Artist Statement

Originally from Chester now living In Cambridgeshire, I have been working as a freelance illustrator for almost 3 years. With a fine art and print background I make images that strive to maintain an inherent handmade aesthetic using a combination of hand drawn line, found and hand made texture, pattern and a mac.

Rich Gemmell’s Website

Rich Gemmell on Flickr

About this Work:

Jeremy Dickinson’s new work continues to focus on his passion for transportation, whether it is the small paintings of toy buses in miniature junkyards, or larger scale works where whole collections of vehicles are sorted into groups according to, for example, country of origin or colour. Meticulously painted, they lovingly depict their subject matter with a collector’s obsessive gaze. Many of the vehicles are his from childhood, these being identifiable by a painted green ‘J’ on their underside. Others have come to his collection later, but these also show much evidence of play – their anonymous history is an important part of the reason for their inclusion. Other objects often appear with the vehicles, taking on the role of makeshift street furniture. Souvenirs from family holidays, old toy building blocks and scenic accessories from Dickinson’s long dismantled model railway layout are all used. For some years, he has also been working on the ‘Civic Pride’ series of paintings, which depict British city buses. The sources for the these paintings are photographs taken by unknown bus enthusiasts, bought at rallies and flea markets around the country. (New British Artists)

Jeremy Dickinson at Angles Gallery

Jeremy Dickinson on Artnet

Artist Bio

The Scottish sculptor Kirsteen Pieterse draws on an enduring interest in the landscape and the structures that man builds within it. In her architectural pieces the artist considers the natural world and the effect this power can have upon built environments. The sculptures are intended to evoke nostalgia, fear and unease and to lead to a questioning of our regard for and relationship to the landscape.

The sculptures are deliberately meant to refer to architectural models, but they represent not something about to be undertaken, but structures in a state of disrepair. The stainless steel and acrylic sculptures often appear as unstable remnants of past constructions, braced on the brink of collapse or abandoned and left to be reclaimed by the forces of nature. The precariously leaning and balanced works speak of time and erosion and seek to demonstrate the romance, strength and enduring might of the natural world. In her work the artist often makes reference to iconic buildings and sites such as the old Brighton Pier on the south coast of England.

Pieterse studied at the Glasgow School of Art and completed an MA in Art in Architecture. The artist now lives and works in Hong Kong, having moved from Australia where she exhibited widely and lectured in Media and Design at Macquarie University and the University of Western Sydney. In 2004 she won the Peoples’ Choice Award at the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, and in 2005 she was a finalist in the National Sculpture Prize & Exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia.

Kirsteen Pieterse at the Cat Street Gallery

Kirsteen Pieterse at Martin Browne Fine Art

Blind Spot

an animated short film

Blind Spot is a fabulous animation that blends comically surreal characters and an evocative store setting. I loved the display of products in the store. On first viewing, you hardly recognize the gruesome aspects of this short.

Co-Directors: Johanna Bessière, Nicolas Chauvelot, Olivier Clert, Cécile Dubois-Herry, Yvon Jardel, Simon Rouby

Award-winning of “La Bourse Lagardere”, E Magiciens 2007 Festival for Student Film.

Visit the Blind Spot website

Thanks to I Heart My Art for the short film!

Artist Bio

Yuri Ogawa Terazaki was born on March 29, 1952 in Tokyo, Japan

Yuri Ogawa Terazaki’s Website

Daniel Potential on Flickr

Artist Statement

I am a freelance illustrator, working and living in Lisbon, Portugal.

I have been making collages since I was a kid. I used to sit on the floor and tear up magazines for hours, joining pieces of paper of different shapes and colours together. Later I learned how to use a pair of scissors and some glue and started filling notebooks, walls, furniture or any kind of plain surface. Then I just learned how to edit pictures on the computer and stopped gluing everywhere.

I collect memories, personal and collective, national and international. My collages are made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new one. They may include newspaper titles, classic and vintage photos, pieces of paper, portions of other artworks, book pages, glued on a new piece of paper.

Cristiana Couceiro’s Website

Sarcoptiform on Flickr

Sarcoptiform’s Blog

Artist Statement

I discovered early on, that for me, to create art, is all about the pleasure of the unexpected, the undiscovered. With ‘happiness’ in seemingly shorter and shorter supply in an increasingly stressful world, I take refuge, and invite you to join me, in the little things, the simple things, the things in life that bring joy.

Working in a multicultural society it always gives me a thrill to see people from very different cultural backgrounds sharing a smile viewing my work…..we are at the very basic levels all the same…. searching for the good things in life, our family, our children and what we share with them.

Mariann Johansen-Ellis’ Website

Artist Bio

Graduate of an art school, Lapin worked as an art director during 5 years in design agencies, in Paris then in Barcelona.

Since 2008, Lapin works has a freelance illustrator for edition, fashion, and advertising. His style is some place between vintage and modernity. His vibrant and intimate line is a transcription of his everyday life.

Lapin founded with his friend Niko the pa- collective, and published 6 reviews from 2004 to 2008, and organised exhibitions to promote young talents.

Lapin carries a sketchbook all the time, collecting faces, objets and moments.

Lapin’s Website

Lapin on Flickr

Artist Bio

Sam Taylor-Wood (born 4 March 1967 in London) is an English filmmaker, photographer and conceptual artist. Her directorial début was 2009’s Nowhere Boy, a biopic about Beatles singer John Lennon, for which she was nominated for a BAFTA.  (wikipedia)

Sam Taylor Wood on White Cube

Sam Taylor Wood on Artnet

Jabson Rodrigues on Flickr