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Luminaire Arts was founded to represent original, emerging and established British artists. Started from a London studio where artists wanted to showcase their work collectively to art lovers, interior designers and architects all year round, not just through exhibitions and fairs which run for a couple of days. By working with artists directly from their studios, we have a portfolio of innovative, exciting art for you to choose from. In addition, you can commission original artworks for your space. Luminaire Arts is an organic collective platform, which works in partnership with artists. Some of our recent clients and projects have included the Biltmore Hotel, Chelsea Barracks, Mandarin Oriental, Claridge's, The Berkeley and various Super Yachts.
MICHELLE 3D ARTIST
Michelle’s art is work of elegant simplicity which, in itself, is the first of many seductions into a complex network of tensions. The work is bedded in the clear space between opposites; the movement captured in stillness; the fragility and
ephemerality of nature captured in the strength and permanence of industrial, man-made materials; inexorable freedom within the clinically defined limitations of space. It is the dialogue that takes place between these polarities that engage so forcefully. Whilst utilising symbols found in nature that have a timeless constancy, the methods and media used are innovative applications of contemporary industrial materials subtly handled so that even the closest scrutiny give almost no intimation of their origins. This play between the timeless and the immediate is at the heart of Michelle's work. However tranquil the order of the instant may seem it cannot segregate itself from the
underlying chaos of nature and it is into this engagement with chaos that we are lured, so unassumingly, by the captivating simplicity of order
Swallows
MICHELLE 3D ARTIST
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Michelle’s single woven elements combine into stunning installations. They are fragments of something that you know and there is something quite light and airy about them, they do give an uplifting feel to any space. There’re some lovely shapes that she uses, and the rust and gold colours can set off any kind of room. She’s a tactile artist who creates gorgeous, textured pieces.
MONETTE GLASS ARTIST
Monette works primarily in glass. Her work is influenced by nature’s patterns and structures. She creates installations and sculptural pieces that reference the natural world. Monette has worked with glass for the over 10 years and graduated with her Masters from the Royal college of Art in 2014. Alongside making her own work, she teaches glass making at Richmond Adult
Community College.
Momentary Shift
Dawning Transformation
Evolving Movement
MONETTE GLASS ARTIST
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Monette works in beautifully formed glass. Each piece is delicately created by hand and really catches the light. Due to the intensive process of making each element, you get a truly unique art installation. Her sculptures are reminiscent of marine life, especially corals. Monette’s pieces are very calming which makes them perfect for spa environment or a relaxing area.
ANTHONY G MIXED MEDIA ARTIST
Anthony’s love of exploring the nature of paint and metal leaf takes him on a journey of the earth’s elements through to astronomy.
“It is an uncontrolled adventure, always a surprise. I am only the facilitator and my hands are the tools.”
Grey Dusk
Rusted - Bronze
ANTHONY G MIXED MEDIA ARTIST
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Anthony creates pieces with sumptuous colours, minerals and elements. There’s something almost sculptural about the work as all the textured elements combine into each piece. The tones and pigments used in each artwork are very dramatic. While the pieces are abstract, the way that the stains are applied makes you feel like you are viewing something graphical in its nature.
NANDO SCULPTOR
Usually Nando works are inspired by elements of nature, but always without a defined shape. Nando especially loves water, clouds, fire, etc... All these elements appear with an everchanging form as he tries to represent this continuous metamorphosis of his works.
River
Caracola
Water Dance (Bronze)
Water Dance (Aluminium)
NANDO SCULPTOR
A word from Gallery Director Paresha RajBurnett
Nando is a classically trained sculptor. At any one time he has several tones of stone in his studio ready to carve into his sculptural forms and he visits the Carrara Quarry in Italy to pick the best stones to then go on to carve his forms. Nando is very intricate in his process and creates stunning sculptures, Again, if you have any of his sculptures, you’ll notice that as you walk around you can get a different story.
