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Clive SoordTerri SmartChelsea PotteryLea PhillipsWilliam MoorcroftWalter MoorcroftEric MarwickSue Fields
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Roger TyeLouis ThompsonTejinder Singh BhandalWill ShakspeareAllister MalcolmIan MacDonaldPeter LaytonSiddy LangleyStephen KitrasMartin EvansAndrew Sanders & David WallaceAfro CelottoEd & Margaret BurkeAmanda BrisbaneVic Bamforth
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Lindsay WestClive SoordFrank magnus-HirshfieldSam FanaroffGary Barker
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Maeve WrightMark SutherlandJohn SimsDaphne SandhamAlexandra RusakovaSue RandleElena PriestleyPhyllis McDowellPhilip KnaggsGordon FowlerSam CrowJereme CrowChris BoneDawn BarkerWhite Shed Artists
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Francesca Cerreta
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Buildings in Colour by Maeve Wright

“My artwork is inspired by realistic subjects which I then abstract or stylise. I particularly enjoy using buildings and plants... I love taking a quick glance at a scene and simplifying what is in reality very complicated, often by placing a mental “frame” around it... I would like people to enjoy my art in the sense of seeing a different way of viewing things, and experiencing hopefully the atmosphere and mood that I’m trying to convey.” Click on the images to view larger versions.
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From There to Here by Mark Sutherland

Although well known for his sculpture, he has been painting and drawing figures and portraits for the past 30 years. Since 1998 he has been exhibiting and selling predominantly nudes and portraiture done traditionally in oil, as well as sensitive and atmospheric drawings and paintings done in a wide variety of media. Mark treats each of his works as a voyage of discovery. He is not afraid to experiment with media and process, believing that this is vital for the continued development of any artist. Click on the images to view larger versions.
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Myths and dreams by John Sims

Born in Kent 1952, my life changed direction in 2002 when I put behind me some thirty years of working as an art director/illustrator to study sculpture. I completed my BA in 2006. In 2007 I became artist-in-residence, student then tutor at the Cyprus College of Art. In 2006 I was principally a stone carver and maker of measured life drawing. Now I work with stone, wood, twigs, kebab sticks and colour. My drawing too has changed from painstakingly detailed illustrations to more instinctive oil pastels. I use them as stubs, almost my fingers…it feels like I am carving in colour. More often than not these drawings are inspired by and derived from mythology, ancient archaeology and dreams. Click on the images to view larger versions.
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Romantic.....Etchings by Daphne Sandham

Daphne Sandham was born and brought up in North London studied at Leicester Polytechnic in the late sixties - a lively time - to do a Dip A D Fine Art. After a year out,' painting landscapes and portraits, she went back to London to the Royal Academy Schools for three years postgraduate, drawing and painting from the figure, and practicing etching and lithography in the print workshop. She moved to the seaside and lives in a large rambling house and garden overlooking the estuary on one side and the open sea on the other. Click on the images to view larger versions.
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Ukraine Landscapes by Alexandra Rusakova

Alexandra Rusakova was born in 1986 in Crimea, the south of Ukraine. After Art School and the Samokish College of Fine Arts she specializes in abstract, design and modern paintings with different techniques. She is based in Kiev, but often works fron the UK and the Netherlands. Her paintings are in galleries and private collections around the world. Click on the images to view larger versions.
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Very Still Life by Sue Randle

"My semi-abstract work related to details of old and disused agricultural and industrial machinery and steam locomotives. It is a personal response to the natural process of decomposition and regeneration which takes place in everything that has been engineered by man and subsequently abandoned or neglected. I use strong colours and bold contrasts to draw attention to that which is usually overlooked and passed by un-noticed." Click on the images to view larger versions.
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Portraits by Elena Priestley

Elena’s work shows a competent maturity of styles, technique and composition linked with a youthful and vivacious though sensitive portrayal of her subjects. She can use her brush to create delicate and subtle or bright and strident studies of the people around their character and spirit. A lasting legacy of a family member, your baby, children, your darling cat or dog, your lover ..... Elena can deliver! Click on the images to view larger versions.
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Fabulous Folkestone! by Phyllis McDowell

