Artists
Mark Childs
Mark graduated with a fine art degree in 2001 from Falmouth Arts College. Choosing to share his passion and enthusiasm for creativity, he decided to dedicate his time to his love of people. He worked as a support worker and trained as a teacher running a range of creative classes for youth offenders and people with disabilities.
Throughout this time Mark...
Steven Cooper
Born in 1970, Steven has always lived and worked in and around Manchester. Having held a lifelong interest in art, he chose to make a more serious commitment to painting in 2006, and has endeavoured ever since to make this his full time vocation. Inspired by artists including Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud and Modigliani, Steven has also been working as a tattoo...
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Annabel Thornton
Born in Cheshire Annabel studied at Cheltenham College of Art where she gained her BA Fine Art Honours Degree.
Using dance and music as her primary focus Annabel is concerned with the movement of the human form and transferring the graceful harmony and kinetics of the dancer onto her canvas.
She has an incredible understanding of her medium and employs many...
David Brightmore
Originally from South Yorkshire, David studied Business Management in Cardiff and Fine Art in Sheffield. Having lived in the Snowdonia village of Rhyd-Ddu from 1985 until 2004, he learned the Welsh language and possesses a close affinity with life in Wales. With a passion for the outdoors David has run and walked through most of the Welsh mountains and hills and...
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Carl Jacobs
“Born in Manchester in 1947, my earliest recollection was drawing at every opportunity. At School, Art was by far my most favourite subject. I went onto Art College gaining a diploma in Graphic Art and Design followed by a much enjoyed career in Advertising, eventually setting up my own successful business. I had the good fortune to be able to retire early and...
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Dan Parry-Jones
Dan has always considered himself a painter and illustrator and his current work is truly mixed media in technique. Textured, semi abstract backgrounds are applied vigorously in layers with palette knife and scratched into. The surface usually masks a series of experimental layers that can have evolved over a long period of time. Figurative details are more...
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Georgina Vinsun
Born in Stockport in 1983, Georgina studied at Loughborough University, graduating in 2005 with a BA Hons Fine Art degree.
Georgina paints gently expressive, romantic abstracts, which employ soft veils of saturated colour and flurries of energetic brushwork. The paintings are all inspired by the awesomeness of nature with the sky being particularly key. Its vast...
Steven Scholes
Steven was born in 1952 and lives on the outskirts of Manchester. Steven showed a natural talent for painting from a very early age and even won an art competition when he was five.
His subject matter is often of local scenes of bygone eras. Heavily influenced by his Grandfather, he used to travel around the city with him, admiring the Victorian and Edwardian...
Richard Stinton
Richard has been drawing and painting as long as he can remember. He studied at art school, then trained and works as a graphic designer. He aims now to give more of his time to doing what he loves most, painting.
Working in oils he paints landscapes both rural and urban settings, gaining inspiration from his local environment, often literally on his...
Dennis Esteves
Dennis was born in Santo Andre, Brazil in 1976. He moved to Sao Caetano do Sul aged 3, where he discovered his love and ability for art.
Supported by his mother Evelyn he went to her ballet academy from a young age. Here he developed his musical connection, learning to play the acoustic guitar and writing music.
Dennis debuted his first art exhibition aged 14 at...
