IMBOLC

Artist : Joy Wolfenden Brown
Title : No Birds
Medium : oil on panel
Dimensions : 100 x 80 cm


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Joy Wolfenden Brown’s intimate oil paintings feel hauntingly familiar possessing a raw, emotional, honesty. She captures fleeting fragments of memory, moments in time where the inherent vulnerability of the figures depicted, often in isolation, is palpable. These are lovingly yet spontaneously executed reflections on the human condition, which have an unnervingly, yet simultaneously comforting, unguarded quality. 

Joy Wolfenden Brown is a British artist born in Stamford, Lincolnshire. She currently lives in Bude, North Cornwall. She graduated from Leeds University then completed a post-graduate diploma in Art Therapy at Hertfordshire College of Art & Design which she worked as an for ten years before moving to Cornwall in 1999. Since then she has had numerous solo exhibitions and was the First Prize Winner in The National Open Art Competition, 2012. She was also awarded the Somerville Gallery painting prize in 2003 and first prize winner at the Sherborne Open in 2007 and the Revolver Pricze at The RWA in 2019. Works were acquired by the Anthony Pettullo Outsider Art Collection in Milwaukee with further works held in collections worldwide.

Artist : Amy Gillian Wilson
Title : Imbolc
Medium : mixed media installation
Dimensions : life size


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“I used to be a woman who knew how to make things out as I saw them, but I have since committed the pathetic error of thinking. Wanting to understand was one of the worst things to have happened to me. I care too much about the utter darkness, the void of unfulfillment, to receive and eat back the lives that have been tossed forth from the womb to fail, to kiss and bestow them all a second chance. I’m sending my true love back to the bitch that bore you. She is the world-generating spirit who all creatures rise through: space, time, and causality – the shell of the cosmic egg. She is the enticement that budged the self-brooding absolute to the act of creation. All information inside her is systematized around an enigma invisible even in its most private nucleus. I’m handing you a world on fire. I’ve given up on figuring out how to figure things out. Every lure seems to be an expanding vortex. Fear comes from what surpasses me, and I fear myself becomes I’m always ready to suffer. To protect me who persecutes me, I’ll float in emptiness and become air, energetic air, or maybe I’ll be more like an instant of air. Yes, I want to be an instant. Rather than a soul in a body, I’ll be a body in a soul.” - Amy Gillian Wilson, 2021

Amy Gillian Wilson was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1997. Her interdisciplinary approach consists of sculpture, painting, installation, writing, video and performance. She earned her undergraduate degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently completing the Masters of Fine Arts program in Ceramics at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. She has exhibited her artwork widely in the USA and beyond.
 

Artist : Gabrielle K Brown
Title : You Are One & The Same
Medium : mixed media on wood
Dimensions : 240 x 120 cm


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Embodying a natural and intuitive, seemingly naive, yet extremely complex aesthetic, Gabrielle K Brown is a multi-faceted, multi-media artist who eagerly and energetically seeks new ways to tell stories through her artworks. Her pieces retain an object, often shrine-like quality, utilising materials including wood, various paints, resin, fabrics and even hair - nothing is beyond limits. The works dissect the relationship we have with ourselves, our companions, our society and our past with an awe and celebration of nature and the divine, shedding light on how we grow and how we suffer as human beings. Confrontational imagery is often contrasted with uplifting symbolism, actions and words - emphasising the extremes of the human condition and experience, and yearning within the energetic and fraught times that we live in. 

Born in 1994 on the east coast of Canada in New Brunswick, Brown grew up along the riverside and mountains which is where she connected to art and began painting and sculpting. She has spent much of her life traveling the world and moving throughout Canada which has always reflected in her work, but has recently moved back home to St John, the oldest city in Canada.Work has been exhibited at Art Basel Miami, as well as Montreal and New York and LA in the United States.

Artist : Phoebe Cummings 
Title : Full
Medium : mixed media on wood
Dimensions : 240 x 120 cm


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Phoebe Cummings’ works predominantly using unfired clay to make poetic and performative sculptures and installations that emphasise materiality, fragility, time, creation, loss and decay. Her impressive interventions are often constructed directly on site, allowing an instinctive development of tensions between object and location. Cummings questions what we will carry forward into the future by producing intricate, hand made and exquisitely delicate sculptures based on ancient plants and primitive ritual, imbued with a sense of magic and mysticism. Drawing together elements of English Paganism as well as the aesthetic excess of Baroque and Rococo design, the resultant objects could be considered as dystopian ornaments of a future anthropology or fragile relics of an almost forgotten past.

