Alexander Adams

Painting was not an easy choice for Alexander Adams. "It was a tough vocation to be a painter at Goldsmiths College (crucible of installation and conceptual art) in the early 1990s, when I studied there," he says.

Karen Aghamyan

Armenian-born artist Karen Aghamyan has achieved success that many artists only dream of. In 1983 he was awarded the diploma of the USSR Union of Artists for the best art work of the year, and since beginning his art career in 1970, has participated in more than 70 group exhibitions in Armenia and other countries.

Kelly Aldridge

“ The pictures are open windows of our time on to the past of art history, evoking memories of classical English painting, Impressionism and contemporary Minimal art” Peter Schar

There are no correct answers or interpretations when viewing Clares work.

Claire Alexander

Claire Alexander is a London-based portrait artist and illustrator who has many years experience working in the design industry. In 2003, eight years after obtaining her Fine Art honours degree from the Kent Institute of Art and Design, she started exhibiting her portraits successfully.

Rachel Alleyne

A passionately driven individual Rachel Alleyne is always striving to produce one better. The desire to visually reproduce a reflection of her own emotional response to a landscape or object drives her to seek the ultimate response from herself and the viewer.

Martin Amis

Runner up in the 2007 PX3 Paris Photo Awards and UK winner of the Flash Forward, Emerging Photographers and PDN Photo Annual 2006, Martin Amis was a clear choice for this week's London Art Artist of the Week.

Peter Archer

Archer takes direct inspiration from the bleak, desolate intrinsically beautiful Cornish moorlands of Bodmin and Dartmoor, which are in the heart of the former 18th century tin and copper mining belt.

Katarzyna Banas

Generally speaking when we refer to abstract art we are referring to art which has taken from, or separated out, an identifiable source of reality and abstracted its elements.

The term abstract art can also be applied to art which takes no visible reference or source from reality.

Cuillin Bantock

Bantocks holistic compositions unobtrusively divulge his inner mental process and workings. Allowing the viewer to take pleasure in their visual simplicity while remaining aware of their inward complexity.

Mark Barnard

"My work is a bit like a diary," Barnard says, "It tells a story of what I see".

With over twenty five years of professional experience Mark Barnard finds his inspiration from the landscape.

Anthony Barrow

Anthony Barrow, a member of NAPA, the National Acrylic Painters Association has been painting for over twenty years.

Anthony is predominantly a figurative artist with a prolific output. This often overflows into the disciplines of landscape, still life and abstract painting.

Terry  Bartle

Not fully abstract, yet not completely representational, Terry Bartle's work immerses the viewer in to a world which goes far beyond a mere reflection of reality, but endeavors to create external environments somewhere in the balance.

Chino Benitez

"The development of my artwork is the research, combination and mixture of emotions, colours, numbers and symbols and the possible relations between them." Gabriel Chino Benítez.

Inspired by the intensity of the landscape, Gabriel's paintings draw on the desolate landscape of the Patagonia desert and hope to reflect his experiences and travels around the South of Argentina.

Steven Berry

Steven Berry’s ‘water paintings’ induce a state of contemplative reflection. Water can generate a state of mind that echo’s the very properties of the water itself. In the same way gentle ripples can soothe, a tempestuous storm can unsettle.

Jenny Brookman

Jenny Brookman seeks to produce paintings that allow the viewer a moment of silence.

Although she wants her paintings to be emotive, Jenny's not looking to depict a particular emotion or personal sentiment but to engender a pure abstract response that transcends time, dimension and form.

Gokhan Burhan

Always fancied an original piece of Pop Art but didn’t dare to dream? Look again – Gokhan Burhan’s paintings take inspiration from an art movement fashioned over fifty years ago, but offer us a new and refreshingly contemporary twist.

Claire  Burke

The pictures are open windows of our time on to the past of art history, evoking memories of classical English painting, Impressionism and contemporary Minimal art” Peter Schar

There are no correct answers or interpretations when viewing Claire's work.

Cassius  Cassini

Cassius Cassini's abstract, urban art and modern portraits radiate cool! His work is stylish, light and clued in. His 'new mix media' images represent popular culture - trendy reminders of the Pop Art movement - and characterise all that is current in contemporary modern living.

