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The ‘Tundra Wolf’, up on blocks in Southwold Harbour. Something caught my eye when I photographed one summer – maybe the blue of the hull or the way it appears to grow out of the vegetation, but a good subject for an ink and watercolour sketch anyway.
Image Size: 17.5cm x 17.5cm
Art Medium: Ink and Watercolour
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High quality Giclée Print: £20 inc. delivery
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Phone: 07515 393096
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Email: simon@thebigsky.studio
Website: thebigsky.studio
Facebook: @thebigskystudio
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My mother is an architect and art and creativity were very much part of home life as a child, so perhaps it's not surprising that I knew I wanted to be working in the creative industries from an early age.
I was helped by going to a school with an outstanding art department that encouraged creativity and basic art skills and it seemed completely logical to go on to study graphic design at the University of the Creative Arts in Epsom.
I loved my time there - this was in the days prior to the Mac and as well as the principles of design and design thinking, there was a great deal of 'craft' skill to learn; including drawing and painting, typesetting, artwork creation and much more.
Once released into the real world, I worked in a local graphics studio in Guildford before setting up a design consultancy with a friend in 1989, just as the Macintosh computer and desktop publishing were arriving in the UK.
We were convinced that this would revolutionise the graphic design profession and were one of the first studios to set up completely equipped with Macs. The 30 years that followed have been a roller-coaster ride, with highs and lows aplenty and although now much smaller than in our heyday, we continue to produce commercial graphic and communication design for companies of all sizes.
With that in mind, I decided that I wanted to go back to my roots and have an outlet for my own creativity; something that would allow me to design and create pieces for my personal satisfaction, using both digital and traditional tools.
Currently I work primarily in ink and watercolour, but I'm also experimenting with digital art, linocut and acrylic painting, so my full portfolio is very varied, whilst I work towards finding my own style.
I am a member of Guildford Art Society and Southwold Art Circle.
I watched the BBC ‘Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed’ and was really taken with the stone Dolmen. I loved the balance of delicacy and poise with the massive stones and felt inspired to try and illustrate one.
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Artist and Designer
Phone: 07515 393096
Please mention the Surrey Artists website
Email: simon@thebigsky.studio
Website: thebigsky.studio
Facebook: @thebigskystudio
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My mother is an architect and art and creativity were very much part of home life as a child, so perhaps it's not surprising that I knew I wanted to be working in the creative industries from an early age.
I was helped by going to a school with an outstanding art department that encouraged creativity and basic art skills and it seemed completely logical to go on to study graphic design at the University of the Creative Arts in Epsom.
I loved my time there - this was in the days prior to the Mac and as well as the principles of design and design thinking, there was a great deal of 'craft' skill to learn; including drawing and painting, typesetting, artwork creation and much more.
Once released into the real world, I worked in a local graphics studio in Guildford before setting up a design consultancy with a friend in 1989, just as the Macintosh computer and desktop publishing were arriving in the UK.
We were convinced that this would revolutionise the graphic design profession and were one of the first studios to set up completely equipped with Macs. The 30 years that followed have been a roller-coaster ride, with highs and lows aplenty and although now much smaller than in our heyday, we continue to produce commercial graphic and communication design for companies of all sizes.
With that in mind, I decided that I wanted to go back to my roots and have an outlet for my own creativity; something that would allow me to design and create pieces for my personal satisfaction, using both digital and traditional tools.
Currently I work primarily in ink and watercolour, but I'm also experimenting with digital art, linocut and acrylic painting, so my full portfolio is very varied, whilst I work towards finding my own style.
I am a member of Guildford Art Society and Southwold Art Circle.
One of the few benefits of the Covid constraints of 2020/21 was the fact that we walked more frequently in the area near to our house, enabling us to rediscover our surroundings and the village in which we live. This included noticing views, landscapes and buildings; one of which is the old red telephone box on the village square; converted into a book-swap.
My ink and watercolour sketch celebrates this brilliant re-use of redundant technology that is a great community asset, never more so than in a time when we are all reading so much more!
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Artist and Designer
Phone: 07515 393096
Please mention the Surrey Artists website
Email: simon@thebigsky.studio
Website: thebigsky.studio
Facebook: @thebigskystudio
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
My mother is an architect and art and creativity were very much part of home life as a child, so perhaps it's not surprising that I knew I wanted to be working in the creative industries from an early age.
I was helped by going to a school with an outstanding art department that encouraged creativity and basic art skills and it seemed completely logical to go on to study graphic design at the University of the Creative Arts in Epsom.
