01/2015

Column 1: Katie Allen, detail of Morning Mist I Peter Monaghan, detail of X7

Nemo Jantzen, detail of Now You See MeColumn 2: detail of Rose Vickers, Tumbling Blocks

Paul Kessling, detail of Indigo Violet RoseColumn 3: Rachael Nee, detail of Phoenix II

Next page: Tay Bak Chiang, Frolic, 87 x 224 cm

Summary

Mixed MediaPeter Monaghan, 3D works p 06Anna Masters, of butterflies and clocks p 12Rachael Nee, When playing with fire p 14Nemo Jantzen, Portraits p 18Rose Vickers, Tumbling Blocks p 22

Abstract LandscapeTay Bak Chiang, Rock series p 26Derek Balmer, South European series p 30Gordon Hopkins, Impasto 7 colours p 32Paul Kessling, on Skywriting p 36

LandscapeKatie Allen, Indian Summer series p 42Jack Frame, Blossom series p 46Peter McGrath, Landscapes p 48Juliet Piper, Hydrometeors p 50

PortraitCall Me Frank, latest works p 54Serena Curmi, Portraits p 58

SculptureClaire Cohen, Planes p 62Mel Fraser, Stone p 64John O’Connor, Ascending figures p 68Christopher Woodley, Glass p 70

Contact details p 73

Mixed Media

Peter Monaghan

Peter trained at the National College of Art and Design (Dublin) in the mid 70s, a career in graphic design followed before focusing on his personal work in 2000. Working with diverse materials such as wood, paper, Perspex and the occasional ping-pong ball, the perception of his pieces alter as the viewer walks around the room, observing a change in the shape and colour of the work in keeping with his central theme of transition and change, exploring the dynamic between 2D and 3D and asking fundamental questions on how colour works.

In 2010 Dublin airport commissioned an installation for the VIP Lounge; in 2012 he produced a sculptural piece for the Grand Canal Dock Hotel, also in Dublin. 2014 saw the new Science Building at University College Dublin commissioning two large works and The Dean, an upmarket, boutique hotel purchased 3 works.

Medium:Wood, Perspex, gold paint, card, ping-pong ballsMounted on board.Framing:White or black deep box frame.Price range:From £ 2500.00 to 28000.00

This page: detail of X4Opposite: X4, 83 x 83 cmNext double Page: detail and full X5, 123 x 123 cmFollowing page, left: X7, 123 x 123 cmFollowing page, right: X1, 123 x 123 cm

Anna Masters

From large, hanging installations and mixed-media compositions to delicate oil paintings, Anna’s works exhibit a tenderness and attention to detail that is recognisable throughout her portfolio.

Drawing on a childhood fascination with nature, particularly insects and plants, she contrasts the subjects organic forms with geometric and formal patterns, creating striking contemporary compositions. Using light, pattern and texture as integral subjects within her work, Anna cleverly employs ephemeral references to create a lasting impact.

Her most recent works have seen the integration of clockwork elements, creating very complex and precise designs including all parts, even the smallest of movements.

Her focus has slightly drifted away from the organic whilst maintains a strong hold on the notion of ephemeral and the elusive keeping of time.

Anna currently lives and works in Kent.

Medium:mixed-media, organic and metal elementsFraming:White deep box frame.Price range: From £ 985.00 to 2500.00

This page: Counting Stars, 90 x 90 cmOpposite: Spaces Between, 70 x 70 cm

Rachael Nee

Rachael holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Fine Art and a BA Hons in Ceramics from UWE Bristol. She was elected an Academician of the RWA in 2007.

Her main body of work consists of smoke drawings, involving the act of marking paper with the sooty carbon trace left from a candle flame or blow torch, expressing the passage of time and the fragile and transient nature of human beings.

Her background in ceramics is no doubt the reason why she has been drawn to experimenting with fire as a creative tool. She believes we all have an inherent fascination with flames, be it the pleasure of watching an open fire or a bit of hunter/gatherer cremation on the BBQ. Fire has come to represent deeply primal meanings such as passion, danger, regeneration and death. It is domestic and universal.

Medium:Carbon traces on museum board, gold leaf, AquacrylFraming:White dark brown or black deep box frame.Price range:From £ 1800.00 to 7000.00

This page: Reverie, 96 x 96 cmOpposite: Galaxy, 128 x 128 cmNext double page, right: Phoenix II, 97 x 97 cm

Nemo Jantzen

Nemo’s recent works depict a narrative of cinematographic illusion, intimacy and beauty. Challenging his earlier traditional figurative pieces and the essence of privacy, this series of works have Perspex bubbles covering a miniature photograph in accord with the over all image and title.

