WINTER EXHIBITION MENIER GALLERY 13TH - 17TH DEC 1
FOCUS LDN’S 2016 WINTER EXHIBITION The Menier Gallery | 13th - 17th December
Taking place in London Bridge’s prestigious Menier Gallery, Focus LDN is proud to be hosting our first annual Winter Exhibition. Taking a break from the themed exhibitions which Focus LDN has championed throughout this year, the Winter Exhibition curates the best artwork selected from an open call unbound from any conceptual motive. The twenty-eight artists were chosen from hundreds of applicants on the merit of their originality, passion, and dedication to their subjects. Displaying a variety of visual art including photography, painting, drawing, embroidery, digital collage, prints and much more, this exhibition is sure to have artwork which appeals to all tastes. Launching the week before Christmas, Focus LDN’s Winter Exhibition is a great opportunity to discover a whole host of original and affordable artwork and prints. Exhibiting Artists Aurelie Freoua, Billy Riley, Brad Kenny, David Hopkins, Ernesto Romano, Gail Seres-Woolfson, Gary Hogben, Gerard Byrne, Jamie Twyman, Jeremy Burns, Jonathan Gray, KV Duong, Laura Marriott, Laurence Causse-Parsley, Malcolm Willett, Martin Grover, Martin Ireland, Michelle Loa Kum Cheung, Monika Bulanda, Niamh Murray, Riaz Sanatian, Roberto Grosso, Robyn Lister, Sarah Fosse, Tom Cox, Val Kelly, Yuliya Krylova, and Zoe Webster. Focus LDN would like to thank all of those who have made 2016 such a fantastic year! We promise to keep growing, improving and to continue bringing you the most dynamic artwork in 2017!
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Aurelie Freoua.
“Painting is my way to describe my perception of visible reality and to obtain visual representation of our unconscious. I attempt to question the notion of the invisible, to paint pure emotions and express intensity through colour, shape and movement. I want to create a symphony of colours evolving in an ideal world, letting them meet and play freely on the canvas. I would define my art as a temporal analysis of emotions, highlighting the poetic dimension of the instant. This deep exploration is my way to approach truth and responds to a constant search for absolute.”
Rainbow Spiral IV, 2016. Oil on canvas 90 x 90 cm £2,500
Rainbow Spiral I, 2016. Oil on canvas 90 x 90 cm £2,500
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Billy Riley. “My love for geometric shapes comes from being a fan of comics, between each cell of the story there were often white lines separating the images; these would distract me from the actual story and since then I have always enjoyed basic and abstract geometric shapes.
Gridded Biggy, 2015. Mixed media on canvas 50 x 60 cm £250
For me most, if not everything can be broke down into basic shapes and my work is trying to understand how these shapes work with and around one another in an effort to understand the dynamics of shape and colour. Using a mix of acrylic inks and spray paint I look to achieve a varity in tones and colours within the confines of the straight lines”
Blueprint I, 2016. Mixed media on cartridge paper 40 x 22 cm £100 framed
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Brad Kenny.
Hindsight, 2016. Oil on canvas. 51 x 51 x 51 cm. £230
Vibe, 2016, Oil on canvas. 51 x 51 x 51 cm. £230
Joanne, 2016, Oil on canvas 42 x 30 cm £195
“I explore identity, emotion, and character through portraiture and figurative representation. My paintings recently explored extreme personal emotions through self-portrature encouraging a series of paintings to explore metaphorical, spiritual, and physical recovery inspired by dance movement. Drawing on my own emotional experiences, I feel, allows me to capture authenticity of emotion in my paintings. As a dyslexic artist I find that painting expresses language in a way that for me is not easily written/verbally expressed. My preferred style of abstract mark-making is an instinctive process. I am fascinated to apply paint to a two dimensional surface, creating representations of a person, projecting consciousness/emotion and evoking a reaction.”
