West Midlands Open

Floor 3 | 20 May — 25 September 2022

The New Art Gallery Walsall is delighted to present, for the first time, the West Midlands Open, an exhibition of recent artworks in various media by artists from, or connected, to the region. The exhibition follows an open-call to West Midlands artists, including those currently attending an art school in the region or educated here in the past 10 years.

The Gallery received over 500 entries from across the region, spanning Greater Birmingham, The Black Country, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. From these, a panel of independent judges and Gallery staff selected 250 works for exhibition.

The West Midlands Open celebrates the quality, diversity and vibrancy of the local visual arts ecology and provides a platform and selling opportunity for artists in the region.

All works in the exhibition can be viewed below, ordered alphabetically by first name, and sorted via category;

James Byrne — A Walk in the Park

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James Byrne — A Walk in the Park

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James Byrne — A Walk in the Park

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  • Artwork description:
    The painting process and the physical expressive qualities of paint have always central to my practice .l do not wish to illustrate either a direct perceptual experience or conceptual idea.l think concepts develop out of the process itself which in turn gives rise to ideas . These small impasto oils are part of a current project preceded by three or four volumes of small drawings completed in situ in the local park during lockdown.The paintings themselves are produced in the studio where process ,media and physical action stimulate memory and imagination which in turn creates for me internally found images which often seem to be more authentic in recording my experience in the landscape.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Oil on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    http://jamesbyrneart.com

James Milichamp — The Eye Infirmary, Wolverhampton

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James Milichamp — The Eye Infirmary, Wolverhampton

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James Milichamp — The Eye Infirmary, Wolverhampton

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  • Artwork description:
    This painting shows a detail of the Eye Infirmary on Chapel Ash, Wolverhampton. Objects, spaces and the Built environment are explored through this series of paintings. A play of light, a silhouette, a partially open door or broken window frame. These objects or places can be read as metaphors for isolation, abandonment and solitude. Amidst the howling storm of contemporary culture, the artist is separate, alone, a silent observer, cut off from the cacophonous noise of the human condition. Are we not all alone amongst the baying crowds? The ability to project gives the viewer a kind of ownership over the scene, thus allowing a more direct experience. Empty spaces, devoid of human life, freeze the echoes of human existence.
  • Date:
    November 2020
  • Medium:
    Mixed media
  • Category:
    Painting

James Milichamp — Girls’ High School, Doncaster

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James Milichamp — Girls’ High School, Doncaster

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James Milichamp — Girls’ High School, Doncaster

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  • Artwork description:
    This is a painting of the Girls’ High School in Doncaster town centre, as it was undergoing demolition. Continuing this series, elements are deleted, obliterated or obscured. By redacting essential aspects of a scene; a line, the form, a detail, the thing described becomes lost but more present. It is the Absence of selective detail that engages – The sparsity in the work, that which is missing, forces the on-looker to fill in the gaps, facilitating a unique reading of the image, not as the artist saw it but as the viewer actively experiences it. If you depict an absence, you also reveal the presence.
  • Date:
    November 2020
  • Medium:
    Mixed media
  • Category:
    Painting

James Stacey — Vacant

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James Stacey — Vacant

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James Stacey — Vacant

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  • Artwork description:
    This painting was created as part of my investigation into the ways different people acted on public transport. I found this image captivating of a young teenage girl completely absorbed and transfixed by social media. Even though there were so many different people on the bus everyone seemed to be so far away - disconnected almost. There was a misery which i looked to capture also, the monotony of an everyday routine to head to school. I could sense the female subject had become all too acustomed to this journey. I chose to paint this image onto defaced corrugated cardboard as this mirrored the withered and tired nature of the girl.
  • Date:
    30/1/2020
  • Medium:
    Oil paint
  • Category:
    Painting

Jane Spence — Red Black Green

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Jane Spence — Red Black Green

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Jane Spence — Red Black Green

