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Artists
Barbara Bernard
Barbara is American by birth, but has lived in London for over 30 years. She studied in Beloit, Wisconsin, but took up screen-printing many years later at the Shaftesbury Centre in Richmond. She now works from her studio in Chiswick and regularly exhibits with Richmond Printmakers.
Francis Bowyer P.P.R.W.S., N.E.A.C., Hon R.I.,Hon. R.E.
Francis was born in Chiswick. He studied at St Martin’s School of Art and Chelsea School of Art. He has taught drawing and painting part-time at all levels up to postgraduate, including at the Royal Academy Schools and Richmond Adult Community College. Francis is a Past President of the Royal Watercolour Society and a member of New English Art Club. He paints in watercolour, oil and mixed media , has won numerous awards and exhibits widely in galleries in this country and abroad. He says: “Light and colour play an important part in my paintings. The brief moment captured. A richness and enjoyment of colour is always at the heart of the subjects I am attracted to.”
Jason Bowyer PNEAC RP PS
Born in 1957 in Chiswick, Jason studied both at the Camberwell School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. Today, Jason’s studio is located at the Kew Bridge Steam Museum in London, a location he finds stimulating for his work, as witnessed in both his recent ‘industiral interiors’, which make the use of oil and mixed media (including locally-found objects) and his depictions of the River Thames, which focus on the movement and presence of the water as much as the Thames’ surroundings. Prior to this, Jason for many years has been inspired by the Blyth estuary around Walberswick and Southwold in Suffolk, a haunt of many artists alike. His collection of captivating and sought-after oil seascapes are the result of many summer and winter days spent working from observation
Liz Butler
Liz Butler was born in Cumbria in 1948 and educated at Liverpool College of Art and the Royal College of Art. She is represented by the Francis Kyle Gallery since 1978, where she has had three solo exhibitions and exhibits regularly in mixed themed exhibitions. Her work is in several major collections including the Government Art Collection, Abbot Hall Gallery, Harewood House, the Royal Collection, and the National Postal Archive. Elected a Member of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1996, where she exhibits regularly in their Annual Spring and Autumn Exhibitions.
Liz Butler is well known for her miniature paintings of gardens, and her use of pure watercolour. More recently she has expanded her scale to encompass larger scale subject matter. She has always been interested in man’s role in changing the countryside and nature. She lives and works in Chiswick.
Valerie Carlyle
Valerie has lived in Chiswick with her husband Robin for over 20 years. Her first career was as a professional ballet dancer with London Festival Ballet. Since retiring from the stage, she has taught ballet at Arts Ed in Bath Road. From childhood, painting has always been a passion and relaxation.
Jim Cox
Jim studied architecture and town planning at Liverpool University. After working in Australia, and extensive travel, he settled in Chiswick 28 years ago. Painting provides an important creative outlet to counter the evermore technical and administrative demands of being a practising architect. Jim Cox is celebrating his retirement by reading for a degree in Fine Art.
Alfred Daniels
Alfred was educated at Poplar and Woolwich Polytechnic Art Department and the Royal College of Art, where he studied painting and mural design. He designed his first mural for Hammersmith Town Hall during his postgraduate year, completing it in 1956. It is still in situ. He taught drawing and illustration at Hornsey College of Art and the Royal College of Art, and is an Adviser and demonstrator for Winsor and Newton. He is a subject painter of people, places and events in watercolour, acrylic, oil and alkyd. Commissions include paintings and murals for Oxford University Press, St Fergus Gas Terminal, British Rail, Shell Oil, post offices, distilleries, and latterly a tryptich for a new chapel at St Nicholas Church, Rotherfield Greys, Henley. He has had numerous exhibitions and won many awards, including the Lord Mayor’s Award, the Spirit of London Prize three times, the de Lazlo Award and the Artist and Industry Award. He has written three books, and many articles for The Artist magazine. He is a member of the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of British Artists, elected Keeper in 1993.
Pamela Garnet-Lawson
Pam has a degree in Theatre design from Nottingham and worked as a Designer in Theatres for several years. She joined the BBC as a scenic artist and then worked freelance as an artistin the television and film industry. She has also produced illustrations for the Publishing Industry and has concentrated on personal work for the last few years.
Jim Goddard
Jim is a designer and TV and film director, who has won a BAFTA for Kennedy, starring Martin Sheen, and an Emmy for the RSC’s Nicholas Nickleby. After studying at Slade Art College, he joined ABC Television, as a production designer on The Avengers. He directed many episodes of Callan, Public Eye, The Sweeney, Reilly Ace of Spies and other popular ITV series. He directed Alan Bleasdale’s The Black Stuff for BBC2, the film Shanghai Surprise, starring Sean Penn and Madonna, and has designed costumes for Kenneth McMillan’s ballet productions.
