3. The Whithurst Park Art Fair 2016
Private View, 10th September, 12pm – 8pm
Public Open Day, 11th September, 12pm – 4pm
www.whithurst.com/artfair
All work on display is for sale. There will be invigilators and sales
assistants on hand to advise you. The main sales desk is opposite the
kitchen in the panelled study. And don’t miss our prize raffle and
scheduled silent auctions.
4. A word from the Fair Director
When I spoke to Whithurst Park’s architect Kit Rae Scott
about defining the house’s unique style, he was
remarkably unabashed: ‘Neo-Classical, neo-Jacobean...
call it what you will. I don’t think I know what it is.’ I was
amused, and not entirely surprised. The house is anything
but nostalgic and traditionalist. It is bright and bold,
aligning form and function quite beautifully - a jewel box
with an expansive kitchen and dining room at its heart
that welcomes people and ideas of all stripes, all year
round. Its genius is its sense of fun and hospitality, which
makes it the perfect setting for a truly dynamic fair,
dedicated to opening new artistic avenues.
The boundless hospitality of Whithurst’s owners (Richard Taylor and
Rick Englert - the Fair’s patrons-in-chief), the treasure-chest quality of the house
and grounds and the remarkable work of Maggie’s and its cultural legacy have
all combined in a uniquely collaborative atmosphere. The level of involvement
from our partners has been overwhelming. Working with the likes of Brocket,
YAP, The Leconfield, Pallant House and Sladmore has been a joyous and
harmonious process. Our many generous commercial sponsors have enabled
us to waive commission from Fair-selected artists. This has worked very
effectively. Artists are able to make direct contributions to Maggie’s, with more
resources to create better work and the ability to price their work affordably.
Nearly every room in the house is an
exhibition space, with work from established and
emerging artists. The rooftop and its landing is
curated by Brocket, who also have a print studio
in the basement. Be sure to catch Jack Bullen’s
Hogarth-inspired performance pieces with
Agnes Lanza. With the help of Artist Liaison and
exhibiting artist Eleanor Breeze, I have curated
the other rooms in the main house, including the
second-floor sculpture gallery, the teasingly titled
Erotic Suite, the video room, Cottage Studio and
dining room.
I am delighted to present new work by
Philip Jackson, sculpture by Mark Coreth, an
exclusive collaboration between Birkett and mirror specialist Overmantels, as
well as residencies featuring Sophie Mason, Jamie Coreth and Jacob Wolff. Visit
the Sculpture Gallery for talks by bestselling author Jack Cooke, artist David
Harber, art and architectural historian Boris Bogdanovich and The London
Design Festival’s Max Fraser.
5. YAP has curated the gardens and parkland with wonderful sculpture
by Nic Fiddian-Green and Anthony Abrahams, among many others, and will
be showing work in the hexagonal bedroom, corridor and bathroom of the
second floor.
Lastly, do visit the Maggie’s team
in the kitchen for a cup of tea. The kitchen
table at the heart of every household is,
perhaps, the best place to contemplate,
advise, cheer or console with friends. Every
Maggie’s Centre has one at its core. The
importance of this concept in briefs to its
world-class architects is one of the many
things that make this charity so special.
The Whithurst Park Art Fair, like all
who have contributed to it, is a truly unique
event. I urge you to roam the grounds and
house in search of surprises. You will find
many.
James Elwes, Fair Director
6. Brocket works with, and for, early career artists to create a dynamic and
critically engaging curatorial programme and is dedicated to providing an
accessible arena for the purchase of art. Each exhibition aims to provide
the viewer with a deeper understanding of the works and processes.
Founded by Exhibition Maker and Art Dealer, Lizzie Glendinning, and Fine
Artist, Jack Bullen, Brocket understands the concerns for practitioners in
making a career as a fine artist, carver, designer, print maker, and works
closely with those they represent in generating an exciting platform for
contemporary art discussion.
Their London project space in Kennington allows Brocket to have a
constant promotional arena for early to mid-career artists, and a base to
invite clients to view work. It is also used for workshops and events.
Brocket regularly collaborate with external art organisations and take
over further spaces for pop-up style event and exhibitions, site specific
installations or as part of their touring programme.
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7. Young Artist Partnership
encouraging artists both young in age & young
in career to showcase their work in dynamic
Pop Up Exhibitions Online Sales
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8. About Maggie’s
Your support makes all the difference.
Maggie’s offers free practical, emotional and social support to people with
cancer and their family and friends, offering an evidence-based programme of
support that has been proven to strengthen physical
and emotional wellbeing. Built in the grounds of
specialist NHS cancer hospitals, Maggie’s Centres
are designed by leading architects, including the late
Zaha Hadid, Richard Rogers and Norman Foster,
and are warm, welcoming places, full of light and
open space. The Centres are also places to find
practical advice about benefits, treatments and eating well, where qualified
experts provide emotional support and where people with cancer, their families
and friends can meet and talk with other people or simply sit quietly with a cup
of tea.
