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Michelle Lucking

Michelle Lucking

Michelle Lucking is an award winning, international pastel artist specialising in realism to create large scale, beautiful seascapes and underwater portraits. Her art explores the contrasting raw power and calm serenity of the differing states of water, and the technical challenge of capturing both its translucency and movement.

Lucking’s interest extends to both the anatomy of water and the human form, and how the 2 interact; how light and water refracts the human form into abstract shapes dissected by light and shadow that still resemble a person.

A keen sea swimmer and photographer, Lucking draws on her own reference photos and immediate experiences of the sea and swimming to recreate and convey the emotions and narrative of water, using both realism and scale, and capturing light and movement, to draw the viewer into her paintings.  

Her work is collected and exhibited internationally and in 2017 she won the prestigious Annie Longley Award at the annual British Pastel Society exhibition. She is brand ambassador for the internationally acclaimed pastel company Unison Colour, and has been featured in several magazine publications including Artist and Illustrator. Her work has also appeared on television.

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Bethany Holmes

Bethany Holmes

Bethany’s paintings are an extension of the senses. She looks to nature for inspiration, to create a relationship between landscape and canvas. The use of texture, colour and mark explore how Bethany see’s the British landscape. Through a process of covering up and sanding back, intricate layers are revealed. The paintings grow organically, just like the landscape that surrounds us. Bethany wants the viewer to get lost in the marks and composition of her work, to see something new every time the piece is studied. 

Colour is Bethany’s passion and her palettes over time have changed and developed. Her work has a constant energy and a beautiful rhythm to it. 

Since graduating in Textile Design in 2012, her work has gone from strength to strength, She now has gallery representation throughout the UK, and has work in many private collections in Norway, Hong Kong & the US.

‘My work and the way I paint is my way of responding to what is going on around us. I seek comfort in painting, to get what is in my head, out and onto canvas. I believe that every painting should be an experiment and an experience. Every painting should push my boundaries and force myself out of my comfort zone. Only then will it be the best it can possibly be’. 

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Minty Sainsbury

Minty Sainsbury

Minty studied architecture at the University of Cambridge graduating top of her year in 2013 and went on to work in a London architectural practice. Here she discovered that the drawing board no longer has a place in the modern architectural office, so she returned to the pencil with the intention of keeping the art of architectural drawing alive.

Her background in architecture has not only influenced her choice of subject matter but also her style of drawing. She spent years designing floor plans and positioning windows on modern facades and you can see this understanding of spatial design expressed in the compositions of her drawings.

Minty shares her work on Instagram giving daily updates on the progress of her drawings. She has a growing following of over 65,000 people. She is originally from Comrie in Scotland but now lives and works in London.

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Martina Nehrling

Martina Nehrling

Martina Nehrling is a Chicago-based artist who received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MFA from the University of Chicago.  She has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Lake Forest College, and for the Associated Colleges of the Midwest Chicago Arts Program.  She has been awarded grants by the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Illinois Arts Council, and has presented her work at the Art Institute of Chicago Artists Connect Lecture Series. Kingston, New York and her home town of Indianapolis, Indiana feature her work in their city public art installations.  Her work is exhibited internationally and part of many public and private collections.

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Etienne Krahenbuhl

Etienne Krahenbuhl

Since the mid-1970s, Etienne Krähenbühl has presented his works in a host of personal and group exhibitions in Switzerland, Spain, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy and the USA. Among the many distinctions he has received, he was awarded the Edouard Maurice Sandoz Foundation Prize in 2009.

“The notion of time is a constant in Krähenbühl’s work: time as a testimony or expression of the artist, the materialization of his memory. Rust and wear are the materialisation of time and its metaphor. Time as a memory of a past, a memory, testimony or imprint, in constant transformation “(Joan-Francesc Ainaud). The artist plays with the physical properties of materials. He creates works in which sound, movement and the contrast between monumentality and fragility take on leading roles.

Currently based on the Leclanché site in Yverdon-les-Bains, the artist has large spaces that allow him to develop projects that take ever more breadth and scale.

