PERSONAL ART SHOWS
ART23
Art23
Art23 is a dynamic art house specialising in the development of new
art. We create art that is a little different, often quirky, sometimes
challenging but always fresh. We are made up of 30 international artists
drawn from the UK, France, Poland and China. We are all established
artists who have been exhibiting and developing our personal styles
for many years. The main drive of the group is to show our art in
an enjoyable and accessible way. Over the last 10 years we have
developed personal shows to allow people to see our work in their own
homes.
Personal Art Shows
The Personal Art Shows are an opportunity for you to play with the art
in your own home. You can sit back and be entertained for an hour as
we show you up to 100 pieces of great art from our eclectic collection.
The ethos of the personal show is to create an art experience. It is
about introducing you to the collection. If you fall in love with a piece
of art we strongly recommend that you take a photograph in situ and
deliberate at your leisure.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the following artists for allowing us to include
their works in this publication:
Neil Plunket, Neil Davies, Philip Raskin, Gary Long, Stephen Rippington,
David Bez, Luke Knight, Patrick Shepard, Phil Lambert and Yang xian.
Featured ArtistsDave HancockCai ju zhenAmanda FiskColin ClarkDamian KyneTQXGrzegorz LerkaHanna DavisPeter CameronGabriel KyneYuan chi luanFiona MorleyLucienne LasalleCarl HahnDavid EatonChristine & TomLiu chang songNicky Bird
PaintingsAbstraction SeascapesLandscapesCity LifeSculptureGlassStill LifeThe FigurePortraitureThe Natural World
Abstraction
Seascapes
Landscapes
City Life
Sculpture
Glass
Still Life
The Figure
Portraiture
The Natural World
Amanda FiskAmanda’s work explores the colour, texture and contrast of the environment. It is an exploration of where the sky meets the land. She has a highly developed and unique way of abstracting the forms of nature and colour. Her inspirations have been her beautiful Cornish home and her many travels in the US and Europe. Amanda sculpts her work developing texture and paint together. The striking colours are built up with a palette knife overlay technique which gives a natural
Cai juz henCai ju zhen’s work combines her traditional Chinese art training with a modern impressionist sensibility, which gives her work a timelessness. She cites Maurice Denis and Li hua sheng as strong influences on the development of her style.Cai ju zhen studied at Xiamen University and is a contemporary of Lui changsong. She is shown in Beijing and Xiamen. She is represented by Art23 in the UK.
Carl HahnCarl Hahn describes himself as a furniture maker but to the outside world he is a natural sculptor. His method seeks to introduce the intense harmonies of landscape to indoor environments. It creates a tension between the purely practical world of furniture and that of beautiful sculpture.Carl uses a highly physical process of stripping away wood to simulate the weathering created under extremes of natural conditions. The work starts with the
Christine & TomChristine Relton and Tom Marine are among the most successful collaborative artists working in the UK. They create works which investigate the drawn line, form and colour of their beloved Yorkshire home and their many travels.The work is created from each person’s unique input. The paintings depth comes from the multiple glazing and reworks required to bring a piece to harmony. Their work is a perfect balance of Christine’s strong sense of form and Tom’s love and
Colin ClarkColin’s work is an intriguing exploration of city light and atmosphere. His work explores the architectural strength of bridges and buildings at times when the natural light softens the structure. Colin has a very sophisticated tonal style. His colours when observed closely are rich and often vibrant. Colin studied at Cheltenham Art College. He developed his career in both art jewellery and painting. He exhibits throughout the UK.
Grzegorz simultaneously explores the outward and inward world of the female performer. He is intrigued by the expression of outward confidence built on a deep unconscious world. Grzegorz’s work is a beautifully crafted marriage between figurative work and dreamy expressionism. His characters are all composed in slight juxtapositions creating intriguing compositions. Grzegorz is a master of colour and his subtle brush work creates a mysterious
Damian KyneDamian’s work is about light and form. The movement of people through the built environment is caught in mysterious and striking shapes. His work has been described as a Film Noir exploration of city life.Damian paints with a restricted palette creating silhouetted characters with tonal depth. The use of light and shade in the work makes the work highly unique and arresting. The laying on of paint gives a subtle level of impasto which assists in
Dave Hancock
Grzegorz Lerka
Dave Hancock’s work is about hidden intimate spaces. Dave finds these spaces in his studies of the ocean and his beloved Gloucestershire orchard. His fish series explores the intimacy and dynamism of the shoal; whilst his tree series is a deeply
intimate study of the friends that comprise his orchard.
Gabriel KyneAmanda’s work explores the colour, texture and contrast of the environment. It is an exploration of where the sky meets the land. She has a highly developed and unique way of abstracting the forms of nature and colour. Her inspirations have been her beautiful Cornish home and her many travels in the US and Europe. Amanda sculpts her work developing texture and paint together. The striking colours are built up with a palette knife overlay technique which gives a natural
David EatonDave Hancock’s work is about hidden intimate spaces. Dave finds these spaces in his studies of the ocean and his beloved Gloucestershire orchard. His fish series explores the intimacy and dynamism of the shoal; whilst his tree series is a deeply
intimate study of the friends that comprise his orchard.
