Austin Cole RBA SGFA
Austin Cole is a prize winning artist/printmaker with a degree and Masters in Fine Art from the Sir John Cass School of Art now the Metropolitan University. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) in 2011, and an associated member of the Society of Graphic Fine Arts (SGFA) in 2014 becoming a full member in late 2017.
He exhibits regularly in London and around the UK. His work has previously been accepted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition , as well as other prestigious exhibitions such as Lynn Painters and Stainer's annual exhibition, the Discerning Eye, the New English Art Club (NEAC), the Royal Marine Society as well as the Masters and Originals print exhibitions.
His prints are created on zinc plates with the image bitten onto the surface of the plate in acid, using a process called Aquatint a resin melted onto the surface of the plate then with multiple bites in an acid bath to build up the image tones. All his prints are hand wiped and printed and one off monotypes or limited editions.
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Anne Davey Orr DA(Edin) BA(Hons) MFA
Anne Davey Orr is an award winning artist whose paintings and drawings are in collections in London, Brussels, Toronto, Dublin and Belfast. She was educated at Edinburgh College of Art, The Slade School London, and the University of the Arts London.
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She won the Royal Dublin Society Taylor Award, two Andrew Grant Travelling Scholarships in Edinburgh, a Post Graduate Scholarship in Edinburgh and a Royal Scottish Academy Best Group of Works Award. A fabric she designed and printed, based on one of her paintings, was selected as a backdrop for an exhibition of Phillipe Starck’s furniture at STILL, Belfast.
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The work Vortex was chosen to hang on temporary loan in the boardroom of Harmonic Capital in Lombard Street, London and her collection of thirty paintings ‘In the Garden of Europe‘ based on the national flowers of the nation states of the European Union is on permanent exhibition in Brussels.
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Anne has always been experimental in her work, exploring new painting techniques and new mediums, switching from oil to acrylic and back again. Her most recent works, which are represented in UrbanSuburban, are concerned with environmental issues. They respond to the implied threat that global warming through climate change may pose to landscape. Using drafting tape in her drawing process to lay down the basis of a work she metaphorically mirrors the effects of climate which can leave both devastating but also imperceptible marks on one area of landscape while another appears untouched.
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Anne Davey Orr
Debra Lee Taylor BTEC Dip(Lon) BA (Hons) MFA
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Alongside an interest in portraiture, Debra's practice investigates the intimacy of relationships from their birth through to death and is partially influenced by life experience. It looks at the, 'all consuming throw of passion', family dynamics, divorce to online dating and infidelity and will often resonate with the viewer because of its pervasive theme.
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Some research has taken her on personal journeys into the world of contemporary on-line dating and chatrooms to explore themes of intimacy further. She uses a mixture of traditional and digital painting methods as a way of creating her narratives. This sometimes involves working with an iPad to create digital collages. Much of her work is rendered with oil, acrylic and resins and is informed directly from life and her own interpretations of relationships.
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Debra won a scholarship at the UAL Wimbledon to do a Masters course in Fine Art after finishing her Bachelors in Painting. Her work has been pre-selected for the first round of judging of the British Portrait Award. Debra now lives and works in Surrey and regularly exhibits in London and around the U.K
