - Sluice Art Fair with Paper Gallery Simmons & Simmons, curated by Jonathan Sharples - Piercing the Veil Selected Awards 2021 - Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair Eames Fine Art Award 2019 - ACS City and Guilds of London Art School Studio Award 2019 - Slaughterhaus Print Prize 2016 - The Jonathan Vickers Fine Art Award - winner Gallery Representation Brocket London Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Warm, intimate, very personal depictions of small moments at home. In which to contemplate feelings of contentment, solace, desire, belonging. Overwhelmingly, gratitude.
Eleanor May Watson Lightly and Drowsily Watercolour on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Eleanor Watson is a visual artist working primarily in paint and print based between London and Kent. Creating images of home and domesticity in which to contemplate memory, longing, desire and belonging. Education 2018 - 2019 City and Guilds, MA Fine Art 2015 - 2016 The Royal Drawing School, the Drawing Year 2009 - 2012 Wimbledon College of Art; BA Fine Art Painting (First Class Honours) 2008 - 2009 Chelsea College of Art; Level 4 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design Select Exhibitions/Awards Selected Solo and Joint Exhibitions 2022 - Curtains Drawn, Wilder Gallery, London 2021 - Un | Veiled, two person show with Tanaka Mazivanhanga, curated by Mollie Barnes from She Curates and Lizzie Glendinning, Brocket Gallery, London 2017 - Dear Reader, Derby Museum and Art Gallery Selected Group Exhibitions 2021 - A Strange Kind of Knowing, Arusha Gallery, curated by Olivia Penrose Punnett This is Where We Meet, curated by Tim Patrick, Carousel Space, London 2019 - Tender with The Violet Hour 2018 - Art Basel Miami with Cynthia Corbett Gallery 2017 - Christie's, St. James' - Best of the Drawing Year at Christie's 2015 - Sluice Art Fair with Paper Gallery Simmons & Simmons, curated by Jonathan Sharples - Piercing the Veil Selected Awards 2021 - Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair Eames Fine Art Award 2019 - ACS City and Guilds of London Art School Studio Award 2019 - Slaughterhaus Print Prize 2016 - The Jonathan Vickers Fine Art Award - winner Gallery Representation Brocket London Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Warm, intimate, very personal depictions of small moments at home. In which to contemplate feelings of contentment, solace, desire, belonging. Overwhelmingly, gratitude.
Elisabeth Deane Untitled Gold Leaf, Platinum Leaf, Natural Pigments and Arabic Gum, Lapis Lazuli, Carmine, Spinel Black, Zinc White and Orange Gouache Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Elisabeth Deane is a painter who uses ancient traditional techniques to make work with an entirely contemporary aesthetic. Elisabeth's colours and detailed brushwork are inspired by Islamic geometry and the miniature painting traditions of India and Iran. Education Elisabeth learnt much of her craft at the Prince's Foundation School of Traditional Arts where she completed an MA in 2017. She also learnt painting techniques from Master miniature painters in Rajasthan, India. Elisabeth has obtained degrees in History of Art (BA), and the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas (MA) from the University of East Anglia and a PGCE in Art & Design from the University of Cambridge. Select Exhibitions/Awards While studying at The Prince's Foundation School of Traditional Arts, Elisabeth became an Albukhary Foundation scholar and was also awarded a bursary from The Temple Gallery, London. In 2018, she was a finalist in the 'Asian Art in London' Emerging Artist Award. Elisabeth had her first solo show at Grosvenor Gallery, London in November 2019. She has exhibited in a number of group exhibitions nationally and internationally including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2021. Elisabeth will be exhibiting some new works with Grosvenor Gallery at Art Dubai this year at the Madinat Jumeirah (9-13 March 2022). Gallery Representation Grosvenor Gallery, London Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork In my AOAP pieces, I have used seven colours that repeat. These are gold leaf (23ct), platinum leaf, orange gouache, lapis lazuli, carmine, spinel black and zinc white. Most of my paints are handmade - hand ground with a binder. These pigments are minerals in rock form (lapis lazuli), pigments from plants or from the animal kingdom (e.g. cochineal from insects, also known as carmine - that crazy beautiful red!). My aim is to yield delight and joy through the geometric arrangement of colour. I am interested in intricate patterns and colour relationships. Natural pigments are beautiful. I'm aiming for that right combination of colours which when brought together create vibrations, ones that sing.
Elisabeth Deane Untitled Gold Leaf, Platinum Leaf, Natural Pigments and Arabic Gum, Lapis Lazuli, Carmine, Spinel Black, Zinc White and Orange Gouache Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Elisabeth Deane is a painter who uses ancient traditional techniques to make work with an entirely contemporary aesthetic. Elisabeth's colours and detailed brushwork are inspired by Islamic geometry and the miniature painting traditions of India and Iran. Education Elisabeth learnt much of her craft at the Prince's Foundation School of Traditional Arts where she completed an MA in 2017. She also learnt painting techniques from Master miniature painters in Rajasthan, India. Elisabeth has obtained degrees in History of Art (BA), and the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas (MA) from the University of East Anglia and a PGCE in Art & Design from the University of Cambridge. Select Exhibitions/Awards While studying at The Prince's Foundation School of Traditional Arts, Elisabeth became an Albukhary Foundation scholar and was also awarded a bursary from The Temple Gallery, London. In 2018, she was a finalist in the 'Asian Art in London' Emerging Artist Award. Elisabeth had her first solo show at Grosvenor Gallery, London in November 2019. She has exhibited in a number of group exhibitions nationally and internationally including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2021. Elisabeth will be exhibiting some new works with Grosvenor Gallery at Art Dubai this year at the Madinat Jumeirah (9-13 March 2022). Gallery Representation Grosvenor Gallery, London Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork In my AOAP pieces, I have used seven colours that repeat. These are gold leaf (23ct), platinum leaf, orange gouache, lapis lazuli, carmine, spinel black and zinc white. Most of my paints are handmade - hand ground with a binder. These pigments are minerals in rock form (lapis lazuli), pigments from plants or from the animal kingdom (e.g. cochineal from insects, also known as carmine - that crazy beautiful red!). My aim is to yield delight and joy through the geometric arrangement of colour. I am interested in intricate patterns and colour relationships. Natural pigments are beautiful. I'm aiming for that right combination of colours which when brought together create vibrations, ones that sing.