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Carne Griffiths

Carne Griffiths

Working primarily with calligraphy inks, graphite and liquids, such as tea and alcohol,  Griffiths’ fascination with drawing focuses on the creation and manipulation of the drawn line. Images explore human, geometric and floral forms, in a combination of both literal and abstract translation and in response to images and situations encountered in daily life. Images are recorded in a dreamlike sense onto the page where physical boundaries are unimportant. His work creates a journey of escapism which focuses on scenes of awe and wonder, projecting a sense of abandonment and inviting the viewer to share and explore this inner realm.

Originally from Liverpool, Griffiths graduated from the Kent Institute of Art and Design in Maidstone in 1995. After completing a one-year KIAD fellowship and moving to London he served an apprenticeship at the longest-established gold wire embroidery firm in the world. Here he worked as a gold wire embroidery designer for twelve years, eventually becoming the creative director. Carne produced intricate designs for the military and the film, theatre, fashion and advertising industries. His designs were used for the uniforms in the films Valkyrie, The Last King of Scotland, and in particular his ‘Red Death Coat’ was used in The Phantom of the Opera. Carne’s elaborate floral designs for Asprey were included in their first ever catwalk collection and his work was featured on the embroidered cover of the 80th Royal Variety Performance programme in 2008.

Since establishing his own studio in 2010, Carne has exhibited in the UK and overseas with work shown at the London Original Print Fair, the Royal Academy, Stroke Art Fair Hamburg, Affordable Art Fair, the London Art Fair and with solo Exhibitions in  Hong Kong, Hamburg, Cambodia, Dubai and the UK . Carne’s illustration work has seen him collaborate with the British photographer Rankin for Hunger magazine as well as featuring the New York Observer, English Heritage magazine and for Brand projects including work for Microsoft, Derwent, Peroni, Lakes Distillery and Ibis Hotels.

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Clare Halifax

Clare Halifax

Clare graduated from Loughborough University with a BA hons in Printed Textile Design and worked as a freelance textile designer for several years producing designs for the fashion and interior industry. This was followed by an MA in Multi Disciplinary
Printmaking from UWE where she developed her work through different print processes, eventually specialising in silk screen printing to create limited edition screen prints.

Within Clare’s practise she mainly focuses on cityscapes, landscapes, botanicals and animals with imagery gained from special places, specific areas and locations of interest.

Each piece of work starts with a detailed hand rendered pen drawing. Additional colour layers are added individually in photoshop, including any original patterns that will be
included in the final work in order to introduce colour and depth for a unique piece that evokes Clare’s signature style.

Clients have included V&A Museum, ‘Coast’ Magazine, Elle Decoration, Liberty’s, Tate Online, Farrow & Ball, Huxleys Restaurant and the Berkley Group. Clare currently resides in London where she continues to be influenced by her everyday environment.

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Matt Oliver

Matt Oliver

Matt Oliver is a Landscape photographer working mainly in the stunning Peak District. Working in this diverse environment he uses the shape, form and textures of the land, and is always searching for that elusive dramatic light.

He spends many hours visiting and re-visiting locations; exploring the mountains, woodlands, and coastlines to photograph the ever changing light through the seasons; working to bring to life the land and sea around him, trying to convey the emotion and feeling of the scene in each photograph.

“The experience of being outdoors in the natural environment plays a key role for my work as a landscape photographer. The sounds, smells and feelings are all elements I want to convey in my images. I want the viewer to feel like they were stood with me at the exact moment I clicked the shutter.”

Matt’s work has been recognised across various printed media, writing articles for several magazines. His images have been highly commended and printed in the awards book of The Landscape Photographer of the Year in 2014, 2015, 2016 & 2018.

Dan Ferguson

Dan Ferguson

I was born, educated, worked and lived in London until 2016, when I relocated to Northern Ireland. I was a secondary school teacher of Art and Media Studies for 14 years before embarking on the Masters in Fine Art course at University of Ulster. Both the move and the course were such an enriching change from such a huge metropolitan and urban life.