ISOBEL CERAMIC ARTIST
Isobel has a passion for porcelain; she
creates contemporary art, lighting and interior decorations. Working with porcelain paper clay has allowed Isobel to explore the boundaries of design. Her unique pieces are inspired by the world around us. They appear simple but, on closer inspection, reveal a stunning use of form, texture and depth
Ruffles O
Murmeration
Seascape
Leaf and Bowl Series
Lilypad Series
Organic Leaf and Ruffle Series
ISOBEL CERAMIC ARTIST
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Isobel’s pieces are formed and fired in several firings. You can tell that each element is hand formed, as she takes her time meticulously crafting each of the sculptures. If you’ve ever worked with Isobel you will know that she's a real perfectionist. For all our projects for installations she will go into the space and have a vision for how it can be placed in the space so people can really enjoy it.
CHELSEA MIXED MEDIA ARTIST
Chelsea uses materials and techniques associated with both disciplines: painting and sculpture. Starting with unusual bases like concrete, steel or copper, she pours or dribbles paint, layers plaster or delicate gold leaf, then scrapes, cracks or corrodes her medium to get the effect she is searching for.
As an art student, Chelsea was profoundly influenced by field trips to a coalmine in Wales, to stone quarries in Portland, Dorset, and particularly to the former shipyard, Swan Hunter, in the North-East of England. She still has a vivid memory of standing in the foundry, watching as formidable metals became malleable through intense pressure and heat. "I
can still feel the freezing cold and recall the colour and intense heat of the furnace and the smell of molten metal" she says. It was a formative experience and Chelsea knew she wanted to bring out the whole "harmonious, elemental' process in her work, or as she puts it: "Make something beautiful and delicate out of something as uncompromising as steel, stone, copper or lead or as delicate as gold, silver, copper leaf."
Squaring the Circle
Red Dawn
CHELSEA MIXED MEDIA ARTIST
A word from Gallery Director Paresha RajBurnett
When looking at Chelsea’s work, you can definitely see landscapes within them, even within the circular pieces. you can see evidence of landscape elements. Chelsea is very meticulous in her process and the way she layers oils upon oils and textured mediums and then finishes them with layers of real gold leaf. There is something really intriguing in the way she works. The overall effect is very beautiful and
again, Chelsea is another artist whose work you have to see in person.
JEN MIXED MEDIA ARTIST
Born in Cape Town, south Africa, Jen currently works in Oxfordshire. Jen has "mapped" the journeys of both her life and her ancestors. The study of
clay has influenced the use of surface and texture. Using natural earth pigments, minerals, oil paint and silver leaf with the unique resin element, she creates the contrast between the dynamics of earth and water. Her work is found in private collections, corporate headquarters, luxury hotels and super yachts in Europe, Russia, Japan, the Middle East, USA, South Africa, Barbados and Fiji. Jen works with art consultants as well as being represented by UK galleries.
Threshold Series
Quarry Series
Mist Series
JEN MIXED MEDIA ARTIST
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Jen’s work takes you on a journey. You can see what inspired her to map the coastlines of the Earth. Her work can make you fly as well, as you're looking down from an aerial point of view. Her use of colour and earth pigments has a real connection to something more organic and although the works are abstract, they are very heavily linked into nature.
HENRIETTA MIXED MEDIA ARTIST
Henrietta paints abstracts in oil on canvas in which she aims to evoke a time and a place, creating spaces full of light and memory. “It is not the appearance of a chosen
motif but its own energies and mystery that form the heart of my paintings” Nature is the basis, the starting point, for the paintings, which rapidly take on a direction of their own where the dancing light or the feel of the wind becomes the main focus. They are compositions woven from images of the natural world. “It is the power and energy of nature that excites me. Light and movement allow the creation of the space in my work, often opening up huge vistas. The finished pieces range from almost totally abstract compositions evoking a sense of place to more easily recognisable landscape images: the natural world modulated by time and season, disclosed by visual texture and colour” Henrietta’s works can be found in collections in New York, Houston, Sydney, Perth, Paris as well as the UK.
