Best Selling Art: June 2009

Tuesday, 30 June 2009

About our Resident Artists - Paul Griggs

Paul lives and works as a full time artist just outside the market town of Diss, Norfolk. Paul's original artwork has sold all over the UK and Europe, and has also reached the US and Canada. Always painting wet-on-wet using oils, Paul loves the vibrancy of the colours and the beautiful blends of tones that he can create with this medium. The artist has always resisted using quick drying acrylics as he believes that oils have a look of quality and depth in colour that truly enhance any painting.

Paul paints in a semi-abstract style and always straight onto a blank canvas, never sketching beforehand as he feels it restricts his creativity.Inspired by natures light, and keeping his art very tonal, Paul strives every day to create artwork that is...Read more

About our Resident Artists - Peter Williams

Artist Peter Williams is entirely self taught, working out of his studio on the Suffolk coast where he lives with his long term partner Jenny and large German shepherd dog. After a very varied working life ranging from soldier to college tutor, since 2002 he has been a full time professional artist.

He uses many different media including pastel, coloured or graphite pencil, gouache but is particularly well known for watercolour work.Blending diffused colour with confident composition and intricate detail, he is able to achieve a unique vibrancy unequalled by many other watercolourists.
Having always had immense interest in the great outdoors, animals, wildlife and particularly horses, he has recently become...Read more

About our Resident Artists - Robert Jackson

Robert Jackson is an established professional artist living and working in Cheshire. He studied fine art first at college and then at university after finishing his degree he set up studio and has been painting ever since.Over the past few years Robert's work has evolved from traditional sunset paintings towards metallic textured, abstract art, which like a traditional sunset, attempt to capture light on canvas.His work is certainly unique and departs from the established concept of abstract art. Both heat and light appear to be fused into the surface of his canvases and his use of metallic paint and texture create works that often change with the ambient light or the viewer's position in relation to the piece. The materials used also depart from preconceptions of painting: Acrylic, metallic paint...Read more

About our Resident Artists - Carol Mountford

Carol loves painting cities - especially New York, London and Venice, trying to capture the atmosphere of the places.New York has so much energy and vitality that once the outline of the painting is done it seems to take on a life of its own, with bright lights contrasting with dark shadows, people hustling about, and cars and cabs rushing.Carol says, "New York is about the only cityscape you can't 'overdo', as the more pattern and splashes of paint and colour the better."London has a more subdued energy with its dark buildings with small areas of bright lights, whilst Venice is all about mystery and atmosphere.Carol paints in watercolour and gouache with dashes of pastel. She started to paint with...Read more

About our Resident Artists - Amanda Dagg

Amanda Dagg is a self-taught, self-representing artist living in Swansea Wales.Amanda has always painted but it was not until becoming ill in 2005 that she revaluated her life and took her love of painting on a full time basis.She works mainly with Acrylics; most of her pieces are textured. She paints Original Art, Abstract paintings, incorporating striking textures and high impact metallics. She loves painting poppies and other flowers into her modern contemporary artwork.Amanda is passionate about art and channels her creativity by painting daily. Always brimming with new ideas she...Read more

About our Resident Artists - Ricky Figg

Art has been something Ricky has been interested in ever since he can remember. He is a self taught artist and over the years has experimented with various mediums.Ricky went full time in 2002 and since then has sold...Read more

About our Resident Artists - Leila Godden

It was always a dream to go to Art College, but somehow life got in the way for many years. After a Business Studies degree and too many years working in finance, I knew I needed an outlet for my creativity, so enrolled on an evening class to take an A level in Art & Design. The dream became reality and I spent two years at Herefordshire College of Art and Design, completing a part time Art Foundation course. Regular trips to The St Ives School of Painting have also been a huge source of inspiration and tuition for me, and I started selling my paintings through galleries in 2000.As well as mixed exhibitions I have had several solo shows, and my paintings are enjoyed in France, Italy and Israel, as well as the UK. As well as painting, I am an Aromatherapist and Life Coach. My aim is to produce paintings which capture the essence of a subject but allow a personal response and express more than just the visual qualities.Texture is important in building up an exciting image which allows interplay between the source inspiration and the materials themselves. I may include fabric, sand, and textured mediums to add depth and visual impact.

I use acrylic paint, and thoroughly enjoy the versatility of this fabulous medium, which allows enormous scope to include mixed media, and achieve...Read more

About our Resident Artists - Mark Cawood

Born and educated in Liverpool, Mark moved to London in 1994 where he started his formal training. Mark studied Art and Design at Barking College before graduating with an honours degree in Graphic Fine Art, specialising in visual communication at the University of East London in 2,000.Mark has since concentrated on theme based projects, largely comprising of conceptual work covering sensitive issues such as the recent bacterial outbreaks within our food industry including BSE and Salmonella and the subsequent concerns for health and animal welfare. As a past member of the Association of Illustration he has supported the charity: Paintings in Hospitals, sold paintings via on-line art agencies, participated in many group and solo exhibitions including The Russell Sheridan Gallery in London, The Liverpool Academy of Arts and more recently exhibited work at the King Street Gallery, Alfreton and the Diamond Club, Sutton-in-Ashfield.Images are unpredictable perhaps even erratic, no one can be sure what affect they will have on the viewer. The image has the potential power to evoke intense mood and feeling, however only at a price, it must remain comprehensible otherwise all credibility is lost.

