Artists
Andy Van Dinh
My process of art making are linked to the ideas of internal versus external, nostalgia, the ephemeral, and behave as a performance of identity. Like the self, my art is an accumulation of memories/concepts, searching for the inner by way of the outer and vice versa. Through this act, I celebrate the mundane activities that govern the way we -- as human beings — actively choose (or do not choose) to imagine, to love, to lose, to forget. I play with these narratives of longing to scrutinize the relationship between language and experience.
Andy Wilx
Award winning artist and illustrator, Andy Wilx draws inspiration from children’s literature, fables and folklore. His iconic images present characters and set scenes that compel the viewer to fashion a narrative. The animals that dominate his work are true character studies and the landscapes are complex. All of which make the worlds Andy creates so enchanting and engaging. Gold mixes with colour and permeates throughout Andy’s prints giving them a subtle iridescent quality while the use of intricate patterns creates a truly unique graphic style. Andy was recently awarded ‘Best International Artist’ by the Global Artist Agency and his work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows. He has also worked on commissions ranging from personal portraits, company marketing and illustrated children’s books.
andy gashe
Andy Gashe is a graduate of Camberwell MA Printmaking. He takes inspiration from his inner city surroundings and produces work that is made in response to the energy that courses through the streets of London. Photography is the starting point of his practice that combines painting, collage and uses traditional and digital printing techniques. Andy has exhibited work across London and the UK and his next show is with two fellow artists at the Leyden Gallery E1on October 15th 2014
Mirror-Waterfall
With a practice revolving around the concepts of transience and permanence, Angela Yanjun Chen nods towards the memento mori tradition by using flowers to remind the viewer of life’s fragility and ephemerality. Invisible Support series is a group of work that plays with the idea between transience and permanence in a nod towards life’s fragility and passage of time.
Ania Pawlik
London based visual artist, who experiments with photography and illustration to find an invidual language to combine both media.
Ania Wawrzkowicz
I’m interested in reality, which undergoes transformation under the influences of time, experience or emotions. The way of perceiving space as geometrical form and place where the past and present mix with each other where time does not flow chronologically. A large part of my activity has to do with the idea of biography, memories and time. I’m particularly interested in relationships that people have with certain spaces, buildings and objects. My work is inspired by the individual in relation to their environment. Reality, which undergoes transformation under the influences of time, experience or emotions fascinates me. The way of perceiving space as geometrical form and place where the past and present mix with each other where time does not flow chronologically. In my work I concentrate not on human presence but on architectural spaces and objects. Spaces and object and that fascinate me the most are the ones that have been discarded on urban streets that have lost their original place and functions, spaces where time is layered and compacted. This type of photography encourages us to mentally fill the visual absence of people through the traces of their actions and thoughts it engage not only with the moment the photograph was taken but also with its past events and memories.
Anielka Hampson
From an early age when looking at paintings in galleries, the seduction of some painted surfaces created a great desire and pull towards wanting to recreate the same feelings that I had when looking at them. Now as my art practice develops, this seduction of the painted surface is paramount, of which I try to combine through the actual image with that of the varied surfaces within my canvases. I enjoy the combination of textures and the aesthetic of paint. The enjoyment I get from the actual painting technique itself is essential to my practise and spending long periods of time working on a painting is an essential part, which captures within it emotional dispositions and feelings during that time. Likewise, I hope for the viewer to be able to build a similar relationship with my work, in the sense that it doesn’t reveal itself all at once, and that each time it is viewed, they can discover something new that they hadn’t previously noticed before. The impetus for creating a paintings is from what I see and experience on a daily basis. Inspiration for my paintings occurs naturally combining the things I encounter everyday with imagery, particularly that of advertising and fashion. I collect images from a majority of sources and ephemera, like old food wrappers, which I store in a database. An image has such a throw-away characteristic, that it is constantly replaced, renewed and forgotten. In my art I have tried to explore different ways in making sense of our environment, whilst also forcing the viewer to appreciate something that would probably not get a second glance. My choice of imagery tends to be governed by a gut instinct, an indescribable thing that draws me to a part of a particular section of an image that I feel compelled to paint. However recently my work has been drawn from a more internal place, in which I am interested in channelling certain strong feelings into the image. Within the making of my paintings I have some different methods of execution. Though mainly my painting consists of a series of processes to arrive at its finalisation of a build-up of layers, a combination of painting styles. The backgrounds of my painting are a very separate and intuitive process, where I pour and manipulate paint to create abstract patterns, which eventually become incorporated into the image itself. I enjoy the relationships forged between the layers in my paintings, which in turn create the viewer to mentally create images in the abstract background, similar to seeing things in cloud formations. In my practise, apart from painting I have various other outputs like, print, collage, wood carving and video.
