Artist of the Week - Amanda Hunt

Our Artist of the week, this week, is Amanda Hunt.
Amanda is a professional, contemporary artist who has a real passion for all forms of painting and drawing. She paints from her studio in the Berkshire countryside and started exhibiting her work in the summer of 2005.
Since then Amanda’s work has been attracting international attention as well as considerable interest throughout the UK. To date her paintings have been bought by collectors in America, Canada, South Africa and Singapore as well throughout Europe and the UK.The painting shown is called African Sunset view II and is a vivid African Sunset depicted with umbrella thorn (acacia tortilis) trees and distant mountains. Warm oranges, yellows and fresh blues mingle to create a sky alive with colour. The painting continues round the edges of the frame making this ready for immediate hanging with no need for framing.
Amanda also accepts regular commissions. Please get in touch if you would like to discuss commissioning a painting.

To see more of Amanda's work, click HERE

Artist of the Week - Gaynor Henaghan

Well, after having a week of being unable to submita Blog entry, we are now back to operational status....I.T....dont you just love it.
Anyhow....every cloud has a silver lining, so they say....and this has meant that our Artist of the week, Gaynor Henaghan, gets to stay the AOW for another week as we were unable to do her Blog, Facebook or Twitter entries.
Gaynor works from her studio in Yorkshire. She says:
"Art is my passion, as well as my full time career. I was born, live and paint in sunny Yorkshire, UK.
I paint both contemporary and more traditional pieces, depending on the mood and what is influencing me at the time! My main inspiration is colour, light and structure, although ideas often come from the most unexpected places - from facial expressions to the spoken word... you'd be amazed!
I work a great deal with texture as it gives a whole new dimension to the artwork itself - capturing the visual aspect but also making you want to feel it - I love the fact that my work can be open to different interpretation by each person that views it - it can be endless, which is what I aim to achieve in my abstract work.
My art is regularly sold worldwide, including the USA, Canada, Europe, Japan, Malta, as well as a great deal of work which remains in the UK, with both private and commercial clients.
A large proportion of my work is commission based - please contact me if you would like more information about commissioning your own piece of art!"

Click HERE to see more of Gaynor's art on the Affordable British Art gallery

Artist of the Week - Rosie Harper

This week we have Rosie Harper as our Artist of the week. Rosie is a published, professional British artist, now living and working in beautiful New Zealand.
She says: "I have been very fortunate in my artistic career and bless every day that I can pick up my brushes and create beautiful things in a sometimes ugly world. My work was published in Society Magazine in USA in 2005 on 3 occasions with my art as their front cover. I have several private collectors around the world with some of them owning up to 10 pieces. I work in a mainly Art Deco style with some Art Nouveau and Surrealism mixed in for good measure and I tend to go for bright and colourful with lots of detail rather than dark and sombre. Most of my pieces are large and are meant to own any wall they are placed upon. On average, these artworks take anything from 3 months to a year to complete as most are created in oil. The process also involves sketching the idea in Silverpoint and then applying the paint in layers, allowing the paint to dry thoroughly to enable a protective coat of varnish to be applied at the end. Because of the nature of my style, I use imagery from the Art Deco period together with my own interpretation. All of my ladies are based upon imagination, apart from my commissions, so if you have an idea for an artwork, please contact me to discuss. The limit is your own imagination."

To view more of Rosie's work on Affordable British Art, click HERE