This area is for the Biographies of some of our Fine Artists in display.
We do not have all the Artists Biographies at this moment, but we try our best to make it available for our customers.

Adrienne Joy	Caroline Benolt
Christian Laurent	Dany Laure
Fernod Galley	Luis Miguel Guia
Gail Amano	Peter Jolly
Marry Wilkason	Tony Ramirez
Robert Sanford	Christine Fedora
David Walker	Miriam Potter
William Garnett	Trudy Redfern
William James	Gordon Gash

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Adrienne Joy

H.N.Diploma in Three Dimensional Design, Ceramics. K.I.A.D.
City & Guilds Further& Adult Education Teaching Certificate, Chichester.

Adrienne is a successful ceramicist, but has always enjoyed and explored aspects of landscape, dance and movement through painting.

She lives in the delightful village of Cocking , near Midhurst with her son William. The surrounding countryside and landscape provide her with the light and colour , sweeping vistas and contours that she absorbs and stretches during her walks.

This is a selection of recent canvases forming a series of memories and inspirations during long spring and summer rambles.

Work Exhibited in:

Business Design Center , London
Ashdown Gallery, Uckfield
The Cloisters, St Leonard 's-Mayfield School
Mayfield Festival Art Exhibition, England & France
Chichester Library
Ox Market Chichester

 

 

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Christian Laurent

I imprison the landscape and stamp it on my canvas, capturing this telluric force that connects the past and present.

I remember that in my childhood I drew and painted, but only recently - since 1988 - did I formally dedicate myself to painting. My work recollects the lives of the pueblos that I visit, infusing in my colours the positive side of human emotions. That's why my painting sings, rather than crying.

I work in oils and acrylics. I don't make an outline before starting - I am methodic but I go directly to the canvas with a preconceived idea, executing the first lines that give form to my work. I like intense colours like yellow, red, and blue, as well as gray tones. In the development of my work I continue evolving; the main idea never remains, and from there can be born ten paintings. In the same process it is necessary not to over-saturate the painting, and at times I stop painting in order to come back to it after a couple of days.

In my painting, academic terminology was abandoned when I left school; I am more comfortable with simple, unornamented language. I am apathetic about contests - it is a question of feelings. In my career I've held three individual exhibitions and I am part of four collective exhibitions each year. For me, the decision to be a painter was a true challenge. I began to study at the age of twenty-four; I proposed to myself to be a painter and I achieved this. If I had to do it all over again I would choose the same profession.

 

 

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Fernod Galley

"My painting reveals the hidden, that which oscillates between truth and legend...."

Fernod Galley, born in Piura in 1973, is a graduate from the School of Fine Arts of Trujillo where he finished second place in his class. In his work exists a full and splendid authenticity? A force that gravitates between playfulness and fire manifests itself in themes replete with the sentiments of a true artist - sustaining, in abstract expressionism, a place where an excess of colour and form are fundamental values in art.

Influenced by my family I became involved with art from childhood; afterward I would find out that it was an interior calling to embrace painting as an expression of faith. In my pictorial work an expression can be found of authentic inspiration reviving our identity and asserting how it should prevail in history. I've dedicated myself exclusively to art since graduating.

My painting reveals the hidden that which oscillates between truth and legend, seeking that consciousness that sometimes appears lost in order to value what is ours. I use oils, acrylics and sometimes watercolours, employing paintbrushes, palette knives, stubby brushes, and beeswax to achieve texture on the canvas. Before beginning my work I make a previous sketch, giving form to the idea, and then I investigate the theme to determine the colour. Once those elements are determined I begin tracing on the canvas with vegetal charcoal. Then I fill in the work, allowing myself to balance the objects, in order to make my first brush strokes with oils, and that's the way I go about giving form and content to my work. I realize that I'm almost there when I see balance and unity in the whole and it exudes complete harmony. My favourite colours are neutrals contrasted with strong hues, or warm tones contrasted with soft ones.

 

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Gail Amano

Discovering the Love for Painting
However, I never thought of myself as an artist, nor of art as a career. There was a turning point though, when I was in college that set me upon the path that I find myself some 20 years later. I was English major, and I was daydreaming in one of my English classes. Some part of me "tuned in" long enough to hear my teacher say something so profound, so soul wrenching, that I went out and bought a sketch pad and pencils that day. He said that the next few years would be very important for us as young adults and that Life had a way of rolling along. He said that if there were anything important we had abandoned in life that now was the time to go back to it, before it was too late. I had forgotten about my passion for art. I hadn't drawn in years! It was a shocking revelation for me. It was like some very important part of me had disappeared. I started drawing again and never looked back.

