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Nineteenth-century Martello tower.
Rocquaine Bay, Saint Peter, on the west coast of the island.
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Aldershot
The Natural World
Acrylic and Pencil Art
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Email: info@martinsouthwood.com
Website: martinsouthwood.com
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Unless you expect the unexpected
you will never find the truth,
for it is hard to discover
and hard to attain.
Nature loves to hide.
This cryptic utterance carries a lot of meaning for me and I find the experience of deep observation, to be transformative. Giving attention to the natural world reveals many things, sometimes present, sometimes in the imagination. I try to bring those discoveries to my work.
Martin exhibits locally, for example at Surrey Artists’ Open Studios. He is not currently a member of an Art Group or Society.
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Petersfield
Professional Fine Artist - Landscapes, Seascapes and Animal Portraits
Art Tutor
Phone: +44 (0) 7511 930099
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Email: AlisonUdallArtist@gmail.com
Website: alisonudallartist.com
Instagram: @alisonudallartist
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From childhood, I have always loved drawing and painting. My passion for visual arts was inspired by my wonderful Art teacher at school. When studying A level, I learned Fine Art with History of Art. I studied European masters such as Rembrandt, William Turner, Gainsborough, Van Gogh, and the French Impressionists. These artists influenced me in their composition, use of colour, the effects of sunlight and shadows in landscape and portrait paintings. I was also curiously influenced by the brilliance of artists like William Hogarth and Cruickshank, as I studied their satirical commentary on English society and politics. As a result, I went on to illustrate the school magazine in pen and inks, producing some humorous caricatures.
At Winchester School of Art, I had the freedom to experiment with a wide variety of media, colour, composition, expression, sculpture, printmaking, and producing short animations. From there I developed a deep-seated desire to become an illustrator and have since pursued this through illustration courses with the University of the Arts, London (UAL).
More recently I pioneered the role of Artist in Residence at Bohunt Sixth Form, giving face-to-face and on-line tutorials, as well as critiques. I worked in a diverse variety of Fine Art media including textiles workshops, to inspire new talent and young artists of the future.
I have consistently kept drawing and painting, completing private commissions and pet portraiture, and exhibiting with Petersfield Arts and Crafts Society (PACS). My subject matter is mainly landscapes, seascapes and animal portraits.
My primary influence and source of inspiration is the beauty of natural history. Wherever I look, I see God's creation, his design and handiwork. I marvel at the fact that many inventions have been inspired and sparked from it. As a Christian, painting and drawing from nature is a form of worship. As I look and observe, I am reminded that we are all made in the image of God, we are the pinnacle of his design and each of us in some way represents him. God has given me and you the ability and desire to create in some way.
I was commissioned on the spot by a delightful couple who had just got married in this beautiful place. This church is known as the 'Church of Storms'.
As an experienced artist in residence, I am used to giving workshops on a broad spectrum of media ...
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Alison is a keen member of Petersfield Arts & Crafts Society (PACS), held a local exhibition in Petersfield in 2021 and is planning two further exhibitions this year.
Dramatic England – Inspired by my sailing trips along the Jurassic Coast.
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Froxfield, Petersfield
Mixed-Media, Acrylics, Charcoal, Oils and Collage
Phone: 07557 336181
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Email: eilypily@gmail.com
Website: eileenriddifordartist.com
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Please visit my website and if you see something you like, even if it is sold, do get in touch as I will undertake a commission.
I am proud to be an active member and committee member of Petersfield Arts & Crafts Society.
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Warsash, Southampton
Portraiture, Abstract and Landscape Artist specialising in Oils
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Email: lesleykstevens63@sky.com
Instagram: artbylkstevens
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With no encouragement to do art at school, despite winning first prize for my age group drawing the Black Horse for Lloyds Bank, I ended up in the City of London as an Investment Banker.
Going back to painting happened by accident, literally. A car accident forced me to stop horse riding and whilst recovering, I took up painting again, learning from various members of the Royal Academy of Art and the Royal Society of Arts.
Now my boys have flown the nest, that desire to paint has been unleashed. I have a love of portraiture, animals, birds and people but also explore abstract and landscape. Specialising in oils, I am driven by light and colour. The outdoors, particularly early mornings, the cool fresh air, gentle colours, rolling mists all provide inspiration for my work and the raw emotions that life presents are finding a release in abstract form.
Not currently a member of a Hampshire Art Society or Art Group, I have exhibited at The Titchfield Art and Craft Show.
