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Ji Won Cha Bloom 2, 2023 Oil pastel and spray paint on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Ji Won Cha (b. South Korea) is an artist based in London. In 2020 she graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Painting, and is now enrolled on the MA programme at The Royal College of Art. Her paintings use the natural world as a metaphor, this subject becoming a matter for both a celebration of life and contemplation of fear; a subject of spiritual longing but also a subject of technical evolutionary development. The resultant works appear as flows of imagery from a seemingly unconscious mind. Education Royal College of Art MA 2021-2023 Rhode Island School of Design BFA 2020 Select Exhibitions/Awards 2023 | Shortlisted for Jackson's Painting Prize 2023| Dungeons and Daydreams, Wilder Gallery, London 2023 | Look mum no hands, BeAdvisors art, London 2023 | Two by Two, BWG gallery, London Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Celebrating the arrival of springtime, Bloom 1 and 2 introduce emotional attributes to the work. Looking at how the landscape shapes our sense of belonging, how it shapes our stories and tales, our behaviours, the works encompass and are embedded with intensity - one being more of a representative study, and the other having a more abstract language, which cannot be easily explained, processed, or measured- through mark making, symbols, and colour.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Anna Maria Schönrock Woodpecker, 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About If one understands figuration and abstraction as two possible poles between which contemporary painterly practices can move, then Anna Maria Schönrock chooses a space in between, a third way, a back door - a form of transition between the two poles that is always in the making. The forms either dissolve through the application of paint - towards abstraction - or peel out through the application of paint - towards figuration. Painting thus becomes an experimental arrangement, similar to a research trip or an experimental arrangement, where the approximate goal is fixed but the path is not yet clear (...) Text by Ann-Kathrin Eichhoff Education 2008 - 2014 Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg / Fine Arts with focus on painting, class of Prof. Ralph Fleck Select Exhibitions/Awards 2023 - The stage is yours (solo) - Karpuchina Gallery, Prague 2022 - Outside the line, z2o Gallery Sara Zanin, Rome 2021 - Raum für Malerei - Kunstmuseum Erlangen 2020- Unstable grounds, Galeriehaus Nord e.V. (solo) 2018- Le bruit - Kunstverein Kohlenhof e.V., Nürnberg (solo) 2017 - Small, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London Gallery Representation Purdy & Hicks Gallery, London Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork The works submitted for AOAP show two central European birds - two woodpeckers - birds are a recurring motif in my work reflecting a fascination for nature and a preoccupation with the conflict of the human-nature relationship.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Adam Taylor Winter 2, 2023 Oil and mixed on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Adam Taylor is a British contemporary artist. His paintings can be described as abstract compositions influenced by the coastal landscape of his surroundings in rural West Wales. He strives to capture the mood of the land, distilling the basic forms into pleasing shapes and colour. He works predominantly in oils, but will use enamel paint and different textures at the beginning of the painting process, producing a final piece which is raw and layered. He trained and obtained his degree in Fine Art in 2004 at Cardiff School of Art. In 2022, Adam was selected by the artist Sean Scully to exhibit alongside him at a group show in London. Education Degree at Cardiff University Select Exhibitions/Awards 2022/ group exhibition AKA Gallery, Cambridgeshire 2022/ group exhibition Flowers Gallery, London (curated by Sean Scully) 3rd April - 30th April 2023/ Solo Exhibtion at Ffin-y-Parc Gallery, North Wales 8th April - 27th May 2023/ RCA New Members Exhibition, Royal Cambrian Academy 10th May - 14th May 2023/ London Affordable Art Fair with Lucinda Dalton Gallery Gallery Representation Ffin Y Parc Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Abstract compositions drawing on the landscapes of where I live in Pembrokeshire Wales   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Sarah Jane Moon What She Saw, 2023 Oil on card Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Sarah Jane Moon is a painter who specialises in portraiture and figurative painting. Her work explores identity, gender and connection to place. Physically, her paintings are large, gestural and suffused with a love of colour, surface and her chosen medium: oil paint. She has exhibited with the National Portrait Gallery, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, New English Art Club and the New Zealand Portrait Gallery among others. She has been a recipient of the Arts Charitable Trust Award, the Bulldog Bursary for Portraiture and is a member of the Contemporary British Portrait Painters. Her work has been featured in Time Magazine, The Guardian, Wallpaper* and Studio International. Sarah is originally from New Zealand and has lived in Japan, Malaysia and Australia. She has postgraduate qualifications in Art Theory and Curatorial Practice from Universities in NZ and Australia as well as qualifications in Portrait Painting from The Heatherley School of Fine Art in London. She teaches regularly at Heatherley's and occasionally at other institutions in the UK and abroad. In the UK, Sarah works in Sussex and London and when in New Zealand she paints in the Bay of Plenty. Sarah is originally from New Zealand and has lived in Japan, Malaysia and Australia. Education 2009 - 2011 Diploma in Portrait Painting The Heatherley School of Fine Art, London, UK 2006 - 2007 BA (Hons) Visual Arts Theory University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia 2000 - 2003 BA - Art History, English Literature, Japanese Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Select Exhibitions/Awards AWARDS 2016 Pride Power List 2015 Arts Club Charitable Trust Award, NEAC 2013 Bulldog Bursary, Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2003 Woolf Prize for Excellence in Art History Selected Exhibitions 2023 Georgina Beyer, The New Zealand Portrait Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand The Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Awards, Te Koputu a te whanga a Toi, Whakatane, New Zealand 2022 Unapologetic Sexuality, Saint George Street, London, UK Pride Art Exhibition, MUFG London, UK 2021 Society of Women Artists Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries Online Figurative Art Now, Mall Galleries, Online Rebel Dykes Art & Archive Exhibition, Space Station 65 Gallery, London, UK Heart Of The Matter, Gillian Jason Gallery, Online 2020 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Online BP Portrait Award Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery Online & Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, UK The Family Unit, Thompson's Galleries, London, UK 2019 Rogue Women, Rogue Artists Studios, Manchester, UK Queer Portraits, The Department Store, London, UK Face To Face 2019: Works By BP Portrait Award Artists, Cass Art Islington, London, UK BP Portrait Award Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London & Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, UK 2018 Queer Art(ists) Now, Archive Gallery, London, UK Portraits: Facing Others & The Self, Clifford Chance, London, UK This Joyous Chaotic Place, Mokopopaki, Auckland, New Zealand Threesome, New Art Projects, London & The Gallery, Liverpool, UK 2017 The Full Picture: Oxford in Portraits, Weston Library, Oxford, UK In Your Face, Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury, UK 2016 Beyond Margins, Menier Gallery, London, UK Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK 2015 The Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK The Contemporary Portrait, Thompson's Galleries, London, UK The Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize, Piano Nobile, London, UK The Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Awards, Te Koputu a te whanga a Toi, Whakatane, New Zealand   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Zafiro Storm Atomic, 2023 Oil pastels, tempera, acrylic, oil, watercolour and pencil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About My relationship with art is given by the education and passion that I received from my mother's side. It was, has been and always will be the engine of my life. My childhood and adolescence were spent in a very complicated environment. After a major depression, at the age of 17, I decided to enter The School of Art. I graduated in 2001 with honors from the EADT of Catalonia in the specialty of Jewelry Design (1996-2001) Obtaining Honors in the Final Degree Project for "La Escuela Llotja de Barcelona" (School that evaluates all artistic careers in Catalonia, Spain). The same year, 2001, I was the winner of the Illustrious "FAD JEWELRY AWARD" in Barcelona. After obtaining the FAD award, I was selected by BARNAJOYA and the FAD Awards to exhibit at "The BARNAJOYA International Jewelry Fair" 2001. Two years later, in 2003, the DDI (Department of Design and Innovation of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Spain) selected me among the best designers, including me in their guide. My collaborations with artists took place years before, as was the case with the international sculptor Rufino Mesa, with whom I collaborated years before. In 2006 I was part of "NECRO-LITOS" of the como visual artist. For personal reasons. I spent a few years away from art in general, and from my career as a jewelry designer. It was in 2010 when I returned, internationally with my first painting exhibition "The PRINTED FOOTPRINT" at "Art House Gallery and Studios", Brooklyn, NY. I resumed my collaborations as a visual artist in 2015, this time, a participant in "El Milagro" of the international artist Abel Azcona at "The Gray Square Gallery", Spain. And, once again, I was summoned to participate in "DES-ENTERRADOS" by Abel Azcona, curated by Marisol Salanova in the Art Gallery "Conde de Rodezno" Spain in the same year 2015. That same year, I participated in "The 30th Anniversary of the BMW Painting Awards" in Madrid, with the portrait exhibition "FOUR ROOMS" I was interviewed for the Cultural Magazine "ACENTO CULTURAL" in Madrid that same year, 2015, for my artistic career as an internationally renowned artist. interview from which echoed Fahrenheit Magazine, Mexico D.F, publishing my Painting Series in the press "Anthropomorphous". In 2018 I was selected to exhibit the artistic installation FEC (these are the initials of the chemotherapy I received) in the "REG-ARTE" Contest, with the collaboration and within the Malaga Film Festival -MAF-Málaga. Two years later, Saatchi Gallery selected me as a featured artist in the "Saatchi Take Over" competition, London, UK in 2020. In 2021, I became part of the art gallery "Maison Contemporain Gallery" in Paris with my artworks "War Diary". In 2022 I became part of the Perdomo Gallery art gallery in Miami with my artworks "La Triada Combustible". Currently, I am part of the group show CON Spring Edition'23 at the Circle of None art gallery, London and to my delight, I have been selected by Gemma Peppe to be part of the group exhibition of Art on a Postcard Summer Auction 2023, London Exhibition in which I feel honored to participate, for its vital significance, and the great help to the community that is dealing with Hepatitis C. Education Graduated with Honors in Arts and Design specializing in Artistic Jewelry Design from EADT, Catalonia, Spain. (1996-2001) Honors in the Revalidation and Final Degree Project by the "Escuela Llotja" Barcelona, Spain. (2001) Select Exhibitions/Awards Exhibition with "La HUELLA IMPRESA" in the Art House Gallery and Studios, Brooklyn, NY. 2010 Participation in "El Miracle" by the International artist Abel Azcona at The Grey Square Gallery, Catalonia, Spain. 2015 Participation as "DES-ENTERRADOS" by Abel Azcona and Curated by Marisol Salanova at The Art Gallery Conde de Rodezno, Pamplona, Spain. 2015 Participation in The 30th Anniversary BMW Painting Awards, Madrid, Spain. 2015 Interview for the Cultural Magazine "ACENTO CULTURAL" Madrid, Spain. 2015 Press publication in "Fahrenheit Magazine" of the ANTHROPOMORPHE Series Mexico D.F. 2015 Exhibition of the Painting Series, "LA QUE NO TIENE NOMBRE II" (The One with no name II") at The Gallery PÓPULO CADIZ, Spain. FEBRUARY-APRIL, 2017 Exhibition with the artistic installation "FEC" in the ´ REG-ARTE´ Contest, with the collaboration of the Malaga Film Festival -MAF- MALAGA, Spain. APRIL, 2018 Exhibition with the Artistic Exclusive Series Painting "War Diary ·War Portraits/Ukrainian Cities Invaded" at Maison Contemporain Gallery PARIS, France. 2021-2023 Exhibition with the Artistic Exclusive Series Painting "War Diary ·War Portraits/Ukrainian Cities Invaded" at Perdomo Gallery MIAMI. 2022-2023 Exhibition with the CIRCLE OF NONE art gallery in London in the show group CON Spring Edition 2023 Gallery Representation MAISON CONTEMPORAIN / PERDOMO GALLERY / CIRCLE OF NONE Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork My work deals with various political issues such as the energy crisis, climate change, the current Central European war and its derivatives. For the series created, especially for AOAP, I have highlighted the most activist part of the speech. I have shown more clearly the dimension of the female character, the girl. With traits that illuminate the discourse of abuse, protection and the empowerment of reason, but since creation. From the female drive. The one that lies in the exact balance between the rational and the creative. The one that is established whole and without fissures. A character who up to now has lived in harmony with the rest of the work, but who is now shown on the scene and points to the viewer. There are four titles: MY LIMITS, a work that makes use of nature as a protective and defensive barrier. Beauty and strength go together without questioning their symbiosis. I show myself, I am. Full. But I know my true beauty. And that beauty is my limits BIZUM, a work that talks about the immediacy of the use and consequently the abuse of everything that is within our reach. The characters in the play laugh mischievously, in a relaxed but expectant attitude. You could say they are ready. ATOMIC, a work that speaks of the potential and high management capacities in complex situations Change our anatomy and adapt to the environment. Turn our ballast (decayed flower) into a soccer ball with which to strengthen our drive towards better results. PLAY HIDE with THE ELEPHANT in the ROOM talks about the fact of playing hide and seek before such an important issue as evidence. The climate crisis. And playing hide and seek with the elephant in the room is not wanting to see the evidence. If we summarize the language, we find ourselves again, before a type of mistreatment, disaffection and ignorance.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.    