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  • Artwork description:
    This is one of my smaller works developed from a cache of found images that I keep by me to help me conjure a sense of the strange, the uncanny: accepted reality skewed. Figures I am drawn to are generally hard to assign. They are androgynous, and have something of the Fae about them. They are the flash in the corner of our eye, an image not quite registered, a shadow that flickers behind a half open door.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    oil on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting

Janette Summerfield — Windfalls

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Janette Summerfield — Windfalls

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Janette Summerfield — Windfalls

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  • Artwork description:
    Windfalls These are Bramley cooking apples, from the tree at the bottom of my garden. Some fall to the ground and smash on impact, and what can’t be salvaged are eaten by the birds or composted. Others land on soft soil and are scooped up before they spoil. The lucky ones stay on the tree long enough to be picked from the branches. Whichever way they fall they are stored, frozen, or baked in a pie. I was particularly drawn to the patterns and blemishes on their skins, and chose to include a stainless steel jug to reflect their colours and distorted shapes. I cropped the image quite severely to create interesting shapes and to draw the viewer into the picture.
  • Date:
    November 2020
  • Medium:
    Pastel
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.jls-artist.uk

Jenny Suffield — Chairs

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Jenny Suffield — Chairs

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Jenny Suffield — Chairs

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  • Artwork description:
    The painting considers the domestic space and furniture in the home. The chairs begin to take on the human characteristics of the occupiers as they are caught in the morning light. The paint application plays with the textures of the medium thickly applied in the sunlight, over thin layers in the shadows.
  • Date:
    November 2021
  • Medium:
    Oil paint on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting

Jenny Suffield — Solitaire

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Jenny Suffield — Solitaire

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Jenny Suffield — Solitaire

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  • Artwork description:
    The growing up of children into young adults, learning independence, at moments holding onto games enjoyed as youngsters though at the same time wanting to be treated as adults. The painting explores the application of paint between the shadows and the sunlight.
  • Date:
    November 2021
  • Medium:
    Oil paint on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting

John Devane — Study for a portrait

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John Devane — Study for a portrait

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John Devane — Study for a portrait

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  • Artwork description:
    This is a portrait study. The picture has been developed over a number of weeks and the image has undergone a number of significant changes. It struck me that the frontal pose of the figure suggests a sense of confrontation degree or even apprehension perhaps. The table and palette in the foreground provides a foil to the figure and helps articulate the space beyond. To the right. there is a corridor which also adds to the spatial tension within the picture.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    oil on stretched canvas
  • Category:
    Painting

Julie Sommerville — Seven Stones Drive

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Julie Sommerville — Seven Stones Drive

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Julie Sommerville — Seven Stones Drive

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  • Artwork description:
    This is a painting of a 1960's chair that was located at my favourite home "Seven Stones Drive". The leather was so worn it was thin with age and had turned white. When I inherited the chair around 20 years later, I had it re-upholstered in soft leather but it never really felt the same to sit in. But when my sons were little, we would sit in it all together at bedtime, read a story or two whilst putting our feet up on the matching footstool. The background was painted with acrylic and vinyl stencil sections were then cut and stuck to the background. I then used a stipple brush and two different shades of Farrow and Ball emulsion to administer the pattern. Each stencil section needed two coats. I then painted the chair using a wet on wet oil paint adding much detail and softness to the leather and hopefully an interesting contrast to the flatly presented wall. The floor boards are in oil paint, with a bright under painting of orange and burnt umber worked into it when dry.
  • Date:
    3rd February 2022
  • Medium:
    Oil, acrylic and emulsion
  • Category:
    Painting

Kate Hall — A Girl

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Kate Hall — A Girl

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Kate Hall — A Girl

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  • Artwork description:
    I quite often isolate my figures from their backgrounds. This is one of three painted drawings that I made in 2020 using me and my twin brother as models. It is a drawing on grey board coloured in with gesso and acrylic . It is very simple a figure study and I like the awkward pose and low view point .
  • Date:
    2020
  • Medium:
    Gesso and graphite on grey board with acrylic
  • Category:
    Painting

Lindsay Pritchard — The Ghost of You

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Lindsay Pritchard — The Ghost of You

