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Image Sarah Dixon paints portraits and icon-inspired images in oil, egg tempera and acrylic.

Originally a biologist and conservationist, her work explores the representation of humans and animals, blending traditional and contemporary techniques. Photography, film and animation are also used to explore similar themes regarding the place of humanity in nature, and how we discover our true nature.

Other interests include wild food, using plant dyes and sheep's fleece. Sarah has lived in the Amazon region and is much inspired by myths and fairytales that connect us with nature.

Sarah's paintings and prints have been shown at Cheltenham Art Gallery, the Richmond ArtHouse Open Studio, and the Hellenic Centre, and can be viewed by appointment at Kew Studio. Film screenings include the London International Animation Festival, the Poetry Film Festival (UK tour and DVD) the ICA and HypTV on Sky.

She is available for commissions in art, photography and animation, and teaches in craft and art techniques as well as offering one-to-one creative development tuition by arrangement. You can visit her website at www.sarahdixonfineart.co.uk

 

 

 

 

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Miles Davis
Maureen Finucane is a self-taught artist who, after many years of family and job commitments, has returned to her preferred vocation. Her work is mainly inspired by the human form and music, particularly jazz, and she specialises in portraits and life drawing and painting. In the past, she has exhibited at the Heatherley School of Art Summer Exhibition. Upcoming exhibitions are the Arthouse Open Studio 2008 and This Precious Earth at Orleans House, Twickenham.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Day it Snowed
Jacqueline Hall  Landscapes and abstracts in free, colourful oils. Recent large canvases have been inspired by the beautiful Fowey estuary in Cornwall and the vivid sunlight of Mallorca. Jackie also paints closer to home, and a stunning winter panorama was created the day it snowed on Richmond Hill. She also loves the bright lights... Current work includes night paintings and strongly coloured life figures

A graduate of Camberwell College of Arts, Jackie has exhibited this year at the Arthouse Open Studio and the Landmark Summer Fair 2008 and will be taking part in ‘This Precious Earth’ exhibition at Orleans House at the end of July. Her work can be seen, by appointment, at Kew Studio.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Soon Yul Kang has been a resident at Kew Studio since 1998. She specialises in hand woven tapestries, but she also creates collages and gouache works. Originally from Seoul, South Korea, she completed an MA at Goldsmiths College. She now returns to Seoul each year to lecture at universities there.

For a number of years she has developed her subject, inspired by the concepts of ZEN-simplicity, stillness and emptiness, in terms of meditation and healing. She has more recently developed these concepts in her tapestries of serene landscapes. Her work is on permanent display at the West Middlesex University Hospital.

During 2008, she has participated in the  'Contemporaries' show, 8 December 2007 - 5 January 2008 at Farfield Mill Arts and Heritage Centre, Sedburgh, Cumbria; in'Tapestry 08', the Dean Clough Gallery and Bankfield Museum, Halifax, West Yorkshire, 7 June - 28 September 2008; and has exhibited at Bluedog and Sought as part of the Art in Woodstock Festival (Autumn 2008). In January 2009 she had a solo exhibition at the Colne Gallery, Colchester.

From the 12th September to the 8th November 2009, she is exhibiting in the Hand Woven Tapestry Exhibition Weaving Within, at Stirling Castle and the Smith Gallery and Museum.For more information e mail This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

 

 

 

 

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Steve Simpson is a painter, printmaker and illustrator/cartoonist, and has been making pictures for as long as he can remember. His work uses bold forms and colours to explore the borderlands between representation and abstraction, and reflects his personal history and experience, both dark and light. Whilst drawing inspiration from landscape, natural and human-made forms, travel, music, literature and myth, his pictures seem to have a life of their own, taking him where they want to go. Steve regards picture-making as a form of spiritual practice, an attempt to express and give form to life's shadow, mystery and what the beat poet Charles Bukowski calls 'the original energy of joy'.

Steve's paintings and prints have been shown in Arthouse Open Studio 2007, The Waterloo Open and the Riverside Open, and can be viewed by appointment at Kew Studio. Steve has been a freelance illustrator for over 30 years, and his work is used by a wide range of organisations in the public and charitable sectors.

 
 
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