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The following are the artists whose work will
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represented in the Marquee at West Woodhay 2009: |
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Susan
Ackworth |
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A farmer’s wife who runs a riding school in Hungerford. She has had a
life-long interest in the countryside and began her pastel painting 17 years
ago. Sue particularly enjoys capturing the local landscape. She is happy to
create a pastel painting from your favourite holiday photo. |
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Charlotte
Bampfylde |
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Charlotte paints at home in Fulham in London, where she has had several solo
exhibitions. She has illustrated two books, ‘Are you there Moriarty?’ and
‘Play it Again Moriarty!’ |
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Howard
Birchmore |
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Howard loves to capture the light and mood and
atmosphere of a location, in particular light on water. He draws his
inspiration from the Thames Valley and the West Country and many locations
abroad such as Venice. However, Howard’s speciality is large canvases
depicting ships of all ages in amazing detail from the Golden Hind to the
QE2. |
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Debbie
Blount |
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She studied in Yorkshire before moving to Wiltshire
with her family 6 years ago. She paints as a direct response to nature
drawing inspiration from the Savernake Forest and the abundant wildlife it
supports. Debbie creates highly detailed wildlife paintings in acrylic or
oil on canvas and wooden panels using a limited natural palette. She has
exhibited widely and last year was selected to show with ‘The Royal Society
of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers’ and the ‘Society of Women
Artists’. She also exhibited and demonstrated at the ‘Artists and
Illustrators show in London. |
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Miggie
Bruce |
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She was born in Newbury and has lived in the area all
her life. She is the younger daughter of the artist G W Allinson. She
learned the rudiments of watercolour at evening classes in the early90’s,
and progressed to botanical painting under the tutorship of the renowned
botanical painter and four times RHS Gold Medallist, Jenny Jowett. Miggie
is a member of the Society of Floral Painters, and shows her work regularly
at their Mottisfont and Hillier exhibitions. Miggie always paints her
natural subjects from life, and is particularly fond of native flora, fungi,
and lichens. |
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Josephine
Chisholm |
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Josephine trained as a graphic designer at the Bristol
College of Art & Design, and studied watercolour painting when living in
Australia, and later in London, Yorkshire and Hampshire. Her style has
developed into working in acrylic, gouache, pen & ink, and pastel and oils.
Her subjects include townscapes, seascapes & beaches, people, landscapes,
interiors, flowers, still life, house portraits, and special events.
Josephine has undertaken many public and private commissions, and has
exhibited ‘here and there’ in the South of England, and also in London,
including The R. I. Of Watercolourists exhibition at the Mall Galleries.
Josephine publishes her own postcards, prints and Christmas cards. Since
2005, 79 of her paintings have also been regularly published by a national
greetings card company. Josephine also runs art classes for adults at The
Tower in Winchester. Her website is :
www.josephinechisholm-artist.co.uk |
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Lucy
de Albuquerque |
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Lucy specialised in Art and Drama at Westminster
College of Education, Oxford during the 70’s. In 1989, having moved with
her husband and three daughters from London to the country, she took up
watercolour painting with Frankie Cummins and then went on to study Visual
Art at Winchester Art School. As well as exhibiting regularly in the South
and teaching watercolour painting, Lucy accepts private commissions to paint
gardens, houses and animals. |
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Ann
Emmons |
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She is a children’s writer and illustrator, publishing
her own books through Red Kite Fine Art Shows. Her first book, ‘ The Mice of
Lardon Hill’ has become a collector’s item. Ann also paints murals, her most
recent being a ‘Wind in the Willows ‘ theme painted in a famous boathouse
once belonging to Edward VII. Ann’s paintings are all from imagination, and
largely feature anthropomorphic animals in woodland settings, which have
large appeal to children and adults alike. She is currently writing and
illustrating a third children’s book. |
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Jenny
Enters |
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Jenny began to learn about watercolour with Barbara
Feuillade-Cole and then with Frankie Cummins. She has been exhibiting her
works for many years. She is fascinated by light and colour, and these two
factors dominate from in most of her paintings. Jenny enjoys the texture and
depth that comes from using acrylics, pastel, and other media as well as
watercolour. Her preferred subjects are the beautiful and diverse land and
seascapes of Britain. |
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Jacqui
Franks |
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She began her career in engineering drafting for
manuals and manufacturing. She developed her techniques and utilised them in
her early paintings, specialising in skin, fur, and feathers of her
favourite wildlife. She shows equal regard for detail with portraits, pets,
horses, buildings, and landscape. Jacqui has taught at Newbury College for
24 years, experimenting with mixed media, always encouraging her students to
develop their own individual styles. She has illustrated books, sold her
work widely overseas, and exhibited in this country and abroad, and has
completed many commissions. |
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Linda
Hensman |
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Originally a watercolour artist painting mostly
flowers, Linda now explores different ways of expressing the beauty of the
landscape, both here and abroad, in acrylic, inks, and collage, although she
still likes to paint the flowers in her garden. She lives in a small village
near Newbury, which gives her ample opportunity to observe the animals and
birds, which she also paints. Linda attends as many art classes as possible
to keep her ideas fresh and interesting, and exhibits in local shows when
possible, and will take on commissions if asked. |
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Belinda
Hodson |
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In the Second World War Belinda was a Leading Wren and
in charge of camouflage and sign-writing on H M S Tormentor in 1942-5. In
1946 she was accepted to study at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford. She
has since exhibited widely in charcoal , pastel , gouache, and oil. Her work
includes paintings, book jackets, illustrations, greetings cards, animal
portraits and inn signs. |
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Jane King |
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Jane studied art and history of art in Florence, and on
her return to England , painted portraits of houses. Studies at the Academie
Julian in Paris were followed by her degree course in Fine Art at Bristol.
