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OUR CONTRIBUTORS
Carol Arnold is a stained glass artist working and living in North Somerset. She was trained at the Bristol School of Art, and has been working with glass for the last 5 years, mainly making stained glass windows to commission. Most of Carol’s work is in leaded glass, combined with some processes such as fusing, etching, enamelling, and painting. www.carolarnold.co.uk
The photographs of Charlie Chaplin are cared for by Association Chaplin, created by the Chaplin heirs to protect the name, image and moral rights linked to the works of their father. These photographs came from the Chaplin Studios in Los Angeles and from Switzerland. Portraits and poses of 'The Little Tramp' were publicity stills, mostly taken before 1920s. Many of the photographs from 'The Kid' (1921), 'Modern Times' (1936), 'A Dog's Life' (1918), 'The Circus' (1928) and 'City Lights' (1931) were taken by the film cameramen on set. See www.charliechaplin.com; Bubbles Inc. SA - Chaplin Images.
Nikky Corker writes: My inspiration comes from life itself and the little things that make us happy. Colours and characters, sunshine and smiles…memories of carefree childhood holidays… the quirky humour that can be found in almost any situation. Meeting people and making friends is what life is all about, and through my work I have been fortunate to do just that. The smile I wear and the giggle I get from putting life down on a canvas is reflected on the faces of others… what better motivation is there than that! My work is mainly in acrylic, published as greetings cards and prints. www.nikkycorker.com
Jenny Day is a contemporary artist who lives in Essex. She has been passionate about art from an early age. She works mainly in oils, but is interested in experimenting with other media. Her subjects are mostly old movie star icons, and musicians, but she also enjoys painting places, buildings, abstract and seascapes... whatever inspires her. She describes herself as a perfectionist, taking great care over fine detail, and to capture the essence and true likeness of the person she paints. www.jennyday.co.uk
Patrice de Villiers writes: ... the seminal career moment happened in the form of being asked to shoot for the Sunday Times illustrating their food pages...the only brief from the director being that he didn't want anything boring on his lightbox, which I've often cited as the best way to ever commission a photographer. Since then the subject matter has varied ... in short, there's been an infinite variety which fuels the desire to keep trying for the perfect shot, whatever the subject matter and that's the key to the driving force, the next picture you take might be the best. www.patricedevilliers.com/
Steve English is a freelance cartoonist who produces a number of cartoon strips for newspapers and magazines covering history, science fiction and animal antics. He is also the author of a number of illustrated resource books for churches and Sunday schools. Titles include I Scream Sunday and The Potted Guide to Theology. Over the last few years he has also drawn for The Horrible Histories and Horrible Science Collections and Scooby-Doo World of Mystery. In 2007 his cartoon strip Madd Science was judged by the Beano editor as the funniest cartoon available for mobile phones. His work can be found at www.deadseacomics.co.uk .
