List of Artists for the September 2010 Exhibition.

Zoe Bailey
Sue Barnes
Sue Blandford
Janet Brooke
Ted Davis
Amy Douglas
Patrick Edgeley
Gary Eastwood
Sally Elford
Rowena Gilbert
Sarah Jones
Victoria Langdon
Sin Mui Chong Martin
Mary Moox
Nick Patchitt
Eve Poland
Flo Snook
Anna Tilson
Liz Toole
Ed Tucker
Rory Walker
Paul Walsh

Zoe Bailey

Klara Cservenka

Central Saint Martins trained Klara Cservenka serves up a collection of delicate and naïve drawings for this series of limited edition prints and originals, some which are taken from the gorgeously rugged pages of her sketchbook, all mounted in antique frames, reclaimed and scrubbed up from Brighton’s markets.

www.myspace.com/klaracservenka
www.klaracservenka.com
klaracservenka@googlemail.com

Claire Fletcher

After a foundation year at Central School of Art, Claire went to Kingston University to study illustration before going on to the Royal College of Art to do an M.A.
Claire is currently working on a book for children published by Puffin Australia.
Claire exhibits her work at her studio, The Black Winkle, in Hastings and also at Made in Hastings, a shop that she runs with four other artist/makers.

www.madeinhastings.co.uk

Rowena Gilbert

Searching for the perfect fusion of strong design, innovative style and spontaneous expression. The clay vessel is my bold canvas; strong, simple and unfussy in form. Layers of clay echo periods of time, memories; slow, controlled, ordered. The surface evokes moods, tensions, actions, reactions.

Using additions of metal oxides for the reds, blacks and blues, the coloured clay layers are brushed on the slip cast vessel or inlaid in incised lines and marks. The surface marks are created using various sgraffito tools when the clay vessel is in a leather-hard state. Rowena bisque fires, then masks areas on the outside of the vessel using wax resist, glazing the inside and the unmasked areas with a transparent gloss with the final firing at 1160°C. All pieces are hand made and have Rowena's signature mark on the base.

www.rowenagilbert.com

Stella Harding

I live in one of the largest cosmopolitan cities in the world, a place where sometimes the natural world is oddly juxtaposed against the cultural. It is this cross-fertilisation of culture and nature from which I draw inspiration and seek to reflect in the work.
I am excited by the life and energy in natural materials but seek to transform and defamiliarise them in different ways. I use painting, mark-making, stencilling, scratching and sanding to add surface texture and pattern whilst retaining many of the characteristic signs of movement and growth. Stencilling and spray painting is both a reference to the tradition of mark-making on wicker basketry and a way of connecting with the myriad forms of textual expression which are written onto the fabric of the urban landscape.
I prefer using materials that I have grown or collected myself, yet having only a small garden forces me to consider ways of making the most of limited supplies of materials as well as wider issues of sustainability, economy and waste. I often re-work finished pieces or recycle elements that have had a previous life.
I enjoy working on a large scale with open, linear, abstract forms. Having learned recently that several of my pieces are based on the spatial geometry of hyperbolic paraboloids I am keen to learn more about the relationship between basketry and mathematics as a means of experimenting with form and space.
I welcome commissions and requests to run workshops.

www.basketryplus.org/StellaHarding/gallery.html

Sylvie Howitt

Wood, Water and Energy...a simple recipe that for thousands of years has given inspiration and life to artists and writers work around the world... Paper!
I love paper, all kinds of paper! especially paper from a different era with its unique texture, colour and smell.
With a chance discovery of a collection of vintage maps in a dusty attic, my imagination was fired by a mixture of works from Victorian woodcuts to Hans Christian Andersen and my current favourite artist Rob Ryan.
Papercutting as an art form has existed for thousands of years, during which people have been cutting paper, transforming it into art as unique and diverse as their culture, from simple folk art, to elaborate mathematical masterpieces.
For me, the use of recycled vintage materials seemed the perfect way to express a simple story of hope and love, with a material from a golden age of adventure, romance and hope.
I hand cut paper from my own freehand drawings. I love the physical process of cutting into paper with a sharp blade, sometimes scissors, releasing that one off image and design as a result.
There is something very appealing about the immediacy of this medium and the challenge of keeping the entire delicate image intact within the frame of the paper without the whole piece falling apart.
I love the symmetry of the designs and the way it tells a story. You will find that my designs vary from the contemporary to the traditional folky look depending on my mood and inspiration.
The paper I use has its own story, sometimes adding meaning to my paper cut and therefore bringing life into it.
Whether it is the colours, the musical notes, the maps or the place names, I hope there can be something to trigger a connection, joy, memories ...

