art @ the claremont

List of Artists for the May 2011 Exhibition.

Rachael Adams
Gary Burns
Sue Blandford
Zoe Bailey
Sin Mui Chong Martin
Alexandra Dipple
Trudi Davies
Gary Eastwood
Barry Falk
Claire Fletcher
Rowena Gilbert
Sarah Harwin
Caroline Marie Higgs
Amy Hope
Kim Hollands
Rosie Irvine
Anna Kyriacou
Amanda Moss
Mary Moox
Rob Macdonald
Jesper Nors
Maria Rivans
Sacred Stitches
Alison Swan
Edmund Tucker
Tilly
Mia Underwood
Onneke van Waardenburg

Rachael Adams

Rachael Adams is a painter who invites us to consider the status of the people, places and events that populate her pictures, whether they exist in direct or abstract realms, in personal or shared experiences.

www.scrutineer.co.uk

Trudi Davies

I created Handmade & Vintage because I love old but ordinary household items, often handmade or hand decorated, and wanted to find ways to make them useful and appreciated once more.
I take vintage things and rework them to find a place in modern surroundings. Vintage postcards become lavender bags, vintage fabrics are used to create hat stands, lace and embroidered hankies become buntingand doilies are transformed into cushions. There are also small vintage collage pieces, bags from tea towels and quilts from vintage tablecloths... I'm pretty certain that reusing and recycling handmade goods will make a home a happier place!
Personalised commissions welcome.

www.handmadeandvintage.co.uk

Barry Falk

Each city has its ghost town and it is particularly noticeable these days how many derelict buildings and empty shops there are. These are haunted places; metaphors of loss and abandonment. They are suffused with a disturbed sense of self, what Freud referred to as the unheimliche: something familiar which has become alienated through the process of repression. They are also analogous to a fragile sense of self. My photographs of ransacked rooms, graffitied walls, scattered detritus, peeling paint, bare brick, boarded exteriors, crumbling interiors and liver-spotted walls can all be read as inner disturbances – an internal landscape reflected in the abandoned urban environment. When entering these places we stand at the threshold where the self is exposed and begins to dissolve. There is a realisation that these abandoned structures are awaiting demolition, on the verge of a seismic upheaval and imminent collapse.

www.flickr.com/photos/51241173@N03

Sarah Harwin

harwin.family@virgin.net

Caroline Marie Higgs

I aim to capture what is on the periphery of visual perception and on the edge of our consciousness, often banal visions or subjects, taking the qualities and distortions generated by the interplay of light and object, and translate these fragments into densely layered paintings, concentrating on the interpretation of shadows, silhouettes, and reflections. The resulting images oscillate or occupy a space between figuration and abstraction, imbuing these ephemeral fragments with a subtle sculptural solidity and presence and thus objectifying light and arresting transitory moments in form.

Using traditional tools and methods in painting, drawing, and photography, she is exploring temporal and spatial perception in relation to memory whilst attempting to unravel relationships between the peripheral, banal and the uncanny.

www.carolinemariehiggs.com

Kim Hollands

Being interested in the human form, I have focused on one aspect of the human body, in this case hair, to create a series of drawings using pencil and graphite. The nature of this subject offers an interesting texture which allows me to experiment with intricate detail and bold marks. I look to create compositions that are eye-catching and have the ability to reveal their graphic quality when standing at a distance, combined with the ability to draw the observer in closer to view the imperfections of the more delicate marks.

kim.hollands@hotmail.com

Amy Hope

Amy Hope comes from a fine art background and is finally pursuing her own artwork after six years in graphic design.

The work falls somewhere between art and craft and has been well received in Brighton shows. Combining her interest in maps and British wildlife, Amy makes illustrative images out of paper. Every piece is painstakingly put together, first drawn then cut with a scalpel. As each sliver of paper is cut out it reveals another colour beneath. Maps are often incorporated in the work, contextualising the subject matter geographically.

www.amyhope.co.uk

Rosie Irvine

www.rosieirvine.com

Amanda Moss

Dip. AD. Sculpture. High Wycombe.
Diploma in Textiles and Ceramics. Swansea.
Cert.Ed. Swansea.

Teaching Art and Design and Design and Technology in London
and Brighton secondary schools since 1978.

I record subjects that people can relate to when they are out walking. Sea and landscape, industrial design, space and movement. These powerful starting points are expressed in a wide variety of media, from acrylic painting and collage to pencil and pen, it depends on mood and location.
Sometimes abstract and decorative other times technical and realistic. My drawings/paintings/prints are sculptural with emphasis on colour and line, quite free and atmospheric.

I start on location then work at home on a variety of papers. Size is from A5 to A1.

Onneke van Waardenburg

Onneke is a Dutch designer and illustrator with a love for airmail envelopes, stamps, vintage wallpaper, old books and brown paper bags. Onneke makes collages, digital work, pen and ink drawings and personalised illustrations like family trees.

www.onneke.blogspot.com

Ted Davis

Ted Davis completed his Fine Arts degree at the University of Ottawa in 2002. This collection of photographs is from a larger body of work that addresses beauty and atrophy in cut flowers. Photographing floral specimens when they are in their late stages and isolating them against a luminous background, Ted aims to reveal the individual character of each flower with a sense of intimacy. The size and scale of the prints play an important role in dialogue between subject and viewer. These are portraits of flowers that have become familiar to the photographer and whilst their aura may have become humble and their poise slightly withered, they sustain and emit a silent and dignified demeanor. Ted Davis was born in Toronto Canada and now lives in Hove where he owns and operates a photographic portrait studio.

www.studio323.co.uk

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