In approaching the piece, and once the viewer has realised it is a clever pattern of not just coloured spheres but actual images, the viewer instictively comes closer, extremely close in fact, in order to see what they are all about. And this is when the piece has achieved the artist’s desire; Nemo in his own words would say: the closer you come, the less you’ll see.It’s about the bigger picture... as in life.

Nemo lives and works in New York.

Medium:Perspex bubbles over photographic printsFraming:no extra framing on piecePrice range:From £ 3950.00 to 8000.00

This double page: Now You See Me, 110 x 110 cmNext double page: The Closer You Get, 110 x 110 cm

Rose Vickers

Since completing her degree in Applied Arts, Rose has exhibited widely and worked on a broad range of public and private commissions. She currently lives and works in Bristol.

Her chosen medium consists of found and carefully collected materials, re-appropriating commonplace objects by responding to their innate narrative qualities. Sometimes inspired by simple geometry, the work can be suggestive of the tradition of patchwork quilts and the necessity of using materials that were to hand that could not be wasted, and in so creating something which could act as a narrative document of their maker’s lives.

Employing a handmade aesthetic, her latest pieces are created using her large collection of school rulers and yardsticks, sbtly evoking an earlier utopianism whilst celebrating the everyday usefulness of the simplest of tools.

Medium:Repurposed wood rulers and yardsticks.Framing:natural wood surrounding baguette.Price range: From £ 1200.00 to 3400.00

This page; Tumbling blocks, 81 x 106 cmNext page: Floating Cubes, 107 x 113 cm

Abstract Landscape

Tay Bak Chiang

After graduating from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore in 1995, Bak Chiang studied at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, China, in 1997. He was awarded the First Prize in the Chinese Painting category of the United Overseas Bank Painting of the Year Competition (2000 and 2003 respectively). In 2002 he received the Young Artist Award from the National Arts Council of Singapore.

Tay Bak Chiang’s Stone series is inspired by a walk through a nature reserve in Singapore where the surrounding rocks stood still and majestic, yet with an omnipresent possibility of collapse.

Additionally, and as a visual representation of his philosophy that to be free, one should not be burdened by worldly desires, birds are often painted in mid flight. Bak Chiang’s resemble the traditional Chinese bird style, symbol of love and unity, hinted at but not fully formed.

Medium:Chinese Inks on rice paperFraming:The rice paper is dry mountedfloating in a white box frame with glass.Price range: From £ 3900.00 to 6500.00

This page: Frolic, 226 x 85 cmOpposite: Missing, 134 x 134 cmNext double page, left: Every Breath You Take, 84 x 138 cm Next double page, right: Forevermore, 134 x 134 cm

Derek Balmer

Trained as a photographer, Derek turned his attention to painting in the mid sixties. Since then his work has been exhibited extensively across the UK and abroad. A well known figure in art circles, he was president of the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol for 10 years. He has recently had a book published of his work, which beautifully chronicles the past 40 years, giving an insight into his visions and artistic views.

The pieces presented here were inspired by his travels to Southern Europe. His command of colour and form pulls you into these abstract landscapes where pools of vibrant purple and ochre guide you across the canvas.

Medium:Oil on canvas, oil on boardFraming:Light woodPrice range: From £ 4500.00 to 14500.00

This page: Desert Harvest, 60 x 48 cmOpposite: Aqaba, 142 x 111 cm

Gordon Hopkins

Gordon is an American artist, currently living and working in Brussels, Belgium.

His work finds its strength in his unique technique and use of strong colour. He often sets the outline of everyday objects over layers of colour, building up the material using Oil bar and paint, giving his trademark highly impastoed finish.

It is very important for him to explore the use of bold colours with many layers, repetition and larger then life format, accentuating or exaggerating a sometimes ordinary object or image.

The composition often breaks down into an imaginary world of outlines and colourful backgrounds creating depth and movement.

Hopkins’ work brings with it a sense of exploration, an interpretation of our surroundings from his point of view, filled with colour and a sense of joy.

Medium:Oil bar and paint on linenFraming:No added framing.Price range: From £ 4000.00

This page: Untitled, 120 x 120 cmOpposite: Colour Patterns in My Head, 120 x 120 cmNext page, left: Line Pattern Orange, 120 x 120 cmFollowing page, right: Orange bowl still life, 120 x 120 cm

Paul Kessling

Kessling trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art where he worked with Sir Eduardo Paolozzi. He is a modern painter forming paintings with the same sculptural discipline required of the three dimensional form, but in a two dimensional space.

These works are part of Paul’s Skywriting series, which are available in various base tones. They recast the ubiquitous sky as an intimate sphere of self-discovery. Primal shape-memories punctuate skyscapes and swirl and dissolve in the observer’s eye to form, under newly imagined pressures, intense emotional climates. Kessling’s airborne realm proposes a sky no longer tenuously connected to the world by a horizon.

