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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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Dave Buonaguidi

Dave Buonaguidi

Iconic Hackney-based screen printer Dave Buonaguidi made his career in advertising before transitioning to being a full time artist. Known for his use of bright prink letterform and tongue in cheek statements. Dave loves to make art work that causes a stir. Often working with found images and materials Dave experiments with the practice of screen printing to push the boundaries of what it is and can be. Past examples include printing with pheromones, sprinkles, printing onto copper plates and just about anything else he can find, showing the investigative approach he takes to his printing practice. 

‘Being creative is a wonderful curse. I mean that in the most positive sense. Actually, I’m being dramatic; it’s not a curse at all. It’s a calling’

A prolific artist, each screen print is a combination of visual and verbal language that resonate his past career and interest in propaganda and rebel posters. In 2003 he created the iconic MAKE TEA NOT WAR poster for the anti-war march. It now is part of the collection at the V&A and hangs in the Trento museum of modern art. 

Since then Dave has continued to use screen print to push the boundaries of his creativity and respond to cultural subjects and events in almost real time, as if a publisher going to print. Most recently he created a series of  Keep Yer Chin up prints in response to the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic. 

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Richard Peacock

Richard Peacock

Richard Peacock is a contemporary printmaker with a keen interest in sustainability. The use of readymade stencils in his work is a recurrent theme alongside his use of vibrant colour. Each screenprint combines elements of geometrical abstraction and pop art. The negative space made between the different elements in his compositions also contributes to their visual impact. 

I often use pieces of packaging folded flat to form the basis of the images I work with. I like this element of recycling: using discarded cardboard to form the basis of a work of art seems appropriate in a throw-away world.

By using pieces of packaging as the basis of his shapes, leads to an interesting visual game of recognition. The viewer is aware that they are looking at something familiar but they can’t quite place what it is. Richard sees these prints as impure abstractions, pushed and pulled by memories, sometimes analogous to natural processes and open to associations with buildings or animals or journeys or music. 

Each screen print is hand pulled so the “handmade” nature of the work is something Richard embraces.  Unexpected colours are sometimes discovered as the result of two or more layers of ink. These imperfections spark curiosity, reminding the viewer of the human behind the artwork.

His woodcut prints also contain an element of recycling, as he likes to use weathered wood as the basis of this work. In particular, he liberates discarded builders cable drums from skips to form the basis of my circular woodcuts. Printing from these surfaces causes the paper to pick up scratches and scuffs, as well as the grain. Each screen print tells a story of what was and what could be.

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Kym Cox

Kym Cox

Kym Cox is a multi-award winning artist and photographer whose revolutionary ArtScience practice is inspired by Bubbles. Working from her studio in Dorset, Kym has developed innovative photographic practices and designed and created cutting edge studio rigs to develop a new way of understanding and appreciating the familiar bubble. Working purely with soap bubbles, she is inspired and influenced by art symbolism, meaning and context juxtaposed with rigorous scientific research, conclusion and application. Her practice has led to to collaborate with Prof. Stefan Hutzler, Leader of the Foams and Complex Systems Group, School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin among others. 

 “I am constantly amazed and astounded by bubble behaviour and the correlation for research.  Research that has led to a diverse and vast range of applications and products in daily use; household cleaning, personal hygiene, glass, plastics, packaging and metal foams, fire extinguishers and oil spill recovery to name a few.”

Bubbles, soap films and foams are primary subjects for research in many scientific disciplines. As an artist she regularly exhibits her work. She is currently working, photographing and filming soap films and music whereby the colours and patterns in soap films respond to sound waves to create unique patterns.

Her work has been widely published and includes the BBC World News, New Scientist and the New York Times.

During 2020, she achieved ‘Macro Photographer of the Year’ at the British Photography Awards and ‘Close-up Photographer of the Year’ in the man-made category for the second, consecutive year. Kym is a Fellow of the British Institute of Professional Photographers, Associate of the Royal Photographic Society and Institute of Physics and a member of Mensa.  She was awarded a BA (Hons) Photography (First Class) in 2015.  

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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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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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