Since the first Centre opened in Edinburgh in 1996,
Maggie’s has grown into a network of 19 Centres
across the UK, online and abroad. These Centres
now receive more than 200,000 visits each year and
this number is constantly rising as the amount of
people diagnosed with cancer grows.
For more information, please do visit the Maggie’s stall in the Whithurst Park
kitchen.
By purchasing a ticket, you have already supported Maggie’s. Please further support
this wonderful charity by buying artwork and raffle tickets or by donating. From every
piece of art sold at the Fair, 30% will go to Maggie’s. The Whithurst Park Art Fair is
not charging commission on the sale of artwork.
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10. Interior Artists
Tim Ashley
Josie Binney
Thomas Birkett
William Bock
Eleanor Breeze
Neave Brown
Ian Bruce
Jack Bullen
Isabel Collins
Jamie Coreth
Mark Coreth
Jerome Flinders
Sebastian Forman
Holly Froy
Sarah Gillett
Maddie Hills
Kate Ive
Sophie Keir
Claudia Legge
Sarah Maclean
Sophie Mason
Conall McAteer
Clementine McGaw
Mungo McNair
Amanda Mostrum
Rupert Muldoon
Lucienne O’Mara
Roshna Qorbannee
Rory Rae
Philip Rae Scott
Carrie Reichardt
Cat Roissetter
Chica Seal
Lincoln Seligman
Patricia Seligman
Kitty Shepherd
Kate Simon
Samuele Sinibaldi
Odilia Suanzes
Ashleigh Thompson
Alex Uxbridge
Victoria Van Holthe
HRH Queen Victoria
HRH Prince Albert
HRH The Prince of Wales
Jacob Wolff
Emma Young
11. Exterior Artists
Anthony Abrahams
Josephine Allison
Calyxte Campe
Alison Crowther
Nic Fiddian-Green
Annie Flitcroft
David Harber
Philip Jackson
Lou Johns
Jonathan Knight
Knox Field Sculpture
Mark Lumley
Amie Norton
David Pratt
Chinoko Sakamoto
Amelia Kate Sampson
Kate Viner
Emma Walker
12. Josephine Binney
Josephine’s passion is etching. She is studying at
Bedales, but has already exhibited far and wide,
with work featuring in the opening of the new Tate
Modern wing in a digital installation. At The Other
Art Fair, Josephine was named Artist Of The Day,
and she has just been shortlisted for the Glyndbourne
touring brochure cover.
Tim Ashley
Photography is the core of Tim’s practice – he has been doing it without a break
for nearly 40 years. During that time, he has had work published in a variety
of publications and has exhibited in the UK, Finland, Portugal, Germany and
Syria. His work is held in many high-profile collections.
His ‘Venice’ series was used by Leica for 18 months to exemplify the
quality of work that can be produced with its latest generation of professional
digital cameras. The series focuses on the mask, both actual and metaphorical,
and it represents the first half of a two-part study of Italian Carnivals.
More recently, he has focused on individual works, with several sales
at Christie’s, including an 8ft-tall sculpture made for the Crick Institute, which
had previously been installed on the main concourse of London Waterloo
station.
Interior Artists
13. Birkett
Birkett is a photographer and visual artist. His
subjects include Dustin Hoffman, Keira Knightly,
John Cleese, Ray Winstone and Bob Geldof. He has
also worked with The Royal Opera House, Amnesty
International and Vogue and exhibited at the Halcyon
Gallery and the Royal Albert Hall.
Birkett utilises both traditional photographic
equipment and new VR technology. Having worked
with celebrated painters exploring the composition of
a portrait, he is now breaking boundaries in visual
installation. He is currently undertaking a project for
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital children’s ward,
helping to build a digital zoo.
William Bock
William is a London-based visual artist investigating
the idiosyncratic traces of people and place, exploring
how personal and public narratives co-exist through
time. With a background in scenography, William
works across photography, painting, performance
and installation.
‘At Work’ is an on-going series of
photographic images that brings to light the act of
art-making. William visits artists in their studios and
takes hundreds of photographs of them. He later
compresses these into one multi-layered image.
Eleanor Breeze
Eleanor is a painter, who uses memories and old
photographs from her family life to create scenes that
may or may not have occurred in the past. The images
hint at narrative, but ultimately remain ambiguous,
making reference to something lost or just out of
reach.
The blurring of past and present is intrinsic
to Eleanor’s work and the physicality of the paint is
significant in conveying this. Quick gestural marks
alongside more detailed areas suggest different time
frames in the painting process and disrupt a simple
reading of the work.
