Clare is inspired by the landscape of the British Isles, especially coastline and ancient sites and uses on-site sketches and photographs to complete work back in the studio. Her work includes landscapes, animals and portraits and she enjoys working in a variety of mediums.
Shirley Faure is a
largely self taught artist who took up water colour
painting when she retired eight years ago to West Sussex
after living for many years in the Far East. Having
shown some promise as a child, family circumstances
forced her to abandon the offer of training at the Slade
School of Art, and it was not until business duties
had ceased that she found time to develop her talents.
Gavin Fitzsimons is
a professional artist, born in the 1970s in Ireland.
His work mainly focuses upon the local picturesque landscape
and the characters that live there. His work is diverse
as he enjoys landscape, figurative and still life studies,
there is however a definite Irish feel to all the paintings.
A trained musician Linda took up
painting several years ago just as a break from music.
Linda particularly enjoy painting portraits and still
life especially flowers, but since retiring to Orkney
2 years ago she is attempting more landscapes and seascapes.
Stuart is a retired engineer
living in Derbyshire but spends a significant time with
his family living in South Africa. Stuart had developed
an interest in the cave paintings of the San bushmen
and also in African native art in general.
Howard trained as an art teacher
in Cardiff and converted his attic at home into an art
studio. Frequent trips to Devon and Cornwall during
the school holidays led to Howard, then painting in
oils, selling his work in the local galleries. Having
retired as a teacher, Howard devoted himself to his
art and so began the development of his unique pen and
ink style and the collection of drawings that will be
available to view on this website.
After leaving Eastbourne
Art School, Richard spent seven years in Finland painting,
and exhibiting, both in Finland and Sweden. Richard
paints using gouache on board, a variety of subjects
Water Nymphs, Mermaids Beach scenes, Swimming Pools,
and Winter Scenes. Richard's painting of people around
water comes from a childhood spent on the beaches of
his home town Brighton in England.
Bob has been drawing
and painting for most of his life but, since taking
early retirement in 1999, he has been able to concentrate
more on this aspect of his life. His subjects are largely
landscapes for which he tries to evoke the experience
of ‘being there’ by using imagination and
improvisation. Working from his own photographs mainly
in acrylics and oils, he tries to express the atmosphere
and sensation of how he feels about a scene.
