Basia Burroughs

Basia Burroughs studied at Camberwell College of Art and is now a full-time portrait painter after 25 years teaching Art in schools. She has exhibited extensively in London and undertakes private commissions.

April Yasamee

April Yasamee uses everyday materials that are non-exclusive and occur in our daily lives in the city. Her recent work has been in newspaper and paper mache.In my job as a librarian, she deals with the passage of information and knowledge. Her artwork seeks to incorporate this transitory aspect through the use of light and shadow play. She has put installations in university libraries, intending them to be aids to studying.

e-mail address: a.yasamee@gold.ac.uk

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Anita Klein

Anita Klein studied at Chelsea and the Slade Schools of Art. In 2003 she was elected president of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers (PRE) and has exhibited extensively throughout the UK, the USA, Europe and Australia, where she has work in many private and public collections, including the Arts Council of Great Britain. Awards include the Henrique Scholarship, Slade School of Art; Joseph Webb Award, Royal Society of Painter Printmakers; John Purcell Awards and University of Wales Purchase Prize, National Print Exhibition.

“It is nice to have a real humorist recruited to the ranks of gifted painters. She is to be congratulated on livening up our dreary lives” – Art Review.

Klaus Friedeberger

Born in Berlin in 1922, Klaus Friedeberger first came to England as a refugee in 1939 and returned here in 1950 after ten years in Australia. He has painted and exhibited for more than sixty years. For many years now his work is non-figurative and solely in black, white and achromatic greys. More recent is his occasional use of ‘metallic’ paint, introducing some gold, sliver etc into his paintings. The acrylic work on paper in the Art Draw is such a painting. His work is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, the British Museum and private collections in England, the USA, Australia and Europe.

Mali Morris

Mali Morris has shown nationally and internationally for many years. Her work is in private, public and corporate collections around the world, including the Arts Council of Great Britain, the British Council, the Contemporary Arts Society and the Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester.From two recent reviews in Contemporary Visual Arts:“Mali Morris’ intuitive and painterly sensitivities eschew … calculated strategies. Her jewel-like decorative pictures, however simply they present themselves, convey an immediate and deep sense of meditation.”“… there is a silent intensity, all the more mysterious as we realise that what we are experiencing is light more than colour and space as much as forms … she has achieved this economy slowly, through years of intelligent, observant work.”

Geoffrey Rigden

Abstract (linocut, 1'2" x 1') Geoffrey Rigden Geoffrey Ridgen studied at Somerset College of Art and the Royal College of Art. As Visiting Lecturer, he has taught painting at many art colleges in England and was appointed the first Artist in Resident at Cyprus College of Art in 1979, where he returns annually to teach. His predominantly abstract paintings and constructions have been exhibited widely throughout the UK and abroad, including the Serpentine Gallery, John Moores Exhibition Liverpool (prize winner), Hayward Gallery, Manchester University, Flowers East, and in New York, Switzerland and Cyprus. Awards include the Greater London Arts, the Elephant Trust and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation New York. Since 1996 he has worked in a studio at APT, Deptford. His paintings are in numerous private and public collections including the Arts Council and the Fitzwilliam Museum and his work has received critical acclaim in publications such as Geoffrey Rigden - Painter, Artscribe, Earth Wisdom, the London Magazine, Art Crazy Nation and Modern Painters

Heather E. Jones, H.S., S.O.F.A.

Heather Jones initially studied Fine Art at Newport School of Art, followed by a period working in a drawing office on fine scale maps. She then taught Art part-time while pursuing her interest in portrait painting.Over the last decade or so she has concentrated on working on miniatures in watercolours and has exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and with the Royal Miniaturists Society and the Hilliard Society, as well as in privately owned galleries in England, the USA and France. In 2003 she did illustrations for two books – one for children. Specialising in children, cats and dogs, she undertakes commissions and can paint works to suit small frames or lockets etc. She prefers to sketch sitters, but can also work from photographs.e-mail address:HeatherSJ@aol.com

Liz Harrison

Liz Harrison works at the APT studios, Deptford, and teaches at Camberwell College of Arts. She studied at Manchester College of Art & Design and the Slade School of Fine Art.She has regularly exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Last year she exhibited at the Morley Gallery, London and at Kornhauschen Gallery, Germany. Her work moves across a broad range of media and attempts to take on the task of constructing a concrete image of reality that may jolt us into a disquieting and uncomfortable awareness of the thoughts that surround our very personal experiences.

Stephen White has been painting and drawing rural scenes and town views for 32 years and prints all his own work from his workshop. His work can be found in many private and public collections and produced as cards and limited edition prints. Printsure Arts: Tel . 07973 185 950

Robert Tilling, R.I.

Robert Tilling has lived in Jersey since 1968 and has held thirty solo exhibitions, including Exeter University and the Barbican Centre, London. His work has been selected for many mixed exhibitions including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Royal West of England Academy and the Contemporary Arts society. He has gained a number of awards, including the Clevelend Drawing Biennale and two at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours for “the most outstanding work”. He has illustrated a number of books and publications for, among others, Charles Causley and Spike Milligan. His paintings have been illustrated in over thirty books and magazines.Working primarily in watercolour, acrylic, gouache and charcoal, the majority of his work is based on local landscape and seascape. He is presently the Chairman of the Management Committee at the Jersey Arts Centre. He has lectured widely, including at the Tate Gallery and Exeter University. His writing on jazz and blues has been published on both sides of the Atlantic.