14. Neave Brown
Celebrated architect Neave re-trained in retirement as
a fine artist. The lines and expressive gestures of his
nudes contrast with his layered, considered prints and
paintings, deeply reflecting his energy and creative
intimacy with his tools. Neave’s primary influence
has been the post-war New York School, with various
subsequent overlays. He lives and works between
London and the South of France.
Ian Bruce
For a year and a half, under the name RubiCANE, Ian drew pornography in all
its diversity. RubiCANE represented a broad range of sexual practise, sexuality
and physicality, from Japanese tentacle erotica to disabled porn, from BDSM to
scally porn. This delicately executed imagery appears on hotel stationery and
postcards or in the form of stencils and crayon on cartridge paper.
Ian’s extensive body of work has culminated in a silk-bound limited-
edition book entitled Souvenir, for which he invited 20 contributors to write
short poems, discourses, stories, confessions, instructions and lists. Among the
playwrights, poets and novelists, there are writers who work or have worked
in the porn industry and give honest first-hand accounts and insights.
15. Jack Bullen
Exploring movement, Jack transcribes Roudolph
Laban’s theory of dynamics into paint, reflecting
on the relationship between dance and painting.
Working with practising dance artist Agnese Lanza,
Jack choreographs dance pieces that are then used as
the visual stimulus for a series of paintings and prints.
Movement is depicted in sketches, monoprints, long-
exposure photographs, video installation and other
media, acting as a ‘rehearsal’ for the final work.
Laban’s theory of dynamics is a system
for analysing the characteristics that occur within
movement with respect to consciousness or ‘inner
intention’. For instance, the difference between
punching something in anger and reaching for a glass
is slight in terms of body organisation. Both rely on
the extension of the arm, but the strength, control and
timing of the movement are very different.
The geometry portrayed throughout Jack’s
work represents the space in which the movement
takes place. Laban maintained that all movement
occurs within one’s personal space or ‘Kinesphere’,
represented in the shape of an Icosahedron.
Jack currently lives and works in London.
Isabel Collins
Isabel’s work is predominantly about slowness and
space. She comes from a farming family and draws on
the connection and separation of people within their
landscapes, both internal and external. She graduated
from The Slade two years ago and has been painting
full time ever since.
Jamie Coreth
A talented portraitist, Jamie approaches his work
with a sense of honesty, balancing design with the
character of the sitter. Born in London, 27-year-old
Jamie received a BA (Hons.) in Archaeology and
Anthropology from Keble College, Oxford, in 2010.
He then trained in drawing and painting in both
London and Florence. In his final year of study at
the Florence Academy, he worked as the art history
lecturer and instructed other students.
16. Mark Coreth
Internationally recognised as a master sculptor of the animal in motion, Mark’s
ability is based quite simply on dedication and hard work coupled with a
perceptive eye – remarkably, he has had no formal training. Drawing heavily
on experiences gained during his early years in Kenya, his sculptures reflect
his instinctive understanding of the moods of the animals. Mark works with
extraordinary speed - if the original plasticine or clay fails to speak to him
within a couple of hours, he destroys it and starts again. His trademark loose,
Impressionist style and incredible knowledge of the beasts he sculpts help him
capture violence, speed, tranquility and pathos with deceptive ease.
As well as his regular one-man shows at Sladmore, Mark shows
regularly in Paris and New York. His many monumental commissions include
a life-size piece of two cheetahs in a tree for the ruling family in Dubai, a life-
size figure for Shakespeare's Globe theatre, Leaping Deer and Ram in the City of
London and a massive 50-piece fountain at the Natural History Museum. His
most spectacular commission to date has been an enormous 16ft-high life-size
charging elephant, the subject of a half-hour documentary on the Discovery
Channel.
17. Jerome Flinders
Jerome is a French/British artist, who has been
producing plans for potential suburban civilisations
since his childhood in Paris's 6th arrondissement; he
currently lives and works in London.
Paid to spend his time planning immaculate
infrastructures for isolated communities in expansive
landscapes, Jerome’s architecture is designed for
people who organise themselves by eccentric and
arbitrary rules. It is better suited to the human
physiognomy than Fordian society and allies itself
more closely to the ecstasy of the discobolus and the
writings of Homer than Economist articles.
Currently, Jerome works for a central London
architecture practice and advises architectural charity
S-T-O-R-E. Recently, he has taught at Central Saint
Martin's and worked for artist-sculptor CharlesAvery,
where he assisted in the perspectival representation of
a fictional society called The Islanders, loosely based
on the wet Scottish island of Mull. He is a champion
of positive change through the built environment.
Sebastian Forman
Sebastian’smaininfluencesareabstractexpressionism
and geometric abstract art, particularly the work of
Kazimer Malevich and George Condo. He studied
Art and Photography at Peter Symonds College and
is now doing a foundation year at the University of
Creative Arts. His pieces have both a powerful energy
and a considered approach to colour and shape.