Summer’s Evening
Evening Reflection
HENRIETTA MIXED MEDIA ARTIST
A word from Gallery Director Paresha RajBurnett
I always say that you can put a piece of Henrietta's artwork in a dark room and it will light it right up. With her technique of layering the colours and the starting point of glazing you can see sunlight in all her landscapes, even if it's a cloudy scene. You can almost feel and see the luminosity of the light in the clouds. A large-scale pieces of Henrietta’s do make an incredible addition to any
residential area.
JOHN 3D ARTIST
German artist John's conceptual work is an attempt to discern governing principles of the universe - art as a way of enquiring about the world. Artistic investigation, as a way of inquiring about the world, keeps asking the same perennial questions about origin of matter as science and religion. It bridges scientific and spiritual dimension by conveying a message which is both: universal and deeply personal. His art transcends the dualism of objective and subjective, matter and spirit. It goes beyond the established framework of human knowledge and beliefs towards the state of ubiquitous oneness. He believes that every form of existence, from a thought a feeling, matter to space and time is one and the same energy governed by the same principle and being apart of the Singular
Universe. Dualism exists only as our perception and it is through their singularity that we can access the truth.
Creation is Destruction Series, Axe on Metal
Each Line, One Breath Series, Copper
Each Line, One Breath Series, Pen
Creation is Destruction Series, Gun on Metal
JOHN 3D ARTIST
A word from Gallery Director Paresha RajBurnett
John creates drama in each of his pieces. He uses combinations of unusual mediums to create evocative pieces of art, whether he is axing metal or using guns; he creates texture within each panel. Seeing the reflections that this creates for the viewer, it’s easy to see why they’re a real show piece in anywhere they're hanging.
JULIE CERAMIC ARTIST
After many years of teaching art in secondary schools and with her passion for ceramics Julie embarked on a MA Ceramics at UCA Farnham, which she completed in 2016. Throughout her MA Julie took her inspiration for her artwork from the Jurassic Coastline which is a beautiful, interesting and internationally important place because of it’s fragility. The seas strong and destructive waves are the primary shapers of this coastline and usually occur in the winter when the sea is cold and grey, intermingled with blues. These colours and the fragility of this coast
are both reflected within her final outcomes. Her work also explores the senses, especially touch, sight and sound. Julie’s other ceramic work continues to reflect the same themes. All her work is wall based and are either created from shards of stained porcelain that are framed or small porcelain tiles that are stitched onto canvas to create wall hangings.
Oval Edges
Gold Edges
JULIE CERAMIC ARTIST
A word from Gallery Director Paresha RajBurnett
Julie uses ceramics in a dynamic way. You’d think that they’re paper at first because they’re so thin and fragile looking but they are definitely ceramics and sturdier than you’d think. The way she graduates the colours on her pieces makes her a master of body staining. Then she creates them into her forms which are quite layered. Julie’s works are always lovely textured addition to anyone's art collection.
BETH MIXED MEDIA ARTIST
Internationally exhibited artist Beth studied Textile Design at The University of the West of England and graduated in 2004. From Bristol she moved to London for a little under a decade, working in costume for film, television and theatre and teaching arts and
craft workshops. In 2009, Beth was offered a post as an Artist in residence at Wycombe Abbey school for Girls. The residency helped Beth focus and build a strong foundation for her practice, exploring both femininity and textures and introducing her to the concept of Wabi-Sabi. Returning to London in 2011 Beth was taken on by a well-established gallery in West London, Fiumano Fine Art and has been exhibiting in art fairs and exhibitions both nationally and internationally since.
Winds on the Water
The Storm
BETH MIXED MEDIA ARTIST
A word from Gallery Director Paresha RajBurnett
Beth works with inks on paper and she's a master manipulator of the inks. What looks simple is quite complicated and detailed. When looking at one of Beth’s pieces people often spend a long time checking each of the intricate details to find more and more different elements as they are viewing it. I also really love the way that the gold is diffused into each piece.