Elisabeth Deane Untitled Gold Leaf, Platinum Leaf, Natural Pigments and Arabic Gum, Lapis Lazuli, Carmine, Spinel Black, Zinc White and Orange Gouache Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Elisabeth Deane is a painter who uses ancient traditional techniques to make work with an entirely contemporary aesthetic. Elisabeth's colours and detailed brushwork are inspired by Islamic geometry and the miniature painting traditions of India and Iran. Education Elisabeth learnt much of her craft at the Prince's Foundation School of Traditional Arts where she completed an MA in 2017. She also learnt painting techniques from Master miniature painters in Rajasthan, India. Elisabeth has obtained degrees in History of Art (BA), and the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas (MA) from the University of East Anglia and a PGCE in Art & Design from the University of Cambridge. Select Exhibitions/Awards While studying at The Prince's Foundation School of Traditional Arts, Elisabeth became an Albukhary Foundation scholar and was also awarded a bursary from The Temple Gallery, London. In 2018, she was a finalist in the 'Asian Art in London' Emerging Artist Award. Elisabeth had her first solo show at Grosvenor Gallery, London in November 2019. She has exhibited in a number of group exhibitions nationally and internationally including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2021. Elisabeth will be exhibiting some new works with Grosvenor Gallery at Art Dubai this year at the Madinat Jumeirah (9-13 March 2022). Gallery Representation Grosvenor Gallery, London Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork In my AOAP pieces, I have used seven colours that repeat. These are gold leaf (23ct), platinum leaf, orange gouache, lapis lazuli, carmine, spinel black and zinc white. Most of my paints are handmade - hand ground with a binder. These pigments are minerals in rock form (lapis lazuli), pigments from plants or from the animal kingdom (e.g. cochineal from insects, also known as carmine - that crazy beautiful red!). My aim is to yield delight and joy through the geometric arrangement of colour. I am interested in intricate patterns and colour relationships. Natural pigments are beautiful. I'm aiming for that right combination of colours which when brought together create vibrations, ones that sing.
Elisabeth Deane Untitled Gold Leaf, Platinum Leaf, Natural Pigments and Arabic Gum, Lapis Lazuli, Carmine, Spinel Black, Zinc White and Orange Gouache Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Elisabeth Deane is a painter who uses ancient traditional techniques to make work with an entirely contemporary aesthetic. Elisabeth's colours and detailed brushwork are inspired by Islamic geometry and the miniature painting traditions of India and Iran. Education Elisabeth learnt much of her craft at the Prince's Foundation School of Traditional Arts where she completed an MA in 2017. She also learnt painting techniques from Master miniature painters in Rajasthan, India. Elisabeth has obtained degrees in History of Art (BA), and the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas (MA) from the University of East Anglia and a PGCE in Art & Design from the University of Cambridge. Select Exhibitions/Awards While studying at The Prince's Foundation School of Traditional Arts, Elisabeth became an Albukhary Foundation scholar and was also awarded a bursary from The Temple Gallery, London. In 2018, she was a finalist in the 'Asian Art in London' Emerging Artist Award. Elisabeth had her first solo show at Grosvenor Gallery, London in November 2019. She has exhibited in a number of group exhibitions nationally and internationally including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2021. Elisabeth will be exhibiting some new works with Grosvenor Gallery at Art Dubai this year at the Madinat Jumeirah (9-13 March 2022). Gallery Representation Grosvenor Gallery, London Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork In my AOAP pieces, I have used seven colours that repeat. These are gold leaf (23ct), platinum leaf, orange gouache, lapis lazuli, carmine, spinel black and zinc white. Most of my paints are handmade - hand ground with a binder. These pigments are minerals in rock form (lapis lazuli), pigments from plants or from the animal kingdom (e.g. cochineal from insects, also known as carmine - that crazy beautiful red!). My aim is to yield delight and joy through the geometric arrangement of colour. I am interested in intricate patterns and colour relationships. Natural pigments are beautiful. I'm aiming for that right combination of colours which when brought together create vibrations, ones that sing.
Carrie Reichardt Untitled Ceramic Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Carrie Reichardt's ancestry can be traced back through a long line of aristocratic eccentrics. Her grandfather, Joseph Reichardt owned estates in the Austrian Empire and was known as The Camel Hair King of America after making a fortune shipping camel hair wool from Persia via his offices in New York. He worked for the Tsar of Russia during World War I and was awarded the title of Count before fleeing the Russian Revolution. Count Reichardt was bankrupted after losing the cutting rights to all the trees on the Caspian Sea. He moved to England with three sons. The eldest became a Nuclear Scientist. The youngest was Tony Reichardt, who prospered as an influential dealer in Modern Art in post-war London and was close friends with Francis Bacon. The second son was Carrie Reichardt's father Roland, who became a Rigsbyesque property landlord as well as being a faith healer with a keen interest in erotica. Carrie Reichardt gained a First Class degree in Fine Art at Leeds University and has had a career spanning many media, including film, performance and sculpture. She is perhaps best known as a ceramicist and mosaicist, working internationally on large scale public murals. A renegade who is revered in anti-establishment circles, Reichardt's preoccupation with seditious ceramics places her within an artistic tradition extending back to William Morris. She creates anarchic artworks where vintage floral, kitsch, royal and religious crockery is given a new twist by re-firing with layers of new ceramic decals They are modified in a "radical use of traditional things" and often adorned with skulls, cheeky slogans and political statements. Her first solo exhibition, entitled "Mad in England", provided an exploration of this theme, which she has continued to pursue in subsequent work. Carrie Reichardt has spoken publicly about the use of craft and art as protest and her skills have been put to good use as a vehicle for her own political activism, most notably her campaigning for prisoners on Death Row and her involvement with the fight to gain justice for the Angola 3. Despite having a rebellious streak, it is testament to her talent and vivacious personality that Reichardt was awarded the Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship in 2013, enabling her to work with local communities in Chile and Mexico. Carrie Reichardt has been an outspoken advocate for using Art as a form of personal therapy and "Mad In England" is a perfect back stamp for her work. It is fitting that her house and studio in Chiswick is famously called The Treatment Rooms.