Holly Froy
While finishing her final year at the Royal Drawing
School, Holly lives on a houseboat in London and
draws humorous scenarios. She’s just returned from
Italy with the Royal Drawing School, where she did a
lot of painting en plein air.
18. Sarah Gillett
Sarah builds ‘environments for close encounters’
with the uncanny and the surreal. Printed meteorite-
shower mobiles, shaky cardboard monuments,
postcard interventions, exploded-tapestry landscapes
and collaged soundtracks play with scale, material
and the structures of story-making.
She explains: ‘Through our lives, we collect
stories from the places we have been, the things
we have done, what we have seen and felt. A smell
or a colour can be enough to bring an image or a
conversation back to life. In my work, I bring together
these intimate fragments to create a tactile new sense
of place.’
In her recent installation for Brocket London’s
‘Summer Scoops’ programme entitled Quarry, Sarah
examined Paolo Uccello’s painting The Hunt in the
Forest (1470) as the basis for a new series of works
combining printmaking, needlepoint and collage.
She graduated from the Royal College of Arts with an
MA in Printmaking in 2015.
Maddie Hills
Maddie paints visceral large-scale canvases, each
a mass of texture and colour, driven by play and
experimentation. With a physical and intuitive
process, she cuts free from conscious actions. She has
developed an acute interest in looking at the detail of
what she encounters, specifically within vast natural
landscapes, believing that it is only when the viewer
steps closer to the work that they notice what the
artist is really intrigued by - the small details within
the larger image.
19. Kate Ive
Kate’s practice ranges from large sculpture
installations to hand-held objects. In 2011, she was
selected as the British Art Medals Society’s New
Medallist 2011-12, an award supported by the
British Museum, V&A, Royal Mint and the National
Academy Sofia. Her smaller works strike up an
intimate relationship with the viewer, as Kate sculpts
on a delicate, minute scale with intricacy in materials
such as bronze, concrete, wax and metal.
For many of her pieces, Kate casts her artwork
herself, frequently in bronze, using her custom-
built foundry, sometimes from found objects. She
then enhances her sculptural objects with detailed
engraving.
Sophie Keir
After many years of painting and drawing from the
imagination, with revealing and concealing being
constant themes, Sophie now paints from life, using
various mediums including oil paint, soft pastels and
graphite.
Claudia Legge
London-based photographer Claudia shoots
primarily in and under water, and exhibits
worldwide. Aquatic photography is the cornerstone
of her provocative style. She explains: ‘I try to expose
the subtlety of movement using the way that light is
refracted through water to create a tension between
image and impression.’
Claudia has an upcoming show in London at
The Icehouse Gallery entitled 'Places' and has been
featured by publications including Creative Review,
My Modern Met, Huffington Post, MTV, Harper’s Bazaar
(Brazil) and SUITCASE Magazine.
20. Sarah Maclean
Sarah studies Fine Art at Camberwell and is
represented by the Osborne Studio Gallery in London.
She has illustrated for House & Garden magazine, The
Ballet School and Odey Asset Management. She has
also worked for The Erotic Print Society and has
illustrated numerous editions and covers for The
Erotic Review. In addition, Sarah has contributed to
many group exhibitions including ‘The Discerning
Eye’.
Sophie Mason
Sophie is an artist and food grower living in London.
Through gardening, object making, performance and
drawing, she explores the connections we can draw
between nature and each other.
Conall McAteer
Conall is a visual artist who utilises the World
Wide Web as resource, platform and tool, creating
narratives that explore the interaction of art, popular
culture and modern visual dissemination media.
His practice considers technology’s increasing social
application, including the potential, limitations and
complications of the digital in relation to the politics
and conventions of the real. He lives and works in
London.
21. Clementine McGaw
Throughout the creative process of Clementine’s
dramatic and texturally rich panels, paint is poured
and wiped, added and subtracted to reveal strange
and macabre human-like forms. Limbs morph into
drips; pools of gelatinous oil reveal faces and abstract
expression. Here, figuration hangs in the balance.
Her works are concerned with human
existence and the potential of image as flesh and
figure. By using paint as language, Clementine
conveys the desperation, fragility and potential of
humanity. She relates to Francis Bacon’s relentless
fascination to paint the ‘perfect human cry’.
On leaving Central Saint Martins, Clementine
was named Best Emerging Fine Artist 2010/2011
and won The Graingers Award for Young Artist
2012/2013, awarded by the National Open Art. She
went on to complete an MA at City and Guilds.
Mungo McNair
Mungo has recently finished his FineArt degree at Manchester School ofArt and
is currently living in London and working as a scenic artist. His paintings often
draw influences from landscape, but undergo an experimental, reactionary
process, removing them from reality. Each new layer adds a sense of mystery
and complexity, while retaining a sense of calm.
