Nino completed her Art Foundation course at Chelsea College of Arts and went on to do a Graphic and Media Design Degree at The London College of Communication. She has since turned her creative hand towards T-shirt designs, interior design and painting.
Based in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Nino paints in her home studio looking out onto her garden.
Nino’s paintings are based strongly on colour and composition. Her abstracts are inspired by forms found in nature and the every day activities of a busy family life. Her signature style involves hard strokes of the pallet knife and layers of tone to convey movement or stillness, thus allowing the viewer to reflect on their own emotions from the abstract.
She describes herself as an emotional painter, her work taking its direction from her mood. Oils are her preferred medium as it maintains its intensity of colour and its fluidity adds to the movement and texture.
“Exploring the landscape and light and the everyday”
Nic works across a range of expressive media, is self taught, having worked largely in watercolour en plein aire since his early teens.
Nic teaches watercolour to adults and exhibits regularly. His current output focuses around subject matter close to hand – the coast and the South Downs.
Media used include watercolour, mixed, pastel, oil and digital (iPad) drawings.
As an artist Kjell has something to communicate and painting is his channel. Lines, figures and colours are the letters of his language. He thinks of himself as a colourist and the colours usually carry most of the message. Colours cooperate in communicating feelings or experiences. If a viewer feels that the painting speaks to them and likes it or finds it intriguing, he feels he has succeeded. The viewer establishes his or her own conversation and finishes his work.
Inspiration - Kjell works in an abstract style, but his starting point is usually quite concrete. It can be a piece of music, a book, a meeting with somebody. It can be anything that makes something inside his vibrate enough to inspire him to father a painting.
Working methods - Kjell works with the surface (usually a canvas) lying flat on the table. The acrylic paint applied is thinned, and the colours mix again on the surface. He has three assistants, they are Time, Water and Gravity, they don’t always obey his instructions!! He uses syringes and palette knives more than brushes which creates his recognisable signature.
He moved from Norway to London in 2010 and has since worked at Wimbledon Art Studios and is represented in public collections around the world. One of his paintings ‘Nangijala AUF ‘was especially made and donated to AUF Norge (the youth organisation) after the massacre of Utøya July 2011.
James Tait is primarily a sculptor, but also paints on paper. His works are abstract, but draw inspiration from the shapes and colours of the landscape. He works mainly with painted steel or wood and his aim is 'to please the eye and feed the soul'.
James exhibits with the Surrey Sculpture Society and annually with AppArt shows. He has exhibited works at the Eton College Gallery, Royal Academy, Globe Gallery, Cranleigh Threes, and various open shows including Light Box open and London Group open. For the month of March 2014 James held a solo show of paintings and sculptures in the Robert Phillips Gallery, Walton on Thames.
He lives in Shepperton and works from his workshop in Hersham, Surrey
Fabiola Knowles is an artist-printmaker who creates original prints, individually by hand, using traditional tools and techniques. She uses a variety of methods including collagraph, silk screen, dry point, lino cut and mono printing. Her work is mostly figurative but she enjoys the exploration of abstraction that can be seen in her monotypes and collagraphs.
Fabiola has been exploring the texture and viscosity of inks to interpret the land and sea. She is interested in the effects light has on a subject and the patterns that are hidden in the world around us. Although she loves colour, her work often employs a limited palette. Fabiola draws inspiration mainly from plants and the open landscapes of the local area, however, more recently her work has seen a return to still life.
Fabiola does not seek to challenge the viewer but draw them in and share a sense of quiet enjoyment.
After an initial career as a professional sailor Ros went on to take a degree in Fine Art at University for the Creative Arts. Since graduating in 2002, she has been exhibiting in sculpture parks and galleries as well as making site-responsive and site-specific pieces and installations for different locations. She is interested in sustainability particularly of the marine environment and women's role in society and accordingly she makes pieces that advocate for social change.
Ros make artwork often using found material and found objects, used as a whole or in parts, selected because of their intrinsic qualities and aesthetics. She adapts and takes on new working methods accordingly employing a variety of processes to develop new pieces.
There is a conceptual starting point for much of her work and she works out her ideas in whatever material or form is appropriate, researching the material and objects recycled and looking into to the processes used to make them and why they were used and by whom. This informs and influences the final artworks.
Katya Kvasova is a painter whose practice explores the conventions of portraiture as a means to express an emotional state. Focusing on the female form, she creates a narrative between the figurative elements of her subject, and the abstracted background and foreground of her paintings. The connection between these two elements allows her to convey the tension between the exterior mask that individuals often present to the world, and the contrasting depth and vulnerability of their interior thoughts.
Katya Kvasova is Russian (born 1980, Latvia) studied at Art School in Riga, Latvia; St. Petersburg and Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Her work is owned in private collections in Latvia, Russia, USA, Greece, Belgium, UAE and UK.
Faye loves to experiment with colour, texture and mixed media either on canvas or wood. When possible she likes to use found or recycled materials. Faye hopes that people will find her work fun and uplifting to look at. She works from gut instinct and finds inspiration from the world around her, producing her best work from a place of playfulness and intuition.
Evy Meehan born in Poland, artist, interior designer and architect. Graduated from The University of Szczecin in Poland, with Master's degree in Architecture and Spatial Planning. She first came to London in 2006 to experience working in large practices like RTKL Ltd. and TP Bennett before taking to art full time.
Ever since she can remember art has been a big part of her life. Evy learned the basic technique of drawing at Art Academy in Poland.
She then developed her own style.
Most of her artwork has geometrical feel to it as its inspired by architecture. It contains little or no recognizable forms from the physical world. Focus is on formal elements such as colours, lines, or shapes. She abstracts objects from real life, changing, simplifying, exaggerating what she sees into colourful compositions full of lines and shapes.
She uses colour to capture reflections, refractions and shards of light.
Making observations from what she sees gives her acrylic canvases a wonderful depth and substance. However there is an air of simplicity to her work.