Since this happened in my senior year of college, and I did not have money to pursue art school, I decided to take occasional classes and study on my own. I went to the library and checked out books on some of the artists that I admired the most: Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael. I copied their drawings and sculptures, until I understood their sense of line and form. Then I made a trip to Paris in my mid-twenties. I visited the Louvre, but it was when I visited the Impressionist museum, that I realized my calling was with paint. Standing among the Masters of Colour, I was in awe and on fire to learn all that I could to understand the mysteries of colour as expression. Once I had my mind settled on painting, I was relentless. It was an all-consuming passion. However, I was self-supporting and I had to earn a living so I was more or less confined to painting on a part-time basis. I remember one summer that was spent just mixing colours. I was still trying to understand how to make colour spread, how to make it harmonious, so that was all I did. I was fortunate enough to have found a book at the UCLA library. It was a book of lecture notes written by Paul Klee when he was an instructor at the Bauhaus. After studying this book, and mixing colours for 4 months, I finally understood how to express myself with colour.

 

 

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Mary Wilkason

"What I paint is unique and original. A lot of hard work goes into each of my paintings and I do them with a lot of love."

Mary Wilkason defines her work as something unique to her. She is inspired by a desire to represent the immortal essence of life. She intends to transmit the experience of being human and the concomitant psychological tendencies.

Mary admits her biggest challenges have been first as a mother, second moving to Europe from the Andean highlands and thirdly, to be able to exhibit her work abroad, especially in the United States .

Mary prefers to paint with acrylics or oils, pencils, brushes or palette knife.

Mary has exhibited her work collectively and individually since 1979 in Peru as well as in Bolivia and the United States including Texas , Washington and New York . Among the awards bestowed upon Mary Wilkason.

I see art as divine, and believe art that lacks divinity will not last. I am passionate about colours; I literally dream colour in diverse expressions. I see colour as a vehicle of personal evocative expression.

 

 

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Robert Sanford

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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David Walker

David Walker is married and lives in Shoreham by Sea with his wife. Born in Bromley, Kent, he pursued a managerial career at British Telecom, before taking early retirement to expand his hobby of painting in acrylics.

A self-taught artist, he has been painting for over 40 years. He specialises in rural country scenes, specifically autumn and winter landscapes. And his monochrome and sea views have proved especially popular with both classic and contemporary markets.

He is a successful exhibitor and many-time award winner at the Post Office and BT National Art Club in London. And also displays his work at many local art exhibitions in and around Sussex.

 

 

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William Garnett

William was born in Portsmouth where he works from his home studio. Having trained as a technical illustrator in his early career, he turned professional artist in 2000 after he saw a demand for his work.

He usually paints by commission but caters for Galleries across Hampshire and sussex, and works mainly in oil. William prefers historical subjects that give a glimpse of the past in local scenes of Portsmouth and the surrounding area. he credits much of it for providing the inspiration in early photography.

He is a keen painter of Nelson's navy for which he has had a major exhibition and is hoping to produce a limited edition print of HMS Victory in full sail.

 

 

 

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William James

My mother has influenced my life in every way. She is the one who took care of us five children with her own hands. Ever since I was young I was interested in painting and loved to draw. It started when I was at primary school. I saw my friend standing in the door of the classroom and was impressed by his pose. I drew it on one of my books and thought it turned out quite well. I've been inspired to create portrait paintings since that time and have never stopped painting and drawing. For sure, my mother supported me to do the things that I wanted to do. This made me more confident and forward. I chose to learn more about art at the painter's high school and continued on in the arts faculty of the technological institute. I focused on portraits - human, animal, plant and flowers. I love to create compositions and light, especially pictures with movement.

"During the course of my studies I met a girl and we got married. I was 25 years old and didn't hesitate at all. Later I understood that it was the impetuous feeling of young people. It wasn't real love and we got divorced two years later. I was very sad at the time, and we had one daughter together. I moved and tried to study at another university, but I couldn't pass the test. I came back home and helped out with my mother's business. She still supported and encouraged me, telling me to continue with the development of my painting. Time kept passing and I stuck with the family business, as well as painting in order to relax and concentrate. Painting time was tranquil time. Fifteen years later I became interested in photography and tried to take a lot of pictures.

This year is when I have finally dedicated myself fulltime to painting. I feel like it is the only thing in my life. I am happy when I pick up the brush and paint several colours on the canvas. I am deep in my own world and spend all the day doing it. I love this time so much, but it would be better if my mother were still here. However life must go on, and I decided to spend my time in this way. I will do it the best I can and hope that others love it like I do."

 

 

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Caroline Benolt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dany Laure

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Luis Miguel Guia

Luis Miguel Urrea Guía is a sculptor with great modelling skill. His practical character can be clearly perceived in the creations shown in this collection. His sculptures, far from being stalic, give us a sensation of dynamic balance, based on strengths relation.

Parting from the reality of recognizable objects, his works are shifted by cubist planes, and by deleting the accidental, the no essential, he reaches the extreme schemalism of the shape. These are works with dramatic strength, very evocative, that notwithstanding their modernity, keep up with a classic order and internal balance which shine through their external skin. Artist has been inspired by Pablo Picasso, Jacques Lipchitz, Alexander Archipenko, Juan Gris and Salvador Dalí.