22. Amanda Moström
Amanda creates playful works that encourage
interaction, using a visual language of domestic
objects and the profane.
She explains: ‘I want to overcome the
reluctance for people to intimately interact with an
object just because it is a so-called artwork set in a so-
called gallery.
‘I work with bronze - but not in the
way normally expected in a museum or gallery
environment. My use of bronze is not elitist or
classical; I will often pause at a particular step in the
making process, leaving a trace of the maker that
might normally be corrected. The pieces thus retain
the strength and resistance of their materials and,
crucially, reflect the joy I have in making them.’
Rupert Muldoon
Painted in his studio at Trafalgar Park, Rupert’s latest
series of work delves deep into the most commanding
presence of the surrounding landscape – the River
Avon.
Walking beside the river each day,
outstanding moments are enjoyed. Then, back in the
studio, the slow mixing of egg tempera begins. The
aqueous liquidity and translucency of the medium is
appropriate for capturing water.
The process of layering and scraping back
reveals subtle undertones. As the sun sets behind
the far bank, illuminating foliage and water alike,
so must the paintings appear back-lit. The real and
reflected then take on the same flickering tones.
The scale of the works is large, emphasising
the impression of water flowing forward towards the
viewer. In each painting, the perspective shifts from
hovering low over the water to almost looking down
into, and underneath, its surface.
23. Lucienne O’Mara
The subject and the process of Lucienne’s work
are intertwined, evolving from a fascination with
identity, particularly the fluid and unfixed nature of
it. Her interests lie in people who are in some way
performing, whether it is on stage, as a character
within themselves, or in a role they feel they should
conform to.
The process of applying paint and distorting
the image into fragments represents the way one’s
identity appears as a complete form, but is made
up of different parts. The fragility of watercolour on
canvas mirrors how one small act can permanently
change an identity and how mistakes and chance
play a key part in shaping it.
Roshna Qorbannee
Roshna’s work explores the transient nature of life
and the contrast between the resilient and the fragile
human body. She is interested in the capacity of the
human body to create life, to inflict and feel pain and
to experience death - particularly during war and
social conflict.
Aspects of Roshna’s personal history are
echoed through her work. The reconsideration of
early experiences, such as witnessing first-hand
the deaths of those around her while growing up
in Northern Iraq, is an important aspect of the her
practice.
Her groundbreaking installation piece,
5000 Objects, previously exhibited by Brocket, is a
memorial to the Kurdish people who were killed
during the chemical attack on her home town of
Halabja in Northern Iraq on March 16, 1988. The
5,000 people who died are represented by 5,000
small, intimate objects, which Roshna created in the
form of small fabric bags filled with white salt and
black charcoal and sewn together - similar to those
that were made by her mother after the massacre took
place for her child’s protection in the event of another
chemical attack. Roshna lives with her husband and
two daughters between London and Kurdistan.
24. Rory Rae
Roryisaphotographerwhocapturesvividlandscapes
and fleeting expressions. He is never without a
camera and is forever striving to capture the world in
the way that he sees it.
Philip Rae Scott
Philip is predominantly a sculptor, ‘a formalist rather
than a conceptual artist’. His work tends to be hard-
edged, geometric and solid and he is concerned with
quality materials, surface finish and longevity.
With a studio near Sherborne in Dorset,
Philip will happily work to commissions. He has
exhibited in the South of England and London and
his work can be found in several private collections
in the UK and abroad.
Carrie Reichardt
A ‘craftivist’ whose work blurs the boundaries
between craft and activism, Carrie uses the techniques
of ceramic and mosaic to create intricate, politicised
works of art. She trained at Kingston University and
achieved a first-class degree in Fine Art from Leeds
Metropolitan.
For over two decades, Carrie has been
involved in international public art projects in
places such as Mexico, Chile and Argentina. She has
designed and consulted on large-scale mosaic murals
and her most recent ceramic installation was for the
façade of the V&A. Carrie’s work has featured in The
Observer, The Guardian and the Evening Standard, and
in several books including Garth Johnson’s 1000 Ideas
for Creative Reuse.
25. Chica Seal
‘The landscapes I create are often vague, nostalgic, or
even psychological spaces. Chagall and Milton Avery
have been strong influences on my work, as the
figure plays a central role within their landscapes, but
neither are overriding. My figures are often drawn
through an emotional state rather than working
from life, although drawing is an important part of
my practice. The characters are templates or states of
mind, not necessarily individuals, and are therefore
relatable to anyone.’