Cummings is a British artist born in Walsall, England and currently resides in Stafford. She studied ceramics at Brighton University in 2002 before completing an MA in ceramics and glass at the Royal College of Art in 2005. She has undertaken a number of international artist residencies including a six month residency at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 2010. In 2017 she won first place at the inaugural Woman’s Hour Craft Prize with work exhibited at the V&A Museum, before touring to venues around the UK. Cummings was selected as the winner of the British Ceramics Biennial Award in 2011 and awarded a ceramics fellowship at London’s Camden Arts Centre (2012–13). ‘Supernatural’ was her first solo exhibition at Anima-Mundi. In addition, Cummings’ work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including ‘60|40 Starting Point Series’ at Siobhan Davies Studios, London, ‘Formed Thoughts’ at Jerwood Space, London; and ‘Swept Away: Dust, Ashes, and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design’ at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. In 2013, she had a solo show at the University of Hawaii Art Gallery in Honolulu and The Newlyn Art Gallery.

Artist : Miles Cleveland Goodwin
Title : Night and Day
Medium : oil on panel
Dimensions : 25 x 20 cm


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Miles Cleveland Goodwin’s upbringing in the American South is a recurring theme in his brooding paintings and sculptures. Goodwin draws parallels between the people he portrays, the rhythm of their rural ways of life, and the rugged landscapes that they inhabit. The artist frequently evokes themes of mortality, decay and solitude with a sense of phantasmagoric realism combined with a haunting stillness. Goodwin’s ‘Southern Gothic’ works conjure the ambivalent beauty of a  place that is both simultaneously desolate yet deeply soulful.

Goodwin lives and works in Georgia, USA. He graduated from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Oregon in 2007 with a BFA in painting and printmaking. His work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, the Grace Museum and the Amarillo Museum of Art among others and can be found in collections worldwide.

Artist : Carlos Zapata
Title : Celtic Deity
Medium : polyphant stone
Dimensions : 32 cm height


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Carlos Zapata predominately makes idiosyncratic carved and painted wooden sculpture alongside mixed media installation. His work deals with many challenging and potent humanist themes including poverty, conflict, religion and race, yet perhaps paradoxically, the overriding characteristics of the work are of emotive empathy and compassion. Zapata’s work belongs to and takes inspiration from folk and tribal artforms from all over the world but specifically from South America, from its indigenous populace and the trade routes and traditions that have fed it over the centuries. Many of his sculptures have evolved from personal experience of living in a foreign land and from his home country where civil issues continue to trouble its people. 

Carlos Zapata is a Colombian artist who currently lives and works near Falmouth in Cornwall, UK. He has exhibited extensively internationally with works held in numerous private and museum collections around the world.

Artist : Roger Thorp in collaboration with Jesse Leroy Smith
Title : Bardo
Medium : single channel video
Duration : 07:08


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Roger Thorp’s interest in the poetic use of word and image, to evoke a deep emotional response, are key to his creative process. His artworks are unapologetically infused with a nostalgic romanticism, transmitting an enormous sensitivity towards the earth, humanity and a universal inter-connectedness between matter and all living things. Primarily consisting of video work and multi-media installation, his work is informed by a deeply-felt belief that as a society, and as individuals, we need to come home, to remember a less rapacious and frenetic way of living, more connected on an emotional level to each other, and to the rest of the natural world. If his work offers up an urgent protest, it remains an optimistic and tender one. 

Thorp is a British artist who currently lives and works in Cornwall. He previously worked as a producer on music videos before directing / producing programmes for NGO’s such as WWF, ILO, Greenpeace and the Red Cross, working in Australia, Mongolia and the USA. He has also made two feature films. Other work by Thorp as a writer / director has been screened in Rome, Barcelona, Berlin, Oslo, Copenhagen, Istanbul, USA, Cornwall and London. In 2015 he founded ‘The Olive Network’ a sophisticated web platform built to foster tolerance and understanding throughout diverse global communities by focusing on the positive long-term contributions of charity, the arts and humanities. Thorp’s artwork has been exhibited extensively.

Artist : Luke Hannam
Title : Bernadette (1)
Medium : oil on canvas
Dimensions : 46 x 36 cm


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Luke Hannam describes his work as the result of an ‘ordered chaos’ where poetic paintings are made ‘in the eye of the storm’, where creativity spins wildly, through bursts of impulse around a silent meditative deep well of meaning. Ideas emerge out of an energetic dedication to drawing and a relentless desire to explore images and motifs. His work is instantly recognisable through his strong punch of colour and definite use of line which weaves its way sensuously across the surface, denoting both the delicacy and strength of the form and spirit of the subject. Hannam’s paintings expressively offer a singular view on how what he sees, how he thinks and pivotally how he feels about the human condition and what lies beyond our materiality. His work could be seen to continue the Romantic tradition, embracing reality and mysticism with the wonder of experience.

Luke Hannam was born in 1966 and currently lives in East Sussex, UK. He studied Fine Art in the 1980s and whilst others of his generation faithfully chanted the conceptual mantra of the time, Hannam focussed on perfecting his expressive drawing skills seeking inspiration from the earlier masters. Works have been exhibited and collected internationally, including the collections of Stefan Simchowitz and David Kowitz.
 