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Lindsay Pritchard — The Ghost of You

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  • Artwork description:
    'The Ghost of You' is a mixed media painting that resulted from collaborating with local poet Leanne Cooper who documents her struggles with her mental health through her poetry. Her poem 'The Darkness' is about depression, describing its physical effects and how it slowly seeps in and changes a person and it inspired me to convey these dark effects on a person through my painting. The background is multi layered with extracts of the poem, stencilling, bus tickets and other papers that related to the body of the poem. These were then painted over with acrylic paint, sanded back to reveal parts of the collage and then in parts repainted over to create a worn broken surface echoing the fragility of the person depicted in the poem. It seemed fitting to paint the face of a person partially emerging from the broken surface as if the ghost of the person is emerging from the darkness. I deliberately kept the person genderless enabling all viewers to be able to connect with the painting.
  • Date:
    September 2021
  • Medium:
    Mixed Media
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.lindsaypritchardart.co.uk

Lois Wallace — Temporary shelter

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Lois Wallace — Temporary shelter

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Lois Wallace — Temporary shelter

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  • Artwork description:
    Temporary shelter and Distant land are paintings that reflect on displacement, isolation and temporality. The tent as a motif has been a recurring theme as it symbolises fragility and defines boundaries. Demarcation of space creates a sense of possession however transitory this may be, generating a feeling of security and protection even though the framework is rudimentary to the point of collapse. These transient structures sit in dark uncertain spaces, the emptiness of the void in the landscape contrasts with the inviting glow of a distant coast line. The duality of space and limitation, presence and absence, the epic and the intimate, creates a narrative that is recognisable and familiar but at the same time unsettling and reflects upon our current times in a poignant way.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Oil on copper
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.loiswallace.co.uk

Lorsen Camps — Eye Test (Pink)

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Lorsen Camps — Eye Test (Pink)

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Lorsen Camps — Eye Test (Pink)

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  • Artwork description:
    Polystyrene is so prevalent as a waste material, often despised if it is even seen at all. My work challenges people’s response to it and how they perceive the often unnoticed things around them. I’ve used this reclaimed polystyrene sheet as a canvas, celebrating and emphasising the texture and material through my use of paint. Looking closely at this type of polystyrene reminded me of the dots in old colour blind tests. I carefully painted the individual beads within a circle to evoke these, and wanted it to resemble a world/planet and a sense of journey through. I have used a flat matt black paint against bright, regular acrylics to suggest an illusory depth to the dots and create a different kind of eye test.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Paint on reclaimed polystyrene
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.lorsencamps.com
  • https://www.instagram.com/lorsencamps

Lou Blakeway — Allie II

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Lou Blakeway — Allie II

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Lou Blakeway — Allie II

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  • Artwork description:
    A small figurative painting in watercolour
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Watercolour on paper
  • Category:
    Painting

Lou Blakeway — Trixie (Love)

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Lou Blakeway — Trixie (Love)

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Lou Blakeway — Trixie (Love)

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  • Artwork description:
    Oil painting on panel
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Oil on panel
  • Category:
    Painting

LU WENJUAN — Shining Moment 7

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LU WENJUAN — Shining Moment 7

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LU WENJUAN — Shining Moment 7

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  • Artwork description:
    The creation of 'Shining Moment' was mainly oil paintings of the tiny daily and special scenes of life. Through lights, shadows, and film-like compositions, they expressed real and film-like moments of life. This 'Shining Moment' project has Sisyphus-like dilemma and exploration of the meaning of life. WENJUAN LU wanted to use this creation to encourage her self, and others, to truly experience the feeling of living in the present, to cherish the present life and people. Even if these moments were tiny, they were nevertheless shiny.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Category:
    Painting
  • https://instagram.com/lunalu_artist?utm_medium=copy_link

