Artist Profiles

MATT BUCKLEY

Matt Buckley is a designer and sculpture who works from his studio in Shropshire. He has over 20 years' experience as a sculptor and his style is distinctive and edgy. His work mainly depicts animals and every piece will make an impressive statement in any room.

He starts his sculptures by sketching his design and then creating an armature, or framework, to support the wet clay.

Liquid rubber is used to create a mold. It is poured into a sealed case which holds the clay model. Once set, it is carefully cut so the mold can be removed from the original model.

A special mix of marble stone resin is poured into the new mold and a first sample is created. From this, all subsequent sculptures are created, each one being skillfully hand-finished and hand-painted.

Chris Forsey

Chris Forsey’s colourful, textural landscapes explore the themes of man-made alongside the organic: buildings by water; structure emerging from a rocky cliff, inhabiting the middle ground between buildings and the wilderness of nature. He finds inspiration in downland, coastal scenes of the UK and the Mediterranean, cafe life and townscapes and aims to capture the sense of a place at a precise moment, season or time of day, endeavouring to bring passion and immediacy to his work. Chris Forsey began his art career as an illustrator in a publisher's studio after studying art and graphics in Bristol. Initially working mainly in watercolour, Chris has now embraced a mixed-media approach to his work and combines watercolour, pastel, and gouache, creating textured layers of colour while allowing hints of complementary hue to glow through.

Christopher Farrell

Born in London in 1971, Christopher Farrell graduated from De Montfort University, Leicester in 1993 with a first class Honours degree in Visual Arts, then gained a Post-Graduate Degree at the Royal Academy School of Art, London. Influenced by the city and everything about it, he is fascinated by the diversity of the contemporary and traditional architecture in London, and it has become an ongoing theme in his paintings and digital work.

Jane Hewlett

Jane Hewlett's work concentrates on capturing the atmosphere of the coastal landscape. In may ways it is a romantic voyage back through several generations; the local fishing boats which she portrays built with the traditional fishing equipment lying lazily on and around the colourful hulls. Often the boats are deserted, perhaps hinting at the decline in the local fishing industry. However, there is nothing pessimistic about her work; rather it is a reflection and celebration of the clarity of light and colour which has attracted so many artists to the East Anglian coast over the years. Most of Jane Hewlett's paintings are in oil, very often on a gesso ground. The technique which she uses harks back to that used by Nash, Nevinson, Cadell, Wadsworth and Millier in the early and mid-twentieth century. It is based on allowing the gesso ground to absorb the oil in the paint; once this has happened, the canvas or board is left with dry, sandy pigment on its surface which enables the artist to achieve a purity of colour and chalky consistency ideally suited to the depletion of the coastal landscape. Jane Hewlett started showing her work publicly in 1998, and it can now be found in private collections in Britain and the USA. She is represented by Ainscough Contemporary Art. Jane Hewlett took a foundation course at Ipswich College of Art in 1995 and graduated from the University of East Anglia with an Art and Design degree in 1998. From her childhood days when summer holidays were spent by the sea at Aldeburgh, the Suffolk coast has held a special fascination for her. Since 1989, she has lived in Suffolk with a studio overlooking the tidal waters of the River Deben just outside Woodbridge.

Jennifer Rose

Jennifer Rose is based in West Sussex, not far from Polkadot Stripes. Her work is inspired by the glorious South Downs which surround her home and the stunning sea views of the English Channel to the south.

She has a BA Hons degree in design and loves to work in watercolours, using a loose, natural style. Her favourite designs involve flora, fauna and the beautiful countryside.
Jennifer Rose designs

Jeremy Thompson

Jeremy Thompson left school in 1979 with an Art O-level and a passion for painting. His love of small Cornish harbours and the colour of the boats and buildings that surround them is a huge influence on his paintings. “I feel I have always been a naturally 'naive' artist, and I love primary colours and playing with the shape of things. I also love Cornish harbours and boats. My aim is to raise a smile and not be too serious.”

Joe Ramm

Joe Ramm is a Brighton-based artist who lives by the sea with her family and dog Tinker. She likes to paint dreamy landscapes and whimsical narrative art. Joe is strongly influenced by the Sussex landscape and also by the West Country. She often plans her next piece of art whilst walking by the sea.

Joe studied at the Harrow School of Art and then worked in London as an editorial illustrator before moving to Brighton and creating her own work. She works from a studio at the bottom of her garden.

She has previously exhibited in the Battersea Contemporary Art Fair, the Brighton Art Fair and takes part in the Brighton Open House Festival.
Joe Ramm art works

Lisa Parker

Lisa Parker, the fantasy and wildlife artist, has been drawing since she could first hold a pencil. She was the original artist at Nemesis Now, for whom she still designs her fabulous witchcraft art, although she does much more freelance work nowadays.
Lisa Parker designs

Sam Toft

Sam Toft can often be found walking along the beach in Brighton or Hove with her family and dogs.

She has created an entire imaginary world for her characters, Ernest Hemmingway Mustard, his wife Violet and their dog Doris.

Many of Sam's art works feature these characters. Ernest is a professional, tuneless hummer and part-time hurricane predictor of Brighton and Hove. They all live in a not-so-damp basement flat. Doris is a grumpy and rather portly Jack Russell terrier.

Sam works in oil pastels and coloured inks to show us their adventures. She uses proper artists' materials along with kitchen towels, items of cutlery, steel pen nibs, pencil dust, old tooth brushes and her own finger and thumbs technique.
Sam Toft art works