Alexis Vanessa Ramos was born in Woodland Hills California in 1998. She earned her BA in Visual Art from California State University, Northridge in 2020. She has received awards and recognition, including the McDonald’s Franchise Tuition Assistance Scholarship and the Annual Visual Art Award from the Arts Club of Pasadena.
Brice Gelot is a self-taught contemporary French artist, born in 1985 in Dijon. His creative passion began with street photography, skateboarding and graffiti culture. Over the years, he has broadened his artistic horizons to include painting and sculpture. Gelot has dedicated his life to creating artworks which express his message all over the world, moving to Australia and later to London.
Iona Hall is a silversmith and jeweller, graduating from Glasgow School of Art in 2018 and Bishopsland in 2019. Hall’s passion for objects, in particular boxes, comes from the aspect of discovery that they hold. A box is an object that can fit in the palm of your hand, however once opened it can reveal a sentiment of treasure. In all her work she strives to achieve that compelling feeling that you must pick this object up, a keepsake that demands further exploration.
Shilpa Shanker Narain is an illustrator, visual artist and graphic designer with 8+ years of experience in the professional graphics and design industry. Her body of work centres around conceptual artistic visuals, vibrant expression and detailing in illustrations.
After a foundation in art, Anne-Marie Ellis gained a degree in fashion design and enjoyed a successful career in fashion for over 20 years. Owning a design consultancy with her (Menswear designer) husband, Anne-Marie designed Womenswear for various luxury brands. This design discipline and aesthetic vision influence Ellis’s artworks; both in the use of colour and stylish subject matter. A palette of muted greys and timeless black and white are enlivened with bright accents and the occasional flash of neon. The textures of lace and the smoothness of glass are rendered in acrylics; she preferred medium. She is as much inspired by Vermeer as she is Rene Gruau… in her artwork, the dramatic darkness and strong light capturing the translucency of glass are influenced by the Dutch masters, while the graphic style and spatial awareness come from studying the great fashion illustrators.
