Our Artists

Alfred Supik

"I do not know whether there will be a true home for me in one place one day. Luckily, there are now opportunities for sharing my journeys through the photographs. The collection is expanding all the time. If you wish to share your comments with me, I’d appreciate them. I may be too busy to reply immediately but reply I will..."

Anna and Doris Zinkeisen

Glamorous, talented and prolific, the Zinkeisens had a significant impact on the art world during the 1920s through to the 1960s. Doris was a portraitist, costume and theatrical designer and commercial artist. In 1936, Doris and Anna contributed murals to the RMS Queen Mary and in 1940 to the RMS Queen Elizabeth. In 1941, both sisters were recruited as official war artists for the Red Cross. Anna became involved in the work of St Mary’s, Paddington and produced detailed medical studies whose value to the medical profession are acknowledged today. She also specialised in paintings of flowers and book illustrations and won the Royal Designer for Industry award in 1940

Belinda Syme

Australian-born London-based artist Belinda trained in graphic design in Melbourne and painting at Sir John Cass School of Art, London. During the 1990s she read for a BA and MA in Art History and Archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Her work draws strongly on Australian landscape traditions. She occasionally uses visual reference, but more often paints from memory and imagination. She enjoys experimenting with techniques such as masking out, over painting and scraping away or drawing into the compositions, frequently letting the materials dictate the image. Order and chaos in nature, both natural and man-made are some of the themes explored in her work.

Bluer

"In a historical moment of deep and sanguinary purging of the sense itself of “making paintings", Bluer conceived his own code of versatile visual translation. He elaborated a stylistic figure generative of other numerous iconic morphologies. Far from certain ephemeral medial solutions of the new way of conceiving the “art making" in our present society, in which creativity seems to become a synonym of artifice. In the conviction that painting might always be considered the most innovative expressive form..."

Caroline Tate

"Caroline is the great great grand daughter of Sir Henry Tate, Founder of the Tate Gallery. She has had solo shows at Guildford Cathedral, the Yehudi Menuhin School of Music, Barbican Music Library and in November 2008 is having a solo show at the Barbican Artspace. Caroline is Patron of Celf o Gwmpas, a charity giving art opportunities to people with learning difficulties."

Celia Paul

"Born in Trivandrum, India.
Studied at Slade School of Art, London. Lives and works in London Celia Paul's dark toned paintings are reminiscent of old masters and share an interest in the effect of light. Her paintings often have a monumental quality, but she is equally adept at capturing emotion in a small softground etching."

Chris Salmon

"Studied fine art at Canterbury Art College
and completed a course with distinction in printmaking at Camberwell Art College. After a career in designing and making hats, playing guitar in the band Stump (1985-90), painting and building sets for theatre productions and working as a prop builder for clients including Disney and The Rock & Roll Museum in Paris, he finally settled into his vocation as artist and printmaker. Chris has also lectured in printmaking at Morley College."

Elisa Cantarelli

Gained her MA degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna in 2006. Since then she has exhibited her work in Bologna, Rome, Tokyo, Paris and has been awarded with numerous prizes. Cantarelli’s work bridges the gap between photography and painting highlightening the potential of both media.

Francis-Tinsley

Studied at the Laird School of Art Birkenhead, before graduating from Camberwell College of Art in 1970. He later attended Chelsea College of Art London and was awarded an MA in Printmaking. He was formerly a senior lecturer at Camberwell College of Arts before being appointed to Course Leader in the MA department. He has since retired from teaching to concentrate on his own work. Much of this work continues a maritime theme with the very latest prints reflecting a previous interest in his hometown of Liverpool and The River Mersey.
"As a child I would spend many a day down at the docks watching the big ships come and go. Where are they from; where are they going? Romantic associations that are still with me today."

Francisco Gutierrez

"Artist Francisco A. Gutierrez (47) trained in architecture in Chile. Now living in London, he uses watercolour line drawings to capture the disappearing world of Victorian pubs and urban landscapes. He grew up in a place with lots of light and colours which have helped to him to reveal the drama of light and colours that often appear as grey, especially in large cities"

Graham Welstead

Graham Welstead was born and brought up in the South East of England and studied at Chelsea School of art and then the Royal Academy Schools, as a post-graduate painter, in the early 1970s. Since 1978 he has taught painting on Foundation courses and in other areas of further education, and for the last 16 years plus, has been the Head of Art at a leading Essex secondary school.