Self-taught artist, Tony Fernandes, began drawing and painting at an early age. Aged 10, his first published work appeared on television, when he sent jokes and cartoons to Saturday morning shows. Honing his talent through the 70s and 80s he first came to international notice when the British Government presented his works as part of their official gift to the Australian Government during the Bicentennial Celebrations in 1988. His highly original approach to this subject matter has made his work much sought-after in the Licensing profession, with work held in private and public collections throughout the world. www.tonyfernandes.co.uk
Flower Fairies™
Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies of the Spring was first published 85 years ago, and was followed by six more collections over the next 30 years. Together the Flower Fairies books conjure up a magical miniature world of garden and meadow which has enchanted generations of children. The original Flower Fairies watercolour illustrations are recognised for their botanical accuracy and based on real-life models. The estate of Cicely Mary Barker is the owner of all copyrights and trademarks in the Flower Fairies characters, names and illustrations. Licensed by Copyrights Group. Visit the Flower Fairies website at www.flowerfairies.com
Richard Ford was brought up in Hampshire where he still lives, and developed an interest in bird watching and nature early in life. He was given his first pair of binoculars at the age of eight and first SLR camera in his early teens. The film photography years produced little more than dots in the background, but the enthusiasm for the subject rarely wavered and was given a boost with plentiful possibilities that digital photography supplies. These days if Richard isn’t out attempting to photograph wildlife he is planning his next foray out into the field. www.digitalwildlife.co.uk
Assaf Frank, UK-based Israeli photographer, travels the world shooting images with a difference, using a Hasselblad H1 with a Phase One digital back of 22 mega pixels. His work includes abstract, close-up flowers, food, cityscapes and landscapes. ‘I’m a perfectionist and use my camera as an extension of my creativity, using low depth of field to achieve abstract images and simple composition. I love colours and use my creativity to get the right ‘feel’ from the image by changing the colour schemes.’ To view more of Assaf’s work, please visit www.frankprints.com
Frederica Cards Ltd ... Classical designs inspired by British traditions... a card company, based in Bath and specialising in classical designs inspired by British traditions. Many of the designs are inspired by the Georgian period using antiques and prints from Private Collections. All cards, wrapping papers/posters and gift tags are designed and printed in the United Kingdom. http://fredericacards.co.uk
John Freeman is one of the UK's best known editorial photographers. He is the author of many books on photography which have sold in excess of 1,000,000 copies worldwide. He has his own gallery on London's Southbank in the Oxo Tower. His work covers such subjects as the body, landscape and food from locations throughout the world. www.johnfreeman-photographer.com/
Sheila Gill lives near the Peak District National Park, a great source of inspiration for her work. She uses watercolour as her main medium because of its unpredictability and transient nature. ‘Just when you think you have the hang of it, it surprises you… I love the way rich pigmented colours move in the water…almost as if they have a life of their own. I like to guide them on to the paper rather than command them.’ Sheila has painted a variety of animals in recent years, but her fondness for the romantic images of Venice has also inspired her work. www.sheilagill.co.uk
Rachael Hale® - the world’s most lovable animals. The Rachael Hale® Brand’s success is built on a unique ability to capture the delightful character of a whole variety of our favourite animals, including cats, dogs, rabbits and ponies. An incredible range of Rachael Hale® products is available in over 80 countries around the world. www.rachaelhale.com
Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway are the highly successful founders of Red or Dead which won the British Fashion Council’s 'Street Style Designer of the Year' award three times in a row in the late 90’s. In 1999, having sold Red or Dead, they set up HemingwayDesign, which specialises in affordable and social design. Their highest profile project is award-winning the Straiths South Bank, a 800 property mass-market housing project on Tyneside. From housing to radios, wallpapers and garden sheds, HemingwayDesign is proving that great design doesn’t have to cost the earth ...now add some great blinds. www.hemingwaydesign.co.uk
House-Mouse Designs®: Ellen Jareckie was born in Vermont, and spent much of her childhood drawing. Her many pets included an enchanting little mouse which her sister brought home from school. Caring for this tiny creature, and subsequently raising a litter of orphaned fieldmice inspired Ellen’s drawing, and, from this, House-Mouse Designs® was born. In addition to drawing exclusively for House-Mouse Designs®, Ellen volunteers to rehabilitate injured and orphaned wildlife, some of which are also featured in her artwork. See more of Ellen’s work at www.house-mouse.com
