Royden Astrop was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1969. He spent most of his early adult career working as a TV soundman for American news based out of Cape Town, South Africa. During that time, Royden reported from some of the world’s most dangerous killing fields including Somalia, Rwanda, Zaire and Kosovo. In between news assignments, he worked as an artist focusing on digital, video and installation art. His watercolours were also exhibited in galleries in South Africa. After retiring from his news career, he returned to the UK in 2001, where his first professional exhibition of oil paintings, Lines of Fire, was met with a huge amount of national media and public interest. Now a full-time artist he predominantly works in oils on canvas.

 

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Vincent Au was born in Hong Kong in 1977. From a very early age Vincent and his work received recognition, appearing on national television at the age of eleven. When he moved to London in 1990 Vincent Au began to focus on improving his draughtsmanship. His interest in drawing led to his passion for life painting and the human form, spending hours in the life room. Now in his late twenties Vincent Au's talent and understanding of the human form and how it relates spatially within an environment enables him to create these wonderful figurative paintings and drawings.

 

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James Baines was born in Australia in 1944. He graduated from the National Art School in N.S.W. in 1963 and subsequently went on to study under Godfrey Miller, John Passmore, John Coburn, John Olsen and Dorothy Thornhill. James then spent several years travelling and painting in South-East Asia, India and Nepal before settling in North Queensland. Well known for his outdoor murals and large acrylic paintings in public places, he is an artist of great versatility in subject and style. James`s works are held in private collections throughout the United States, Asia, Europe and Australia. Most recently James has won the overall grand prize for landscape painting for "Weary Bay" awarded by the International Artist magazine 2006

 

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By looking into her soul and painting the scene with a creative flair, Balogh creates work that can compare against the best in this genre. Her still life artworks depict all manner of creatures and scenes from nature, especially from the idyllic countryside in Scotland. She combines the exquisite blues, yellows and purples in order to create wonderful images of the landscape and its joyful inhabitants. These are incredible works of technique with each petal and blade of grass captured perfectly and with a skilled hand. The rolling glens and valleys look incredibly inviting to the viewer and would decorate any home. When Balogh turns her hand to capturing flowers, she succeeds in creating beautiful, intricate and lively images. The leaves she paints glow with the warmth of a sunny day and each detail comes to life within the image. Already a big success in her native Hungry, we are delighted to show her art on this site. We hope you enjoy looking through her work.

 

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There is something mesmerising yet at the same time distinctly haunting about Agata Baltyzar's unique paintings. The hazy, painterly technique she employs confers a Romanticism about life in the shadows of vast Modernist concrete forms and on rain drenched plazas. This softer approach mutes harsh reality, rendering it more palatable and visible, not overlooked or avoided. Nevertheless, her focus on the relationships between anonymous figures living or lost amongst this forbidding architecture is important. It emphasises a sense of pathos instead of the usual apolitical emphasis on style, thus appealing to the audience for empathy.

 

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Anita Barrat documents her travels throughout Europe the Americas and Asia in this beautiful collection of colour photographs. The clarity of her images, the light, contrast and composition of her work creates an insightful sense of drama within all her subjects and at times her work holds a sense of the film still. Anita Barrat lives and work in Devon, England.

 

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Scott Bartha’s recent series of work was inspired by his travels throughout Australia and New Zealand. Rather than taking photographs of his explorations, Scott Bartha uses his memory to record specific places, smells, emotions and experiences. Allowing these memories to ruminate within his mind and by using prompts to help him, he then translates these memories on to the canvas at a later date.

 

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Imran Bashir's work seeks to reflect the beauty and spirituality of life. Drawing on the intensity of colours found in nature his work marvels at the power and magnificence of the world; the sun setting in the sky, the beauty of the landscape. Bashir strives to reflect his own set of beliefs through paint and in doing so hopes to make us question our own beliefs and notions of the afterlife.... "The images are trying to show the beauty of this world and how people are caught up with it. Yet there are some who know that the real life and life of eternity is in the hereafter and they must follow the correct way and be content with what they have and make preparations for the journey of the hereafter. "Imran Bashir is based in London where he lives and paints.

 

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Gordana Batic hopes to transcend current artistic fashions, principles and contemporary art theory by focusing on what he believes painting should offer the public at large in the 21st Century. Predominantly a figurative painter Gordana uses the figure to express his desires, aspirations and hopes. His optimistic approach to creating work not only reflects his artistic integrity but echoes a sense of harmonic balance which is fundamental to each piece.

 

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