Artist : Luke Hannam
Title : Bernadette (2)
Medium : oil on canvas
Dimensions : 50 x 40 cm


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Luke Hannam describes his work as the result of an ‘ordered chaos’ where poetic paintings are made ‘in the eye of the storm’, where creativity spins wildly, through bursts of impulse around a silent meditative deep well of meaning. Ideas emerge out of an energetic dedication to drawing and a relentless desire to explore images and motifs. His work is instantly recognisable through his strong punch of colour and definite use of line which weaves its way sensuously across the surface, denoting both the delicacy and strength of the form and spirit of the subject. Hannam’s paintings expressively offer a singular view on how what he sees, how he thinks and pivotally how he feels about the human condition and what lies beyond our materiality. His work could be seen to continue the Romantic tradition, embracing reality and mysticism with the wonder of experience.

Luke Hannam was born in 1966 and currently lives in East Sussex, UK. He studied Fine Art in the 1980s and whilst others of his generation faithfully chanted the conceptual mantra of the time, Hannam focussed on perfecting his expressive drawing skills seeking inspiration from the earlier masters. Works have been exhibited and collected internationally, including the collections of Stefan Simchowitz and David Kowitz.

Artist : David Kim Whittaker
Title : Faith Healer (Mum Waits for Me At the End of the Path)
Medium : oil and acrylic on primed panel
Dimensions : 76 x 76 cm


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Most of David Kim Whittaker’s paintings are based upon a metaphysical interpretation of the human head. These portrait portals, are often ambiguous, with the aim of representing the totality of the human condition - both the universal and the empathetic alongside personal experience. The works often juggle dual states of inner and outer calm and conflict, offering a glimpse of simultaneous strength and fragility, conscious and subconscious, masculine and feminine. The paintings express Whittaker’s constant focus on an attempt to express something far greater than oneself. Recent works depict the artists deep sensitivity and increasing unease when confronted with the compounding global tensions of this particlar moment. A dual reflection of hope and warning stares back at us from the frame. 

Whittaker is a British artist born in Cornwall where he still resides. Exhibitions have been held internationally, notably including a major solo exhibition at the prestigious Fondazione Mudima in Milan in 2017. Works are in numerous museum collections, art foundations and international private collections. Whittaker was further acknowledged in 2011 as the recipient of the Towry Award (First Prize) at the National Open Art Competition.

Artist : Arthur Lanyon
Title : Mr Street
Medium : oil, oil stick, acrylic, charcoal on linen
Dimensions : 190 x 190 cm


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Arthur Lanyon paintings combine intuitive figurative motifs with an emotive, gestural, abstracted language. His energetic works are sited on a physical and metaphysical cross roads, like a belay between numerous visual and emotional pinnacles. They offer a progressive link between the outside world, the inner architecture of the brain, altered states of consciousness, memory and the unencumbered essence of child’s drawing. 

Arthur Lanyon is a British artist born in Leicester, England in 1985. He lives and works from a studio near Penzance, Cornwall. Born in to an artistic family, his father was the painter Matthew Lanyon and his grandfather the celebrated, influential and world renowned modernist painter Peter Lanyon. He won the Hans Brinker Painting Award in Amsterdam in 2007 and gained a first class degree in Fine Art from Cardiff University in 2008. Upon graduating he was featured in Saatchi’s ‘New Sensations’ exhibition. In 2014, his work was in the long-list for the Aesthetica Art Prize and was included in the award’s published anthology. His debut Anima Mundi solo exhibition ‘Return to Whale’ opened in 2016, which was followed by ‘White Chalk Lines in 2018, ‘Arcade Laundry’ in 2020 and ‘Coda for an Obol’ in 2022. Works have been exhibited extensively, notably including Untitled Art Fair in Miami; Zona Maco, Mexico City; the Saatchi Gallery London; The House of St Barnabas, London; CGK, Copenhagen; Tat Art, Barcelona and Herrick Gallery, Mayfair. Arthur Lanyon paintings are held in private collections worldwide. 
 

Artist : Dorcas Casey 
Title : Goat
Medium : fabric, stuffing, thread, tape, polymer clay, steel wire, old furniture
Dimensions : 180 x 90 x 90 cm


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Dorcas Casey finds the starting point for her sculptures from remembered dreams. These images from the subconscious are often mysterious and elusive, yet sculpture is a way to articulate and preserve them whilst remaining ambiguous. Her work utilises ‘hands-on’ processes like stitching, mould-making, casting and sculpting with clay. She is drawn to familiar, domestic materials and objects, which are often linked in some way to her own memories. She responds to the idea of out-moded, discarded and marginal things returning as powerful presences which are poised between the realms of the familiar and the uncanny.