Mac McCoig — Titanic

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Mac McCoig — Titanic

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Mac McCoig — Titanic

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  • Artwork description:
    This work depicts 32 shoes in pairs, half women's shoes, half men's. The shoes are not new, they appear worn, but the owners are absent, yet the absence of presence is implicit within the shoes, as anyone who has experienced those left behind by a departed relative can testify. An enduring image for me was pictures of shoes scattered, but in pairs, on the sea bed around the sunken wreck of the Titanic; the only surviving remnant of the unfortunate passengers. The bright colours and high gloss finish of the work both belies and enhances the tensions of the absent presence of the wearers.
  • Date:
    2019
  • Medium:
    Acrylic
  • Category:
    Painting

Maggie Leaver — Heroes, not just for one day

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Maggie Leaver — Heroes, not just for one day

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Maggie Leaver — Heroes, not just for one day

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  • Artwork description:
    This piece communicates my concern during lockdown for NHS staff and other carers and key workers. The stress and trauma they were being exposed to and experiencing themselves I felt would not be over when or if covid was under control. Much was worse than it should have been as resources and staff had been run down over previous years. I was hoping to communicate that this situation should not have been so bad for staff and we should not allow this to happen again and forget how precious the NHS and other key workers are.
  • Date:
    September 202
  • Medium:
    oil
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.maggieleaver.com
  • https://www.instagram.com/maggieleaver/
  • https://facebook.com/maggieleaverpaintings/

Manjeet Singh Gill — Lost In Space

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Manjeet Singh Gill — Lost In Space

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Manjeet Singh Gill — Lost In Space

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  • Artwork description:
    Earth is on the cusp of a new awakening, some would say a spiritual awakening. This piece depicts the separation of relationships, lovers, body from soul - the idea that some will transition to a new earth, leaving behind those unwilling to change.
  • Date:
    12/04/21
  • Medium:
    Digital
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://retromanni.myportfolio.com/

Manjeet Singh Gill — Neon Alley Cat

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Manjeet Singh Gill — Neon Alley Cat

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Manjeet Singh Gill — Neon Alley Cat

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  • Artwork description:
    An experiment with light. By illuminating only that which is necessary, the story unfolds from the darkness. A relationship between 3 shadows in a dystopian neon city street.
  • Date:
    12/09/2020
  • Medium:
    Digital
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://retromanni.myportfolio.com/

Marcus Keating — hypervigilant and numb no longer able to keep each other safe blue heaven thickshakes and a plate of chips

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Marcus Keating — hypervigilant and numb no longer able to keep each other safe blue heaven thickshakes and a plate of chips

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Marcus Keating — hypervigilant and numb no longer able to keep each other safe blue heaven thickshakes and a plate of chips

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  • Artwork description:
    Before the first wave, I uncovered a history of sexual trauma, via a series of repeated memories. I began writing and documenting any recollection that recurred and found a pattern of peripherally violent and enabling behaviours. I then used heavily watered-down gouache to recreate the text. With memory comes a level of uncertainty and fogginess, so by turning the texts into misty poetry with vague narratives; I am able to visualise and make sense of a haphazard and precarious upbringing. Hypervigilant and Stocking are two 1m x 1m unframed gouache paintings on calico. They show a series of white text surrounded by watery paint applied in block sections bleeding into one another. The text explores anecdotes surrounding moments of childhood panic and comfort. This dichotomy being a prominent motif in my upbringing. Early memories of sexual trauma and an unhealthy obsession with sensational news both pushed and pulled me toward an understanding of safety hanging on a knife’s edge.
  • Date:
    Jan 2022
  • Medium:
    Gouache on calico
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://marcusjkeating.wixsite.com/mysite

Marcus Keating — stocking pulled over his face kids in a mall on cctv big hands crushing my chest

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Marcus Keating — stocking pulled over his face kids in a mall on cctv big hands crushing my chest

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Marcus Keating — stocking pulled over his face kids in a mall on cctv big hands crushing my chest