Carrie Reichardt Untitled Ceramic on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Carrie Reichardt's ancestry can be traced back through a long line of aristocratic eccentrics. Her grandfather, Joseph Reichardt owned estates in the Austrian Empire and was known as The Camel Hair King of America after making a fortune shipping camel hair wool from Persia via his offices in New York. He worked for the Tsar of Russia during World War I and was awarded the title of Count before fleeing the Russian Revolution. Count Reichardt was bankrupted after losing the cutting rights to all the trees on the Caspian Sea. He moved to England with three sons. The eldest became a Nuclear Scientist. The youngest was Tony Reichardt, who prospered as an influential dealer in Modern Art in post-war London and was close friends with Francis Bacon. The second son was Carrie Reichardt's father Roland, who became a Rigsbyesque property landlord as well as being a faith healer with a keen interest in erotica. Carrie Reichardt gained a First Class degree in Fine Art at Leeds University and has had a career spanning many media, including film, performance and sculpture. She is perhaps best known as a ceramicist and mosaicist, working internationally on large scale public murals. A renegade who is revered in anti-establishment circles, Reichardt's preoccupation with seditious ceramics places her within an artistic tradition extending back to William Morris. She creates anarchic artworks where vintage floral, kitsch, royal and religious crockery is given a new twist by re-firing with layers of new ceramic decals They are modified in a "radical use of traditional things" and often adorned with skulls, cheeky slogans and political statements. Her first solo exhibition, entitled "Mad in England", provided an exploration of this theme, which she has continued to pursue in subsequent work. Carrie Reichardt has spoken publicly about the use of craft and art as protest and her skills have been put to good use as a vehicle for her own political activism, most notably her campaigning for prisoners on Death Row and her involvement with the fight to gain justice for the Angola 3. Despite having a rebellious streak, it is testament to her talent and vivacious personality that Reichardt was awarded the Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship in 2013, enabling her to work with local communities in Chile and Mexico. Carrie Reichardt has been an outspoken advocate for using Art as a form of personal therapy and "Mad In England" is a perfect back stamp for her work. It is fitting that her house and studio in Chiswick is famously called The Treatment Rooms.
Amanda Ba Crossing Over Watercolour and Gouache on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Amanda Ba is a painter who lives and works between New York City and London. She was born in Columbus, Ohio, but spent the first five years of her life with her grandparents in Hefei, China. Diasporic heritage is central to her work-vivid paintings that combine personal memory with psychosexual fantasy, with figures that challenge a predominantly white Western canon of figural painting. Currently her work also draws upon the critical theory and queer theory of authors such as Mel Chen, Fred Moten, Lauren Berlant, Ien Ang, Karen Barad, Anne Anlin Cheng, amongst many others. Education Columbia University, 2020 Select Exhibitions/Awards 2022 Upcoming Solo Show with PM/AM Gallery in London 2021 House Parté, Caryle Packer, Palm Springs 2021 Summer Camp, Tchotchke Gallery, New York City 2021 A New Art World, Guts Gallery, London 2021 Suspended Disbelief, Arsenal Contemporary, Toronto 2021` Hissing Haze, in lieu, Los Angeles 2021 Artists Against Anti-Asian Violence Benefit Auction, The Here and There Co and Artsy 2021 10, PM/AM, London Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Red Giantesses, stripped bare and headed towards the wilderness, claws sharpened.
Amanda Ba Bather Girl Watercolour and Gouache on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Amanda Ba is a painter who lives and works between New York City and London. She was born in Columbus, Ohio, but spent the first five years of her life with her grandparents in Hefei, China. Diasporic heritage is central to her work-vivid paintings that combine personal memory with psychosexual fantasy, with figures that challenge a predominantly white Western canon of figural painting. Currently her work also draws upon the critical theory and queer theory of authors such as Mel Chen, Fred Moten, Lauren Berlant, Ien Ang, Karen Barad, Anne Anlin Cheng, amongst many others. Education Columbia University, 2020 Select Exhibitions/Awards 2022 Upcoming Solo Show with PM/AM Gallery in London 2021 House Parté, Caryle Packer, Palm Springs 2021 Summer Camp, Tchotchke Gallery, New York City 2021 A New Art World, Guts Gallery, London 2021 Suspended Disbelief, Arsenal Contemporary, Toronto 2021` Hissing Haze, in lieu, Los Angeles 2021 Artists Against Anti-Asian Violence Benefit Auction, The Here and There Co and Artsy 2021 10, PM/AM, London Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Red Giantesses, stripped bare and headed towards the wilderness, claws sharpened.
