PAUL AMEY

Paul Amey has created work for public and corporate spaces as well as for galleries throughout the UK and Europe, and has many private collectors. Recently the University Museum, Oxford commissioned his large-scale Giraffe and Hunting Dogs. Paul's sculptures are engaging, imaginative and display an intrinsic understanding of the materials used.

Born in Oxford in 1957, Paul trained at Hornsey College of Art.

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JULIAN LE BAS

Born in 1958, Julian Le Bas is a Sussex artist whose robust charcoal drawings and oil paintings re-awaken a sense of our presence and emotional involvement in the natural world. The process of either drawing or painting from observation envelopes his work in the nuances of light rolling across the Sussex Downs and beyond.

He was tutored at Brighton by Dennis Creffield, who in turn was deeply influenced by David Bomberg - and so Le Bas continues the discipline of bringing weight and volume into light and space in what has become the English manner. His work is at once delicate yet full of movement and resolution.

Julian Le Bas is widely collected and has artworks held in public collections: Towner Gallery, Hove Museum and Art Gallery, South East Arts Collection. Exhibitions include Jerwood Prize Touring Exhibition. Julian, who lives in Brighton, teachest art at Lewes Prison.

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JULIAN BELL

‘I’m interested in the funny things people do on this earth,’ Julian says. This is borne out by his range of subject matter – a street scene from South London, downtown Tehran, roadworks in his native Sussex. He also creates narrative scenes entirely from his imagination, using friends and acquaintances as models (Bad Essay, She Was Led Away, Her Lover Slain). His drawings and paintings on board can be found at St Anne’s Galleries, along with large oil on canvas paintings from previous collections.

As well as his artistic practice, Julian is a writer and lecturer on art and is the author of Mirror of the World (Thames & Hudson).He lives and works in Lewes, not far from Charleston, home to his forebears, Vanessa Bell and Virginia Wolf.

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TOM BENJAMIN

Born in 1967, Tom grew up near Lewes within the South Downs. Tom paints his landscapes and seascapes on the spot, whatever the weather.

‘The artist’s job is to make poetry out of the ordinary,’ he says. ‘ I get to know the areas very well; every time I go back it’s like adding another layer of knowledge. Sometimes I am struck by something I get an emotional response from … It’s a continuous process of reproducing, improvising and altering my response. I am always surprised by what comes out.’

Tom trained at Brighton and Norwich School of Art.

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NICK BODIMEADE

Nick Bodimeade is widely collected throughout the UK and beyond. His paintings combine rigorous compositions, highly charged colours and dynamic brushstrokes, resulting in strong yet sensuous works.

Figures on beaches, dogs (lurchers), trucks, rooftops and camping are recurring themes, as is his studio armchair. The scale of paintings ranges from the huge through to very small canvaes. Nick also produces limited edition woodcuts.

Nick lives and paints near Lewes, Sussex.

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KATE BOXER

Kate lives both in London and on her farm in West Sussex,where she keeps horses. There is a sense of wide openess in both subject matter and spirit. Geroge Melly wrote of Kate's art: "A remarkable creative spirit: her images and the means to realise them are at one." Animals and interesting characters often feaure  in her paintings and prints, which are both remarkably assured as well as delicately executed. We stock a range of prints at all times.

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PHILIPPA CANNAN

Philippa trained in fine art painting at University of Brighton, tutored by Andrzej Jackowski. Graduating in 2010, she has already had two successful solo shows. ‘I hope to create a sense of timelessness in my work and that each painting conveys a feeling of its own reality: a felt or imagined space, to which the viewer may respond. Animals, perhaps, symbolise life’s deepest energies: instinctual life. Through the process of painting, glimpses are taken into an arena of day-dream, memory and reverie; what Freud described as ‘free-floating attention.’

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NICK CARRICK

‘The combination of colour, of thin and thick paint, of the shapes and chalk scribbles, was as satisfying and evocative as a poem composed of a ravishing coalescence of words, but whose meaning is ambiguous.’ - Amanda Vesey

Nick says; ‘Anything can evoke a reaction – forests, old photographs, graffiti, patterns, discarded objects. My aim in taking these out of context is to give them a new, and altered, and valid lease of life.’

Nick Carrick was born in 1979 and trained in Fine Art at Chelsea College and Coventry University. Exhibitions include Royal Academy (London), Stables Gallery (London), Stroud Gallery (Stroud).

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JULIA HAMILTON

Born in 1962, Julia completed her art training at Cental St Martins and City & Guilds School of Art. Her work received Sir Peter Blake's prize of Most Outstanding Piece of Work in Originals 08 at the Mall Galleries. In 2010 she was selected for the prestigious Lynn Painter Stainers Prize exhibition in the City of London. Julia's source material is often from her own photographs and sketches that she makesin situ. Her eye is drawn to the beauty of the everyday. Of her technique she says: "I want the viewer to 'see' the paint. I want them to see the brushstrokes but at the same time I want their eyes to switch to the object that is being depicted, and that is the moment of transformation in the mind's eye."

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JANE HANSFORD

Jane's work displays a strong painterly quality, underpinned by observational skills, drawing and a highly fertile imagination. Her paintings centre around the development of characters, weaving together elements of eroticism, dark humour and sharp observation. To this is added dramatic scenes with art historical sources. There are frequent references to fashion, costume, photography and art. She is also inspired by Japanese art and its floating landscapes, exploring colour, nature and space. She has a First Class BA Honours degree in Fine Art from Buckinghamshire & Chilterns University College.

