Robert P. Clarke is a new media artist using photography, video, sound, digital media, drawing and performance. His main influences are figurative works, everyday life and capturing a moment or action. Clarke has exhibited widely in the United Kingdom in Galleries and has been published internationally in art books.
Born in Dumfries, Scotland, Alison Johnston studied at Edinburgh College of Art under Elizabeth Blackadder, Sir Robin Philipson and Harry More Gordon. Following graduation, her career flourished in illustration and animation for Oscar-nominated “Fireman Sam” and “Aardman Animations”. Johnston now draws her inspiration from her highland home. Her paintings, oil on canvas, are normally produced in Alison’s studio but the main work takes place in the landscape.
Caroline Duffy produces realistic, contemporary portraits and satirical pieces that focus on the complexities and idiosyncrasies of the human condition and emotion and how, or if, it evolves over time. Often referencing nostalgic Americana standards, but finding a new lens to examine it through, she looks to both popular culture and fine art to challenge, scrutinize and define the guiding beliefs and ideals in our ever-changing society. If there is anything we need these days, it is humour, so she has also produced a series of paintings that are playful and hopefully poignant, often poking fun at or questioning past and present views, art and more. Likewise, she strives to produce realistic, contemporary portraits that celebrate the human spirit. In these portraits, Duffy intermixes realism and abstraction to better relay the underlying emotional ties between herself and the model she portrays. Consequently, Duffy’s approach varies widely and each individual painting finds its own way to tackle questions regarding the human spirit and how we relate to one another.
Amy Crouch’s recent work focuses on ways that can interupt the circles and she achieves this by layering different colours on un-printed canvas, removing sections of the circle and disrupting the traditional conventions of a painting. This has, more recently, led Crouch to looking at different and bigger interruptions that she could create within her art.
Christopher Dear has exhibited in galleries, music events and public spaces across Australia, LA, Miami, Spain, Mexico, Costa Rica and England. He became involved with the music industry at an early stage of his career and started producing large-scale artworks and backdrops for music events. This began the journey of his art and music being intertwined Dear’s paintings and designs are musically synesthetic and when exhibited with music, of all varieties, the sounds cascade though the design and resonate in the patterns. A unison of sound and vision. His painted canvases and mixed media works are adorned with gold leaf giving them reflective and illusionistic qualities. With a Modern futurist style, his paintings radiate vibrancy and colour. Dear also DJ’s electronic music under the name ‘Cosmic Vortex’.