Mandy Payne Study of Southbank Ink and Spraypaint on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Painter/printmaker based in Sheffield whose work focuses on urban landscape, with a particular interest in gentrification, social housing and Brutalist architecture. For her paintings she usually paints on concrete and employs spray paint, referencing the sites she is depicting. Art is a second career, she originally trained as a dentist and spent 25 years working in the Community and Hospital NHS dental services before a career change 10 years ago to work as a full-time artist. Education BDS (Manchester University) MDent Sci (Leeds University) BA Fine Art (Nottingham University) 2 year Fellowship in Stone Lithography at Leicester Print Workshop Select Exhibitions/Awards John Moores Painting Prize 2014 (Prize winner), and exhibited 2016 and 2020 New Light Arts Prize 2015 (First Prize Winer), and exhibited 2017 and 2020 John Ruskin Prize 2014 (Runner up) Work included in: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2014, 2015 ,2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Contemporary British Painting Prize 2016 Threadneedle Prize. Mall Galleries, London 2013 Lynn Painter Stainers Prize, Mall Galleries, London 2019 Figurative Art Now, Mall Galleries, London, 2020 Wells Art Contemporary 2020 Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation Award 2017 Arts Council of England Award, 2015 and 2019 Gallery Representation Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester and Tarpey Gallery Castle Donnington, Ffin y Parc Gallery, Conwy Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork 4 cards submitted- all made during lockdown when a lot of the materials I usually work with were in short supply, which forced me to experiment with things I had to hand in my studio. Finca 1 and 2 were made whilst experimenting, trying to create concrete like textures with liquid graphite. Exeter Court is a social housing estate in South Kilburn which is about to be demolished, and the Southbank is one of my favourite Brutalist buildings. Both were studies for larger paintings that I subsequently made.
Mandy Payne Study of Exeter Court Spraypaint, Acrylic and Marker Pen on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Painter/printmaker based in Sheffield whose work focuses on urban landscape, with a particular interest in gentrification, social housing and Brutalist architecture. For her paintings she usually paints on concrete and employs spray paint, referencing the sites she is depicting. Art is a second career, she originally trained as a dentist and spent 25 years working in the Community and Hospital NHS dental services before a career change 10 years ago to work as a full-time artist. Education BDS (Manchester University) MDent Sci (Leeds University) BA Fine Art (Nottingham University) 2 year Fellowship in Stone Lithography at Leicester Print Workshop Select Exhibitions/Awards John Moores Painting Prize 2014 (Prize winner), and exhibited 2016 and 2020 New Light Arts Prize 2015 (First Prize Winer), and exhibited 2017 and 2020 John Ruskin Prize 2014 (Runner up) Work included in: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2014, 2015 ,2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Contemporary British Painting Prize 2016 Threadneedle Prize. Mall Galleries, London 2013 Lynn Painter Stainers Prize, Mall Galleries, London 2019 Figurative Art Now, Mall Galleries, London, 2020 Wells Art Contemporary 2020 Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation Award 2017 Arts Council of England Award, 2015 and 2019 Gallery Representation Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester and Tarpey Gallery Castle Donnington, Ffin y Parc Gallery, Conwy Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork 4 cards submitted- all made during lockdown when a lot of the materials I usually work with were in short supply, which forced me to experiment with things I had to hand in my studio. Finca 1 and 2 were made whilst experimenting, trying to create concrete like textures with liquid graphite. Exeter Court is a social housing estate in South Kilburn which is about to be demolished, and the Southbank is one of my favourite Brutalist buildings. Both were studies for larger paintings that I subsequently made.
Mandy Payne Finca I Liquid Graphite and Spray Paint on Somerset Newsprint Paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Painter/printmaker based in Sheffield whose work focuses on urban landscape, with a particular interest in gentrification, social housing and Brutalist architecture. For her paintings she usually paints on concrete and employs spray paint, referencing the sites she is depicting. Art is a second career, she originally trained as a dentist and spent 25 years working in the Community and Hospital NHS dental services before a career change 10 years ago to work as a full-time artist. Education BDS (Manchester University) MDent Sci (Leeds University) BA Fine Art (Nottingham University) 2 year Fellowship in Stone Lithography at Leicester Print Workshop Select Exhibitions/Awards John Moores Painting Prize 2014 (Prize winner), and exhibited 2016 and 2020 New Light Arts Prize 2015 (First Prize Winer), and exhibited 2017 and 2020 John Ruskin Prize 2014 (Runner up) Work included in: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2014, 2015 ,2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Contemporary British Painting Prize 2016 Threadneedle Prize. Mall Galleries, London 2013 Lynn Painter Stainers Prize, Mall Galleries, London 2019 Figurative Art Now, Mall Galleries, London, 2020 Wells Art Contemporary 2020 Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation Award 2017 Arts Council of England Award, 2015 and 2019 Gallery Representation Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester and Tarpey Gallery Castle Donnington, Ffin y Parc Gallery, Conwy Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork 4 cards submitted- all made during lockdown when a lot of the materials I usually work with were in short supply, which forced me to experiment with things I had to hand in my studio. Finca 1 and 2 were made whilst experimenting, trying to create concrete like textures with liquid graphite. Exeter Court is a social housing estate in South Kilburn which is about to be demolished, and the Southbank is one of my favourite Brutalist buildings. Both were studies for larger paintings that I subsequently made.