THOMAS SCULPTOR
Thomas is an international sculptor undertaking private, public and corporate commissions using an extensive range of materials from cast bronze and stainless steel to carbon fiber and string. Following a passion for strongly form based sculpture that responds to aesthetics and math’s within nature, Thomas has developed a distinctive style of contemporary and mainly abstract work that is based on an ethos that the simplest forms are often
the most beautiful. From this grew an understanding and belief that the stunningly beautiful yet often simple laws that nature follow, result in what could most closely be described as perfection within our environment. The ratio 1.681 known as PHI or the Fibonacci sequence, offers a simply beautiful mathematical principle seen widely within natural aesthetics which are frequently applied within Thomas’s designs.
String Theory
Heliosphere
THOMAS SCULPTOR
A word from Gallery Director Paresha RajBurnett
Thomas is a master sculptor with a stunning skill to manipulate materials to create form. You really are looking to see how it is working with gravity. Every piece looks bold in its final space. With Thomas’ work you can never quite photograph them so it is always worth coming to see them in person where you can see how they fit within the space.
Apollo, custom commission
MONIKA CERAMIC ARTIST
Monika is a young and passionate ceramicist based in London. Her work focuses on creating beautifully intricate ceramics with delicate forms.
Flower Discs
Sunflower
MONIKA CERAMIC ARTIST
A word from Gallery Director Paresha RajBurnett
Monika is a really young ceramicist. She's got a great form and good experimentation with colour. The forms are light and have a nice organic feeling. Monika is a good artist to collect now as an early collector.
BOZENA MIXED MEDIA ARTIST
Bozena studied architecture at The Silesian University of Technology in Poland and now lives and works in London. Despite her architectural education, art has always been present in her life and has a significant influence on her perception of the world. Bozena inherited the love and passion for art and painting from her mother which started her journey into art. As an artist, Bozena seeks to create dramatic impressions through
strong contrast, vibrant colours, dense mass of paint and various textures. Bozena's art is about feelings and emotions which everyone holds deep inside; about dreams and hope...about passion and joy....about loneliness, fear and loss.
Frozen I
The Place In-Between I
BOZENA MIXED MEDIA ARTIST
A word from Gallery Director Paresha RajBurnett
Bozena is a fantastic textured abstract artist. The use of lines, textures and colours in each artwork really does give the piece a sense of drama in a way that works together.
ALEXANDER MIXED MEDIA
Alexander, in the tradition of collage, is pursuing a very personal obsession of creating narrative scenarios in small format. Using antiquarian books, he makes the work simultaneously an exploration and a deconstruction of nostalgia.
We create our own past from fragments of reality in a process that combines the willful aspects of remembering and forgetting with the coincidental and unconscious. By using pre-existing media as a starting point, certain boundaries are set by the material, those Alexander aims to transform through his creative process. Thus, an encyclopedia can become a window into an alternate world, much like lived reality becomes its alternate in remembered experience. These books, having been stripped of their utilitarian value by the passage of time, regain new purpose. They are no longer tools to learn about the world, but rather a means to gain insight about oneself. Alexander makes book sculptures / cut books by working through a book, page by page, cutting around some of the illustrations while
removing others. In this way, he builds the composition using only the images found in the book.
Old And New London, 1878
Shakespeare - The Tragedies, 1875
ALEXANDER MIXED MEDIA
A word from Gallery Director Paresha RajBurnett
Alexander's books and shadow boxes are reminiscent of works by Joseph Cornell, each takes us on a journey, with beautiful antique illustrations and paper cut techniques. His books are definitely collectable works for you to treasure. Alexander's books are incredibly meticulous in the way that they are created and have a whimsical quality about them. Each piece is really an illustrative
fragment of reality and It's interesting to see how he uses antique books from history to create a new contemporary pieces of art.
CLAIRE 3D ARTIST
Claire lives and works in London, but started life in the semi-rural county of Lincolnshire. She is a multi-disciplinary artist working in paper, metal and painting. She exhibits her work nationally and internationally, showing regularly in London, other parts of the UK, USA and Europe. Her work has been published in many magazines including: The Audubon Society, Fresh Paint Magazine, Elle Decoration, Elle Deco, Vogue (UK and Greece), World of Interiors, Inside Out and was featured in the book “Paper: Tear, Fold, Rip, Crease, Cut�
(Blackdog Publishing 2009).