Alex Callaway Nibble, 2023 Oil on acrylic on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About I am a fine artist living and working near Worcester in England. Mostly self-taught, my early career was spent developing a distinct style of Pop Surrealism for the international poster and merchandise markets, alongside producing book cover illustration and murals. My passion for the natural world and landscape painting eventually took over, and this has grown to include portraits and especially still lifes which I paint from life. Select Exhibitions/Awards I was a finalist in the prestigious 2018 Columbia Threadneedle Prize, received an Alfred Daniels Award from The Royal Society of British Artists 300th Exhibition, and an Arcadia Contemporary Award from the 12th International ARC Salon. In 2019 I was very moved to win first prize for a portrait of my late daughter Megan (2001-2021) in the biennial RBSA Portrait Prize Exhibition. Gallery Representation Beaux Arts Bath Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork It was fun to 'go micro' and paint a tiny still life onto a postcard.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Maddie Yuille Study for a Bather I, 2023 Oil paint, ink and pencil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Maddie Yuille (b. 1988) is a visual artist based in London. She creates paintings that explore the embodied experience of being in natural spaces, working with varied media including oil paint, ink, and oil crayon on canvas. Her paintings hover between the figurative and abstract, depicting bodies that emerge from and meld with their environment as a means of critiquing the idea that "nature" is a realm distinct and separate from human lives. Yuille is inspired by a re-imagining of the stories of women historically accused of witchcraft, and paints utopian images where these women are instead free to take pleasure in their surroundings - swimming, resting, and tending to one another, or else content in their solitude. The exploration of materiality is crucial to her practice; each painting is an exploration in to how paint can visualise sensory experience. Education MA Fine Art City & Guilds of London Art School Select Exhibitions/Awards Selected Exhibitions: 2023 March The Songs of Hecate, group show at Pictorum Gallery, London 2022 Sep DELTA GAMMA, group show at Saatchi Gallery, London 2022 Sep Haven, group show with Steingold Contemporary, London 2022 Aug Wilderness Known, two person show at Liliya Gallery, London Selected Awards: 2021 Shortlisted for the Ingram Prize 2020 Shortlisted for the Ashurst Emerging Artist Award 2019 Shortlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork These works are made based on a figure from Marcantonio Raimondi's "Judgement of Paris" (after Raphael), c.1515, which I first saw at the Tate's Cezanne exhibition. I used this figure as a means of experimenting with media on paper - I wanted to create figures that emerge from their environment, using a mixture of ink, oil paint and pencil to create a sense of liveliness.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Sinéad Rice Geometric Study In Black + Blue II (1), 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Born Ireland, 1975. Now lives and works in Dublin. Exhibits mainly in London. Mainly a painter, the artist uses a variety of mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics and most recently photography has become important in her work. She is interested in nature, meditation and the sea, and loves to travel the world with her camera, scuba diving whenever possible. Education B.A. ARTS ENGLISH AND PHILOSOPHY (HONOURS) NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY 2001 NATIONAL DIPLOMA IN FINE ART (WITH DISTINCTION) CRAWFORD COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN 2002 B.A. FINE ART PAINTING (FIRST CLASS HONOURS) CRAWFORD COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN 2007 M.A. ARTS - CERAMIC DESIGN NATIONAL COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN Select Exhibitions/Awards 2004 - Impressions - National Open Print Exhibition - Galway Arts Centre. 2005 - Studio Artists Exhibition - Customs House Gallery. 2007 - 40 Year Retrospective Exhibition - Lavit Gallery. 2008 - Winter Exhibition - Lemonstreet Gallery. 2010 - Backwater Twenty 10 - Crawford Art Gallery. Curated by Stephen Brandes and Vera Ryan. 2010 - Impressions, National Open Print Exhibition - Galway Arts Centre. Curated by Chris Orr R.A. 2011 - Summer Exhibition - Leitrim Sculpture Centre. 2013 - Small is Beautiful, Who's afraid of Red Yellow and Blue - Flowers East Gallery, Kingsland Road, London. 2014 - 184th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy Dublin. 2015 - AIB Eigse - Visual Centre For Contemporary Art, Carlow. Curated by Lewis Biggs. 2016 - DRAW 2016 - Backwater Artists Studio's, Cork 2017 - Small is Beautiful XXXV - Flowers Central Gallery, Cork Street, London 2018 - Small is Beautiful XXXVI - Flowers Central Gallery, Cork Street, London. 2019 - Small is Beautiful XXXVII - Flowers Central Gallery, Cork Street, London. 2020 - Small is Beautiful XXXVIII - Flowers Gallery, London. 2021 - Small is Beautiful XXXIX - Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London. 2022 - In and of Itself, Abstraction in the Age of Images - RHA Gallery, Dublin. 2022 - Small is Beautiful XL - Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork These minimal, geometric paintings are non representational, concerned with reductive colour and are a series. The surfaces are built up through intense layering over time to achieve physical depth in the paintings. The layers relate to the way in which layers are built up and worn down through the natural processes of time in nature. This process also helps to create a sense of "Yugen" an Asian concept which means inexpressible depth or invisible beauty. This idea arises from the Japanese aesthetic of Wabi - Sabi which describes the inexpressible beauty which things especially natural objects attain with the passage of time. It incorporates the idea of the beauty of imperfection and irregularity or roughness and avoids ornamentation in structure.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Claudia Bonney Mother, 2023 Oil paint on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Claudia Bonney takes her subjects from myths and legends, with the heroine archetype a recurring theme. Claudia is drawn to the heroine's journey - their challenges, defiance and fight for survival. Saints and goddesses are re-imagined from a modern perspective. She works primarily in oil and influences range from Magritte, David Inshaw, Alan Aldridge, Stanley Spencer and William Blake to medieval art, religious icons and Russian art. Claudia has painted since her childhood; growing up with artist parents and a household filled with art. She went on to train at Lancaster University. For the last twenty years Claudia has painted in parallel to her work in education and therapy which strongly informs her painting. Her work has been bought by private collectors in the UK & US.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Gavin Dobson Dream Boy, 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Gavin is an artist based in East London. Originally from the North East of England, he trained in Fine Art at Middlesex University specialising in painting. Alongside his painting, Gavin is also an experienced screen printer. Gavin tends to keep his paintings loose and expressive, using fluid movements and textures to create engaging and lively pieces which thoughtfully lead the viewer to a chosen narrative. In recent years Gavin's practice has focused in exploring homosexuality and the various subcultures which surround it, looking into the expectations and stereotypes which gay men face and how in turn this can affect one's mental health. His paintings are loose and expressive tackling the emotional highs and lows of being a gay man in contemporary Britain. Queer culture exists beyond a week at Pride and it has a proud and sadly unearthed history which in turn has affected notions surrounding masculinity/ femininity and indeed what it means to be gay. Education BA Fine Art Middlesex University Select Exhibitions/Awards 2023. Kink - East Art Gallery 2023. Wild Thoughts - The Lido Stores 2022. Just Be Nice - East London Art Gallery 2022. Sugarcube ll - The Lido Stores 2022. The Art Car Boot Fair 2022. Folkstone Art Gallery - The Open Call 2022. Discerning Eye - Mall Galleries 2022. Focus 22 - Design Centre Chelsea 2022. Art Shop - White Paper Pen 2022. The Hoxton Hotel - Southwark 2022. Louder and Prouder - Brunswick Gallery 2022. Queer Frontiers - Artiq 2022. Contemporary British Painting 3 - Bermondsey Project Space 2022. Leaf - The Artists Friend, Box Park 2022. Design Centre London - Chelsea 2022. The Affordable Arts Fair - Hampstead 2021. Choose Love - Soho Revue 2021. Satelittes - Rise Art 2021. The Other Art Fair - Saatchi 2021. The Affordable Art Fair - Battersea 2020. Twelve days of Christmas - Artiq 2020. Choose Love Auction - Printclub London 2020. Queer Frontiers - Artiq Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Perfect bodies in paradise conditions. Pools, ponds, lidos, are places to work out or to relax and gaze at the surrounding beauty whilst floating weightlessly in a sea of blue. They're also meeting places. Speedos, shorts, six-packs. A glance of a muscular back - wet - as it strains to heave its owner out of the pool. Who is watching who?   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Hannah Ludnow Seascape Series (1), 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About The coastline of Cornwall is usually Hannah Ludnow's starting point, a place etched into the artist's memory having grown up near Falmouth Cornwall before moving to London to study art at University. Inspired by the amazing light, wide ever changing skies and beautiful dramatic coastlines, Hannah has always greatly admired the Cornish abstract expressionists Peter Lanyon, Patrick Heron and Ben Nicholson, whose work draws directly from experiences of nature's tempestuous or calm. Recently the artist has found herself looking at the work of Turner, influenced by his astute use of light. Hannah is inspired by the patterns nature creates: the force of the elements against the landscape, and the erosion against rock, sands, and man made objects as art form in itself. Hannah's work is very rarely an actual place, instead she starts with remembering a moment, and how that moment felt. Ludnow hopes to build an atmosphere in a painting, to draw you in, to imagine yourself there stood on a cliff, a beach or behind the dunes, exposed to the elements and the unpredictability of nature. the artist strives to capture a recollection of somewhere the viewer knows or remembers wherever in the world this may be. Her paintings are primarily about the light and the feelings a place can evoke in the viewer, the emotions that a memory of a place and time can stir within. A memory of thoughts and feelings within a landscape, often a special and private moment, where the vastness and beauty of the landscape around you brings a sense of perspective, clarity and calm .   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Sheila Wallis The Husband's Hands, 2023 Pencil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About I was born in Derry City in Northern Ireland. I live and work in London. I was awarded my Master's Degree in 2014 at the City and Guilds of London Art School, and won the Principal's Prize. In 2009 I won the Threadneedle Prize, the Winsor and Newton Painting / Watts Gallery Painting Prize. I won the ING Discerning Eye London and South East regional prize both in 2019 and in 2021. I bring the skills of a traditional figurative artist to a spectrum of contemporary and historical subject matter, my primary interest though, is as an image maker. My interests though wide-ranging, centre on exploring the formal and critical potential of painting and drawing. Whether through an exploration of the painterly potential of X-Ray imaging, cinematic and television stills, the tonal delicacy of the daguerreotype, or in creative reinterpretation of archival, photographic and photojournalistic sources. I occasionally accept portrait commissions and run a small private teaching practice from my London studio. Education 2014 Fine Art MA (Distinction) City and Guilds of London Art School 2009 Fine Art BA (Hons) Degree, University for the Creative Arts UK Select Exhibitions/Awards Awards: 2021 London and the South East Regional Prize, ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries London 2014 Principal's Prize City and Guilds of London Art School 2009 The Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries London Exhibitions: 2023 SFSA Drawing Open, London 2022 Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries, London 2020 Annual Exhibition of Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour, Mall Galleries, London 2020 A Change of Season, The Gallery Holt, Norfolk UK 2020 The Seventh View, C24 Gallery New York 2019 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries London. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork I selected these works (2 paintings and 2 drawings) because they are representative of my current practice. I have recently been making small life studies using a life model in preparation for large studio paintings. I have been making large life studies since 2007 and continue to be captivated. I frequently make small oil paintings from selected film-stills which begin to hint at the possibility of an alternative narrative, one that isn't actually chronicled in the film itself. The drawing of my husband's hands, and another is a depiction of an interior titled 'Room', a current subject of interest which I hope to further develop in 2023. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Sinéad Rice Geometric Study In Black + Blue II (2), 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Born Ireland, 1975. Now lives and works in Dublin. Exhibits mainly in London. Mainly a painter, the artist uses a variety of mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics and most recently photography has become important in her work. She is interested in nature, meditation and the sea, and loves to travel the world with her camera, scuba diving whenever possible. Education B.A. ARTS ENGLISH AND PHILOSOPHY (HONOURS) NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY 2001 NATIONAL DIPLOMA IN FINE ART (WITH DISTINCTION) CRAWFORD COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN 2002 B.A. FINE ART PAINTING (FIRST CLASS HONOURS) CRAWFORD COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN 2007 M.A. ARTS - CERAMIC DESIGN NATIONAL COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN Select Exhibitions/Awards 2004 - Impressions - National Open Print Exhibition - Galway Arts Centre. 2005 - Studio Artists Exhibition - Customs House Gallery. 2007 - 40 Year Retrospective Exhibition - Lavit Gallery. 2008 - Winter Exhibition - Lemonstreet Gallery. 2010 - Backwater Twenty 10 - Crawford Art Gallery. Curated by Stephen Brandes and Vera Ryan. 2010 - Impressions, National Open Print Exhibition - Galway Arts Centre. Curated by Chris Orr R.A. 2011 - Summer Exhibition - Leitrim Sculpture Centre. 2013 - Small is Beautiful, Who's afraid of Red Yellow and Blue - Flowers East Gallery, Kingsland Road, London. 2014 - 184th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy Dublin. 2015 - AIB Eigse - Visual Centre For Contemporary Art, Carlow. Curated by Lewis Biggs. 2016 - DRAW 2016 - Backwater Artists Studio's, Cork 2017 - Small is Beautiful XXXV - Flowers Central Gallery, Cork Street, London 2018 - Small is Beautiful XXXVI - Flowers Central Gallery, Cork Street, London. 2019 - Small is Beautiful XXXVII - Flowers Central Gallery, Cork Street, London. 2020 - Small is Beautiful XXXVIII - Flowers Gallery, London. 2021 - Small is Beautiful XXXIX - Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London. 2022 - In and of Itself, Abstraction in the Age of Images - RHA Gallery, Dublin. 2022 - Small is Beautiful XL - Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork These minimal, geometric paintings are non representational, concerned with reductive colour and are a series. The surfaces are built up through intense layering over time to achieve physical depth in the paintings. The layers relate to the way in which layers are built up and worn down through the natural processes of time in nature. This process also helps to create a sense of "Yugen" an Asian concept which means inexpressible depth or invisible beauty. This idea arises from the Japanese aesthetic of Wabi - Sabi which describes the inexpressible beauty which things especially natural objects attain with the passage of time. It incorporates the idea of the beauty of imperfection and irregularity or roughness and avoids ornamentation in structure.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Ada Bond Mr Wolf, 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Ada Bond (b.2002) is a London-based artist. She completed a UAL Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2021, and is currently studying BA in Fine Art: Painting at The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. An obsessive collector of moments, memories and images sourced from dark crevices of the internet, Ada creates intrinsically cryptic pieces designed to keep more secrets than they divulge. She commonly finds herself tracing unique patterns between images initially found impulsively - a photo of a discarded, wrinkled-up valentine's balloon sparks a yarn that she unintentionally spins into an all-consuming web. Her works often feature disembodied figures or animals on stark, almost velvet, black backgrounds; their subjects stare out of the darkness, trapping the unsuspecting viewer in a nightmarish exchange. When taken together, her paintings form a relational archaeology that is hard to trace - lacking a specific attempt at meaning, they gesture at the grit and debris of human experience. Education Slade School of Fine Art Select Exhibitions/Awards Recent selected exhibitions include: Winter Show, (Asylum Studios, Suffolk, 2022), Era Journal, (Crypt Gallery, London, 2022) and Good Grief, (The Old Butchers, London, 2022).   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Graeme Wilcox Porter, 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Graeme is a figurative artist who lives and works in Glasgow. His work depicts the human figure often engaged in some action or emotion, attempting to represent the strangeness and poignancy of everyday life. Education Glasgow School of Art BA (Hons) Fine Art Select Exhibitions/Awards "Looking Out" Solo Exhibition VCRB Gallery, Antwerp 2022. RA Summer Exhibition 2021. Threadneedle Prize Exhibition 2018. Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2023, 2020, 2019, 2016. Lynn Painter Stainers Prize Exhibition 2015. BP Portrait Award 2013. Ruth Borchard Portrait Award Exhibition 2013. Scottish Portrait Awards 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017. Drawing Prize at Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2016. Towry Award, painting prize at National Open Art Exhibition, Royal College of Art 2013 Gallery Representation VCRB Gallery, Antwerp Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork I often paint re-imagined portraits of people I see in the city. I look out for subjects who have clothing or an appearance that suggests a certain character.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.    