Mandy Payne Finca II Liquid Graphite and Spray Paint on Somerset Newsprint Paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Painter/printmaker based in Sheffield whose work focuses on urban landscape, with a particular interest in gentrification, social housing and Brutalist architecture. For her paintings she usually paints on concrete and employs spray paint, referencing the sites she is depicting. Art is a second career, she originally trained as a dentist and spent 25 years working in the Community and Hospital NHS dental services before a career change 10 years ago to work as a full-time artist. Education BDS (Manchester University) MDent Sci (Leeds University) BA Fine Art (Nottingham University) 2 year Fellowship in Stone Lithography at Leicester Print Workshop Select Exhibitions/Awards John Moores Painting Prize 2014 (Prize winner), and exhibited 2016 and 2020 New Light Arts Prize 2015 (First Prize Winer), and exhibited 2017 and 2020 John Ruskin Prize 2014 (Runner up) Work included in: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2014, 2015 ,2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Contemporary British Painting Prize 2016 Threadneedle Prize. Mall Galleries, London 2013 Lynn Painter Stainers Prize, Mall Galleries, London 2019 Figurative Art Now, Mall Galleries, London, 2020 Wells Art Contemporary 2020 Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation Award 2017 Arts Council of England Award, 2015 and 2019 Gallery Representation Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester and Tarpey Gallery Castle Donnington, Ffin y Parc Gallery, Conwy Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork 4 cards submitted- all made during lockdown when a lot of the materials I usually work with were in short supply, which forced me to experiment with things I had to hand in my studio. Finca 1 and 2 were made whilst experimenting, trying to create concrete like textures with liquid graphite. Exeter Court is a social housing estate in South Kilburn which is about to be demolished, and the Southbank is one of my favourite Brutalist buildings. Both were studies for larger paintings that I subsequently made.
Pippa Blake Little Amal: The Walk I Acrylic, Gouache and Pastel on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Pippa Blake was born in Portsmouth, England in 1954, and studied Fine Art (Painting) at Camberwell College of Art, London from 1972 to 1976 gaining BA Honours (First Class). In 2005 she graduated from the Visual Arts Programme, West Dean College, Sussex with a Postgraduate Diploma (Distinction). Blake has travelled the world extensively but now lives and works on Chichester Harbour near the Hampshire/Sussex border, UK. She exhibits frequently both in the UK and New Zealand. She serves as a founding Trustee for BLAKE, an organisation in New Zealand inspiring environmental leadership. Education Camberwell School of Art, 1972 - 76: BA Hons Fine Art (First Class) West Dean College , 2004-2005: Post Graduate Diploma (Distinction) Select Exhibitions/Awards Several solo exhibitions from 1995 onwards with the last 'On the Road 'at Candida Stevens Gallery in July 2020 - next solo show being there in October 2022. I have exhibited frequently in both New Zealand and the UK, I have twice been artist in residence at Chichester Festival Theatre with three large scale paintings being shown at Pallant House Gallery in 2016. I was also an artist in residence on a research vessel between Newfoundland and Iceland back in 2006. Gallery Representation Candida Stevens Gallery Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Being International Women's Day I looked for a subject that fitted, a deviation from my landscape-based work. I chose Little Amal, the 3.5 metre high puppet who 'walked' with puppeteers from Syria to Manchester on an art project called The Walk to highlight the urgent needs of young refugees. I feel she represents the many marginalised women having to deal with life under dire circumstances.
Pippa Blake Little Amal: The Walk II Acrylic, Gouache and Pastel on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Pippa Blake was born in Portsmouth, England in 1954, and studied Fine Art (Painting) at Camberwell College of Art, London from 1972 to 1976 gaining BA Honours (First Class). In 2005 she graduated from the Visual Arts Programme, West Dean College, Sussex with a Postgraduate Diploma (Distinction). Blake has travelled the world extensively but now lives and works on Chichester Harbour near the Hampshire/Sussex border, UK. She exhibits frequently both in the UK and New Zealand. She serves as a founding Trustee for BLAKE, an organisation in New Zealand inspiring environmental leadership. Education Camberwell School of Art, 1972 - 76: BA Hons Fine Art (First Class) West Dean College , 2004-2005: Post Graduate Diploma (Distinction) Select Exhibitions/Awards Several solo exhibitions from 1995 onwards with the last 'On the Road 'at Candida Stevens Gallery in July 2020 - next solo show being there in October 2022. I have exhibited frequently in both New Zealand and the UK, I have twice been artist in residence at Chichester Festival Theatre with three large scale paintings being shown at Pallant House Gallery in 2016. I was also an artist in residence on a research vessel between Newfoundland and Iceland back in 2006. Gallery Representation Candida Stevens Gallery Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Being International Women's Day I looked for a subject that fitted, a deviation from my landscape-based work. I chose Little Amal, the 3.5 metre high puppet who 'walked' with puppeteers from Syria to Manchester on an art project called The Walk to highlight the urgent needs of young refugees. I feel she represents the many marginalised women having to deal with life under dire circumstances.
Pippa Blake Little Amal: The Walk III Acrylic, Gouache and Pastel on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Pippa Blake was born in Portsmouth, England in 1954, and studied Fine Art (Painting) at Camberwell College of Art, London from 1972 to 1976 gaining BA Honours (First Class). In 2005 she graduated from the Visual Arts Programme, West Dean College, Sussex with a Postgraduate Diploma (Distinction). Blake has travelled the world extensively but now lives and works on Chichester Harbour near the Hampshire/Sussex border, UK. She exhibits frequently both in the UK and New Zealand. She serves as a founding Trustee for BLAKE, an organisation in New Zealand inspiring environmental leadership. Education Camberwell School of Art, 1972 - 76: BA Hons Fine Art (First Class) West Dean College , 2004-2005: Post Graduate Diploma (Distinction) Select Exhibitions/Awards Several solo exhibitions from 1995 onwards with the last 'On the Road 'at Candida Stevens Gallery in July 2020 - next solo show being there in October 2022. I have exhibited frequently in both New Zealand and the UK, I have twice been artist in residence at Chichester Festival Theatre with three large scale paintings being shown at Pallant House Gallery in 2016. I was also an artist in residence on a research vessel between Newfoundland and Iceland back in 2006. Gallery Representation Candida Stevens Gallery Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Being International Women's Day I looked for a subject that fitted, a deviation from my landscape-based work. I chose Little Amal, the 3.5 metre high puppet who 'walked' with puppeteers from Syria to Manchester on an art project called The Walk to highlight the urgent needs of young refugees. I feel she represents the many marginalised women having to deal with life under dire circumstances.
