My Own Art Collection

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Paintings/Drawings

Artist

John Swannell

Title

Iman

Medium

Limited edition silver gelatin…

Price

1800

Gallery

Tristans Photographers Gallery

About This Artwork

"Born in 1946, John Swannell is a highly respected and well-known British photographer. At the age of 16, Swannell left school and worked first as an assistant at Vogue studios and then assisted David Bailey for four years, before setting up his own studio. Swannell has photographed a vast range of celebrities, including Dame Judi Dench and Sir Elton John to contemporary pop singer Will Young. In 1994, Princess Diana commissioned him personally to photograph her with her two sons. Since then, he has also photographed HM The Queen for her Golden Jubilee.
Artist

Rut Blees Luxemburg

Title

Test of Courage, 2000

Medium

C-print on aluminium

Price

1645

Gallery

Union

About This Artwork

Awaiting info
Artist

Alison Unsworth

Title

Chrome Collection, 2007

Medium

archival inkjet print on paper,…

Price

750

Gallery

Vane

About This Artwork

Alison Unsworth’s work involves an examination of the built environment. Informed by her many projects in the public realm, her gallery-based work depicts urban landscapes that appear simultaneously familiar and unknown. ‘Chrome collection’ shows a container of generic street furniture, as if delivered ready for installation. However, the scale is all wrong, and the tiny lampposts, benches, and the like, are a fraction of the size of the resident birdlife that gather around it. Unsworth was born in Preston in 1977 and lives in Newcastle upon Tyne. Recent exhibitions include ones at CUBE, Manchester, Vane, Newcastle, and Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness.
Artist

Lee Crew

Title

The Dream

Medium

8 colour silkscreen print

Price

295

Gallery

Wetpaint Gallery

About This Artwork

Lee studied at the School of Art in Cheltenham where his work became increasingly abstract. During this time the St Ives artists such as Sir Terry Frost and the American Abstract Expressionists particularly influenced him. He continued to paint full time after college founding a co-operative silkscreen studio with several other graduates and the county council. Colour is always intense and the ability to layer flat areas of transparent and opaque colours adds a new dimension to his work.
Artist

Sarah Morris

Title

Robert Towne, 2006

Medium

Silkscreen printed with 23 colours…

Price

395

Gallery

Whitechapel

About This Artwork

American filmmaker and painter Sarah Morris is renowned for her dazzling geometric paintings that reflect the foreshortened facades of Modernist architecture and her psychological portraits in film of American cities including Los Angeles, Miami and Washington D.C. This characteristic work is produced alongside her filmed interview with the legendary 1970’s Hollywood script-doctor and screenwriter Robert Towne presented at the Whitechapel Gallery in 2007.
Artist

Andrew Haslan

Title

Hare and Tortoise

Medium

Lino cut and watercolour

Price

395

Gallery

Wildlife Art Gallery

About This Artwork

Awaiting info
Artist

Robin Borrett

Title

Petunias

Medium

Coloured pencil

Price

375

Gallery

Royal West of England Academy

About This Artwork

These flowers were drawn in a garden at home. Coloured was added as a challenge to the monotony.
Artist

Andy Broderick

Title

Harehead

Medium

Pencil, ink and mud

Price

300

Gallery

Saltburn Artists' Project

About This Artwork

In my most recent body of work I focussed on a return to drawing, the discipline that has always felt more natural to me than other art forms, such as painting and sculpture, which I find I have to struggle with, where drawing tends to flow. The process of drawing is very tactile and physical. The qualities of individual lines and marks are very important in my work and so rather than existing purely for the purpose of formal representation, I try to use lines which express energy and life, or a certain texture, form or weight, or even just for it’s own sake – a thing of beauty.I choose to draw from living creatures – animals and human figures. I am very interested in the feeling of animation and the sense of being alive that lines and marks can convey when portraying these subjects. The key elements in my drawings are spirit and process.
Artist