Ed Chapman

Ed Chapman is one of the UK's leading mosaic artists. His style is instantly recognisable and he has completed mosaics in paper and metal, as well as the more familiar medium of ceramic tile.

Specialising in portraiture, his incredibly accurate work is the result of hours of painstaking effort.

Ivan  Chapman

Ivan Chapman is a true painter of Pop. Careful to define himself as a Pop Artist, Chapman begins by describing his frustration with the recent influx of generic mass produced prints which he sees as an assault on the true spirit of the pop art movement.

Carl Chapple

Carl Chapple, a Central Saint Martins' graduate (1988-1992), is one of London Art's finest figurative artists. During his student summers Chapple travelled extensively in Greece and Turkey. In subsequent years he visited Prague and then Florence, making studies of Classical and Renaissance paintings, drawings and sculpture.

Edwina Chaston

Quoting Jonathan Porritt CBE, Chairman of the Prime Minister's Sustainable Development Commission and the former Director of Friends of the Earth, Edwina Chaston, strongly believes that, "unless our emotions are stirred and our spirit challenged no amount of rational analysis can do the job".

Nikki Cheal

Nikki Cheal is a contemporary figurative artist who visually explores the notion of domesticity and relationships of the everyday.

Using digital technology to construct domestic environments and universal narrative, Nikki's work creates a strong sense of everyday life and love.

Toni Cogdell

Toni Cogdell seeks to capture the intangible moment of human reflection.

A figurative painter specialising in oil on canvas and linen, Cogdell's devotion to the human condition provides her with an endless source of inspiration.

Emma Coleman

Emma Coleman has been making art for as long as she can remember. A Chelsea Art School graduate Coleman's figurative work aims to create a vision, as apposed to simply a narrative.

Over the years Coleman has developed an intuitive way of working which helps her to translate an idea or image on to the canvas.

Roger Colson

Roger Colson has been painting for over twenty years. An accomplished draughtsman, printmaker and painter, his recent series of landscape paintings has helped launched his career on a truly international scale.

Martin Cook

"I don't wish to shock or make a statement. I prefer to stick to trying to create a mood or emotion that my clients can empathize with in an enjoyable way." MC

Martin Cook has already reached a point in his career that most artists will never achieve in their lifetime.

Mary Louise Coulouris

"Recently My work has been about people… People I see fleetingly but know little about… People in the street or on a donkey. I am fascinated by them because I know so little about them." Mary Louise Coulouris.

Christian Culver

Christian Culver is a practicing Architect. His passion for architecture and his dedication to creating inspiring architectural environments have fundamentally led him to question the way in which we see, view and process the visual world around us.

Mike Curry

Mike Curry has been a professional portrait photographer for over twenty years. His passion for photography began with his first camera an Olympus Trip… "I was out taking photographs of anything and everything.

Stuart Dalzell

Stuart's selection for the artist of the week coincides with his work 'Dancerama' being auctioned at Christie's on March 13th 2006 for Cancer Research UK's Art for Life event.

Stuart Dalzell's clear and honest approach to painting encourages the same if not a similar response from the viewer.

Sarah Davidson

Sarah Davidison’s “perspectives', is a series of images that use extreme colour and texture to excite and intrigue the viewer.”

Davidson’s microscopic ‘close- ups’ invite us to see the extraordinarily beautiful and unexpected sights, which are not normally visible to the naked eye.

Antoine de Villiers

Antoine de Villiers is a figurative painter specialising in Oil paint. Her velvety depictions of the human form intertwined and tangled in skin-to-skin contact create paintings with a sense of tenderness, compassion, and charm.

Laura den Hertog

47-year-old Montreal-based Laura Den Hertog's portraiture paintings stand out amongst other portraits because of their timeless quality. Den Hertog's work has been influenced by her Dutch heritage, and she draws inspiration and uses techniques from the great artists of the preceding centuries.

Simon Fairless

Simon Fairless is a new and emerging British artist.

