Getting ready for Christmas

The Singer

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So I've been ticking away on pictures and designs over the last few weeks, and trying to keep myself from getting too chilly now winter is well and truly here!

I've begun taking commissions for Christmas, so if you'd like something special and unique for that special person, drop me a line at ruth@ruthjoyce.co.uk. Also have a look at the range of prints available on my online shop, free delivery for A3 prints!

I have also officially Christmas-ified my website now, have a look at www.ruthjoyce.co.uk.

New Artist Fair Feature - Lilamani de Silva

Lilamani is a New Zealander living in London. From an early age the passion to paint and create were part and parcel of Lilamani's life. Although she trained in the sciences, and has spent the last 10 years running her own business, she likes nothing better than to find a quiet moment to think and paint. Having been away from painting for years and years, a friendly challenge between two friends to get back to the things they enjoyed, inspired this resurgence. "Now it's more difficult not to paint than to paint!". Lilamani works in acrylics and paints the world the way she see's it - vibrant, full of life and colour". Her ideas, influences and inspiration come from the natural world, her travels, curiosity, beliefs, family and friendships as well the work of Masters like Van Gogh and Monet.

Lilamani will be exhibiting her works at the New Artist Fair.

New Artist Fair Feature - Marinela Caldarus

 

Marinela is a passionate artist who creates works full of movement and colour. She says "A good painting should capture your attention for a long time and for me a good painting is that one that express movement, sends you visual messages and that fills your mind with excitment and that wow."

The beauty of spontaneous lines, inspiration from Orthodox culture, symbolism and ornaments represent the philosophy of her work.

She has had many commissions to paint Orthodox churches and this has developed her skills for painting quite quickly, expressive figures, decorativism and self confidence in painting huge areas of empty walls. 

Marinela is exhibiting her art work at the New Artist Fair! 

New Artist Fair Feature - Lisa Andrews

Lisa is a British artist with an established working studio in the gardens of her home. There she has covered a diverse range of subject matter and developed her expertise working in oil on canvas. However, it Lisa's my love of travel and the inspiration in the diversity of humankind that has led her to cover a range of fascinating studies from the media fuelled obsession with celebrity culture, to the calm reflective nature of the Dalai Lama.

Lisa only returned to painting 18 months ago after a 13 year gap. Her work has been reviewed by the Daily Mirror Art critic, Martin Newman, and she has exhibited with a number of respected international artists, including Mark Demsteader and Paul Lemmon.

See more of Lisa's work at www.lisajandrews.com  

Lisa is another artist showing her work at the New Artist Fair!

New Artist Fair Feature - Nick Peart

Nick Peart, a young English chap, is an artist living and working in London. His work explores the subconscious and the conveying of his emotions. He was once asked to describe his work, and he replied, ''I paint my feelings''. For him this is an integral part to understanding his work and its perpetual development.

When not painting, Nicholas writes poetry which he writes in the same way as he paints; subconsciously and spontaneously, and expressing what he currently feels. Nick has also travelled widely. He spent two years travelling across Latin America
Some of his influences include Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, Edvard Munch, Willem De Kooning, Pierre Bonnard, the Boyle Family, Richard Long and the works of the Huichol people in Mexico.