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GEORGIA HAYES

“Things have to look like themselves in some unique way. Often it is the opposite to how I think they look and yet seems to be absolutely appropriate to the subject. It is as if the act of painting itself allows things to show themselves in another way.” - Georgia Hayes

Three times nominated for the Royal Academy Charles Wollaston Prize, Georgia was last year selected for the John Moores 25. Her earthy, powerful art has been the subject of solo shows at Galeria National (Costa Rica) and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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MARK JOHNSTON

Mark Johnston’s landscapes are much bigger than their frames. In front of his work you feel the rolling of the sun across a broad sky and the dance of light over the land.

As one of the UK’s leading landscape painters, Mark has forged his own oeuvre with the atmospheric landscape. Light, air, weather, earth and sea are the stuff of his oil paintings which range in size from the very small to the huge. Sarah O’Kane has been introducing Mark’s work to collectors in the South for a decade. Mark was born in 1974 in the Northeast of England and trained in Fine Art at University of Brighton, having been tutored by Brendan Neeland RA.

He won the Sussex Painting Prize and spent two years painting in Spain and Greece, before settling in Brighton.

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JO LAMB

Quirky narratives, charming visions and occasional bogeymen inhabit Jo Lamb’s unique pictorial world. Her vision can be moving in the way it strikes a long-forgotten chord in our memories but often makes us smile as well. Jo’s artworks are underpinned by observational drawing and explore colour, line and relations between objects in space. Recurring themes include toys, the circus, the fairground, childhood memories and beloved places such as Kenya, the Outer Hebrides and Hampstead..  

Jo trained in painting and design at Byam Shaw, Camberwell (London Institute) and as an art teacher at Goldsmiths’ College London.

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CHRISTOPHER McHUGH

This richly rewarding painter frequently draws on the ancient and classical ‘bedrock’ cultures of the Mediterranean, navigating between the representational and the surface qualities of the painting. They are made over long periods, in a process likened to the investigations of archaeology. The results are colourful, deep and fascinating.

Christopher McHugh trained as a painter at Bath Academy of Art and Manchester Metropolitan University, later completing MA studies at the University of Sussex. He has pursued painting as his central practice ever since, while building a portfolio of other art activities including teaching, writing and artist-led projects.

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JANE MERFIELD

'Some places just have a habit of resurfacing in my memory. They may not be that extraordinary visually but always have a peculiarity of atmosphere. I take these fleeting images and work and play, using matt and gloss paints, adding pattern and relief to disrupt the surface until something of that original oddness looks back at me' says Jane of her beautiful, contemplative work.

She trained in bothpainting and sculpture, at Camberwell and Brighton.Just as important to her are the times she spent living abroad. Several years in Italy, teaching, painting and generally living a simple life in the depths of the countryside were followed by a year on the southern most tip of mainland Greece. 'Certain imagery from this land of ghosts has never left me and I continue to return there whenever possible.' Jane's work is held in corporate and private collection in the UK and abroad.

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HAROLD MOCKFORD

Harold Mockford’s landscapes take us through the ordinary into the extraordinary by his use of colour and motif. His shapes and forms of trees, the Downs dotted with farms and lanes and animals are familiar but his use of colour moves us into a very different world where the natural order is taken and shaken into another reality and makes us look at those rolling hills of Sussex by the Sea in an entirely different way – he endows his landscapes with a deep mysticism. His paintings look to liberate the dormant awe, fear and gratitude that for thousands of years have formed our relationship with land, sea and sky, with the sun and the moon, those harbingers of much greater realities that as modern beings we have grown accustomed to dismiss or deny. His work makes our secondary, sophisticated world a little less meaningful where even inanimate objects from roads to telegraph poles are animated with a spiritual significance.

Harold is one of the best known and best loved artists working in Sussex and is very widely collected. Public collections include the Government Art Fund and Towner Art Gallery

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KATE MONTGOMERY

Kate studied Islamic Art and Design at the Royal College of Art where as part of her course she practiced constructing patterns according to ancient geometric principles. ‘I use a lot of patterns in my pictures and I take them from medieval and Indian and Victorian designs.’

Her exquisite paintings are domestic in scale and subject matter and explores familial relationships and interiors. The images indicate, but do not prescribe, a narrative thereby remaining intriguingly elusive. ‘I find that a lot of people will look at my paintings and imagine their own narrative.’

Kate has been artist in residence at Glyndebourne Opera. Collections include HRH The Prince of Wales, St John’s College (Oxford) and Elizabeth Esteve-Coll. She lives in Hove with her husband and three daughters.

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MICHAEL COOPER, NEAC

Born in 1943 Michael Cooper began learning picture restoration from surrealist painter and restorer, James St John Earp in 1962. ‘Working on the restorations really helped me understand the use of colours, how to match them, the shade and light and how they complement the piece.’

In the 70’s Michael moved to Lewes, where he and his wife Pat later founded the Star Brewery Workshops and Studios. In 1989 they opened the Star Gallery, building it into an outstanding regional gallery. Shortly after selling the business in 2004, Michael was elected to the New England Art Club (NEAC).

Michael is known for both his figurative and landscape paintings. He says of his working method: ‘I am not a plein air painter, I prefer the inner world, informed by nature, to appear on the canvas. I know my destination when I arrive.’

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CHELSEA RENTON

Awaiting biography

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