Andrew Lansley, winner of Bath Society of Artists' 'David Simon Contemporary Award' 2017, works in egg tempera, focusing on landscape and marine subjects. Lansley is the current Chairman of Bath Society of Artists. He won the 2016 Royal Watercolour Society Award and has exhibited at the Royal Academy, RWA and numerous shows at the Mall Galleries, including the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, Royal Society of Marine Artists, New English Art Club, Royal Society of British Artists, Sunday Times Watercolour and Lynn Painter Stainers Prizes. Andrew Lansley's paintings are in a number of important corporate collections. He has been specially commissioned to paint works for the collections of John Lewis Partnership; The Royal United Hospital, Bath; Roman Baths, Bath and Home- wood Spa Hotel. He visited the Arctic in Summer 2019 before setting out for Antarctica, having been selected by The Scott Polar Research Institute as their Resident Artist.
Mick Lindberg's unique compositions in cloth and thread depict narratives in an almost painterly manner, making use of pattern and texture from her archive of vintage and antique fabrics. At the same time, the quality of stitching and intricate layering of materials makes each piece an exquisitely finished accomplishment. The faces that appear in Lindberg's compositions are engaging and the clever combination of materials and embroidered detail have, sometimes, a folkloric heritage. This collection within the exhibition will not fail to arouse an emotional response. 'In the stitches of my images, I hope that the layers within each piece, that other-worldly essence, will reach the imagination that each viewer possesses."
Mungo Powney graduated from Newcastle University in 1994. He has exhibited his work with galleries in London and the southwest, both in group and solo shows. He regularly exhibits at international Art Fairs. "I am fundamentally concerned with making compositions that connect us to a powerful emotional energy. I always start a painting with the aim of capturing something fleeting and internal, something other than the physical. I like art that achieves a composition that reverberates on this vital level, amoung those artists whom I admire are William Gillies, De stael, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Authur Boyd. I admire these brave, big hearted paintings which are unselfconscious and joyful. Painters who are unashamed to let their simple colours out."
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John Taylor trained at the Central St. Martins School of Art in London. He takes his inspiration from post war British art. His mid century style is informed by the simplicity of modernism. He shows regularly in London galleries and art fairs. This is Taylor's debut at the gallery.