Casey is a Bristol based artist. She studied Sculpture at Winchester School of Art and completed a Masters in Multidisciplinary Printmaking at UWE. She is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors, having been awarded a bursary. She xhibited her fabric sculptures at Banksy’s Dismaland and performed with her sculpture /costumes at Glastonbury Festival and Hauser and Wirth Somerset. She won the Public Speaks Award in the Broomhill National Sculpture Prize and her work features in the book The Language of Mixed Media Sculpture. She was commissioned to work as lead artist for Artichoke’s PROCESSIONS in 2018 and awarded a QEST Scholarship to study bronze-casting in 2019. In 2021 Dorcas won the ACS Studio Prize and was elected as an Academician at the Royal West of England Academy.

Artist : Kate Walters
Title : Your Long Golden Tongue Pulls me into Another Dimension
Medium : oil on linen
Dimensions : 80 x 90 cm


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“Kate Walters’ startling images go straight from the eye to whatever emotional nexus it is that primes and enriches our inner lives. Their visionary quality is evident in both form and impulse; they are compelling for what seems a wholly instinctive fusion of the visceral with the lyrical. And they are confrontational, presenting as encounters from dream just as dream relates to those deep quotidian mysteries to which we are most often blind.” - David Harsent

Kate Walters is English painter living and working in West Cornwall. She initially studied at the School of Fine Arts in Brighton. Once graduated, she began working as a professor of art, before pursuing a degree at University College Falmouth. She primarily  uses watercolors, acrylics and oil paint to explore the fields of interaction between animal, man, dreams and nature. Her work is very inspired by Shamanism, an inspiration that structurates her practice. Kate has been awarded on numerous occasions by the Art Council and exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2015. In 2000, Kate Walters became a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists. Works have been exhibited internationally and are in collections worldwide.
 

Artist : Kate Walters
Title : When Two Angels Meet
Medium : oil on linen
Dimensions : 45 x 35 cm


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“Kate Walters’ startling images go straight from the eye to whatever emotional nexus it is that primes and enriches our inner lives. Their visionary quality is evident in both form and impulse; they are compelling for what seems a wholly instinctive fusion of the visceral with the lyrical. And they are confrontational, presenting as encounters from dream just as dream relates to those deep quotidian mysteries to which we are most often blind.”- 

David Harsent

Kate Walters is English painter living and working in West Cornwall. She initially studied at the School of Fine Arts in Brighton. Once graduated, she began working as a professor of art, before pursuing a degree at University College Falmouth. She primarily  uses watercolors, acrylics and oil paint to explore the fields of interaction between animal, man, dreams and nature. Her work is very inspired by Shamanism, an inspiration that structurates her practice. Kate has been awarded on numerous occasions by the Art Council and exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2015. In 2000, Kate Walters became a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists. Works have been exhibited internationally and are in collections worldwide.

Artist : Simon Averill
Title : Entanglements
Medium : acrylic on panel
Dimensions : 40 x 40 cm each


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Albert Einstein’s ‘spooky action at a distance’ theory referred to the subject of ‘quantum entanglement’. This principle has inspired this ongoing series of paired paintings by Simon Averill. Quantum entanglement is a physical phenomenon which occurs when pairs or groups of particles are generated, interact, or share spatial proximity in ways such that the quantum state of each particle cannot be described independently of the state of the other(s), even when the particles are separated by a large distance—instead, a quantum state must be described for the system as a whole. Physicist and feminist theorist Karen Barad coined the term ‘intra-action’ to describe the concept of ‘entanglement’, (not only of fundamental particles but of all material, matter, of nature and of meaning). There is a distinction to be made between intra-action and interaction; when bodies interact they retain a degree of independence, each entity existed before the encounter. When intra-action occurs individuals materialise and agency emerges from within the relationship not outside of it. These works further enhance Averill’s reputation for attempting to record elusive, transitory yet fundamental phenomena. Produced through a multi layered, process of glazing where methodical and repetitive series’ of motifs, are used to describe intangible potentials.

Simon Averill is a British artist born in Brighton, England in 1961. He currently lives and works near Marazion in West Cornwall. Averill studied Fine Art at Brighton Polytechnic and graduated with Honours. In 1986 he established a Printmaking Workshop near Penzance, Cornwall, which he ran until 1990. He has been a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists since the late 1980s. Averill has exhibited widely with exhibitions in the UK, Europe and USA including the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Show, The Discerning Eye exhibition at the Mall Galleries, Royal West of England Academy in Bristol, Sherborne House, Plymouth Museum, Plymouth Arts Centre, Truro Museum, Falmouth Art Gallery, Newlyn Art Gallery and the Festival Hall in Chicago, USA. He has had 12  exhibitions and won the Wells Art Contempory painting prize in 2020.