Sheila Wallis Voila le portrait sans retouche (study), 2023 Oil paint on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About I was born in Derry City in Northern Ireland. I live and work in London. I was awarded my Master's Degree in 2014 at the City and Guilds of London Art School, and won the Principal's Prize. In 2009 I won the Threadneedle Prize, the Winsor and Newton Painting / Watts Gallery Painting Prize. I won the ING Discerning Eye London and South East regional prize both in 2019 and in 2021. I bring the skills of a traditional figurative artist to a spectrum of contemporary and historical subject matter, my primary interest though, is as an image maker. My interests though wide-ranging, centre on exploring the formal and critical potential of painting and drawing. Whether through an exploration of the painterly potential of X-Ray imaging, cinematic and television stills, the tonal delicacy of the daguerreotype, or in creative reinterpretation of archival, photographic and photojournalistic sources. I occasionally accept portrait commissions and run a small private teaching practice from my London studio. Education 2014 Fine Art MA (Distinction) City and Guilds of London Art School 2009 Fine Art BA (Hons) Degree, University for the Creative Arts UK Select Exhibitions/Awards Awards: 2021 London and the South East Regional Prize, ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries London 2014 Principal's Prize City and Guilds of London Art School 2009 The Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries London Exhibitions: 2023 SFSA Drawing Open, London 2022 Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries, London 2020 Annual Exhibition of Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour, Mall Galleries, London 2020 A Change of Season, The Gallery Holt, Norfolk UK 2020 The Seventh View, C24 Gallery New York 2019 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries London. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork I selected these works (2 paintings and 2 drawings) because they are representative of my current practice. I have recently been making small life studies using a life model in preparation for large studio paintings. I have been making large life studies since 2007 and continue to be captivated. I frequently make small oil paintings from selected film-stills which begin to hint at the possibility of an alternative narrative, one that isn't actually chronicled in the film itself. The drawing of my husband's hands, and another is a depiction of an interior titled 'Room', a current subject of interest which I hope to further develop in 2023. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Lee Johnson Brompton Cemetery III, 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Lee Johnson was born in Wiltshire, and has lived and worked in London since 2000. His works are held in the collections of Soho House, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, and University of the Arts London, as well as numerous private collections worldwide (including UK, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, USA, and Australia). Lee begins by painting objects or images close to hand - the daily essentials that make us who we are. These images then take on different forms through the painting process, where the transmutation from the original object or image slowly frees the painting to become something else entirely. Lee's paintings are not strictly still lives or portraits, or pure abstractions, as they are composed in the painting of the painting. They are drawn and characterised through the process of painting, creating a soulful construct of what the object or environment could be. Education MA Fine Art from Central Saint Martins School of Art in 2001   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.    

John Stark Three Quinces, 2023 Oil on Gesso paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About John Stark emerged as an innovator in the dark undercurrent of London's contemporary art scene, integrating styles and themes from recent and past artistic traditions to form his own system of meaning. His paintings of enigmatic figures in hauntingly beautiful landscapes often reflect an ill-fated world struggling with the dissonance of spirituality, materiality, religion and science. Education John Stark graduated from Royal Academy Schools, London in 2004, and University of West England, Bristol in 2001. Select Exhibitions/Awards The artist has exhibited at the following international venues: Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London and John Moores Painting Prize - National Museums Liverpool, - Marta Herford Museum, Herford, Germany, - Berlin, Kunst Museum Bochum and Villa Jauss Kunsthaus, Oberstdorf, Germany, and The Hyundai in Seoul, South Korea. Gallery Representation CONNERSMITH, Washington DC Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork His recent still life paintings blend classical and photorealist painting techniques, resulting in a unique voice within the tradition which speaks to past and present, with clarity and simplicity.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Lara Davies It Was Too Cold Even For Me (Study), 2023 Oil and primer on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Lara Davies was born in 1985 in Wales. She lives in London and has a studio in Hackney Wick. Her work is held in both private and public collections, including the Contemporary Art Society of Wales and the AllBright Mayfair Members' Club. Education 2020-2022 - Royal College of Art, London MA in Painting 2006-2010 - Cardiff University BSc (Hons) Mathematics, Operational Research and Statistics, 1st Class 2005-2006 - Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University Select Exhibitions/Awards 2023 - Positions Part 1, group exhibition, Alma Pearl, London 2023 - Godesses (A Love Explosion), group exhibition,Terrace Gallery, London 2023 - Stage, group exhibition, LLE at Kingsgate Project Space, London 2022 - To Feel All Your Warmth, group exhibition, Warbling Collective, London 2022 - Royal College of Art Degree Show, London 2022 - Blink: Room Share 2, group exhibition, Safehouse One, London 2021 - Pleasure Scene, group exhibition, Trafalgar Avenue, London 2020 - Telling Tales/Cario Clecs, three person exhibition, BayArt Cardiff 2019 - Creekside Open 2019 Selected by Sacha Craddock 2019 - Creekside Open 2019 Selected by Brian Griffiths 2018 - John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Museum Liverpool Y You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

William Reinsch Consolation, 2023 Oil on card Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About I have been painting for approximately 8 years now. My works focus primarily on the human condition and all the ways that can be explored through paint. Education Currently studying at City and Guilds School of Art Select Exhibitions/Awards 2022 LONDON ART FAIR, the Business Design Centre, Islington, London (Art Fair) 2020 COVID CONTEMPORARY Castlegate House Gallery (Group Show) LONDON ART FAIR, the Business Design Centre, Islington, London (Art Fair) 2019 FFS Fair For Saatchi, Saatchi Gallery, Kings Road, London (Art Fair) 2017 START, Saatchi Gallery, Kings Road, London (Art Fair) 2016 Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Piccadilly, London (Group Show) The Jerusalem Tavern, Clerkenwell, London (Solo Exhibition) Gallery Representation Castlegate House Gallery Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork I have had for a while now a fascination with hands being held in consolation (not romantic necessarily). There is something I find incredibly moving in this act and after seeing family members and nurses doing this to loved ones as they've passed over or are in the process I found something significant I've wanted to depict since.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.    