Although I taught art at school, I was starting very much from the beginning in 2016 on the Masters course. I had never really developed a body of work before, and I had to learn how to sequence my thoughts, inspiration, motivation to not just reflect my interests, but also to build a display that would work well in the eyes and minds of others.

I paint people and places, identities and souls. I always try to honour the spirit and history of a person or place. This can be stoic, political, romantic, playful, and terrifying. But I have to engage with the subject on a level beyond art. I am compelled to create a scene that I am moved by. It can range between whimsically beautiful, to dark and challenging situations.

I have explored memory and social/physical perception, and how we all affect each other with our experiences and stories, and observations. They can be spoken or visual. These memories can be mine, or belong to others, and they seem to be channelled into a colour scheme that tries to displace the conventional ‘sepia’ of nostalgia, and instead evoke a spectrum exploding timelessness. I try to be honest and tender with the memories and scenarios I create, but instead of words I try to achieve this with a mix of both powerful and subtle colour and forms.

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David Studwell

David Studwell

David Studwell is a contemporary British artist and printmaker who studied at Central Saint Martins School of Art. Having worked as an artist for over 20 years, Studwell harnesses the spirit of the sixties and seventies, the cult of celebrity and the legacy of Warhol to produce iconic screen prints.

His works explore the darker side of fame, nostalgia and Americana-police mug shots of well known stars show them at their most vulnerable, or at their most defiant. Private moments of icons at screen tests or during reflection become graphically public, produced in bold and vivid colours.

“My motive is to explore celebrity, it’s dark side as well as what we see in magazines or on TV. That is why I create the mugshots –to display the cracks and flaws –to prove they are only human like you or me.”

Studwell’s work also tracks the legacy of photography, technology and photographers in the 20th century. Studwell worked with Sir Elton John and renowned photographer Terry O’Neill to produce ‘Elton John: Home Run-Dodger Stadium 1975,’ a six-colour screen print with diamond dust. The print is a re-working of Terry’s iconic photograph, capturing Elton at the height of his fame in 1975. A special edition was co-signed by Elton and Terry and sold out immediately. During 2019 a co-signed print was auctioned through the London Evening Standard raising over £12k for the Elton John Aids Foundation.

Unlike the Street, Urban and Punk movements which grew from their sixties mother like angry bastard children, Studwell’s work is the pure-bred heir. His silkscreens directly reference the counterculture cool of the sixties and seventies, with a cutting-edge contemporary style apparent in his striking juxtapositions of beauty, fame and stardom with a technicolour expose of inner vulnerability. Studwell has gone back to the past in order to comment on the present.

Studwell’s work hangs in private collections worldwide and has been collected by Kate Moss, Nile Rogers and Sheryl Crow.

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Ana Žanić

Ana Zanic

The spontaneous and gestural activity of mark-making in Ana Zanic’s paintings is closely tied to calligraphy, language, and symbolic communication. Her work reflects the beauty of organic, natural form.

Zanic’c abstract watercolors bring to mind abandoned landscapes, ancient scribblings, notions of the undersea life, amoebic flows and distant constellations.

Zanic exhibited widely, in twenty solo and over a hundred group exhibitions. Her work is in notable private and public collections around the globe, spanning USA, Europe, Australia, and China.

Ana Zanic holds an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb, Croatia. She lives and works in the United States.

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Angela Webb

Angela Webb

Angela is a Scottish architect turned artist living and working in Warwickshire.

Her subject matter is diverse, underpinned by a keen draughtsmanship and executed with an expressive style. The creation of a balance between abstract values, energetic mark making and realism has become her signature. The observation of life, light and colour are her constant inspirations.

‘My goal is to enjoy the sensory qualities of paint. If I am successful, my collection of marks and paint strokes come together to convey air, colour, light, atmosphere; the moment.’

She works mainly in oils, charcoal and mixed media and also has a growing interest in printmaking. Her subjects are broad ranging; from figure work and portraiture to still life and landscape.

She regularly takes part in art festivals and Open Studio events.

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