Artist : Faye Eleanor Woods
Title : Slug / Hug
Medium : oil and acrylic on canvas
Dimensions : 36 x 31 cm


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Faye Eleanor Woods is a Scottish artist currently living and working in West Yorkshire. Her symbolic artwork acts as a love letter to her own experience, full of life’s joy, absurdity, humour, loss and fear. Recent works explore her own personal journey through grief, one she describes as dark, weepy and often hilarious. She hails her work as a tangilble form of inner catharsis. Using raw pigments and acrylic ink she forces rich colour into the grain of the canvas, blurring edges with copious amounts of water or using thin layers of oil to blend the figures with their backgrounds creating an ethereal presence. As Woods says “I try to bring attention to the surreal aspects of life and the way the oddness of experience manifests within individuals and how that manifestation then affects me. In my vulnerability I crave strange moments of intimacy. I imagine drinking straight from the tap of all emotion, drinking so much of it, I take on too much and I’m sick and everything I spew out ends up in my work.”

Artist : Groter Walpius
Title : Warmth is Yet to Come 
Medium : concrete, plaster spray paint
Dimensions : 30 x 21 cm


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Groter Walpius is an emergent artist living and working in La Spezia, Italy.
 
Utilitarian yet in search of something transcendental, he works on tablets of concrete, in layers with spraypaint, very fine sandpaper and water; continuously smoothing in search of the blooms that the colour generously gifts. He likes to think that his process replicates what light does itself to form colour and tone. The rational part of his brain tries to counter and overcome the random processes, creating a dance between harmony and chaos in an attempt to replicate an act of nature produced over time.

Artist : Groter Walpius
Title : A Taste of Us
Medium : concrete, plaster spray paint
Dimensions : 30 x 21 cm


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Groter Walpius is an emergent artist living and working in La Spezia, Italy.
 
Utilitarian yet in search of something transcendental, he works on tablets of concrete, in layers with spraypaint, very fine sandpaper and water; continuously smoothing in search of the blooms that the colour generously gifts. He likes to think that his process replicates what light does itself to form colour and tone. The rational part of his brain tries to counter and overcome the random processes, creating a dance between harmony and chaos in an attempt to replicate an act of nature produced over time.

Artist : Groter Walpius
Title : Etruscan Dream
Medium : concrete, plaster spray paint
Dimensions : 30 x 21 cm


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Groter Walpius is an emergent artist living and working in La Spezia, Italy.
 
Utilitarian yet in search of something transcendental, he works on tablets of concrete, in layers with spraypaint, very fine sandpaper and water; continuously smoothing in search of the blooms that the colour generously gifts. He likes to think that his process replicates what light does itself to form colour and tone. The rational part of his brain tries to counter and overcome the random processes, creating a dance between harmony and chaos in an attempt to replicate an act of nature produced over time.

Artist : Andrew Litten
Title : Copulate
Medium : mixed media on paper
Dimensions : 65 x 50 cm 


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Andrew Litten’s dynamic and gestural figurative artworks express a strong interest in the universal complexity of everyday existence. Dealing with humanistic themes such as love, sensuality, fear, anger, loss, nostalgia, mundanity, personal growth and perceived identity normality or disturbance. Works are created with an unguarded, empathetic attitude, like so many expressionistic artists, a rawness of approach combined with an often viscous application of paint is also key to the extreme experience felt from the work. Gesture and nuance inspire extreme emotive reading, perhaps subversive, tender, passionate, ambivalent, malevolent or compassionate, our response becomes one of allure or repulsion.

Andrew Litten is a British artist, born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire in 1970. He currently works from his studio in Fowey, Cornwall. He is a self-taught artist leaving art college as a teenager having found it to be too restrictive to his aspired method of working. For a decade he created mostly small-scale works using humble domestic or found materials (including envelopes and assembled furniture parts). The work made at this time deliberately challenged ideas of art elitism and art as commodity. He then moved to Cornwall in 2001 and chose to begin exhibiting Early success came when his work was included in an exhibition titled ‘Nudes’ in New York City, (along with Jacob Epstein and Pierre-Auguste Renoir), where his work was highlighted and reviewed by the New York Times. Shortly after he had four consecutive solo exhibitions at Goldifsh Fine Arts in Penzance, Cornwall. Other notable exhibitions included ‘Move’ at Vyner Street, London, during Frieze Art Week 2007, where his work ‘Dog Breeder’, created as a twisted and emphatic anti-art statement, was exhibited. He was also included in ‘No Soul For Sale’ at Tate Modern Turbine Hall, London in 2010. In 2012 he held a major solo exhibition at Millennium in St Ives, Cornwall and that year was given a guest solo exhibition at L13 Light Industrial Workshop, London. He has also held large-scale solo exhibitions at Spike Island and Motorcade FlashParade in Bristol. ‘Ordinary Bodies, Ordinary Bones’ was conceived with support from The Arts Council, UK and was exhibited at Anima Mundi in 2018. Works have been included in numerous international curated mixed exhibitions in Berlin, Dublin, Siena, Milwaukee and New York City and in Venice during the 54th Biennale. Most recently paintings have been exhibited in four major museums in China. Andrew Litten paintings feature in numerous international private and public collections. 