Susan Preston Bath Toy Gone, 2023 Pastel and Graphite Pencil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Susan Preston is an abstract painter using oil paint and pastel. These are mobile and versatile mediums; the imagery changes through the painting process, dissolving and reforming as a layered, ambiguous space develops. Through this meditative process, the work alludes to memory traces, to the shifting spaces between presence and absence, loss and retrieval. A piece is eventually resolved when the tension between the layers and the elements on the surface draw the viewer into the space, where the painting reveals its secrets slowly; these works repay contemplation. Susan Preston has exhibited widely, including in Strasbourg and London. Her work is in collections in Europe, Asia and the USA. Select Exhibitions/Awards Solo Exhibitions (Selected) 2014, Panel Paintings, Rabley Contemporary Drawing Centre, Marlborough 2009, Farm: Structures, Forms and Surfaces, Rabley Contemporary Drawing Gallery, Marlborough, Wiltshire 2005, Works on Paper, Great Western Hospital, Swindon Paintings, Tottenham House, Savernake Group Exhibitions (Selected) 2019, The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London 2019, Campden Gallery, Glos 2018, London Art Fair, Islington; RableyDrawing Centre 2018, Collective, Swindon Museum and Art Gallery Gallery Representation Rabley Contemporary Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Often references cultural oddments in surprising relationships within the rectangle - and personal backstories.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Fa Razavi Look (3), 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Fa Razavi (b.1996, Bushehr, Iran) lives and works in London, UK. Razavi is a multi-disciplinary artist that works with film, performance and object-making as well as painting. Fa's work explores ideas and experiences of displacement and memory. Razavi's work was recently shortlisted for the Freelands Painting Prize 2022. Razavi recently graduated from Middlesex University, with a Fine Art BA (Hons). Previously, Razavi also studied Iranian Fashion and Clothes, and was a sculpture associate at Art University of Tehran. Education Middlesex University - Fine Art BA (Hons) Select Exhibitions/Awards Dancing on a Knife's Edge, Wilder Gallery (2023)   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Zafiro Storm Bizum, 2023 Oil pastels, tempera, acrylic, watercolour, oil, markers and pencil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About My relationship with art is given by the education and passion that I received from my mother's side. It was, has been and always will be the engine of my life. My childhood and adolescence were spent in a very complicated environment. After a major depression, at the age of 17, I decided to enter The School of Art. I graduated in 2001 with honors from the EADT of Catalonia in the specialty of Jewelry Design (1996-2001) Obtaining Honors in the Final Degree Project for "La Escuela Llotja de Barcelona" (School that evaluates all artistic careers in Catalonia, Spain). The same year, 2001, I was the winner of the Illustrious "FAD JEWELRY AWARD" in Barcelona. After obtaining the FAD award, I was selected by BARNAJOYA and the FAD Awards to exhibit at "The BARNAJOYA International Jewelry Fair" 2001. Two years later, in 2003, the DDI (Department of Design and Innovation of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Spain) selected me among the best designers, including me in their guide. My collaborations with artists took place years before, as was the case with the international sculptor Rufino Mesa, with whom I collaborated years before. In 2006 I was part of "NECRO-LITOS" of the como visual artist. For personal reasons. I spent a few years away from art in general, and from my career as a jewelry designer. It was in 2010 when I returned, internationally with my first painting exhibition "The PRINTED FOOTPRINT" at "Art House Gallery and Studios", Brooklyn, NY. I resumed my collaborations as a visual artist in 2015, this time, a participant in "El Milagro" of the international artist Abel Azcona at "The Gray Square Gallery", Spain. And, once again, I was summoned to participate in "DES-ENTERRADOS" by Abel Azcona, curated by Marisol Salanova in the Art Gallery "Conde de Rodezno" Spain in the same year 2015. That same year, I participated in "The 30th Anniversary of the BMW Painting Awards" in Madrid, with the portrait exhibition "FOUR ROOMS" I was interviewed for the Cultural Magazine "ACENTO CULTURAL" in Madrid that same year, 2015, for my artistic career as an internationally renowned artist. interview from which echoed Fahrenheit Magazine, Mexico D.F, publishing my Painting Series in the press "Anthropomorphous". In 2018 I was selected to exhibit the artistic installation FEC (these are the initials of the chemotherapy I received) in the "REG-ARTE" Contest, with the collaboration and within the Malaga Film Festival -MAF-Málaga. Two years later, Saatchi Gallery selected me as a featured artist in the "Saatchi Take Over" competition, London, UK in 2020. In 2021, I became part of the art gallery "Maison Contemporain Gallery" in Paris with my artworks "War Diary". In 2022 I became part of the Perdomo Gallery art gallery in Miami with my artworks "La Triada Combustible". Currently, I am part of the group show CON Spring Edition'23 at the Circle of None art gallery, London and to my delight, I have been selected by Gemma Peppe to be part of the group exhibition of Art on a Postcard Summer Auction 2023, London Exhibition in which I feel honored to participate, for its vital significance, and the great help to the community that is dealing with Hepatitis C. Education Graduated with Honors in Arts and Design specializing in Artistic Jewelry Design from EADT, Catalonia, Spain. (1996-2001) Honors in the Revalidation and Final Degree Project by the "Escuela Llotja" Barcelona, Spain. (2001) Select Exhibitions/Awards Exhibition with "La HUELLA IMPRESA" in the Art House Gallery and Studios, Brooklyn, NY. 2010 Participation in "El Miracle" by the International artist Abel Azcona at The Grey Square Gallery, Catalonia, Spain. 2015 Participation as "DES-ENTERRADOS" by Abel Azcona and Curated by Marisol Salanova at The Art Gallery Conde de Rodezno, Pamplona, Spain. 2015 Participation in The 30th Anniversary BMW Painting Awards, Madrid, Spain. 2015 Interview for the Cultural Magazine "ACENTO CULTURAL" Madrid, Spain. 2015 Press publication in "Fahrenheit Magazine" of the ANTHROPOMORPHE Series Mexico D.F. 2015 Exhibition of the Painting Series, "LA QUE NO TIENE NOMBRE II" (The One with no name II") at The Gallery PÓPULO CADIZ, Spain. FEBRUARY-APRIL, 2017 Exhibition with the artistic installation "FEC" in the ´ REG-ARTE´ Contest, with the collaboration of the Malaga Film Festival -MAF- MALAGA, Spain. APRIL, 2018 Exhibition with the Artistic Exclusive Series Painting "War Diary ·War Portraits/Ukrainian Cities Invaded" at Maison Contemporain Gallery PARIS, France. 2021-2023 Exhibition with the Artistic Exclusive Series Painting "War Diary ·War Portraits/Ukrainian Cities Invaded" at Perdomo Gallery MIAMI. 2022-2023 Exhibition with the CIRCLE OF NONE art gallery in London in the show group CON Spring Edition 2023 Gallery Representation MAISON CONTEMPORAIN / PERDOMO GALLERY / CIRCLE OF NONE Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork My work deals with various political issues such as the energy crisis, climate change, the current Central European war and its derivatives. For the series created, especially for AOAP, I have highlighted the most activist part of the speech. I have shown more clearly the dimension of the female character, the girl. With traits that illuminate the discourse of abuse, protection and the empowerment of reason, but since creation. From the female drive. The one that lies in the exact balance between the rational and the creative. The one that is established whole and without fissures. A character who up to now has lived in harmony with the rest of the work, but who is now shown on the scene and points to the viewer. There are four titles: MY LIMITS, a work that makes use of nature as a protective and defensive barrier. Beauty and strength go together without questioning their symbiosis. I show myself, I am. Full. But I know my true beauty. And that beauty is my limits BIZUM, a work that talks about the immediacy of the use and consequently the abuse of everything that is within our reach. The characters in the play laugh mischievously, in a relaxed but expectant attitude. You could say they are ready. ATOMIC, a work that speaks of the potential and high management capacities in complex situations Change our anatomy and adapt to the environment. Turn our ballast (decayed flower) into a soccer ball with which to strengthen our drive towards better results. PLAY HIDE with THE ELEPHANT in the ROOM talks about the fact of playing hide and seek before such an important issue as evidence. The climate crisis. And playing hide and seek with the elephant in the room is not wanting to see the evidence. If we summarize the language, we find ourselves again, before a type of mistreatment, disaffection and ignorance.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.    

Robin Dixon Five Figure Looking, 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Robin Dixon lives & works in Gravesend & London Education Studied at Maidstone College of Art (KIAD), Fine Art - Painting BA (Hons) Degree Select Exhibitions/Awards He has exhibited in group shows in the U.K and internationally, being selected for the John Moores Painting Prize exhibition (2014) & the Jerwood Painting Prize (2007). Recent exhibitions include An Exhibition of Small Things with Big Ideas, White Conduit Projects (2023), The Wild Thought, Sugar Cube II & Lido Stores Open (2022), the Wells Art Contemporary Open (2022) The Turner Contemporary Open (2022) The Immaculate Dream, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London (2019) Solitudes and Seasons, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge (2019). Gallery Representation Currently showing work at Lido Stores Gallery, Margate Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork I often work on a series of paintings. These paintings form part of a series I have been working on using found images of figures from old photographs. I particularly enjoy focusing on those combinations which have a rhythm, movement and interaction between them. I might piece these together as a means of describing space and depth in a scene.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Timothy Gatenby Untitled, 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Tim Gatenby's popular culture parodies often combining classical with modern imagery to create humorous paintings. His work uses examines art histories' relationship with the Internet world we now inhabit. There is a twisted nostalgia to Gatenby's paintings. His work subverts not only through subject matter, but also through technique. Gatenby distorts familiar characters, typically drawn as brightly-coloured and crisp cartoons, by blurring lines between classical painting and modern imagery. As with a lot of appropriation art his work inherently says something about its time as it reflects collective imagery back onto society, reanalysing information in a sort of mirror. Often combining deconstructed cartoon characters with dark humour, his images reflect the pressures of consumerism and modern societal tendency towards over indulgence. Fast food is an ever present theme in Gatenby's work and is used as a vehicle to convey the easiness of modern life. The radical notion that never has becoming obese required less effort. Despite the darkness found in the various styles and themes explored in Gatenby's work, there are often playful, idiosyncratic moments that crop up, as if for his own amusement as much as the viewer's. A joke or pun can be found through a depicted object seen out of place, or an expectation subverted by an oddity, giving the work a comedic touch of the absurd to cleverly contrast the heaviness found elsewhere. Education He studied a BA in film at Queen Mary University before undertaking the rigorous atelier programme at Charles Cecil Studios, Florence. Select Exhibitions/Awards 2016 Affordable Art Fair, Northcote Gallery, Battersea, London Chelsea Art Society, Chelsea Town Hall, London The Many Faces of a Narcissist, St Mark's Church, Florence Technicians Make it Happen, Mall Galleries, London 2015 Affordable Art Fair, Northcote Gallery, Battersea, London Emerging Artists, Oil&Water Gallery, London Chelsea Art Society, Chelsea Town Hall, London New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London Human Form, Oil&Water Gallery, London 2014 Sargent Today, Morgan, Fairford Emerging Artists. Oil & Water Gallery, London Broadway Arts Festival Competition, Little Buckland Gallery, Broadway   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Corinna Button Now It's My Turn IV, 2023 Oil and mixed media on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.)   About After completing a BA honours degree in painting, I pursued a printmaking postgraduate degree in the UK, where I am from. It was during this time that I was impacted by the German Expressionists, whose works, particularly in printmaking, left an indelible impression on me. I dedicated many subsequent years to developing my work in etching and other forms of printmaking. Today, printmaking continues to be a medium that intrigues me and is hugely influential in the way I approach my painting and sculpture. People are the subjects of my work and I am intrigued by moments that, despite initially appearing quite commonplace, are (for me) charged with great significance and meaning. My inspiration is drawn from experiences or predicaments I encounter in daily life, such as social gatherings, images from social media and words from a song or a poem. All these generate ideas for themes that I can build upon, "dress-up" and weave into my work. I compose figures either in groupings or as a single figure or just a face. My aim is not to create exact likenesses, but rather to create prototypical or archetypal figures whose personality or identity is both partly exposed and partly hidden beneath the surface. Everything about the way I work (both technique and subject) is motivated by the desire to reveal or "bring something to light." Thus, my process involves layering then scraping back, building then excavating; otherwise, peeling back layers to "carve out" and reveal something hidden beneath the surface. Select Exhibitions/Awards Selected Solo Shows 2020 Caught in a Fast Lane - Cupola Gallery, Sheffield UK 2017 Interfaces' - Hyde Park Arts Centre, Chicago (Featuring sculpture, printmaking and painting) Media made Great, Chicago 'Caught in an act II '(Featuring sculpture, printmaking and painting) 2016 Caught in the Act Cupola Gallery, Sheffield UK Watching you, watching me Sculpture and painting. Pistachio, Chicago 2014 Moments of Being, Gallery C, Dubuque, IA, USA University of Illinois, ULC Health in the Arts clinic, Chicago USA Specially Selected Exhibitions 2023 & 2020 Royal Academy Summer Show, London 2020 & 2019 ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London 2020 In Print; 20/20 Vision: Watts Contemporary, Watts Gallery Artists' Village, Surrey 2019 The Prince's Trust Auction, Highgrove House, Doughton, Gloucestershire. 2019 'Not Just Another Pretty Face', Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago. USA 2019 International Open Juried exhibition of Original Prints, 'NOPE' Bankside Gallery, London. 2017 Shakespeare: A celebration, Kwan Fong Gallery of Art and Culture, California, USA 2015 Chicago Invasion, Blue Rider Gallery, Taipei, - Taiwan 2015 Artress, Research House for Asian Art, Chicago, USA 2015 Elmhurst Museum; Artists Interpret Shakespeare, USA Collections The Victoria and Albert Museum, London Jiangsu Art Museum, China Ashmolean Museum Oxford BBC Sheffield Castle Lesley, Ireland University of Aberystwyth, Wales   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Chris Stevens Adams, 2023 Oil on linen Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Chris Stevens studied Fine Art at the University of Reading. He is a figurative painter who has exhibited regularly since graduating in 1978. His studio is in the South of France where he spends most of his time. His solo exhibitions include the PM Gallery, London, Smelik & Stokking and Galerie Rademakers in Amsterdam, the GlynnVivian Museum & Art Gallery, Swansea and the Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff. Group shows include REALITY, with artists such as Lucien Freud, David Hockney and Walter Sickert, Fussball in Der Kunst, with Andy Warhol and Marcus Lupertz in Germany, the BP Portrait Award at the National Gallery London, and Heads at Flowers East, London. He has been a prize winner in the BP Portrait Award, 50 over 50 and more recently in the Painted Faces exhibition organised by the Saatchi Gallery. He has also undertaken Arts Council residencies at Sunderland Football Club and Birmingham International Airport. He has work in public and private collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum, The National Gallery of Wales, Unilever, Galerija Portreta, Bosnia & Hertzegovena and many private collections in UK, South Africa, USA and Europe. Education University of Reading, Fine Art Select Exhibitions/Awards   2022. Art Contemporain, EXPO Internationale Maison Gramont, Fanjeaux, France Amplitudes, Maison de la Chartité, Caunes Minervois, France Affinities, L'Ecurie, Caunes Minervois, France La Table Des Vignirons, Trausse Minervois, France 2021. Painting of the year, EuropArtFair, Westergas, Amsterdam Major Figures, Saatchi Art. 2020 du 9 à Caunes, Caveaux de l'Abbaye, Caunes Minervois, France   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.    