As a self trained artist Simon Fairless' passion for painting is reflected in a wealth of painting styles and methods. His inspiration, although mainly drawn from the natural world, is equally as contrasting.

Regina  Fernandes

At the tentative, impressionable age of 12, an art tutor told Regina Fernandes that she "would never be able to paint a proper watercolour". Fortunately for LondonArt, this formative experience was not enough to thwart Fernandes' enthusiasm for painting.

Stephen Finer

Stephen Finer is a contemporary portrait painter. He has been painting and exhibiting for over twenty years, receiving phenomenal acclaim both in America and in Britain.

Since the advent of easy and accessible photography a great deal of Portrait Painters now paint directly from photographs.

Andrew  Fitchett

Andrew Fitchett's works explore the contemporary reality of our relationships with nature. In particular, he is fascinated by the many ways birds appropriate our human environments. This could involve a telegraph pole serving as the venue for a congregation, a railway signal providing a perch or a quiet roadside acting as a resting place for the dead.

Richard Folland

Born in London, 1966, Richard Folland is the son of the late Ron Folland, one of the UK's most successfully published painters during the late sixties and seventies. Richard Folland studied a Fine Art Degree at Ravensbourne Design College, and after graduating in 2002 set himself up in a design company.

Michael Forbes

‘Michael Forbes is an extremely accomplished painter. So much is clear from even a cursory examination of his work. However its not how well one can paint in the academic sense so much as what one does with this ability.

Christian  Furr

Christian Furr is a high profile London-based artist who specializes in portrait work. He began painting professionally in 1991 after obtaining a first class Fine Art degree, and his big break came four years later, when aged only 28, he was commissioned by the Royal Overseas League in London to paint Queen Elizabeth II's portrait.

Adrian Gatie

Adrian Gatie became synonymous with urban, street photography in the early eighties and later on in his career for his portraits of prominent celebrities and personalities. His first book 'In Penumbria' contains a collection of works, which reflect his desire to capture the darker side of life.

Lloyd  Gill

"My work embraces the simulated world, focusing attention on the interchange - ability of real and imaginary, actual and virtual." Lloyd Gill.

Lloyd Gill's paintings aim to explore and question the notion of space and our reality of it.

Andy  Gradwell

Art has been defined by some as ‘the imitation of beautiful nature’ or it has been said that at least many works of art ‘re-represent’ or re-produce’ some aspect of nature or reality. Gradwell’s colourful compositions abstract from the familiar, juxtaposing the ‘real’ with the abstract to produce well-balanced fluid paintings.

Diane Griffiths

Born in 1981, Diane Griffiths began painting during her early school years. During high-school, Griffiths was awarded the privilege of having one of her paintings put on display in the Head Teacher's office - an honour that the judicious, devoted students among us will appreciate the magnitude of! Griffiths accredits her school tutors as having had an indispensable hand in teaching her the essentials of technique, but it is clear that she has found her voice and established her style since escaping the confines of education.

Slava Groshev

38-year-old Russian Slava Groshev uses photographs to help create stunningly beautiful paintings of young women. Crisp, vibrant and sharp, Slava's figurative work is so realistic-looking that you could easily be fooled into thinking that she uses digital photography in its creation, but this is not the case.

James  Hands

A relative newcomer to the art world, James Hands began painting in 2002. As a self taught artist James began painting as a way of unwinding from the day. For a number of artists the discipline of painting professionally can be arduous, and exhausting on both a physically and physiological level.

Matthew Hayward

Throughout the course of history, the human figure has been one of the greatest sources of inspiration for artists. At some point in an artist's career he will have studied the figure, regardless of the style or genre he is currently adopting.

Catherine Heard

Hayes takes her inspiration from the accumulation and hoarding of material possessions.

Working as a ‘psychological’ detective Hayes investigates the clothes, objects and interiors of a variety of individuals, allowing her to form a picture of the owners personality and aesthetic.

Shaun Hines

Born in the UK in 1961 and with work now spanning over twenty years, Shaun Hines has been looking back at his impressive back catalogue of photographs.

Having only recently begun to unravel the potency of over twenty years of photography, Hines has noticed two distinct elements to his work.