Artist : Andrew Litten
Title : Sexual Intercourse
Medium : oil on canvas
Dimensions : 147 x 150 cm 


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Andrew Litten’s dynamic and gestural figurative artworks express a strong interest in the universal complexity of everyday existence. Dealing with humanistic themes such as love, sensuality, fear, anger, loss, nostalgia, mundanity, personal growth and perceived identity normality or disturbance. Works are created with an unguarded, empathetic attitude, like so many expressionistic artists, a rawness of approach combined with an often viscous application of paint is also key to the extreme experience felt from the work. Gesture and nuance inspire extreme emotive reading, perhaps subversive, tender, passionate, ambivalent, malevolent or compassionate, our response becomes one of allure or repulsion.

Andrew Litten is a British artist, born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire in 1970. He currently works from his studio in Fowey, Cornwall. He is a self-taught artist leaving art college as a teenager having found it to be too restrictive to his aspired method of working. For a decade he created mostly small-scale works using humble domestic or found materials (including envelopes and assembled furniture parts). The work made at this time deliberately challenged ideas of art elitism and art as commodity. He then moved to Cornwall in 2001 and chose to begin exhibiting Early success came when his work was included in an exhibition titled ‘Nudes’ in New York City, (along with Jacob Epstein and Pierre-Auguste Renoir), where his work was highlighted and reviewed by the New York Times. Shortly after he had four consecutive solo exhibitions at Goldifsh Fine Arts in Penzance, Cornwall. Other notable exhibitions included ‘Move’ at Vyner Street, London, during Frieze Art Week 2007, where his work ‘Dog Breeder’, created as a twisted and emphatic anti-art statement, was exhibited. He was also included in ‘No Soul For Sale’ at Tate Modern Turbine Hall, London in 2010. In 2012 he held a major solo exhibition at Millennium in St Ives, Cornwall and that year was given a guest solo exhibition at L13 Light Industrial Workshop, London. He has also held large-scale solo exhibitions at Spike Island and Motorcade FlashParade in Bristol. ‘Ordinary Bodies, Ordinary Bones’ was conceived with support from The Arts Council, UK and was exhibited at Anima Mundi in 2018. Works have been included in numerous international curated mixed exhibitions in Berlin, Dublin, Siena, Milwaukee and New York City and in Venice during the 54th Biennale. Most recently paintings have been exhibited in four major museums in China. Andrew Litten paintings feature in numerous international private and public collections. 

Artist : Simon Hitchens
Title : A Certain Reciprocity
Medium : rock, wax
Dimensions : 17 x 45 x 34 cm


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Simon Hitchens work explores the interconnectedness between the human and the non-human, as a means to learning about Mankind’s relationship with impermanence. The material backbone of his work is rock in its raw and natural state. This is not carved and polished but plucked from the rock face or quarry floor. He remains acutely aware of the historical significance that stone has as the prime material to make  sculpture, and as a sculptor is challenged to make art that contributes to this debate. As a climber he maintains an intimate relationship with rock, and is acutely aware that geologically it is the very material that supports us upon the planet. In the age of the Anthropogenic it seems pertinent to question how we comprehend the geological and human worlds as united, interconnected even. Hitchens believes there is increasingly a disconnect between these two worlds which is harmful not only to the planet but also our psyche. Consequently, rock is the conceptual focus of his work and typically the material backbone within it. His work questions differences between animate and inanimate, more specifically rock and flesh, mountain and body; exploring themes of transience and transcendence.

Artist : Barbara Neill
Title : Dance 1
Medium : oil on canvas
Dimensions : 130 x 162 cm


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“While I find it hard to talk about my work definitively, in a big-picture way I consider them a kind of ode to Humanism. Of late they are choral by compulsion. I wish to celebrate the fact that super vulnerable humankind has managed to set up order after order in the midst of natural chaos. A fragile order, sometimes furious, or mad,  that gloriously defeats entropy for a while. By rubbing against each other in a not comfortable or pleasing way, we spark.”

Barbara Neill was born in Sydney, Australia in 1953 and has spent most of her adult life living and working in relative obscurity in Barcelona, Spain. She describes herself as an art school dropout, university dropout and self taught.