French school; first third of the 19th century."Nereids".Oil on panel.Slight flaws in the painting and in the frame.It has a stamp on the back.Measurements: 58,5 x 37,5 cm; 68 x 48 cm (frame).In this work the author composes an ascending spiral that is formed through the bodies of numerous naked women. The unrelated young women seem to be trying to ascend to the surface, which is reflected in the upper part of the painting in a very subtle way. The mountains that make up the zenith of the painting are barely visible, a characteristic that is due to the dusty finish of the work. As for the subject matter of the painting, it draws on classical mythology, depicting the beauty of the nereids. In Greek mythology, the Nereids are sea nymphs, female spirits of the waters, and the 50 daughters of Nereus. They often accompany Poseidon, the god of the sea, and can be kind and helpful to sailors, like the Argonauts in their quest for the Golden Fleece. The Nereids symbolise all that is beautiful and kind in the sea. Their melodious voices sang as they danced around their father. They are depicted as very beautiful girls, crowned with branches of red coral and dressed in white silk robes adorned with gold, who were barefoot.Returning to the aforementioned aesthetic, the earthy and atmospheric way of applying the tones, the strong colours that emphasise the dreamlike nature of the scene, together with a hedonistic theme, place the work within the current of the sumptuousness of the French court. As a movement opposed to the naturalist and realist tradition, imagination, spirituality and dreams were exalted. Hence the proliferation of nymphs and exotic dancers as spirits of an intangible world. A dreamlike vision of life was emphasised, taking us into magical universes populated by enchanting and sibylline beings such as those who inhabit this work: young, almost adolescent nereids, who invite us with insinuating glances to immerse ourselves in their habitat. The bright colours, the gracefulness of the bodies, the linear arabesque to mark the voluptuousness of the bodies and hair are characteristic elements of unreal worlds.
JOAQUIN SUNYER DE MIRÓ (Sitges, Barcelona, 1874 - 1956)."Landscape".Oil on canvas.Signed in the lower right corner.Measurements: 50 x 61,5 cm.Considered one of the maximum representatives of the noucentista style, Sunyer was the nephew of the painter Joaquim de Miró i Argenter, with whom he started painting. His work is particularly notable for his landscapes and female nudes, as well as his portraits, which are far removed from traditional painting. His compositions are an example of balance, always seeking the evocative power of images, figures and atmospheres. After studying at the La Lonja School in Barcelona, Sunyer began his career as an illustrator of popular scenes in "La Vanguardia" in 1896. That same year he took part in the Fine Arts Exhibition. Shortly afterwards he settled in Paris, where he specialised in street scenes and intimate interiors, which he treated in a style influenced by prostimpressionism. In Paris he became friends with Picasso and Hugué, and exhibited at the Salons. During his Parisian period he worked with real dedication, evolving towards a Post-Impressionist language. Between 1905 and 1906 he travelled around Castile, on the initiative of the art dealer Henri Barbazanges, who wanted Spanish themes. He returned to Paris in 1907 and held several exhibitions in the French capital and Liège. He settled in Sitges in 1910, at a time when his style was gradually losing its post-impressionist influences and moving towards Mediterranean themes and the simplified canon figures of Cézanne. These years saw a major change in his painting, and he became a leading figure in Noucentisme. His new language, based on an essential composition of clear structures and sober, transparent colours, clearly Mediterranean, would create a school within Catalan art. The following year, in 1911, Sunyer organised a personal exhibition at the Faianç Catalá which placed him, after Nonell's death, at the head of Catalan painting at the time. During the following years he travelled and exhibited in Europe, but returned to Catalonia at the outbreak of the First World War. Settled in Sitges, he nevertheless took part in the Paris and Barcelona Salons. After fleeing Spain because of the Civil War, he returned to Spain and settled in Barcelona in 1942. In 1949 he was awarded the Legion of Honour, and subsequently special galleries were dedicated to him at the Hispano-American Art Biennials in Barcelona. At the Havana Biennial in 1954, he was awarded the Grand Prize for a lifetime's work. An anthological exhibition was also held in Madrid in 1974, commemorating the centenary of his birth. Joaquín Sunyer is currently represented at the MACBA, the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Reina Sofía National Art Centre in Madrid.
DANIEL PAREA Y ROJAS (Zaragoza, 1834 - 1909).La caída del picador o el garrochista" ("The Fall of the Picador or the Garrochista").Charcoal and chalk on paper.Signed in the lower right corner.Size: 32 x 49.5 cm; 35 x 62.5 cm (frame).Daniel Perea belongs to the first generation of great bullfighting poster designers, being a precursor of the genre together with Marcelino de Unceta and Ramón Miró. He also worked as a bullfighting illustrator, and was the creator of the famous bullfighting cards for the magazine "La Lidia", a publication of which he was also the director. Several of his works were exhibited at the First International Poster Exhibition held in St. Petersburg in 1897. Perea was characterised both by his bulls running across the paper and by his costumbrista style, rich in detail. He also cultivated landscape themes with popular scenes, with a loose brushstroke of Goyaesque inheritance. He is currently represented in many Spanish bullfighting museums, as well as in the municipal archives of cities such as San Sebastián and Zaragoza.