Sam Branton Aquarium, 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) Education Norwich School of Art and Design Select Exhibitions/Awards 2021 Fauna Rampant, James Freeman Gallery, London (solo show) 2018 Makers of Marks, James Freeman Gallery, London 2017 Deluge, Prema Arts Centre, Uley (solo show) 2016 Primordial Soup, James Freeman Gallery, London 2011 Voyages Extraordinaires, James Freeman Gallery, London 2009 Metro-Land, curated by the Flora Fairbairn Projects, Merriscourt farm, Oxford 2008 Whispers of Immortality, Natalia Goldin Gallery, Stockholm 2008 Faux pas de deux, Signal Gallery, London 2008 Get the Lead Out, Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles 2008 Hollywood Apocalypse, Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles Gallery Representation James Freeman Gallery Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork The painting is inspired by the Rococo painter Jean Baptiste Oudry and his depictions of wildlife in pastoral settings. The painting shows a glimpse of a fantastical ferine Garden of Eden that has been overrun with wild animals in surreal and mischievous adventures, with mystified exotic birds encountering confused strange fish, set amongst a warm pastoral glow.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Katarina Holbrough Winded Moth, 2023 Oil and thread on canvas paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.)   About Currently living and working in Toronto, Ontario. A mixed media artist, working primarily with oil paints, collaging different spaces together. Recently graduating from OCAD University, May 2023, with an Honors Bachelor of Fine Art Degree. Often, her work plays with both painting and installation to envelop a space; exploring liminal spaces, community connections, and imagined worlds. Her latest series uses the amalgamation of different frames and moments to create a tapestry of stories that describe the generational knowledge and relationship that continues through community. Education 2019 Diploma, Art Foundations, Humber College, Tkoronto, On 2022, Certificate, Marketing, UFT Rotman Business School, Tkoronto, On 2023, BFA, Criticism and Curatorial Practices with a Minor in Painting, OCAD University, Toronto, ON Select Exhibitions/Awards 2023 Why Do You Create?, VAM, Mississauga, ON GradEx 108 2023, OCAD U, Toronto, ON Art On A Postcard, AOAP, London, UK 2022 Partial Gallery OCAD U Showcase, Partial Gallery, Toronto, ON Metamorphosis, The Great Hall, OCAD U, Toronto, ON Riverdale Artwalk, Artist Network, Toronto, ON 2019 Art à la Carte, Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Toronto, ON Landscape Show, J.E.H Macdonald's House, Vaughan, ON PUBLICATIONS 2023 Addition Magazine, Issue 1 Gallery Representation Partial Gallery, Toronto, ON Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork My work collages images of people that are close to me with imagery of animals. The people are situated in a temporal, liminal space with black and white giclée photography cut and sewn, suspended in this imaginary space. While based on a photo, each piece is adapted to build the relationship between the audience and the figure. With this work, I am playing with imagery and how I interact with the community that surrounds me.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Katarina Holbrough Winding Snakes, 2023 Oil and thread on canvas paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.)   About Currently living and working in Toronto, Ontario. A mixed media artist, working primarily with oil paints, collaging different spaces together. Recently graduating from OCAD University, May 2023, with an Honors Bachelor of Fine Art Degree. Often, her work plays with both painting and installation to envelop a space; exploring liminal spaces, community connections, and imagined worlds. Her latest series uses the amalgamation of different frames and moments to create a tapestry of stories that describe the generational knowledge and relationship that continues through community. Education 2019 Diploma, Art Foundations, Humber College, Tkoronto, On 2022, Certificate, Marketing, UFT Rotman Business School, Tkoronto, On 2023, BFA, Criticism and Curatorial Practices with a Minor in Painting, OCAD University, Toronto, ON Select Exhibitions/Awards 2023 Why Do You Create?, VAM, Mississauga, ON GradEx 108 2023, OCAD U, Toronto, ON Art On A Postcard, AOAP, London, UK 2022 Partial Gallery OCAD U Showcase, Partial Gallery, Toronto, ON Metamorphosis, The Great Hall, OCAD U, Toronto, ON Riverdale Artwalk, Artist Network, Toronto, ON 2019 Art à la Carte, Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Toronto, ON Landscape Show, J.E.H Macdonald's House, Vaughan, ON PUBLICATIONS 2023 Addition Magazine, Issue 1 Gallery Representation Partial Gallery, Toronto, ON Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork My work collages images of people that are close to me with imagery of animals. The people are situated in a temporal, liminal space with black and white giclée photography cut and sewn, suspended in this imaginary space. While based on a photo, each piece is adapted to build the relationship between the audience and the figure. With this work, I am playing with imagery and how I interact with the community that surrounds me.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Anna Maria Schönrock Green Woodpecker, 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About If one understands figuration and abstraction as two possible poles between which contemporary painterly practices can move, then Anna Maria Schönrock chooses a space in between, a third way, a back door - a form of transition between the two poles that is always in the making. The forms either dissolve through the application of paint - towards abstraction - or peel out through the application of paint - towards figuration. Painting thus becomes an experimental arrangement, similar to a research trip or an experimental arrangement, where the approximate goal is fixed but the path is not yet clear (...) Text by Ann-Kathrin Eichhoff Education 2008 - 2014 Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg / Fine Arts with focus on painting, class of Prof. Ralph Fleck Select Exhibitions/Awards 2023 - The stage is yours (solo) - Karpuchina Gallery, Prague 2022 - Outside the line, z2o Gallery Sara Zanin, Rome 2021 - Raum für Malerei - Kunstmuseum Erlangen 2020- Unstable grounds, Galeriehaus Nord e.V. (solo) 2018- Le bruit - Kunstverein Kohlenhof e.V., Nürnberg (solo) 2017 - Small, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London Gallery Representation Purdy & Hicks Gallery, London Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork The works submitted for AOAP show two central European birds - two woodpeckers - birds are a recurring motif in my work reflecting a fascination for nature and a preoccupation with the conflict of the human-nature relationship.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Corinna Button From A Distance, 2023 Oil and mixed media on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About After completing a BA honours degree in painting, I pursued a printmaking postgraduate degree in the UK, where I am from. It was during this time that I was impacted by the German Expressionists, whose works, particularly in printmaking, left an indelible impression on me. I dedicated many subsequent years to developing my work in etching and other forms of printmaking. Today, printmaking continues to be a medium that intrigues me and is hugely influential in the way I approach my painting and sculpture. People are the subjects of my work and I am intrigued by moments that, despite initially appearing quite commonplace, are (for me) charged with great significance and meaning. My inspiration is drawn from experiences or predicaments I encounter in daily life, such as social gatherings, images from social media and words from a song or a poem. All these generate ideas for themes that I can build upon, "dress-up" and weave into my work. I compose figures either in groupings or as a single figure or just a face. My aim is not to create exact likenesses, but rather to create prototypical or archetypal figures whose personality or identity is both partly exposed and partly hidden beneath the surface. Everything about the way I work (both technique and subject) is motivated by the desire to reveal or "bring something to light." Thus, my process involves layering then scraping back, building then excavating; otherwise, peeling back layers to "carve out" and reveal something hidden beneath the surface. Select Exhibitions/Awards Selected Solo Shows 2020 Caught in a Fast Lane - Cupola Gallery, Sheffield UK 2017 Interfaces' - Hyde Park Arts Centre, Chicago (Featuring sculpture, printmaking and painting) Media made Great, Chicago 'Caught in an act II '(Featuring sculpture, printmaking and painting) 2016 Caught in the Act Cupola Gallery, Sheffield UK Watching you, watching me Sculpture and painting. Pistachio, Chicago 2014 Moments of Being, Gallery C, Dubuque, IA, USA University of Illinois, ULC Health in the Arts clinic, Chicago USA Specially Selected Exhibitions 2023 & 2020 Royal Academy Summer Show, London 2020 & 2019 ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London 2020 In Print; 20/20 Vision: Watts Contemporary, Watts Gallery Artists' Village, Surrey 2019 The Prince's Trust Auction, Highgrove House, Doughton, Gloucestershire. 2019 'Not Just Another Pretty Face', Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago. USA 2019 International Open Juried exhibition of Original Prints, 'NOPE' Bankside Gallery, London. 2017 Shakespeare: A celebration, Kwan Fong Gallery of Art and Culture, California, USA 2015 Chicago Invasion, Blue Rider Gallery, Taipei, - Taiwan 2015 Artress, Research House for Asian Art, Chicago, USA 2015 Elmhurst Museum; Artists Interpret Shakespeare, USA Collections The Victoria and Albert Museum, London Jiangsu Art Museum, China Ashmolean Museum Oxford BBC Sheffield Castle Lesley, Ireland University of Aberystwyth, Wales   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Coral Harding Ember, 2023 Oil on Wood Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Coral Harding (b. 2001, London) is an artist currently in her third year of undergraduate studies at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. She studied her Art Foundation at Central Saint Martins. Coral examines the impression of awe and the psychology of perception. She is interested in the exploration and creation of space, and the ability to change the way space is experienced. Working with the material properties of light, she creates work in the forms of sculpture, painting, print and drawing to investigate the way light is both ephemeral and solid and has the power to illuminate and reveal while simultaneously being obscure. Education 2019 - 2020 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at Central Saint Martins (Currently studying) BA Fine Art at Slade School of Fine Art UCL 2020 - 2024 Select Exhibitions/Awards 2022 - Dwelling - Group Exhibition, Brent Cross Centre, London. 2022 - JUICEBOX - Group Exhibition, RuptureXIBIT, Kingston. 2022 - Colour/Pigment/Poetry - Online Exhibition, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL 2022 - FISHTANK - Group Exhibition, Penarth Centre, Bermondsey. 2021 - 'Obscured' at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. The Royal Academy of Arts. Selected by Yinka Shonibare.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Lee Johnson Brompton Cemetery I, 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Lee Johnson was born in Wiltshire, and has lived and worked in London since 2000. His works are held in the collections of Soho House, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, and University of the Arts London, as well as numerous private collections worldwide (including UK, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, USA, and Australia). Lee begins by painting objects or images close to hand - the daily essentials that make us who we are. These images then take on different forms through the painting process, where the transmutation from the original object or image slowly frees the painting to become something else entirely. Lee's paintings are not strictly still lives or portraits, or pure abstractions, as they are composed in the painting of the painting. They are drawn and characterised through the process of painting, creating a soulful construct of what the object or environment could be. Education MA Fine Art from Central Saint Martins School of Art in 2001   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Sheila Wallis Study of a foot, 2023 Oil paint on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About I was born in Derry City in Northern Ireland. I live and work in London. I was awarded my Master's Degree in 2014 at the City and Guilds of London Art School, and won the Principal's Prize. In 2009 I won the Threadneedle Prize, the Winsor and Newton Painting / Watts Gallery Painting Prize. I won the ING Discerning Eye London and South East regional prize both in 2019 and in 2021. I bring the skills of a traditional figurative artist to a spectrum of contemporary and historical subject matter, my primary interest though, is as an image maker. My interests though wide-ranging, centre on exploring the formal and critical potential of painting and drawing. Whether through an exploration of the painterly potential of X-Ray imaging, cinematic and television stills, the tonal delicacy of the daguerreotype, or in creative reinterpretation of archival, photographic and photojournalistic sources. I occasionally accept portrait commissions and run a small private teaching practice from my London studio. Education 2014 Fine Art MA (Distinction) City and Guilds of London Art School 2009 Fine Art BA (Hons) Degree, University for the Creative Arts UK Select Exhibitions/Awards Awards: 2021 London and the South East Regional Prize, ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries London 2014 Principal's Prize City and Guilds of London Art School 2009 The Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries London Exhibitions: 2023 SFSA Drawing Open, London 2022 Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries, London 2020 Annual Exhibition of Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour, Mall Galleries, London 2020 A Change of Season, The Gallery Holt, Norfolk UK 2020 The Seventh View, C24 Gallery New York 2019 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries London. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork I selected these works (2 paintings and 2 drawings) because they are representative of my current practice. I have recently been making small life studies using a life model in preparation for large studio paintings. I have been making large life studies since 2007 and continue to be captivated. I frequently make small oil paintings from selected film-stills which begin to hint at the possibility of an alternative narrative, one that isn't actually chronicled in the film itself. The drawing of my husband's hands, and another is a depiction of an interior titled 'Room', a current subject of interest which I hope to further develop in 2023. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Lee Johnson Brompton Cemetery II, 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Lee Johnson was born in Wiltshire, and has lived and worked in London since 2000. His works are held in the collections of Soho House, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, and University of the Arts London, as well as numerous private collections worldwide (including UK, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, USA, and Australia). Lee begins by painting objects or images close to hand - the daily essentials that make us who we are. These images then take on different forms through the painting process, where the transmutation from the original object or image slowly frees the painting to become something else entirely. Lee's paintings are not strictly still lives or portraits, or pure abstractions, as they are composed in the painting of the painting. They are drawn and characterised through the process of painting, creating a soulful construct of what the object or environment could be. Education MA Fine Art from Central Saint Martins School of Art in 2001   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Zafiro Storm 'Play Hide' with 'The Elephant in the Room', 2023 Oil pastels, tempera, acrylic, watercolour and markers on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About My relationship with art is given by the education and passion that I received from my mother's side. It was, has been and always will be the engine of my life. My childhood and adolescence were spent in a very complicated environment. After a major depression, at the age of 17, I decided to enter The School of Art. I graduated in 2001 with honors from the EADT of Catalonia in the specialty of Jewelry Design (1996-2001) Obtaining Honors in the Final Degree Project for "La Escuela Llotja de Barcelona" (School that evaluates all artistic careers in Catalonia, Spain). The same year, 2001, I was the winner of the Illustrious "FAD JEWELRY AWARD" in Barcelona. After obtaining the FAD award, I was selected by BARNAJOYA and the FAD Awards to exhibit at "The BARNAJOYA International Jewelry Fair" 2001. Two years later, in 2003, the DDI (Department of Design and Innovation of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Spain) selected me among the best designers, including me in their guide. My collaborations with artists took place years before, as was the case with the international sculptor Rufino Mesa, with whom I collaborated years before. In 2006 I was part of "NECRO-LITOS" of the como visual artist. For personal reasons. I spent a few years away from art in general, and from my career as a jewelry designer. It was in 2010 when I returned, internationally with my first painting exhibition "The PRINTED FOOTPRINT" at "Art House Gallery and Studios", Brooklyn, NY. I resumed my collaborations as a visual artist in 2015, this time, a participant in "El Milagro" of the international artist Abel Azcona at "The Gray Square Gallery", Spain. And, once again, I was summoned to participate in "DES-ENTERRADOS" by Abel Azcona, curated by Marisol Salanova in the Art Gallery "Conde de Rodezno" Spain in the same year 2015. That same year, I participated in "The 30th Anniversary of the BMW Painting Awards" in Madrid, with the portrait exhibition "FOUR ROOMS" I was interviewed for the Cultural Magazine "ACENTO CULTURAL" in Madrid that same year, 2015, for my artistic career as an internationally renowned artist. interview from which echoed Fahrenheit Magazine, Mexico D.F, publishing my Painting Series in the press "Anthropomorphous". In 2018 I was selected to exhibit the artistic installation FEC (these are the initials of the chemotherapy I received) in the "REG-ARTE" Contest, with the collaboration and within the Malaga Film Festival -MAF-Málaga. Two years later, Saatchi Gallery selected me as a featured artist in the "Saatchi Take Over" competition, London, UK in 2020. In 2021, I became part of the art gallery "Maison Contemporain Gallery" in Paris with my artworks "War Diary". In 2022 I became part of the Perdomo Gallery art gallery in Miami with my artworks "La Triada Combustible". Currently, I am part of the group show CON Spring Edition'23 at the Circle of None art gallery, London and to my delight, I have been selected by Gemma Peppe to be part of the group exhibition of Art on a Postcard Summer Auction 2023, London Exhibition in which I feel honored to participate, for its vital significance, and the great help to the community that is dealing with Hepatitis C. Education Graduated with Honors in Arts and Design specializing in Artistic Jewelry Design from EADT, Catalonia, Spain. (1996-2001) Honors in the Revalidation and Final Degree Project by the "Escuela Llotja" Barcelona, Spain. (2001) Select Exhibitions/Awards Exhibition with "La HUELLA IMPRESA" in the Art House Gallery and Studios, Brooklyn, NY. 2010 Participation in "El Miracle" by the International artist Abel Azcona at The Grey Square Gallery, Catalonia, Spain. 2015 Participation as "DES-ENTERRADOS" by Abel Azcona and Curated by Marisol Salanova at The Art Gallery Conde de Rodezno, Pamplona, Spain. 2015 Participation in The 30th Anniversary BMW Painting Awards, Madrid, Spain. 2015 Interview for the Cultural Magazine "ACENTO CULTURAL" Madrid, Spain. 2015 Press publication in "Fahrenheit Magazine" of the ANTHROPOMORPHE Series Mexico D.F. 2015 Exhibition of the Painting Series, "LA QUE NO TIENE NOMBRE II" (The One with no name II") at The Gallery PÓPULO CADIZ, Spain. FEBRUARY-APRIL, 2017 Exhibition with the artistic installation "FEC" in the ´ REG-ARTE´ Contest, with the collaboration of the Malaga Film Festival -MAF- MALAGA, Spain. APRIL, 2018 Exhibition with the Artistic Exclusive Series Painting "War Diary ·War Portraits/Ukrainian Cities Invaded" at Maison Contemporain Gallery PARIS, France. 2021-2023 Exhibition with the Artistic Exclusive Series Painting "War Diary ·War Portraits/Ukrainian Cities Invaded" at Perdomo Gallery MIAMI. 2022-2023 Exhibition with the CIRCLE OF NONE art gallery in London in the show group CON Spring Edition 2023 Gallery Representation MAISON CONTEMPORAIN / PERDOMO GALLERY / CIRCLE OF NONE Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork My work deals with various political issues such as the energy crisis, climate change, the current Central European war and its derivatives. For the series created, especially for AOAP, I have highlighted the most activist part of the speech. I have shown more clearly the dimension of the female character, the girl. With traits that illuminate the discourse of abuse, protection and the empowerment of reason, but since creation. From the female drive. The one that lies in the exact balance between the rational and the creative. The one that is established whole and without fissures. A character who up to now has lived in harmony with the rest of the work, but who is now shown on the scene and points to the viewer. There are four titles: MY LIMITS, a work that makes use of nature as a protective and defensive barrier. Beauty and strength go together without questioning their symbiosis. I show myself, I am. Full. But I know my true beauty. And that beauty is my limits BIZUM, a work that talks about the immediacy of the use and consequently the abuse of everything that is within our reach. The characters in the play laugh mischievously, in a relaxed but expectant attitude. You could say they are ready. ATOMIC, a work that speaks of the potential and high management capacities in complex situations Change our anatomy and adapt to the environment. Turn our ballast (decayed flower) into a soccer ball with which to strengthen our drive towards better results. PLAY HIDE with THE ELEPHANT in the ROOM talks about the fact of playing hide and seek before such an important issue as evidence. The climate crisis. And playing hide and seek with the elephant in the room is not wanting to see the evidence. If we summarize the language, we find ourselves again, before a type of mistreatment, disaffection and ignorance.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.      