Alex Holland

Alex Holland's talent as a photographer is the result not of art school education but of a natural innate ability. In 2004 he qualified from Imperial College London with a Masters degree in Physics but soon decided to pursue his love of photography instead.

Graham Holland

"My current series of works are trying to progress into finding the definitive image of London."

Graham Holland is an award winning lens based artist, who specializes in creating evocative images of the urban world.

Katarzyna Ilyszyn

A figurative painter specializing in acrylic, Katarzyna Ilyszyn predominantly draws with paint. Entangled in an intricate use of frenetic line and complex colour formations her figures seem to undulate between the background and the foreground, emerging into the composition only to be swallowed again.

Andy Insh

Attracted to both the beauty and the sadness of an inner city landscape, Andy Insh's paintings present us with an internal view of the city.

Insh was born in 1956 and from 1984 to 1988 studied at the Camberwell College of Art and subsequently Middlesex polytechnic, where he completed his Art Foundation and BA in Visual Arts.

Andrew Isaenkov

At the age of forty, Andrew Isaenkov has documented and mapped his visual journey through life, and in turn has created an outstanding back catalogue of paintings. "I find my inspiration for my work in the simple things which surround me every day.

Annette Johnson

Following in the footsteps of some of the great artists of the genre, Annette Johnson eloquently paints flowers.

Throughout the history of art, artists of all backgrounds and cultures have been inspired by the beauty of flowers.

Keith  Jones

This week London Art celebrates the work of the astoundingly unassuming artist Keith Jones. "During times of self delusion I sometimes think that I will paint a great picture but then I start to get more realistic and slightly depressed I'm not a great artist but I am technically competent" he says, one can almost picture Jones wincing as he dares to assert his own "competence"! Jones is a clinical nurse by trade and whilst just 4 years of serious art making has cultivated an enviable talent for photo-realistic painting he has not yet mastered the art of self-promotion.

Mandy Kay

A calm yet distant horizon draws our gaze deeper and deeper in to a field of vibrant, warm colour. Mandy Kay’s beautiful paintings soothe and pacify our senses. Allowing our thoughts to settle by gently submerging us in to a tranquil silence.

Pete Kelly

Pete Kelly finds his inspiration in nature and the landscape. Specifically focusing on, " the reclamation by nature of urban settings", Kelly finds a particularly strong aesthetic and power in the beauty of the urban landscape.

Katarzyna Kusak

Katarzyna Kusak was born 1979 in Stalowa Wola, Poland. After successfully completing a scholarship with the Polish Ministry of Art and Culture in 1999, Kusak went on to study for a further four years at the acclaimed Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland.

Carlos Larracilla

Mexican painter Carlos Laracilla, focuses on escapist abstract art. He has has a natural ability to embrace colour in such a sensitive way that he exposes the human emotion in a series of figurative images on the edge of chaos and movement.

Gillian Leigh

Gillian Leigh is a young artist whose work in oils and pastels betrays a fascination with water, light and movement. The highly finished surfaces are the result of a careful process of application in which the artist works by applying the paint in layers, one on top of the other, allowing each to disturb the one below.

Lloyd Lewis

Lewis's photographs present us with the wasted remnants of 19th century disciplinary institutions. Distressed and abandoned, his work has become a physical reminder of an oppressive and frequently cruel discourse, which still haunts contemporary dealings with the mentally ill.

Jo Lewis

Jo Lewis is a London painter whose direct landscape images explore the physical meeting of water, paint and paper with remarkable sense of space. The majority of her artworks are made outside using a natural source of water.

Charlotte Lindsay

Originally from Cornwall, Charlotte Lindsay's work is explicably tied to the landscape.

Cornwall is situated on the far south west tip of England, UK and is renowned for its beautiful coastline and surrounding landscape.

Mei Yim Low

“I have enjoyed drawing and painting faces for as long as I can remember.”

Mei Yim Low is a landscape and portrait painter who specialises in watercolour painting. Low studied at Canterbury College of Art, and subsequently Kingston University, London.

