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

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.

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.

Emma Dodd studied at Central Saint Martin's School of Art in London. She is a keen walker, surfer and rower and has always kept sketchbooks of her travels. She is an award-winning author and illustrator of over 170 children's books.

As far back as she can remember, she has always wanted to be an artist and she has been very fortunate to be able to make a living from her illustration work from the moment she left college.

In recent years her interest in oil painting has developed, and her love for the outdoors has found expression in her paintings. She enjoys the physical nature of painting, which creates a wonderful contrast with her illustration work, which is desk and computer based. Light, air, reflection are all themes which she likes to explore, nature and the sea feature strongly in all her paintings. Emma's oil paintings have been described as 'calming'.

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time” Thomas Merton
Painting and drawing are central to my art practice and allows me to explore the space between fact and fiction. I'm interested in the possibilities of narrative, however suggestive, and in invoking atmosphere and emotion. The figure is also central in my work but it is rarely about the subjects themselves, rather a complex layering of emotion, experience and imaginings.
Whilst I am primarily a painter I love the immediacy and flexibility that can come from working in pencil and coloured pen. I have always been drawn to the back of a figures and I’m interest in how much can be conveyed through the way the figure inhabits the space of the painting or drawing.
The Paper Doll Series has developed over some time when I became interested in using flat pattern in contrast with the almost hyper-realism of the figure. The idea behind “Paper Dolls” stems from the childhood memories of occupying myself with cutting out paper dolls (and their outfits) that often featured in the Bunty and Judy annuals.

Sonya has always been inspired by strong natural light and the way it can turn simple snapshots of day life into atmospheric images. With the universal pastime of people watching, she loves capturing figures lost in their own worlds, perhaps walking through a landscape or shaped as silhouettes that suggest a story. She tries to give the painting life with loose brushstrokes to give the sense that it’s a fleeting moment.

Sonya has had many exhibitions in London galleries and now she lives in Haslemere has had solo exhibitions in the area as well as being part of Surrey Open Artists Studios.