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“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life” Seize the Day 04 Timmy Mallet
Picasso once said and it is undeniable that art has 2014 Collection a astonishing power to bring an overriding sense of 10 Todd White wellbeing into our lives. The Sky’s the Limit 16 Barry Hilton
The positive effect of art is immeasurable and its influence is far reaching. It touches us in so many ways and on so many levels, and we invest an enormous amount of emotional energy in our choice of artwork, in the same way that the artist invests in creating it. Our artwork is a reflection of our personality whether we have chosen it because it evokes a treasured memory of a place or a person, or perhaps a feeling Freedom of Expression that comforts us; art in turn sets the mood of a room and 20 Jennine Parker indeed shapes the character of our entire home. Look Into My Eyes There is a school of thought that argues that colour can 24 Jen Allen improve emotional health, and certainly there would be few This Seasons Colours who would argue that the introduction of beauty to our walls 28 Inam does not bring positive rewards. Sometimes the effect of art is quite simple: it may just make us smile and offer no deeper attachment than that - but how wonderful to have a picture in our home that has the power to lift our mood on what might otherwise be a dark dull day!
This edition of The Fine Art Preview brings together a diverse collection of contemporary artwork and features a wide range of genres interpreted in the most innovative ways. Art The Idea of Perfection enriches our lives and we do hope that this exceptional new 32 John Waterhouse range of Collectable Editions brings great pleasure to your Getting to Know lives and inspires you to fall in love with this season’s artwork 36 Dylan Izaak in new and unexpected ways! Knowing Your Place 40 Sherree Valentine Daines
A Sense of Peace 44 Julie Anne Scott
Double Take 48 Chris & Steve Rocks
Continental Charm 52 Henderson Cisz Front cover Barry Hilton Forest and Field
03 Timmy
Seize the Day
Timmy Mallett is a much loved household name, famous for his roles as TV presenter, broadcaster and entertainer. But behind the famously flamboyant personality there resides amajor artistic gift, which has been expressing itself on canvas now for several years.
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04 05 Timmy’s award-winning jubilee barge Embellished Canvas Edition of 195 impressionistic scenes Size 30” x 24” FRAMED £650 are drawn from his travels Click here to purchase your copy around the UK and across the world.
He is inspired by sunshine and shadow, the changing seasons and as he says, “the magic of the moment!” Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini’. His paintings glow with warmth, light He’s been seen on ITV’s ‘I’m a and colour - not surprising when the Celebrity Get Me Out of Here’ and man known to millions is such a vivid tours regularly being thoroughly and enthusiastic individual. entertaining on stage.
He started out winning awards in radio But what fewer people know is and on Breakfast TV - ‘Wacaday’ and that at Warwick University Timmy ‘Mallett’s Mallet’ proved an enduring studied History and History of favourite. Timmy met Andrew Lloyd Art and a paint brush has never Webber (a major collector of Pre- been far from his reach. Indeed Raphaelite art) and together they had ‘Mallett’s Palette’ is as much a a worldwide hit with ‘Itsy Bitsy Teeny part of him as ‘Mallett’s Mallet’.
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Timmy is recognised as an artist worldwide and his work is widely collected. His charitable street art includes a life size gorilla in Bristol, the Remembrance Day piano in Preston and currently the Ring a Royal phone box outside Windsor Castle.
He has painted many famous faces including Lorraine Kelly, Sir Clive Woodward, Jim Rosenthal and Wendy Craig.
07 It is not only the natural features of the landscape that appeal to Timmy; he also has a great affection for those man made items that occur so frequently that they really become a part of the landscape in their own right. Snowy Post Box is a classic example of one of these much loved objects catching his eye. It appeared to such advantage in a dazzling winter setting he simply couldn’t resist painting it!
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Timmy’s paintings are testament to his discerning eye and delight in putting paint to canvas. They grow out of his desire to capture the reality of a given moment before the light, the atmosphere, or the weather (this is England after all) change and the moment is lost forever. When he comes across a scene, a view, a tableau that he says…
“At times like this you wonder what the rest of the world is doing and marvel that anyone could be sleeping through this magic. Carpe Diem – seize the day – is one of my favourite maxims; life is full of great moments and I love to paint them.”
