Rachel Tooth
Rachel Tooth is an artist living in London. She was raised in Sri Lanka where her family lived and worked in the tea industry. She was educated in Kodaikanal, in the state of Tamil Nadu in India, and Brighton UK.
Interested in colour, medium and material, always trying different combinations of colour, texture, light and shade, with a keen sense of spatial awareness. Complex layering of material and colour gives energy and strength to her work.
Hugh Hamshaw Thomas
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Hugh Hamshaw Thomas is a London based artist who trained at Central School of Arts & Crafts and Bath Academy of Art (Corsham) in the late 1970s and early 80s. While studying as a painter under the tuterlige of such diverse artists as Michael Kidner, Peter Kinly, Michael Simpson, Maria Lalic and Susan Derges he spent much time exploring sculptural concerns. This was perhaps prompted by the emerging generation of New British Sculptors Gormley, Deacon and Kapoor that also lectured.
His growing up in the countryside of Farnham, Surrey and schooling in Sussex as much as the rural surroundings of Corsham, Wiltshire imbued a strong sense of place and landscape. Notions of the romantic, bucolic and arcadian became suffused in a growing imagination.
Matthew Hindley
Matthew Hindley graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town, in 2002, where he was awarded the Michaelis Prize.
As one of the countries' most recognized younger painters, Hindley’s intense, poetic and delving artworks have featured in various critical and seminal South African exhibitions.
In addition, he has presented at the world renowned Eli and Edythe Broad Museum, Michigan (2012) and the Kochi Muziris Biennale, India (2012). In 2014, he worked on a series of paintings inspired by the mythological African tales of South African writer Don Mattera, for a book published by Rhodeworks, in Berlin, Germany. In 2015, his artwork will be part of the imago mundi, Benetton Collection at the Venice Biennale, and his major public sculpture Speak Naturally and Continuously will undergo conservation, in order to have the delicate physical computing piece in permanent running order. The artwork is installed above the entrance of the South African National Gallery in Cape Town, South Africa.
Nigel Mullins
Nigel Mullins completed his Master of Fine Art degree with distinction at Rhodes University, South Africa in 1993. Since graduating, he has had numerous solo exhibitions in South Africa, the UK and Germany and has taken part in some 50 group shows. His work has been represented on the Cape Town, Johannesburg, Frankfurt and London art fairs and on the Mumia International Underground Animation Festival, Brazil.
In 2014 he exhibited a body of work called Chaotic Region at Oliewenhuis Art Museum in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Mullins is the winner of the first prize at the Royal Over Seas League 14th Annual Open Exhibition in London in 1997, he was a nominee for the Daimler Chrysler Award for Contemporary South African Art in 2000 and recipient of a merit prize at the ABSA Atelier in the same year.
Mullins work is held in public and private collections in South Africa, the UK and Europe.
Hilde Trip
The inexhaustible forms and color richness of nature is the source of Hilde Trip’s unique art.
Each season offers an infinite amount of seeds, leaves, feathers, tree bark and all sorts of grasses that she collects and processes into ‘Natural Art’ in the form of wall objects.
Having grown up on her parents’ farm where the rhythm of sowing, growing and harvesting was a matter of course, she now focuses more consciously on what nature has to offer.
It is an inexhaustible source of inspiration and challenge. Hilde permanently captures the diverse shapes and colors in frames and arranges them in repeating patterns. It requires great concentration which she experiences as calming and sometimes even meditative. She empowers the viewer to shift their focus and look at nature with different eyes! Her work evokes both tranquility and dynamics, wonder and admiration.
By recreating nature in a lasting work of art, the ordinary is elevated to beauty… of a different order without compromising its purity.