Graeme Wilcox Dandy, 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Graeme is a figurative artist who lives and works in Glasgow. His work depicts the human figure often engaged in some action or emotion, attempting to represent the strangeness and poignancy of everyday life. Education Glasgow School of Art BA (Hons) Fine Art Select Exhibitions/Awards "Looking Out" Solo Exhibition VCRB Gallery, Antwerp 2022. RA Summer Exhibition 2021. Threadneedle Prize Exhibition 2018. Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2023, 2020, 2019, 2016. Lynn Painter Stainers Prize Exhibition 2015. BP Portrait Award 2013. Ruth Borchard Portrait Award Exhibition 2013. Scottish Portrait Awards 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017. Drawing Prize at Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2016. Towry Award, painting prize at National Open Art Exhibition, Royal College of Art 2013 Gallery Representation VCRB Gallery, Antwerp Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork I often paint re-imagined portraits of people I see in the city. I look out for subjects who have clothing or an appearance that suggests a certain character.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.    

Lee Johnson Brompton Cemetery IV, 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Lee Johnson was born in Wiltshire, and has lived and worked in London since 2000. His works are held in the collections of Soho House, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, and University of the Arts London, as well as numerous private collections worldwide (including UK, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, USA, and Australia). Lee begins by painting objects or images close to hand - the daily essentials that make us who we are. These images then take on different forms through the painting process, where the transmutation from the original object or image slowly frees the painting to become something else entirely. Lee's paintings are not strictly still lives or portraits, or pure abstractions, as they are composed in the painting of the painting. They are drawn and characterised through the process of painting, creating a soulful construct of what the object or environment could be. Education MA Fine Art from Central Saint Martins School of Art in 2001   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Susan Ryder The Gothic Window, 2023 Pencil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About My father was an amateur painter, so I borrowed his oil paints from the age of 13. He was my greatest influence with his love of the Impressionists and then I discovered Vermeer and Vuillard through my inspirational art school teacher Bernard Dunstan RA. I was elected a member of the New English Art Club and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. I was Vice President of The RP from 2002 to 2008. I have been commissioned to paint a wide range of people, most notably in 1981, commissioned by the then Prince of Wales, H.R.H. The Princess of Wales in her wedding dress and in 1997, H.M.The Queen, to celebrate the Royal Automobile Club's Centenary. Although, as you can see from this site, most of my portraits are of less well known people. My Interiors are mostly sold at exhibitions - either with the New English Art Club or through other galleries and dealers. My London gallery is Panter and Hall where I hold solo exhibitions every four years - "Lamplight and Flowers" in 2016, "Looking Through" in 2020 and my next solo exhibition will be in 2024. Education 1960-1964: Byam Shaw School of Painting in London   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Sheila Wallis Room 2023, 2023 Pencil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About I was born in Derry City in Northern Ireland. I live and work in London. I was awarded my Master's Degree in 2014 at the City and Guilds of London Art School, and won the Principal's Prize. In 2009 I won the Threadneedle Prize, the Winsor and Newton Painting / Watts Gallery Painting Prize. I won the ING Discerning Eye London and South East regional prize both in 2019 and in 2021. I bring the skills of a traditional figurative artist to a spectrum of contemporary and historical subject matter, my primary interest though, is as an image maker. My interests though wide-ranging, centre on exploring the formal and critical potential of painting and drawing. Whether through an exploration of the painterly potential of X-Ray imaging, cinematic and television stills, the tonal delicacy of the daguerreotype, or in creative reinterpretation of archival, photographic and photojournalistic sources. I occasionally accept portrait commissions and run a small private teaching practice from my London studio. Education 2014 Fine Art MA (Distinction) City and Guilds of London Art School 2009 Fine Art BA (Hons) Degree, University for the Creative Arts UK Select Exhibitions/Awards Awards: 2021 London and the South East Regional Prize, ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries London 2014 Principal's Prize City and Guilds of London Art School 2009 The Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries London Exhibitions: 2023 SFSA Drawing Open, London 2022 Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries, London 2020 Annual Exhibition of Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour, Mall Galleries, London 2020 A Change of Season, The Gallery Holt, Norfolk UK 2020 The Seventh View, C24 Gallery New York 2019 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries London. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork I selected these works (2 paintings and 2 drawings) because they are representative of my current practice. I have recently been making small life studies using a life model in preparation for large studio paintings. I have been making large life studies since 2007 and continue to be captivated. I frequently make small oil paintings from selected film-stills which begin to hint at the possibility of an alternative narrative, one that isn't actually chronicled in the film itself. The drawing of my husband's hands, and another is a depiction of an interior titled 'Room', a current subject of interest which I hope to further develop in 2023. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Corinna Button 1N Transit II, 2023 Oil and mixed media on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About After completing a BA honours degree in painting, I pursued a printmaking postgraduate degree in the UK, where I am from. It was during this time that I was impacted by the German Expressionists, whose works, particularly in printmaking, left an indelible impression on me. I dedicated many subsequent years to developing my work in etching and other forms of printmaking. Today, printmaking continues to be a medium that intrigues me and is hugely influential in the way I approach my painting and sculpture. People are the subjects of my work and I am intrigued by moments that, despite initially appearing quite commonplace, are (for me) charged with great significance and meaning. My inspiration is drawn from experiences or predicaments I encounter in daily life, such as social gatherings, images from social media and words from a song or a poem. All these generate ideas for themes that I can build upon, "dress-up" and weave into my work. I compose figures either in groupings or as a single figure or just a face. My aim is not to create exact likenesses, but rather to create prototypical or archetypal figures whose personality or identity is both partly exposed and partly hidden beneath the surface. Everything about the way I work (both technique and subject) is motivated by the desire to reveal or "bring something to light." Thus, my process involves layering then scraping back, building then excavating; otherwise, peeling back layers to "carve out" and reveal something hidden beneath the surface. Select Exhibitions/Awards Selected Solo Shows 2020 Caught in a Fast Lane - Cupola Gallery, Sheffield UK 2017 Interfaces' - Hyde Park Arts Centre, Chicago (Featuring sculpture, printmaking and painting) Media made Great, Chicago 'Caught in an act II '(Featuring sculpture, printmaking and painting) 2016 Caught in the Act Cupola Gallery, Sheffield UK Watching you, watching me Sculpture and painting. Pistachio, Chicago 2014 Moments of Being, Gallery C, Dubuque, IA, USA University of Illinois, ULC Health in the Arts clinic, Chicago USA Specially Selected Exhibitions 2023 & 2020 Royal Academy Summer Show, London 2020 & 2019 ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London 2020 In Print; 20/20 Vision: Watts Contemporary, Watts Gallery Artists' Village, Surrey 2019 The Prince's Trust Auction, Highgrove House, Doughton, Gloucestershire. 2019 'Not Just Another Pretty Face', Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago. USA 2019 International Open Juried exhibition of Original Prints, 'NOPE' Bankside Gallery, London. 2017 Shakespeare: A celebration, Kwan Fong Gallery of Art and Culture, California, USA 2015 Chicago Invasion, Blue Rider Gallery, Taipei, - Taiwan 2015 Artress, Research House for Asian Art, Chicago, USA 2015 Elmhurst Museum; Artists Interpret Shakespeare, USA Collections The Victoria and Albert Museum, London Jiangsu Art Museum, China Ashmolean Museum Oxford BBC Sheffield Castle Lesley, Ireland University of Aberystwyth, Wales   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.    