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09 10 Todd says: I will never be a master at this. I have so much respect for creators and builders and people who make something from nothing. It’s a blessing and a curse to have a hole inside you that you have to fill creatively. It’s bottomless and just when you think you’ve filled it, you discover that the satisfaction is short lived. Is this inherited or learned I wonder?
My sense of surrounding is on high alert at all times. I’m consciously trying to absorb every nuance and gesture, catching and even toying with flirts so I don’t forget a single detail when the time comes to put it on canvas.
“Irrationally romantic is how I describe this edition. The flirtatious playfulness of these people excites me and reminds me of those special moments. It also takes me back to those moments when I am most charged, on my game, and sharp as a tack...the moments you think of and can’t help but crack a smile and stay there for a minute.”
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11 “With every painting I try to leave just enough space for you to walk right in and mingle. You have already been there and now its replaying in your mind. You feel that box, locked deep inside you starting to open...There it is, you feel it now... We move so fast these days it’s hard to stop when you’re waiting on an answer from your new gadget, so take a second, stop what you’re doing and just remember.”
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12 “This piece came about thanks to one fan’s comment. He asked me to write it on the back of a painting he bought for his wife, and it simply spoke to me. The painting immediately began to take shape in my mind. I wanted to use the wine bottles as a prop for the men’s showboating, as if they were peacock feathers. This is the way they’re going to get their women – how they pour their wine! I wanted each guy to do his own unique thing with the girl he’s after – arm draped over the back etc. I always think of wine as a little bit more staid than other drinks so it was fun to put this rather serious drink into the hands of flirtatious people just in it for a fun night out”
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THE COOLEST ARTIST ON THE PLANET
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13 I try to ensure that my work is constantly evolving and to keep the creative fire blazing, I push myself to not let the works become a copy of themselves, hoping for a splinter of greatness in there somewhere.
The blessing comes in the eyes and hearts of my fans who come to the shows from all over and share their stories of how a painting resonates with them personally. These are unbelievable stories that lift me up on occasion, and at other times, crush my heart. It’s a total roller coaster of emotions whenever I meet my collectors, and I hope you know that I do always try to give everything that is in my creative and emotional repertoire.
14 “ This painting came about like care to follow, I tend to zone out and so much of my work through my listen to the music, and often start personal experience of travelling sketching. I love to capture people in around, nights out and my liking their element doing what they love. for finishing the evening in a piano For this one I created masses of bar. I don’t like the noise and sketches then began to compile them clamour of clubs where you can’t into a composition and soon realised pick up conversation – because I that it was really working for me. I love
Embellished Canvas Edition of 135 like some background noise I love the colours, the energy, the feeling of Size 40” x 20” FRAMED £1625 a piano bar. If the conversation the music, and to me it had a rhythm Click here to purchase your copy goes off in a direction I don’t of its own”.
“ Women are so complex, with so much more going on in their heads than their male counterparts. I want to portray the multifarious characteristics of a woman. I have gotten so frustrated in the past when I’m just not getting the response I’m looking for or when her eyes are just rejecting me. It’s a far more volatile mix in the women I paint than in the men. The combination of confidence and vulnerability all bundled up in a sex kitten.. wait, we are talking Embellished Canvas Edition of 135, Size 30” x 20” FRAMED £1295 Click here to purchase your copy about my painting RIGHT?”
15 the sky’s the limit BARRY HILTON
The contrast between light and dark, calm and storm, is absolutely central to every piece I paint.”
16 Barry Hilton’s first published works were released in the UK in Spring 2013, and were met with the kind of reaction this self-deprecating man had never imagined.
His original paintings had already caused quite a stir, but he was completely unprepared for the roaring success of his dramatic landscapes when they were released as collectable editions across the UK.
Barry views the world around him as tones and shades rather than a specific colours. When he first takes in a scene, it is the relationship between tonalities that strikes forest and field Embellished Canvas on Board Edition of 195 him and this is what he likes to capture, Size 14” x 14” whether in a photograph, a sketch, or FRAMED £250 Click here to purchase your copy simply in his memory. Back in his studio, he translates these tonal shapes into colour, but not necessarily the colours of reality. He states with great firmness that does not feel obliged to paint the colours he sees, but rather to create a highly personal interpretation of the landscape in his own distinctive style.
