About us
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John Theobald
Judith White
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I have been painting for 30 years. My work is mainly semi-abstract. I am interested in colour fields as well as strong tonal contrast. I do make representational work from time to time, and when I do, am inspired by the British seaside and trees amongst other things.
I work as an Art tutor, teaching adults to paint, draw, print, sculpt as well as some textile art. When teaching the emphasis is always on 'ideas', enabling the student to produce distinctive and individual work. I have a workshop class in Sudbury (Suffolk) on Thursdays where we explore all media and lots of ideas, it is an ideal environment for the adventurous beginner and all other levels of art practice. If you would like more info. about the Thursday class please click here
You can find my work in the following galleries:-
Gallery on the Square, St Ives, Cornwall www.galleryonthesquare.biz
Clare White Gallery, Barnsley, Yorkshire www.clarewhite.co.uk
Serena Hall Gallery, Southwold, Suffolk www.serenahallgallery.co.uk
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Di Humphreys
My art education started with a Foundation course at Manchester School of Art. After a break-for-having-children I did a three year part time course at North East Essex Art School (Colchester). Since 1993 I have been teaching general art and life drawing for Essex Adult Education. My particular interest in trees and woodland stems from a childhood spent playing in the beech woods of the Chilterns. I try to capture the sensation of being back in those woods.
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Mel King Statement for current exhibition at The Naze Tower
The group of paintings and monotypes now on exhibition at the Naze Tower was prompted by a boat trip I took between Harwich and Tower Bridge in July 09. Keeping the theme of "A Journey" in mind I absorbed the atmosphere of the day and took copious photographic notes - wind farms, Maunsell forts, the industrial margins of the Thames , spectacular light.
In my studio I started work with a few topographical sketches, then, with colour began to work up the views using certain motifs e.g. air vents, silhouetted passengers, turbine blades.
I began to move away from naturalistic representation towards an invented scene.
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Daphne Sandham was born and brought up in North London . The family moved in her teens to Northamptonshire, whence to Leicester Polytechnic in the late sixties - a lively time - to do a Dip A D Fine Art. After a year out,' painting landscapes and portraits, she went back to London to the Royal Academy Schools for three years postgraduate, drawing and painting from the figure, and practicing etching and lithography in the print workshop.
She moved to the seaside in 1982 and now lives with her partner and an assortment of pets in a large rambling house and garden overlooking the estuary on one side and the open sea on the other. She paints landscapes portraits in oil, watercolours, makes pots and continues printmaking. Harwich is where you catch the boat for Holland and Germany and when they were little the children used to say there really were ferries at the bottom of the garden ......
Greyfriars Statement :
During the final academic year at Greyfriars before the move to Wilson Marriage I taught a portrait class in the top floor art room. There was a little door at the end of the room, I went through the door down some steps into a square low ceilinged room looking out on one side over the High Street On the other side over the butler sinks and draining boards beside a glass fronted dresser through two low windows was a magical landscape. Between the buildings, over the treetops of Roman Road and Castle Park, over the railway line towards High Woods. These drawings and paintings are based on sketches made from that window as the seasons changed over the year 2007-2008.
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Ron Sims has been regularly exhibiting his work, which is held in both public and private collections, for over 40 years.
The psychological implications of turning soft imagery into a hard-edge, rigid-block representation are a vital element in his work. There are fine-tuned, sometimes discordant, relationships between colours and tones. The tension and conflict in colour-clashes are unified by geometric shapes and the hard edges enclosing them, creating three-dimensional effects. The "double-take" is also an important ingredient, and partly through this designs are explored with incongruous and unusual ideas, along with continuous exploration of form similar to the approach of Henry Moore. For more information go to: www.ronsimsart.com
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Claudia has been working with Ceramics for over 30 years,
Claudia studied at Brighton and Farnham Schools of Art
Now working part time in Adult Education, Claudia teaches both mainstream drawing and painting and works with adults with learning difficulties.
Working from her own studio Claudia produces a wide variety of ceramics to include painted tiles and pieces of domestic ware,
hand-built and thrown ware.using mainly red and white earthen-wares and Raku.
Her inspiration is drawn from nature and the human form.
Claudia also teaches privately 1x1 or small groups.
To contact please e-mail claudiasinger@sky.com
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My favourite quality in a painting or drawing and that which I aim to capture myself, is one of animated stillness. It's not quite the same as freezing or capturing something in time. More like creating space for thoughts or actions or single moments, to float and breathe. I am also fascinated by the subtleties of gesture and facial expression, and by the relationships of the subjects and the visual pathways inside images.
The drawings here are made with charcoal - some with gold leaf. The paintings are made with oil or acrylic.
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A long obsession with the natural world has led to specialisation in Botanical Illustration. The watercolours on this website celebrate the cyclical nature of growth, often showing different stages together in one painting. I have two silver-gilt Grenfell medals from the Royal Horticultural Society and work in the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh USA. |