Kidd Murray Hi, 2023 Oil paint on gesso ground Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Kidd Murray (b.1994) explores themes of consumerism and materialism, and depicts a natural environment which has been ruled by both, rendering it obsolete. These imagined places are adorned with diamantés, vibrant colours and manicured landscapes, a nod to materialism and impractical, harmful beauty standards. An inhabitant of this world, the glowing green worm, is used to represent a toxic consumer. It can be seen feeding off of vivacious fruit and plants, struggling to find its place in a superficial, dysfunctional world that has only one agenda - beauty. Education BA (Hons) Painting & Printmaking, Glasgow School Of Art, 2013 - 2017 Intermedia Art, Academy of Arts Architecture and Design, Prague, Sept 2015 Select Exhibitions/Awards Solo Shows 2023, January, Août Gallery, Beirut Group Shows 2023 March, Latent Dreaming, Seefood Room Gallery, Hong Kong 2023 January, Group Show, Cohle Gallery, Paris 2022 May, International, 19 Karen Gallery, Gold coast, Australia 2021 June, Afro Scoulture, A.Scot Gallery, Glasgow 2020 November, Inner Escape, House of Fine Art, London   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Hannah Ludnow Seascape Series (2), 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About The coastline of Cornwall is usually Hannah Ludnow's starting point, a place etched into the artist's memory having grown up near Falmouth Cornwall before moving to London to study art at University. Inspired by the amazing light, wide ever changing skies and beautiful dramatic coastlines, Hannah has always greatly admired the Cornish abstract expressionists Peter Lanyon, Patrick Heron and Ben Nicholson, whose work draws directly from experiences of nature's tempestuous or calm. Recently the artist has found herself looking at the work of Turner, influenced by his astute use of light. Hannah is inspired by the patterns nature creates: the force of the elements against the landscape, and the erosion against rock, sands, and man made objects as art form in itself. Hannah's work is very rarely an actual place, instead she starts with remembering a moment, and how that moment felt. Ludnow hopes to build an atmosphere in a painting, to draw you in, to imagine yourself there stood on a cliff, a beach or behind the dunes, exposed to the elements and the unpredictability of nature. the artist strives to capture a recollection of somewhere the viewer knows or remembers wherever in the world this may be. Her paintings are primarily about the light and the feelings a place can evoke in the viewer, the emotions that a memory of a place and time can stir within. A memory of thoughts and feelings within a landscape, often a special and private moment, where the vastness and beauty of the landscape around you brings a sense of perspective, clarity and calm .   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Gavin Dobson Il Drink to Him, 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Gavin is an artist based in East London. Originally from the North East of England, he trained in Fine Art at Middlesex University specialising in painting. Alongside his painting, Gavin is also an experienced screen printer. Gavin tends to keep his paintings loose and expressive, using fluid movements and textures to create engaging and lively pieces which thoughtfully lead the viewer to a chosen narrative. In recent years Gavin's practice has focused in exploring homosexuality and the various subcultures which surround it, looking into the expectations and stereotypes which gay men face and how in turn this can affect one's mental health. His paintings are loose and expressive tackling the emotional highs and lows of being a gay man in contemporary Britain. Queer culture exists beyond a week at Pride and it has a proud and sadly unearthed history which in turn has affected notions surrounding masculinity/ femininity and indeed what it means to be gay. Education BA Fine Art Middlesex University Select Exhibitions/Awards 2023. Kink - East Art Gallery 2023. Wild Thoughts - The Lido Stores 2022. Just Be Nice - East London Art Gallery 2022. Sugarcube ll - The Lido Stores 2022. The Art Car Boot Fair 2022. Folkstone Art Gallery - The Open Call 2022. Discerning Eye - Mall Galleries 2022. Focus 22 - Design Centre Chelsea 2022. Art Shop - White Paper Pen 2022. The Hoxton Hotel - Southwark 2022. Louder and Prouder - Brunswick Gallery 2022. Queer Frontiers - Artiq 2022. Contemporary British Painting 3 - Bermondsey Project Space 2022. Leaf - The Artists Friend, Box Park 2022. Design Centre London - Chelsea 2022. The Affordable Arts Fair - Hampstead 2021. Choose Love - Soho Revue 2021. Satelittes - Rise Art 2021. The Other Art Fair - Saatchi 2021. The Affordable Art Fair - Battersea 2020. Twelve days of Christmas - Artiq 2020. Choose Love Auction - Printclub London 2020. Queer Frontiers - Artiq Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Perfect bodies in paradise conditions. Pools, ponds, lidos, are places to work out or to relax and gaze at the surrounding beauty whilst floating weightlessly in a sea of blue. They're also meeting places. Speedos, shorts, six-packs. A glance of a muscular back - wet - as it strains to heave its owner out of the pool. Who is watching who?   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Zafiro Storm My Limits, 2023 Oil pastels, tempera, acrylic, watercolour, markers and pencil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About My relationship with art is given by the education and passion that I received from my mother's side. It was, has been and always will be the engine of my life. My childhood and adolescence were spent in a very complicated environment. After a major depression, at the age of 17, I decided to enter The School of Art. I graduated in 2001 with honors from the EADT of Catalonia in the specialty of Jewelry Design (1996-2001) Obtaining Honors in the Final Degree Project for "La Escuela Llotja de Barcelona" (School that evaluates all artistic careers in Catalonia, Spain). The same year, 2001, I was the winner of the Illustrious "FAD JEWELRY AWARD" in Barcelona. After obtaining the FAD award, I was selected by BARNAJOYA and the FAD Awards to exhibit at "The BARNAJOYA International Jewelry Fair" 2001. Two years later, in 2003, the DDI (Department of Design and Innovation of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Spain) selected me among the best designers, including me in their guide. My collaborations with artists took place years before, as was the case with the international sculptor Rufino Mesa, with whom I collaborated years before. In 2006 I was part of "NECRO-LITOS" of the como visual artist. For personal reasons. I spent a few years away from art in general, and from my career as a jewelry designer. It was in 2010 when I returned, internationally with my first painting exhibition "The PRINTED FOOTPRINT" at "Art House Gallery and Studios", Brooklyn, NY. I resumed my collaborations as a visual artist in 2015, this time, a participant in "El Milagro" of the international artist Abel Azcona at "The Gray Square Gallery", Spain. And, once again, I was summoned to participate in "DES-ENTERRADOS" by Abel Azcona, curated by Marisol Salanova in the Art Gallery "Conde de Rodezno" Spain in the same year 2015. That same year, I participated in "The 30th Anniversary of the BMW Painting Awards" in Madrid, with the portrait exhibition "FOUR ROOMS" I was interviewed for the Cultural Magazine "ACENTO CULTURAL" in Madrid that same year, 2015, for my artistic career as an internationally renowned artist. interview from which echoed Fahrenheit Magazine, Mexico D.F, publishing my Painting Series in the press "Anthropomorphous". In 2018 I was selected to exhibit the artistic installation FEC (these are the initials of the chemotherapy I received) in the "REG-ARTE" Contest, with the collaboration and within the Malaga Film Festival -MAF-Málaga. Two years later, Saatchi Gallery selected me as a featured artist in the "Saatchi Take Over" competition, London, UK in 2020. In 2021, I became part of the art gallery "Maison Contemporain Gallery" in Paris with my artworks "War Diary". In 2022 I became part of the Perdomo Gallery art gallery in Miami with my artworks "La Triada Combustible". Currently, I am part of the group show CON Spring Edition'23 at the Circle of None art gallery, London and to my delight, I have been selected by Gemma Peppe to be part of the group exhibition of Art on a Postcard Summer Auction 2023, London Exhibition in which I feel honored to participate, for its vital significance, and the great help to the community that is dealing with Hepatitis C. Education Graduated with Honors in Arts and Design specializing in Artistic Jewelry Design from EADT, Catalonia, Spain. (1996-2001) Honors in the Revalidation and Final Degree Project by the "Escuela Llotja" Barcelona, Spain. (2001) Select Exhibitions/Awards Exhibition with "La HUELLA IMPRESA" in the Art House Gallery and Studios, Brooklyn, NY. 2010 Participation in "El Miracle" by the International artist Abel Azcona at The Grey Square Gallery, Catalonia, Spain. 2015 Participation as "DES-ENTERRADOS" by Abel Azcona and Curated by Marisol Salanova at The Art Gallery Conde de Rodezno, Pamplona, Spain. 2015 Participation in The 30th Anniversary BMW Painting Awards, Madrid, Spain. 2015 Interview for the Cultural Magazine "ACENTO CULTURAL" Madrid, Spain. 2015 Press publication in "Fahrenheit Magazine" of the ANTHROPOMORPHE Series Mexico D.F. 2015 Exhibition of the Painting Series, "LA QUE NO TIENE NOMBRE II" (The One with no name II") at The Gallery PÓPULO CADIZ, Spain. FEBRUARY-APRIL, 2017 Exhibition with the artistic installation "FEC" in the ´ REG-ARTE´ Contest, with the collaboration of the Malaga Film Festival -MAF- MALAGA, Spain. APRIL, 2018 Exhibition with the Artistic Exclusive Series Painting "War Diary ·War Portraits/Ukrainian Cities Invaded" at Maison Contemporain Gallery PARIS, France. 2021-2023 Exhibition with the Artistic Exclusive Series Painting "War Diary ·War Portraits/Ukrainian Cities Invaded" at Perdomo Gallery MIAMI. 2022-2023 Exhibition with the CIRCLE OF NONE art gallery in London in the show group CON Spring Edition 2023 Gallery Representation MAISON CONTEMPORAIN / PERDOMO GALLERY / CIRCLE OF NONE Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork My work deals with various political issues such as the energy crisis, climate change, the current Central European war and its derivatives. For the series created, especially for AOAP, I have highlighted the most activist part of the speech. I have shown more clearly the dimension of the female character, the girl. With traits that illuminate the discourse of abuse, protection and the empowerment of reason, but since creation. From the female drive. The one that lies in the exact balance between the rational and the creative. The one that is established whole and without fissures. A character who up to now has lived in harmony with the rest of the work, but who is now shown on the scene and points to the viewer. There are four titles: MY LIMITS, a work that makes use of nature as a protective and defensive barrier. Beauty and strength go together without questioning their symbiosis. I show myself, I am. Full. But I know my true beauty. And that beauty is my limits BIZUM, a work that talks about the immediacy of the use and consequently the abuse of everything that is within our reach. The characters in the play laugh mischievously, in a relaxed but expectant attitude. You could say they are ready. ATOMIC, a work that speaks of the potential and high management capacities in complex situations Change our anatomy and adapt to the environment. Turn our ballast (decayed flower) into a soccer ball with which to strengthen our drive towards better results. PLAY HIDE with THE ELEPHANT in the ROOM talks about the fact of playing hide and seek before such an important issue as evidence. The climate crisis. And playing hide and seek with the elephant in the room is not wanting to see the evidence. If we summarize the language, we find ourselves again, before a type of mistreatment, disaffection and ignorance.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.    

Fa Razavi Look (1), 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Fa Razavi (b.1996, Bushehr, Iran) lives and works in London, UK. Razavi is a multi-disciplinary artist that works with film, performance and object-making as well as painting. Fa's work explores ideas and experiences of displacement and memory. Razavi's work was recently shortlisted for the Freelands Painting Prize 2022. Razavi recently graduated from Middlesex University, with a Fine Art BA (Hons). Previously, Razavi also studied Iranian Fashion and Clothes, and was a sculpture associate at Art University of Tehran. Education Middlesex University - Fine Art BA (Hons) Select Exhibitions/Awards Dancing on a Knife's Edge, Wilder Gallery (2023)   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Lucy Giles Sunflower, 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.)   About British Painter. B: 1975 Education Fine Art - Drawing and Painting (BA Hons). "Glasgow School of Art" 1994 - 1998 Select Exhibitions/Awards The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2012. SOLO SHOW - November 2022: "Conversations with the Moon" (155a Gallery, London.) Gallery Representation 155a Gallery, London. and MAH Gallery, London. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork My painting practice illustrates a very personal pictorial language, that has taken shape initially after spending time in remote areas of Australia... I Build the composition, using oil paint, with loose abstract shapes and spontaneous brushstrokes; Asserting energy and conviction. This process of painting has developed over the last 20 plus years, growing increasingly more abstract. Carrying a sketchbook with me, I always draw & paint on location... Observed shapes, colours & rhythms are decoded in the studio onto canvas & board; Reflecting memories & feelings of that location... I can't leave a painting until I know it is finished; Even if that means re-visiting it over long periods of time!   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Ada Bond Klept, 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Ada Bond (b.2002) is a London-based artist. She completed a UAL Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2021, and is currently studying BA in Fine Art: Painting at The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. An obsessive collector of moments, memories and images sourced from dark crevices of the internet, Ada creates intrinsically cryptic pieces designed to keep more secrets than they divulge. She commonly finds herself tracing unique patterns between images initially found impulsively - a photo of a discarded, wrinkled-up valentine's balloon sparks a yarn that she unintentionally spins into an all-consuming web. Her works often feature disembodied figures or animals on stark, almost velvet, black backgrounds; their subjects stare out of the darkness, trapping the unsuspecting viewer in a nightmarish exchange. When taken together, her paintings form a relational archaeology that is hard to trace - lacking a specific attempt at meaning, they gesture at the grit and debris of human experience. Education Slade School of Fine Art Select Exhibitions/Awards Recent selected exhibitions include: Winter Show, (Asylum Studios, Suffolk, 2022), Era Journal, (Crypt Gallery, London, 2022) and Good Grief, (The Old Butchers, London, 2022).   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Lara Davies Those Left Behind, 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Lara Davies was born in 1985 in Wales. She lives in London and has a studio in Hackney Wick. Her work is held in both private and public collections, including the Contemporary Art Society of Wales and the AllBright Mayfair Members' Club. Education 2020-2022 - Royal College of Art, London MA in Painting 2006-2010 - Cardiff University BSc (Hons) Mathematics, Operational Research and Statistics, 1st Class 2005-2006 - Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University Select Exhibitions/Awards 2023 - Positions Part 1, group exhibition, Alma Pearl, London 2023 - Godesses (A Love Explosion), group exhibition,Terrace Gallery, London 2023 - Stage, group exhibition, LLE at Kingsgate Project Space, London 2022 - To Feel All Your Warmth, group exhibition, Warbling Collective, London 2022 - Royal College of Art Degree Show, London 2022 - Blink: Room Share 2, group exhibition, Safehouse One, London 2021 - Pleasure Scene, group exhibition, Trafalgar Avenue, London 2020 - Telling Tales/Cario Clecs, three person exhibition, BayArt Cardiff 2019 - Creekside Open 2019 Selected by Sacha Craddock 2019 - Creekside Open 2019 Selected by Brian Griffiths 2018 - John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Museum Liverpool Y You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Crimson Boner Gogga (Handsome Devil), 2023 Oil paint on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About Crimson studied Art History Africa and Asia at SOAS and worked at Battersea Arts Centre after graduating. It was a very creative environment and her boss, Tom Morris, encouraged her to do 'what she really wanted to', a novel notion for a girl from a council estate who was resigned to working to make ends meet. She studied Life Drawing, Digital illustration and also achieved a Foundation Art and Design at Chelsea Art School, UAL and went on to a BA Fine Art at Central St Martins, however after completing the first year she fell pregnant and suffered several years of infertility. She never returned to St Martins, but is studying MA Fine Art at Brighton Uni. She received an ACE grant in 2022 to develop her painting practice and is receiving mentorship from The New Art School. She has two children and works to support herself. Education BA Art History & Archaeology Africa & Asia, SOAS, BTEC Foundation Art& Design Chelsea, UAL Select Exhibitions/Awards Unknown Friends, Hypha Studios Hatton Gardens, May 2023 Now Is The Time, Atrium Gallery, Brighton Centre for Contemporary Art, May 2023 Sugar Cube II, The Lido Stores Margate, December 2022 Two Left Eyes, solo show, The Lido Stores Margate, November 2022 The Secret Postcard Auction, Combat Stress, Bankside Gallery, October 2022 The Sussex Contemporary, British Airways i360, August 2022 Weary Harold, ASC Gallery, March 2022 Give Me Love, Lido Stores Margate, February 2022 With Love II, @painttalk, December 2021 Second Floor Studios Painting Open, No Format Gallery, September 2021 Looks Like It's Gonna Rain, Motions Sickness Project, June 2021 ING Discerning Eye, December 2020 & 2021 Figurative Art Now, selected by Jo Baring, Mall Galleries Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Working from my imagination is a choice, it's a way of valuing the self; a way to reclaim time. It's a way to explore different qualities of thought. It's an act of free falling and trusting; it's hopeful and beautiful and a gentle rebellion.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

