SUE WOOKEY

The Listening Hare

The Owl Knows

Sacred Landscapes 1 and 5

Galley Hill from the East

Sue Wookey's paintings reflect a lifelong love of nature, ancient symbols and myths, and Britain’s mysterious megalithic history. Another constant source of inspiration are the ancient Ways and Hills of the Chilterns where she lives.

Using harmonious shapes and patterns, Sue combines the transparency and fluidity of watercolour with the vibrancy of gouache to create paintings full of multi-layered meanings and colour. Many paintings are surrounded by words, often the fragments of poems inspired by the paintings themselves.

Each painting reflects a personal inner journey and a hope that others will gain their own inspiration from them.

More of Sue's work can be seen at Galley Hill Art Blogspot
Limited edition giclee prints are available from her website at  www.galleyhillart.com

All paintings © Sue Wookey

PATRICIA ELLIS

Egyptian Temple3 

Kashmiri Routes7 

Accidental Abstract 

All That Remains 

Xlendi Reflections3

An extensive experience of global travel provides the basis for Patricia's art work. A camera and sketch book  are the medium through which immediate impressions are captured and brought back to the studio. From the broad sweep of landscape to intimate details of a rock face, a drawing or photograph can mark the start of an artistic process or equally become the final output.

In the studio, Patricia translates experiences of the external world into printwork such as monoprints or collagraphs. These techniques demand a simplification of the complexities of what is seen into line, pattern and/or colour whilst conveying the essence of the subject. The output is often a play with ideas but always with the emphasis on producing an aesthetically pleasing outcome.

Photography is an important part of Patricia’s work. However it is not about keeping a record of travels but rather of reactions to the environment which might be the colours, the textures, shapes or patterns and their interaction. Some photographs do not focus on the object itself but rather on an indicator of its presence such as shadows or reflections which distort the original but beguile the eye with mystery and questions. Ideas and impressions become more important than the factual content. It is this difference in approach to taking photographs which moves the end product into the ambit of fine art photography and away from the documentary.

VICTORIA JOHNS

Link

Seeing

Link Series I

Link Series III

Seeing Series IV

Victoria's art practice embraces an extensive range of materials including, acrylic paint/ink and spray, printmaking ink, pastel and collage.  She works in painting, printmaking and photography and often combines these disciplines to create the desired effect.

The major source of inspiration comes from examining and manipulating images photographed and sketched on location in the U.K. and abroad.  The images are used in the studio as a starting point to create a body of work or sometimes a single piece.

Coating the support with her chosen medium, she paints in a largely intuitive and spontaneous way with colour, texture and mark making.  Her paintings often have a glass-like quality; several layers of transparent and opaque colours along with texture create depth and a very tactile feel to the work.

More of Victoria's work can be seen at http://www.victoriajohns-art.com

CELIA GLYDE HUSBAND

Street Dance

Passion

 Green Parade

 High Flyer

All Gone

Celia Glyde Husband produces brightly coloured, highly textured, multiple layered paintings using acrylic paint and mixed media.  Pastel drawings capture odd moments when out and about or on holiday.

Always keen to find ways of portraying colour and movement within the city environment and living in a town, Celia enjoys the carnival, which she enthusiastically supports.  The carnival is often a source of inspiration as it really brings the town to life. The carnival is a multi-layered event with diverse groups and various arts involved, alive with colour and movement.  Music and dance from all around the world combined with a local multi-cultural and ethnic population make the event inspiring.

The paintings and drawings on show at St Martin-in-the-Fields represent Celia's work inspired by the carnival, the city environment and aspects of city life.  Inspiration is found in the many quirky activities one sees just going for a walk or shopping (skateboarders or joggers in the park), they can be the subject of quick sketches or photographs and then worked into larger paintings.

More of Celia's work can be seen at http://www.artist-celia-glyde-husband.com

BEN HODSON

As an artist Ben works with Photography, video, installation, performance and collage. Ben recently exhibited in the Ismail Khayat Gallery in Iraq, being one of the first British artists to exhibit in this region since the war.  It is part of the project: Iraq - A Changing Heart.​ While in Iraq, Ben orchestrated a dramatic reenactment of a peace project from 2000, by painting the side of a mountain in Iraq with the artist Ismail Khayat.​

Ben primarily works in London, Luton and the home counties and has received commissions from all over the UK, central Europe and the Middle East.  Ben has exhibited widely in both group and solo shows.  This includes: The Houses of Parliament, PhotoFusion in London, the LPA gallery space, the Hat Factory, the Gateway Gallery.  He has work on permanent display in the United Nations head quarters in New York. Ben works as a film/art director, curator, project manager and designer. Furthermore he lectures on Visual Communication in the Art & Design department for the University of Bedfordshire. 

http://www.benhodson.co.uk

CHRISTINE BASS

Ludlow Castle (Shropshire)

Catbells, Lake District

Near Aldbury (Hertfordshire)

Long Man of Wilmington, South Coast 

 From Wing to Mentmore (Buckinghamshire)

Christine Bass paints contemporary English landscapes, characterized by strong lines and shapes, flattened planes and the use of vibrant colour.

She uses tissue to loosely block in areas of colour, relishing the unexpected shapes which emerge from torn edges and overlapping areas.  The original composition is then brought back into focus by applying layers of acrylic paint.  Lastly, the finer lines are sometimes drawn in with water-soluble Neocolour.

She draws inspiration from the Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire countryside: the gentle beauty of the Chiltern Hills, views from the Ridgeway, the patterns of fields scored by furrows and bounded by hedgerows, the bare trees of winter, the colours of crops and the seasons. 

Other parts of England are sources of inspiration too: the South Coast, Cornwall, Devon, Shropshire and the Lake District are all represented in paintings at St Martin-in-the-Fields.

She also draws and paints still lifes, often including flowers for their exuberant colours and organic shapes.

More of Christine’s work can be seen at www.christinebass.blogspot.com