Anika Manuel
Anika Manuel is a portrait and figurative painter living and working in Cornwall, specialising in portraying the female image. Working predominantly from found imagery of stylised women, Anika re-presents these images, often against bright patterned backgrounds, and forces the viewer to spend a bit more time looking at an image which might often be overlooked. The photograph and it's subsequent translation into painting is what excites Anika, by recycling the original image she imbues them with a different meaning, and champions the sometimes undervalued. The fast drying acrylic medium lends itself to the vibrant and instantaneous nature of her process. As in the imagery Anika uses, often from fashion editorials where the seasons move quickly, she paints to reflect this, never spending too long on the process but creating artworks that last. Her style is realistic, depicting the human figure somewhat traditionally but with a contemporary edge. Since graduating from the internationally renowned Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2011 with a First Class honors degree in Fine Art, Anika has had her work exhibited in numerous exhibitions and art fairs in the UK and was one of 12 artists chosen to take part in 20:12, an exhibition celebrating the Olympic games in which she was commissioned to paint a Team GB athlete. A highlight of her career was her first Solo show entitled “Dejavunik” which was held in the crypt of the acclaimed Mariners gallery in the beautiful location of St Ives and more recently, her residency with the Bankside Hotel which featured portraits of musicians writing about Isolation. She has worked on commissions with clients all over the world and has recently been requested by St Ermin's Hotel to paint the Queen. Her work has been featured in respected publications such as The Independent, The Evening Standard and Heat Magazine to name a few. They have also featured on programmes including Grand Designs, The Only Way is Essex and on an upcoming Amazon prime series. Anika was honoured to be named as one of DegreeArt's 20 artists to own in 2022, giving her work a real boost and her busiest year yet. Anika continues to exhibit internationally while working on private commissions, as well as any exciting new images she happens upon.
Anila Jain
I am working in a graphics design company and I am expert in photo editing task. Now thinking to try my expertise in creative design also. I have a great passion of traveling different historical places and taking pictures.
Anita Kutsarova
My intention as an artist is to create a unique and immersive experience not only a painting. I am influenced by the pure and authentic spirit of the nature. Sometimes only a thought about a place I am planning to visit could trigger a new idea for a painting. My paintings are meditative, some of them very colourful and strong, others pastel in colour. I try to convey elements of my experiences of the places I have been. The colours of Cuba, the Scandinavia landscape, the dramatic skies of England or the sunlit Mediterranean. My subject matter is drawn from the abstract forms in the nature with a strong connection to the ocean and the changing mood of the sky. Big oceans and skies inspire me to slow down, take a deep breath and expand my soul, to connect with nature and embrace its freedom. I hope my work gives you the opportunity to feel similarly. Using a variety of materials, I paint freely, exploring new effects to create work which is sometimes textural or sometimes more transparent with a dripping effect. I love to work in layers. Long hours of layering help me to find the right balance of colour and depth, with the combined balance of sweeping brush strokes, or the dripping of paint to imbue my work with a sense of the authenticity and independence.