Ronnie McGrath

Writer,artist, researcher and lecturer,Ronnie McGrath worked in advertising for ten years before returning to education and painting. In 1994 he was commended for his writing by ACER, who again awarded first place for his poetry in 1995. Ronnie is also published in IC3, The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain, and is a founder member of the now defunct musical group, The London Afro-Blok, who performed for the Queen and opened the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Canada. His latest literary work is a book of poems entitled, Poems From the Tired Lips of Newspapers.An experienced painter, Ronnie attempts to marry the language of the ancient world (the Nile Valley region of Egypt) with that of the postmodern. The effect is a highly performative play on both religious and urban iconography. In search of ‘total freedom’ in life and art, Ronnie abandons the tenets of realism, drawing upon the improvisatory nature of a Jazz aesthetic, particularly the works of Sun Ra and Cecil Taylor, thus blurring the distinctions between fact, fiction and reality. Ronnie has exhibited at various sites throughout London, including the Limelight Gallery.

e-mail address: Rondaze@mcgrath.fslife.co.uk

Hugh Sun

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Juliana Oyewole

Julian Oyewole studied Decorative Art at Camberwell College of Art, specialising in Textiles – printed and constructed. Further studies include City & Guilds Ceramics and Etching. She has held exhibitions at the Stark Gallery and the Albany Theatre, with solo shows of etchings, called “Urban Landscapes and Abstractions, at the Limelight Gallery and a forthcoming screen-printing exhibition based on West African designs. Pride is part of a series of seven mixed media pieces based on the seven deadly sins.

Richard Stoker

Richard Stoker is a composer, conductor, pianist, novelist, dramatist, poet and artist, based in Blackheath, London.

e-mail:  a.gps5@tutor.open.ac.uk

Elaine Kowalsky

Elaine Kowalsky is a Canadian artist, based in London. Awards and Residencies: Canada Council B Grant Arts Award; South East Arts Exhibition Grant; Arts Council of Great Britain Studio Conversion Grant; South East Arts Project Award; Canada Council Travel Grant; Arts Council; Northern Arts; Greater London Arts for Artist in Residence at Lowick House; Triangle Artists Workshop, New York; Greater London Arts Association Exhibition Grant; Henry Moore Fellowship in Printmaking; Glasgow Printworkshop Residency; Invited Artist Workshop, the Association for the Museums of Painting and Sculpture, Turkey.The imagery in this work takes it cue from pulp comics and television – the black border being a deliberate reference to this source. It is about love, lust and loneliness in the Post Modern age in all its manifestations.

Elaine Kowalski

Charles Sanderson

Charles Sanderson studied under Maurice de Sausmarez, Ruskin Spear and the Byam Shaw School between 1967 – 71. He has travelled widely, particularly to France and Malaysia. His pictures reflect his interest in Impressionism.With one-man shows in the UK and France, he has also exhibited extensively in both countries, including the Royal Academy, Salon Paris, Bruton St. Gallery and Grosvenor Gallery. His works may be found in many private and public collections, including the Warsaw Museum, the Tate Gallery Archives and the Guildhall Museum Art Gallery. Publications include the Sunday Telegraph, Arts Review, La Revue Moderne and Sunday Telegraph Critics Choice.

Caroline Leeds

Caroline Leeds was born in Jersey in 1931 and studied under the late Philip Lame, RPNS, and the late Bernard Adams, RPROINS. She has been painting professionally since the age of 21 and appears in Who’s Who in Art. Her paintings have been included in a wide range of group exhibitions, including the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Paris Salon, Triannuel de Janson Arles, Wildenstein Gallery London, Mortimer Brandt Gallery New York, Palm Beach Galleries Florida, Portraits Inc. New York, the Waldorf Gallery New York, Monte Carlo, Roy Miles and the Gagliardi Gallery.Caroline Leeds lives in London and the Gers Departement of France and is represented in many collections in Europe and the United States.

Bernard McAndry

Bernard McAndry lives in Heald Green, Cheshire and first took up painting in 1994 having taken early retirement. He studies under the tuition of the Manchester artist, Joan Bradley.

Pamela de Meo
(oil on board, 1'1" x 10")

Artist, singer and dancer – half Russian – Pamela de Meo studied painting at St. Martins and Heatherley School of Art. Exhibitions: the Royal Academy, the Paris Salon, the Chelsea Art Exhibition, Arts Club Members Exhibitions, with solo shows at the Tradescant Trust.

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Leo Stevenson

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Colin Failes

Colin Failes is a post-graduate of the Royal Academy Schools and has been a freelance trompe-l'oeil and mural painter for the past twenty years. Commissions include P&O, Vintners Company, Royal Ascot and Legal & General Insurance Co. He also paints much smaller pictures in oil that have an autobiographical content similar to the one included in this Art Draw.He has an interest in Baroque painting and also greatly likes the works of Oskar Kokoschka and Jack B. Yeats, which form a loose combination of influences apparent in his own painting.

Maite Baron

Maite Baron is an artist, printmaker and designer in drypoint, collograph, etching, screen printing, acrylics, paper making and fibre art. She was born in Barcelona and studied at the International Centre of Art Studies Interart, Barcelona; Art and Design School, Barcelona; London Print Studio and Kensington & Chelsea College. Exhibitions include RBA and National Print Exhibition at Mall Galleries, Falmouth Arts Centre, Fisherton Mill, Westminster Gallery, Walford Mill and Hogarth Club.