* HUGH MCINTYRE (SCOTTISH b. 1943), A MOUNTAIN STREAM oil on board, signed and dated '95framedimage size 57cm x 88cm, overall size 70cm x 102cm Note: Hugh McIntyre has been based in Dumfries & Galloway for many years and was involved with the management of the Gracefield Arts Centre during the early 1970s. He became a full-time painter in the mid 1970s and has exhibited his artwork, which focuses mainly on landscape painting, throughout the UK. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design, USA, and the Edinburgh College of Art. McIntyre`s work is included in the collections of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales (now HM King Charles III) and the Late Princess of Wales, The British Linen Bank Headquarters, Edinburgh, The Bank of Scotland, Galerie Chomarat, Lyon, Galerie Maison Jardin, Lyon, P.D.C, New York, Ashai Optical Co.Ltd, Tokyo, Brunel University, Hilton International, Albert Fisher Group PLC, Tommy Hilfiger and many other public and private collections. McInyre exhibits widely and has been represented by Contemporary Fine Art (Eton) since 1990.

* PETER HOWSON OBE (SCOTTISH b. 1958), THE PORTRAIT OF ROBERT HELLER oil on canvas, signedframedimage size 60cm x 45cm, overall size 82cm x 66cm Literature: Robert Heller, Peter Howson, Edinburgh, 2003, p. 167, illustrated.Note: Collectors and Howson enthusiasts will be excited by the major retrospective “When the Apple Ripens: Peter Howson at 65" of the work of the artist taking place at the City Arts Centre, Edinburgh and organised by Museums & Galleries Edinburgh from May this year until the beginning of October, bringing together over 100 major works from his early years until the present time. Initial visitor numbers suggest that this exhibition is likely to set new records for a living artist in Scotland. The staging of this exhibition during (and beyond) the Edinburgh International Festival reflects the well documented and longstanding international interest in Peter Howson's work.Note 2: The Portrait of Robert Heller is a well-documented painting of the late Robert Heller, prolific author and publisher of two highly regarded monographs on Peter Howson. Heller was the second husband of Angela Flowers and was partly responsible for the expansion of Flowers Gallery from a small operation in Soho to a widely recognised International gallery and long time principal exhibiting gallery for Peter Howson both in the UK (London) and USA.

* WILLIAM BIRNIE RSW RGI (SCOTTISH 1929 - 2006), LANDING PLACE oil on board, signed, titled label versoframedimage size 100cm x 26cm, overall size 113cm x 29cm Label verso: The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh.Comment: Although undated, "Landing Place" is very obviously a late career painting and shows the freedom and confidence Birnie gained from widespread critical and commercial success.Note: Bill Birnie studied at Glasgow School of Art under Gilbert Spencer and then at Hospitalfield under Ian Fleming. After graduating, he joined the staff at Hyndland Secondary School in 1952. That same year he was also elected a member of the Society of Scottish Artists (SSA). In 1958, he became a founder member of the Glasgow Group and formed the Glasgow Group Society, of which he was Vice-President for 32 years. In 1965, he was elected a member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW), a society of which he also became Vice-President and Treasurer. He became Principal Art Teacher at Douglas Academy, near Bearsden, and later at Gryffe High, near Kilbarchan. Bill's abilities not only as a teacher but also as an administrator were noticed by the Department of Education and he was soon appointed Head Examiner in Art for Scotland. He still managed to maintain a very active exhibiting schedule and showed in all the main public galleries and many of Scotland's best commercial galleries. His work was enthusiastically collected and increasingly sought after. He was elected a member of the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art (RGI) and of the Paisley Art Institute (PAI). In the early years, he painted from his garden, showing the village of Kilbarchan in its changing seasons, under a quiet blanket of winter snow, or framed in a blazing sunset through autumnal trees. Later visits to France and Italy with his artist wife, Cynthia Wall, whom he married in 1953, brought new subject matter, cafe scenes, vine groves, Italian clifftop villages, and the crumbling facades of palaces and churches of Venice. It was characteristic of the man that when told that his illness was terminal, he calmly put his affairs in order and started work for a final one-man show at the Open Eye Gallery (Edinburgh) the scene of so many of his successful shows. Unsurprisingly, the exhibition was a complete sell-out. In recent years there has been a widely acknowledged acceleration in the prices achieved at auctions around the UK for William Birnie's paintings. In the Scottish Contemporary Art Auction of 8th November 2020 lot 567 "The Red House" a 60 x 90cm oil sold for £3000 (hammer) which, not for the first time in recent years, set a new auction record for a painting by William Birnie.

* MIKE KINANE (SCOTTISH), PEREGRINE FALCON oil on canvas, signed and dated '78framedimage size 60cm x 60cm, overall size 72cm x 72cm Note: Mike Kinane graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 1978, Dip Drawing and Painting. Selected artistic events: 2003 - Solo Exhibition Queens Hall. 2006 - Commissioned to paint a mural 40ft x12ft in Co. Cork Ireland. 2007-10 - Works exhibited in Flaubert Gallery Edinburgh. 2008 -10 - Paintings exhibited as part of the “Three Harbours Festival”. 2010 - Launch of “Pamoja Art company” with exhibition of paintings in the Cathedral Hall Edinburgh. 2011 - Edinburgh Festival Exhibition, Cathedral Hall. 2012 - Jolomo Landscape Competition. 2013 - Commissioned portrait for University of Pennsylvania. 2014 - Exhibition in Dalriada Portobello. 2015 - Commissioned portrait for University of Pennsylvania. 2016 - Work shown in ”Velvet Easel”. 2018 - Portrait commission for University of Pennsylvania.

* T G (THOMAS GEORGE) MCGILL DUNCAN (SCOTTISH 1896 - 1978), BALMORAL CASTLE & CRATHIE CHURCH, ROYAL DEESIDE oil on board, signed, further signed, titled and dated 1953 versoframed image size 46cm x 62cm, overall size 69cm x 84cm Artist's stamp versoNote: A rare painting of Balmoral Castle and Crathie Church dated 1953 (the year of the Coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth II).

* LINDA LE KINFF (FRENCH b. 1949), VIENNA oil on canvas, signedframedimage size 19.5cm x 15cm, overall size 43cm xx 38cm Note: A very rare appearance at a UK auction for an original painting by Linda Le Kinff who has the unique distinction of having been commissioned as the Official Artist for the 1998 World Cup (Football) and the 2010 Kentucky Derby (USA). One of her paintings for the 1998 World Cup was struck as a commemorative coin by the French Government, an honour never before bestowed on a living French artist. Linda Le Kinff's portrayal of women is consistently dynamic, ranging from indescribable loneliness to silent, powerful, and elegant. Le Kinff also finds inspiration in the work of Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, and Gustav Klimt. Her work has been exhibited and sold globally. In The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction of 8th December 2022, lot 2 "Holiday" a 47 x 32cm oil on board by Le Kinff sold for £2400 (hammer).

* JAMES SOMERVILLE (SCOTTISH b. 1936), CATHEDRAL AT SALAMANCA oil on canvas, signed, titled versoframedimage size 62cm x 75cm, overall size 72cm x 85cm Note: Originally from Fife, Jimmy went to Edinburgh College of Art, then returned to Fife in 1960 where he became a Principal Teacher of Art in Glenrothes High School. He held various posts on secondment as National Development Officer for Art and Design, was Principal Examiner with the Scottish Examination Board, and was involved in the introduction and implementation of Standard Grade Art & Design in schools. James retired from this work many years ago and began painting and exhibiting on a full-time basis. Slightly abstracted in style, and although always starting from drawings of specific places, they are taken well beyond the picturesque. The finished paintings show a concentration on atmosphere, mood, and response to things seen rather than mere representation of actual places. James Somerville's paintings are held in the collections of: The Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh Hospitals Collection, Pitlochry Festival (Harry Cruden) Collection, Fife Regional Council, and numerous private collections at home and abroad. James Somerville's paintings rarely appear at auction but in The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction of 23rd January 2022 lot 136 "Village from the Shore" a 61.5 x 74.5cm oil (by Somerville) sold for £750 (hammer).

* LADY LUCINDA L MACKAY (SCOTTISH b. 1941), FLUTE VASE MEDLEY oil on canvas, signed, titled label versoframedimage size 63cm x 76cm, overall size 74cm x 86cm Note: Born in Berkshire, Mackay was brought up in Scotland and educated in Switzerland. She trained at Edinburgh College of Art under William Gillies, graduating in 1965, and undertook postgraduate studies at the Central School of Art, London in 1973. Alongside her career as a professional artist, painting portraits, landscapes and still-life and exhibiting widely, Mackay has worked as a teacher of art, design and ceramics. Her paintings are characterised by bold brushwork and vibrant colours. Mackay lives in Edinburgh. Nine of Lucinda Mackay's works are held in UK public collections including The National Galleries of Scotland.

* JAMES S DAVIS DA PAI RSW FRSA (SCOTTISH b. 1944), THE PAPS OF JURA oil on board, signed, titled versoframed and under glassimage size 33cm x 44cm, overall size 59cm x 69cm Note: James Davis was born in Scotland in 1944. He studied contemporary painting at the Glasgow School of Art between 1963 and 1967. He specialised in drawing and painting under the tutorage of Scottish artists William Armour and David Donaldson. For more than 40 years James Davis paintings have been exhibited extensively with the Royal Glasgow Institute ( RGI), Royal Scottish Watercolour Society (RSW), Royal Scottish Academy RSA and the Paisley Art Institute ( PAI). James Davis was elected to the RSW in 2003. James Davis paintings are predominantly landscapes, figurative and portraits and he paints in both watercolours and oils. Davis has been the recipient of many art awards for his contemporary paintings including the David Cargill Award; RGI in 2003 and the Reid Kerr Painting Award in 2005. James has established a strong following with leading private and corporate art collectors of contemporary Scottish art. These include: HRH The Duke of Edinburgh; The Royal Collection; Holyrood Palace; King Hussein Family Private collection; Vatican Commission Scott's College Rome; Glasgow City Chambers; Merk Finance; Arisaig Holdings (Singapore) and Strathclyde Education Authorities. His paintings also feature in many private contemporary art collections in the UK, Canada, USA, Italy, Holland, France, Switzerland, Australia and Tasmania.