Anita L Raymond
Anita Raymond was born in Pontypridd and has lived in this area most of her life, except for a few years when she lived in Chelmsford and worked in a drawing office in London. She paints anything that catches her eye and inspires her. Anita tries to combine technical skill with sensitivity for the subject. If she doesn’t succeed, she still enjoys trying. She works out the design and areas of interest using sketches. Anita usually paints in pastel, oils or acrylics, sometimes adding sand or gels to create texture. Her figurative work, includes figures that are in their local setting. They relate to her, a story about human character, by the way they interact with one another by a gesture or pose. In a landscape she likes to capture atmosphere, usually in quiet, secluded places where Anita enjoys being on her own. Pebbles and seaweed washed up by the force of the sea, old ropes and rusty chains, are objects which Anita finds interesting. She attended Mid Glamorgan College of Art Design and Technology, Foundation Course, 1994.
Anita Le Sech
Anita Le Sech is a British Contemporary Abstract Artist who was born in the Channel Islands and raised on the island of Jersey. Growing up on the island, she was surrounded by the countryside as well as the beautiful sandy beaches that the island is renowned for. Enjoying the outdoors, it gave her the creativity to use her imagination and allow her artistic talent to grow. Anita has always been interested in Contemporary Abstract art from a young age with her biggest influences being Jackson Pollock as well as Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Kline. Anita enjoys travelling and has travelled extensively around the world, spending time in South East Asia, Australasia, the Amercias as well as Europe. After spending almost 17 years in London, she is now based .on mainland Europe whereby she is able to participate in a number of exhibitions throughout the year.. Anita’s produces all sizes of work but her preference is large canvases as she loves their huge presence. Being that Anita makes her own canvases, there is no limit on size, therefore she is able to cater for homes as well as businesses. Her medium of work is varied. She uses all types of paints from oils, acrylics to emulsion. Anita loves texture on her paintings and to achieve this, she uses cement, polyfila and other adhesives to create this affect. For added affect she also uses wood, stones, fibre glass resin and wax. Her paintings have been described as complicated but with an edge to mesmerising and colourful with huge presence.
Anjula Crocker
I am a recovering alcoholic with 6 years of sobriety. My work explores my experience of seduction, obsession and addiction. This creates work with repetitive themes from obsessive processes. I work in whatever medium fulfils my need at the time including oil paint, digital imagery and embroidery. My work utilises both art and craft techniques to examine alcoholism from a female perspective.
Ann Bennett
Mine is a thoroughly committed painting practice centered on the particularity of the individual child and the sociological mode of childhood. Developed through drawings from spontaneous photography images are developed in to paintings that bring the viewer in to close proximity to what is both very personal and universally relevant content. In my work I explore the application of paint through portraiture, genre painting and 3D installation as a means of conveying the inclusive experience of childhood, it’s rites of passage and raising questions with regard to the ideology of childhood in the 21st Century.
Ann Biddlecombe
Supplied paintings and commissions for celebrities, actors, companies and various people and recommended international galleries I am a self-taught ,self represented full time professional artist from Dorset, working and living now in Devon. I have a wide range of themes, from animals to boats, my paintings are inspired from my travels and from nature. I sold my first painting at 20, since then I have sold over 200 paintings ranging from small to a whole dance floor which was a commission from Smirnoff in Cyprus. Painting has always been my passion and I enjoy experimenting with different media in my paintings as well as the simplistic watercolour paintings. Whether its commission works or just for fun it is defiantly where my heart feels fulfilled
Anna Adamkiewicz
Education Torun High School/Art Department, 1998/2002 Torun Academy of Art, Poland, 2002/2004 Greenwich community College London, Art & Design 2005/2006 University of East London, Fine Art/ Printmaking, Firs Class pass, 2007/2010 University of the Arts London Camberwell, MA Printmaking 2010/2012 Volunteer practice at Printmaking studio at UEL, 2010/2011
Anna Bernard
