Clifton Fine Art is a gallery in Bristol specialising in modern and contemporary art from the South West of England. "Very clever and beautiful." BBC News
"Blurring the boundaries of painting and sculpture." The Guardian
"Teather's works frequently wrenches us back and forth through time and style; As we are shifted between romanticism and classicism we are left entranced, entertained and certainly captivated by the uncertainties." Neil Powell, Academic/ Curator Further to acquiring my Foundation Degree at Stroud College I became a professional artist following my selection to take part in "StartARt" in the Saatchi Gallery, London in 2017.
I regularly exhibit my work at Art Fairs, Events and Exhibitions throughout the UK, up to 25 times per year; my work is now included in Private collections including Australia, Belgium, France, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the USA. The work expresses feelings and memories of places rather than purely visual appearances. Through plein air drawings and then the physicality of the paint an image emerges creating a certain ambiguity for the viewer to interpret. After a career of secondary school art teaching Val enjoyed returning to college to complete an MA in Fine Art and now devotes her time to further developing her own art practice. The River Stour and Water Meadows are a constant source of inspiration as well as travels further afield to Cornwall, Scotland, Northumberland France and Australia. Peter Lanyon, Joan Eardley, Hockney and Van Gogh are amongst her many influences Teena studied illustration at Norwich School of Art, and works from her studio on the Norfolk/ Suffolk border. Her work has been featured in national and international magazines, and her most recent collaboration is a product range for Maison Fragonard, Paris. Norwich based award winning artist and curator. Working mainly as a painter but also producing 3D site specific pieces. Brian paints with the aim of capturing the moment. Working both plein air and in the studio his work is varied in style and approach but their is an exploratory thread that unites his work into a cohesive body. Never resting he is constantly evolving and striving to push his paintings into new areas. Nandini Sharma will be arriving from India especially for Art Fair East 2022. She has enjoyed painting for a decade. The artist says "the calm happiness she feels when painting is evoked in her work." I'm from Norfolk, studied art / illustration at Norwich and Humberside in the 90's. I discovered 'rolling ball sculpture' as niche form of art 15 yrs ago, and have since taught myself to weld and build my own machines. Since then, I've built pieces for private commissions, museum display, and for medical demonstration purposes. The machines must 'evolve' through continued testing during the construction, giving me (and hopefully the onlooker) a tangible antidote to the digital world we are required to live in. I make ink drawings. I also love to explore different ways to portray my sketchy lines using linocuts and monoprinting. Recently with printmaking, I have been enjoying making blocks which are suggestive of book illustrations, but also the more painterly medium of monoprints, the immediacy of the lines created similar to the energy of my ink drawings. As someone who regularly attends life drawing, this results in a balance of work which is often illustrative in nature but occasionally work based on the female figure informed life experiences.
Rachel Collier-Wilson been a practicing artist since gaining a BA Fine Art in 1990 from Central Saint Martins School of Art. Rachel creates an emotional response to her surroundings, particularly in nature, highlighting the richness of our natural environment and adding a suggestive narrative. Having always drawn, Rachel is an avid life drawer, sometimes brings in images of the female form into her work. Rachel also continues with her printmaking practice, exploring different ways to portray her sketchy line. Originally from Rochester in Kent, I now live in the Suffolk village of Ixworth. I have always drawn (I have worked in engineering design for 30 or so years) but after a serious illness in 2012 I decided to put more effort into creative drawing. The work of American realist artist Edward Hopper is a major influence, as is Film Noir. I have exhibited at the RA Summer Exhibition (2015), won the 'President's Award' at the UK Coloured Pencil Society Open Exhibition (2017), and 'Best In Show' (Colour) at the Society of Graphic Fine Art Open Exhibition (2019). Contemporary mixed media artist working from studio in Suffolk interpreting the the landscape that I visit or have visited, A figure and portrait artist, my paintings concentrate on women and are a commentary on the weight of expectations placed on the female sex. With a particular focus on the physical body and the scrutiny to which is it commonly subjected, my paintings explore what society expects of a woman, the ways in which her physical shape is often considered to define her, and the impact that this has on her life and sense of self.
Working in oils I build my subject with thin layers, shade over shade, colour over colour. I aim to keep each layer barely perceptible, each one contributing to the whole in ways that can’t always be seen. Colour is crucial as I seek to highlight pigments in the skin that can often go unnoticed, emphasising and sometimes exaggerating them in order that I might accentuate their beauty. Contemporary paintings in acrylic, watercolour or mixed media Excited by colour and texture I specialize in painting negatively. This a technique which enables jewel-like transparent colours to shine out of my work, it also forces me to paint in an abstracted style. Adopting this approach has stopped me from being too detailed and has given my work much more life and vibrancy. Whilst I carefully plan my subject, colours, and composition, the magic only happens in the final stages when I add in the opaque lights and the painting emerges from the background.
Hilary Garner graduated with an Art Diploma from Anteros Arts Foundation in Norwich.
She works from her own studio in Holton, painting portraits in oils and pastels. She has recently been focused on still life subjects and landscapes of vineyards. Whatever the subject or medium, Hilary uses bold brushstrokes with thick paint and an enhanced colour palette to create an expressive painting in what has become her signature style. Hilary exhibits in a number of galleries in East Anglia and is a member of Suffolk Open Studios.
Commissions welcome.