She then lived and exhibited in Ireland for 5 years, returning to Dorset
where she and her husband established the Jane and Tarka King Pottery at
Pentridge. Their original and hand painted ceramics are in collections the
world over. Jane now lives near Salisbury and her paintings have been widely
exhibited in the area. As well as painting in oils, she enjoys working in
pen & ink to quickly capture the movement of animals and birds and the human
body. |
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Chloe Lamb |
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Chloe has
painted for most of her life, and since 1996, has exhibited regularly in the
UK and more recently in the USA and Germany. The particular strength of her
abstract art is her use of colour and form, whilst with the more figurative
paintings, it is the intimacy and movement that most strikes the viewer.
Although Chloe’s work is partly influenced by the Modern British School of
artists, it is in essence the landscape that surrounds her from which she
derives her greatest subject matter. Chloe has also been very influenced by
her study with Robin Child at the internationally acclaimed Art Research
Centre in Wiltshire. |
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Bridget Lansley |
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She studied
drawing and painting with Robin Child. Her love of colour, brush strokes
and texture give her paintings a strong focus. She paints at her home in
Ham, and in Europe and her success has lead to her work being exhibited at
prestigious galleries in London and the Home Counties. Her work can be seen
at Cricket Fine Art, 13 Langton Street, London. |
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Davina
Owen |
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Davina was
brought up in Gloucestershire surrounded by horses and dogs. In 1973, she
studied in Florence with Signorina Simi and the English portrait painter
Geoffrey Rawlins. Since her return, Davina has mainly worked on commissions
of horses, dogs, and children in oils and pastel chalk. Davina had her first
one woman show at Partridge Fine Arts in London in 2001. She has been
commissioned world-wide and her works hang in the USA, Brazil, Argentina,
Australia, New Zealand, Italy and Belgium, and in many private collections
including that of H. M. The Queen. |
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Becky Samuelson |
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Her
paintings reflect her love of the Isle of Wight coast and landscape and
those inspired by her travels abroad. She works mainly in watercolour,
acrylic and pastel, and has exhibited widely over the past twenty two years.
Becky is a member of the Society of Women Artists, the Hilliard Society of
Miniaturists and a regular contributor to the Leisure Painter Magazine. A
tutor in adult education, Becky runs courses on and off the Island. Her next
painting holiday is a weekend residential watercolour course at the
Bembridge Coast Hotel in September. Becky welcomes studio visits and can be
contacted for these or commissions on Tel : 01983 873351. Further examples
of her work can be viewed on her website
www.beckysamuelsonfinearts.co.uk |
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Elizabeth Scott |
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Her
work is based on exploration of
the landscape through painting and printmaking. The work is figurative.
Colour and shape are used to create atmosphere and space, and to portray the
character of the local Wiltshire landscape and the Cornish coastline, which
are represented in the work. |
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Sam Travers |
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A young
artist who is devoting himself to art, its creation as a painter, its
conservation as a member of one of the UK’s leading art auctioneers, having
pursued the intellectual study of the history of art at UCL. He is inspired
by turn of the century artists, in particular William Nicholson. His own
current work features animals and still life, and is open to requests for
commissions. |
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Rosemary
Trigwell |
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Rosemary is
a watercolour artist, whose work is inspired by a diverse range of images.
She loves to recreate the texture of a subject. Working figuratively, she
catches the intricacies that make up, perhaps animal hair, or the lichen on
an old wall, capturing everything with equal regard to detail. She shows her
work regularly in the south, including the Newbury Spring Festival, and is a
regular exhibitor at the Beacon Gallery, Inkpen. |
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Tony
Uloth |
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Tony was
brought up in the country and throughout his life has been drawing cartoons
and sketching. On retirement as Chief Executive of the Royal Bath and West
of England Show Society, he took up sculpting under the guidance of the
eminent animal sculptress, Margot Dent, at her studio in Broughton. He lives
in Nether Wallop where he is able to follow his interests in country
pursuits. His sculpting subjects include portraits as well as animals. |
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Mike Willdridge |
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Mike studied
Graphic Design at Ravensbourne College of Art then worked as a designer, in
the printing industry, as a soldier in the Army and as an Art teacher. After
a teaching career in which he ran two art departments, he retired recently
to spend more time on his work and to teach adults. |
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