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ESA Community ::
Beaver Studio members
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Beaver Studios, Whitehouse Street, Hunslet
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Kyla Dante, 'Saddleworth Moor' 2007
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Kyla Dante
Pieces of canvas are buried in the land, placed in streams, left blowing in the wind. Each piece has its own journey to take, a process occurs, many layers evolve and continue to evolve when unearthed. The use of natural materials enables me to form a relationship with nature; it is quite a meditative process, an inner path of exploration and self development. Each piece holds a part of nature within and the materials directly refer to the sites chosen to work with. The use of earth materials attempts to emulate the experience of being in the land and embrace the context and inspiration offered by the natural environment. Issues in my work are the environment, nature and intent to reconnect people with their own inner nature.
kyladante@hotmail.com
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Martin Docherty 'Jimi Hendrix'
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Martin Docherty
I am stimulated by everything around me, the human form and architectural detail particularly excite me. I have always felt a great need to respond to these feelings, and the way I do this is to make images and sometimes objects. Iam comfortable changing my style, technique and media in response to those stimuli encountered, so therefore my work ranges from a graphic interpretation of a subject to a looser more painterly approach . I also use a variety of media to produce 3D structures.
I value the discipline of academic drawing and work from the figure as often as possible. Through teaching and the need to keep up with developments in image making I became interested in, and experimented with, the manipulation of images using the computer.This resulted in small studies of architectural details being developed into larger semi abstact paintings. My current work, based on 20th Century icons is in a bold polychromatic style painted in oil on canvas.
martdoch@aol.com
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Work by Valerie Halliwell
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Valerie Halliwell
My work is a jumble of thoughts and memories. My paintings are often autobiographical and usually cathartic.
I always think that each person’s own experience of life has a unique quality. I try to capture this in my work - “A sort of diary”. Recordings ... Of feelings, energies, dreams, sensations, torments and pain. Layer upon layer, digging beneath the surface. An inner world. Exploring. A mind trip of today ... Of every day. Past and present. Sometimes I wonder I question “Paint the post modern world” as we see it as we know it. Externally. Methodically record the information that is in front of me. Use the latest technology. Be part of the modern trends. Then..I stop I think I realize I already Do!
Stress, Angst, Pollution of this modern world are already there in my work.
Just in another language. Since time began. But new today - This very moment.
www.valeriehalliwell.com
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Rebecca Lowe 'Intervals Series'
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Rebecca Lowe
My work has developed from a fascination with the contemplative, human spaces of still-life paintings, particularly those of Giorgio Morandi and Francesco de Zurbaran, and more recent influences of phenomenology within minimalist and reflexive painting. The paintings are perceptual and emotional responses to objects and surfaces, such as ancient Chinese pottery and stone walls, often hand-made or coated with a patina of constant use (the visibility of touch). I record changes in perceived colour and reflected, natural light onto gesso panels, building up layers of semi-translucent glazes in a process of distillation, seeking a balance between absorption and reflection, intimacy and distance.
rebecca.lowe@leeds-art.ac.uk
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Elizabeth Neylan 'Soaring City'
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Elizabeth Neylan
My pictures are inspired by my memories of places I have traveled to such as Greece, Turkey, Tunisia, Barcelona and recently Mexico. I have lived in Leeds a long time and enjoy trips to the Yorkshire east coast. When I paint a place I like to include objects which seem typical of that place. I am also interested in portraying words, sayings, poems and stories in painting for example“I wish I could shimmy like my sister Kate” and Mr Tambourine man, stories from the Arabian nights and “Scarborough warning”. Series of sevens have also attracted me like the days of the week, colours of the rainbow and the seven ages of man.
Colour has always been very important and significant to me. As well as painting in oil paints I have designed fabrics. I have exhibited widely in the last 12 years in solo exhibitions, been selected for exhibitions and organized exhibitions for the Common link group of artists which was formed by students from Leeds college of art. I have had a studio at East street Arts for about 10 years.
lizneylan@yahoo.co.uk
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Nichola Pemberton, jump still
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Nichola Pemberton
My practice uses both drawing and performance, sometimes as highly integrated processes but also as very distinct areas of work. In formal aesthetics driven drawings I use every day objects such as pots and vessels as starting points for large works on paper that build up layered repeated marks. I use a wide range of materials and naive mark making processes to develop a sense of depth, line and compositional flow.
