Amanda Curbishley is based in Aylesbury and is a contemporary artist who works in acrylics and mixed media. I started painting in 2002 and although my subjects are varied I now specialise in marine art. I feel a connection to light, shape, colour and texture in the world around me which is reflected in my work. […]
Category: Featured Artist
This is used for the featured Artist component.
Claire Burke – Acrylic Artist
Claire Burke – Acrylic Artist – paints from a cabin in her back garden in Beaconsfield and tells us here how she started painting and what it means to her. In a familiar story, once my youngest child started school I returned to work part time and also treated myself to a low key, workshop-based acrylic […]
Barbara Shaw – Textile Artist
Barbara Shaw is a textile artist based in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. I create art in textiles, hand-stitching many small scraps of fabric together in layers to create unique collage pictures. My subjects vary as I am constantly stretching the boundary of what can be depicted in material. My work has been likened to impressionist paintings-from a […]
Jenny Kaye
Jenny Kaye is a photographer based in Beaconsfield, working either from her home studio or out on location. Here, she tells us a little about herself and shows a small fragment of her work. Photography has always been a part of my life. I have old photo albums and prints from when I was very […]
Gabby Harman
I studied textiles at Brighton Polytechnic qualifing as a weaver which then led me on to a career as a InteriorDesigner. When the children were little, I returned to my love of painting attending local art classes and thenonto Amersham College where I attended Art & Printmaking classes. My inspiration is from my surrounding landscapes […]
Pamela McMenamin – Featured Artist
Pamela McMenamin – Featured Artist this month. My work is predominately painting in oils and two main series dominate my body of work. Firstly, my abstract Endless Landscape series and secondly, my series revisiting the traditional genre of still life, landscape and portrait. I am interested in painting in its simplest form of representing colour […]
Sandy Fisher – Featured Artist
Sandy Fisher BA (Hons) Fine Arts Linea Series “A hill or a tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or a tree. It is the lines and colours put together so that they say something which makes a good picture” Georgia O’Keeffe Linea Series The core inspiration for my paintings […]
Paul Bell – Featured Artist
Paul Bell was born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland and having had spells in France and Holland his family now live in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. I spent my formative years studying at Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art as part of a foundation course set up by my employer at the time, The Fletcher McNeece Partnership. I […]
Patricia Rozental
As far back as I can remember, I had a love of making art and after an early career in the hotel industry and then a life dedicated to bringing up my two children, I finally realised my ambition of becoming an ‘Artist’ when I graduated from Bucks New University in 2009 with a First […]
Brian Bennett FROI MA
Brian Bennett is a past President of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, somewhat anomalously known as the ROI. He has exhibited widely, notably at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Society of Marine Artists, the New English Art Club and, of course, at the ROI, of which in 1996 […]