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  • Artwork description:
    Before the first wave, I uncovered a history of sexual trauma, via a series of repeated memories. I began writing and documenting any recollection that recurred and found a pattern of peripherally violent and enabling behaviours. I then used heavily watered-down gouache to recreate the text. With memory comes a level of uncertainty and fogginess, so by turning the texts into misty poetry with vague narratives; I am able to visualise and make sense of a haphazard and precarious upbringing. Hypervigilant and Stocking are two 1m x 1m unframed gouache paintings on calico. They show a series of white text surrounded by watery paint applied in block sections bleeding into one another. The text explores anecdotes surrounding moments of childhood panic and comfort. This dichotomy being a prominent motif in my upbringing. Early memories of sexual trauma and an unhealthy obsession with sensational news both pushed and pulled me toward an understanding of safety hanging on a knife’s edge.
  • Date:
    Jan 2022
  • Medium:
    Gouache on calico
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://marcusjkeating.wixsite.com/mysite

Mark Houghton — Slotz

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Mark Houghton — Slotz

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Mark Houghton — Slotz

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  • Artwork description:
    Drawing made from board that had previously been used as a work table. "Accidental" and "inherited"marks were the inspiration for the composition.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    wood, paint, ink
  • Category:
    Painting

Marwa Sayed — Facing

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Marwa Sayed — Facing

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Marwa Sayed — Facing

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  • Artwork description:
    It is an attempt to enter the subconscious and translate or organize feelings using a few colours. In this painting, I express the idea of ​​facing things greater than one's own capabilities. Standing alone, a small child with an incomplete wing. He does not know if he should move forward or stand in the same place to avoid possible consequences.
  • Medium:
    Watercolours and Ink on paper
  • Category:
    Painting
  • https://www.instagram.com/marwa.kamall/

Matt Greenhill — Lower Trinity Street, Digbeth, Birmingham

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Matt Greenhill — Lower Trinity Street, Digbeth, Birmingham

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Matt Greenhill — Lower Trinity Street, Digbeth, Birmingham

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  • Artwork description:
    This work forms an impression of Lower Trinity Street in Digbeth, a thoroughfare that links the Custard Factory to Dead Wax records, via the Night Owl Club. It is purposefully stripped back, without the customary street furniture, road markings, street art and graffiti typically found in the area.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.mattgreenhill.com/

Matt Greenhill — Chez Michelle Florist, Borough Market

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Matt Greenhill — Chez Michelle Florist, Borough Market

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Matt Greenhill — Chez Michelle Florist, Borough Market

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  • Artwork description:
    The rustic and decorative frontage of Chez Michelle florist, until its closure in the Summer of 2020, was a popular location with London’s street photographers. This work is derived from a photograph I took in 2016. The shop was positioned on Stoney Street near to the entrance of vibrant Borough Market, a locality that attracts thousands of visitors each day as well as being a hub for the local Bermondsey community. In a previous location under the railway arches on Stoney Street, Chez Michelle served as the location for the Leaky Cauldren in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. In the current climate of uncertainty the area is a beacon of resilience and recovery as in June 2017 it was the focus of a terrorist attack. This work depicts the everyday occurrence of a florist preparing cut flowers and a customer making an impulsive visit.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.mattgreenhill.com/

Meta Mezan — Static Time

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Meta Mezan — Static Time

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Meta Mezan — Static Time

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  • Artwork description:
    In the painting I am connecting computer-made imagery with the organic mark-making form. Added shadows transform the abstract object into a possible existing one, it adds gravity and the dimensional weight. The shadow is lively with the brush marks that reminds of the linocut print. The object is placed in an invented space, to bring it closer to the known world.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Medium:
    Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://metamezan.wixsite.com/mmart

Meta Mezan — The Comet is Coming

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Meta Mezan — The Comet is Coming

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Meta Mezan — The Comet is Coming

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  • Artwork description:
    In the painting I am connecting computer-made imagery with the organic mark-making form and geometric shapes. Added shadows transform the abstract object into a possible existing one, it adds gravity and the dimensional weight. The geometric forms are applied thicker with the technique of collage, and are standing out of the surface, which adds their own shadow, and continue the tension between the contrasts.
  • Date:
    2022
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://metamezan.wixsite.com/mmart

