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 BELL
Julian Bell is one of our leading figurative painters. His drawings are masterful and these can be found at St Anne’s Galleries, along with paintings on board.
‘I’m interested in the funny things people do on this earth,’ he says. This is borne out by the range of subject matter – a street scene from South London, another from Delhi, downtown Tehran, or road works in his native Sussex. He also creates narrative scenes entirely from his imagination, using friends and acquaintances as models.
As well as his artistic practice, Julian is a writer and lecturer on art and is the author of the recent Mirror of the World (Thames and Hudson).
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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, the rooftops of Seville, and camping in New Zealand are recurring themes, as is his studio armchair, now the subject of four limited edition prints.
Nick is a full-time painter, living and working in Sussex.
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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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TOM HAMMICK
Two new limited edition woodcut prints in stock, please contact the gallery for further details.
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 and childhood memories.
She 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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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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