The Land of Lost Content is the world’s largest archive of 20th and 21st century British popular culture. It is the result of a lifetime of collecting by Stella and David Mitchell, and the lifetime building of a design research and inspiration resource by Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway, from their Red or Dead days through to HemingwayDesign. Wayne writes: “Twelve months ago, in association with the… University of Wolverhampton, we digitised the collection to create a wonderful creative resource. Now, for the first time, you can enjoy selected images from the collection on blinds in your home.” www.lolc.co.uk
Matthew Lindop writes: the urban landscape is the inspiration for my paintings. I have a passion for architecture, buildings and structure, and paint using flat colours and hard edges with household gloss paints, which give the work a vibrant, polished, shiny and crisp appearance. I like to work on a large scale so the viewer becomes immersed in the painting. I have successfully completed commissions for The National Health Service, British Telecom and Esquire Magazine, and also undertaken many corporate commissions, including two of London for a top Insurance company. www.matthewlindop.com
Clare Mackie was born and brought up in the Scottish countryside surrounded by animals and insects, and her passion for the natural world stems from these roots. Having headed south to London, she carved out a successful career in illustration, working for clients as varied as Chanel, Tatler, IBM, The New Yorker, Macallan Whisky, Harvey Nichols, BBC among many others. She is currently working on writing and illustrating children's books, illustrating a weekly column in Country Life and continuing to paint works for her licensing clients. www.claremackie.com
Motoring Picture Library, based at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, is one of the largest motoring picture collections in the world, with close to 100,000 colour transparencies and nearly one million black-and-white photographs filed and catalogued with thousands of digital originals. Its subject matter includes cars, motorcycles and commercial vehicles; the motor industry, motor sport, the social history of motoring, and a huge range of motoring and motor sport personalities. It also includes spectacular motoring art in the form of sales brochures, posters and paintings. www.motoringpicturelibrary.com/
Berni Parker is a versatile artist, who lives and works from her home studio in rural Worcestershire. Influenced by her love of the countryside and her surrounding environment, she has created an appealing light and feminine style. Her most refined individual technique uses multi-layered hand-made papers laying down colour using a variety of media and materials. This produces images that have a delicate soft three-dimensional quality and texture. This very special hand crafted and charming style is said to be unique and that ‘the picture can be touched with your eyes'. www.berniparkerdesigns.com/home.htm
John Pettifor, Calamity Creations, is an artist, illustrator and animator based in Hove. Until recently he was a Design Engineer and part time artist, but now has given up his engineering job to concentrate full time on his art, illustrations and animations. John sells his originals, prints and calendars through his website and other online galleries. The medium John has been developing is a mixture of 3D digital and watercolour work . He likes to mix his design skills to create realistic but artistic images. www.calamitycreations.co.uk
Sue Pettifor, Calamity Creations: Sue’s passion is flowers, particularly their shapes and vibrant colours. Macro photography explodes the natural colours and captures the intricate close-up detail that is so often unnoticed. Sue Pettifor has been a keen photographer for over 20 years and has exhibited her work at the Brighton Festival’s Artists’ Open Houses. She has an online gallery www.suepettifor.co.uk which shows more beautiful flowers. Sue is now working in partnership with her husband John, managing their art and design business, Calamity Creations www.calamitycreations.co.uk
Karen Phillips is a Cheshire-based professional wildlife and animal artist with over 20 years experience in graphite pencil drawing. Her stunning artwork is held in private collections world-wide. Karen is renowned for her realistic and uplifting drawings of much-loved British wildlife, world-wide wildlife, endangered species and popular pets. Karen's drawings are regularly featured in publications such as BBC Wildlife Magazine and Countryman Magazine. Karen also works closely with high-profile wildlife charities including the Born Free Foundation and the Bornean Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOS UK). Karen is one of a limited number of hand-picked Signature Members of the prestigious Canadian-based wildlife Artists For Conservation Foundation. www.karenphillipswildlife.com
Beatrix Potter™
Frederick Warne & Co. is the owner of all copyrights and trademarks in the Beatrix Potter characters, names and illustrations. Licensed by Copyrights Group. Visit the Peter Rabbit website at www.peterrabbit.com
Paul Powis and Sara Hayward are professional artists, based in Worcestershire, and working internationally. They are passionate about art, drawing, painting and printmaking, working with galleries, fine art publishers and advertising agencies. Their images and prints include landscape, seascape, still life, abstracts and portraits. Their work is full of vitality and energy, and is the embodiment of expression and creativity. They are inspired by the landscape in all its forms, and human interaction. They work in different styles yet their work complements each other.
