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Concepts Relationship and identity are key themes - use of face as a vehicle for thought and emotion. The human face presents itself to me with all its personality and vitality. Develop my themes through various media. Painting intertwines the specific and the universal. Continued development of my photo silk-screen...
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I paint an imaginary world of woods, princes, anchoresses, Queens and cottages. The princes come in a range of disguises - their inspiration ranges from Disney to Slovakian puppets. They are always ridiculous. The process of translating the initial image into a painting is perhaps the most important thing for me. The cottages are maternal spaces,...
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Figurative painting & drawing compels me to infinitely study the delicacies and somewhat overwhelming variation of human physicality. I find the simple difference in appearance from one human to another captivating and a subject which I endeavour to portray in my current long term painting series of male & female sitters. With each figure...
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Profile Shelley Wilson has worked with the scientific community [research laboratories, hospitals and academic institutions] for the past 10 years. This has resulted in collaborations between Wilson and various scientists, clinicians and has culminated in a series of exhibitions that have been shown at diverse...
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Patrick Murphy is a visual artist, his studio practice is based in South Yorkshire, UK. His work is interdisciplinary, using a diverse range of media, skills and techniques. Much of his work is concerned with creating a dialogue with our surroundings and each other. Using familiar objects and themes he depicts the world around us, altering the...
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I am a painter originally from Gwynedd in North Wales, now based near Hay-on-Wye. I am interested in still life and paint mainly natural objects which I find, small easily overlooked objects such as berries, fruit and fungi. These objects are not chosen nor arranged to convey any overt symbolic meaning. I paint as an exploration of...
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With a background in science, the tension between those two sides of me (the artistic and the scientific) triggered most of my art work in recent years. Initially, I was making art on art (and through that investigated the questions What is art? and How does the art world work?). More recently, I explored the discrepancies between great...
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Anne Charnock's series of text posters reveal stuttering thoughts. They bring into the visual world the hesitancy that inhabits our everyday thinking. In her ongoing Uncertainty Series she gives solidity to her own meandering thoughts and indecisions about her art practice. The final work comprises a number of intertwining sentences produced...
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My work begins as a response to the often transient nature of experiencing colour, texture, weather, light and emotion. The northern landscape that surrounds me is one of beautiful moorland, urban sprawl, volatile weather, dereliction and regeneration. I look around at sky, stone, powerlines, horizons, building and clouds...Sometimes in detail...
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My practice combines public art, architecture, and education to examine themes of history, politics, identity and place. Much of my work is research based and site-specific, and evolves through a participatory process, which has developed from several years working in youth arts and participatory development. I trained as an architect...
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The work is concerned with ideas of identity, journeys and the search for individual freedom. Developed from freely imagined drawings, the images are open to interpretation by the viewer. Using paint, print, drawing and watercolour Sonia Martin has exhibited widely both here and abroad and her work is held in public and private collections...
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Concepts I am mainly concerned with discovering a structure that can inform, contain and stand for the experience of being in a particular place, a discovery informed by empathy and imagination as much as observation. Influences Constable, Cézanne, Matisse, Bomberg, Claude Rogers, Soutine, Uglow...
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Concepts My main focus is the interrelationship between photography and painting, primarily how photography can be used as the source for new paintings. I am also interested in film, especially horror. From these combined elements I attempt to generate an atmosphere in the paintings through scene setting....
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My work explores the relationship between image and form; I work with the genres of portrait and landscape making reference to moments in the history of painting in my sculptures. I am drawn to the painted portrait, the act of ‘meeting’ the image of a subject, and the uncanny effect of time being condensed through the painted surface. I work...
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My practice is essentially about the non material, an intuitive voice that only the visual can speak. I believe that there is another reality apart from the material world, which we can gain access to through contemplation. "The decisive question for man is this: is he related to something infinite or not?". (Jung) My paintings strive to...
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My practice is rooted in the tradition of performance within visual arts, expressed through photography and video as well as live performance. The starting point of all my work is a research on the potential of communication within the physicality of the body, its inherent physical and emotional memory and knowledge. In a response to...