Climb, 2015, Oil on canvas. 125 x 150 cm. £850
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Untitled, 2015. Mono print, oil on card. 56 x 74 cm £155 framed
Untitled, 2015. Mono print, oil on card 56 x 74 cm. £155 framed
Untitled, 2012. Oil on paper. 687 x 87 cm £210 framed
Untitled, 2012 Oil on paper. 87 x 87 cm £210 framed
David Hopkins. “Almost everything I could say about my paintings could at once be contradicted. I mostly paint in oils – but I do occasionally paint in acrylics or watercolour. I find it fits me better to paint large – but some of my works are very small. I’m primarily a painter – but I do draw. I paint best from life – but I didn’t always, and may not always. I mostly paint people – but I also paint portraits of things. My paintings are generally meditative, serious – but my cake and vegetable paintings are light-hearted. Colour preoccupies me but not everything has to be a riot of colour. Generally three things occupy me in painting: looking at the subject; looking inside the subject; and making a strong and harmonious artefact. I’m a realist figurative painter but artworks also have to be conceptual and abstract constructions. “
Vegetables, 2016. Acrylic on canvas blocks 78 x 76 x 6 cm £950
Chessplayer from Granada, Spain. 2014 Oil on canvas 154 x 134 x 7 cm £2500
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Ernesto Romano.
“Ernesto ’s work mostly involves plants with flowers and human anatomy (medical records, prosthetics, old anatomical charts, human skin etc), but some of his latest works use medical records on their own, or with plants on the other side. The combination of nature with technology applied to the medical science is his way to reflect on the condition of being human and the effort to explore what we do and why we do it, and to push the powerful tools of human mind. His work is focused on the individual, and it always divides the ego into matter and mind.”
Blood Type G(a), 2016. Digital print with glitter 75 x 90 cm £790
Magic Mushrooms(a), 2016
8 Digial print with glitter 50 x 65 cm £550
Blood Type G(b), 2016. Digital print with glitter 75 x 90 cm £790
Magic Mushrooms(b), 2016 Digial print with glitter 50 x 65 cm £550
Gail Seres-Woolfson. “Gail Seres-Woolfson is a London based artist whose current work explores urban experience: travelling through, around and into the city. Concrete and shadows, permanence and flux, moving upwards, outwards, inwards. The painting emerges from an interplay of structure and spontaneity, observation and reimagining, and the layered built environment becomes almost a stage-set, alive with angles, uprights and the possibility of encounter.”
Urban Fragments, 2016 Mixed media on canvas paper 37 x 27 cm £240 framed
Urban Collosus, 2016 Mixed media on canvas paper 37 x 27 cm £240 framed
Urban Metropolis, 2016 Oil & acrylic on board 68 x 66.5 cm £650 framed Street Scene with Shadows, 2015 Acrylic on paper 54 x 41 cm £300 framed
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Gary Hogben.
“Who is Gary Hogben? a middle aged English chap living in Kent, a part time artist who is now finding success later in life with his pieces featuring in magazines such as GQ and Vogue. He now mainly produces stamp collages using real postage stamp stuck onto canvas, which have resulted in quite a few international sales.“
God Save the Queen, 2016 Postage stamps on canvas 102 x 76 cm £1,600
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The Union Jack, 2016 Postage stamps on canvas 102 x 76 cm £800
Gerard Byrne. “Born in Dublin in 1958, is one of the Ireland’s leading contemporary painters. His artwork has been exhibited in galleries in Dublin, Berlin, New York, London and Brighton, where he currently lives. His extensive collection of work represents a great scope of versatility. He captures the impressions of nature, architecture and industrial landscape. He is also well known for his stunning floral pieces and large extravagant figurative works. Although Gerrard’s artistic talent had been recognised from an early age, only in his early thirties he decided to devote himself solely to painting. This summer for the first time Gerard participated in the international Pintar Rapido plein air painting competitions where, in London, he won the 2nd prize. His paintings are to be found in the Irish Government’s Art Collections and in numerous commercial and private collections across Europe, in the UK, America, Australia, New Zealand and China.” Forever Green III, 2016. Oil on canvas triptych 3 x 40 x 40 cm £2,000
Forever Green II, 2016. Oil on canvas triptych 3 x 40 x 40 cm £2,000 Forever Green I, 2016. Oil on canvas 76 x 122 cm £2,500
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Jamie Twyman.