Artist : Katie Sims
Title : Faith and Doubt
Medium : oil on panel
Dimensions : 30 x 24 cm


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Painting, for Katie Sims, is the closest thing to an act of communion. Her work reinforces the complexities of engagement, of seeing beyond first appearances and in questioning the origins and absolutes presented. Constraints are an integral part of her process, from a conceptual, painterly and physical stance. These limitations help her pare back to the essential, towards a directness of emotional statement and to silence; the silence the process facilitates and the silence the work is trying to get at. It is a simplifying, but not in the sense as to reduce complexity for it is layered with complexity and thus demands more from the viewer. Maintaining a balance around the transition point requires great focus akin to any devotional practice. The repetition and movement between prior intention and intention-in-action supports the virtues of listening and humility as she ‘assists’ something into being. Her work is a process that leads to a resolve. She places herself in an in-between space, between two opposing poles, challenging what resolve is through the middle ground until these two states are in a complete tension. Each resolution is different; chromatically, compositionally, through colour or light, yet each involves a circular dialogue of adding and removing. Thus her resolve sustains an instability of form, which manifests as hesitant and uncertain of itself. Sims sees this liminal space as the place where distinctions dissolve and the best opportunity for renewal is found. It is a fluid, malleable situation that enables new customs and identities to be unconcealed. 

Katie Sims was born in Shropshire, England in 1988 and currently lives and works on the small island of Gozo, Malta. Her paintings have been exhibited internationally and can be found in collections worldwide

Artist : Katie Sims
Title : Tacet
Medium : oil on panel
Dimensions : 30 x 24 cm


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Painting, for Katie Sims, is the closest thing to an act of communion. Her work reinforces the complexities of engagement, of seeing beyond first appearances and in questioning the origins and absolutes presented. Constraints are an integral part of her process, from a conceptual, painterly and physical stance. These limitations help her pare back to the essential, towards a directness of emotional statement and to silence; the silence the process facilitates and the silence the work is trying to get at. It is a simplifying, but not in the sense as to reduce complexity for it is layered with complexity and thus demands more from the viewer. Maintaining a balance around the transition point requires great focus akin to any devotional practice. The repetition and movement between prior intention and intention-in-action supports the virtues of listening and humility as she ‘assists’ something into being. Her work is a process that leads to a resolve. She places herself in an in-between space, between two opposing poles, challenging what resolve is through the middle ground until these two states are in a complete tension. Each resolution is different; chromatically, compositionally, through colour or light, yet each involves a circular dialogue of adding and removing. Thus her resolve sustains an instability of form, which manifests as hesitant and uncertain of itself. Sims sees this liminal space as the place where distinctions dissolve and the best opportunity for renewal is found. It is a fluid, malleable situation that enables new customs and identities to be unconcealed. 

Katie Sims was born in Shropshire, England in 1988 and currently lives and works on the small island of Gozo, Malta. Her paintings have been exhibited internationally and can be found in collections worldwide

Artist : Marcelle Hanselaar
Title : Who’s a Pretty Boy Then
Medium : oil on canvas
Dimensions : 108 x 82 cm


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Marcelle Hanselaar was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Growing up in the formal atmosphere of a protestant, postwar country, proved, thanks to her drop-out/turn-on rebellion, a profound source of inspiration for the recurring subject matter in Hanselaar’s work; namely the fierce and sometimes troubled cohabitation with those raw desires, secret fantasies and uncultivated instincts and our functioning in a civil society. Although Hanselaar studied briefly at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, her lust for adventure, guided by a quest for self-discovery, led her to years of travel, until, in the early 1980’s she settled down in her studio in London where she still lives. Self-taught, she started out as an abstract painter before turning to figuration. At the same time she became fascinated by etching, its harsh, bitten line seemed to perfectly suit her subject matter. As an artist Hanselaar looks for ways to express those illusive questions of who and what we are when the mask is off, and how we appear when the mask is on. The shock effect of her work lies in the contrast of combining her outspoken subject matter with the conventional medium of oil painting or etching. Both her paintings and her prints display her delight and fascination with theatrical illusions and although often peppered with a biting sense of humour, the works reveals her own vibrant understanding of human nature, in all its animosity and fragility.

Hanselaar has exhibited her paintings and prints internationally, and can be found in private and public collections worldwide including British Museum Prints Collection, London; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Print Collection, New York; V & A Prints & Drawings Collection, London; V & A National Art Library, London; Whithworth Art Gallery and Museum; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Clifford Chance Art Collection, London; The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, London; Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, US; University of Arizona, Tucson, US; Sakimi Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan; Guandong Fine Art Museum, Guandong, China; Iraq National Library, Baghdad; Meermanno Museum-House of the Book, The Hague; Soho House Amsterdam; AMC, Amsterdam; Amsterdam Arts Council; Kunstcollectie; Gemeente Haaksbergen, NL; University of Aberystwyth Print Collection, Wales; New Hall Art Collection, University of Cambridge; Clare Hall, Cambridge; The Ned, London; Rabo Bank, London; Merrill Lynch, London; Risk Publications, London; Mitsukoshi Ltd., London and Paintings in Hospitals, London