Ethereal Flock
CLAIRE 3D ARTIST
A word from Gallery Director Paresha RajBurnett
Claire's birds' installations are beautiful. They are light and airy, each piece is suspended off of the wall which makes them look very dramatic wherever they are placed. Claire’s metal elements are always popular in residential properties, they create fantastic shadows on the wall and really lead your eye in giving the space a more dynamic feel.
BEATRIZ PAINTER
Spanish artist currently living in London, Beatriz is inspired by her surroundings and translates the energy and visual information of her dairy life into her work using colour as her personal language. The viewer, in turn, is drawn into the vortexes of movement in her images, yet they offer points of seductive languor along the way, in the presence
of floral shapes opening outward, clouds that provide moments of rest, and other suggestive elements. At the same time, Beatriz’s paintings feature a strong sense of depth, which derives from her knowledge of architecture—the field in which she began her career—and the importance to her of the landscape of her hometown of Santander, Spain. While her work always references landscape or spatial depth, she avoids the presence of a horizon line. Her use of colour spots, drips, and splatters convey her fearless and intuitive process while making all of the elements in these imaginary worlds seem to be alive. Evoking Abstract Expressionism, Colour Field Painting, and Spanish painterly traditions, Beatriz’s canvases reference today’s sensory
overload experienced with a rare unfiltered and raw openness.
De Luz Tenue
Haiku
BEATRIZ PAINTER
A word from Gallery Director Paresha RajBurnett
Beatriz is actually an architect by training and although her works are abstract, the blooms have got a certain structure to them that almost flows out of the painting in an evocative way. Her paintings are very feminine and atmospheric with moodiness and colour. I always think that there is something quite melancholic about Beatriz’s paintings but melancholic in the old sense of the word, her paintings have a very beautiful soft romantic feel to them. Beatriz’s uses beautiful colour palette to create a soft feeling within her paintings for a more relaxed feel.
VIVENNE 3D ARTIST
Vivienne is an artist who works predominantly within in the realm of hand printed silk and incorporates this delicate medium into her fine artwork to create three-dimensional form. Vivienne says, " I tend to lean towards nature for my inspiration and try to express its fragile delicate beauty using various techniques such as hand drawing, photography, mono-print and screen print to combine subtle colours and different surface textures, with a touch of abstract."
Vivienne has a BA (Hons) degree in 'Textile Surface Design' from Bradford Art College. She won the 'Premier Vision'(Paris) textile design award in 2010. In 2014 she started her own studio and is based in Halifax, West Yorkshire
A Pretty Delphinium
Blooming Flowers
VIVIENNE 3D ARTIST
A word from Gallery Director Paresha RajBurnett
Vivienne works in silks and hand stitches them onto screen printed bases, it’s a handmade process from the very start. She is a great young artist who creates beautiful delicate mixed media artworks. Vivienne mixes the process of screen printing and textiles to create work with lots of layers. In a way Vivienne's work really is reminiscent of a country English garden.
PHILLIP SCULPTOR
With a background in architecture, interior and furniture design Philip is a self-taught sculptor and specialises in sand casting to make pieces which engage the quality of bronze as a noble material in its own right. Sculptures are intimate in scale and intended for the interiors of home, office or hotel. Casting in sand molds is a simple and ancient method far removed from the sophisticated lost wax operation used by most art foundries. The and-casting process is relentless and unforgiving - the foundry is no place for a delicate original. It denies a complexity of form that imposes a disciplinary and enriching
simplicity. He cuts, carves, grinds or welds the cast bronze to create unique forms before invariably exposing the natural bronze or oxidising to produce the unique surface finishes that have always been an essential dimension of his work.
Come and Go
Estuary II
PHILLIP SCULPTOR
A word from Gallery Director Paresha RajBurnett
Philip creates sculptures that are always great table show pieces. The great thing with Phillip's sculptures it that they often they look as if they are very classical static forms but the way they actually turn, move and pivot on their points almost gives them a kinetic feeling in their medium. Phillip is great at finishing elements well, especially with his uses of bronzes, golds and turquoises, he really is a master of
manipulating the metals.