www.sylviehowitt.com

Ed Tucker

I am a freelance illustrator based in sunny Brighton in England. I work in a variety of media for a variety of clients, and like two of everything, especially variety.

clients thus far have included:

Time magazine // Pearlfisher Design //Mountain Bike Rider // Ransom Publishing // IPC Media // Liquid Records // The London Magazine // Plan B Magazine // Cookchick Design Free Radical Sounds Records // GeoActive Magazine // Earthforce Clothing // Cuff Cuff Jewellers // International Academy Of Colour Therapeutics

www.edtucker.biz

Anna Wenger

Anna set up her company Sacred Stitches.co.uk after graduating with a BA(Hons) in Illustration. Taking inspiration from traditional Mexican folk art and old school tattoo imagery she creates hand-embroidered cushions, screen printed clothing, original artwork, homewares and gifts.
All items are hand made, unique and full of individuality. Each cushion’s intricate motif is hand drawn before being free hand embroidered, using varied threads and stitches to form a tactile design.
She has recently collaborated with Brighton tattooist James Robinson to produce an exciting range of limited edition prints.

www.sacredstitches.co.uk

Debbie Ayles

I have a continuing fascination with structure, form and shape. Overarching themes in my work are East Anglian barns. Often overlooked, the ramshackle barns evidence the passage of time in their unkempt and ravaged appearance. I attempted to re-evaluate and recreate their importance by juxtaposing line and colour into intricate patterns and shapes.

The starting point is always based in observed reality. Layering is used as a technique to make images more complex, allowing viewers a richer visual experience. Line is an important part of the paintings or prints, offering the means of conveying movement, shifting view points and the mutability of the source material. It is then segmented, deconstructed and manipulated, finally being rebuilt as enigmatic and individual narratives. The bright, multicoloured images that formed my reconstructed barns a couple of years ago now are complemented by complex linear decisions or as different colour choices. Each new painting seems to suggest the possibility of further exploration and development.

The study of my environment and travelling around East Anglia looking for such barns is quite an adventure. I feel I am recording a part of local history for future generations. It is impossible to say how many of these may exist in a few years. Judging by their resilience in the past, they may be around for a while. However two of the barns are now residential properties and one is a tennis court.

www.debbieaylesartist.co.uk

Lulu Allison

I work in direct response to the site, with newsprint and other found printed paper which is essentially a waste material. By cutting holes into it, it may become in some way valuable again. The technique is incredibly simple, all children know about folding and cutting snow flakes and this easy technique combined with a poor material in some ways could create a valueless result. It doesn't even last so can't be bought or sold. But we value things in interesting ways and the fact that I have bothered to make it, and I am called an artist may be one of them. Of course, "value" is a subjective quantity and for some, it will only be a cheap material and an easy technique.

Another aspect is that of mould or fungus, a thing that is poor or ignored but often has great beauty. Somewhere between the invasion of a mould and the architecture of the space is where I try to place my work.

www.luckylulu.co.uk

Sue Blandford

I am interested in poetic juxtapositions of objects, which are imbued with both their practical uses and their symbolic evocation. The magic in the seemingly mundane or everyday.

I am concerned with paradoxes of light and dark, peace and unease. Also relationships between man made objects or interventions in natural situations.

I never go anywhere without a camera looking for photographs in their own right but mainly for material for paintings. Objects in context but slightly out of place. I am interested in what happens in the golden 30 minutes in the evening when the light is low and transformative giving glimpses of something other. When objects glow out of dark spaces or as with glasshouses, become beacons filled with mystery and seemingly inner light.