Mark's series of work entitled 'Distance Between Land and Sea' are a collection of large oil paintings (each 60x80cm) focusing on current global warming issues...Read more

About our Resident Artists - Pete Rumney

Pete Rumney was born and bred in England close to the coastline of Whitley Bay a few miles out of Newcastle upon Tyne.It was the Whitley Bay, Tynemouth and Cullercoats vista that first inspired the artist to paint his stunningly effective depictions of beautiful canvas art sunsets in his own inimitable way, and the powerful Northumberland coastline always continues to inspire his work to this day.Pete has sold his original art to satisfied customers worldwide for their homes as well as to restaurants, law firms, galleries and more.Pete's natural ability to blend...Read more

About our Resident Artists - Tony Broadbent

Tony Broadbent is a Leeds based professional artist who paints mainly abstract art in oils and acrylics/water based media.His pieces cover the traditional as well as mood setting paintings and occasionally the larger sizes based upon a theme and have been widely exhibited.The work is best displayed on plain colour large expanse walls and is suitable for both minimalist and featured positioning.Highly collectible his work has been recognized as a departure from the mundane.Bold vibrancy to calm imagery is the signature of his work.He continues to expand techniques/works into more...Read more

About our Resident Artists - Andrea Farmer

Born 1972, Essex, England, and presently living in Chelmsford, Andrea Farmer is an established artist and graphic designer. She graduated from the Kent Institute of Art and Design in 1993 with a HND in Graphic Design and Illustration.Andrea's paintings are unique and vibrant. Her work is held in collections worldwide with a variety of corporate and private commissions. She also takes part in exhibitions, art workshops and demos. A member of Activate - Chelmsford Visual Arts Group, Art4Essex and Rogue Gene Collective. Andrea is currently represented by Chimaera Gallery, Kent.Andrea's work is inspired by the ever changing environment plus natures colour, mood, texture and form. She favours a vivid use of colour - oil, ink and mixed media are her preferred mediums.

Gold and silver leaf also feature in many of her artworks adding opulence to her unique style of painting.Andrea's ethereal landscape paintings focus on...Read more

About our resident Artists - Mike Bell

Short cv/Resume Jan 2006-2009After teaching & Lecturing in Art & Design for 30 years Mike took early retirement 13 years ago to concentrate on his Painting.Since then he has exhibited in many Galleries including The Biscuit Factory, Laing, & Hatton Galleries in Newcastle and also at Artco Leeds, The Brownston Gallery Devon, John Green Glasgow, Scotlandart.com, Edinburgh & Glasgow galleries, Walker Gallery Harrogate, Untitled Gallery London, Artrom Gallery, Rome, Marziart Gallerie Hamburg & Art Domain Gallery Leipzig Germany winning their Palm Art Award 2006.2006:Solo shows include The Coningsby Gallery London, Calder Gallery Hebdon Bridge & Duchess Gallery, Kielder Castle.
Work was also shown at Art Basel Miami 2006 by the NYArts magazine & in the American Juried Art Salon Spring & winter 2006, 07 & 08 Online Exhibitions becoming a Master Class Plus Artist member. www.artjury.com.In 2007 Represented at AAF Bristol, Newcastle Art Fair,The Brownston Gallery Devon, The Biscuit Factory Newcastle, Museum of the Americas, Florida USA, The Rhonda Schaller Studio, New York, Ed Chasen Fine Art Washington DC & ArtExpo Las Vegas.

Also selected by Agape Tile in North Carolina USA to show his portfolio on their stand at the...Read more

About our resident Artists - Sam Hall

Sam Hall is a former Reuter correspondent and ITN News on-air reporter (in the days of Reggie Bosanquet, Andrew Gardner, Leonard Parkin, Sandy Gall etc).Apart from an occasional half-hearted foray into painting, Sam had never painted seriously until 2002. Two years later, in 2004, he emerged onto the British art scene with a series of both representational and semi-abstract acrylic works based on places he had visited during a lifetime of travel. It was the beginning of a meteoric artistic career. Within a month of his first exhibition at the North Norfolk Art Centre in April, 2004, he was selected as a finalist in the British nationwide EAC Art Awards. His work was later hung at The Business Design Centre in London.In June 2004, he exhibited at...Read more

About our Resident Artists - Susan Shaw

A self taught watercolour artist living in Preston, Susan began to paint just over 5 years ago as a hobby and, after becoming hooked, is now a prolific artist, painting every day with over 750 sales to date.Susan's first solo exhibition was in May 2007, at the Lytham Heritage Centre. Some work can now be seen at Garstang Fine Art, Church St. Garstang, Lancs., and at Rigby's Farmhouse Restaurant, Warton, Lancs.

50 of Susan's early pieces were...Read more