Emmett has alerted us to an interesting opportunity.
Artists under 40 living in Norfolk, Suffolk & Essex are invited to enter the East Anglian Art Development Prize. The winner will receive a solo exhibition at Anteros Art Foundation and £5000 to put towards training or an art project that will further their artistic skills and career. An exhibition of shortlisted artists will be held in March/April.
For full detail see http://www.anteros.co.uk/news.shtml
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Harriette Cork has sent us some examples of her paintings. Have a look below and take a look at her website.
Herriette writes;
“The fleeting moments discovered from journeys inspire my artwork. I proceed to explore the process of refining decisive moments, to create illusions and blurs within reality forging depictions of past, present and future. The reminiscence of a memory becomes slightly tainted and obscured by its state in time. Due to this, fragments within my paintings sometimes appear lost, whilst being overlapped and merged together, creating conflicting narratives and surreal atmospheres.
By recreating a sense of a movement of time and a refining of memory causes distortion, becoming fractured, faded and fragmented. The majority of my work expresses its confusion by its altered surface, depth, distance and proximity. The atmospheres created are also altered by intuition and emotion, displaying my own reflection towards the subject at hand.
The application and subject matter within my paintings proves to be diverse, exploring additional themes such as history, dreams and social occurrences. Yet exploring the ideas behind retrieving or refining a memory from journeys has always been the core of my practice, yet its portrayal is ever changing, and continues to be an adventure.”
You can check out more of Harriette’s work in the link below.
Many thanks to Guy Wilkinson for passing this information on to us.
The BBC will be producing a second series of the programme ‘Show Me the Monet’ for BBC 2. They are currently looking for artist (amateurs and professionals) to submit work which will hang in their prestigious exhibition in London.
Applications are open during the week on Monday 12th December 2011 (next week) and will close once they have received 3,000 applications or (whichever comes sooner) at midnight on Sunday 8th January 2012.
3,000 applications are all they will be taking so get your submissions in quick! They can’t accept any work submitted after this.
If you would like to know more and to apply visit the website at www.showmethemonet.tv
If you have never seen the series you can take a look at this clip to get an idea of what it’s all about. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00h3x3w
Elspeth Rushbrook has sent us some work. Have a look below and check out Elspeth’s website in the link below and in the artist’s website category.
Elspeth writes:
“I’ve been a keen artist since childhood and had intended to pursue a career via art college, but chose an academic path. However art did not go away and in 2008 when I became a full time writer I made a commitment to explore ways of making my other creative gifts of art and music professional too. At the start of 2011, I declared myself a self employed artist to the tax office and began seeking out exhibitions and sales. I was pleased to quickly secure two month long solo exhintions – one as part of the COAST arts festival in Sheringham, and at the Friends Meeting house, lower Goat Lane, Norwich. I also exhibited at the second Magdalene Street festival Norwich in October and at the Colegate Octagon Chapel’s November fair.
My style has developed this year as I’ve refound a voice and worked on projects, some of which have multimedia potential. I’ve made a series of paintings inspired by choral music, from themes in seminal films for me, and in exploring our response to the supernatural. I can also draw and paint local scenes – coast, architecture – and prefer a more impressionistic style, preferably with some interpretation and meaning rather than just capturing a scene or mood. My media are pens, paints (watercolour and acrylics), and pencils. But I like exploring new things – as a student, I painted large boards into cityscapes with scourers and paint rollers, and would love to have the space to explore that scale and style again. I am also planning some walk in work, based on Spem in Alium, which I am currently pitching for funding.”
http://www.myspace.com/elspethr
Paola Minekov has sent us a collection of her paintings. Take a look below and click through to her website.
Paola writes;
“I view my art as a visual diary of my life. To paint is my way of analysing and understanding the world.
My themes are always derived from everyday experiences and impressions. In my paintings I explore topics like movement, energy, contrast and the mystery of emotions. I am interested in how they interconnect into body language as the true expression of the individual.