Because he works in this way, the light in his studio has become key to the creation of every work. Every nuance of colour and shade is crucial, but as he is not always able to paint during the day, the challenge has been to light his work space with something which comes as close as possible to north light. North light, commonly known as reflected light or indirect light, produces cool and controlled value shifts. He has recently built a studio which he has kitted out to his very specific requirements with north light tubes, which give ‘white’ light as opposed to ‘fluorescent’ light, thus allowing him to be completely true to his creative vision.
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Barry started his professional life as a high- “When I told my boss I flying businessman, regularly travelling around Europe and North America with little time in was going to become a his busy life for reflection. full time artist, he said I’d never make a living.” But painting was always his first love, and as time passed he began to wonder whether he How wrong he was! The amazing indigo landscape would ever be able to give his art the time it Embellished Canvas response to Barry’s work means on Board Edition of 195 deserved, and if not, whether he would spend Size 20” x 10” that although his lifestyle has FRAMED £250 the rest of his life regretting it. “ It was a leap undergone a radical shift, he is Click here to purchase your copy into the unknown”, he says. now working harder than ever. “The business side has been a hard slog, but the actual painting has been wonderful. I’m not a self-publicist but thankfully now I’ve learned to leave all that side of things to other people, to free myself up to paint.”
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His greatest source of inspiration is the moorland around his home in the north of England. He can actually identify the moment at which his distinctive style was born.
“That started some years back. I spend a lot of time in the countryside and I can remember when rapeseed came in and I saw a field of incredible yellow flowers against a black, stormy sky. I’ve never lost that image and the concept really infiltrated my imagination. This contrast between light and dark, calm and storm, is absolutely click here to see more from this artist… central to every piece I paint.”
19 Jennine Parker
20 freedom of expressi n
Sculpture is widely collected across the UK, and an increasing number of contemporary artists are now producing some exciting and innovative work in three dimensions.
In the midst of this trend, certain individuals stand out from the field, and one such figure is the hugely talented British sculptor Jennine Parker.
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21 The stories behind Jennine’s arresting bronze figures are firmly rooted in her own life; for her sculpture is not a new departure, but relates back to her childhood. it has given her the freedom to express her personal experience as she explains:
From the age of 7 to 21 dance and gymnastics were an important part of my life, and I believe that this fact has played a huge role in my work. These activities provide a way for the human body to express its energy through graceful or interesting curves and lines, creating movement and shape. In much the same way, my sculpture expresses movement, shape and texture - the female form imaginatively evoked through curves and shapes.
Many of my ideas seem to materialise from nowhere, yet I know the seeds are sown (and worked on subconsciously) by experiences I encounter daily, people I meet or places I visit, indeed from all aspects of the world around me from past and present. Inspiration from natural weathered erosion for instance offers a contrasting juxtaposition of smooth to textured surfaces, encouraging sensitivity to texture and form. Interesting shapes and lines are created in the natural world wherever you look and from every angle.
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22 A key influence throughout my life has My passion is the human form, and I see shapes in everything around been one of the twentieth century’s I like to do as much life drawing me, from patterns in knotted wood to greatest artists, Alberto Giacometti; as possible. While this is arguably shapes that inanimate objects make. I his stunning pieces convey immense the most challenging process that take lots of photographs of weathered energy and a truly radiant presence, I I have encountered as an artist, it stones and walls which can inspire the also get great joy from Auguste Rodin, encourages strong observation and is textured finish to a piece of my work. Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and the foundation to the structure of my My affinity is with clay and this is the Peter Hayes to name but a few. work. When sculpting I try to capture main material I like to work with, but the living world, to communicate depending on the type of sculpture All of these artists have given us their life, movement and personality by I want to produce, sometimes this own unique interpretation of the figure recreating the lines and shapes of the necessitates me working in wax or in a way that has spoken to us and left human figure. I hope this approach plaster. Using and experimenting with their stamp on the world of figurative helps the viewer to empathise with different materials changes the look sculpture. Following in their footsteps my work, bringing their own stories and dynamics of my work. has inspired me to work, as they did, and memories to life. towards a genuine personal statement in my work.
I generally hand build each piece using a wet clay or an oil based clay depending on the final result I want to achieve. I usually work with a block of clay that I carve into. However, when using oil based clay, I create a wire frame to give me the flexibility to make the desired shape. I build the sculpture onto the frame from tiny pieces of clay, smoothing over as the layers build up. I add detail and adjust the shape as I go along. Once the piece is completed, it is sent off to the foundry where they then produce the piece in bronze (using a lost wax process). This results in a wonderful transition from clay to bronze which is the final evolution of the creative process.