Medium:Oil on paper, oil on boardFraming:White with a matt finish. Price range: From £ 1500.00 to 7000.00

This page: Veronese, 92 x 154 cmOpposite: Indigo Violet Rose, 136 x 136 cmNext page, right: Schemochrome, 136 x 136 cm

Landscape

Katie Allen

Katie Allen holds a BA in Fine Arts from the Bath Academy of Art. After teaching art for 11 years, she settled in Swansea, Wales, to focus solely on her personal work as an artist. Her work primarily depicts the landscapes of her native South Wales, the changing seasons and shades.

The paintings when viewed as a whole are of recognisable landscapes and natural forms – trees and plants, insects and birds – but on closer inspection become detailed abstract patterns composed of intricate designs and subtle colour harmonies.

A recent commission has numerous works around the new Mostyn Hospital foyer and wards.

Medium:Acrylic on board (Dibond)Framing:Chassis on back for hanging.Price range:From £ 3000.00 to 10000.00Limited edition giclee prints available

This page: Autumn Mist I, 100 x 75 cmOpposite: Moorland 3 100 x 190 cm Next page, left: Morning Mist I, 75 x 114 cmNext page, right: Life Circle 1, 75 x 114 cm

Jack Frame

Jack graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2007.He is known for his depictions of a single cherry blossom tree on gold leaf panels. He returns to the same trees, observing their visible metamorphosis, emphasising the repetition of pattern and shape within the organic form.

The trees are usually sketched out from a distance, allowing Frame to observe the incredibly balanced structure and how the light moves around them.

His latest work, entitled Winter Journey, could be regarded as being the complete opposite of his renowned cherry blossom, as we move closer, virtually into the structure of the tree. The trees are drawn in black ink either on paper or directly onto glass. Each piece is formed by a series of panels. Working from memory, the branches flow across the panels, allowing the piece to expand in any direction with no knowledge of where the edge of the tree might be.

Frame embarks on a journey through the beautiful organic structure, with some extensions left unfinished, as a reminder of the constant flow of possibilities.

MediumOil, gold leaf, inkFramingAccording to the piece, framed or unframedPrice range:From £ 1200.00 to 8000.00

This page: Blossom, 61 x 61 cmOpposite: Blossom, 91 x 91 cm

Peter McGrath

Peter’s pieces mature slowly under his meticulous, sometimes unforgiving eye whereas the paint can suddenly be scrapped off and sanded down to reveal previous layers and create these incredible textures so recognisable as being of his hand.

Every inch of McGrath’s pieces are filled with emotional sensors; without looking for them, they appear and pull you in, closer, to point where it would be hard to not reach out and touch the surface, expecting a rough and layered feel yet only to be met by a smooth sensation, emphasising the question of how these layers of paint and gold come together, creating portraits and landscapes so emotionally charged you instantly feel drawn in and connected.

Medium:Oil on boardFraming:Wide black frame, mat finish, no glass.Price range:From £ 2500.00 to £ 20 000.00

This page: Twilight The Bridge, 71 x 111 cmOpposite: The Gorge - Passing Rain, 130 x 160 cm

Juliet Piper

Juliet studied art in Geneva before deciding to become a photographer and moving to Paris where she spent many years learning her trade alongside fashion, interior design and press photographers.

Her latest body of work, Hydrometeors, is a photographic reflection on the space and time continuum. By altering one of her senses, she attempts to reshuffle her perception of what is important, and recognise the fundamental elements in life whilst leaving the rest behind. The series commands a pause from the race, inviting the viewer into the image where the elements slowly reveal themselves carrying therefore a sense of calm and serenity. All her work is analogue.

Medium:PhotographyFraming:Floating in deep white box frames.Limited Edition of 10 prints(three 40 x 40 cm, five 80 x 80 cm and two 110 x 110 cm).Price range:From £ 700.00 to 3000.00

From left to right: Hydrometeors 12, 7 and 2

Portrait

Call Me Frank

Call me Frank is an artist from Knokke, Belgium. He Graduated from St Lucas Visual Arts, Ghent in 2009.

His artwork showa a mixed media technique on Perspex (plexiglass), combining drawing, paint and the thickness of the Perspex to create depth and perspective. His subjects range from portraits to anecdotal themes, landscape and architecture. He constantly looks to create imagery that is interesting both graphically and aesthetically.

His pseudonym comes from the expression ‘to be frank’, as in sincere and sometimes brutally honest, thus being his motto more often than not reflected in the art he produces.

