List of Current Artists
James Peat
Vanessa Cecil
Jo Burchell
Nancy Cadogan
Joe McGowan
Susan Hippe
Harry R Mileham
Sally Derrick
Paul Branson
Catherine Marche
Tamara Stein
Kathryn Mernagh Cook
Alex Cree
Robert Mileham
Pictures of our Exhibitions
Tessa Acheson
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All Kathryn's spontaneous life drawings are done using a nude model. It is from these drawing she creates her large canvas paintings. She has a unique style and is very prolific and has sold almost everything she has painted.
Kathryn's main influences have been Tony Hancock "the artist" and Rolf Harris. Unfortunately she only had a black and white telly.
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"When I was six I used to lie on the flat tarmac roof of my parents pub with my best friend Kiersten and play a game of finding images within the coulds. I might see a fiery dragon while she found a fluffy rabbit, within seconds these images would move leaving us to search for new ones. With all of my paintings I try to capture the essence of this innocent childhood game."
"My hope is that people who see my paintings would feel a desire to run their fingers down the canvas and continue to unravel images separate to those I perceived when creating the painting." |
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Since he was a baby, when his parents worried that he may have been deaf, James has been preoccupied with the visual world. Now at the age of 27 he is preoccupied with recording this world through photography, with a particular passion for the beauty of the natural world. Said to be 'one of the most exciting young photographers in the Westcountry', he is certainly one to watch. |
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I look at several ways of expressing “Féminité” and sensuality, another vision of life through dreams and imagination. I’d love my work to be able to cast a spell on the viewer and tell him things he does not know about himself through a fascinating exchange.
Most of my work is expressionist or fauvist based on the human figure abstracted in some cases. The mediums I use the most are Oil painting and etching. |
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We have included a few images of our exhibitions. Successful are good fun and give artists and visitors a chance to discuss art in a relaxed and cheerful atmosphere.
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Many of Susan's subjects are reminiscent of a cross between Rodin and the "page 3 girl". She adds colourful spice to our exhibition with a distinctly European flavour. The humour is tongue in cheek but needless to say a serious contribution to Art in the United Kingdom today. Mainly mixed media painting and drawings. |
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Sally draws on her professional interest in human behaviour to capture sympathy and vitality in her portrait heads. Her passion for wildlife and conservation produces in her birds a blend of pride, vulnerability and movement . Annual visits to the Shetlands allow her to observe closely great numbers and varieties . Poole Harbour is also inspirational. |
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Pauls paintings follow a mainstream British romantic influence based on nature and the countryside, but he does not neglect to paint and draw from life and tackle portraits when commissioned. He is the artist in residence to the World Penthanon Champonships. See news item. |
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Her landscape paintings of Devon in both its gentle and bleak aspects focus on the still, quiet moments of dusk or before a storm and are subtly coloured. They are rendered in her own unique oil and graphite technique on paper. Vibrant colour is saved for still life paintings where the traditional elements of Vanitas painting - the short-lived fruit, flowers, insects, birds - are richly coloured and painted in oil on canvas. Portraits and self-portraits, in mixed media, are at once both bright and broody. |
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Tessa's obsession is to paint on almost anything. A habitual magnetism to oils is juxtaposed with various media and resulting exquisite images appear on old hessian, driftwood, hardboard and paper. Her inspiration oscillates around personal travels to India, Africa, Russia and Europe. Her amazing talent, so well developed for one so young, greatly enhance our exhibitions. At both hers and our first exhibition, she was the first to sell a work, buyers were fighting for it before the exhibition even opened! |
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Tamara has been an Actress, a Playwright and a Director in Germany before coming to England in 1999 to further her studies in singing. She was Artituk’s first “Performing Artist” member and sang at the exhibition in Pangbourne in 2001. She is also the founder of ArSeria Productions and the Issa Theon Ensemble. |
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Nancy is an exciting young artist, with a creditable portfolio of both commissioned and independently sold work. Based in her studio near Banbury, Nancy is undertaking portrait and landscape commissions and putting together a show based on her recent travels in Morocco. |
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Alex is particularly interested in working from observation, either directly or from studies. He has spent a year in Barcelona painting landscape, people and things, and will be doing the same in Ireland for 2005. A very talented young man to be watched. He is already producing some exquisite work with a maturity, skill and eye of many artists twice his age.
Alex has now got his own "Solo" Website here http://www.alexcree.co.uk/
Alex is exhibiting currently with Gallery Le Fort, 5 Margaret’s Buildings Bath BA1 2Lp The exhibition goes on until the 24th April 2008. Contact
heather@gallerylefortfineart.com
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Born in the New Forest, Jo followed her talents through school and on to a degree in fine art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. |
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Recognized as a greatly talented student in the 1890s, Harry Robert Mileham has been recently “re-discovered”. He studied at the Royal Academy Schools from 1892—5, and was awarded the Schools’ premier prize for 1895 — the Gold Medal and Travelling Studentship for Historical Painting. It is recorded that Lord Leighton used his presidential casting vote, and it is easy to see why from the prizewinning picture The Finding of Moses. (Exhibited RA 1896 and Dublin 1907). It was “distinguished” said one critic “by its poetic imaginativeness, by a delightfully fluid rhythm”. |
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