French school; late 19th century."Bucolic scene".Oil on canvas.It preserves a period frame with faults in the carving.It has an illegible signature.Measurements: 25 x 43 cm; 41 x 46 cm (frame).Landscape of idyllic character in which a woman is accompanied by several children. She is overwhelmed by a landscape of great magnitude that opens in the centre, leaving a space that allows to see a landscape in depth. The author has thus combined two completely different views of the landscape, merging them into a single image in a coherent and harmonious manner. The author shows great interest in the characteristics and qualities offered by the landscape.Both the aesthetic and thematic treatment of the work indicate that he was a painter in contact with Impressionist trends. Although at first it may have been a scene with a pastoral or gallant theme, so much in vogue in the late 18th century, the artist has focused his interest on a specific moment in reality, thus linking himself to realist trends and to the Impressionists' interest in capturing the moment and defining its atmosphere. In terms of aesthetics, the use of a rapid, vibrant brushstroke, together with the play of light already mentioned, link the work to Impressionism, making it close to scenes by Renoir, who worked with great interest on the reflection of light on the skin and its qualities. In short, the characteristics of this work bring together various trends that developed in France in the early 19th century, making the country, and especially the city of Paris, one of the most important cultural centres of the period.
ELISÉE MACLET (Lyons-en-Santerre, 1881 - Paris 1962). "Pont Royal on the Seine River". Oil on cardboard. Signed in the lower right corner. Measures: 47 x 63,5 cm. The Parisian district of Montmartre deeply inspired a young and promising Elisée Maclet, recently landed in the French capital in 1906. Sceneries such as the cabarets of Lapin Agile or the Moulin de la Galette, the Sacré Coeur Basilica, the streets of old Paris or the views of the Seine River were masterfully immortalized by Maclet, through a post-impressionist style of a certain childlike simplicity. Considered a key figure in the development of the style of the painter Maurice Utrillo, a firm representative of the Montmartre life of 1900, Elisée Maclet left an important artistic mark on the Paris of the time. As his success grew in Parisian social circles, his artistic role solidified, to the point that the great Parisian gallery owners hung his works alongside those of Van Gogh and Picasso. Élisée Maclet initially developed a "primitivist" style of painting that would earn him a place among the "naïff" painters of the turn of the century. In 1906, Maclet moved to Paris. There he settled in the Montmartre district and produced most of the landscape and street scenes for which he is best known. Maclet's Parisian scenes were successful, especially after World War I, and he maintained this success for the rest of his career because of the unique sensibility and original techniques he demonstrated in his works. Many of the French writers appreciated his paintings and often wrote about him, including Max Jacob, Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, and Francis Carco. From 1918 to 1919, Maclet painted seascapes in Dieppe, living in a house that Carco lent him. He returned to Montmartre in 1919. In 1920, the art dealer, Dosbourg, bought some of his early Montmartre scenes. He lived in Arles from 1923 to 1928, where he painted many remarkable landscapes expressing his enchantment with nature and Mediterranean culture, some of which are sometimes reminiscent of Matisse. In 1928, Maclet received his first major solo exhibition, held at the Gallerie Barreiro in Paris, where more than 50 of his works were exhibited. At the end of the year, he left mainland France on a painting excursion to the island of Corsica. He then went to Brittany, where he lived and worked in 1929 and 1930. In 1957 the first major retrospective of Maclet's work was held at the Nicolas Poussin Gallery in Paris, and in 1960 the same gallery presented his work in its "20th Century Paintings" exhibition; another major retrospective took place in 1961, at the Thibaut Gallery in New York City. In the period following his international breakthrough, Maclet was the subject of numerous magazine articles and, over time, several public collections in Europe and America acquired examples of his work, including museums in Chicago, Bremen, Geneva, Sweden, Norway and Monte. After his death in 1962, Maclet posthumously received several international tributes, including solo exhibitions in Paris, Germany, and Venezuela, as well as a prominent exhibition at the Vestart Galleries in New York City in 1969. In 2011, the National Gallery of Bermuda mounted a solo exhibition of his work. Currently, his work is represented in a number of important international collections, both public and private, with many of his paintings held by the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris.
ELISÉE MACLET (Lyons-en-Santerre, 1881 - Paris 1962). "Cabaret de Lapin Agile", Montmartre. Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower left corner. Size: 46 x 55 cm. The Parisian district of Montmartre deeply inspired a young and promising Elisée Maclet, just landed in the French capital in 1906. Sceneries such as the cabarets of Lapin Agile or the Moulin de la Galette, the Sacré Coeur Basilica, the streets of old Paris or the views of the Seine River were masterfully immortalized by Maclet, through a post-impressionist style of a certain childlike simplicity. Considered a key figure in the development of the style of the painter Maurice Utrillo, a firm representative of the Montmartre life of 1900, Elisée Maclet left an important artistic mark on the Paris of the time. As his success grew in Parisian social circles, his artistic role solidified, to the point that the great Parisian gallery owners hung his works alongside those of Van Gogh and Picasso. Élisée Maclet initially developed a "primitivist" style of painting that would earn him a place among the "naïff" painters of the turn of the century. In 1906, Maclet moved to Paris. There he settled in the Montmartre district and produced most of the landscape and street scenes for which he is best known. Maclet's Parisian scenes were successful, especially after World War I, and he maintained this success for the rest of his career because of the unique sensibility and original techniques he demonstrated in his works. Many of the French writers appreciated his paintings and often wrote about him, including Max Jacob, Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, and Francis Carco. From 1918 to 1919, Maclet painted seascapes in Dieppe, living in a house that Carco lent him. He returned to Montmartre in 1919. In 1920, the art dealer, Dosbourg, bought some of his early Montmartre scenes. He lived in Arles from 1923 to 1928, where he painted many remarkable landscapes expressing his enchantment with nature and Mediterranean culture, some of which are sometimes reminiscent of Matisse. In 1928, Maclet received his first major solo exhibition, held at the Gallerie Barreiro in Paris, where more than 50 of his works were exhibited. At the end of the year, he left mainland France on a painting excursion to the island of Corsica. He then went to Brittany, where he lived and worked in 1929 and 1930. In 1957 the first major retrospective of Maclet's work was held at the Nicolas Poussin Gallery in Paris, and in 1960 the same gallery presented his work in its "20th Century Paintings" exhibition; another major retrospective took place in 1961, at the Thibaut Gallery in New York City. In the period following his international breakthrough, Maclet was the subject of numerous magazine articles and, over time, several public collections in Europe and America acquired examples of his work, including museums in Chicago, Bremen, Geneva, Sweden, Norway and Monte. After his death in 1962, Maclet posthumously received several international tributes, including solo exhibitions in Paris, Germany, and Venezuela, as well as a prominent exhibition at the Vestart Galleries in New York City in 1969. In 2011, the National Gallery of Bermuda mounted a solo exhibition of his work. Currently, his work is represented in a number of important international collections, both public and private, with many of his paintings held by the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris.