Artist : Henry Hussey
Title : Mother / Father
Medium : digitally printed & dyed linen, yarn, rope, screen-print, embroidery, bronze, steel
Dimensions : 265 x 145 x 40 cm / 270 x 145 x 40 cm


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Henry Hussey’s artworks are often emotionally and physically raw, yet contrastingly beautiful and intricate, created with force through often paradoxically laboured mediums, including textile, glass, ceramic, paint and film. Whether through an expanding vocabulary of quasi-mythological symbols, or in embellished lines of text extracted from performative situations, Hussey explores personal and national identity in response to aggravating relationships and events. Recent experimentations reveal a deep concern with control and chaos and the sweet spot in between these two distinctive states.

Henry Hussey is a British artist born in London in 1990 where he still resides. Hussey studied Textiles at Chelsea College of Art before completing an MA in Textiles at the Royal College of Art. His work is widely respected and has been exhibited in notable exhibitions including The Textiel Biennale 2017 at Museum Rijswijk in the Hague, a solo presentation at Art Central in Hong Kong, the Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2014 at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, the Royal Academy London and Volta New York and the Young Talent Contemporary Prize at the Ingram Collection in 2016. Hussey has participated in residencies at La Vallonea, Tuscany, Italy in 2018 and participated in a residency at Palazzo Monti, Milan in 2020. His work is held in collections worldwide including Simmons & Simmons, Hogan Lovells, The Groucho Club and Soho House.

Artist : Henry Hussey
Title : Mother / Father
Medium : digitally printed & dyed linen, yarn, rope, screen-print, embroidery, bronze, steel
Dimensions : 265 x 145 x 40 cm / 270 x 145 x 40 cm


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Henry Hussey’s artworks are often emotionally and physically raw, yet contrastingly beautiful and intricate, created with force through often paradoxically laboured mediums, including textile, glass, ceramic, paint and film. Whether through an expanding vocabulary of quasi-mythological symbols, or in embellished lines of text extracted from performative situations, Hussey explores personal and national identity in response to aggravating relationships and events. Recent experimentations reveal a deep concern with control and chaos and the sweet spot in between these two distinctive states.

Henry Hussey is a British artist born in London in 1990 where he still resides. Hussey studied Textiles at Chelsea College of Art before completing an MA in Textiles at the Royal College of Art. His work is widely respected and has been exhibited in notable exhibitions including The Textiel Biennale 2017 at Museum Rijswijk in the Hague, a solo presentation at Art Central in Hong Kong, the Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2014 at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, the Royal Academy London and Volta New York and the Young Talent Contemporary Prize at the Ingram Collection in 2016. Hussey has participated in residencies at La Vallonea, Tuscany, Italy in 2018 and participated in a residency at Palazzo Monti, Milan in 2020. His work is held in collections worldwide including Simmons & Simmons, Hogan Lovells, The Groucho Club and Soho House.

Artist : Richard Nott
Title : Ecdysis (1)
Medium : mixed media
Dimensions : 60 x 60 x 10 cm


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Richard Nott’s paintings are unique. There are no oil or acrylic paints in his studio, he works with industrial materials, bitumen, emulsions and varnishes, building them up layer upon layer, often over intimately drawn or gouged grids, lines or marks, into a textural palimpsest, before courageously scraping or burning them back to reveal what lies underneath. Viewing Richard Nott’s artwork is witnessing a protracted collision of creative and destructive processes. An evolution of matter, exposed, concealed, exposed, concealed, continuously. His paintings become the consequence of protracted time spent where Nott’s history merges with the history of the elements used. He has little interest in illusionistic ‘texture’, the work must be its own entity, have its own story and be its own statement. His objective is to create an organic object that evolves like a living thing with truth and imperfection. His process of working allows for a contemplation of a cycle of existence to become imbued in to the work. Not a beginning with an end but a journey where genesis leads to dissolution, and on once again to genesis. Something eternal  akin to alchemy. 

Richard Nott is a British artist born in 1963, who lives and works in west Cornwall. Nott gained his Fine Art degree at Lancashire Polytechnic and his MA in fine art at Reading University. In 1985 he worked as an assistant to Andy Goldsworthy on site-specific sculptures in the Lake District. He was gallery assistant at the Royal Academy from 1986-7 and at Oldham Art Gallery from 1991-2. He won the South West Arts Visual Arts and Photography Award in 1994. He gained a residency at the 12th International Weeks of Painting in Slovenia. Exhibitions have been extensive and international notable included numerous solo exhibitions at Anima Mundi over a long and fruitful working relationship, ‘Art Now Cornwall’ at the Tate St Ives and Chashama, Avenue of the America’s, NYC.