JAYSON MIXED MEDIA ARTIST
Born in 1972 in Devon, England, Jayson is a British contemporary artist who incorporates the practices of both painting and printmaking. He is recognised for producing works of urban scenes and iconic architecture. With influences coming from Japanese Ukiyoe and Constructivism, Jayson has great admiration for the work of Katsushika Hokusai and Alexander Rodchenko. His love of early twentieth century Art Deco and Bauhaus to the Brutalism of the post-war period is
evident throughout his work. Characterised by its strong compositional structure and a limited palette, Jayson uses high contrasts with light and shadow to convey form and silhouette defined by his clean lines and large areas of flat colour.
Two Young Lovers
Around the Cutty Sark
My Beautiful London
Looking at Canary Wharf II
From Grenwich Park
Battersea Chimneys
JAYSON MIXED MEDIA ARTIST
A word from Gallery Director Paresha RajBurnett
Jayson has really captured London's iconic moments and its architecture, from Battersea Power Station to central London scenes. Every time there's a new artwork of Jayson’s, it’s almost like a new viewpoint of London. There’s always something new and each piece Jayson creates is capturing London in time. Jayson works with screen printing which is a more affordable medium for art
collectors who may want to have his work.
LUCAS CERAMIC ARTIST
Lucas‘s works are made from small hand-
crafted fragments of ceramic. Small flat rectangles are joined to form a circle. Each fragment, the same size and shape, one next to the other, almost sewn together, accumulated to form sequences, rhythms, which are then altered by the inclusion of black pieces. Repetition, sequence, order and interruption convey the method by which the fragments are meticulously arranged creating geometric and abstract shapes. Some of the works appear at the same time in a series, where the alteration of the black pieces marks different spaces and rhythm in the compositions. The work is subtle, intriguing. Only a closer look will offer the viewer a rendition of
what it is about. “My work is inspired by geological formations. I enjoy crafting minimalist textured studies inspired by how rocky surfaces are reshaped over time.”
Atoll V
Fade
LUCAS CERAMIC ARTIST
A word from Gallery Director Paresha RajBurnett
Lucas is a fantastic textured artist. What's interesting is, Lucas' mother is also an artist, and you can really tell that he has a real love for his craft in the way he takes his time in creating each of the ceramic elements.
They are almost miniature forms which are then collated together to create these vast installations on board. You don't really need much else in a room when you’ve got a piece by Lucas.
KATHERINE PAINTER
Katharine graduated with a fine art degree from Bristol in 2003. Since then she has been regularly showing her paintings in London and throughout the UK. She has become established painting contemporary beach scenes based on
locations in the West Country and Scotland. More recently she has been focusing on the more structured landscape of woodland and particularly the effect of light through the trees. These painting maintain her distinctive painterly style. Working from sketches and photographs loosely based on definite locations, Katharine endeavours to create a window on an imaginary space. She likes to use gestural marks and loose brushwork to engage the viewer and charge the composition with movement and dynamism, whilst maintaining balance, building up the paint and alternating transparent and opaque
layers, dripping, washing, splashing, allowing it to take its own fluid course and give the image a life of its own.
Central Square
Spring Trees
Botanical 1
KATHERINE PAINTER
A word from Gallery Director Paresha RajBurnett
Katherine’s use of pink as an accent colour is incredible. A lot of people think that they're not going to like them but then when you see them in real life in her paintings and see how it can really lift a space instantly people fall in love with it. Katherine’s work really has a way of being able to transport you and can transport you to a tropical area.
ANDY MIXED MEDIA ARTIST
‘I have a strong attachment to the natural world and a nostalgia for how collecting started for me. The Observer’s and Ladybird books, cigarette cards,
maps and stamps that I use to make my work come from a more innocent age when I would pore over them by night and be out in the countryside looking for their contents by day. My work is a continuation of that obsession with collecting, cataloguing and observing’. Andrew lives and works in Whitstable, Kent and is Course Leader for Further Education at UCA, Canterbury. He has exhibited all over the world. He has work in the Tate Britain collection and many Artists Book collections in the UK, Europe and Russia. He sources the matchboxes from all over the world, particularly Eastern Europe and India and a lot are from the 1950's
and 1960’s.