Steven Lynch

Steven Lynch is a prolific artist whose work encompasses a wide spectrum of artistic genres, the most challenging of which, he claims, is figurative painting. Although he paints mostly in oil colours he has recently begun to experiment with acrylic on paper.

Christian Mann

The complex and intense process by which Christian Mann generates his canvases, raises an equally commanding and involving response from the viewer. Describing himself as, "a palimpsest in motion", Christian Mann's multi faceted canvases record events, observation, opinion and emotion, and pack a vivacious beat of figures and their elements in progressive conversation.

Rade Markovich

Rade Marchovich is a multitalented artist. A Painter, Sculptor and Furniture Maker, Rade was born in Serbia in 1957, and now lives and works in Belgrade where he is the owner and founder of the successful, Art studio RM, a creative organisation for artists working in the capital.

Ian McCaughrean

Ian McCaughrean's seductive paintings depict a world of abundant colour, consumer goods and social freedom. "Prototypical architectural forms cut through the scene. The project of modernism has been fulfilled and looks dazzling.

Tracy  McGuinness-Kelly

Tracy McGuiness-Kelly is an award winning British born artist whose work has captured the attention of some of the largest, media, entertainment, publishing and charitable organisations in the world.

Best known as the author and illustrator of BAD Cat, a series of beautifully illustrated stories about a naughty black moggy whose quirky looks and madcap antics get him into trouble, Tracy McGuinness-Kelly’s work has captured the heart of America.

Claire Milner

A member of BAMM, The British Association for Modern Mosaics, and AOI, the Association of Illustrators, Claire Milner is one of Londonart.co.uk’s leading mosaic artists.

Originally trained as a Graphic Designer, Milner spent a number of years working in the Design and Illustration industry.

C.Morey de Morand

Morey de Morand’s strong and proud paintings, create a harmonious balance of vivid colour and geometric form. Horizontal and vertical lines construct rectangular shapes containing rich vivid colour and pattern of varying densities and surface texture.

Susan Mulley

Susan Mully’s elegant and mysterious ceramic figures with their roughly defined outlines and totemic proportions seek to question our relationship with mortality and our fragile sense of self.

No other earth material has so wide an importance or such extended uses, as do the clays.

Alan Mynall

Represented by a collection of works which reflect over thirty years of experience and expertise, Alan Mynall's ability to capture the spirit and personality of the person or environment he depicts, is where his true talent lies.

Nick Norris

Nick Norris is an artist whose work - although essentially abstract - is rooted in his interest in landscape, particularly his awareness of space, place and experience. His work aims to evoke a response in the viewer; and although he hopes to excite in the viewer what he himself feels, this is not something he is rigid about.

Jon Norton

Having had a turbulent year Jon Norton, Mo Mowlam's husband radically changed his style and view on life. After being made redundant from a 22 year career as a high profile banker in the city of London, Norton opted out of the normal 9-5 life, moving in to the shadowy, somewhat isolated domain of the artist.

Terence Nunn

For over forty years, Terence Nunn has been comprehensively photographing the streets of London.

In the mid 1960’s Terence bought his first camera and has subsequently spent his Sundays habitually roaming the empty streets of London.

Amy Olds

From the free thinking unabashed pouring of paint - to the detailed and conscious act of mark making, Amy Olds has a natural and instinctive ability to paint.

Amy Olds is a process based painter living and working in London, UK.

Michael Onona

Born in Casablanca in 1967, educated in London. Michael Onona' s paintings essentially concentrate on the depiction and conveyance of human emotion.

Through his personal and unconventional visions of beauty, Michael Onona’s imagery challenges our perceptions, by encouraging us to look and interpret these immensely bold visual statements.

Rachel Pearce

Rachel Pearce's flower paintings are primarily engaged with the juxtaposition of science and art.

Rachel has been painting professionally for over ten years. Her wealth of experience and skills has allowed her to develop a process through which she can explore the boundaries of her chosen discipline and focus on the point at which science and art converge.

Mark Paul Perry

"I seek to place myself within the memory or experience… which can make for some interesting days in the studio depending upon the mood of the piece."

