2nd - 8th Nov 2009

Shiroma Ratne

Painting and printmaking, Shiroma studied and graduated from Kent Institute of Art and Design and Camberwell College of Arts. Rich in colour and texture, her work descibes a sensual and thought provoking quality. Her work is in essence a reflection and a fragment of imagination combined with human passion, emotion and dreams.
In terms of technique, her images come alive in a gradual process. She works through layering her pieces of art work achieving the desired outcome. The energy and the movement emanating from her work give the viewer a somewhat rather a different experience. She now lives in south london and work from her Streatham Hill studio.

9th - 15th Nov 2009

Kate Newington

Kate Newington's practice involves using cut and torn paper from magazines, scraps of wrapping paper, newspaper, catalogues, packaging, and junkmail - in fact anything from the deluge of paper with which we're daily assaulted. She also works with fabric, cord, sand, and paper images manipulated in Photoshop. The materials she uses to make up her pictures are very much ‘found’ or ‘lighted upon’ in the spirit of Kurt Schwitters. She likes the idea that something as formal and prescribed as a portrait can be rendered with such disparate and random elements.
 A large part of what Kate makes using this technique are portraits, mostly by private commission, but she has also had illustration commissions for magazines and newspapers including the Observer, Time magazine and The Big Issue as well as galleries in London, Rome and St Ives.

16th - 22nd Nov 2009

Lilly Mandarano

Born in Canada, artist and writer Lilly now lives and works in South London. She is currently studying at Wimbledon College of Art and has previously exhibited at Urban Art in Brixton, London. She draws inspiration from film, architecture and design and has a keen interest in the way colour and textures can illustrate motion. She creates tactile and exciting canvases from a range of fabrics. They are individual and vibrant and reminiscent of abstract painting. Her most recent interest in painting explores how states of being can be represented through surface and form.

She has been writing for many years with works being published in the UK and Canada. Lilly recently performed some of her poetry at the Red Gate Gallery and organised a poetry and music event for the Streatham Festival. Her writing and visual art often merge and enrich the other.

23rd - 29th Nov 2009

Robert Kellard and Antoinette Williams

Robert Kellard's paintings are inspired by nature and the elements, the sky and the sea. He became fascinated by this subject after travelling in the Caribbean and working on an environmental project in Tobago; a constant theme has been the movement and lure of the sea.
Other paintings are inspired by the British landscape from travels in Snowdonia, while surfing in Devon and Cornwall, and while walking and living in the city. The paintings are not attempts to reproduce a particular scene or view but rather they explore texture and colour relationships to evoke or recall feelings and experiences and to pass these on to the viewer.

Antoinette Williams paints images of those around her and objects that inspire. During my portrait painting series of singers and actresses she won the Brixton Open with a portrait painted from an automatic drawing entitled ‘Dance Hall Queen, No. 1.’ As a yoga teacher she looks for the positive in the world and this has led to her ‘Smile’ series of paintings and written research.
Antoinette paints in acrylics and uses a mixture of drawing from life photography and computer manipulation. Her inspiration comes from people and nature and she tries to produce art works that transmit a sense of calm and of appreciation for the natural and man-made world.

30th Nov - 6th Dec 2009

Jonathan Cowell, Mo Lewis, Kate Pritchard and Wendy Straw

Jonathan Cowell has lived and worked in Lambeth for the last 25 years, painting from his studio in West Norwood. His work is largely figurative and draws from a variety of sources. Often the subject revolves around the idea of a sense of place and his common subject is London streets, houses, people and parks. Drawing based, the paintings use a combination of observed imagery, memory, imagination and the unexpected nature of the medium to create a life of their own.

Mo Lewis lives and works in London.  She studied art at Wimbledon Art School then taught Art & Design at various schools and colleges, as well as running community workshops.  Between 2004 and 2007 she was a member of the Crystal Palace Artist’s group, and showed work at the annual Signals Festival.  She created a site specific installation in a group show in Bermondsey, and recently took part in a performance piece at the GX Gallery for the artist Carlos Cortes.  Her practice includes painting, collage and photography.  She also walks as a means of mapping the areas where she lives.

Kate Pritchard A figurative artist, working primarily in ceramic and paint. Recent projects have included putting a person on the Plinth at Trafalgar Square in One and Other, exhibiting with the East End Arts Club, and preparing for a solo exhibition in South London. She trained at Chelsea College of Art & Design in Fine Art, Camberwell and London College of Fashion.

Wendy Straw is an experienced printer and textile designer using a variety of dying methods, screen-printing and hand painting to achieve bright strong colours. She is highly influenced by oriental art using quite primitive tools to create sculptural hanging pieces.

She is currently working with scanned natural objects and using the computer to develop ideas into print and painting with acrylic onto canvas. Wendy enjoys the way she can combine her love of nature, her time in the garden and allotment, seed collecting... in fact anything she can fit in her scanner. The joy of seeing how shapes, colours and patterns occur naturally are a constant fascination.

7th - 13th Dec 2009

Lucy Duke

Lucy Duke graduated from Camberwell School of Art and has exhibited widely throughout the UK and Europe. “Whether landscape, still life or interior it is the artist’s challenge to find the exact equivalent for a panorama of different perceptions. I draw directly with watercolour or pastel on paper allowing an immediacy to engage with the here and now.” She lives and works locally in Herne Hill or further afield for landscapes and has worked by commission.

14th - 20th Dec 2009

Lisa Clonan and Nat Gillespie

Lisa Clonan was born in Camden, London in 1982. The main themes running though her work, which is painted oils on canvas, are a play on texture within British and Irish landscapes, but also emotionally charged work with paintings of the homeless. Lisa is also studying for her MA in Art Therapy at the University of Hertfordshire.

Nat Gillespie graduated from the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford before moving to South London in 2008. Her practice is very much an exploration of the 'self' which in the past has focused on the body, space and emotion by creating environments that change and develop slowly over time; environments that allow her to explore herself openly, inviting others to do the same.

Her most recent work has involved ideas of gender/feminism and morality; both her own personal struggle with these issues and the responses of oppression from others. Moving to London, and out of the nurturing environments of education, has led to new ways of approaching her art; abundance is no more and self imposed, yet unwanted, restraint is demanded.

21st - 30th Dec 2009

Izzi Ramsay

Photography for Izzi Ramsay is concerned not only with the image itself, but also with the underlying, and sometimes subversive, meaning in what is represented, and sometimes also with that which is not represented. Izzi undertook a long-term project on the nude, including self-portraiture, the female nude, the male nude and mother-and-child, culminating in a solo show ‘Material Bodies’ at Morley Gallery, London 2007. Recent work includes ‘Hauntings’ - a photographic installation about memory and decay; ‘In the Mists of Time’ - photographs of gardens and parklands; ‘Openings’ - a series on doors/openings around the world; ‘Reverie de Lumiere’ - explorations with light.  Izzi will also be showing her latest portraits.
Izzi works as an independent photographer and art psychotherapist. Education: BA (Hons) Photography, Post Graduate Diploma in Art Psychotherapy, Goldsmiths College: MA Cultural Memory, University of London. Her photographs have been exhibited in galleries throughout the UK.

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