I loved my time there - this was in the days prior to the Mac and as well as the principles of design and design thinking, there was a great deal of 'craft' skill to learn; including drawing and painting, typesetting, artwork creation and much more.
Once released into the real world, I worked in a local graphics studio in Guildford before setting up a design consultancy with a friend in 1989, just as the Macintosh computer and desktop publishing were arriving in the UK.
We were convinced that this would revolutionise the graphic design profession and were one of the first studios to set up completely equipped with Macs. The 30 years that followed have been a roller-coaster ride, with highs and lows aplenty and although now much smaller than in our heyday, we continue to produce commercial graphic and communication design for companies of all sizes.
With that in mind, I decided that I wanted to go back to my roots and have an outlet for my own creativity; something that would allow me to design and create pieces for my personal satisfaction, using both digital and traditional tools.
Currently I work primarily in ink and watercolour, but I'm also experimenting with digital art, linocut and acrylic painting, so my full portfolio is very varied, whilst I work towards finding my own style.
I am a member of Guildford Art Society and Southwold Art Circle.
This was inspired by an online drawing challenge prompt: ‘Sun and Moon’ and is a composition that I had tried before without success. After some experimentation with masking and techniques for creating the trees, I thought I would give it another go and was pleased with the outcome!
Commissions Invited
Artist and Designer
Phone: 07515 393096
Please mention the Surrey Artists website
Email: simon@thebigsky.studio
Website: thebigsky.studio
Facebook: @thebigskystudio
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
My mother is an architect and art and creativity were very much part of home life as a child, so perhaps it's not surprising that I knew I wanted to be working in the creative industries from an early age.
I was helped by going to a school with an outstanding art department that encouraged creativity and basic art skills and it seemed completely logical to go on to study graphic design at the University of the Creative Arts in Epsom.
I loved my time there - this was in the days prior to the Mac and as well as the principles of design and design thinking, there was a great deal of 'craft' skill to learn; including drawing and painting, typesetting, artwork creation and much more.
Once released into the real world, I worked in a local graphics studio in Guildford before setting up a design consultancy with a friend in 1989, just as the Macintosh computer and desktop publishing were arriving in the UK.
We were convinced that this would revolutionise the graphic design profession and were one of the first studios to set up completely equipped with Macs. The 30 years that followed have been a roller-coaster ride, with highs and lows aplenty and although now much smaller than in our heyday, we continue to produce commercial graphic and communication design for companies of all sizes.
With that in mind, I decided that I wanted to go back to my roots and have an outlet for my own creativity; something that would allow me to design and create pieces for my personal satisfaction, using both digital and traditional tools.
Currently I work primarily in ink and watercolour, but I'm also experimenting with digital art, linocut and acrylic painting, so my full portfolio is very varied, whilst I work towards finding my own style.
I am a member of Guildford Art Society and Southwold Art Circle.
The work was based on an antique Chinese vase from a museum archive. The vase was red and gold and had a fish detail in the glaze. The sculpture reflects the fish detail by simulating the sinusoidal motion of a fish through water.
The neck of the vase represents the fin of a fish oscillating in a different plane to its body. The bulb of the vase was reminiscent of antique glass buoys. The string is used as a play on this nautical theme representing the rope that links the buoys together. These were traditionally used to float fishing nets to catch fish in the same way that the fish detail was captured in the original vase. The colours are based on goldfish in the artist’s garden pond.
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Woking, Surrey
Contemporary Sculptor, Artist and Installation Art
Please mention the Surrey Artists website
Email: sadec@hotmail.co.uk
Website: sallydecourcy.co.uk
Facebook: sdecourcy1
Twitter: @SallySadec
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My work aims at challenging our perception of ourselves, our fragility and strength.
My sculptures evolve by manipulating multiple cast objects so that the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts. Using repetition as emphasis, the outcome has a decorative geometry and kinetic unity that expresses are shared human experiences and conditions.
Bones are emblematic in much of my work, and the contextually linked objects reveal a narrative. Although frequently ornate, my sculptures hide darker and often sinister subjects that when revealed create dissonance. The sum like an optical puzzle, oscillates between beauty and nightmare.
My work is not autobiographical in the figurative sense, but like many artists, explores the liminal space between conscious representation and unconscious influence.
Recently my work has looked at the humanitarian aspects of the COVID19 pandemic and the current crisis of refugees crossing the English Channel.