Cat Roissetter
Cat is interested in the phenomenon of ‘the face’. Through a series of paintings,
she deconstructs and interrogates the complex reactions brought about in an
individual on encountering another’s face. Cat is interested in the history of
how the face has developed: from the embryonic, half-formed pre-face of an
imagined pre-history to a facility with the capacity for advanced, nuanced
communicationthroughexpressionandgesture.Workingfromlife,photographs
and imagination, Cat paints through a neurotic process of distortion and
restructuring to create portraits that are both beautiful and grotesque.
26. Lincoln Seligman
Born in London in 1950, Lincoln read law at Oxford
and practised shipping law, which he abandoned
in 1980 to become a full-time artist and sculptor.
He specialises in large-scale site-specific works in
the UK, USA and Hong Kong. He had a one-man
exhibition of paintings at the Royal Academy in 2007
and recent shows at Gerald Bland, New York (2014),
Osborne Gallery, Knightsbridge (2016) and Art India,
Delhi (2016).
Lincoln’s corporate clients include Swires,
Government of China, Laurent Perrier, Tiffany & Co,
Asprey, Chanel, Cathay Pacific, Schroders, British
Airport Authority, Investec, Broadgate, British
Land, Savoy Hotels, Royal Caribbean and Standard
Chartered Bank.
Private collectors include Martin Clunes,
Sebastian Coe, Paul Simon, Carrie Fisher, the Duke of
Roxburghe and the Duke of Devonshire.
Patricia Seligman
‘There is not enough time in the day for me to paint,’
says Patricia. ‘I have taken up painting as a late career
move, morphing from a life in the Arts - publishing,
writing, curating - to painting full time. I have started
late on this venture so I am in a hurry.’ Patricia’s
knowledge of theory is extensive but she is largely
untaught. ‘So I get up in the morning and say to myself
“Go paint!”. I pushed myself to have an exhibition
in December 2015 at Clementi House, Kensington
Church Street. “I am unformed,” I keened to the fine
and experienced painter Richard Foster. “We always
are”, he replied.’
27. Kitty Shepherd
‘In the end, I make pots. My studios are in Granada
and Sussex. I work along very personal lines of
creativity trying to lay a hand on my own emotions,
attempting to instil some kind of order. Usually, it is
the mistakes that turn out to be the best pieces and
from there I can expand. The process of alchemy and
the subsequent transformation is as important to me
as the tongue-in-cheek humour of my work. I think
through my ideas very slowly and I am prone to be
influenced by everything and everyone around me. I
write a blog, which documents what is happening in
my studio and reflects my inspirations, surroundings
and life.’
Kate Simon
An artist based in West Sussex, Kate loves nature and
frequently paints still-lifes, particularly flowers and
fruit. She has been involved in exhibitions supporting
Help for Heroes and Riding for the Blind.
Samuele Sinibaldi
Samuele’s work addresses contemporary social
concerns through the analysis of human history. By
readopting folkloric images and symbolism, which he
finds in antiquities, he attempts to create a dialogue
between the modern man and his historic lineage.
Historic images and symbols are embedded
in the cultural subconscious of modern society. Taking
inspiration from medieval religious art, Samuele
believes that images have the power to conquer the
spectator’s imagination. He describes this as a tool
with which he invites the viewer to re-examine their
values.
He works in everything from installation
sculpture to film-making. Influenced by the archetype
of civilisation, he favours working with rural and
ephemeral materials such as soil, cooked and raw
clay, cement, wood, metal, crops and plants, food and
found objects.
28. Odilia Suanzes
Odilia's work is an exploration of the sublime
experience of landscapes so overwhelming they
are beyond comprehension. There is an inherent
geometry in her work. Odilia uses thin and fluid paint
in layers or veils of semi-transparent washes, forming
characteristic and fragile organic shapes. This creates
a depth and volume in the abstract images.
The works are related to the cognitive
processes that happens when she paints, both
consciously and unconsciously. ‘It is in the mind
that the artist tries to create a connection between
neurology, phenomenology and the sublime,’ she
says.
Odilia’s recent sell-out graduate show at City
& Guilds of London Art School won her the Winsor &
Newton residency.
Ashleigh May Thompson
Ashleigh lives and works in London. Creating
monochrome works on paper in both large and
small scale, as well as prints, her drawings are
representations of infinite space, cross sections of
bone, natural surfaces and optical processes. Through
the creation of complex, grainy surfaces, Ashleigh
creates open works that allow the viewer to draw on
his/her own personal experiences.
Alex Uxbridge
‘Painting is for me about the simultaneous creation of
a beautiful object and a beautiful illusion,’ says Alex.
‘I am for simplicity, but often tainted by ambiguity.
The mood of the painting is all important.’
29. Victoria Van Holthe
Through the use of layering, directional brush
marks, drips and areas of glazes, Victoria forms
her own visual language. The process is a response
to the materials themselves, the marks used and
the accidental marks that she chooses to leave. The
paintings and prints are realised in series, developed
in conjunction with one another with an intent to
reveal the process and materiality while creating a
harmonious visual experience.
