Mel's creations are influenced by nature, colour and light. She frequently tries new media and often combines them to get to the texture and emotion required. Combining iridescence and UV reactive properties to create several looks in one piece. Her artworks have found homes in far-flung places including Australia, the USA and Switzerland. Mel's home has been in Guildford for the past 10 years and she can often be found walking and photographing the local scenery.

I work in various mediums - oil, watercolour and pastels mostly. I'm interested in still life and landscapes.

Tony is a fine artist and designer. A sense of place is important to him and he employs a variety of methods to capture what matters. He produces work in traditional and digital media, such as paint, photography, video, print, 3D, text and digital work. Although he loves to use oil paints, being naturally versatile, he feels perfectly at home mixing the traditional and the contemporary. The landscape, in all its forms, is the subject that he is drawn to, although he often explores other subjects and methods. He also has a keen interest in still life. He enjoys the discipline of observation and challenges of execution needed to achieve a result akin to the work of the Dutch Masters.

Tony has a commercial Graphic Design background that is a big influence on his work, as is the subject of maritime and local landscape (he was born in Liverpool and now lives in Surrey). Recently and increasingly, what interests him is his place within a landscape and its relevance to him personally, rather than just what’s observed. He is attracted to the narrative in places, often discovered as a hidden story or hint of history. Because he is no longer able to access many places, he is currently exploring the idea of imagined landscapes reconstructed from memories and details noted in different ways. In 2010 he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s. This has accelerated his artistic ambitions and the condition will undoubtedly influence what and how he creates. He has accepted that Parkinson’s will be an increasing challenge in his life, but will let his work grow with its influence. It is part of who he is and what he creates.

Kingston-based artist Nataliya Zozulya started working as a figurative painter when she graduated from National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kiev, Ukraine. She used to work with Eric Rimmington when her family moved to London in 2001.
During her career as a professional artist, Nataliya completed a number of projects each having a distinct theme: her early subtle figurative paintings explored femininity, later bright bold canvasses depicted the impressions from her travels to North Africa and South East. Nataliya uses muffled, reserved colours in her series of London cityscapes, portraying the city void of the immediate physical presence of people. She continues to express her love for the great city in her intricate and unique digital collages, full of vibrancy and sound of the crowd, printed on canvas and hand finished with sprays and acrylic.

Nataliya's favourite genre is portraiture. She has an ability to capture not only the exact likeness of her sitters but also their character and a sense of their inner being. She creates a happy atmosphere of interaction during the sitting hours where both an artists and the sitter are creators of the portrait.

Nataliya works in layers and her mastery of oil painting techniques allows her to effortlessly adapt her methods to the demands of the project, ranging from washes, thin layers of paint, to coarse, spontaneous impasto, working with palette knives and, if needed, fingers to enrich the texture of the painting.

During her professional career as an artist, Natalie has held numerous successful solo and group shows in London, Moscow, Manila, Ankara, Istanbul, Magdeburg, Kiev and her painting can be found in private collections internationally. In London, she is a member of Richmond Art Society, The Fountain Gallery Artists Association and local Art group KAOS. Her works were accepted to the prestigious Mall gallery exhibitions.

Michael’s abstract work involves the use of colours that excite, balanced with forms and shapes found in the landscape. He enjoys the fluid movement of the water-based paints using mainly gouache watercolour and acrylic in his work. He has exhibited with the R.I. and Royal society of Marine Artist at The Mall Galleries, and has been involved with a number group exhibitions, showing works in Cornwall and Norfolk.

Fiona’s paintings are primarily based on landscape. The paintings are produced in her studio, sometimes on the completion of a journey, perhaps to the landscapes and coasts of Cornwall and the west of Scotland or further afield. Her daily walks out with her dog, in and around the farm, woods and heath lands near her home, provides a rhythm to her work and a source of inspiration throughout the seasons. Her works are rarely directly representational, as they evolve from memories, drawings and notes. Small objects on her walks will sometimes find their way into her compositions, which when painted add a sense of place and time.

Fiona is the great-granddaughter of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Sir John Everett Millais.

Tim is a self-taught artist and has exhibited his atmospheric, contemporary expressionist landscapes in London, Bristol, Selborne, Guildford and Chichester as well as selling directly to the public from his studio in Hawkley.

Although he has work in private collections in France, Spain, Portugal, America and Britain, he enjoys exhibiting locally, meeting people and talking to them about his ideas, style and techniques. For Tim, art is the creative medium through which he can express his feelings or capture fragments of memories of places and time. Rather than attempting to capture a particular landscape or scene, he aims to express an idea, feeling or emotion. He rarely paints in situ, painting predominantly from memory in his studio where is freed up to allow his imagination to dominate reality.

His travels, especially through the dramatic and colourful landscapes of Spain and Portugal have provided inspiration for much of his work. However, the paintings chosen for this exhibition have been influenced by the seasons and landscapes nearer to his home.

Ruth’s paintings in this exhibition exemplify what catches her eye: INTRINSIC PATTERNS, whether occurring naturally in the countryside, or created by architectural design.

Ruth enjoys working in a variety of media, notably acrylic, gouache, pastel, pen & ink. Over the years, her work gradually but insistently has evolved into the semi-abstract. She is especially rivetted by the strong and vivid patterns that emerge seemingly spontaneously in nature, but similarly inspired by architectural details on buildings. Reflections from, or views through, windows – often abruptly perceived in passing or waiting at bus stops – are another, related, focus. The challenge is to manipulate all that to a further level. Exaggeration and even distortion has fine aesthetic appeal. Some of the results are on display here.

Born and raised in New York, she came to Europe in 1965, ultimately settling in the UK, where she married and produced three children. The art world generally, and painting in particular, always has featured significantly in her life. Ruth has been painting seriously since childhood, and it has remained her main diversion from the strains of parenting and the pressures of working life through the years.

Her work has been exhibited individually, in group exhibitions at various sites in the Southeast and in Southern France, where we live part of the year.

Charles is a local artist living and working in Woking and exhibits several times each year locally.

His art takes three principal directions. Firstly, at present he is working on a massive project (over 400 images) entitled, “Trees and Beyond”, of which five are shown here, the work is multi-media, but predominantly ink work and shows the symbiotic relationships which trees have with other fauna within their various environs.

Secondly Charles is passionate about mental health work and spends several days a week working with Mind, Epsom LMLMM and other local organisations.

Then thirdly, Charles loves travel, compiling pictorial essays in ink, water-colour, photography and also the written word of these journeys. Over the years seventy plus of these journals have been produced.
He also produces Maritime and botanical sculpture. All the above is available to be examined by appointment.