My Own Art Collection

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Paintings/Drawings

Artist

Rachel Lockwood

Title

Hot Pool

Medium

Oil on canvas

Price

1200

Gallery

Pink Foot Gallery

About This Artwork

Rachel has been a professional artist since leaving art school in 1988. Although Rachel paints many subjects, she has always had a fascination with water - it’s reflections, movement and its potential to stimulate feelings of pure tranquillity and calm. Rachel’s water pictures frequently include fish, although it’s more the colours and dynamics they create in the water that spellbind Rachel. The depth and quality in Rachel’s pictures comes from her unique blend of medias, including several glazing techniques borrowed from the old masters. As well as oils on canvas, Rachel uses a variety of surfaces to paint on.
Artist

Tony Scrivener

Title

Distant Bay

Medium

Oil on canvas

Price

1250

Gallery

Porthminster Gallery

About This Artwork

One of twenty new paintings by Tony Scrivener, showing in the Autumn group exhibition, ‘ReTrace: contemporary paintings, ceramics and sculpture’, until 22 November. Tony is one of the gallery’s principal painters in an exciting portfolio of established and emerging contemporary British artists.Tony’s new paintings are about coastal and estuary locations near to St Ives, and his ongoing engagement with contemporary landscape painting. He is concerned with distilling the essential characteristics – rather than the ‘likeness’ – of landscapes, through a process of constantly changing, painterly underlying marks and ‘scratches’ of colour, which reveal over time, a ‘history’, previously unnoticed.
Artist

Colin Carruthers

Title

Fields of Early Summer

Medium

Oil on canvas

Price

1250

Gallery

Purple Gallery

About This Artwork

“My paintings are a result of an experience of vast spaces and environments of ever-changing light. Memories of places visited are used in the production of the paintings. A personal way of working originates intuitively in response to the memory of the places visited."
Artist

Simon Davis

Title

Far Too Happy

Medium

Oil on canvas

Price

700

Gallery

RBSA

About This Artwork

This is a small study of fellow artist Louise Sanders. Simon has painted a number of portraits of Louise and this one was initially painted as a demonstration piece at the RBSA gallery in Birmingham. It was later completed at the artist's studio in Worcestershire. Simon is a member of the Royal Portrait Society and the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and won 2nd prize in this years BP Portrait Award.
Artist

Yumiko Kayukawa

Title

ITADAKIMASU (I Give Thanks For…

Medium

Acrylic and ink on wood

Price

1550

Gallery

Richard Goodall

About This Artwork

Yumiko Kayukawa grew up in a small town in the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. The panoramic beauty created in her a feeling of communion with nature. Animal life and insects fascinated her. Another key fascination was the American pop culture and rock n’ roll she immersed herself in during her teen years. It wasn’t until she actually came to the U.S. at the age of 27 that I first realized how visually rich and interesting her own culture was. She had never seen Japan from an outside point of view. Since the initial trip to the U.S. Kayukawa’s artwork has taken on a life of its own: A mix of Japanese tradition and Western pop input, with the natural world intertwined to share the spotlight. She incorporates Japanese iconography and pop symbolism, along with the vague (and not-so-vague) sensuality of the female figure, to draw in and engage the viewer. In this way her paintings reflect how life titillates and distracts, while nature plays its role as our true underlying life source.
Artist

Michelle Souter

Title

The Refrigerator Mother

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Price

1997.5

Gallery

Rollo Contemporary Art

About This Artwork

Michelle Souter, recently graduated from Central St Martin's and had her first solo exhibition at ROLLO Contemporary Art in July 2008. Michelle Souter, draws, paints and stitches tales of uncomfortable relationships and childhood. Souter’s work is founded in life drawing; deforming and mutilating the traditional female figure with animalistic components, the inclusion of seemingly random text; lyrics from songs, personal memories or quotes taken out of context. Souter’s work appears confessional, obsessive and fantastical whilst displaying her incredible skill in the traditional art subject of anatomical drawing.
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.