HRH Queen Victoria and HRH Prince Albert
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had a shared passion for painting in
watercolours and, in the 1840s, started to produce etchings and lithographs.
Their teacher was the great portrait painter Sir George Hayter and their children,
dogs and daily life at Windsor Castle were inspiration.
Prince Albert's works are bolder and show a mastery of the techniques;
those by Queen Victoria are charming and historic. The small children she drew
went on to populate the royal families of Europe.
These rare works date from the early 1840s and are in mint condition.
They belonged to Georgiana, Duchess of Sutherland, the Queen's favourite
lady-in-waiting.
30. HRH The Prince of Wales
The Prince of Wales has been a painter since his
schooldays in Scotland. His chosen medium is
watercolour and he uses a small paint-box and
paints from life out in the fields. His subjects are
always landscapes and he has developed great skill
in painting magnificent skies - in all weathers. Sales
of Prince Charles’s lithographs have made millions
of pounds for his charities. He comes from an artistic
immediate familly; The Duke of Edinburgh is less
known as a painter, but his oils are detailed and
charming and The Queen, with her Leica camera, is
an excellent photographer. Prince Charles's works,
all individually signed and dated, are a wonderful
addition to any collection.
Jacob Wolff
‘I rely on manual intelligence to have a role in the
relationship between concepts and materials. Hands
can offer ways of operating that are distinct from
those suggested by thoughts or tools. For this reason,
I often begin with materials that can be used and
understood intuitively. Then, I try to come up with
my own systems of making with them.’
Emma Young
Emma's work expresses the belief that we fail to
consider many of the everyday objects within our
lives, or to become mindful of our interactions with
the environment as part of our daily routines. She
asserts that this negativity leads to consumption
and indifference, which furthermore robs us of our
imaginative experience.
Emma uses everyday materials and objects,
such as steel rods, hoover bags, rubber tubing, a
garden sieve, wool, sticks and tarpaulin. Just as a
young child may cherish what seems like a dull
pebble, Emma makes these little-regarded things fire
the imagination.
31. Exterior Artists
Anthony Abrahams
Anthony lives and works in Gloucestershire and,
formerly, he had a successful career in advertising.
His carefully poised, enigmatic figures follow a
tradition in British sculpture that began in the 1950s
with sculptors such as Armitage, Butler, Chadwick,
Frink and Meadows. The exaggeration of some
features and the repression of others give his work
a personal and expressive quality, as if prehistoric
fertility symbols had been reborn in the contemporary
world. His emblematic figures, caught in playful
postures, remind us of ourselves.
Most recently, he has turned to an exploration
of printing methods including solar prints, drypoint
and monoprints. He handles this new medium
with characteristic dexterity, producing images
of charisma and poignancy. Anthony’s work is in
private collections in the UK, USA and Europe. His
most recent major piece, Ozymandias, King of Kings
can be seen at King’s Place, London.
Josephine Allison
Josephine is currently working as a blacksmith and
artist in Oxfordshire. After Central Saint Martins, she
was driven to explore different processes. Clay, steel,
concrete and wax are the materials she now uses. Her
works explore the concepts of time, along with how
we are affected by the emotions it unmasks.
32. Calyxte Campe
As a portrait and animal sculptor, Calyxte works
exclusively from life, sculpting in clay side by side
with his subject, giving his work life, energy and
accuracy. A childhood spent on a boat means that
home for Calyxte is all over the world. He, his wife,
Decima Cardozo, and baby son, Alessio, divide the
year between Tuscany, Switzerland and Brazil.
In Tuscany, he sources his marble from the
ancient quarries of Carrara and works in an old stone
barn next to the farmhouse where they live. Casting
in bronze is as crucial for Calyxte as sculpting. He
completes commissions for both private and public
collections worldwide.
Alison Crowther
Alison is an award-winning sculptor, who was born
in Yorkshire and lives in West Sussex. Inspired by
simple organic or geometric forms, she uses integral
features in wood, such as medullary rays and grain,
to carve a tactile, textured surface.
Nic Fiddian-Green
Best known as an equestrian sculptor, Nic works primarily in bronze and
beaten lead. He held his first exhibition in 1986 and has since been in demand
from galleries and collectors alike, with sculptures shown regularly in London,
New York and Australia. In addition, he is well known for carrying out
major site-specific commissions; two monumental pieces are Horse at Water at
Glyndebourne in Sussex, and Horse’s Head in the Wind at Treasury Holdings in
Barrow Street, Dublin.
33. Annie Flitcroft
Annie loves clay. She engages with the material and
absorbs the physicality of it in all its forms. Tending
not to glaze her work, particularly the sculptural
pieces, she leaves the clay 'naked' to better see the
natural material.