Inspired by specific and often very personal moments in time, Mark Paul Perry uses his memories of a particular event to help him create his work.

Vicky Philosoph

''Nature is the main inspiration for my work, organic forms and compositions are elements in a 'language' through which the subjects are expressed. Organic forms have become elements in a language through which I express the link between the earthly and the spiritual.

Kathy Prest

Recently awarded the honour of becoming one of the elected members of the Society of Women Artists, Kathy Prest's work has won many awards, including the First Prize at The Art of Love annual Art prize, which was held this year at the.

James Preston

James D Preston lives in Derbyshire one of the most beautiful parts of England. James' oil paintings reflect the beauty and serenity of his surrounding countryside. His talent for capturing a specific atmosphere is partly created by his skilful observation and depiction of light and shadow.

Adrian Pritchard

Sleek, shiny and contemporary, Pritchard's glossy abstract paintings bump skin and flesh until they positively blush. Enticing, irresistible pools of wrinkly tactile texture, guide us into smoothly taut, semi-transparent rosy flushes of merging colour and form.

Norah Ranshaw

Using her memory and emotions, Norah Ranshaw draws on the notions of the sublime to create fluid sensuous abstract paintings.

For Norah Ranshaw the act of painting is as much about a state of mind as it is about the physicality's of paint.

Andreas Ribbung

Ribbung is a Swedish artist, based in Stockholm, who has exhibited throughout Europe and has been collected privately all over the world for many years. He has a distinctive approach to depicting his subjects - harsh solid outlines are removed to create a softly focussed scene that he couples with an almost monochrome palette, punctuated with bright flashes of colour.

Anne Robinson

Anne Robinson is a senior lecturer in Film Studies at London Metropolitan University. As a visual artist she is primarily interested in digital media, film and video; in her painting this manifests itself in her fascination with the freeze frame.

Dubi Roman

"Creation is mankind's ultimate treasure. In this Crazy region, during this time of bloodshed, when darkness intends to drown us all, Arabs and Jews, I'm trying to emphasize hope; a few rays of light behind the shadows, a blossomed leaf, a flower's teardrop and the smell of mud after rain.

Marco Ronga

The sun-baked landscape of a Tuscan summer is brought to mind through Ronga's vivid and colour-soaked canvases; the natural influence of an artist based in northern Italy for most of his life. Divided between pure landscapes and painting of figures, his use of colour reflects different aims for each.

Ralph  Shephard

Born in 1954 in the North of England, Ralph Shephard spent the first five years of his life living in the northern city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Having spent much of his childhood travelling around the UK, Ralph completed his Art Foundation course at Norwich school of Art in 1970, returning to West Yorkshire to study A fine Art degree at the then Leeds Polytechnic, now known as the University of Leeds, over 16 years later.

B.Felician Siebrecht

Digital art is an increasingly prevalent and credible medium in the art world. It may seem that art created digitally is a short cut when compared to more traditional painting techniques, yet it demands a certain innovative skill and focus of vision if it is to be effective.

Sarah Simpson

Colour, illusion and complexity are Sarah Simpson's immediate obsessions.

Playing out a battle with paint results in a labyrinth of marks, some ugly; some beautiful, the colour and form working together to form a dialogue.

Susan Jane Skilton

With miles of dramatic coastline and over half the county as protected countryside, it is no surprise that rural Sussex sparks Susan Jane Skilton’s imagination. Skilton poetically imparts, ‘I have lived in Sussex all my life…Through the exploration of colour and texture, using a wide range of mediums I hope to convey a strong sense of emotion and the ever changing mood and voice of the living landscape I know so well, which constantly surprises and inspires me’.

Darran Slater

Born 1965, in Salford, Manchester, Darran Slater has his roots in music. In his younger years, Slater’s interest was, for the most part, fixated on playing guitar, and he used music as his major creative channel.

Wendy Somerset-Jones

Wendy Somerset Jones is originally from Cheshire but has been based in Stirling since 2004. She attended what is now the University of Northumbria and completed a degree in Fine Art. For the past thirteen years now Wendy has been teaching Art as well as practising and has been awarded two National Awards.