I have held teaching posts not only in Britain but also in Ghana, Zambia and the USA; having taught thousands of students from around the world and in response to demand I have produced DVDs on watercolour painting and a book published by Dorling Kindersley 'Acrylics Workshop'. I have shown my work at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, the Society of Botanical Painters, the Royal Academy and the Mall Gallery; a solo exhibition sponsored by Eurostar, my African collection launched an Arts project by Kent County Council all culminating in a retrospective in 2007. Click on the images to view larger versions.
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A few deft brush strokes by Philip Knaggs

"As a child of 10years I painted my bedroom walls; forty years later I picked up a brush at Shipley College and began to learn watercolour technique and I accidentally became an artist. I am now immersed in all the conventional activities of a professional artist.” Click on the images to view larger versions.
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Observations by Gordon Fowler

Lived in Canterbury city centre for 30 years he was a well travelled eccentric who never followed a conventional career; a prolific painter, sculptor, writer and raconteur whose play "Fall in Corporal Moyes" was perfomed in Covent Garden "He had about him the qualities of Whistler and would have enjoyed the company of Degas and the milieu of fin-de-siecle, Paris. Sickert and the painters of the Camden Town Group were also to his taste and often with wistful look and eloquent rhetoric, he would conjure up some scene or other where all these great names would be acting out their part." Click on the images to view larger versions.
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Drawing with Stitches by Sam Crow

"Drawing With Stitches is my way of combining two of my loves – drawing and sewing – by using the stitch as another form of mark making, and (when they are not just pure stitch on white cotton) textiles as the palette. After years of using both disciplines separately, and trying to appease all athe creative urges by switching between the two, often leaving the drawing side unsatisfied... I fell into combining the two by accident. I began to sew into my drawings to try and satisfy the urge for stitch and eventually sewing the drawings completely..." Click on the images to view larger versions.
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Movement in oils by Jereme Crow

The artist Fernando Botero said: “An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.” So to attempt to explain my paintings would be an after thought. They are a celebration and exploration of the beauty of colour and the human form. I am attracted to dance as a source of inspiration because of the endless compositions created by the human form. The beauty, energy and emotion that is captured through movement. Art is beauty. Capturing a feeling, or an idea and through the use of a subject attempting to create something beautiful. Click on the images to view larger versions.
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Arrtwork of Folkestone by Chris Bone

I grew up in rural Hertfordshire; I studied at Hertfordshire College of Art and Design and then three years at Canterbury College of Art, graduating with a B.A. (hons) degree in 1980. Moved to Folkestone in 1985 and, establishing a studio built a reputation as a painter of richly toned, atmospheric images - especially based around the harbour area of Folkestone. In 1998 I gained an M.A. in Fine Art. I have exhibited widely in Kent and at the Mall Galleries in London. In 1993 I had work selected for an exhibition to celebrate 1000 years of worship at St. Albans Cathedral in Hertfordshire. Click on the images to view larger versions.
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Gangly Hares by Dawn Barker

“I am a self taught artist living in the Kent countryside. I paint in watercolours, inks, gouache and acrylic. I initially painted large numbers of subjects, but now tend to gravitate towards cats, dogs and hares. The latter being my favourite, in fact I just can’t stop painting them! I try to paint them all with a twinkle in their eyes. I love the gangly long legs of a hare and the graceful way they travel." I hope that each of my paintings give years of enjoyment to its owner.” Click on the images to view larger versions.
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Shed of Leaves and Other Illuminations by White Shed Artists

An Exhibition to support the Folkstone Literary Festival 2008 The recently formed White Shed is a collective of Folkestone based artists that has emerged in response to the opening of studios in and around the Creative Quarter. Many of the White Shed members have been attracted to the developing creative scene in the town and have relocated their practices, contributing to the cultural regeneration of the area. Click on the images to view larger versions.