My work is a visual diary of observations that chime with internal states or life phases.

www.sueblandford.com

Sin Mui Chong-Martin

Most of my work is an observational and a personal interpretation of the intricate ways nature interrelates and informs humanity. My association with plant culture holds an enquiry into this interrelationship. This practice engages me with the process of looking, selecting, collecting and recording, which is translated into 'specimens' like drawings.
Apart from using pencils, my drawings are achieved through layers of colouring with colour pencils. Some are cut out by hand and presented in boxed frames.
My studies aim to reflect aspects of the human practice and desires with the use of plants as multi-demensional representations. The reference point for my practice is a construct of nature-society relationship where I exploit plants as cultural symbols fostered to suit our milieu.

www.axisweb.org/artist/sinmuichongmartin

Gary Eastwood

Gary Eastwood is travel and landscape photographer. His work covers both illustrative and interpretive landscape photography, with an emphasis on light, form and space, as well as on natural and man-made patterns within the landscape. His more interpretive work seeks to explore wider themes of longevity and timelessness. Gary is a former UK Landscape Photographer of the Year, and is currently working on a photographic book, entitled Panoramic Sussex, which is due out later this year.

www.garyeastwood.co.uk

Sally Elford

Sally is an established Brighton based illustrator and print maker with a passion for mid-century design and pattern. Like many artists, she is also inspired by the natural world; it is generally the British landscape and wildlife that provide this artist with an infinite source of inspiration.
Sally’s popular prints are currently exhibited and sold in contemporary galleries and design led shops throughout the UK.
Since having some of her prints published in greeting card form by Art Angels, her work has gained a wider international following.

www.sallyelford.co.uk/prints

Rhona Garvin

Born in Northern Ireland, I moved to Hove in 2001, having worked at the Science Museum in London for 5 years, curating contemporary art projects. An MA in Sequential Design and Illustration followed at Brighton University and in 2004 I joined Eastwing illustration agency and began working in editorial illustration. Recently, between commissions, I have been making screen prints. These are influenced by printed ephemera, children’s illustrations from the 60’s and 70’s, political posters, folk art and outsider art. My next move will be to experiment with printing designs onto fabric.

www.rhonagarvin.com

Vicky Langdon

Graduate of Brighton printmaking MA
Printmaker’s council prizewinner 2009
I am a silkscreen printer working with paper and fabric prints. The subject of my most recent set of prints is the honeybee. The much-publicised disappearance of the honeybee prompted me to take a closer look at the insect itself. The co-dependent, hard working creatures, their symbolism of industry, and their ancient connection to the spirit world, as well as the mysterious phenomenon of their puzzling vanishing, equally fascinate me.

Previously I have made prints of urban birds, particularly the pigeon. I print images of pigeons with mutated appearance, which are also the birds with the most characterful expressions. For me the pigeons symbolise the city itself. I am overall interested in studying things that exist in the corners of our perception such as the pigeon or the honeybee.

"Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind." 
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher. 
The Genealogy of Morals, "Preface," sct. 1 (1887; tr. 1956).

Vicky.langdon@gmail.com
www.dewolfprints.com
plushpatterns.blogspot.com

Alison Swan

I hand-build solitary or grouped sculptural objects and vessels which act as metaphors for emotional and physical states as well as interpersonal relationships. I am fascinated by antiques and collectibles, discarded and found items with a patina of age and wear. The worn, scarred or damaged surfaces of such objects bear testament to their use and give rise to imagined histories. Ceramic and found materials are often combined to add visual and tactile interest. Individual elements are carefully positioned to emphasise the implied narrative in each grouping.

www.alisonswan.com

Justin Sainsbury

I prefer an intuitive response in getting pictures as this leads to more surprises. A picture tends to work for me, if it has elements of humour, absurdity or poignancy. The challenge is to make an essentially ordinary situation stand out.

www.flickr.com/photos/jsainsbury

List of Artists for the February 2010 Exhibition.

Anja Lubach
Alex Dipple
Anna Kyriacou
Anna Tilson
Cassie Beck
Charlotte Squire
Deborah Batt
Emma Harding
Gary Burns
Jan Lee Johnson
Jane Denman
Jo Higgs
Julie Milton
Kate Osbourne
Lucy Jefferys
Luke Hutson
Mary Moox
Natalie Martin
Nicholas Wriglesworth
Phil Lyddon
Rob Macdonald
Robin Clare
Rory Walker
Toby Smith
Wendy Pye