Nick James — Imagined Comos 7

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Nick James — Imagined Comos 7

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Nick James — Imagined Comos 7

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  • Artwork description:
    This work is part of 9 abstract, lyrical landscapes: Imagined Cosmos.inspired, somewhat by a conversation I had at the Hare Krishna temple in. Birmingham. I was told, something along the lines of, ‘Lord Krishna awakes before everyone and paints the skies’ to which I replied, ‘Why does he paint it the same every time?’ The response I got was almost blank, perhaps that as if I were a little crazy. However, to me as a painter it seemed bizarre, that it was pretty much the same every time, It is true, there are seasons, emotions and different moods, however, the pallet is a little too limited. The series is nine, 94 x94 cm acrylic on canvas, created on the floor, taking whichever approach allowed me to create what inspired me in the moment. Pouring paint, on the floor allows me to become a physical part of the work while I create it, while also allowing me to become meditative and, of the moment, working instinctively. I hope the work inspires inner peace and tranquility and healing.
  • Date:
    November 2021
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on Canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://words-pictures-music.netlify.app/
  • https://www.instagram.com/ragmanjones/

Nick James — Imagined Comos 5

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Nick James — Imagined Comos 5

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Nick James — Imagined Comos 5

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  • Artwork description:
    This work is part of 9 abstract, lyrical landscapes: Imagined Cosmos.inspired, somewhat by a conversation I had at the Hare Krishna temple in. Birmingham. I was told, something along the lines of, ‘Lord Krishna awakes before everyone and paints the skies’ to which I replied, ‘Why does he paint it the same every time?’ The response I got was almost blank, perhaps that as if I were a little crazy. However, to me as a painter it seemed bizarre, that it was pretty much the same every time, It is true, there are seasons, emotions and different moods, however, the pallet is a little too limited. The series is nine, 94 x94 cm acrylic on canvas, created on the floor, taking whichever approach allowed me to create what inspired me in the moment. Pouring paint, on the floor allows me to become a physical part of the work while I create it, while also allowing me to become meditative and, of the moment, working instinctively. I hope the work inspires inner peace and tranquility and healing.
  • Date:
    November 2021
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on Canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://words-pictures-music.netlify.app/
  • https://www.instagram.com/ragmanjones/

Nita Newman — Celadon Green Bo Peep & her Cappamore Ram

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Nita Newman — Celadon Green Bo Peep & her Cappamore Ram

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Nita Newman — Celadon Green Bo Peep & her Cappamore Ram

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  • Artwork description:
    The characters are objects from my mantelpiece. Bo Peep is from the fairy tale The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. In the painting Bo Peep is depicted as a strong woman, she has been elevated from a cheap lime green ceramic object by subtly changing the glaze into Celadon Green. Celadon green was considered so beautiful that only royalty could look at it. Though the name celadon is French, for centuries the colour was known by the Chinese as mi se, meaning ‘mysterious colour." The word Céladon first appeared as a character in Honoré d'Urfé's 17th Century French pastoral romance, L'Astrée (1627). Astrée's lover, Céladon was a shepherd who wore pale green ribbons. Bo Peep now wears the colours of the shepherd. Her sheep have been replaced by a powerful ‘Cappamore Ram,’ an Irish souvenir. The painting is pure artifice, the matt surface fakes the impression of a shiny glaze, and references collage within its dropped shadow.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on board
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.nitanewman.com/

Paul Crook — Escalators

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Paul Crook — Escalators

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Paul Crook — Escalators

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  • Artwork description:
    In this painting the architectural forms are abstracted into a fragmentation of shape, light, colour and space; a broken but inter-connected geometric surface. I am interested in the reading of the image as being simultaneously about the flat foreground, alongside the recessive illusionary elements. The escalators are readable as three-dimensional structures but also as a series of orange and green interlocking two-dimensional shapes.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on Canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.paulcrookpaintings.co.uk