He also writes and lectures on Art, Art History and other media–related topics.

Hannah Battershell

Is a London based artist whose work spans from miniature paintings on buttons to collages with Japanese papers. Her interest lies in teasing out the narratives to be found in the overlooked or throwaway items encountered in day to day life. Scraps of paper, matchboxes, pins and buttons become the main focus of each piece, seemingly insignificant objects are bestowed an almost talismanic quality. Her gothic leanings and dark subject matters are always tempered by a silly sense of humour, often lending her work the ‘quirky exuberance of a children’s story book’ (Kate Weir, Spoonfed). Her work has been displayed in various London exhibitions including last year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

Howard Jeffs

Trained originally as a painter at Chelsea School of art in The 1960s, before becoming absorbed in photography and printmaking. Howard was a senior lecturer in Photography and Printmaking at Goldsmiths College, University of London from 1972 to 2003, during which time he completed an MA in Printmaking at Camberwell College of Arts London . His latest work is based on a recent trip to Australia, reflecting aspects of the landscapes encountered throughout his journey. Tracks and dirt roads that crossed the arid Bush landscape have provided the artist with the stimulus evident in his prints and paintings that incorporate scale, rhythm and texture using both monochrome and bold colour to depict this distinctive phenomenal landscape.

Jacqueline Newell RE

Added to her earlier work in graphic design from Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication. South London, by graduating from the State University of New York (Purchase) with a degree in Fine Art. 1991. Subsequently working at an artist’s printmaking collective Manhattan Graphics in New York City. She later returned to the UK and was awarded an MA in printmaking from the Camberwell College of Arts in London. Her work is influenced by ideas, resulting from research and drawings in the metropolis, such as building and construction sites, whereby the effect of mechanical devises, and architectural structures appear to be in a constant state of flux. Much of her recent work is taken from the Olympic Site in Stratford, depicting an urban landscape of the developing structure of the stadium. This body of work is comprised of a selection of drawings, paintings and prints in monochrome, and low-key colour.

Jane Moorhouse

Graduated from Leeds Metropolitan University (formerly Leeds Polytechnic) with a 1st Class Honours Degree in Fine Art (Sculpture) and is self taught as a painter. Based in Central London and primarily focusing on portraiture, she has undertaken commissions for King’s College London and Rhodes House in Oxford and has been selected for the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition. Her paintings, sculpture and photography feature in private collections in Europe, America and Australia.

Jessica Mycroft

Throughout her careers as architect and graphic designer, Jessica Mycroft has worked continuously as a painter and printmaker, with many pieces of her output in private collections. She currently practices as a psychotherapist, whilst maintaining her involvement with paint and print. She has an MA in Painting and Fine Art, and has her studio in Clerkenwell, London.

Jo Buonaguidi

My work reflects the positive footprints on my life, dancing, music and working for the master of the 'minimalistic line' Issey Miyake. It has evolved without the structure of a formal degree course. It has come from within. It is about the human form, whether it is still or moving. If the figure is still then the line must portray the mood, the physical presence of the model.

Liliana Scocco Cilia

"In her art, always told with awareness and through unceasing painting activity, artist Liliana Scocco Cilla adopts a very original and evocative style. She paints directly onto the canvas, with her own hands, without using a paintbrush or any other means, to reveal a form of art which is totally innovative and particularly pleasant. Her painting is thus unmistakeable, born from a great passion and a real talent, blended with a series of emotional elements, to create a unique expressive result."

Lisa Zanatta Pistorio

"Lisa Zanatta Pistorio has had the good fortune (but it is more than fortune) to explore many of the world's most extraordinary places: from Japan to America, from Russia to India, from Africa to Tibet.
Like the travellers of the Grand Torl, she has (if one may put it so) made portraits of the places she has loved: she has identified herself in them, savouring their humours, their fragrance, almost their taste, as well as their exterior beauties."