PERE PRUNA OCERANS (Barcelona, 1904 - 1977)."Dancers.Oil on canvas.Signed in the lower left corner.Size: 51 x 41 cm; 60 x 50 cm (frame).A mainly self-taught artist, Pere Pruna completed his training at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. After beginning to exhibit in Barcelona when he was still very young, he travelled to Paris in 1920, where he was helped and guided by Picasso. In the French capital he held a successful one-man show at the Galerie Percier, and came into contact with intellectuals such as Cocteau, Drieu la Rochelle, Max Jacob and others, with whom he founded the magazine "Philosophie" in 1924. Serge Diaghilev, who visited one of his exhibitions, also asked him to create the sets and costumes for the ballet "Les matelots" in 1925. From then on, he also worked on other musical works, such as "La vie de Polichinele" (1934) and "Oriane" (1938), among others. In 1928 he won second prize in the Carnegie Institute exhibition in Pittsburg and later, on his return to Barcelona, he won other awards such as the "Montserrat seen by Catalan artists" competition (1931) and the Nonell Prize (1936). The latter was surrounded by controversy, because Pruna won it for his oil painting "El vi de Chios", for which he used a photograph published in a Parisian pornographic magazine as a model. In response to the uproar, Pruna withdrew the prize, but the jury upheld its decision. Following the outbreak of the Civil War, Pruna settled in Paris and continued his international exhibition activity, most notably the exhibition organised in London in 1937. At the same time he worked for Ridruejo's propaganda services, with works such as the poster commemorating the promulgation of the Labour Force, and Eugenio d'Ors, National Head of Fine Arts, introduced him to the Spanish representation at the Venice Biennale in 1938. After the war he combined easel painting exhibitions with mural painting, a genre in which his work in the Monastery of Montserrat was particularly celebrated. In 1965 he won the City of Barcelona Prize, and three years later he was appointed academician of the Far de Sant Cristòfor. His style, centred on a graceful, stylised female figure, is based on the clear delicacy of the pink and "neoclassical" Picasso, and reveals a certain parallelism with the Italian Novencento, being fully in keeping with the classicist trend that appeared in Western art after the first wave of avant-gardism and of which his friend Cocteau was the driving force. Pruna focused on portraiture and above all on the female figure, capturing images marked by great delicacy and sober distinction. His representations are characterised by a stylised, diaphanous line, and are in tune with the return to order that followed the rupture that Cubism represented in France, thus linking directly with the avant-garde. Pere Pruna is currently represented in the Museum of Montserrat, where there is a space bearing his name, the MACBA in Barcelona and the Maricel Museum in Sitges, among others.
JUAN BAUTISTA DE GUZMÁN (Granada, 1850 - Barcelona, 1898)."Flamenca", 1891.Oil on canvas.Signed and dated in the lower right corner.Measurements: 86 x 46 cm; 108 x 68 cm (frame).Representative of the Andalusian costumbrismo, Juan Bautista de Guzmán specialised in popular scenes of bullfighters, peasants, taverns and courtyards of Granada. On this occasion he offers us a scene set in the interior of an Andalusian courtyard with a sandy floor. The protagonist, a lady dressed in a flamenco dress and draped in a Manila shawl, is leaning jauntily against a wall on which the show is being advertised. Costumbrista genre painting was a characteristic exponent of Andalusian folklore during the period of the rise of Romanticism and 19th-century Orientalism. Traditionally, Spanish painting and literature have been interested in popular customs and types. The arrival of Romanticism enlivened this trend, bringing to the Hispanic tradition the vision that foreigners had of our people, due to the snobbery of a Europeanising and liberal national bourgeoisie which, also due to foreign influence and under the Romantic fashion, turned its eyes to the people and monuments of the past. This, which was general throughout Spain, was particularly prevalent in Andalusia, as this land was the dream destination of foreigners, and where the influence of the vision they had of the Spaniards and their peculiar customs had to be felt most strongly.Juan Bautista de Guzmán Orante was a Spanish painter born in Granada but settled in Malaga as a child. The Malaga painter Leoncio Talavera passed on his love of painting to him. He painted his first picture by copying a painting by his friend Talavera. In 1879 he took part in the Cadiz Exhibition, winning a silver medal, and in 1881 he exhibited his works at the National Exhibition in Madrid. After settling in Barcelona, he took part with two paintings in the Fine Arts Exhibition of the Catalan capital in 1888 and 1891 with "Garden", "A Wrong Way", "A Hungarian Family Begging for Charity", "A Burro muerto la barley al rabo" and "Sensibility", as well as in the 1896 edition.
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