Pastel Society Artist Jennifer Thorpe
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Award-Winning Pastel Artist
Abstracts in Acrylic and Ink
Phone: 07962 176546
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Email: jenniferthorpeart@gmail.com
Website: jenniferthorpeart.com
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"I only found my love for painting five years ago, I’ve always been creative in one way or another but never in my wildest dreams thought I was capable of producing a painting that others would appreciate, let alone win an award in a pastel exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London in my first year.
Free from the rigours of any formal training I’ve spent many hours perfecting my skills with soft pastels and love painting on large pieces of paper, the bigger the better. You get a real sense of being immersed in the moment if a painting is big and commands your attention. I love painting water; its multifaceted properties keep me curious and addicted to exploring my ability to capture it.
My inspiration is fuelled by nature and its cycles, from day to day, month to month, it never fails to disappoint. I am very lucky to live by the beach in Hill Head on the South Coast of England. I walk every day come rain or shine and each time I’m filled with excitement and anticipation; camera in hand, I take hundreds of photos every week. I already have a lifetime of material, but I just can’t stop collecting moments.
I’m always looking up or looking intently at the colours emerging through the crest of a wave, or at a sunset reflecting in wet sand. There’s always something wonderful to see and this, I think, is why I love to replicate what I see realistically. I feel like I’m cheating nature if I don’t get the exact exquisite colours. I harness my ability to see the subtle changes in colour and pick them out in my paintings. This is not to say I don’t go mad with colour and produce some crazy abstracts from deep within occasionally."
As a child, Jennifer spent a lot of time with her family at the beach, not in the water with the others, but hunting for treasures in the rocks and sand. Her fascination with nature then was in the detail of a shell or the pattern on a feather. Now, her passion for the natural world runs much deeper and she wants to share what she sees with everyone. Art touches and reaches people more than we realise and Jennifer hopes that she can give pleasure whilst stirring a deep passion in people to cherish, be grateful and thankful for the amazing planet on which we live.
Living by the beach on the south coast of England, Jennifer has a fascination and an insatiable desire to paint water in all its forms (clouds, water and ice). Light provides the ever-changing ingredient to enhance and display water in all its glory, so whether it's the sea providing the biggest mirror to reflect and flaunt the magnificent colours in a sunset, or light illuminating the neon blue in icebergs, or the sun shining through the crest of a wave, Jennifer loves to capture all these beautiful images with her unique way with soft pastels.
"When I prepare for one of my pastel paintings, I take a long time blending colours together on test paper to get the right tones and won’t begin the painting until I’ve at least got the colours for half the painting ready. I then take a mid-tone pastel on my white paper and begin drawing and mapping out the painting, filling in the respective darker and lighter areas carefully so I don’t lose the light of the white paper in the areas where I want maximum light. This very first thin layer is rubbed in well and creates the base layer to build on. I then go in with a second layer of pastel and build up the depth and colour, finishing with the final layer which picks out the detail and highlights. There’s not much room for error, once the tooth is full, its full and you can’t apply any more colour.
For the very detailed parts of my work I break the pastels into tiny shards and use the edges for the fiddly bits. Pastel pencils at this stage just slide over the top and don’t make an impression. To seal the finished painting I use a supermarket own brand hairspray. Because it’s a cheap version, it doesn’t have any additives and is basically a spray glue. In my experience some expensive fixatives tend to darken the painting.
I think I’m drawn to soft pastels because it’s an immediate medium, there is no mixing on a palette, no brushes to find, you just pick them up and off you go. I get stuck in with my hands, I use my palms for the larger areas that need blending and my fingers to rub, dab and manipulate the pastels on the paper. You have to be careful with soft pastels not to mix the light and dark colours if you want vibrancy, it’s a delicate process which takes patience, some days I have loads and other days I get distracted easily. I tend to have a podcast or an audio book playing in the background."
Royal Society of British Artists, The Pastel Society and Bursledon Art Society.
Jennifer exhibits her work in a number of locations.
Harbour Lights, Solo Exhibition 31st January - 26th February 2020
Hampshire Open Studios 17th - 26th August 2019
The Accessible Art Show - Day of Art - Southampton 23rd March 2019 - The Spark (Solent University Conference Centre) Live Auction and Art Exhibition.
Hampshire Open Studios August 2018
The Royal Society of British Artists Exhibition, Mall Galleries 2018 presented by Philip Mould
Oxmarket Gallery Chichester 2018
The Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2018 Mall Galleries London presented by Rupert Maas
Oxmarket Gallery - Open Art Exhibition, October 2017
New Forest Centre- Open Art Exhibition, October 2017
Hampshire Open Studios - August 2017
The Pastel Society 118th Annual Exhibition at Mall Galleries, London, Award winner, presented by Michael Portillo (Unison Colour Award) London - March 2017
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