David Harber
David Harber was founded in 1992 with the creation
of the company’s most famous piece - the armillary
sphere. The company’s repertoire quickly expanded
and it now projects as far afield as Dubai, Bahrain and
Singapore.
Philip Jackson
Born in Inverness, Philip lives and works in West Sussex. His ability to convey
the human condition through skilful use of body language is legendary,
producing figures both imposing and operatic.
His meticulously precise posturing of each piece creates an
overwhelming sense of drama. From the prestigious, figuratively detailed
public monuments and statues for which he is often commissioned, to his
elegant and enigmatic gallery sculptures, Philip's work never fails to move
people. He was appointed Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in
The Queen's Birthday Honours list 2009.
34. Lou Johns
Lou works from her studio in Fishbourne, West
Sussex, in a variety of mediums to create striking
pieces for exhibition and private clients. She studied
under Alan Saunders and Glynis Beercroft between
1972 and 1976 and maintained her talent and interests
throughout her career while raising her three
daughters.
In 2000, she finally turned her attention to
pursuing her talents full time and has since developed
a reputation for beautiful and unique pieces that have
been exhibited and sold locally and internationally.
Jonathan Knight
Jonathan sculpts horses, animals and birds. He has
exhibited at the major art fairs in Northern Europe
and the UK. His enchanting bronze animals have
given him a wide collectorship. He is recognised
as one of the finest and most original wildlife and
equine artists of his generation.
Knox Field Sculpture
For Sandy, 2015-16 has been momentous. He has
recently returned from Scotland, where he sculpted
a life-size cocker spaniel. It is currently being cast in
bronze at Lockbund Fine Art Sculpture Foundry. In
March, he exhibited at the Royal Society of British
Artists Spring exhibition at the Mall Galleries,
London.
35. Mark Lumley
Mark lives and works in Monmouthshire. He has
worked as a sculptor and blacksmith for the past 27
years.Hetransformsbasicmetalbarsintofluidhuman
forms, creating outward simplicity by allowing the
forged steel and bronze to find their own shape.
Mark’s work is inspired by the work of
Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Gargallo and Modigliani.
He exhibits with Celia Purcell Contemporary,
Carey Contemporary, John Martin Gallery and the
Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen. His work has
featured in World of Interiors and The Telegraph and, in
2010, he won the Walpole Award.
Amie Norton
Amie has recently graduated from Wimbledon
College of Art. Her skill set includes sculpting, mould
making, concept and character development,
model making, set design and building, drawing
and painting. She has also studied in theatre
design and furniture making.
David Pratt
Recently, David has exploited drawing's capacity as
a tool of heightened imagination. He says that his
work ‘generally tweaks the everyday, transcending
expectations to develop symbols and narratives’. The
human figure is central and, through this, he seeks
‘the universal through the specific’. He uses semi-
portraiture, rather than unfocused crowds, to hint at
narrative and takes imagery from a variety of eras,
interchanging them to create a world of intrigue. The
move into three-dimensional work with Suburban
Odyssey grew out of a desire to lend these worlds
more form, to make his more outlandish images
architectural.
36. Chinoko Sakamoto
Chinoko is a London-based Japanese artist; she
studied Fine Art sculpture at Camberwell. Clay is
her principle medium and her practice explores how
hand-made processes open dialogues about multiple
values inside and outside the art world.
Amelia Kate Sampson
Currently studying at City & Guilds, Amelia is
influenced by abstract expressionism and modernist
British sculpture. She celebrates the raw organic
qualities of stone to communicate truth. Adamant
about carving within the landscape that inspires her,
Amelia works at a studio she built in rural Dorset.
Kate Viner
Kate completed her degree in Fine Art with Sculpture
at Winchester School of Art. After graduating in 1996,
she won the Top Draw Design Award and continued
on her creative path, making large, heavy metal
sculptures, welded furniture, which sold at Harvey
Nichols, bespoke installations and, latterly, figurative
bronzes and limited-edition prints.
Kate’s first public art commission, Captive
Orbience, is a massive, suspended metal and carbon-
fibre sphere at Tangmere Business Park. She has
gone on to create various pieces for both public and
private installations. Her work can be seen in Belfast,
Chichester, Portsmouth, Bordeaux and Melbourne.
Emma Walker
Emma is concerned with the inner life and vitality
of natural form in the animal kingdom. Working in
bronze, as well as willow and steel, she is drawn to
the equine form in particular.
Emma has trained in a number of bronze
foundries (notably Butley Mills), forges and
workshops and now works in her studio, creating
unique private commissions for collectors both in the
UK and abroad.
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Artist Liaision – Eleanor Breeze
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Thanks are also extended to the committee members, as well as Douglas
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