'Samples' is a group exhibition showing examples of works by six artisan members of East Street Arts. We selected 2D works showing diversity in their in their medium from unique works of charcoal drawing, pastel on wood, oil pastel on paper to limited edition prints of etching, digital drawing and photography works. The works are also different in their content from social documentary to architectural landscapes and abstract works based on personal experiences.
Note: For more information about the artists' works please visit their personal websites or contact the artists directly.
Exhibiting Artists
1. Janis Goodman
www.janisgoodman.co.uk
janisgoodman@talktalk.net
Janis is a printmaker and have been working professionally for over fifteen years creating etchings and aquatints, which reflect both her architectural training places where she walks or visit friends. The prints are preoccupied with the repetitive patterns formed by roofs, windows and chimney pots and how they contrast with the organic forms of plants and birds. The work is both detailed and atmospheric using line and aquatint to give tone and shading to the prints. Janis is a studio holder at East Street Arts.
Title: Regeneration
Date: 2008
Material: Paper and etching ink printed from a copper plate
Size: 25 x 20 cm
Price: £140 (framed)
Title: Dogs days
Date: 2009
Material: Paper and etching ink printed from a copper plate
Size: 40 x 12 cm
Price: £140 (framed)
2. Carol Sorhaindo
www.carolsorhaindo.com
carolsorhaindo@googlemail.com
Carol is an artist with 18 years experience of work within the creative design and visual arts sector. Her work incorporates interior and exhibition design, arts tuition, workshop facilitation and development of projects in health, social care and the private sector
"In a technological age, I hope inspire a sense of calm reflection and reverence for natural spirit. I also hope to increase awareness of Ancient and African / Caribbean arts. My methods of working are never static, as I strongly believe that life if fluid and constantly evolving. I view life as a cycle, with a purpose and connection between every stage. Over the years, my work has taken many directions, all relating to my perception and experiences -A fusion African/ Caribbean and British experience."
Her latest collection of works titled "Ancestral Spirits" are a tribute to the artist's father. In this series of work, the tree and it's markings determine the direction of each creation, making each one unique and a constant reminder that the trees, their fruits and the elements are the essence of life.
1.Title: Ancestral Spirits - Dance of Joy
Material: Pastel on wood
Size: 35 x 120 cm
2.Title: Love creation
Material: Acrylics and pastel on cherry ply
Size: 80 x 80 cm
3. Simon Lewis
www.simonlewisillustration.co.uk
simonleofred@yahoo.co.uk
Simon is an illustrator/printmaker based in Leeds, producing a wide range of different imagery combining both traditional and digital media techniques. Inspired by his surroundings, he draws a lot of buildings and street life. The works generally focus on fine black line drawings, which he then develops digitally to use in screen-printing. Recently Simon has been focusing on drawing larger scale images of architecture in black and white. He then using color on several layers to bring an interesting cross-hatched effect.
1. Title: Merrion House
Date: 2010
Material: Screen-print on paper
Size: 80 x 65cm
Price: £120
2. Title: Library Stairway
Date: 2010
Material: Screen-print on paper
Size: 80 x 65cm
Price £120
4. Stephen Felmingham
http://www.axisweb.org/seCVPG.aspx?ARTISTID=14066
stephen@seedflight.co.uk
Stephen Felmingham studied MA Drawing at Wimbledon School of Art where he won the Postgraduate Drawing Prize. He was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2009, was a finalist in the Celeste Art Prize 2010, New York and has recently exhibited at the Kulturhuset, Stockholm.
Plane wreckage falls from the sky after fifty years; enigmatic objects are found littering the earth; the cockpit is a riddle of dials impervious to interpretation. These drawings come from a series that refer to a mythic time in the past, or possibly the future, when man's capacity for flight has been forgotten. Stephen Felmingham uses the motif of the plane to suggest dissolution and decay as well as an uncanny tension between the familiar and the unfamiliar, leading the viewer towards a confrontation with the sublime.
1. Title: Car of the Juggernaut
Date: 2009
Material: Charcoal on paper
Size: 120 cms x 90 cms
Price: £1850
2. Title: Oculus
Date: 2009
Material: Charcoal on paper
Size: 70 cms x 50 cms
Price: £1125
5. Matthew Yates
http://matthewyates.net/
matthewyates01@gmail.com
Matthew Yates studied art at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He is a studio holder is at East Street Arts.
Matthew's paintings and drawings are inspired by the visual appearance of technology. Intricate patterns of wires and tubes, lights and screens, have always fascinated him. Coloured LED's have a beautiful and strange quality, which he tries to capture in his work.
A computer circuit board is materially real and yet is also the product of highly abstract thought processes. The artist uses this relationship to explore the figurative - abstract dialectic; a relationship that is at the heart of his practice.
Title: Revealing
Date: 2009
Material: Oil pastel on paper
Size: 51cm x 51cm
Price: £400
Title: Around the Wibble
Date: 2010
Material: Mixed Media
Size: 59cm x 40cm
Price: £400
6. Jonathan Turner
http://www.jonathan-turner.com/
pictures@jonathan-turner.com
Jonathan Turner is primarily a 'social documentary' photographer, although he also takes commercial commissions from many different kinds of clients from Advertising to Corporate PR.
A recurring theme in his work is people and the worlds they inhabit; their work, home lives, relationships and pastimes - the things they do that make them who they are. The portraits, often with an element of humour, are celebrating the different ways in which people make sense of their everyday lives as well as challenge the categories and stereotypes we use when doing so.
1.Title: Gareth & Katie at home in Nottingham, 2008
The Household, Medieval England (1066-1453).
Date: 2008
Material: Photographic print (edition 25)
Size: 38 x 38 cm
Price: £150
2. Title: Stuart at home in Macclesfield, 2006.
WW2 German, Grossdeutchland 2nd Recon (1939 - 1945)
Date: 2006
Material: Photographic print (edition 25)
Size: 38 x 38 cm
Price: £150