As a child, before knowledge, our ability to place ourselves within the wider context of our existence is minimal and so our perception of the world is mainly made up of what we experience first-hand. To put this in terms of Geography: when we don’t know many places, the places that we do know seem all-encompassing and of all importance - our own world. Perhaps this is why many feel a pang of nostalgia and sentimentality for the place in which they grew up? My earlier work evolved through my interest in this. I was excited by the possibility of re-awakening childhood memories; recapturing the feeling of being within the immense (but now considerably smaller) and mysterious (now less exciting) landscape of one’s past through the medium of paint. For me, this landscape was set within the Buckinghamshire countryside. However, a representational painting comes face to face with a viewer, potentially many different viewers, and is greeted with their own thoughts and opinions on what they see. In hind-sight the second stage of work developed as my response to the works reception. It had, so far, illustrated my belief that art should exist in order to provide an enjoyable and emotive experience for the viewer. Perhaps it should? That is one opinion. Frequently the subject of my work can be termed as ‘escapist’: offering a window to another place - a better place, whether that be retreating into one’s wistful memory or tampering with reality to create a beautiful ideal or arcadia. However there is also the question of truth in painting, and it is, I discovered, an important one when concerning the British rural landscape…. The history of landscape painting has shown that there is an ongoing battle between its lovers and its critics - those that believe in celebrating our ‘green fields’ and ‘our heritage’ and those who sweep it aside as being merely decorative with little worthwhile substance. However the battle itself, is substance. I think it brings to light the question of a rural/urban divide-one which ties the countryside to associations of innocence, backwardness, leisure and beauty. It tackles issues of national identity in our increasingly global culture as well as issues of class and the ‘poshness’ entwined with countryside traditions. This has all played on my mind during the development of my work. At present we are experiencing an age of excessive media and imagery; visual culture in overdrive for everyone to see. What’s more there is an increasing number of people who have infrequent contact with our countryside, so the way in which it is depicted through visual culture and art is more likely to form opinions and have consequences. I consider that to be important. If there is a desire to celebrate and exploit what we hold dear to us in terms of beauty and sentiment then should we be concerned with the potential consequences? If we tamper with reality, should we point to or undermine the illusion? Paint can be the means of that illusion; this is my concern and one which underpins my work.
Anna Brandt
I've studied Fine Art and Graphic Design at Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Poland. While continuing my studies at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design I focused on Fashion Design. After Graduating I've decided to return to my art. I enjoy creating various types of art in miscellaneous subject-matters: graphics, watercolours, oil on canvas, drawings - abstract, landscape, nudes, still life. My art is comes into existence in a process that's both thoughtful and spontaneous. Reflective, contemplative and emotive at the same time. It carries a load of my feelings. I can't create when I am unhappy or troubled, my mind has to be free of concerns. The feel of charcoal on paper, the colour and buttery texture of oil paint, the slight resistance of canvas when touched with a brush, the power of a line drawn freehand and then digitalized - that all brings me enormous pleasure. I hope the viewer can sense and see that in my artworks. Currently I am working on a cycle of nudes (oil paintings and drawings), to be called "The Pillow Book". A film by Peter Greenaway of the same title had been a starting point of my inspiration.
Anna Green
After I graduated from Nottingham Trent University (Fine Art, 2014) I began my two year training to be an Art Therapist at the University of Hertfordshire (2016). Alongside my studies I am constantly making new art work, producing commissions and developing my art practice.
Anna Green
After I graduated from Nottingham Trent University (Fine Art, 2014) I began my two year training to be an Art Therapist at the University of Hertfordshire (2016). Alongside my studies I am constantly making new art work, producing commissions and developing my art practice.
Anna Guadagnini
London based Italian Fine Art photographer Anna Guadagnini is one of the finalists of the Luxembourg Art Prize 2021. In her work she expresses the feelings and ideas that are part of her everyday life as a woman, and mother, while maintaining a link to the playfulness and imagination of her childhood years. She Explains: I take pictures of what moves me, using my creative process as a way to heal and show the beauty in the constant struggles we face in our lives as human beings. Using colour to convey emotions, her images present a strong implied narrative, an in-between moment, a small piece of a larger story. She hopes the viewer will complete the story based on their own life experience, using their imagination. After graduating with a BA in Fine Art at the Crawford college of Art and Design in Cork (Ireland), Anna has exhibited her work in group shows and events in Cork, Dublin, Rome and London, and her works are in private collections across Europe.