Paul Crook — Yellow Subway

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Paul Crook — Yellow Subway

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Paul Crook — Yellow Subway

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  • Artwork description:
    Over the last few years I have been making a series of paintings based on subways. This is one of a number of locations that have become a significant part of my personal geography. These places are far more than merely functional public spaces, they form part of our remembered shared significant histories. In the paintings I attempt to slow down the moment of ‘passing through’ and take a more measured view of the beauty that exists in these utilitarian places. The painting is equally about the process of its making. I am interested in the journey taken during the construction of painting, the decisions made to slowly establish something fresh and removed from what was initially observed.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on Canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.paulcrookpaintings.co.uk

Paul Newman — Mechanical Fly Study

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Paul Newman — Mechanical Fly Study

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Paul Newman — Mechanical Fly Study

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  • Artwork description:
    The Mechanical Fly Study 2021 The Human Fly has been a recurring character in my paintings, drawings and performance works since 2007. It was originally Inspired by a B&W movie still from The Return of the Fly 1958 in an old Monsters of the Movies book, depicting a suited man fly standing in a doorway. This has been expanded, exploring the matter-of-fact acceptance of accelerating mutation in David Cronenberg’s tragic 1986 film version of the Fly which in turn references Franz Kafka’s short story Metamorphosis 1915. Mechanical Fly Study depicts a version of the fly framed or trapped in some form of architectural structure. The environment the fly is embedded is in itself in a state of flux and links to another series of works; ‘Interior studies’. In this series various characters with references ranging from Romantic era paintings, movie monsters and Don Quixote, are trapped or wandering through imaginary landscapes in a state of flux, never reaching a destination.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Water colour, gouache, ink on paper
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://paul-newman.net/

Rachel Magdeburg — Smeared Digits

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Rachel Magdeburg — Smeared Digits

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Rachel Magdeburg — Smeared Digits

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  • Artwork description:
    'Smeared Digits' explores the mythic intangibility and pretence of contactless and immateriality shrouding digital technology. The greasy finger swipes on screens, clunky hardware, infrastructure and mined minerals tell otherwise of user's and labourer's bodies, and a variety of component materials. For this painting, Rachel has used a palette knife to smear paint across the screen creating a tension between the haptic and the optic, two and three dimensionality, surface and depth.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on iPad
  • Category:
    Painting

Rafal Zar — Perseverance

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Rafal Zar — Perseverance

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Rafal Zar — Perseverance

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  • Artwork description:
    Perseverance belongs to a series Braided People. They all consists of 3 ingredients. Their imaginary bodies are made of 2 ribbons. They are like 2 forces. 1 negative, destructive and the other positive and loving. The 3rd ingredient is a face made of fragile membrane, always smiling. This represents fragility of my psyche and endless attempt to find joy & happiness in life. Every painting in this series is a reminder to stay positive in life.
  • Date:
    June 2021
  • Medium:
    Oil on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.brushwithdeath.org/

Rob Leckey — Mevagissey Harbour

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Rob Leckey — Mevagissey Harbour

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Rob Leckey — Mevagissey Harbour

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  • Artwork description:
    I have tried to capture the essense of this busy fishing harbour at low tide. The dark harbour wall provides the perfect backdrop to the colourful fishing boats, crates and other miscellaneous fishing equipment. With the tide being out it left all the boats sitting in the mud at interesting jaunty angles.
  • Date:
    June 2021
  • Medium:
    acrylic/collage/mixed media
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.robleckeyart.com

Ruth Spencer — Kimono

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Ruth Spencer — Kimono

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Ruth Spencer — Kimono

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  • Artwork description:
    In the summer of 2021, when we were allowed to meet up in groups with family and friends I went on holiday to the seaside . I was very struck by the brilliantly striped and coloured windbreaks and parasols. which seemed like a great burst of colour after the constraints of lockdown. It was also very interesting how people on the beach recreated domestic spaces on the beach, filled with chairs, tables, ice boxes , towels, mats and hats. It seemed even when we were 'let out' we had to retain a safe domestic space . I wanted to express both the exuberance of the colour and light and also the domesticity of the created spaces.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Oil paint on Canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    http://www.ruthspencer.co.uk