Norma Read is a member of the Association of Animal Artists, Norma is a portrait and animal artist capturing unique character, fun and humour, much of which she observes during long walks with her camera and sketch book. Loving strong colour and texture, she can also be found working on bright landscapes and still lifes, often with palette knives, in her studio in Lowestoft, Suffolk.Norma's work is exhibited and sold in galleries throughout East Anglia, online or by appointment from her studio which will be open as part of Suffolk Ellis King is a Norwich based artist specialising in contemporary figurative art.
Born in 1989, King’s work explores the individual and collective experience of being a woman in the 21st century. Portraits are often infused with bold and alarming strokes of colour which represent the juxtaposition of the lived experience as a woman with the gendered patriarchal narrative. Her work intends to protest the inequalities society continues to construct for women. Claire Oxley's work is distinctive because of the intensity of colour palette, and rhythmic surrounding landscapes, influenced by her experience of synaesthesia In her emotive paintings, Bella Bigsby combines tangible elements of the world around her with an imagined nature. She draws on her memories of home, feelings for landscape and a love of myth and fairytale.
Animals and birds that have a rich folkloric tradition are particularly intriguing to her as they are infused with layers of human history as well as their own unknowable narratives.
For Bella, nature is a separate yet parallel world. She is most interested in the quiet presence of this world, where it touches our everyday one. Familiar birds and trees are to her endlessly rich in beauty and meaning. Having lived and worked in Oakland, California for many years, Bella recently relocated back to her native home of Norfolk, England. A self taught Artist focusing on creating work with fine detail. Drawing with pen, painting with ink and inspired by nature, Astra creates realism art depicting the beauty of animals with a colourful twist. The splash of colour Astra adds to her work has become a signature style and is easily recognisable alongside her classical monochrome drawings. Anna Boon’s sculptures capture the ethereal beauty and movement of the figure. These unique, semi-abstract forms are created with fabric resin using recycled materials. From those, some are made into limited editions in cold cast metals. A Heart of Glass are a mobile and online gallery specialising in contemporary art glass. We seek out the most artistic and inspired designs from across the world and bring them to the discerning customer here in the UK. Our unique 3-dimensional art pieces add a touch of colour, design and personality to your home. Louise Stebbing
Louise is a traditional printmaker working in mostly etchings & linocuts. She has just had a major Retrospective - 40 Years of Printmaking in Cambridge. She has exhibited extensively and won several prizes for her work.
Susan Lynda Taylor
I love colour and texture. I love the beauty of nature and believe colours affect our feelings and mood and has the ability to lift us. When I paint I want to create beauty. I want to look and not just glance but to be able to go back and look again and again and see new things and beauty that I had not noticed before. It is beyond explanation the love which I feel and put into my work and the joy I feel when someone takes one of my paintings home with them because they love it too.
I’m a self taught artist who predominantly paints in watercolour. My style is loose contemporary and I love to paint portraits/ still life / landscapes/ cityscapes. I aspire to pursue exiting directions, developing and progressing my art . I love the way watercolour allows me to interpret light and mood in the subjects I paint . I work pleinair as much as I can and also produce work in my studio . I’m always striving to create a visual story for the viewer to enjoy ! Waveney Valley artists Paul and Ally Zawadzki work on the principal of embracing the happy accident; and often share resources – ideas and matter from one piece can kick-start another. Both work in a tactile manner, with Ally destroying initial cement and fabric pieces, transforming them into final artwork, and Paul incorporating oils, unprimed canvas, rusted steel, poured varnish and even detritus from the studio floor. Spontaneous use of recycled and ‘found’ objects also forms part of
their practice, which is primarily about the unpredictability of the natural world, looking beneath the surface of the landscape that surrounds us and raising questions about preconceptions and tactile experience. Shelley has spent many years refining her practice to create still lifes based in the tradition of the genre, but very much for today’s walls.
She has an honours degree in photography from the University of Westminster and is holder of the Royal Society of Photographers’ Associate Distinction. Her work is internationally collected and she welcomes the opportunity exhibiting her work gives her to talk to those interested in the world of still life. She lives and works in East Suffolk where she delights in using locally grown produce to create her still life photographs Bold in brushstroke, definitive in style, I recreate vibrancy and warmth creating pictures with a sense of belonging. Jill is a self taught Artist whose art career has taken off since Lockdown 2020, and in two years she has sold over 80 originals. Jill has a passion for colour, maths and interiors. She loves working with customers to choose or create the perfect artwork for their home. Jill uses acrylics, spray paint and inks to create artwork which is so full of colours, textures and layers that you notice something new every time you look. The best thing about abstract art is that the more you look, the more you see. Artist and designer, he paints and prints digitally, creating limited edition prints on paper and metal, and also large format limited edition artists’ books, which are works of art in their own right. His work has received multiple awards and is represented in many of the Special Collections in the UK and USA, including the British Library and Library of Congress, Washington.Clifton Fine Art
Will Teather
Andy Walker
Val Bright Jones
Teena Vallerine
Brian Korteling
Shreekalaarts
Robert Moore
Rachel Collier-Wilson Creative With Line
Patrick Wilkins Drawings
Kevin Southgate
Karen Turner
Jane Cochrane
Garner + Read
Ellis King
Claire Oxley
Bella Bigsby
Astra
Anna Boon
A Heart of Glass
Susan Lynda Taylor and Louise Stebbings
Colin Revell
Paul Zawadzki and Ally Zawadzki
Shelley Nott Fine Art Photographer
Patricia Robinson
Jill Blakey Art
Leslie Gerry Editions