23 Her inspirational iconic images have a mesmerising power and immediacy that is enhanced by a distinctive palette bringing a dynamic bold quality to each composition.
24 25 narnia Canvas on Board Edition of 95, Size 30” x 30” FRAMED £650 Jen Allen emerged onto the contemporary art scene Click here to purchase your copy in 2000 and her high impact style has established her as a uniquely recognisable voice. As she developed her artistic and technical skills she found that spontaneity was a huge contributor to much of her best work and she began to concentrate on creating pieces at a single sitting. Much of her work originates in this way, before she refines and perfects the finished composition. ” Working this way gives my pieces a sense of immediacy which lends character to my art ”
As Jen honed her extraordinary skills, she found herself in demand for commissions but also for performance. She uses these painting performances to express her particular brand of
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26 artistic bravura and create more stylised versions of the stunning eye of the tiger… portraits that have attracted so much international attention. Her iconic black and white Jen’s premier published But he was so friendly, and I still celebrity portraits have become pieces grew out of the get to see him from time to time. familiar, but her new releases most extraordinary Narnia, the white tiger, arrived a represent a new departure. few years ago and she was fully These extraordinary tigers share experience involving a grown. I was privileged to be the arresting quality of all her personal connection with able to play with her through the work, demanding the complete two beautiful tigers. bars of her cage, as I had access attention of the viewer. during the evenings when the Jen explains: “I’ve had so many public had gone home. That is Although performance is ‘pinch-myself’ moments over the last when all park animals truly come an important part of Jen’s few years. I became involved with a alive. I’ll never forget the honour it artistic life, it is her innovative wildlife park who commissioned a was to spend quality time and be stylistic approach and gift for large tiger portrait and they are now so hands-on with these incredible interpretation that has won her close friends of mine (the tiger and the and beautiful animals. I hope in an international following. park owners!). At one stage, I shared some way that my painting has Her artworks are now in my house with three lions, a meerkat, captured their alluring beauty and demand all over the world a red-ruffed lemur (a kind of tiny the sense of attack which is ever and her versatile talents have monkey), a huge barn-owl, snakes, present behind their eyes.” won her an extraordinary range tarantulas… I was like Dr. Dolittle’s of clients including the BBC, ITV, other half! I’ve been very fortunate to Marks and Spencer, Barclays feed both the lions and tigers. Rocky, Bank, Virgin and the government the orange tiger, was raised from a of the UAE. She has also painted cub by the Sampson family who own portraits ranging from portraits the park. He’s so friendly and would of the royal family to the cast of reach to his full height, towering over ‘Coronation Street’ as me, so I could feed him (a real danger a part of the show’s 50th for an artist as his jaws came so close birthday celebrations. to my hands).
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27 this season’s colours...
Inam’s first UK collection marked Taking the four seasons as his starting point Inam has chosen him out as a rising star of the a signature colour for each exquisite forest scene and used contemporary art scene, and this it to capture the prevailing mood vibrant and atmospheric quartet from the time of year. of images has cemented his The lush green of spring conveys an optimistic sense of new status as one of our most exciting beginnings, while the blazing summer sun creates a golden artistic talents. vision of heat and light. The glowing scarlet of autumn is a vivid reminder of the changing mood with the passing of the year, and the winter hues of charcoal and white introduce a more picturesque aspect to the scene.
