Ben has been painting and exhibiting for nearly 30 years in both oil and watercolour. He is now a full-time painter after happily abandoning a long career as a solicitor.

He is currently the elected President of the Royal Society of Marine Artists (RSMA) who is based in the Mall Galleries, near Trafalgar Square, London. He also shows with the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (RO). He is included in ‘Who’s Who in Art’.

In the last year he has had two solo shows at the Royal Opera Arcade Gallery, Pall Mall and also in his home county of Kent. He is currently represented by Sarah Samuels, Fine Art, Chester and The Tonic Gallery, Salcombe. He was approached to show work in the latest Pure Watercolour Society show near Burford, Oxfordshire and has recently contributed a piece to Cotswold Life regarding watercolour as a medium in connection with that.

Travel is a significant feature of his work, most recently Venice. Light and atmosphere are notable features of his work. It is the celebration of these elements that make his work distinctive and desirable. He enjoys working ‘en plein air’ as well as in the studio. His work is in private collections in the UK, USA, Europe, Asia, Middle East and Australia

When working on a piece motivated by landscape or townscape Owen is not trying to reproduce a faithful representation of the subject. He is trying instead to make an image that attempts to present some aspect of the subject. This maybe the emotional atmosphere or mood he feels exists in a particular place. Alternatively the work might be concerned with the experience of looking, how perspective shifts within our visual field, how distance and closeness continually move.

The drawings he has exhibited in this exhibition have all been made within the last six months. The two large charcoal drawings “Flying” and ‘Daydream” were inspired by a stay in Polruan, a small village in Cornwall. The three smaller pencil drawings “Inside outside’ “In-between” and “St Martha’s” are based on views from or near his house in Guildford.

Kate trained as an artist many years ago and then became a make-up artist working in London for some good photographers and magazines. Being exposed to all that fashion, beauty and creativity inspired her to start creating again. Kate decided to return to University to re-train as a Photographer in 2013.

Kate uses the camera and computer to produce images that she feels resonates
with her. She enjoys the process of discovering colour, tone, structure and composition that she can achieve by combining in camera and computer effects.

The idea for this series of images of roses comes from an original group of images taken of funeral flowers. When her father died in 2015, she wanted to capture something beautiful that was not too maudlin. She watched how the flowers peaked and then started to decay. The shapes and colours they created were beautiful and she felt there was a great connection between the life of a flower and a human life, there is still beauty as we age and she wanted to capture this beauty and preserve it.

Dawn’s artwork aims to express aspects of the Self, exploring moments or phases in time on our developmental path as human beings. She explores the mind, body and soul and the connection between them and our outer world as the natural draw towards increased consciousness, growth and self-actualisation takes place.

In exploring our humanness, we get to know ourselves, and therefore others more deeply. She organises colour and form in conjunction with a ‘felt sense’ within her to depict particular aspects of our existence. In doing so, she examines the energetic connections we may have with each other. Her sense is that we have more in common with each other than we often realise, regardless of our different roots, environment and DNA.

Candida studied at Wimbledon School of Art and paints in oil on canvas and makes prints, mostly of local landscapes that she has reimagined and reinterprets.

The diversity of the wild and free natural environment takes on a life of its own and entices Andrew to respond, it is what always brings him back to landscape painting.

Mostly inspired by the calm and dynamic scenery of Scandinavia, Canada and Ireland, he tries to capture their vast and remote uniqueness from his personal affinity with nature.

Andrew’s interest in painting rugged, earthy scenery has come from numerous travels and experiences of raw environments.
These environments directly influence his opaque, multi-layered painting style.

Susanne is a Guildford based artist and has been painting for the past 30 years.

This collection of work is based on the properties of colour, the effects generated by movement that then creates the mood and energy.

The goal is to evoke emotions felt when we experience nature. The ever-changing land and seascapes constantly evolve with light and reflection as its inspiration.

The development of each painting rests in the learning process using brush and
palette-knife, she uses a vibrant palette balanced with mellow softness. Sketches and colour studies made on location, lead to strong spontaneous work in the studio.

As Morandi said ‘there is nothing more abstract than the visual world’.

Stephen’s images capture the energy of journeys and cities. He is attracted by light, reflections and the movement and energy of the crowd. The defining characteristic of his paintings is an enjoyment of colour.
The crowd may be large or small – sometimes the focus is on a couple or an isolated figure – but always they prompt the viewer to wonder who they might be, and what are their various destinations. There is a sense of paths momentarily crossing before the groups disperse forever.

Songul is fascinated by the power of light that shapes the landscape and also by the effects of time and weather on the earths' surface - the forces of light, colour and atmosphere are the elements of Nature that most inspire her. When people view her paintings, the hope is to make them feel that they have not only been to these places but have also shared her experience and memories of that day.

Beauty is a material way of expressing her joy and art is its language. She uses he rknowledge of this language to portray all natural and man-made beauty. Her colourful palette and simple brushstrokes, in both watercolour and oils, are the result of the academic art training she received in Turkey and many years of painting in London. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1989 at Gazi University, Turkey.

Songul loves being on her own when she paints and listens to music, often this could be a classical piece, maybe a hard rock piece or something nostalgic from her Turkish origins. She finds the movement, rhythm and emotion both motivating and mood enhancing.

Songul gets inspiration from her travels. She likes to capture strong light or reflection of the season and then paint. She does not make strategic plans but uses small sketches to define a composition and then see what happens.

Her husband, Nicolas Meier is a professional musician. They both work at home and find this arrangement mutually inspirational. Songul teaches art and runs painting holidays in Europe.