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the flux review
Patrice Sullivan – Q&A
Patrice Sullivan’s work is about memory and family. Although Sullivan works from photographs, the paintings are not photorealism. The paint itself, with its restive and gestural surfaces, embodies the memory with which she sees the past. And the past is her family, is sibling rivalry, marital conflicts, divorce and adversity, and their effects.
Jenna Cable – Q&A
We are delighted to introduce the work of street photographer Jenna Cable who is an observer and a collector of simple moments. Cable first became really consumed with taking photos when she moved to New Orleans and didn't know a soul there. Her bike and camera...
LUAP – Q&A
A skilled fine artist who dynamically fuses painting and photography, Paul Robinson aka LUAP, born in Grimsby in 1982, is fast gaining critical recognition and a celebrity following for his exciting work.
Piers Secunda – Q&A
Piers Secunda was born in London in 1976 and studied painting at Chelsea College of Art in London. Since the late nineties Piers has developed a studio practice using paint in a sculptural manner, rejecting the limitations imposed by the canvas.
Kevin Devonport – Q&A
Using oils or acrylic, Kevin Devonport likes to paint traditional genres in a degree of realism however all the images have a contemporary essence. Devonport is a self-taught painter therefore he does not hold any artistic qualifications although he does hold a First Class honours BSc in Sociology that does have an influence on his work. Popular themes Devonport explores are consumerism and people’s attachments to materiality alongside perceptions of ‘the self and identity.
Sára Várady – Q&A
We are delighted to introduce the work of Sára Várady an artist from Hungary who travelled to London in the middle of the pandemic to chase her dream of being an artist. Várady is currently studying at the Royal College of Art. I am gazing at my reflection in the...
Adedeji Akinkunmi
Adedeji Akinkunmi is a digital artist, born and bred in Nigeria, where he lived all his life before moving to the Uk to gain his masters degree. Adedeji fell in love with creating digital arts while he was still trying to gain his first degree in computer science at Ajayi Crowther university in Nigeria. he quickly joined a group of young digital artist to learn the techniques of the art. Soon after, he became fascinated with surrealism and the ability to create an out of the world imagination through digital means. His works are sometimes inspired by dreams.
Marc Standing – Q&A
Marc Standing is an African/ British/Australian artist who was born and raised in Zimbabwe. He obtained his BAFA honors degree from the University of Cape Town in South Africa with distinctions in painting.
Valia Paella – Q&A
Valia Paella is an artist fascinated with art dynamics, the artist pays particular attention to multilevel and deep research, discovering counterintuitive metaphors. Paella is a new media artist, trying to retrieve a new sort of “AI” implicating “Art and Information”...
Krisztina Horvath – Interview
Krisztina Horvath’s first love is art. However, she had a varied career before working as an artist full time. Horvath started with classic ballet then she studied law and worked as an environmental lawyer. The wish to turn back to art never left Horvath and at the...
Viv Owen – Q&A
Viv Owen captures vivid, gestural oil paintings that reveal a fascination with emotional states, with the help of unwitting accomplices captured from feature films and the television screen. Subtle in scale: a whisper in the ear rather than a shout across the room,...
David Hicks – Q&A
David Hicks is a street photographer – I love to walk the street, hang out on corners, and chat to whoever about anything. I like humanity. From human beings to anything that has a human touch. I like normal life. Almost banal life. I like to see how people live their life on a day to day basis. Their surroundings. Where they put things. Where they hang out.
Alison Johnston – Q&A
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”.
Marina Tsaregorodtseva – Q&A
Marina Tsaregorodtseva is a Fine Art Still life and Portrait Photographer who lives and works in London, United Kingdom. She was born in Vologda, Russia in 1978. She completed a degree in accounting and finance in 2000. Moved to the UK in 2009. Moving to another country had a huge impact on her life: loneliness, inability to share experiences, and impressions with close family kind of forced her to restrain personal feelings.
Stephanie MacKenzie – Q&A
International award-winning Artist Stephanie MacKenzie, is a vibrant talent. Multiple layers, brilliant colours and intricate designs unite through storytelling and blended archetypes bringing lush dimensions to her work. Immerse yourself into a high saturated universe with artist Mackenzie. Intense colour and vivid brushstrokes are created through movement while listening to a range of music. Mackenzie uses the vibration of sound to submerge herself into her self conscious and let her inner voice speak through each gestural movement. Using form, space and colour to communicate an infinite number of patterns. Expressing her ideas by creating a visual language through her contemporary Art. Dive into the labyrinth of Mackenzie’s inner existence.
Sève Favre – Q&A
Originally from the french part of Switzerland, Sève Favre was introduced to arts from a young age but decided to follow an academic study first Art History at University. She supplemented her literature degree with secondary school teaching. She continued her education by taking several seminars and workshops in the visual arts, notably at the Ceruleum School of Art in Lausanne.
Ema Mano Epps and Jyoti Bharwani
Master of Fine Art’s alumna, Ema Mano Epps and Jyoti Bharwani are nearing the end of their two-year residency at City and Guilds of London Art School. Previously graduated from St Martins, these two female artists represented the student voice through the pandemic and took part in the Board of Trustees. This shared journey naturally facilitated a collaborative path of making artwork alongside their own practices.
Sam Peacock – Tide
London, From June 10 – July 3, London-based affordable art gallery Kahn Gallery will be showing exclusive new artworks by Sussex artist Sam Peacock, his first solo show in the capital since 2017, at their North London venue. As part of “Tide”, Peacock will be exhibiting work created during the first lockdown, a period when he felt “weirdly free to do what he wanted as the pressure to produce a constant stream of work had been removed”.

















