Artwork Collection by Hay Hill Gallery

ARTWORK COLLECTION

McALPINE MILLER

McAlpine Miller Using subtle tones of paint McAlpine Miller creates the illusion of transparencies within his works. A reality that is so farfetched that it becomes a busy blur of objects which portray the idea of an energy-laden consumer society. Scottish-born artist Stuart McAlpine Miller, a graduate of Glasgow School of Art, displays all the characteristics of his home nation – tenacity, determination and a wry sense of humour.

He freely admits that he has been toiling at the coalface of the art world for the last twenty years and has only recently won the critical recognition he deserves. In 2012, McAlpine Miller received a momentuous accolade, when he was chosen as the artist in residence at The Savoy Hotel. His collection, entitled "A Time For Reflection" hangs in the Thames Foyer, one of the most popular parts of The Savoy where guests enjoy the hotel’s award-winning afternoon tea. As The Savoy’s artist in residence, McAlpine Miller fully immersed himself in the hotel's rich history, and elements of The Savoy, both past and present, can be seen in the layers of these intricately painted works. He has also enjoyed successful solo exhibitions with galleries as far flung as New York, and high-profile comissions as far as Hong Kong.

Read an interview with art critic Estelle Lovatt, (https://www.castlegalleries.com/assets/file/uploads/SM M_article.jpg) where she explains why McAlpine Miller is the artist to invest in. “This new series of works celebrates the culmination of ideas based upon the last 20 years. These paintings concentrate and focus on the fading of one idea into another with distorted images and abstracted thoughts. Based on the notion that we live in a throw away world each painting both suggests and questions the importance of certain celebrated things. Celebrity, Fame, Money and Greed feature as important issues for each of us. These are depicted as both fading memories and future hopes. The comic imagery signifies the unimportance of these things and helps to suggest that they have been manufactured for a temporary audience. Looking more closely the paintings illustrate a feeling of shallow existence. Surrounded by a myriad of colour, shapes and abstractions our lives are exactly the opposite. The ‘LIVING FOR THE MOMENT’ society, which actively encourages human singularism, seems almost unsustainable. Perhaps a return to truer values is the way forward. Certainly with current consumerism and appetite for fame and success, societies will neither progress nor benefit. Take a look…now take a closer look.” -McAlpine Miller

Ideas and Inspirations Contrasting themes of cartoons/superheroes, and stylish European models help to illustrate the unrealistic idealism that these celebrated objects present. Objects that we all desire,

whereas the reality is as impossible as the existence of the Disney characters and Superheroes.

These comic references do not only convey such, but the imagery also portrays the

unimportance of the celebrated objects. How the subject matter overlaps and fades into each other not only shows forgotten memories and aspirations but also illustrates a feeling of a shallow existence.

An admirer of traditional Old Masters such as Caravaggio and Bosch, McAlpine Miller nevertheless says he is most influenced by Andy Warhol - following the cult painters ethos that art is ultimately ‘a throw away thing that has value’. “Warhol's views on mass consumerism and the way he translated these into his art is something I really relate to and I hope my art does something similar and stands the test of time” explains McAlpine Miller.

McAlpine Miller Addressed To A Superman (diptych) Oil on canvas, with frame 122 x 91 cm each, without frame 85 x 55 cm each

McAlpine Miller Addressed To A Superman (Part I) Oil on canvas With frame 122 x 91 cm Without frame 85 x 55 cm

McAlpine Miller Addressed To A Superman (Part II) Oil on canvas With frame 122 x 91 cm Without frame 85 x 55 cm

NIKOLAY REZNICHENKO

Nikolay Reznichenko was born in Saratov region of Russia, in 1958. From 1982 Nikolay had lived in Karelia (Russia), where he taught painting and graphics. It was in Karelia, in 1986, where his first exhibition took place. Its success determined the future success of his works in many other exhibitions. That same year he moved to St Petersburg. From 1989 Nikolay

Reznichenko was a member of Free Arts Association where he permanently participates in all exhibitions. To a considerable extent his art was

influenced by the Russian Orthodox tradition of icon painting; he has direct experience in working with icons and restoring them.