2 of my Pandemic Series on display, Dream or Nightmare? and Beached; autobiographical works about isolation of a shielded, immunocompromised artist during lockdown.
Member of International Association of Visual Artists (IAVA)
Member of Continuum
UCA MFA distinction 2016
Widely published, most recently in Flux Review Magazine and Artist Talk Magazine.
2022 5th June- 26th June, Fresh Air Sculpture,The Old Rectory, Quenington, GL7 5BN
2021 Nov 18th , Solo Exhibition. Geometries of Hope and Horror. Art Without Boundaries, Curator Walter Meyer.
2021 Nov 30th Pandemic Art 1.0 virtual exhibition with Articulate Magazine
2021 January 2nd 2022. Solo Exhibition. Repetition Talks Back. The Holy Art
To see the full range of Paintings, please visit my website.
(Virtual exhibitions listed separately)
2021
Canvas Art Fair, The Forge, London
Continuum@OXO2021 Oxo Gallery,Oxo Tower London
Focus Art fair, Private View Saatchi Gallery, London
Focus Art fair, Fold Gallery, London
The Playful Turn, Espacio Gallery, London
Sentiment Exhibition, Bickerton Grace Gallery, London
Togetherness Exhibition, D31 Art Gallery, Doncaster
Mixing Identities, The Forge, London
Awarded Collectors Vision International Art Award, Contemporary Art Curator Magazine
Represented as Next Generation Artist, Vacant Museum
Represented by the Florence Contemporary Gallery
2020
Gifts of Art Exhibition at Divulgarti Gallery, Genoa, Italy
The Ty Pawb Open. Market Street, Wrexham,
Borders Exhibition, The Room Contemporary Art Space, Venice
Winner of Artist of the Month It’s Liquid platform
Reality and its Disorders, Espacio gallery, London
Beached, Art Limited International Art Exhibition, Bordeaux, France. Best Artwork in Sculpture category
Invited to attend International Artists zoom meeting, Hello World. Transcultural Exchange Boston
Highly Commended, Red Line Art Works Annual Awards - series of works about human rights
2019
Art Maze Exhibition. Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, London
Exhibition Declassified. Allen Gallery, Alton
2018
Exhibition Transform. Westbury Manor, Fareham
2016
MA Degree Show, UCA, Farnham
Menier Gallery, London.
Residency Ashvale Military Museum, Collaborative project - 'Case of Curiosities'
Telos Exhibition. Camden Image Gallery, London
Materials Matter Exhibition. The Bracknell Gallery, South Hill Park
Unleashed Exhibition, Menier Gallery London
Exhibition Misfit. Apiary Studios, Hackney, London
Shortlisted for Jon Bird Prize
Exhibition Human. Sticks Gallery, Fareham
Linear Gallery, Farnham
Exhibition Funny Ha Ha. Burghley House
Time Garden. Frimley Park
Exhibition Germination. Espacio Gallery, London
Exhibition, Weston Park
2014
Installation Metamorphosis. UCA Farnham
Assistant at Facing Extinction, Gustav Metzger, James Hockney Gallery, Farnham
Installation Metamorphosis. Woking
2013
Time Garden, Frimley Park
InstallationTake Two, James Hockney Gallery, Farnham
Public Installation at Horsell Common, Woking
2021
Help 11, IAVA Virtual Exhibition
Rebirth, Florence Contemporary Gallery,
Doncaster Art Fair Mental Health Exhibition
Flux Review V2 Virtual Exhibition
Fronteer Lockdown Online Gallery
Virtual Exhibition Phenomenon with The Holy Art
State of Repair, Vacant Museum
Tebbs Gallery Online Exhibition Movement
Far But Close, Florence Contemporary Gallery
2020
Lockdown, Fronteer Online Art Gallery
Imprints, Past and Present - Online Exhibition at Vacant Museum
Creatures, Beasts, Myths. The Vacant Museum. Online Exhibition
International Exhibition of Contemporary Art "Help" IAVA2020
Redline Artworks. Series of Pandemic Works
Sneeze 2020, featured in Quaranzine 04, Online Art Exhibition, Gaada Projects
Sneeze 2020 accepted at the Bickerton-Grace Gallery
Beached featured in Quaranzine 03, Online Art Exhibition, Gaada Projects
Hello World, Trans-Cultural Exchange, Boston. Online Exhibition
Accepted Online Exhibition, Confined Spaces
2019
Redlines Artworks Online Gallery
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