Charles Nightingale

Charles Nightingale was born in South-East London and began painting aged 5. He Joined the RAF (1957-1961), and later became a mathematician working at BT (1971-1992) where he helped to develop the JPEG image format. He is an oil painter, ceramicist, watercolourist and printmaker and also works using a computer. He admires Hopper, Spitzweg, Albers, Balla, Benton, Dali, Demuth, Freundlich, Herbin, Lowry, Sheeler, El Lissitsky, Mondrian, Deinaka, Van Doesburg and even Rockwell. He has exhibited in Ipswich, Bury, Newmarket, Aldeburgh, Woodbridge and Beckenham. He loosely follows Tolstoy's definition of art and his oils and relief prints often comment on worldly affairs.

Email:  charles.nightingale@btinternet.com

We Good, Them Bad Lino-block Print  36 x 50cms 

Hollyhock Garden  Watercolour  17 x 25cms

The Long, Long Road  Oil  74 x 35cms  

Michelle is a practising artist with a degree in Fine Art. She specialises in oil paintings on canvas working with interior designers, restaurants and private clients worldwide as well as offering regular workshops. Michelle works from organic forms including lobsters, fish and birds. Her style has an adaptive reverence for the subject and yet does not rely on it; elevating the forms with bright use of colour and suggestive mark-making. The resulting pieces are proud declarations of colour and expression. Colour, depth, texture and contrast – does is matter if it looks like a lobster or a fish? Not really…

Lobster yellow drip  oil on canvas  100 x 80cm

Red Octopus   oil on canvas  100 x 100cm

Golden crab   oil on canvas  80 x 100cm

Jane paints mainly landscapes often including animals and uses a variety of media. She enjoys colour. Born in Surrey she has travelled widely. With degrees in Agriculture and Nutrition, Jane went first to Uganda and later to Fiji and the South Pacific. After her marriage, the couple moved to Singapore, where Jane studied at the Nanyang Academy of Art and also learnt to do Batik. Thence to Istanbul and later to Botswana, where Jane taught the Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert to do batik painting. Back home, they settled in Suffolk. Every where she has lived, Jane has found good art groups and tutors and besides Ipswich, is currently a member Southwold Art Circle and Framlingham Art Society.

Email: jvpollock@mypostoffice.co.uk

Malibu  Oil 64 x 54cms

Cattle by the Deben  Acrylic on board 41 x 51cms 

Top Pond, Letheringham Hall  Oil 38 x 49cms

Lisa Ann is a largely a portrait and still life painter, living and working in Suffolk. Self-taught until 2013, when she met and studied with Tony Merrick ROI. Then going on to complete a Diploma in Portraiture at Heatherley's School of Fine Art 2015-17. She works predominantly in oils but enjoys using all mediums. Achievements include - 2016 Daphne Todd prize for Portraiture. 2018 competed in the TV programme Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the year, winning her heat and reaching the semi-finals. 2017 and 2018 respectively, exhibited with the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and Artist and Illustrators Shortlisted Artists of the year at the Mall Gallery in London.

Email:  lisart60@outlook.com       Website:  www.lisaannpuhlhofer.net

Fascinating Rhythm Oil on canvas board 40 x 40cms

Best friend Oil on board 24 x 37cms

Snowdrops in hand made bottle Oil on board 33 x 25cms

Deborah Richards was born in Weston-super-Mare in 1956 and moved to Ipswich in 2007 with her children. She still enjoys painting the local rivers and sea. Deborah has a degree in Fine Art which she completed as a mature student at Glyndwr University School of Fine Art, North Wales. She is currently working with Gagliardi Gallery in Chelsea, London. Deborah works in the new Sennelier Rive Gauche oil paints which are faster drying than linseed oil based paints. They suit her layering techniques which she learned while painting a commissioned copy of a work by J.M.W. Turner.

Email: debbie@deborahrichards.net   

Website: http://www.deborahrichards.net

The Pier at Weston-super-Mare Oil on canvas 100 x 80cms

Jet Trail  Oil on canvas 101 x 76cms

Icarus Falling Oil on wood panelling 100 x 70cms

Since graduating from Central/St. Martin’s School of Art in 1989, Sula Rubens has practiced as a painter and printmaker. She has lived, worked and exhibited in many cities including Amsterdam in Holland, Gdansk in Poland, St. Petersburg in Russia as well as the rural landscapes of France, Spain, Greece and Ireland. Often travelling to paint, Sula has immersed herself in various landscapes, buildings and their people. She has collaborated with artists, poets and musicians nationally and internationally. Her work has been awarded numerous prizes and is represented in public and private collections in this country and abroad.

Website:  www.sularubens.com

Email:  sularubens@btinternet.com

Kin  

Charcoal, watercolour & pigment on paper (map)  74 x 45 cm

Sleeping Child with Dog in a Landscape 

(Homage to ‘Satyr mourning a Nymph’ by Piero di Cosimo in the National Gallery, London)  Oil on canvas  71 x 127 cm

Fadi holding his cat Aleppo   

Ink, watercolour & pastel on paper  40 x 37 cm

Born in Ipswich, Teresa works primarily with the rich natural pigments of soft pastel. Taking inspiration from the natural world, her work focuses on wildlife and landscapes and some portraiture. After fifteen years teaching English, she now works from her Suffolk studio as a full time artist. Her passion and talent with pastel has led to her becoming an Associate Artist for Unison Colour and she now uses her teaching experience to offer tuition, weekly classes, demonstrations and workshops to introduce others to this versatile medium.  Teresa participates in the annual Suffolk Open Studios and has exhibited both locally and in the UK.

www.tsealsart.com

tsealsart@gmail.com

Springtime Bee  Soft pastel on velour 25 x 25cm

Ocean Swell  Soft pastel on pastelmat 96 x 61cm

The Sit-Tight  Soft pastel on pastelmat  25 x 30cm

Born in Middlesex, Dorothy studied for BA (Hons) with The Open University with some elements of Art History. On retirement, she gained certificates in Art and Design at Greyfriars Adult Education and Colchester Institute.  Moving to Felixstowe, she joined the Humber Doucy Art Group under Ken Cuthbert. Dorothy works in water-based oils, acrylics and watercolour, painting landscape, still life and flowers. Her love of colour comes from living and visiting Australia. She has exhibited at Reunion Gallery, Felixstowe, Felixstowe Art Group, Woodbridge Art Club and Ipswich Art Society. She admires Matisse, Cezanne, Italian Futurists and Aboriginal art.

Email: dorothea.stokes@btinternet.com

Stone Jar with Flowers  Oil on board  55 x 45cms

Port of Call  Acrylic on canvas 55 x 45cms

Old Boots Watercolour 34 x 24cms