Nikolay Reznichenko Rest (A Girl On A Red Sofa) Oil on canvas, 70 x 100 cm, 2005

WILLIAM FOREMAN

William Foreman is Britain's foremost palette-knife painter. This is indeed a notable achievement. However, there is also so much more to the work of William Foreman than this brief description implies since Foreman's genius for landscape does not reside in technique alone. Rather, the gift that Foreman possesses is that rare ability to convey the mood, atmosphere and essence of a location with instinctive veracity. To know the work of William Foreman is to understand the difference between representation and revelation. Many artists have the ability to represent a landscape - to faithfully portray the vision before them, often with photographic clarity. However, few artists are able to include their spiritual and psychological responses to that landscape in that same depiction. Fewer still have the talent necessary to communicate this metaphysical sub-text to a wider audience. William Foreman belongs to the select few.

Simon Corbin, Author and Critic, June 2000

William Foreman Moret-sur-Loing Oil on canvas 51 x 61 cm, 2009

William Foreman La Chapelle Mont Moreau After Snow Oil on canvas 51 x 61 cm, 2009

IGOR TCHOLARIA

Igor Tcholaria was born in 1959 in the small town of Ochamchiri. After applying to the Art College of Sukhumi, he spent the next three years there studying under the guidance of artist Givi Guergaya. Tcholaria became one of the first in the Soviet Union who earned a living by painting portraits in the street. During Gorbachev’s Perestroika, Tcholaria was noticed by the owner of Cenacolo gallery in Piacenza, the start of Tcholaria’s venture abroad. In Italy he had his first solo exhibition, soon followed by shows in Greece, Belgium and Netherlands, along with auctions and art fairs. Among other commissions, he was asked to paint two four-meter long murals for famous ocean liner, the Queen Mary II. In 2009 he won the gold medal for his aerographics on the latest Volvo C70, exhibited at the Millionaire’s Fair in Moscow. Igor Tcholaria’s paintings can be found in many well-known collections around the world, including those of Galliano and Pavarotti, as well as many international art collectors. His paintings also decorate the entrance hall of the May Fair Hotel in London. Igor Tcholaria’s finds beauty in the everyday, placing porcelain-skinned women within heavily patterned backgrounds, a Modilgliani-esque take on iconography. He plays around with contrasts of volume, changing his mind between two and three dimensional effects, loud and soft colours. Sooty eyes peer from under flattened hats, pale skirts and pantaloons billow out around them. The paintings might be decadent costume designs for an art nouveau burlesque.

Igor Tcholaria Sofie Oil on canvas 90 x 71 cm, 2013

Igor Tcholaria Colombina With Flowers Oil on canvas 90 x 70 cm, 2008

Igor Tcholaria Happy Day Oil on canvas 80 x 80 cm

ALEXANDER PIGAREV

Alexander Pigarev was born in 1959 in Saratov District of Russia. He studied in Saratov Art College and St Petersburg Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.

His works were exhibited in Russia, Ukraine, USA, Taiwan, Germany.

Pigarev’s paintings are in museums of St Petersburg Academy of Arts, Art Academy in New York, USA, museum Dragon in Taiwan .

Alexander Pigarev Bird (Summer Recollection) Oil on canvas 48 x 48 cm, 2000

Alexander Pigarev Eva Oil on canvas, 41 x 57 cm, 2003

Alexander Pigarev Still Life With Milk Jug Oil on canvas, 41 x 55 cm, 2002

Bird Coast Bird Town Town 110 x 160 110 x 170 170 cm cm Oil on canvas Oil on linen

Alexander Pigarev Apples Oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2002

Alexander Pigarev Egg And Nuts Oil on canvas, 45 x 54 cm, 2000

Alexander Pigarev Nocturne Oil on canvas 80 x 50 cm, 2003

Alexander Pigarev Nude Oil on canvas, 50 x 80 cm, 2003

JAMIE McCARTNEY

Jamie McCartney is a British artist who lives and works in Brighton. He trained at

Hartford

Art

School

(USA),

graduating in 1991. Initially McCartney

ran his own forge, making abstract animal

sculptures

subsequently

moved

steel.

into

sculpture,

prop making and special effects in the film industry, working on feature films such

Blackhawk

Down,

The

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Casino Royale. Both his degree in Experimental Studio Art and film industry

experience continue to inform his work. No subject is too controversial, nor any process or material off limits.