The more performative drawings use trampolines, giant drawing sticks and forklifts to exaggerate and extend the range of marks to represent the physical and emotional engagement of the artist with the drawing process. Most of my performance work engages a participatory audience in activities that produce outcomes in drawn or social forms. For the piece 'Twister', players on a giant twister board dictated the course of the drawn lines by acting as subject, resulting in a piece that captures the audiences physical movement within the game.
A sense of play acts as a conceptual link between the diverse outcomes of my practise, be they framed wall hung drawings or performance events. www.axisweb.org/artist/nicholapemberton
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Wayne Purcell, 'FIAMMA ARDENTE'
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Scott Senogles 'Basic Symetry'
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Scott Senogles
As both a professional musician and practising artist Scott’s artwork is often created, based and expressed through the concept of ‘the’ performance. That is: the act of creating a work with both obvious and un-obvious actions and consequence for the viewer. Previous work has experimented with installation, text photography and more recently sculpture with an ongoing development of ideas such as mortality, religion and sexuality and their physical representation in contemporary society.
scottsenogles@hotmail.com
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Kate Smith, rings
Katie Lee, '50s Cabinet'
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Kate Smith
Working with a vibrant palette of translucent colours to produce a range of jewellery items in acrylic. Inspired by the weird and wonderful nature of aquatic life, particularly the exciting variety of creatures and plants found in coral reefs. Not just the fish and critters that everybody knows, but bizarre yet beautiful things like nudibranches (the sea slug under a prettier name) or bristleworms or ..well I could go on and on.
Shapes are suggestive rather then literal. Each piece is laminated and inlaid to suggest brightly patterned creatures and most will glow under uv light. An effect of anemones or tentacles is achieved by adding acid dyed monofilament, and everything is highly polished to give a smooth, shiny finish. My aim is to create quirky, colourful work that is original, eyecatching and tactile. You don’t have to be fascinated by sealife to like it, but you’ll probably have a great sense of fun.
foxedblue@hotmail.com
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Emily Stubbs, 'Poppy Milk Bottles'
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Emily Stubbs
My work aims to be a celebration of everyday objects, bringing together imagery and surface texture inspired by their surroundings. Today we live in a throw away society where such objects and appliances have an average shelf life and usability of around 3 years. By producing these objects in clay I hope to give them a longevity not experienced in their real state. They are to be proudly displayed instead of hidden away in cupboards!
emilystubbsceramics@hotmail.co.uk
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Andrea Thoma, 'Evening I'
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Andrea Thoma
Andrea Thoma’s work is concerned with a sense of void or something being almost fully perceived and yet not fully grasped. She works with the notion of time in painting, photography and video and often juxtaposes these media in the same exhibition space, in order to experience and challenge different notions of place. In her ‘lines of light’ series of paintings she explores how the perception of space is altered through the representation of light that seems to expand beyond the parameters of the canvas and leaves no pure fixed point of focus. These works are shown as diptyques or triptyques in order to facilitate a transition through different colour spaces and surfaces.
andrea@andreathoma.com
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Robert Thompson
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Robert Thompson
As a painter my work is informed by and engages with a number of concepts and ideas. I view painting as a process of exploration engaging with chance and intuition on the way, without necessarily looking at the outcomes. Colour has an important role within my process. The emotive effects of colour, the way it can effect our emotions convey mood and stimulate our senses is a major catalyst and a significant element within my painting.
bobtheartist@freeuk.com
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Work by Greg Townend
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Greg Townend
'To get satisfaction as an artist I need to make work which conforms to the following criteria:
It must be paintings and drawings which are:
(a) an illusionistic representation of form and space
(b) objectively rigorous
(c) open- ended, emergent, not constricted by a plan
(d) free from photography. It feels appropriate and relevant to use the processes and techniques associated with my work as a technical illustrator and industrial artist.'
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Sue Watts 'from delicate air IV'
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Sue Watts
My work, predominantly abstract, explores an ongoing interest in layers and textures. This is inspired by the rich mixture of people and experiences that have crossed my path and also by my involvement in music and theatre. I’m fascinated by the complexities of peoples’ lives however simple they may appear on the surface. The differences between the faces we present to the world and the tapestry underneath of past experiences, relationships, feelings, beliefs. With age these become a richer and more complex layering. Not surprisingly, I am also interested in archaeology and the layers in the landscape. Recently I have started to experiment more with light and shadow and colour has become increasingly important sometimes working with a particular range of colours for months at a time. I often work with acrylics and a wide range of mixed media including cloth.www.suewattsart.co.uk
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