Detached, 2016 Digital collage, 40 x 50 cm £195 Memory Shard, 2016 Digital collage, 50 x 70 cm £295
Adornment, 2016 Digital collage, 30 x 42 cm £95
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Metasis, 2016 Digital collage, 30 x 42 cm £95
Inti-M8, 2016 Digital collage, 30 x 42 cm £95
“My method is digital collage – created by using various source material, then cutting, pasting, and transforming these images to make a single work. This usually means incorporating many separate images through scanning. My general underlying themes relate to vintage appliances and technology, science fiction, robotics, portraiture, and retro-futurism.”
Jeremy Burns. “My paintings are composed in a similar way to music. They’re often not drawn directly from anything in reality, but use the interaction of colour and form instead of musical notes. Through a process trial and error, one mark follows another like the notes of a melody until a unified piece comes together. I’m interested in imagery that has a certain ambiguity, which can come to life with emerging forms, shifting as the brain tries to make sense of it. Cubism and Futurism have had a strong influence on my work, with a focus on their angular shapes and structures, as opposed to an interpretation of something that has been observed.”
Tiktaalik, 2016. Oil on Board 48.5 x 58 cm £650 framed
Storyteller, 2015. Oil on Board 52 x 42 cm £500 framed
Mode #1, 2015. Oil on Board 48.5 x 58 cm £500 framed
Founders, 2016. Oil on Board 48.5 x 58 cm £650 framed
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Jonathan Gray. “Selected by the Haworth Prize exhibition as well as being awarded the Sunderland Echo Prize. My interest and aim is to build up layers of lines which create a sense of movement and energy. The starting point for all of my work is drawing outlines in fine liner to capture movement, before adding hints of colour. Although using photography as source material I work quickly to create linear nuances and build details, such as the lamp posts and windows on the buildings, rapidly onto the paper. Using this technique I strive to encompass and create vibrancy in all of my artwork. My main artistic inspiration is Norman Cornish.”
View from the Tate, 2016. Watercolour & Fine liner on Paper 43 x 53 cm £245 framed View of the Shard, 2016 Watercolour & Fine liner on Paper 14 43 x 53 cm £245 framed
Cranes by Tower Bridge, 2016. Watercolour & Fine liner on Paper 43 x 53 cm £245 framed
Looking Towards the Financial District, 2016. Watercolour & Fine liner on Paper 43 x 53 cm £245 framed
KV Duong.
First Dance, 2012 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 80 cm £495 framed
Fluidity of Life, Part II, 2015 Acrylic on wooden pallet 65 x 95 cm £995
“My art is an extension of who I am: honest, personable, introspective, curious and evolving. I use my life experiences to try and connect with people. The topics of human relationships, human emotions, physical environment and life experiences are explored through various mediums, forms and techniques. These thoughts, questions and answers are articulated through my creations. The range of work is varied depending on my mind-set during a given period; at present, my work is focused on the migrant crisis. I’m experimenting with a different medium (wood pallet) and different technique (crumpled printouts) to translate my thoughts across.”
Mom, are we home yet? Part I, 2016 Pen and pencil on paper 115 x 65 cm £995
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Laura Marriott. DublinTotem, 2016 Scuptural, Digital embroidery on leatherette 25 x 73 cm £400 framed
BeetleHat 2016 Sculptural, Digital embroidery on leatherette 28 x 23 cm £150 framed
DurhamFlower, 2016 Sculptural, Digital embroidery on leatherette 28 x 23 cm £150 framed
ListeningLily, 2016 Sculptural, Digital embroidery on leatherette 24 x 24cm £150 framed
BeetleNose, 2016 Sculptural, Digital embroidery on leatherette 23 x 43 cm £300 framed
“Laura’s current project “Digital Tribe”, is inspired by a deep cultural fascination with tribal art and traditional objects accumulated on personal travels around the world. Further influenced by the rich colours of Mayan art, and paralleled with inspiration from nature. With a love to experiment with digital embroidery, she stretches and layers stitches to create unusual and exciting textures. Her design process, allows her to design shapes individually, then to carefully construct these pieces together to form playful motifs. These formations come to life, as they are manipulated by hand to build quirky character compositions that are full of charisma.” 16
DurhamBeetle, 2016 Sculptural, Digital embroidery on leatherette 24 x 24 cm £150 framed
NarrativeLace, 2016 Digitally embroidered lace 53 x 43 cm £700 framed CactusBrain, 2016 Sculptural, Digital embroidery on leatherette 24 x 24 cm £150 framed
RiverMan, 2016 Sculptural, Digital embroidery on leatherette 28 x 23 cm £150 framed
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Laurence Causse-Parsley.