MediumMarker pen, acrylic and PerspexFraming:Unframed, edges finished in gloss white Price range:From £ 2500.00 to 8500.00

This page: Knowing Yourself from the Inside Out, 130 x 130 cmOpposite: John Doe XL, 160 x 204 cmNext double page, left: Full of Love, 150 x 120 cmNext double page, right: Untitled Female Portrait IV, 100 x 100 cm

Serena Curmi

Serena’s formative years were spent living aboard a sail boat and travelling extensively with her family to many corners of the world.

The vast, open space in which she was brought up has had a profound effect on her and this is clearly reflected in her uncluttered, minimalist paintings.

Through her restrained technique, Serena focuses the attention on to only the important elements in the painting, thus creating a narrative. Ethereal and haunting, her figures emerge quietly into existence, provoking a sense of peace and stillness, or at times a sense of unease and apprehension.

Medium:Oil on canvasFraming:Surrounding light coloured wood frame, no glass.Price range:From £ 950.00

This page: Still Waters and In Balance, both 63 x 53 cmOpposite: Taking It In, 63 x 53 cm

Sculpture

Claire Cohen

Claire holds an MA in Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking form the University of the West of England. She previously obtained a BSc in Physical Science from Oxford Polytechnic.

She currently works with a variety of traditional printmaking techniques and new digital processes. The influence of her scientific background is apparent in both the way in which she works and in the final outcomes, which are often derived from mathematical forms. Experimentation with process and material is an important driver of her work. Claire’s abstract work explores the fundamental elements of colour and form.

Playing with the brain’s ability to respond to limited data and missing information, the Planes Series explores the idea of creating the seemingly solid from intangible, two-dimensional images. The series of works plays with depth, dimension and space and references the idea of the optical illusion.

Medium:Perspex and AcrylicsPrice range:From £ 800.00 to 2000.00

This page: Oxygen, 29 x 29 x 31 cmNext page: Cygnet, 31 x 31 x24 cm

Mel Fraser

Mel is a self taught sculptor specialising in stone. She is equally at home working on abstract or figurative pieces and her work has been shown extensively around the UK and most recently at On Form, UK’s prestigious exhibition devoted solely to stone.

Fraser has worked in Carrara and Pietrasanta in Italy, at the quarries and stone yards in Kilkenny, Ireland and has a long collaboration with members of the Shona tribe from Zimbabwe.

Her work is held by collectors all over the world and a recent commission saw her work placed in Frank Gehry’s Opus Building, Hong Kong.

Medium:Marble/AlabasterPrice range:From £ 2500.00 to 15000.00

This page: Aarusha, (Carrara marble) 60h x 82h x 15d cmOpposite: Wings of Desire ll, (Alabaster) 29h x 21d x 28w cmNext double page: Void 3 (Carrara marble) 38h x 37w x 17d cm, front and back view

John O’Connor

John is a British sculptor, born in 1967. He studied at the Sculpture Academy, London Bridge.

A stretching of the human figure is a recurring theme in O’Connor’s work. Blending the physical with the emotional he explores the fabric of his own internal making.

He approaches his work with an honest and open heart where he aims to share what he believes to be ‘states of mind that are inherent in us all’.

His works often evoke a quiet and meditative atmosphere where the viewer is granted a space of self-reflection.

Medium:Works available in Bronze and iron resinPrice range:From £ 6700.00 to 36000.00

This page, left: Summer, 187 cm with plinthThis page, right: Spring, 187 cm with plinthOpposite: Beyond Limitations, 190 cm with plinth

Chris Woodley

Christopher is an award winning Welsh born artist. His work is focused on contemporary glass. He is fascinated by the way in which light moves through glass. This theme has been a focus throughout his work over the years.

His work won him 2nd Place at the prestigious national Stevens Architectural Glass Awards in 2012.

In 2013 he took his designs a stage further by creating 3-dimensional geometrical glass facets that refract and reflect light. The structures work as prisms and project an array or shapes and light across a room. This won him the 1st Place Gold Award at the prestigious national Stevens Architectural Glass Awards. Since he has designed a range of glass sculptures constructed from faceted glass blocks. The facets refract and reflect light in such a way that the sculptures take on a diamond like quality.

By adding precious metals to the facets of the sculptures, Chris seeks to height the sense of opulence. The result are sculptures both fixed in a strong geometrical form and refracting every changing light.

Medium:Glass and precious metalPrice range:From £ 1500.00 to 9000.00

This double page: Untitled, 40 x 50 x 10 cm

All enquiries addressed to Cube Gallery, either :

London gallery: 16 Crawford Street London, W1H 1BS Tel : 0207 9352600

Bristol gallery: 12 Perry Road Bristol, BS1 5BG Tel: 0117 3771470

Email: info@cube-gallery.co.uk

If you would like to see specific pieces, please enquire prior to your visit so we can arrange for the works to be in the gallery closest to you.

Price lists available on demand, the price range for each artist is a guide. For most artists this also reflects size, from smaller to larger formats.

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