gallery » printmakers » Jealous printmakers Click on an artist to view their available work.   Charming Baker With a successful shows at the Carmichael Gallery in L.A. and Signal, Truman Brewery and Redchurch Street Galleries in London behind him, Charming Baker is now big news. His latest show in New York at the NY Studio Gallery sold out before opening, with prestigious buyers including Damien Hirst, Frank Cohen and Alberto Mugrabi. Recently signed to top music management company Pat's Management (they look after Green Day) he has been tipped for greatness on BBC London News and in the Daily Telegraph and Elle magazine. Damien Hirst says of his work; “It’s hard to say exactly what makes a painting great… Its flatness and its depth, its ease and its complexity, a kind of preciousness that’s also kind of throwaway, a risk factor. Who gives a damn? Charming Baker’s paintings are great.”   Russell Marshall Russell Marshall was born in Southend in 1967. After being turned down for art college he turned his talents to journalism and for over 20 years pursued a very successful career in the tabloid newspaper industry, including Photo Editor at the Daily Star. However he continued his passion for art and design and is largely self taught. His work has its roots in pop art, street art and manga, and reflects his newspaper background, especially the public's obsession with celebrity. He is currently living and working in London.   Alanna Eakin Alanna Eakin is a British born painter currently living and working in London who graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design. It is those tacky, kitsch objects people keep on their mantelpieces or often disregarded and forgotten about on a shelf in a junk store that has initiated Alanna's current body of work. Her sensitivity towards these ornaments brings out the playful side to her imagination allowing her to capture the essence of the characters’ personalities. It is a fascination with the idea that most of the time people find these objects somewhat hideous and vulgar ridiculous and then chose to either love or disregard them. Alanna gives her characters a new dignity   Ceal Warnants Ceal Warnants graduated from The Royal College of Art MA in 2008. Her work explores the dark side of British culture focusing particularly on ideas of youth and innocence. Creating subversive images of childhood that question nostalgic, saccharine depictions of growing up, Ceal’s work is both darkly comic and disturbingly truthful.   Jayoon Choi Jay Choi graduated from the illustration course at Camberwell College of Art in 2008. Her tiny images of people waiting, walking, talking and embracing are all drawn from life, focusing on everyday, unguarded moments observed by the artist and captured in a few seconds of sketching. The work has an effortless and beautiful accuracy, personifying common human behaviors in an immediate and intimate style. The artist becomes a still point in the hubub of urban life, observing and documenting both the crowd and the individual to present a universally recognizable catalogue of city life. Jay states of her work, “In that numberless crowd we are continually surrounded by others, we can see ourselves as we experience the same things, going through the same systematic steps in life, despite all our many differences. Sooner or later, we all head in the same direction.”   Jess Wilson Jess Wilson graduated in 2006 and has been living and working in London ever since. Using crayons, paints, inks and paper to create her unique illustrations and typographic works, she draws inspiration from humorous occurrences which happen around her in real life and in the media. Her likes are X Factor, people watching in Weatherpersons, Techno in the morning and You Tube. Her dislikes are Norwich City Football Club, Bono and badly made gravy.   Lucy Gough Lucy Gough is an artist and illustrator who works predominantly in print and photography. She graduated from Norwich School of Art and Design in 2002 and now lives and works in London. She has exhibited widely in the UK and Internationally as well as completing several important commissions. Lucy has recently finished a major commission for the Cancer Centre at University College Hospital London and is currently making new works for an exhibition in 2011. The stylised representation of everyday objects and use of hand drawn type are recurrent themes in her artistic practice. The content of the text varies in its sentiment from poetic to purposeful to playfully ironic creating gently humorous pieces.   Sara Pope Sara Pope comes from a background in the fashion industry and the magazine industry, working as an art director and shoe designer. Sara started painting in 2009.   Sarah Tse Sarah Tse is a BA graduate from Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, she was awarded the Jealous Graduate Print Prize in 2009. Sarah’s beautifully intimate pencil drawings focus on scenes of nature as they corrupt delicate everyday objects. Typically 'cute', feminine imagery is juxtaposed with objects and architecture to create sensual and textural arrangements. Through these juxtapositions Sarah explores dreamscapes and identity, exposing a complex and intriguing inner world.   Simone Lia Simone is british born Maltese and lives and works in London. She studied BA at Brighton and went on to a Masters degree at the Royal College of Art. She is an illustrator and comic artist and has written and illustrated several comic and children’s books including the graphic novel “Fluffy”. She has a weekly strip in - “Sausages and Carrots” in the DFC.

 

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