“The inspiration behind the Urban Landscape series, is my experience of the modern metropolis chaotic medley. It requires to experiment a lot of different technics and media. My most recent work, Lost and Found, incorporates found objects, humdrum waste products of building sites or human activities. In the surrealist art practice, objects are not found by chance. They pre-exist in the artist unconscious mind. The eye of the artist gives it a new lease of life, its unexpected beauty to be discovered by all. The association of a semi-abstract painting and “found objects“ helps me to create a new language to tell the powerful destruction-creation process at work around us.”
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Lost and found, 2016 Mix media on canvas 37.5 x 47.5 cm £400
Urban Medley, 2016 Enamel paint on white aluminium 56 x 71 cm £400
Labyrinth, 2016 Mix media on canvas 37.5 x 47.5 cm £400
Malcolm Willett.
“Malcolm Willett’s paintings are spontaneous explosions of colour, where the paint is the performer, and the artist merely lights the blue touch paper and stands back…. well not quite! There is method to these colourful displays. The “recipe” for the two paintings was developed by veteran abstract painter Alan Gouk and demonstrated in a workshop at Hampstead School of Art. It combines handmade paper, a background of loose gouache paint, topped with thick acrylic…. delicious! Malcolm’s experience and years of looking at other painters’ work guides the choices of colour and how it is applied, but always with an eye to creating a happy accident.”
Seismic Shift, 2015 Acrylic & gouache on paper 93 x 73 cm £950 framed
Rise Before the Fall, 2015 Acrylic & gouache on Paper 93 x 73 cm £950 framed
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Martin Grover.
“After studying at Croydon, Trent and the RA Schools sometime last century Martin has exhibited extensively. A love of old singles led him to start a series of record portraits in 2002. The songs are the main attraction but the design and ephemeral nature of the paper record sleeves are of equal importance. Skilfully painted and lovingly detailed they celebrate and lament a golden age that resonates still. An enthusiastic screen printer Martin paints directly on to the screen creating richly layered prints that capture cityscapes of Brixton, West Norwood and beyond as well as more haunting pieces based on anecdotes, poems and songs.”
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Miss The Mississippi And You, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 105 x 105 cm £1,975
Peace River Story, 2015 Limited edition screen print 56 x 38 cm £200 unframed. £270 framed.
Wichita Lineman, 2015 Limited edition screen print of 2 56 x 38 cm £200 unframed. £270 framed.
False Security (after John Betjeman), 2014 Limited edition screen print of 50 38 x 56 cm £200 unframed £270 framed
Ode To Billie Joe, 2015 Limited edition screen print of 29 56 x 38 cm £200 unframed. £270 framed.
Martin Ireland.
Nude for Thought, 2015. Oil on canvas 50 x 50 cm £495
“London is transforming its physical outlook faster than at any time since the war. I focus on spaces opened up when buildings are demolished. We see negative spaces where people once lived and worked. These gaps are elusive and temporary as building sites are filled in and developed. Painting is a physical and imaginative act and about connection with places and the figure. My figurative work searches for the physical form and invites us into them as though we have stumbled across a figure in a dream or private space. The nude can be honest, seductive, vulnerable and liberating.”
Mind the Gap, 2016 Oil on canvas 80 x 80 cm £1200
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Michelle Loa Kum Cheung.