For this reason I have always been drawn to painting the performing arts. For instance ballet, by far the most graceful of dances, is an art form which uses delicate beauty to tell dramatic stories of love, cruelty and passion. The dancers, who often appear almost fragile on stage, possess enormous physical strength and control.
In my Dancers and Circus Series I don’t paint specific people. The figures symbolise the dancers, clowns and acrobats and the transformation they undergo on stage, the characters they embody. In these paintings I often use theatrical lighting even though I rarely define the stage. Painting with a knife, I use colour rather than line to create three-dimensional spaces and a sense of movement and light.
This technique is essential to all my oil paintings, including portraits. It allows me to determine directions, achieve complexity of colour and create textures which work with the form, all the while keeping the freedom in the painting and a uniform colour scheme. In my acrylic and tempera paintings I explore the balance between stylised forms, figures and objects, the continuation of their lines shaping a geometrical environment of a seemingly believable perspective.
Because I often work on more than one painting at a time, these concepts have now merged and I’m currently working on Cityscapes – a new series of oil paintings. The series will be a tribute to all the amazing cities I have lived in and visited, and the people living in them, who make them the unique and special places that they are.”
Paola’s Website LINK
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Tagged Landscapes, Paintings, Paola Minekov, Portraits, Prints, Series, Thematic
Ben Bell has sent us some links to his books on Lulu.com and some of his videos on YouTube. There’s some really interesting stuff here so click on the links below to take a look.
Agent X has send us home examples of work and some links to press cuttings. Take a look and check out agent X’s website for more information.
Agent X writes;
“My Name is Agent X and I am a emerging visual collage artist from North America. My work exhibits themes of Pop culture, technology, fashion, music, politics and race. I have just opened a website for my work and my artwork is selling on http://artistspotcommunity.org/collections/agent-x and I would love to have my work on your website.”
“I have had excellent praise from collage artist Janice McDonald and street artist SEIZER featured in the Oscar nominated film “Exit through the gift shop” and others. Also I was a Semi-Finalist in The New York Art Marathon for my piece”$ALE” http://nyartmarathon.tumblr.com/ Here is a link to my website as well for my artwork http://agentx.see.me”
Press:
http://www.alexsolodov-art.com/?q=node/855
http://koikoikoi.com/2011/07/agent-x-collage-themed-of-pop-culture-fashion-technology/
http://www.lostateminor.com/2011/07/28/collage-work-by-agent-x/
http://thegrid.soup.io/tag/Banksy
Ben Bell has sent us some examples of his work.
Ben says;
‘My name is Ben Bell and I’m 32 years of age. I have an art degree from the University of Northampton in 2001. Since then I have produced art in my spare time, sold a couple of paintings and exhibited them in a cafes and churches. I also have a foundation certificate in art therapy, which helped lead me into my current career as a social worker.’
Krislyn Dillard is an abstract oil and gouache painter inspired by nature and the search for the perfect form. She is influenced by duality, light, water movement, myths and folktales.
Her origins from an suburbia middle class family leave her with a lack of connection to any one culture which she finds gives her an outside-looking-in perspective.
She is continually driven to learn more about the art and the history of our world as well as the motivations of different cultures and the similarities we all share.
Krislyn’s art is featured in many prominent collections. Her publications include Denali Magazine in February 2010, S.L.A.M Magazine in September 2010 and a review in The Willamette Weekly October 2010. Krislyn studied at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Or as well as Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles,Ca. Her recent exhibitions have included Crossover at the Launchpad Gallery, the juried Pacific Art Annual at the University of Oregon, participation in the Cascade AIDS Project Annual Art Evening & Auction and Spaces Between at The Darras Gallery.
You can out more about Krislyn at www.krislyn-art.com
Juha Agren has send us a some more examples of his photography. These were taken in 2010 and 2011 in Norwich. Juha says he wanted to show some of the interesting scenery around the city. These photographs show Eaton Park and Elm Hill.
Juha featured in our recent exhibition at The Unthank Arms in Norwich. You can see more of Juha’s work by scrolling down to his name on our Artist Category.