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29 Born in India, Inam now lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife and three sons. His day-to-day life is quite regimented during the week and in some rather surprising ways. For example, his working hours run through the night and he paints in an artificially lit studio rather than in daylight. Although this may seem like a strange choice for an artist whose work is so suffused with natural light, he explains:
When I paint, the most important thing I need is silence and the total absence of any autumn moment Embellished Canvas on Board Edition of 195 Size 16” x 12” distraction. The quietness allows FRAMED £315 Click here to purchase your copy my mind to drift and I become immersed in the forest that I am painting...I liken the act of painting to a sort of meditation through which I experience an enormous sense of wellbeing
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our “ Sometimes I will be strolling through one of the many souls”, Picasso said and that’s what I try to do every day. I forests that I frequent and the sun will be peeking through start working at midnight and paint until the first sign of the foliage in such a way as to produce the most wonderful sunlight. Then I sleep until mid morning when I spend some vision...but I know that I will be lucky to ever see that exact time with my family. After lunch, I read; poetry, history, scene again...I really do find it a magical place to be ” whatever subject is interesting me at the time. Poetry is particularly important to me – I often find inspiration in the words on the page. I remember as a schoolboy hearing Keats’s ode ‘To Autumn’ for the first time. The language was just so lush and I wanted to capture that sense of warmth, light and colour spilling over and put it straight on to canvas. While each individual composition has an enticing “After some studio admin, sorting out materials, and depth that compels us to speaking to photographers with whom I work, I always try to get out for a walk, no matter what the weather! look, the Inam collection My paintings are wholly inspired by nature so this is a truly comes into its own hugely important part of my day and offers me an endless source of inspiration – I can visit the same woods 25 when viewed as a whole; times over a period of a year and no two days will offer the drop by the gallery to same experience. The power of sunlight and the effect experience this extraordinary of differing times of the day on a landscape is still awe inspiring to me. kaleidoscope of colour.
31 waterhouse
32 Award winning artist John Waterhouse is one of Britain’s most renowned and well loved landscape painters.
His beautiful images reflect his passion for the visual impact of the world we live in if we only took the time to look more closely. A mist-covered hillside, a winding river mirroring the sunrise, distant figures walking through the countryside at dawn… all these have provided inspiration for this exquisite collection. John waterhouse t h e i d e a o f p e r f e c t i o n
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33 The collection of four new images from John Waterhouse presents an unalloyed pastoral idyll. As the dawn sunlight breaks through the mist, we see the early morning strollers, the horses bending for their first drink of the day, and the wildflower meadows turning their faces to the light. This is the world as it might have looked at its inception – beautiful and unspoilt, and as such these paintings represent an invitation to explore the possibility of perfection.
Born in 1967, John was interested in art from an early age; after a variety of art related employment including teaching painting to young offenders, he began to take on commissions which inevitably led to shows. Such was his success that he turned to painting full time and over the last 10 years has become one of the UK’s most admired and collectable artists. early light Paper on Board Edition of 195, Size 12” x 12” FRAMED £325 Click here to purchase your copy His creative process is painstaking and meticulous, as he explains:
“Before I start any painting I have to feel confident about the composition and balance of the picture, sometimes spending days or even weeks producing sketches and collecting reference material in the form of photographs as well as using my memory. This may even involve producing a very detailed scale drawing and watercolour sketches.
“I then proceed with the painting, working mainly in oil. I can usually cover the whole canvas or panel in one or two days, showing the basic composition. The painting is then left to dry. The following stages of the painting involve adding atmosphere and detail. On very fine paintings this may involve many weeks of work using a variety of different brushes. When I feel that I have completed a picture, it is put to one side and out of sight. Then a week or so later I will look
the chosen path at it again. The reason for doing this is to Paper on Board Edition of 195, Size 12” x 12” FRAMED £325 Click here to purchase your copy detach myself from the picture, so that when I next see it, I get a fresh look at the impact and atmosphere. This will be my final stage of the painting, before making any minor adjustments, resulting in the click here to see more from this artist… final image that I am happy with.”
34 When painting a landscape, most of the information is there, but more often than not John feels compelled to add or change something slightly - a cloud formation, a distant figure, or perhaps the way the light is falling. With landscapes i feel it is not “With landscapes I feel it is not so much an so much an idea, but an ability idea, but an to balance and compose what is already there. I find the English ability to countryside very romantic. Fields balance and and trees to me have their own compose what character and history, just as a is already there. person does. By taking plenty of time to study the view that I am about to paint, I am able to decide the areas that require toning down daybreak stroll and the areas that need to be Paper on Board Edition of 195 made more vivid, if any, in order to Size 18” x 16” FRAMED £375 emphasise their character.” Click here to purchase your copy
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getting to know
Dylan takes the idea of a familiar city that we all know and invites us to see it through new eyes. His idiosyncratic view encourages us to re-examine our view of the world,
37 second city skyline Whether he transposes historic monuments Embellished Paper on Board Edition of 195 Size 35” x 15” FRAMED £575 to create a completely new horizon, plays Click here to purchase your copy with perspectives, exaggerates planes and angles or introduces unexpected details into the foreground, Dylan’s pieces brim with fun and colour and provide a genuine artistic talking point in any interior.
