by Lisa Gray | Oct 9, 2020 | Artist Profile
Michelle Mildenhall is a UK based artist, whose work explores fetish subcultures, drawing influences from a broad range of sexual fetishes including rubber fetishism, BDSM and sexual objectification. Through her bold imagery, Mildenhall examines both empowerment and vulnerability often by fetishising iconic personalities in her distinctive pop art style. Her work is confronting and has the power to shock and move the viewer, a feeling that is increased further by the use of a restrained palette, seducing the viewer into a world of disconcerting beauty. By using popular but somewhat taboo BDSM themes, her artworks exude sexual association but never touch on obscenity.
by Lisa Gray | Oct 7, 2020 | Artist Profile
Robert P. Clarke is a new media artist using photography, video, sound, digital media, drawing and performance. His main influences are figurative works, everyday life and capturing a moment or action. Clarke has exhibited widely in the United Kingdom in Galleries and has been published internationally in art books.
by Lisa Gray | Oct 5, 2020 | Artist Profile
Born in Dumfries, Scotland, Alison Johnston studied at Edinburgh College of Art under Elizabeth Blackadder, Sir Robin Philipson and Harry More Gordon. Following graduation, her career flourished in illustration and animation for Oscar-nominated “Fireman Sam” and “Aardman Animations”. Johnston now draws her inspiration from her highland home. Her paintings, oil on canvas, are normally produced in Alison’s studio but the main work takes place in the landscape.
by Lisa Gray | Oct 2, 2020 | Artist Profile
Caroline Duffy produces realistic, contemporary portraits and satirical pieces that focus on the complexities and idiosyncrasies of the human condition and emotion and how, or if, it evolves over time. Often referencing nostalgic Americana standards, but finding a new lens to examine it through, she looks to both popular culture and fine art to challenge, scrutinize and define the guiding beliefs and ideals in our ever-changing society. If there is anything we need these days, it is humour, so she has also produced a series of paintings that are playful and hopefully poignant, often poking fun at or questioning past and present views, art and more. Likewise, she strives to produce realistic, contemporary portraits that celebrate the human spirit. In these portraits, Duffy intermixes realism and abstraction to better relay the underlying emotional ties between herself and the model she portrays. Consequently, Duffy’s approach varies widely and each individual painting finds its own way to tackle questions regarding the human spirit and how we relate to one another.
by Lisa Gray | Oct 1, 2020 | Artist Profile
Amy Crouch’s recent work focuses on ways that can interupt the circles and she achieves this by layering different colours on un-printed canvas, removing sections of the circle and disrupting the traditional conventions of a painting. This has, more recently, led Crouch to looking at different and bigger interruptions that she could create within her art.