Richard Meaghan

Title

Runaway Bride

Medium

Oil and paper on canvas

Price

1800

Gallery

Seven Seven Contemporary Art

About This Artwork

Richard Meaghan's paintings are invented and are an amalgamation of a number of differing experiences that revolve around memory, making use of allegorical and pictorial inventions and references from contemporary art and art history. Meaghan's narrations are not linear, but rather associative and analytical, so that the works function like short stories, in which the plot is compressed into single images. However, the fragments have to be pieced together and thus can seemingly fall somewhere between dream and reality. The resulting paintings appear as visions of somewhere familiar yet strange, uncanny shimmerings based on careful study of our world that in turn suggests another.
Artist

Shelagh Popham

Title

Leaping Adelie Penguin

Medium

Oil

Price

195

Gallery

Silk Top Hat Gallery

About This Artwork

This painting is on of the works celebrating Shelagh Popham's expedition to Antarctica last year. 'The sight of the buoyant Adelie penguins popping out of the water was an amusing contrast to the groups of dozing Gentoo penguins and provided a starting point for this painting.' Born in 1952, she studied at St Martin's School of Art and the West of England Academy. She has exhibited widely including the Royal Academy, the Royal West of England Academy, National Eisteddfod and was artist in residence at the 1991 Hay Festival.
Artist

Karen S J Keable

Title

I Dream of the Sea

Medium

Acrylic

Price

545

Gallery

Southwold Gallery

About This Artwork

I Dream of The Sea is an acrylic painting, which is included in Karen’s forthcoming exhibition at the Southwold Gallery in October. In 2007 Karen was commissioned to write a new advanced book on acrylic painting. “Writing and painting for the book made me look hard at the way I develop and structure my paintings. Acrylic Workshop II was published in May 2008.Karen was born in Norfolk in 1966, the granddaughter of Guernsey artist Louis Le Ray. Karen has lived all over the world, finally settling in Walberswick. “I enjoy solitude and losing myself in my painting” says Karen.
Artist

Robert Shaw

Title

Stormy Night, Staithes

Medium

Mixed media

Price

1700

Gallery

Staithes Gallery

About This Artwork

A self-taught painter with a background in building design, Robert Shaw began painting in his early twenties when his family moved to Boulby on the cliffs overlooking the picturesque Yorkshire fishing village of Staithes. Clusters of cottages balanced precariously against the elements form a constant theme in his work. His paintings exploit to remarkable effect the infinite variety of perspective offered by cliff-top views and winding paths climbing up and behind the cottages. Robert now lives and works from his studio cottage by the sea in Staithes. His work featured recently on BBC’s The One Show.
Artist

Jo Oakley

Title

Cups, Coffee Pot and Tea Towel

Medium

Mixed Media

Price

940

Gallery

Stark Galllery (London)

About This Artwork

Jo Oakely’s subject matter has been consistently influenced by her time spent at her beach hut on the South Coast.‘I have worked on capturing two different aspects of time spent there. Collecting treasures from the shore, reading, writing; and watching. The interior has its own story, a mixture of objects inherited from past owners and my own addments. The paintings are on canvas, the surface is built up and scraped away. Subtleties in this process help to create the richness and depth that communicates these different aspects for me.’
Artist

Michael Lukasiewicz

Title

In the Eye of the Beholder

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Price

700

Gallery

Stark Gallery (Canterbury)

About This Artwork

Michael was born in Poland but has been living and working in Antwerp for over 15 years.‘I have been influenced by living in Belgium and painters of the Benelux countries and I try to show the placid side of the subject using light, the reflection of light and the shadows, to emphasise the subjects’ form and curves. I never use colour but the subtleness of tone to achieve these effects. I try to achieve the smoothness of skin and the body so no brush stokes are visible to the viewer.’
Artist

Christopher Campbell

Title

Swine

Medium

Oil on linen

Price

1550

Gallery

StART SPACE

About This Artwork

Christopher Campbell strongest impetus to make paintings is a desire to create a still, yet emotionally charged composition, from images of dull, mundane everyday life that most people would not stop and give a second glance. In other words, he uses a conscious effort to enhance the aesthetic of the mundane. The empty vehicles, buildings and streets act as a residual entity, a shell or a husk long since drained of its drama, its presence the last and only indicator to the episode of events that have previously unfolded. In these paintings a strong narrative is evoked, forming a macabre romanticism in their stillness, emptiness and fragility, placing the viewer in to a form of solitary confinement and contentment.