Lizzie-Marry-Cullen

"Lizzie Mary Cullen is a multi award-winning designer based in London. Lizzie graduated from Goldsmiths College in 2008, and has since exhibited internationally in New York, Paris and London, and is represented by Phosphor Art.
One of the design industry’s ‘leading lights’, (Design Week 2010) Lizzie has been featured in various publications and books. She is also a regular contributor to Design Week magazine, and is featured often in many leading design publications."

Lorraine Platt

"Lorraine was born on Merseyside. After graduating with a B.A. Honours Degree in Fine Art from University of London in 1984, she has absorbed herself in a full time career painting vibrant works often featuring, exotic flowers, colourful landscapes and sleek contemporary abstracts."

Louise Davies

Is a co founder of an artist’s co-operative studio in South London, where she works as a professional Painter and Printmaker. She graduated with a degree from St Martins College of Art London before completing an MA in Printmaking at Camberwell College of Art London in 1993. Louise’s recent series of work is based on childhood memories, reflecting on the countryside and coast of the West of England. Her work is primarily concerned with the landscape, incorporating a strong use of colour combined with an individual and sensitive line drawing, which is used to create a visual language in her prints and paintings. The final work is achieved by incorporating more than one printmaking technique, using layers of translucent colour and calligraphic marks to emphasise the fluidity of the ever-changing elements of nature.

Maggie Jennings

Exuberant, colourful and vibrant, Maggie Jennings work celebrates the energy of living things. She works with the vigour and dynamism that she perceives in the world around her to produce strong sensuous images that glow, breathe and proclaim their existence with a sense of certainty and pleasure. They flaunt their vitality in rich colour. The main body of work is in the form of spontaneous, gestural mono-screenprints

Marcelle Hanselaar

Born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Studied at the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague. Lives and works in London
Marcelle Hanselaar 'tableaux vivants' etchings are full of symbolism and references to our being naked animals and is, like all her work, saturated with erotic sensibilities and spiked with a subterranean sense of humour. Her empathy with 'being just what we are', is both momentary and deeply intimate.

Margarita Vul

"I was learning to draw in a few schools and courses with realism techniques of Russian classical realism style. Then, at the age of sixteen I left my home and family in Estonia for Israel to finish secondary school.
There in beautiful Arava desert near Eilat; my life and my world vision had started getting broader. That was when I understood that art picture was a body for a spirit that was supposed to "talk" to an observer. There will always be someone to understand..."

Martin Guber Birrane

Martin Guber Birrane is an inward looking artist who creates his own characters and landscapes from dreams and urban feelings. Working both on paper and canvas, he offers a look into today's young people's vision of the present and the future.
This first exhibition, the result of almost a year's work, shows his love of colour as the primary way to express a state of mind, a great insight into a soul that is mature beyond the chronological age.

Melissa Launay

Is a London based artist known for her delicate and intricate style. Her original compositions are inspired by nature, evoking a mood of other times and dream worlds into which one can escape.

Influenced by the elegant lines of Japanese prints, the luxurious colours of arabesque and Indian motifs, the use of gold in Byzantine illustrations and the flat impossible perspectives of medieval and early Renaissance art, her meticulous work sensitively touches on the descriptive, avoiding the too specific expressions of commonplace reality.

Melvyn Petterson

Born in Cleethorpes and studied at Grimsby School of Art and Camberwell School of Art.
Regulary shows at the RA Summershows, at the London Original Print Fair and is one of the establishers of Artichoke Print Workshop
'My landscapes often centre around the drama layed out in nature, a dark cloud treatens, a sudden burst of sunlight, a moody sky against snow covered fields. These are the times when nature displays her more provocative side, probably for just a few seconds, these fleeting moments I have tried to capture.