Jamie McCartney with The Impossibility of Passion

SKIN DEEP Subconsciously influenced by Escher, Dali and the other Surrealists, this piece is one of my favourites and the title sculpture of the exhibition. The spiralling peal around the female body, reveals the inside shapes of her skin as well as the outside. I’ve used the natural curves and features on her body to direct the lines of the spiral, concentrating on just the torso from the groin to the breast. She has a beautiful figure and the sculpture explores, in a prosaic way, whether beauty goes beyond the skin. This inner surface on each cast in the edition, is hammered by hand to achieve a contrast between the inside and outside of the figure. Usually the inside of a casting would not be visible and is just a rough unfinished texture. Here it is worked to a high level of finish, revealing my slightly obsessive side where I often finish the backs of my artworks that would generally never be seen. That makes each individual casting a little more unique than usual.

Jamie McCartney Skin Deep Bronze, 57 x 27 x 20 cm, edition of 9

KATIB MAMEDOV

Biographical information Katib Mamedov was born in 1963 in Azerbaijan. Graduated from Kharkov Industrial Art College. Since 1990, he is

a member of the Union of Artists of Russia and the Artists’ International Federation.

Collections where works are held His works can be found in private collections in Russia and abroad.

Participation in exhibitions and auctions He participated in exhibitions in Kharkov, Baku, Kiev, Moscow.

Katib Mamedov Innocence Bronze, granite base Sculpture 145 x 23 x 23 cm Base 12 x 27 x 27 cm Total height 157 cm

TIMUR AKHMEDOV

Timur Akhmedov is an artist from Uzbekistan. He was born in 1968 in Tashkent. Graduated from Art College. Since 1990, he is a participant of more than 40 exhibitions in Uzbekistan, England, Scotland, Germany, Russia and a winner of Grand Prix AsiaArt. His works are characterised by high tension in the harmony of colour, clear and simple only at first sight, this art often contains element of implicit symbolism. Akhmedov's art is an attempt to return to harmony, both inside oneself, and between oneself and the world, attempt to find a link with the world, and at the same time to fly away from it to the better world. His state of mind, generally characteristic for artists is similar to mediation in prayer. The special world is enclosed in his works. His pictures are the result of a creative alloy of the European art school and Central Asian cultural traditions, where the clear combination of Asian turquoise, warm ochre and cold red creates the space of the special musicality.

Timur Akhmedov's works are in many international private and corporate collections.

Still Life. Morning… Almond Oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm, 2003

Summer oil on canvas, 50 x 65 cm, 2003

Still Life Oil on canvas 79 x 89 cm 2005

VALENTIN ZENKOVSKY

Valentin Zenkovsky was born in Moscow in 1952. He started to paint in early 1970s in his native Moscow as a theatrical painter. There was some theatrics in his

paintings since each painting represented a prop. Sometime they looked like a shot from a movie. Each painting was in line with its own play and with the music, playing in the painter’s head while he was creating composition, mixing colours and putting them on canvas. It required different art techniques and materials. That’s why Valentin used oil, acrylic, tempera, watercolour, coloured pencils, etc., if it helped to achieve the desired result.

His education as a painter he started in the studio of the famous Soviet artist A.I. Laktionov. From the late 1980s till now Zenkovsky was showing his paintings at various galleries all over the world (more than 300 exhibitions). He sold more than 2000 paintings. Valentin is constantly looking for new themes, new art expressive means and working hard to apply the creative approaches in the painting process. Valentin Zenkovsky has PhD in engineering and he’s the author of 8 textbooks on computer graphics. These related fields of knowledge and skills are also helpful in art creation.

