Hydrangea Flowers – Acrylic and Oil Pastel Painting – Floral Artist Sally Banks

Hydrangea Flowers – Acrylic and Oil Pastel Painting – Floral Artist Sally Banks

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Artist: Sally Banks

Artist: Sally Banks

Hydrangea Flowers - Acrylic and Oil Pastel Painting - Floral Artist Sally Banks
Image Size: 100cm x 70cm
Art Medium: Acrylic and Oil Pastel on Canvas
Original Painting: Sold
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Sally Banks

Figurative, Landscapes, Floral and Portraiture in Acrylic and Watercolour

Phone: 077061 44544

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Email: sallybanksart@gmail.com

Instagram: @artworksbysallybanks

About The Artist

The roots of my creativity are in Africa. The people, the vegetation and multifaceted landscapes of Zimbabwe were to me vividly bright and beautiful.

I moved to the UK in 2003, with one year away (2003-2004), accepting a visiting student opportunity in Jerusalem, Israel. I was based in Wimbledon up until 2009 and then moved to Surrey and now live in Kent. I have relished the cultural richness that is here and the beauty of the English countryside.

I look back at my mentors with gratitude. Beginning at primary boarding school, I remember with thanks the artist and teacher, Jean Peterson, who started an art club. My very first exhibition entry was done through her. From then on I thought of myself as an artist.

Trevi Fountain Rome Fine Art Prints
Estelle Byrne was my inspiring and gifted art teacher at secondary school. I notice on the Queen Elizabeth School Facebook page, she is often mentioned with affection. Her classes were the highlight of my week.

I mostly work in acrylic and watercolour. When I work from nature I prefer close up views, making the play of light the main ingredient. I am aware that I am drawing inspiration from my own story behind the subject, the ongoing script of everything observed.

I love the human form and face. I look for subtle expressions that reveal personality, the story behind the eyes.

St Georges Hill Weybridge Landscape Painting Commissioned

Awards / Exhibitions / Career

I studied at the School of Art at the Bulawayo Technical College. Under Adele Walters I discovered and developed my strength in life drawing and received the college’s Fine Art Award (1969). That same year, a class outing to the park to paint outdoors initiated my love for watercolours.

I went on to a long career in Harare, mostly within the textile industry. I took on painting commissions, sold my work through commissions, solo and joint exhibitions and in small local galleries. It’s a lovely thought that my work is all over the world in people’s homes.

In Zimbabwe I worked only in watercolour, and my subjects were predominately floral and landscape (see Bush Sunrise). Here in the UK, I have taken on private commissions and I have sold work at the Corner Gallery, Carlshalton (see Hydrangea Profusion) and through the studio of Jane Silk, the ceramicist (see Ornamental Orange Tree and Higginson Park).

I am exhibiting at Sixteen Gallery, Cheltenham in March 2022.

I’ve had exciting experiences as a mature student. I lived in Sweden for four years to study (BA European History) and during that time took 3 courses in Western Humanities under Dr. Torbjorn Aaronson, PhD Political Science, Uppsala (2002). As a visiting student for one year, I studied Jewish Art in Late Antiquity at the Hebrew University, Rothberg School, under Professor Lee I. Levine (2003-2004). I now live in Kent.

Blue Hydrangea – Summer Flowers – Chobham Art Group Artist Carla Scarano

Blue Hydrangea – Summer Flowers – Chobham Art Group Artist Carla Scarano

Art, Painting Commissions and Prints from Surrey Artists

Artist: Carla Scarano

Artist: Carla Scarano

Blue Hydrangea - Summer Flowers - Chobham Art Group Artist Carla Scarano

Blue Hydrangea

Floral Art

Image Size: 40cm x 30cm
Art Medium: Watercolour
Original Painting Price: £100

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Carla Scarano

Chobham

Figurative, Abstract Still-Life and Landscapes in Oil, Tempera, Watercolour, Acrylic and Mixed Media

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Email: scaranocarla62@gmail.com

Website: carlascaranod.co.uk

Gallery Of Art

About The Artist

I am an artist based in Chobham, Surrey. My artwork ranges in a variety of media, from oil painting to tempera, watercolours, acrylics and mixed media.

It is mainly figurative, though some of my pieces can be abstractions of figurative forms. I work on objects, single items or still life and landscapes.