“Michelle Loa Kum Cheung’s art is a study of the fragmentation and fabrication of memory and place, real or imagined. To inform her work, she draws on the natural world as a symbol of constant transience and decay. Loa Kum Cheung’s current practice is a response to her own dislocation from her cultural heritage and identity as an Australian with a Chinese Mauritian background. She employs the use of oil, liquid graphite, gold leaf and pyrography in her paintings and drawings, favouring the raw materiality of wood as a base. Referencing contrasting modes of documentation, from old family photos to satellite earth imagery, Loa Kum Cheung aims to fabricate nostalgia for an imagined past and place, both familiar and alien.” A Divided Fabrication, 2016 Oil & pyrography on wood 85 x 65 cm £900
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Passage, 2016. Oil & pyrography on wood 51 cm diameter £625
Monika Bulanda.
“Polish artist and musician for the last 8 years residing in Turkey. In my works I mostly use my own technique that I discovered in 2011 through many experiments with different media. The technique consists of collage in the form of geometrical perspective images with the 3D acrylic touch My works can be classified in different series. Starting with the urban images concerning multi-faced aspects of developing, multi cultural, mass metropolises recently I ‘’turned my interest’’ into abstract geometrical images with the abundance of pixel like mosaics that are also an influence of Middle Eastern Mosaics combined with video that form futuristic images. The subjects of my interest can be described as the inconsistencies, echoes and excesses of the past one hundred years,collages inside the mosaic contain stories and images from modern media or simply newspapers stories, with aspects of pop art and sometimes even taking the audience to a time travel experience.”
Concern, 2014 Mixed media on plexiglass 58 x 80 cm £2,200
Vision and Perspective, 2016 Mix media on wood 80 X 89 cm £3,000
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Niamh Murray.
Behemooth, 2016. Screen Print 48 x 35 cm £175
“Niamh Murray is a multi-disciplinary artist interested in journey’s and journeying. Her work, although often personal, will spill over as a universal lesson or metaphor for her audience to pick up on. She believes in the power of the shaman as much as she believes in the power of the dream. Niamh shares intimate and personal ‘journeys’ that she says ‘bring to the surface a net of synchronicities that seemingly surround us’. The artworks should be read as a record of having passed over some form of threshold, whether this is from waking to dreaming or from reality (consciousness) to the non-ordinary reality of the subconscious.” Panspermia, 2016. Giclée print on Hahnemuhle German Photo rag 59 x 84 cm £275
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Krystallos One, 2016. Giclée print on Hahnemuhle German Photo rag 59 x 84 cm £275
Beheemooth, 2016. Digital collage 59 x 42 cm £75
Riaz Sanatian.
RIAZ-A1-2, 2016 Ink on photographic paper 63 x 94 cm £500 framed
RIAZ-A2-1, 2016 Ink on paper 73 x 53 cm £300 framed
RIAZ-A1-3, 2016 Ink on paper 63 x 94 cm £500 framed
RIAZ-A2-2, 2016 Ink on paper 73 x 53 cm £300 framed
“I am an abstract artist. I work mainly with ink and paper. Generally, but not always, the images tend towards the monochrome or a sober and limited range of colours. They tend to take place within a clearly delimited rectangle, the edges being an important element of the image. The marks may be geometric, calligraphic or abstract. Themes and ideas usually evolve from one work to the next, and they frequently run in series. I also work in 3-D. My 3-D works are sometimes constructed from found objects and weathered materials with their own history and organic marks, superimposed with my calligraphic and ink marks.” 25
Roberto Grosso. “My digital art takes its inspiration from music and is produced in metal, metallic paper or perspex. One of the key elements of my art is the vibrant use of colors and the use of Augmented Reality, which helps bring the artwork to life by showing the stages of its creation with a soundtrack of the music that inspired it.”
Big Empty, 2015 Digital print on brush metal 59 x 84 x 3 cm £1,000
All Apologies, 2016 Digital print on brush metal 59 x 84 x 3 cm £1,000
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One Armed Scissor, 2016 Digital print on brush metal 84 x 118 cm £1,500
Robyn Lister. “I am a self taught Australian artist who has been selling my works for the last ten years to raise money for charity. I have a real passion for realism, particularly reflections and enjoy the challenge of recreating images in different mediums. I predominantly work with acrylic, charcoal and coloured pencil”.