Valentin Zenkovsky Bamboo Oil on canvas 88 x 95 cm, 1996

Valentin Zenkovsky Panda-Father Oil on canvas 95 x 88 cm, 1996

MISCELLANEOUS

Andrey Demin, Autumn Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 cm, 2005

Andrey Demin, Russian Village Oil on canvas, 30 x 45 cm, 2005

Lipstein, Mediterranean Story Oil on canvas 50 x 60 cm

Valery Goshko, Belfry Oil on canvas, 70 x 90 cm, 1997

Olga Motovilova-Komova In The Garden (Landscape With Ermines) Oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm, 2003

Margaret Degtyareva Nude Oil on canvas 60 x 50 cm, 2009

Anna Petrova, Love For Oranges Oil on canvas, 76 x 101 cm, 2003

Anna Petrova, Evening In The Olive Grove Oil on canvas, 76 x 101 cm, 2003

Galina Glory Landscape Oil on canvas 70 x 80 cm

Galina Glory Venice Oil on canvas 61 x 51 cm

Anatoly Timoshkin The Kiss Oil on canvas 60 x 60 cm, 2001

Amir Timergaleev, Landscape With Yachts Oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm, 2004

Sergey Medzyanovsky From the series “The Whole World” Acrylic on canvas 100 x 80 cm, 1998

Oleg Tyrkin, Snail Oil on canvas, 35 x 50 cm, 2006

Oleg Tyrkin Sirin (Small) Oil on cardboard 35 x 25 cm, 2007

The Second World War Poster Print on paper 72 x 47 cm

The Second World War Poster Print on paper 71 x 49 cm

Yury Ermakov, German Feoktistov Cameleer Bronze, jasper, lazuli 16 x 12 x 13 cm

Yury Ermakov, German Feoktistov Camel With A Fork Bronze, jasper, turquoise, malachite 17 x 13 x 15 cm

Yury Ermakov, German Feoktistov Camel With A Trunk Bronze, jasper, turquoise 18 x 14 x 13 cm

Yury Ermakov, German Feoktistov Camel With Baskets Bronze, jasper, flint, kacholonge 17 x 12 x 14 cm

Yury Ermakov, German Feoktistov Crayfish Bronze, tinguait, garnet, 13 x 11 x 5 cm

Yury Ermakov, German Feoktistov Stegosaur Bronze, malachite, 23 x 11 x 10 cm

Vladimir Golovin Dance Bronze, granite 11.3 x 5 x 3.5 cm

Vladimir Golovin Universe Bronze, granite 12.5 x 3.3 x 4 cm

STANISLAV PLUTENKO STANISLAV PLUTENKO STANISLAV PLUTENKO

Stanislav Plutenko was born in 1961 in Moscow. Plutenko uses his own original method of painting, the mixed technique with use of oil, tempera, acrylic, watercolours, is skilfully supplemented by masterly application of an "air brush" and the finest glazing by transparent paints. Plutenko plays on colour contrasts, his painting style is vigorous, illustrative and imbued through by the use of sarcasm on the reality. In spite of the fact that the characters of his pictures are fattened and absolutely earthly ones, they are always astir - running, fluttering and flying somewhere. Having awkward bodies and unprepossessing faces they feel themselves angels and we are sympathetic towards them with their naiveté. With an identical acuteness he presents images of the people and visual psychological surroundings. In each genre stage with elements of grotesque style we can find the small history of life with symbolical underlying theme. His pictures stimulate in the spectators the scale of feelings, down to the protest, but not the indifference.

Stanislav Plutenko The Boatman IsanaraV (2004) Giclée and acrylic on canvas, 70 x 100 cm, 2005

Stanislav Plutenko The Mistress (2001) Giclée and acrylic on canvas 100 x 52 cm, 2005

Stanislav Plutenko I've Brought Coffee For You … (2002) Giclée and acrylic on canvas 100 x 52 cm, 2005

Stanislav Plutenko Icarus (2004) Giclée and acrylic on canvas 100 x 52 cm, 2005

Stanislav Plutenko Podium (2003) Giclée and acrylic on canvas 100 x 73 cm, 2005