I do not mimic reality and look for a personal vision of shapes and colours sometimes disregarding proportions. Impressionistic views merge with a surrealist vision in my work and a poetic interpretation of reality, sketching and drawing, are always my first steps towards a finished work. Then I choose the media that
best suits the composition. Sometimes I try different media for the same subject, to see which one interprets the form and thought I mean to convey.

The picture needs to speak to the viewer, communicating multiple sensations and engaging them in the story. Then I choose the media that best suits the composition.

I am also a writer and my inspiration, both in writing and in painting comes from where I live, what I do and the people I meet. It can be a view of the English landscape, flowers on a wall, working in my back garden, or an encounter. I am also very much inspired by travels, the changing of seasons, exhibitions and memories.

I think most of my work is a revisitation of memories of what I saw and experienced in the recent or distant past.

Carla Scarano - Chobham Surrey Mixed-Media Artist

Carla Scarano - Chobham Surrey Artist

Carla Scarano Art - Autumn Leaves
Dripping - Nail Polish Art - Chobham Art Club member Carla Scarano
Wall - Carla Scarano Woking Art Society Artist

Art Group / Exhibitions

I am a member of Woking Art Society and take part in the workshops and exhibitions they organise. I have also just subscribed to
Surrey Artists Open Studios and am a member of Chobham Art Group.

Still Life with Hydrangeas by Surrey Artist and Art Tutor Hildegarde Reid

Still Life with Hydrangeas by Surrey Artist and Art Tutor Hildegarde Reid

Art, Painting Commissions and Prints from Surrey Artists

Artist: Hildegarde Reid (Molesey)

Artist: Hildegarde Reid (Molesey)

Still Life with Hydrangeas by Surrey Artist and Art Tutor Hildegarde Reid

Still Life with Hydrangeas

Art Medium: Watercolour

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Hildegarde Reid

Painter of Oils, Watercolour, Gouache and Acrylics 
Art Tutor and Art Demonstrations 
Teacher of Watercolour Painting on Cruise Liners 

Phone: 0208 398 1943
Mobile: 07584 571 234
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Email: hildegarde.art@gmail.com

About The Artist

Hildegarde was born on the edge of the Kalahari Desert, Northern Cape Province, South Africa.

She studied Social Science at the University of the Orange Free State, but has always been passionately involved in painting. She came to the UK in the “Sixties”, is married with two children, and lives in Surrey where she teaches and paints in her Studio in Molesey.

Hildegarde is primarily a “Colourist”. Her work is much influenced by her roots and she brings warmth and vibrancy into her paintings where with gay abandon uses colour and paint in a way that has been described as, “delightfully sensual”. Whether tackling cluttered Still Lifes of everyday objects, or landscapes of Southern Africa and Europe, she delights in depicting the effects of light and dark. The “Impressionists” and “Scottish Colourists” have had a major influence on her work. Although mainly an oil painter, Hildegarde also uses watercolour and mixed media.

Of Painting as an activity, she says “No matter how demanding painting can sometimes be, it always fills me with a huge sense of satisfaction and joy. In painting I escape into a World of my own, where I can revel in creating images with colour, shape and form.”

Hildegarde Reid - Molesey Surrey Artist Holding Framed Painting

Galleries and Exhibitions

Hildegarde has sold to clients world-wide. Her paintings are represented by Art Galleries in South Africa and London. Her work is regularly exhibited with the Chelsea Art Society, and has been represented at the Affordable Art, and Battersea Art Fairs . In September 2007 she was Guest Artist for “The Family Law in Partnership”, Bedford Chambers, Covent Garden, London, and exhibited in May 2008 hanging at the Royal British Artists Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London. One of her works, “Daffodils” was recently auctioned at the Royal Academy on behalf of Marie Curie Cancer Research.

Painting Commissions

Hildegarde undertakes commissions for Still Lifes incorporating client’s colour schemes and precious possessions as well as painting private homes and gardens.

Art Talks & Demonstrations / Art Tutor - Including Cruise Liners

Hildegarde regularly runs painting workshops and demonstrations for a number of Art Societies and exhibits both in South Africa and England. She has sold to clients world-wide. For the last four years Hildegarde has been a watercolour instructor for major Cruise Lines.

Art Groups

Hildegarde is a member of Molesey Art Society, Chelsea Art Society, Sunbury on Thames Art Society & Thames Valley Art Society and Weybridge Art Society.