Graham is a retired engineer who is now indulging his lifelong passion for art. He paints in a variety of media and in a broadly representational style.

His subject matter is wide ranging – never knowing what will inspire him next, but as with so many artists the play of light on a subject is a huge factor and often transforms a mundane scene into something magical.

Having started mostly drawing buildings and townscapes in charcoal he now finds that pictures incorporating people interest him more, and he is a regular at the local life group.

Graham is a member of Bucks Art Society and the Bucks Visual Images Group, and currently is Chairman of Wendover Art Club.

For more information, please go to www.grahamjefford.co.uk

Jean lives in Chorleywood and has been painting for a number of years.

She loves to paint and is moved by colour, shape and atmosphere. Jean is a past chairman of The Buckinghamshire Art Society and  for many years has been actively involved in Studio 18. and other local art groups.

Jean has successfully exhibited in The Mall Galleries, London, in both the National Pastel Society and The Society of Women Artists exhibitions and in exhibitions in Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Hertfordshire and Shropshire. She will be exhibiting work in 2012 Bucks Open Studios at The Clare Foundation Saunderton and in the BAS Spring Exhibition Beaconsfield

Telephone Number 01923 282187

E-mail  jean.whitson1@btinternet.com

We were recently commission by Lane End Conference Centre to frame a large number of pieces for their refurbishment.

Photographer Lily Glover took photographs in the grounds of the Conference Centre with the aim of building a body of images to be displayed as a collection of art in the newly refurbished lounge area and dining room.  I think you’ll agree they look quite impressive.  This is a sneaky peak, more photos to follow!

For more information on Lane End Conference Centre – http://www.lane-end-conferences.co.uk/

For more information on Lily Glover – http://lilyglover.com/blog/

Born High Wycombe, Studied at Amersham College and later specialised in sculpture privately under Mary Orrom and Derek Howarth who worked for Henry Moore. Her work is in many collections in United Kingdom and abroad.  Her work includes a variety of large and small sculptures utilising a range of mediums including wire, wood, clay, metal, cement fondue. Always exploring sculpture in a challenging, fun and diverse way!

Figurative cement fondue sculptures, metal / fondue combination , wire sculptures including Giant panda, sloths, primates, foxes, chickens, etc.

Current projects include working with a new medium – polystyrene carving and plaster, as part of the process to bronze casting / bronze resin finish – please see ‘The Dancers’ – they  are finished in acrylics to illustrate the potential bronze casting / bronze resin finish.

Commission accepted.

Has Exhibited

Bucks Open Studios

Claydon House

Rudolf Steiner School

La Galleria Pall Mall

. . .  . and currently invited this year at Woburn Abbey.

For more information, please call Lily on 01494 715238 or email lillyhenrysculpture@gmail.com

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Butch Cassidy poster was framed using the same process, but this was smaller and in one piece!  One of four in a set.

I studied Art and Design at Bucks College in the sixties. After a career in Sales and Marketing and with my family making their own way in the world I returned to painting in 1985.

Painting has become a fairly fulltime occupation, resulting in exhibitions in local and London galleries.

The core elements in my work are composition, mark making, texture and colour.

Painting takes same to many locations in variable weather conditions that can result in some fairly spontaneous and lively interpretations.

Information is collected through eclectic mark making sometimes gathering found objects from the area I am working in, i.e., papers, feathers, sand, earth, metal These scraps might be added later collaged onto the world adding texture and a ‘sense of place’.

I subsequently eliminate unnecessary details through scraping, over painting and collage.

The painting is resolved when the entire piece ‘hangs together’.

I am interested in a variety of subjects and explore and use a wide variety of mediums.

Clay and fabric art have recently taken on more significance  .

Ceramics are slab built and mostly created  from my sketches, a natural progression  from the paintings……….large clay non functional pieces  inspired by the sea or marshland around Norfolk.

Heavy textured marks and additional clay is applied and the  colour is painted on  in a fairly random way, Clay Slabs are adhered to board and can be hung.

Over the past 10 years Chris has been creating abstract works using colour, instinctive mark making and his strong sense of composition to evoke or capture a moment in time.

Pursuing this practice involves a variety of media, printmaking, painting drawing and digital processes. Although not directly relating to a scene or place much of his work is rooted in the landscape, rural or urban.His attraction to the physical nature of his view inspires dynamic compositions utilising instinctive mark making and abstracted shapes, evoking and capturing an emotive place. Applying a dynamic and energetic intuitive approach, layering and adjusting, using inks, paints, charcoal and other mediums this working process aims to reach a point where a balanced composition emerges.

Having studied printmaking at Wolverhampton University in the early 80’s through an illustration option on a Graphic Design Degree, Chris has since worked as a graphic designer and illustrator. Becoming freelance in 2001 enabled him to spend more time pursuing his interest in fine art, initially through a part time printmaking workshop at Amersham College and more recently in his  garden studio.

For further examples visit www.cs384.com