Romantic.....Etchings by Daphne Sandham
Daphne Sandham was born and brought up in North London studied at Leicester Polytechnic in the late sixties - a lively time - to do a Dip A D Fine Art. After a year out,' painting landscapes and portraits, she went back to London to the Royal Academy Schools for three years postgraduate, drawing and painting from the figure, and practicing etching and lithography in the print workshop.
She moved to the seaside and lives in a large rambling house and garden overlooking the estuary on one side and the open sea on the other.
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Portraits by Elena Priestley
Elena’s work shows a competent maturity of styles, technique and composition linked with a youthful and vivacious though sensitive portrayal of her subjects.
She can use her brush to create delicate and subtle or bright and strident studies of the people around their character and spirit.
A lasting legacy of a family member, your baby, children, your darling cat or dog, your lover ..... Elena can deliver!
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Observations by Gordon Fowler
Lived in Canterbury city centre for 30 years he was a well travelled eccentric who never followed a conventional career; a prolific painter, sculptor, writer and raconteur whose play "Fall in Corporal Moyes" was perfomed in Covent Garden
"He had about him the qualities of Whistler and would have enjoyed the company of Degas and the milieu of fin-de-siecle, Paris. Sickert and the painters of the Camden Town Group were also to his taste and often with wistful look and eloquent rhetoric, he would conjure up some scene or other where all these great names would be acting out their part."
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Drawing with Stitches by Sam Crow
"Drawing With Stitches is my way of combining two of my loves – drawing and sewing – by using the stitch as another form of mark making, and (when they are not just pure stitch on white cotton) textiles as the palette.
After years of using both disciplines separately, and trying to appease all athe creative urges by switching between the two, often leaving the drawing side unsatisfied... I fell into combining the two by accident.
I began to sew into my drawings to try and satisfy the urge for stitch
and eventually sewing the drawings completely..."
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Movement in oils by Jereme Crow
The artist Fernando Botero said: “An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.” So to attempt to explain my paintings would be an after thought. They are a celebration and exploration of the beauty of colour and the human form. I am attracted to dance as a source of inspiration because of the endless compositions created by the human form. The beauty, energy and emotion that is captured through movement. Art is beauty. Capturing a feeling, or an idea and through the use of a subject attempting to create something beautiful.
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