Liu chang songAmanda’s work explores the colour, texture and contrast of the environment. It is an exploration of where the sky meets the land. She has a highly developed and unique way of abstracting the forms of nature and colour. Her inspirations have been her beautiful Cornish home and her many travels in the US and Europe. Amanda sculpts her work developing texture and paint together. The striking colours are built up with a palette knife overlay technique which gives a natural
Lucienne LasalleCai ju zhen’s work combines her traditional Chinese art training with a modern impressionist sensibility, which gives her work a timelessness. She cites Maurice Denis and Li hua sheng as strong influences on the development of her style.Cai ju zhen studied at Xiamen University and is a contemporary of Lui changsong. She is shown in Beijing and Xiamen. She is represented by Art23 in the UK.
Nicky BirdCarl Hahn describes himself as a furniture maker but to the outside world he is a natural sculptor. His method seeks to introduce the intense harmonies of landscape to indoor environments. It creates a tension between the purely practical world of furniture and that of beautiful sculpture.Carl uses a highly physical process of stripping away wood to simulate the weathering created under extremes of natural conditions. The work starts with the
Peter CameronChristine Relton and Tom Marine are among the most successful collaborative artists working in the UK. They create works which investigate the drawn line, form and colour of their beloved Yorkshire home and their many travels.The work is created from each person’s unique input. The paintings depth comes from the multiple glazing and reworks required to bring a piece to harmony. Their work is a perfect balance of Christine’s strong sense of form and Tom’s love and
Hannah DaviesCai ju zhen’s work combines her traditional Chinese art training with a modern impressionist sensibility, which gives her work a timelessness. She cites Maurice Denis and Li hua sheng as strong influences on the development of her style.Cai ju zhen studied at Xiamen University and is a contemporary of Lui changsong. She is shown in Beijing and Xiamen. She is represented by Art23 in the UK.
TQX
Yuan chi luanDamian’s work is about light and form. The movement of people through the built environment is caught in mysterious and striking shapes. His work has been described as a Film Noir exploration of city life.Damian paints with a restricted palette creating silhouetted characters with tonal depth. The use of light and shade in the work makes the work highly unique and arresting. The laying on of paint gives a subtle level of impasto which assists in
Tu qi xian is simply a master of modern impressionist painting. He has strongly influenced a number of the artists in Art23 with his style and colour work. His work focuses on finding the beauty of the moment. The work induces a tranquil and meditative quality both in its creation and observation. He works with a mix of paint brush and palette work to build subtle tonal colours counterpointed by large textural highlights. The overall effect is to create work which has a strong three
Amanda’s work explores the colour, texture and contrast of the environment. It is an exploration of where the sky meets the land. She has a highly developed and unique way of abstracting the forms of nature and colour. Her inspirations have been her beautiful Cornish home and her many travels in the US and Europe. Amanda sculpts her work developing texture and paint together. The striking colours are built up with a palette knife overlay technique which gives a natural
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Hannah Davies
Hannah’s painting catches the transient movement in life.
In her collection of window reflections the scenes of urban
life are unravelled in a mysterious and haunting way. The
tonal works of bird flocks give a feeling of flight and air
turbulence; they say something of the essence of birds.
Hannah’s work achieves a mysterious atmosphere by using
transparent layers of oil paint, built up slowly, so that each
layer is still visible on the canvas. Her restricted tonal
palette inspires a great sense of tranquillity in her pictures.
Hannah Davies studied at Falmouth Fine Art School. She
exhibits throughout the UK and US.
Peter Cameron
Peter Cameron is an inveterate people
watcher. Throughout his colourful life he has
acquired a collection of quirky characters and
odd happenings. These are all wonderfully
captured in his work - from naked joggers to
fat bottomed cellists. In this year’s collection
he is working with his friend, Gabriel Kyne, to
create oil based versions of his work. These
are large pieces that bring his characters
leaping out of the canvas.
Peter started his artistic career behind
bars. While taking an art class in prison he
discovered he had a talent and was later
greatly supported by Judge Tumin. This
launched him into a successful career and
he is now a well respected artist and trustee
of the ‘Prison Art Movement’. He is shown
throughout the UK and US.
Gabriel KyneGabriel has a deep love of landscape.
He spends many hours walking and
observing the play of light in nature.
His work is about the forms created
between the natural world and the
built environment - how one informs
the other and creates spaces which are
both natural and luminous.
His compositions are expressed in strong palette
work that displays surprising delicacy. The
paintings have a deep richness of colour created
by countless overworked layers. Gabriel believes
that it is the interplay between colour and texture
which enables painting to capture the essence of
landscape form.
Gabriel studied at University College London and
University of West of England. Throughout his
career he has always been seeking to combine
Science and Art. In the last 10 years he has
focused on his first love, painting. His work is
grounded in the belief that craft and vision must
be married together to create art.
