Pi Artworks present a solo show of Dutch Painter Jade Van der Mark, with work highlighting the transformation of city life in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. Jade van der Mark will exhibit a new body of work in her first London solo show at Pi Artworks this December. The work explores contemporary society, both before and after the coronavirus pandemic, and examines the dichotomy of crowds and human intimacy.
Through painting, Heidi Best explores physical and psychic emotions stemming from personal experience, female identity, sexuality and the presence of the body. The dynamics between Best and a physical projection through gestural painting are reviled through the growing connection between her and the environment which the work develops.
Patricia Henríquez (Mexico, CDMX, 1967) is a visual multidisciplinary artist. Her experimental animated short films have been screened at festivals, museums and cultural institutions at America, Europe and Asia.
Henríquez has received several national and international grants, prizes, awards and distinctions in experimental short films animation, painting and drawing. She is a member of Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte 2019. Henríquez has exhibited individually in museums and cultural institutions in Mexico and cultural institutions in Spain, China and the USA.
R-Prost – Less is enough.
Barbara Vandendriessche worked for 20 years as a director and set designer at the theatre. But more and more, photography, which she initially regarded as a sideline but invaded her professional path. Vandendriessche discovered how her experience within the theatre influenced the language of her photography and experienced a sense of “back to basics”, of re-sourcing.
Anne-Marie Michel is a photographic artist based in London. Her current project ‘Sisters of the Road’ is a series of portraits of American female truckers and the landscapes they travel. The upcoming book tells the individual stories of the 40 women, in their own words, alongside their portraits.
Dominique Vitali is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in embroidery and printmaking. Her work focuses on her personal experiences living within the confines of a female body, exploring sexuality, religion, and body image.
As an explorer of the mysterious universe of oil painting, Jerusalem based abstract-surrealist artist Alexey Adonin, has dedicated over a decade to convey his vision of hidden otherworldly realms connected with a timeless source of inspiration. Adonin was born in Slutsk, Belarus, in 1973. He graduated in 1993 from the State Art College named after A. K. Glebov, Minsk, Belarus. In the same year, he immigrated to Israel. Since 2002, Adonin has exhibited locally and internationally. His works have also been acquired by notable private collections worldwide.
Anil Mistry is a mixed media artist based in Berkhamsted, UK. His work is focussed on creating new interpretations of urban landscapes that are abstract in nature, compelling yet warmly familiar. Following a childhood interest in art and design, Anil began to experiment in his late teens with typography, graphic design and photography, making gig flyers by layering imagery using photocopiers, scissors and glue. Later, software such as Photoshop and Illustrator became his tools of choice for compositions, starting a commercial career in digital graphic design.
Moonmambo has worked in creative fields for eighteen years so far, including graphic design, fashion, art, illustration and advertising. She has worked for agencies including McCann Erickson and has collaborated on projects for Rolling Stone magazine. In Milan, she got involved in the world of street art, a style she developed and refined in the city of Amsterdam where she lived on and off for seven years.
Richard Shipley is an abstract painter who originates from York, North Yorkshire and is now a resident of Bristol in the South West of England. Shipley’s love of art began in 1987 when he was introduced to graffiti art. This inspired him to pick up the can, and the rest is history. Over the years Shipley’s work has evolved from his early graffiti writings to the non-objective abstract aesthetic we see today. Heavily influenced by the dynamism of the Italian Futurists such as Umberto Boccioni and the geometry of Kazimir Malevich and the Suprematist movement, Shipley keeps his roots in graffiti art.
Jack Savage is a fine art photographer and conceptual artist. Born in Northampton, England (1980) – He was educated at Nottingham University, where he carries an MA in American Studies and Film. Winner of over 100 international professional photography awards.
Catherine Ryan is a Dublin based artist who studied glass design at the National College of Art and Design and has been creating paintings and collages since 2007. Her work evolved from a fusion of influences including painting, sculpture, street art and found objects.
John Cowen is an artist making work about the environment and mankind’s impact on the planet. He studied Fine Art at university, specialising in painting, which led to a twenty-year career working as a designer and art director.
Francesca Alaimo is an Italian-British artist based in London. She is a self-taught mixed media artist who creates interventions on paper through manipulation and transformation of materials and images, using prints, water-based oils, acrylics and wax.
Henriette Busch is a painter and digital artist living and working in St Albans, who studied Fine Art at the University of Hertfordshire. Henriette has been making art for over 15 years, and has exhibited widely in the UK since 2003. Her vibrant and exuberant work is in private collections in England, The Netherlands, Germany, USA and Dubai.
Having studied art at school, Adam Jacobs took a prolonged break – not producing any pieces until after he had finished university. Once Jacobs moved to London from Essex he didn’t want to just sit in front of the television every night. He decided to get back into art and has produced around three pieces a year since 2005.
Exploring curating and art-making as a methodology that suggests the human condition is more complex than it is currently understood, Alexandria (Ally) Zlatar examines, instigates and provokes notions of the individual experience through specifically focusing on the philosophical discourse, body image, embodiment and ethics. Zlatar acknowledges there is a power within the un-well body and believes there is tremendous value and potency through examining these subjects through the contemporary art lens.