Ruth Spencer — Parasol

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Ruth Spencer — Parasol

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Ruth Spencer — Parasol

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  • Artwork description:
    In the summer of 2021, when we were allowed to meet up in groups with family and friends I went on holiday to the seaside . I was very struck by the brilliantly striped and coloured windbreak and parasols. which seemed like a great burst of colour after the constraints of lockdown. It was also very interesting how people on the beach recreated domestic spaces on the beach, filled with chairs, tables, ice boxes , towels, mats and hats. It seemed even when we were 'let out' we had to retain a safe domestic space . I wanted to express both the exuberance of the colour and light and also the domesticity of the created spaces.
  • Date:
    2021
  • Medium:
    Oil on Canvas
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    http://www.ruthspencer.co.uk

Saleem Ayub — Acceptance

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Saleem Ayub — Acceptance

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Saleem Ayub — Acceptance

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  • Artwork description:
    It depicts the most famous artwork with a draped head. Based on the veil ban in France-the artwork is still recognisable by the pose and beautifully shaped hand that is synonymous with the painting. The face remains hidden-but we are still aware of the smile.
  • Date:
    25th January 2020
  • Medium:
    Oil on stretched canvas
  • Category:
    Painting

Saleem Ayub — Fashionata

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Saleem Ayub — Fashionata

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Saleem Ayub — Fashionata

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  • Artwork description:
    This work is about being fashion conscious and decorating oneself with garments, objects, etc. It also takes on a sculptural element signifying self importance and exhibitionist elements
  • Date:
    30th July 2020
  • Medium:
    Oil on canvas
  • Category:
    Painting

Sally Bailey — w/hole

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Sally Bailey — w/hole

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Sally Bailey — w/hole

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  • Artwork description:
    I consider that my paintings are created and exist within a liminal space - an imagined transactional and transformative psychophysical plane located within the processes of painting itself. This painting simultaneously presents a structure and an antistructure, the 'holes' within the 'whole'. Here, we are in/between; unsure of what we are being asked to see, ovoid cellular spaces reveal visceral glimpses of something eerily beautiful. It is hopeful for the future.
  • Date:
    August 2021
  • Medium:
    oil, acrylic, resin on board.
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.sallybailey.co.uk

Sally Payen — Sketchbook of Fecundus

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Sally Payen — Sketchbook of Fecundus

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Sally Payen — Sketchbook of Fecundus

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  • Artwork description:
    This work in 12 parts is inspired by botanical studies of plants, bees, pollination and our relationship with nature, encouraging a proactive connective response - that we are nature and not separate. One of the panels has a person turned into a flower shape, another a person climbing close to a hive to collect honey; others are exploring the feeling of being mesmerised by staring into the flower core and I have enjoyed pairing colours like colour wheels, this is also a symbol of connectivity. This work connects to my recent commission at Birmingham Museums Think Tank for the climate change gallery. Here the work is entitled Collapsing Colony, We Foragers Unquiet. My hope is that the sublime beauty of nature will inspire more people to work toward repairing and protecting this world.
  • Date:
    2019-2022
  • Medium:
    oil on linen board
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://www.sallypayen.info
  • https://www.instagram.com/sallypayen/

Sangita Kumari — Shanti

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Sangita Kumari — Shanti

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Sangita Kumari — Shanti

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  • Artwork description:
    Shanti, 2020 Inner peace, reflected outwardly. Water colour pencil and ink on paper, 5 x 7inches.
  • Date:
    2020
  • Medium:
    Water colour pencil and Ink
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://masonsdesign.com/

Sangita Kumari — Gully

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Sangita Kumari — Gully

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Sangita Kumari — Gully

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  • Artwork description:
    In the streets of India are you see the hustle and bustle of everyday life, but now and then, you will find a pocket of peace.
  • Date:
    2020
  • Medium:
    Acrylic on canvas paper
  • Category:
    Painting
  • Website/s:
    https://masonsdesign.com/
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