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Sam Grindley Mixed Media
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Beverley Chapelhow Paintings and Sculpture
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Jill Wright Nature Inspired Acrylics
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Keith Parkinson Drawing Paintings and Sculpture
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I am very fortunate to have the luxury of an artist studio, the time I spend in my studio has allowed me to experiment with different media, although my fondness for large sculpture pieces will remain a deep seated passion, the lack of space doesn’t allow me this freedom. What is has allowed me is, to explore other artistic avenues. More recently I have been experimenting with watercolour paints and ink; I am intrigued when observing the flow of pigment being carried along in a pool of water. The clean crisp edges that the paint leaves behind when dried. I am fascinated at how ink has a mind of its own when a droplet of water hits an ink spot. Watercolour paints can be controlled and be uncontrollable, that’s the magic! A new unexpected body of work has emerged using watercolour and ink. I am working on a series of portraits, some inspired from a recent Jazz Festival collaboration and some of my dear family. I intend to paint more portraits and use a recent trip to India as my next project. |
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Art has given me so many opportunities and an amazingly varied lifestyle. It saved me from my real job and has given me the chance to lead community and schools projects, work with all sorts of different groups in all sorts of places, and on top of all that, how many adults get to do finger painting for a living? My work is eclectic and energetic. I thrive on variety and experimentation. Drawing, painting and sculpture are lively and often colourful but are all marked by an exploration of light, dark and movement. They also largely explore themes around people and place, initiated by the place I live, the people who pass by and by memories. I often use haiku poetry to explore and stimulate ideas and these may be incorporated in my work. The partnership with Beverley Chapelhow is another chance to move forward in art, both in the excitement and opportunity these studios allow us to create, and in forthcoming joint exhibitions. www.thekpgallery.com
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Serendipity - faculty of making happy discoveries by accident The nature with which I paint is built upon the hope that in the physical process of painting, serendipity will occur. I expect this is the case for most painters. None of us really know what impact that next mark will have on the rest of the image, until we have done it. Paint is an unpredictable thing. To embrace ‘chance and accident’ is an immensely freeing concept, where you experience a process as much as you achieve an end result. It is by ‘chance and accident’ that I found the drive for my work. On the bottom shelf of the bookcase at the top of the stairs are my family’s photo albums. In what I would later value as a serendipitous moment, I began to look through the photos in the older albums. I have always known they have been there. I have often looked at them, copies of some hang on the walls. I see them everyday, yet never before had I seen them in the light I now do. The re-evaluation of a series of photographs from my early childhood, taken during a holiday in Mauritius, prompted the realisation of the previously hidden objective of my work. |
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I create Artwork because I must. I’ve always loved art materials and experimentation with new mediums. I am a “self-taught” artist with a background in Interior Design. I think my love of colour, textureand experimentation is my niche. I work spontaneously, creating Artwork which explores acrylic paint, ink, printing techniques, plaster, glue, wire, and beads. Some of my Artwork is ‘realistic’ others, more abstracted. Texture has become a requirement with all my artwork. My Inspiration comes from a variety of sources, most recently I am inspired by floral, leaf and various botanical matters found in nature. I am continuing to explore my interest in mono-printing. I am fascinated by the emotional impact of colour and I am captivated by the way in which art can be both exciting and invigorating yet, therapeutic. My Art has developed and evolved over time. There is nothing I would rather do! jill.frances.wright@googlemail.com |
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Yvonne Cookson
Through gaining artistic confidence and knowledge by completing the BA Fine Art & Integrated Media degree at Blackburn University Centre in June 2012 I was inspired me to attend an expressive painting course at Central St. Martins College in London. The course was taught by Polish artist and lecturer Ewa Gargulinska MA who encouraged me to develop an expressive style to incorporate my powerful feelings and emotions that interact through the paint to convey the figure and the environment.
My work - both painting and sculpture - might best be described as ‘Expressionist’, whether I am responding to the beauty of the Ribble Valley or working from the figure, my aim is to use form, colour, and texture to convey passion, energy and a sense of the mystical and the spiritual. I am influenced by various artists including; Frida Kahlo, Mark Rothko, John Hoyland, Frank Auerbach, Hughie O’Donoghue and Christopher Le Brun. I have a firm belief in spirituality and I feel that this is the main force behind my work. My expressionistic works of art resonate the themes of joy, passion, energy and movement. By visualising a spiritual world through an abstract pictorial language I strive to understand the essential elements in the creative process; imagination, intuition, freedom and sincerity. |
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Rob Parkinson
After 20+ years of working for ‘the man’, I asked myself ‘Is there more to life than this ?’ (Midlife Crisis?). At the moment the answer to both of the above questions is ‘Maybe’... As a lad (and an only child), I was always very keen on drawing and painting, heavily influenced by the Saturday late night double-bill of old Universal and Hammer horror movies.
I brought this interest into later life, and a few years ago, I re-ignited my interest and began producing pieces of ‘art’, for my own pleasure.
My ‘movie-nerd’ status has also continued throughout my adult life, and over the last couple of years I have been producing numerous pieces of digital ‘art’, largely influenced by film and film poster art as a hobby.
But I always hankered for a space where I could broaden my limited, untrained skills. I discovered Ribble Valley Art studios by pure chance, and was immediately excited. My aim is to follow a four T plan. (Quite apt, as I recently hit my forties !)
T 1 – Texture – to move away from the 2-dimensional digital processes I have been using to produce something ... T2 – Tangible. T3 – Technique – to treat my time here as a constant learning process, to learn from the artists in residence here, and to pick up as many skills as I can within the studio environment, as well as through study. T4 – Trial ... and error (mostly error at the moment!) – to experimentally develop new techniques, and not be discouraged by ‘failure’.
Thank you for taking your time in reading these words of limited wisdom.
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Mark Ollett Fine Art Mark Ollett BA (Hons) Fine Art (Integrated Media) 1st Class Mark is well known and highly regarded as both a portrait artist and contemporary fine artist and undertakes private commissions. He has painted seriously for over 35 years and his work hangs in private collections and galleries in the UK and Europe, and as far afield as the USA and Australia. Mark has also gained a considerable reputation as a respected tutor working out of studios in the North of England, in Oswaldtwistle and the picturesque setting of Ribble Valley Art Studios in Clitheroe. Personal Statement My practise consists of highly detailed portraits and renderings of the human figure. I use traditional methodologies and media and pride myself on working systematically, analytically and with high production values. In contemporary society and art, the body has become recognised as the principle arena for the politics of identity, as well as a facilitator and marker of belonging; it has become more visible as a challenge to constricting social codes. The visceral and vulnerable body is now a potent signifier of lived experience as well as a subject for formal and aesthetic enquiry. The images that I make represent bodily diversity and challenge the ways in which it is empathised with and accepted, or confronted and marginalised. I understand the necessity of placing bodies that are outside the cultural norm in a dialogue with each other and in the context of the history of western art. My work has a multiplicity of meanings and many influences, derived from classical and contemporary art, literature and mythology. By incorporating, re-appropriating and fusing together these elements, I can enact a revision of art history in an attempt to sculpt new languages and representations of the so-called ‘marginalised body’. I hope that my work will generate discussions that neither fail to notice difference nor reinforce that difference as marginal. Mobile - 07939542104/e-mail markollettfineart@live.co.uk |
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