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Concepts Images developed from close up observational studies in sketch books, often relating to childhood activities: looking into rock pools, playing on the beach, making daisy chains, collecting buttons, shells, pressing flowers, The Princess and the Pea (fairytale), aquariums, ponds and tropical fish.
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Concepts Main body of work completed in oil. Small figure studies in acrylic. Etching on copper and steel plates using recognised techniques. Almost all the work is painted from life models and still life in the studio, land and seascapes usually outside. Interiors, pubs, clubs, musicians etc. completed using working...
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Concepts Dreamlike images of flowers where the focus is on colour and pattern. Colour still life's, based on organic forms. Black and white portraits of children, some hand-coloured. Portraits of African or Caribbean people, both for aesthetic and social reasons. Influences Photographers Olivia Parker,...
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Concepts In my artistic practice, which includes writing and curatorship, I focus on the dialogue between the means of artistic production (text, installation, audio, video, performance) and the framework constituted by artwork, context and audience. I intend my artistic practice as a space where the above triad...
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Teaching Experience: 1989/90 Visiting Lecturer, Royal Academy Schools 1986/94 Lecturer in Sculpture, Newcastle University Areas of work: Sculpture, environmental and sculpture in the public realm Collections: Northern Arts University of Newcastle Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea read more

Influences As a student the works of The Fauves, Van Gogh, Matisse and later, David Hockney were of great interest to me and I was also strongly influenced by the Abstraction and Mathematical content of works by Kandinsky and Rothko. My images arise out of the many things I see around me, both people and...
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The process of drawing with a sewing machine is akin to holding your pen in a clamp and moving your paper around underneath. This gives the drawing a freedom and fluidity and a slight awkwardness which are the qualities I love most about machine embroidery. It's a bit like drawing with your left hand (being right-handed). That said, I've become...
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Concepts My practice has involved the exploration of locations through the use of maps. The locations include interior spaces and landscape. The maps are used to create references to location both metaphorically and symbolically and to provide the basis for explorations of space. The significance of maps with their...
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Concepts I am essentially concerned with colour and texture but also work with the idea that a painting does not have to be contained by its edge. That boundaries do not exist, begin or end at the paintings edge. That a piece of work, whether it contains two to make up a 'piece' or six...or more, can extend...
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I see myself primarily as a still life painter, using seemingly everyday objects to express my own eccentric, and fanciful visions of the world around me.  My work is influenced by the Dutch still life painters of the 17th Century, painters like Pieter Caesz and Willem Kalf, and contemporary artists like Ralph Goings.  Photography is an...
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Concepts The main concern of my work is the realistic portrayal of figurative subjects. I specialise in portraits of people and animals, particularly horses: since I was a small child I have been enthralled by the beauty of horses, endlessly observing the grace of movement and form, and striving to capture that essence...
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Concepts My interest in medieval narrative and tradition arises in part from a wish to explore the possibilities of parallel and layered narratives in response to multimedia technologies and questions surrounding the nature of authorship. This has been combined with the relationship between landscape and narrative, its...
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My work is celebratory. Earthed and earthy. The Fenland of East Anglia with its black earth, big skies and keen east wind was the landscape of my formative years. There I learned to relish open space, to endure and enjoy the physical sensations of weather and to respond to subtle shifts of light and seasonal rhythms. Years on, the desire remains...
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Through my work I am looking at some of the fundamental dynamics underlying environmental processes and phenomena. I am specifically interested in explorations of growth events, moments of process and ideas relating to states of flux. A factor that I recognise as conferring a vital, visual and conceptual tension to the work is that the...
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I produce paintings, photographic prints, installation work and public commissioned works, which includes imagery applied to architectural glass. My work looks at how we relate to pictorial imagery, how technology is influencing our approach to it and how the materials used contribute to that image. Finished works often lend themselves to an...
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Gillian Brent’s work investigates the physical presence, purpose and significance of structures in the environment and how they affect people’s social and intuitive behaviour. Her sculptural installations question and react to the notion of functionality, cause and effect. The resulting works appear to have a structural or functional purpose...
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