38 what first led you down this Can you describe a typical whimsical artistic path? day in your life?
It was actually partly by accident I think. I was Well I live on a farm near Stratford-upon-Avon working all over Europe through the summers as with my partner Becky, 2 kids, 2 pigs, 3 chickens, a street artist and so got to see a lot of fantastic and a horse that, to be honest, I don’t really like! architecture. I did a lot of fast sketching in pen and I work every day and every evening during the ink, and I began to find myself seeing shapes and week but I don’t make it into the studio until after patterns within the facades of the buildings. I started I’ve fed the pigs, let the chickens out and done to develop this by compiling the composition from the school run. I work through till 6.30pm then go these shapes rather than just drawing it as a whole back to the house to help get my boys ready for if that makes sense, and it has evolved from there. bed and read them stories. Once they’re asleep I go back to the studio until about midnight. I try to work less hours at the weekends just to avoid How do you choose your Becky leaving me! There isn’t really a typical subject matter? work pattern but I generally try to work in stages. I may work purely on drawing for a week and It has to be an interesting building or a scene that then the next three weeks I’ll be painting from has shapes I can work with. Most of the time I’ll the drawings I’ve made. But, sometimes I’ll be know as soon as I see it and I’ll get that excited so excited about a piece that I will have to do the feeling where I can’t stop myself from painting whole thing in one go. it. I used to live in Sydney and painted the Opera House several times, but that was before my style had developed into what it is today. Now, when I try to play with the building in my artwork it’s a Who are your artistic role real challenge, because the architect, Jorn Utzon, models and who has inspired beat me to it and did that already! At present I am you the most? working on some images of Gaudi’s incredible I don’t have one particular role model but cathedral, the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. Anyone I’ve always really admired people who have familiar with his work will know that his buildings motivation and a passion to succeed. In terms are unconventional to say the least, so again, this of a favourite artist that would have to be Lucian presents me with a huge challenge. I’m not sure Freud, who I admire for his amazing technical how it’s going to work out yet but watch this space... ability and the way he almost sculpts the paint. I’m always attracted by art that is completely different from my own, so I love abstract art too. I am always so caught up in detail that I recreate and manipulate, whereas the abstract artist does something so completely different that I’m intrigued, often fascinated by their work.
Happy-go-lucky by nature and utterly unpretentious, Dylan is fast becoming not only one of the UK’s most successful artists but also one of its most popular. He seems to paint for the sheer joy of it and when asked to sum up his style, immediately uses the accessible language of an artist at ease with himself and his work: “happy”, “fun”, “colourful?” he ventures with a smile. Perhaps we should add ingenious, creative and successful!
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39 Sherree’s award winning and highly collectable work is now on show in the gallery
40 knowing your place Sherree Valentine Daines
Sherree Valentine Daines is the foremost impressionist artist of her generation. A close look at her new releases demonstrates exactly how she has earned her place in art history as a modern representative of this most beloved of artistic movements.
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41 Sherree says: I was thrilled when I was officially named as the Although I am often described as a figurative artist, in country’s leading modern impressionist. When I was studying many ways the setting for my figures is as important art, art history was an important feature of the course, and as they are. I have always felt drawn to the sea both I found that it was the impressionist art that really spoke to personally and artistically, and it has been a key me. Then of course in Paris I spent many hours meandering element in my work. As an impressionist at heart, I around the Musée d’Orsay, completely beguiled by the find myself attracted to the way the colours shift and amazing work of Manet or Renoir. blend in a way that is almost impossible to capture – a fabulous challenge! I learnt a lot just by looking, but I also enjoyed reading around the subject and discovering that these artists were stretching Before the Impressionists, painters usually placed the the tenets of what was acceptable in 19th century France to main subject of their painting in the centre. It was the the limit. first thing the viewer looked at and the background was not nearly as important. Impressionists put more emphasis on the scene as a whole than on the person or main subject of the painting. Although I generally paint the main subject centrally, the whole scene is of equal importance, so an impressionist painting looks more like a photograph in this way. A photograph captures not only the main subject, but everything around the subject and everything in the photo is important.
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