My task as a painter is to render my feelings, emotions and reactions to the world I live in, through the materiality of paint.
Mike is a figurative painter whose work meditates on mortality and life’s transience by focusing on the lives of historical figures and abstracts found images into original artworks using depth, colour, texture, and light.
I paint stories, emotional, visual memories of my life.
I work intuitively, the paintings tend to reveal themselves to me.
Narrative, humour and atmosphere play a large part of explaining the situation.
My inspiration comes from the surrounding countryside,particularly the woods,rivers & streams.
Seb West is a St. Ives born artist who has spent over 30 years producing vivid, contemporary paintings of the Cornish landscape from his own unique perspective. Initially recognised for his painted linocut reliefs, Seb has since diversified across a wide range of media and styles. Since 2012 he has been creating mainly abstract and semi-abstract works which incorporate heavy textures and a variety of patinas including metallic paints and metal leaf.
Born in Leamington Spa, Mary undertook her art education at Mid Warwickshire College of Art and Goldsmiths College, London. She taught art and crafts in London before moving to Cornwall in the early 1970s. Since 1998 she has been involved with the Rambert Dance Company during their visits to the Hall for Cornwall, working with them during rehearsal. In 2005 she was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize.
Bob Dawson’s work has been inspired by environmental and maritime issues taken from studies of the South West coast line.