www.powishayward.co.uk
Colin Prior lives in Glasgow, and is one of Britain's leading landscape photographers. His spectacular panoramic images capture the beauty and eternal quality of the world's wild places, especially those of his own native Scotland. He brings to his work a strong personal vision combined with supreme technical mastery of his chosen medium. Each photograph uniquely captures fleeting moments of nature, and it is this timeless quality that is the hallmark of Colin's work. Through his work, Colin is keen to use the power of photography to change the way people see the world.
www.colinprior.co.uk/
Viktor Schreckengost was a key figure in the first era of modern design, and his paintings, sculpture, pottery, and industrial designs are widely exhibited in museums around the United States. Throughout a long working career, he applied a creative philosophy, linking artistically dramatic form with an object's function, which resulted in design that was nearly always remarkable and very often revolutionary. He designed stage sets, printing presses, ride-on lawn mowers, electric fans and bicycles, whilst also winning awards for paintings and ceramic sculpture, and somehow also finding time to establish the Industrial Design Department at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Penny Sobr - 'An adventurer from the beautiful island of New Zealand’, travelled the world and settled for now in Hampstead, London...NW3. ‘I’m not one of those complicated, mixed-up illustrators… I’m not looking for the secret to life … or the answer… I just go on from day to day, takin’ what comes…’ www.pennysobr.com
Pauline Spittle is an artist and freelance illustrator who has loved drawing from a very young age. Endless family photographs of her pet dog Terrier, ‘Daniel’ and ‘Harry’ formed her first greetings card collection nearly 4 years ago. Her unique style and fun images evoke emotion and contemporary style. Based in Surrey, she draws inspiration too from the ever-changing colours and textures of the surrounding countryside.
www.paulinealicedesigns.com
Annie Tempest is one of Britain's best loved cartoonists. In 1993 Annie embarked upon her current internationally acclaimed cartoon strip 'Tottering-by-Gently' for Country Life Magazine. She casts her gimlet eye over everything from inter-generational tensions, the differing perspectives of men and women, to dieting, field sports, and much more. Her now international following proves that she touches a note of universal truth in her exquisitely detailed and beautifully executed cartoons as she gently laughs with us at the stuff of life. www.tottering.com
V&A Images is the picture library for the Victoria and Albert Museum, supplying images from the collections for academic and commercial use. V&A Images is part of V&A Enterprises Ltd (VAE) the trading company for the Museum whose principle aim is to maximise profits for the V&A, enabling it to continue its work in terms of access, education and the support of the creative industries. www.vandaimages.com
The Victoria and Albert Museum is the world's greatest museum of art and design, with collections unrivalled in their scope and diversity. The museum houses amazing artefacts from many of the world's richest cultures including ceramics, furniture, fashion, glass, jewellery, metalwork, photography, sculpture, textiles and paintings. The Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green, part of the V&A, is home to one of the world's largest and oldest collections of toys and childhood artefacts, dating from the 16th century to the present day. www.vam.ac.uk
Carl Warner is a London-based photographer who makes landscapes out of food. The scenes are photographed in layers from foreground to background and sky, as the process is very time-consuming, and the food quickly wilts under the lights. Each element is then put together in post production to achieve the final image. 'I tend to draw a very conventional landscape using classic compositional techniques, as I need to fool the viewer into thinking it is a real scene at first glance, it is the realisation of what the real ingredients are that brings a smile, and for me that’s the best part.' www.carlwarner.com
Peter Williams was a photographer for over forty years, with clients such as Benson & Hedges and William Grant & Sons in the advertising world, and the Observer Magazine, Pan books, Penguin in the editorial field. In the 80s he moved into the area of book illustration, and shot over 30 titles - crafts, food and flowers. He worked for the Guardian Magazine food for two years (winning the Glenfiddich Food and Drink award in 2000), then the food page for the Sunday Telegraph Magazine. From 2000 he also contributed to 'Kew' magazine published by the Royal Botanic Gardens. www.peashooter.org