The SurfaceTENsion Artists
Michael Wallner
www.michaelwallner.co.uk
Michael worked as a television producer for many years working on several hundred programmes including light entertainment shows, documentaries and animations. But his true passion is creating art on unusual surfaces. His work celebrates the beauty of the city through the shapes and outlines that define its landmarks and character. He manipulates his own photographs to create his art using a variety of materials including brushed aluminium, reclaimed wood, neon, L.E.D light installations, even 1930s windows. He has exhibited in London, New York, Singapore and Milan. |
Jane Wachman
www.janewachman.com
Having worked in the fashion industry for many years Jane turned her talents to the arts. Her work as an artist references the ever-changing outlines of the landscape. Jane’s gestural paintings exude energy, movement and bold, vivid colours, often on a large scale. She has a long history of prestigious exhibitions including the Threadneedle Prize. |
Alex Rennie
www.alexrennie.co.uk
Alex has exhibited widely, both internationally and domestically, including a solo Cork Street show with Waterhouse & Dodd. Rennie’s work has been selected for several competitions including the John Moores painting prize, the BP portrait prize exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, the Lynn Painter- Stainers prize and the ING Discerning eye exhibitions. His recent body of work features ships laden with our desired commodities sailing into an automated future. Playing around with the perspective of both the consumer and the containers – this series asks whether we control the boxes or do they control us? Dramatic seascapes, setting suns and starlit skies are the backdrop for Alex’s colourful cargo ships and holographic trees in a dystopian world where our desires have outpaced our natural resources. |
Rob Murray
www.robmurraypaintings.com
Rob Murray’s paintings explore his connection to the British rural landscape, particularly his home in the South of England. Recent work has also been inspired by time spent in Cornwall, the Yorkshire Dales, Suffolk and the Lake District. He uses a wide variety of media in each painting, from oils and acrylics through to house paints, pastels, inks, enamel spray paints, charcoal and coloured pencil. Rob’s paintings are as much about the act of mark-making as they are about depicting a particular landscape or location. He wants the process of painting to show through, and for each painting to maintain the spontaneity and energy with which it was produced. Murray is also a highly regarded cartoonist, with work published in Private Eye, The Sunday Times, Spectator, to name but a few. |
LoveJordan
www.lovejordan.net
LoveJordan is the collaborative works of artists Jonny Love and Samuel Jordan. They work in a large variety of mediums and produce a wide range of interesting and intricate pieces. They are fascinated by complexity, en masse, sprawling cities, human desire to fill empty spaces and miniatures. They've created many pieces exploring these themes including: excessively large ink works of London seemingly flowing into infinity; an estimated 36,000 ink and pencil coloured tessellating shapes on a single piece of paper; a miniature library made entirely out of paper containing over 100,000 elements; an elaborate marble run with 66 entangled tracks and thousands of found publication dots and commas gathered on a single canvas. Over the years LoveJordan have been commissioned by a variety of high profile clients including the BBC and the Saudi Royal family as well as a number of corporate and private collectors. |
Rose Long
www.roselong.com
Rose was brought up in South Africa and has practiced as an architect since the early 1980's and continues to do so, while concentrating increasingly on painting. She paints in collaboration with two partners – Water and Gravity. The elements of chance and complex variability, that these introduce, allow her work to become an interplay of intention and the often unexpected result of the laws of physics. Using this technique, she explores the character and emotion behind the façade of her subjects. These subjects sit in an energetic atmosphere comprising of light and shadow in space. Her chosen palette often uses the varied tones in one hue. |
Richard Knight
www.richardknight.art
After an upbringing on the family farm on the coast of North Cornwall Richard left his tractor behind to train in graphic design and illustration. Now, as a full time artist the great outdoors, people, cities, landscapes and their interactions are his inspiration. Richard's work seeks to capture a moment of impression, as when emerging from an underground station into a busy unfamiliar sunlit street, heightened senses, momentary bright light blindness, the confusion of information, noise and movement – each painting seeks to create that initial hazy impression of place fused with precise primary detail, a lamppost, tree, vehicle, a shop window, a rushing commuter. Richard’s work hangs in private collections in Europe, the Middle East and the United States. |
Tim Goffe
www.timgoffestudio.com
Tim Goffe has gained a reputation as an accomplished and collected painter, and has won prestigious painting prizes and been selected for inclusion in high-profile gallery exhibitions. His choice of subject matter, coupled with an instinct for composition and expressive handling of paint, result in stimulating scenes that imply a narrative but never fully explain themselves. From disused industrial yards and empty shops, to the tops of New York skyscrapers, the absence of human figures in Goffe's compositions heightens the sense of atmosphere by suggesting that the viewer is alone in the environment. Vacant and forgotten shopfronts are painted with a vitality which reminds the onlooker that these were once thriving places. He looks for beauty in the ordinary, and meaning in the banal. Themes develop but light is always the starting point. |
Ella Freire
www.ellafreire.com
Ella Freire is a silk screen printer. Having a passion for classic cars, amongst other vintage interests, she has been inspired to produce her collection of classic car prints. She has also been fascinated with hearing stories about her Grandfather racing round Brooklands, in his Bugatti in the 1930’s, and these have also caught her imagination. Ella is now currently working on a series of commissions for private car collectors. The shape and style of all of these beautifully designed cars is a huge inspiration to Ella. The printing process used allows her to highlight specific areas of each car, in a simple deconstruction of colours, which is then built back up using a layering mix of metallic, gloss and matt substrates. These prints are then framed in flame polished acrylic. |
Photo credit for the brilliant photography on this page
With thanks to Nicholas Gentilli www.NicholasGentilli.com |