Paul Alty is a Liverpool born and bred musician and award-winning lighting designer with an unhealthy interest in all things that combine music and sound, lighting and lasers and all other art forms into immersive sensory experiences.
As a musician, Alty has released music digitally since 2013 and currently has 13 releases on iTunes/Spotify etc. Of particular interest is his series of Behind The Clock albums – these are a soundtrack to a story dealing with time, space, mortality and our position in space and time and the story is the foundation for a number of multimedia installation pieces he is working on.
Brought up in Belfast, Warren King was given a thorough grounding in painting and drawing from an early age by his cousin Brian Audley, a lecturer in art at Queens University. Frequent trips to the Antrim coast set in motion a lifelong love of nature – references to the vibrant colours of rural Ireland and endlessly kinetic power of the sea can be found in many of the paintings he produces. As an abstract artist, King firmly believes in capturing the essence of energy, movement and spontaneity that nature, in its purest form, offers us all.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Christopher Dear has exhibited in galleries, music events and public spaces across Australia, LA, Miami, Spain, Mexico, Costa Rica and England. He became involved with the music industry at an early stage of his career and started producing large-scale artworks and backdrops for music events. This began the journey of his art and music being intertwined Dear’s paintings and designs are musically synesthetic and when exhibited with music, of all varieties, the sounds cascade though the design and resonate in the patterns. A unison of sound and vision. His painted canvases and mixed media works are adorned with gold leaf giving them reflective and illusionistic qualities. With a Modern futurist style, his paintings radiate vibrancy and colour. Dear also DJ’s electronic music under the name ‘Cosmic Vortex’.
Jorge Chamorro (Madrid, 1972) is a graphic designer, teacher and artist. He obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1995, he then worked for ten years as a graphic designer in several studios and agencies. In 2005 he started to work independently, developing communication projects for different clients and personal projects. Chamorro produced his first collage collection in 2006, and it has since become an irreplaceable art form he also teaches graphic design, typography, visual identity and collage. His work has been exhibited and published nationally and internationally.
Rebeka Elizegi is a collage artist, art director and graphic designer based in Spain.
In parallel with her exhibitions, which have a more artistic and personal feel, her collages have also appeared on the covers of books and magazines, not to mention on albums and posters and as part of decorative projects. She has also published various illustrated books that are based on collage.
Stimulated by the concept of colour interaction, Francesca Edward’s installations explore the dialogue that is created between the painted surface and the colour illuminations when colour changing sequences are projected on top of the canvases.
Fiona Eastwood lives and works in East London. She graduated from Camberwell School of Art in 2014. Eastwood was selected for the John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (2014) and Hans Brinker Painting Prize (shortlisted) Amsterdam (2013). Her works are held in private and public collections including the Priseman-Seabrook Collection. She has exhibited at the London Global Art Fair Olympia and has been selected for the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts twice.
Loz Atkinson’s brand new solo exhibition ‘Finding The Fallen’ is open now at Leicester Museum and Art Gallery and runs until 15th November.
Alexis Vanessa Ramos was born in Woodland Hills California in 1998. She earned her BA in Visual Art from California State University, Northridge in 2020. She has received awards and recognition, including the McDonald’s Franchise Tuition Assistance Scholarship and the Annual Visual Art Award from the Arts Club of Pasadena.
Brice Gelot is a self-taught contemporary French artist, born in 1985 in Dijon. His creative passion began with street photography, skateboarding and graffiti culture. Over the years, he has broadened his artistic horizons to include painting and sculpture. Gelot has dedicated his life to creating artworks which express his message all over the world, moving to Australia and later to London.
Iona Hall is a silversmith and jeweller, graduating from Glasgow School of Art in 2018 and Bishopsland in 2019. Hall’s passion for objects, in particular boxes, comes from the aspect of discovery that they hold. A box is an object that can fit in the palm of your hand, however once opened it can reveal a sentiment of treasure. In all her work she strives to achieve that compelling feeling that you must pick this object up, a keepsake that demands further exploration.
Shilpa Shanker Narain is an illustrator, visual artist and graphic designer with 8+ years of experience in the professional graphics and design industry. Her body of work centres around conceptual artistic visuals, vibrant expression and detailing in illustrations.
After a foundation in art, Anne-Marie Ellis gained a degree in fashion design and enjoyed a successful career in fashion for over 20 years. Owning a design consultancy with her (Menswear designer) husband, Anne-Marie designed Womenswear for various luxury brands. This design discipline and aesthetic vision influence Ellis’s artworks; both in the use of colour and stylish subject matter. A palette of muted greys and timeless black and white are enlivened with bright accents and the occasional flash of neon. The textures of lace and the smoothness of glass are rendered in acrylics; she preferred medium. She is as much inspired by Vermeer as she is Rene Gruau… in her artwork, the dramatic darkness and strong light capturing the translucency of glass are influenced by the Dutch masters, while the graphic style and spatial awareness come from studying the great fashion illustrators.
Although best known for his performance pieces, artist Doug Wright aka Sugar Weasel the Clown is also a prolific painter, sculptor and illustrator. In his “Texas Moonshiners” series Wright captures the evolution of time and nostalgia by creating unique artworks using sarcoptic colour palettes, natural patinas and weathering, while integrating elements from classic American westerns and low budget horror films.