Hoagy Houghton
Hoagy is a 23 year old artist whose work branches into painting, illustration, design, photography, film and music composition. After an art foundation at Camberwell College of Art, he completed a graphic design degree at Brighton University and is now living back in London. www.hoagyhoughton.co.uk
Claire Ireland
Claire has been creating her own work and exhibiting nationally and internationally since graduating from Camberwell College of Art in 1981. She divides her time between her studio and teaching commitments, specialising in visual research, experimental printmaking and contemporary hand building techniques. Her teaching has ranged from Foundation, Degree, to Higher National Diploma courses in jewellery, glass and ceramics. She also runs specialist short courses for art societies, colleges and privately at her studio. She is a professional member of The Craft Potters Association, and The Society of Designer Craftsmen. Claire continues to explore the possibilities of hand building techniques through her sculptural ceramics, and the endless possibilities of surface decoration. Claire works on different scales and these are often combined and added to larger constructions which may include fragments of stone, metal, wood or fused glass. Her work is featured prominently in a new publication from A&C Black “Ceramics with Mixed Media“ by Jo Bosworth.
Glynis Porter
Glynis studied at St Martin’s School of Art and Chelsea School of Art, and as a postgraduate at Goldsmiths’ College, London. She is a designer/printmaker and regularly exhibits at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and the Discerning Eye Exhibition. She works mainly with printmaking and mixed media. She teaches part time at Richmond School of Art and continues to work freelance on her own work, exhibiting in galleries countrywide.
Jo Rankin
Jenny Sanderson
Jenny is a graduate of Dartington College of Arts and has held a variety of posts in music and arts administration. She likes to take a sideways look at ordinary things – or set off on tangents of total fantasy. Falling short by a considerable margin, of any “serious art” category, Jenny is pleased if people smile at her pieces. She says: “I was introduced to papier mache some years ago on a family holiday, to keep the children busy on a wet afternoon. They grew out of it. I didn't! I soon discovered that the traditional bowls were much too tricky to make and turned instead to flowers, dragons, fish - and birds.”
Pat Schaverien
Pat studied Fine Art at Middlesex Polytechnic and received a Higher Diploma in Printmaking at the Slade School of Art. In 2002 she received an HNC in photography at the City of Westminster College. Pat produces etchings, aquatints and collographs, as well as other forms of printmaking and uses photographic images as a basis for her subject matter. Her work has been acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Museum of London, and Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospital Trust and her greeting cards have been published worldwide. Pat shares a studio in Kentish Town, London NW5.
Vera Small
Born in Birmingham, Vera studied at Birmingham College of Art and the Royal College of Art, where she studied sculpture. She has produced commissions for the BBC, Parliamentary Exhibitions, Army Recruitment, the Malaysian Tourist Board and Gulf Air. She was the designer and director of Vera Small Designs between 1975 and 1990, which supplied all the major stores, including Harrods, Hamley’s, John Lewis Partnership, Fortnum and Mason and Selfridges with soft toys, and many other stores in this country and abroad.
Mary West
Martin Wharmby
Martin trained in design at Leicester College of Art. He worked as a product designer in industry for ten years and then set up his own design consultancy in the early Seventies. Wharmby Associates specialised in the design and development of low-tech consumer products, including toys, kitchen equipment, baby products and radios, for Mothercare, Habitat and Centurian in the UK, and Sony, Tomy and Kobayashi in Japan. From 1984 to 1995 Martin was also a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art, teaching design to postgraduate students. He started drawing and painting about seven years ago at watercolour/life drawing classes in Richmond and later Putney - 'It was fun, no client!'. Martin lives in Chiswick with his wife and two daughters.
Ann Whitehead
Ann paints both figurative and abstract images in oils, water based media and pastels and have a particular interest in colour and light. In recent years she has had paintings accepted at Open Exhibitions at the Mall Galleries with the New English Art Club, the Pastel Society and The Discerning Eye, and by the Chelsea Art Society. Purchasers have included Harvard University and Paintings for Hospitals. She grew up in London and for many years combined painting with a career as a GP and medical writer. She is a committee member of the Medical Art Society, Vice President of the United Society of Artists and a member of the National Society and exhibits regularly with these societies.
Peter Whitehead
Dr Peter Whitehead has drawn and painted in watercolour since his schooldays, attending the Medway College of Art part time when at grammar school. At first, he concentrated on shipping subjects, later beginning to paint landscapes. Apart from painting in the United Kingdom, the need to travel widely in his professional capacity enabled him to paint in places such as the Middle East and tropical Africa. He has painted many commissions of such locations for local clients. He has sold paintings at The Francis Iles Gallery, Rochester, through the Medical Art Society at the Mall Galleries and elsewhere, the National Society, the United Society of Artists and the National Maritime Museum Art Club. He has also exhibited privately in London, Scotland and Ireland and on commission. His paintings are in collections in the UK, Europe, the USA, Australia, and Africa.
Nigel Woolner
Nigel Woolner is a local artist & architect. As an artist he has illustrated buildings in context throughout Europe and “light is central” to all his work. He has exhibited at the Bedford Park Festival since 1985, Attendi Gallery, Susie Baynham, Gallery 3, Royal Society of Arts and RIBA. He is a Fellow of the Society of Architect Artists and has illustrated books on the architecture of Vienna, Brussels and Liverpool. he specialises in depicting buildings, places and landscape around the world and has a particular obsession with the effects of light and reflections in water.