All about our artists
Amanda's work explores the colour, texture and contrast of the environment. It is an exploration of where the sky meets the land. She has a highly developed and unique way of abstracting the forms of nature and colour. Her inspirations have been her beautiful Cornish home and her many travels in the US and Europe. Amanda sculpts her work developing texture and paint together. The striking colours are built up with a palette knife overlay technique which gives a natural broken colour feel.
Cai ju zhen's work combines her traditional Chinese art training with a modern impressionist sensibility, which gives her work a timelessness. She cites Maurice Denis and Li hua sheng as strong influences on the development of her style. Cai ju zhen studied at Xiamen University and is a contemporary of Lui changsong. She is shown in Beijing and Xiamen. She is represented by Art23 in the UK.
Carl Hahn describes himself as a furniture maker but to the outside world he is a natural sculptor. His method seeks to introduce the intense harmonies of landscape to indoor environments. It creates a tension between the purely practical world of furniture and that of beautiful sculpture. Carl uses a highly physical process of stripping away wood to simulate the weathering created under extremes of natural conditions. The work starts with the trade of the cabinet maker and is finished by the arts of the sculptor. The furniture is finally dressed with handles found on his walks on beaches and woodlands. Carl exhibits throughout Europe and the US.
Christine Relton and Tom Marine are among the most successful collaborative artists working in the UK. They create works which investigate the drawn line, form and colour of their beloved Yorkshire home and their many travels. The work is created from each person's unique input. The paintings depth comes from the multiple glazing and reworks required to bring a piece to harmony. Their work is a perfect balance of Christine's strong sense of form and Tom's love and knowledge of colour. For them the painting is finished 'when it just feels right'.
Colin's work is an intriguing exploration of city light and atmosphere. His work explores the architectural strength of bridges and buildings at times when the natural light softens the structure. Colin has a very sophisticated tonal style. His colours when observed closely are rich and often vibrant. Colin studied at Cheltenham Art College. He developed his career in both art jewellery and painting. He exhibits throughout the UK.
Damian's work is about light and form. The movement of people through the built environment is caught in mysterious and striking shapes. His work has been described as a Film Noir exploration of city life. Damian paints with a restricted palette creating silhouetted characters with tonal depth. The use of light and shade in the work makes the work highly unique and arresting. The laying on of paint gives a subtle level of impasto which assists in the three dimensional effect of the paintings.
Dave Hancock's work is about hidden intimate spaces. Dave finds these spaces in his studies of the ocean and his beloved Gloucestershire orchard. His fish series explores the intimacy and dynamism of the shoal; whilst his tree series is a deeply intimate study of the friends that comprise his orchard.
David's paintings are carefully crafted studies of people playing. His interest lies in the patterns of intimacy and separation we create in public spaces. The beach is a place where natural patterns of relationships come to the fore. This exhibition shows David's skill with the palette knife and impressionist brush. In his small paintings you can see his sophisticated use of colour and texture. The larger paintings are created with a real sense of lightness and joy; this is especially reinforced by his loose brush and brightening palette. David Eaton was born in Taunton Somerset and later studied art at Mississippi Art College, USA. He returned to his home in the South West in 1999 and paints and works in Bristol.
Gabriel has a deep love of landscape. He spends many hours walking and observing the play of light in nature. His work is about the forms created between the natural world and the built environment - how one informs the other and creates spaces which are both natural and luminous. His compositions are expressed in strong palette work that displays surprising delicacy. The paintings have a deep richness of colour created by countless overworked layers. Gabriel believes that it is the interplay between colour and texture which enables painting to capture the essence of landscape form. Gabriel studied at University College London and University of West of England. Throughout his career he has always been seeking to combine Science and Art. In the last 10 years he has focused on his first love, painting. His work is grounded in the belief that craft and vision must be married together to create art.
Grzegorz simultaneously explores the outward and inward world of the female performer. He is intrigued by the expression of outward confidence built on a deep unconscious world. Grzegorz's work is a beautifully crafted marriage between figurative work and dreamy expressionism. His characters are all composed in slight juxtapositions creating intriguing compositions. Grzegorz is a master of colour and his subtle brush work creates a mysterious intimacy in his pictures. He creates backgrounds with imagery rising mysteriously like a dream.
Hannah's painting catches the transient movement in life. In her collection of window reflections the scenes of urban life are unravelled in a mysterious and haunting way. The tonal works of bird flocks give a feeling of flight and air turbulence; they say something of the essence of birds. Hannah's work achieves a mysterious atmosphere by using transparent layers of oil paint, built up slowly, so that each layer is still visible on the canvas. Her restricted tonal palette inspires a great sense of tranquillity in her pictures. Hannah Davies studied at Falmouth Fine Art School. She exhibits throughout the UK and US
Lucianne works in clay, stone and canvas to express the human form. Her figures are finely observed explorations of form and movement. The figures are always expressive and caught in mid moment. They are built up from real life sketch work, to clay form and then often into stone carving or brass casts. Lucianne studied at Middlesex and Winchester Schools of Fine Art. Her studio is based in South Devon where she works and teaches sculpture. She exhibits widely throughout the UK.
Liu chang song works with highly realist paint work when interpreting figuarative subjects yet displays a masterly control when creating his abstracted pieces.
Peter Cameron is an inveterate people watcher. Throughout his colourful life he has acquired a collection of quirky characters and odd happenings. These are all wonderfully captured in his work - from naked joggers to fat bottomed cellists. In this year's collection he is working with his friend, Gabriel Kyne, to create oil based versions of his work. These are large pieces that bring his characters leaping out of the canvas. Peter started his artistic career behind bars. While taking an art class in prison he discovered he had a talent and was later greatly supported by Judge Tumin. This launched him into a successful career and he is now a well respected artist and trustee of the 'Prison Art Movement'. He is shown throughout the UK and US.
Creations of subtle colour abstraction. Yu guo yang displays great colour sense and applies himself to beautiful and insightful works.
Yuan chi luan has a strong modern impressionist brush, tempered with the eye of an illustrator. Her still lifes are fresh and idiosyncratic. She loves how the inanimate can tell the story of our inner lives, combining a daringly large and generous brush with an ability to render the true sense of things. Her use of colour and light creates paintings with an uplifting quality. She studied at Guangzhou School of Fine Art and shows in Guangzhou, Taiwan and Hong Kong. She recently won a Gold Medal at the Guangzhou art fair.