London peak hour through raindrops, 2015 Acrylic on canvas 46 x 56 cm £300
Strawberry in water: Coloured, 2016 Pencil on black paper 43 x 53 cm £200
London bus through raindrops, 2013 Acrylic on canvas 61 x 61 cm £375
Bubbles, 2016 White charcoal and ink on black paper 43 x 53 cm £200 framed
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Sarah Fosse. St Paul’s Reflections, 2016 HD Gloss on aluminium print (1/25) 75 x 150 cm £1,595
Heading Home, 2016 HD Gloss on aluminium print (1/25) 40 x 40 cm £295
“Sarah Fosse is a highly distinctive cityscape painter. Using a bold palette she deconstructs and distorts the urban landscape to create a series of unique and vivid paintings. She is passionate about colour, its energy, strength and potential. Her influences are expressionism and fauvism. Sarah has exhibited extensively in London including the Royal College of Art, Menier Gallery, Truman Brewery, Battersea Power Station and Oxo Tower Gallery. Her work has been featured by London Live TV, London Underground and the Wall Street journal and is held in private and corporate collections worldwide including Ernst and Young and Marks and Spencer.” Westminster Reflection, 2016 HD Gloss on aluminium print (1/25) 27 x 22 cm £195
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Tower Bridge Reflections, 2016 HD Gloss on aluminium pwrint (1/25) 27 x 22 cm £195
Tom Cox. Villiers Street, 2013 Aerosol & oil on canvas 122 x 91 cm £995
“Tom’s paintings engage with the social and architectural evolution of modern day London. He carefully considers the balance between the human narrative evoked from his subjects, with the bold angularity of the urban landscape. Construction and regeneration offer him an outlet to portray rough, bold material physicality in his technique. He uses Indian ink to sketch out his scenes as a starting point and serves the initial freedom of the ink as he develops the artwork with oil paints. Often using the palette knife to gain depth in his image he explores the textures and sculptural qualities of the paint on his canvas.”
Brian, 2014 Oil on canvas 70 x 100 cm £595
Winter’s Walk - Chelsea, 2016 Oil & Ink on canvas 40 x 50 cm £750
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Val Kelly. “An original ongoing collection of limited edition black & white images taken by a visual artist who appears to have an innate ability of capturing the invisibility of our taken for granted contemporary modern day surroundings & deftly transforming them into highly visible timeless sensient, feely, touchy, emotionally charged artistic pieces of nostalgia.”
Marble Arch at Night, 2013 Hahnemuhle Fine Art Lt Ed Print of 250 70 x 50 cm £450
St Paul’s Approach London, 2009 Hahnemuhle Fine Art Lt Ed Print of 250 70 x 50 cm £450
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Tallship – Greenwich London, 2015 Sleek Aluminium - Kodak Premium professional print 60 x 30 cmw £350
The Future? - Vauxhall Station London, 2011 Hahnemuhle Fine Art Lt Ed Print of 250 70 x 50 cm £450
London Victoria Station - Belgravia, 2011 Hahnemuhle Fine Art Lt Ed Print of 250 70 x 50 cm £450
Yuliya Krylova.
Happiness, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 91 x 60 cm £1,500
I will bend time for you, 2016 Acrylic & ink on canvas 40 x 40 cm £860
“Yuliya V Krylova is an artist who works across a number of disciplines including costume, fashion design, painting and performance art. Her work revolves around storytelling, with real and fictional characters. She paints stories and invites her viewers to imagine and recreate their own by engaging with the imagery.”
Travelling through, 2016 Acrylic & ink on canvas 50 x 60 cm £860
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Zoe Webster. “Zoe’s influences are wide and varied. Extensive travels influence her choice of subject developing her own style influenced by impressionism. Zoe continues to live and work in London, with private collectors and exhibiting her work on a regular basis.”
Gondolas, 2014 Oil on canvas 46 x 56 cm £875
Sunflowers, 2015 Oil on canvas 42 32 x 51 cm £725
Venetian dawn, 2014 Oil on canvas 71 x 59 cm £1,200
Poppies in Provence, 2016 Oil on canvas 48 x 61 cm £725
Poppies, 2014 Oil on canvas 15 x 18 cm £525