Yuan chi luan
Yuan chi luan has a strong modern impressionist
brush, tempered with the eye of an illustrator.
Her still lifes are fresh and idiosyncratic. She
loves how the inanimate can tell the story of
our inner lives, combining a daringly large and
generous brush with an ability to render the
true sense of things. Her use of colour and light
creates paintings with an uplifting quality.
She studied at Guangzhou School of Fine Art and
shows in Guangzhou, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
She recently won a Gold Medal at the Guangzhou
art fair.
Fiona Morley
Fiona’s wire figures are a very
personal capture of people’s intimate
connection. In her hands wire becomes
a drawn material which shines a light
on every curve and quirk of the human
form.
The work is constructed as 3D
drawings from fine jewellery wire
and set floating a few inches above
the canvas. The play of light then
casts shadows which create a multi-
dimensional art form.
Fiona studied at Edinburgh College
of Art and now lives and works in
Brighton. Her work is shown in
galleries throughout the UK.
Lucianne Lasalle
Lucianne works in clay, stone and canvas to express the
human form. Her figures are finely observed explorations of
form and movement. The figures are always expressive and
caught in mid moment. They are built up from real life sketch
work, to clay form and then often into stone carving or brass
casts.
Lucianne studied at Middlesex and Winchester Schools of Fine
Art. Her studio is based in South Devon where she works and
teaches sculpture. She exhibits widely throughout the UK.
Carl Hahn
Carl Hahn describes himself as a furniture maker but to the outside world he is a natural sculptor. His method seeks to introduce the intense harmonies of landscape to indoor environments. It creates a tension between the purely practical world of furniture and that of beautiful sculpture.
Carl uses a highly physical process of stripping away wood to simulate the weathering created under extremes of natural conditions. The work starts with the trade of the cabinet maker and is finished by the arts of the sculptor. The furniture is finally dressed with handles found on his walks on beaches and woodlands.
Carl exhibits throughout Europe and the US.
David Eaton
David’s paintings are carefully crafted studies of
people playing. His interest lies in the patterns of
intimacy and separation we create in public spaces.
The beach is a place where natural patterns of
relationships come to the fore.
This exhibition shows David’s skill with the palette knife and
impressionist brush. In his small paintings you can see his
sophisticated use of colour and texture. The larger paintings
are created with a real sense of lightness and joy; this is
especially reinforced by his loose brush and brightening
palette.
David Eaton was born in Taunton Somerset and later studied
art at Mississippi Art College, USA. He returned to his home in
the South West in 1999 and paints and works in Bristol.
Christine and Tom
Christine Relton and Tom Marine are among the most successful collaborative artists working in the UK. They create works which investigate the drawn line, form and colour of their beloved Yorkshire home and their many travels.
The work is created from each person’s unique input. The paintings depth comes from the multiple glazing and reworks required to bring a piece to harmony. Their work is a perfect balance of Christine’s strong sense of form and Tom’s love and knowledge of colour. For them the painting is finished ‘when it just feels right’.
Christine and Tom have been painting for 25 years. Christine Studied at Jacob Kramer in Leeds and Lancaster University. Tom graduated from Byam Shaw and Chelsea College of Art.
Liu chang song
Liu chang song is at home with both abstract and fine
art painting. In all his works he uses a fine brush with a
precise observation of form and colour. The abstracts are an
exploration of the urban and natural world. The colour work is
developed by a build up of glazing to create shimmering depth.
His realist works are close observations of mundane items
which provide an archaeological record of how we live. They
cover themes from the contents of handbags to hyper-detailed
washing pegs.
Lui chang song studied at Xian Fine Art College and Xiamen
University. He now works in Xiamen alongside Cai ju zhen and
Tu qi xian.
Nicky Bird
Nicky Bird has worked in the art world
for the last fifteen years developing
her painting, trompe l’oeil and mural
work. She has an incredible sense of
design and colour, creating pieces with
a strange and beautiful symmetry. Her
understanding of the human figure is
also highly developed and personal.
This year’s collection of her work
delves into the mysterious and
iridescent world of insects. Her belief
is that insects capture the space in
the human psyche of both beauty and
revulsion.
Nicky studied at Bristol Fine Art College
and teaches and works in the South
West. She exhibits widely in the UK.
Art 23 Commissions
All the artists in Art23 are active in carrying out commissioned
work. This can be a great way of getting the piece with the
right size and feel for your house. Due to our love of creating
pieces of art, Art23 will often carry out commissioned work
where there is no obligation to purchase the finished piece.
Art23 Portraits
Art23 is interested in developing portraiture which expresses
more of the person and the things they love. These can be
formal posed portraits, or fleeting ‘caught in the moment’
images which give a sense of the whole.
Art23 Exhibitions
Art23 exhibits at local and national shows throughout the UK.
Art23 Charitable Giving
Art23 donates 10% of its exhibitions sales to Sponsored
Arts for Education (www.sponsoredarts.org). This is a high
impact theatre group working in Africa to get the message out
about AIDS so that people better understand how to protect
themselves and to prevent the spread of AIDS.
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