Large Birds Matchboxes
Medium Butterflies Matchboxes
ANDY MIXED MEDIA ARTIST
A word from Gallery Director Paresha RajBurnett
Andy’s matchboxes really are a collector's piece. They always remind me of the artist Joseph Cornell, while he never actually travelled anywhere, he would collect and collage items, that's what I think these small 3D matchbox pieces are. Andy’s matchboxes have been popular with lots of different London hotels and I think it’s because they capture London’s birds and butterflies in a fun and quirky way.
PAUL B PAINTER
Paul specialises in contemporary semi-abstract seascapes and landscapes. The two themes are very different in mood, style and perspective, but all endeavour to generate a sense of intimacy and isolation while leaving the subject open to interpretation. The intention is to create from memory to
produce finished work that is abstracted and more expressional than representational. Paul’s main aim is to create work that is most definitely painted; an antidote to mass produced visuals we consume everyday. This is accomplished bay using rich textures, multiple layers and brush/palette knife marks. Paul wants his paintings to tease out more than the eye can see, to draw people and invite them to experience–not just consume–an image.
The Burning Tide
Horizons Falls
PAUL B PAINTER
A word from Gallery Director Paresha RajBurnett
Paul's landscapes are dark, atmospheric and dramatic. Some people feel that they're quite masculine as well. Paul’s work has a touch of a traditional aesthetic in his colouring but a contemporary feel at the same time. There is something about Paul's work that is reminiscent of notions of the sublime and J.M.W Turner's paintings.
BEATRICE SCULPTOR
”Beauty to me is simplicity, clarity, concentration and must extend beyond decorative prettiness. Beauty is to be able to hold contradictions, tensions and ambivalence – it is a balance kept despite conflict. "I am fascinated by ”strong form”. With both figurative and abstract sculptures, I search for a sense of fullness contrasted with negative shapes; sharp angles between surfaces, juxtaposed with smoothness.” Some of her ideas for sculptures derive from her other career as an arts educator and
therapist, which makes her very aware of the psychological and expressive potential of sculptures: “I am influenced by C.G. Jungʼs ideas of archetypes and equally by childhood memories of Sunday visits to a catholic church filled with Baroque carvings. I reconnect with the tradition of sculptures seen in places of worship, and work towards a spiritually potent image used in a secular context.
Rolling Wave
Streched Forward
Etruscan Couple
Nurturing
BEATRICE SCULPTOR
A word from Gallery Director Paresha RajBurnett
Beatrice’s sculptures are an amazing addition to any Hotel or Spa area. All quite reminiscent of Barbara Hepworth, and I always think that when you meet Beatrice, she is a bit like Hepworth in herself. Her sculptures are very feminine and quite bold, and while feminine, not delicate. Her work is more robust and curved, a piece of Beatrice's can really stand on its own.
RICHARD PAINTER
Capturing a moment of stillness. The great outdoors, people, cities, landscapes and their interactions are my inspiration – recording my wanderings in sketches and
photos to create a record of visited places that will then inform my studio paintings. In my work I seek to capture a moment of impression, as when emerging from an underground station into a busy unfamiliar sunlit street, heightened senses, momentary bright light blindness, the confusion of information, noise and movement – each painting seeks to create that initial hazy impression of place fused with precise primary detail, a lamppost, tree, vehicle, a shop window, a rushing commuter. It is my practice to make several paintings of the same subject with each one evolving in a different way due to the concerted randomness of mark making, overpainting, scraping back, repainting.
Serpentine Bridge
Italian Gardens
RICHARD PAINTER
A word from Gallery Director Paresha RajBurnett
Richard evokes London really well. He loves to wake up early in the morning to create his art. He can normally be seen cycling around London in the early hours to get the best kind of light, composition and images for his painting of London icons and landmarks. Each piece captures London at the exact time.
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