 

 

 

 

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Peter Jolly

"My conceptual position is that of emphasizing human nature within its ambiguity,"

Exceptionally gifted with talent, sensitivity and skill, Peter Jolly was born in England August 30, 1977. Trained in fine arts, he graduated as an artist of great scope. In spite of – or perhaps because of – his youth, Peter is a humanist and superb aesthete. His pictorial language is authentic and sincere, always in search of new experiences with a symbolic message.

Peter Jolly eventually left this influence to seek his own artistic voice. Once, as a child, he asked his father what is most difficult in art. Anatomy, he was told. Trying to understand, Peter bought a medical text on anatomy and began to draw nudes. He began to paint at the age of seven, dominating his technique and discovering that drawing and painting are indeed as complex and mysterious as the human body.

By the age of 20, Peter painted full time, selling his first painting to the former US ambassador to Peru in 1989. But to perfect his technique, he enrolled in the prestigious School of Fine Arts at 21.

Today, Peter Jolly describes his work as humanistic and finds inspiration in literature, music and nature. His art is not restrictive and goes beyond the representational, since dreams open all doors to the imagination in such a way that his compositions suggest a world of interpretive possibilities. His dialogue with the attentive observer is constant. "My conceptual position is that of emphasizing human nature within its ambiguity," he says.

 

 

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Tony Ramirez

"No work is finished until it satisfies my spirit - I must find harmony, colour and form."

"Ever since adolescence I've been drawn to art. However, it wasn't until 1990 that I dedicated myself entirely to painting, reaffirming, perhaps, the influence of an artistic family. I've oriented my work toward an abstract tendency, all the while conserving the cultural roots of my country. My artistic ability reaps me intimate satisfaction and fills within me a spiritual void, revitalizing me.

"My work is methodical. Before beginning I make a preliminary sketch right on the canvas, changing the colour scheme as the work progresses. The tones are my major concern, given that they are my language, and from there we can see serene skies that promise peace. No work is finished until it satisfies my spirit - I must find harmony, colour and form. Sometimes even after I've already signed a painting I continue working on it.

"I've participated in four individual exhibitions and about a hundred collective ones. I've participated in national contests and was one of the selected artists in the Fine Arts Biennial in 1996.

 

 

 

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Christine Fedora

"Like a river, my paintings try to collect everything, establishing a bond with the past through the forms and colours of my World"

I've been professionally dedicated to painting since I graduated from the School of Fine Arts in 1998. Ever since my school years I have always excelled in drawing and painting, and that is why after finishing secondary school I had already decided to study art. I need to dedicate myself to painting; it is my passion, and I have imposed it upon myself like a religious belief.

I am interested in form and texture, and I currently create both recognizable and abstract figures, forms that are genetic, yet diffuse, that can signify times or other subtle symbolism. I am passionate about my cultural inheritance, so full of clarity and mystery, above all the dual concept of the world: the known and the unknown. Like a river, my paintings try to collect everything, establishing a bond with the past through the forms and colours of my World . My paintings possess enigmas in order to be understood.

I create works in oils, acrylics, and watercolours. In some cases I make a sketch beforehand, and in others I go straight to the canvas, clear with a preconceived idea. I prefer colours like black, blue, and red because they express a lot of force, although in the first planes I also use orange. In my work I am guided more by the form than the colour; in this process I can rectify things, but it is difficult to make substantial changes. The presence of felines can be noted in my work, abstract forms that I recreate; I can change them to make them subtler, without being primordial.

 

 

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Miriam Potter

"My art, born from everything and from nothing, is mysteriously created, formed through fleeting ether."

 

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Trudy Redfern

I studied Fine Art at College and Animal Behaviourism at Southampton University and has owned horses all her life.
She strives to capture the movement, strength, spirit of life of her own and other's horses. She also takes commissions for dog and cat portraits.

My passion for horses and animals led me to learn about animal behaviour at Southampton University. I have owned horses all my life and used to exercise racehorses and play polo. Now I hack and compete my ex-racehorse at local events. This daily contact with horses provides me with an opportunity to study their grace and movement which I endeavour to capture on canvas, using bold colours to emphasise their spirit and beauty. My work derives mainly from a combination of life studies and my own photography.

 

 

 

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Gordan Gash

Gordon Gash began painting in oils in 1976, initially studying at the Cubertou Art centre in the Lot Valley, France.

He has held two exhibitions in Chelsea ; His work also has been show at the Royal Society of Marine Artists and the Association of Sussex Artists.

He is a member of the Armed Forces Art Society, and is a regular contributor to their annual exhibition.

His paintings have also been on view in galleries in Versailles , StGermain-en-Laye, Winchester , Chichester, Stockbridge, Ludlow and in Midhurst, where he is a member of the local Art Society.

His pictures characterised by their powerful representation of cloud and sky, capture the light, colour and wide skies of the beaches and countryside close to his Sussex home in Midhurst.

However he equally enjoys painting the beaches of the French Atlantic coast, or the rivers and fields of Normandy .

 

 

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