Mick Davis

Hornsey College of Art, B.A. - 1966-70
Camberwell College, M.A. Printmaking (Distinction) - 1992-95
Elected member of the Royal Society of British Artists – 2009
Exhibitions:
The British Print Show Originals
Donating Artist & Chairman’s Award
The Royal Academy Summer Show
The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
Royal Society of British Artists
Battersea Fine Art Fair
The Discerning Eye
The National Football Museum, Preston

Miki Van Zwanenberg

"My paintngs are based on specific landscapes but are not paintings of that locality nor are they painted in situ. They are the recollection of place or mood engendered by that place. They are not pictures of rocks or clouds or skies or valleys or seas but the conjouring of atmosphere, of specific mood or voice"

Miranda McArthur

"Like most people, I painted enthusiastically as a child, and art continued to be my favourite subject until I left school. I hankered to go to Art school, but since my exam results were good enough to go to university, that’s what I did and my creative side became siphoned off into writing and commercial developments.
It was only many years later that I re-connected with the joy of painting. Taking up a brush again I was powerfully reminded of how totally immersing it can be to create visually. “I love doing this", I thought. "How is it that I have neglected it for so long?"
Since that epiphany, I have painted regularly and have re-organised my life to give me the opportunity to do it. In 2005, I was lucky to encounter David Napp, a very talented painter specialising in pastels, a medium I had never used before but for which I seem to have an affinity."

Peter Wardle

Peter Wardle studied at Leicester School of Art and the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford. He has been a professional portrait painter and sculptor for more than 30 years, working in Oxford Toulouse and London.
His portraits can be found in many Oxford and Cambridge Colleges, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the National Portrait Gallery in London. He regularly exhibits with the Royal Portrait Society and has held one-man exhibitions in London, Oxford, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Paris and Lisbon.

Priyantha Weerasurya

Priyantha Weerasuriya is an artist from Nitambuwa, a small agricultural village in Sri Lanka.
Weerasuriya attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Colombo and, while working an artist in Sri Lanka , he had a series of exhibitions in Colombo between 2002 and 2005 at Barefoot, the Harold Pieris and Lionel Wendt galleries among others. He has been commissioned by several major hotels in Sri Lanka and a series of panels was bought by the Australian High Commission.
His first piece portrayed The Buddha on canvas. In that painting, he explored meditation but used a totally different approach. Unlike conventional paintings of the Buddha which tend to use traditional colours such as gold, he chose different colours and it was this change of style which attracted attention. Most of Weerasuriya's work explores Buddhist themes.
Weerasuriya moved to London in 2006 to continue studies at St Martins College of Art in London . Throughout his work, Priyantha Weerasuriya wants the viewer to more readily understand who the Buddha was and reflect on what his life means while he himself embarks on a personal journey of discovery. Buddhism and Hinduism are embedded into his spiritual culture. Buddha started as a young prince, an heir to a kingdom and a throne but he was never happy, until he reached enlightenment

Rebecca Merry

Studied Fine Art at Bristol Polytechnic and then for an MA the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1991. Her primary medium for both her painting and illustration is egg tempera which she loves for its intensity of colour and clarity of line. Her visual influences include Indian miniatures, Western Manuscript Illuminations, Icons and the paintings of Odilon Redon. Her work is all small scale, colourful and intense with a strong narrative content.

Rebecca has just completed an MA in Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art and has recently been selected for the Association of Illustrators Images 36: 'The Best of New British Illustration'.

Rick Fairlamb

"Born in 1969 in South Shields Tyne and wear, England. After studying Art and Design for four years in North-East, Rick has spent the last eighteen years as a successful freelance artist working in London. He has also taught life-drawing at Barnes and Whitechapel and exhibited at Finchley and Runnymede."

Rosalind Richards

Rosalind Richards is a London based artist and illustrator. She studied for an MA at The Royal College of Art and has exhibited in The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, in the Discerning Eye, and in the Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition to name a few. Her work has been spotted by the head of The Wellcome Trust and acquired for their collection. Her figurative work and even her illustration commissions bridge the gap between fine art and illustration. Often her paintings are inspired by travels, in particular to Nepal. "Richards’s work, like Gauguin’s [...] is surrounded by an aura of the artist’s captivation of place. As Tahiti imbedded itself in Gauguin’s style and subject, Richards’s paintings live and breathe the atmosphere they aim to capture." Quoted from Sophie Hill for "Postcardwall".

Stefania Buccio Gonzato

For Gonzato figures and landscape stop being one construction of intellect and memory to become expression of a pure emotion. This modern figurative artist, who follows the new American and English realistic expressions, observes in depth the human nature and its feelings for recreating them on canvas with some colours free from every formalism.