Tuesday, 31 August 2010

Artist of the Week - Paul Dixon

This week we have Paul Dixon as our Artist of the week. Paul paints in most media - oils, watercolours, acrylics and pastels and never one to feel pigeon-holed, tackles most subjects - landscape, seascape, cityscape, portraiture, still life, fantasy, surrealism and abstract.

He has previously exhibited at the Ferrens Art Gallery, Hull, the Leeds City Art Gallery, Y.T.V. Studios, Leeds, the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds and the Art Shows at Ilkley where he was a prize winning artist who was elected a Companion of the International Guild of Artists. He was a regular exhibitor at the Valley Gardens Art Exhibitions in Harrogate and the Original Art Exhibitions at Addingham, Nr Ilkley, West Yorkshire. He has also had two paintings reproduced as limited edition prints.

He has completed various commissions in landscape and portraiture and has work in private collections as far afield as Italy, Germany, America and Canada.

Click HERE to see more of Paul's work on Affordable British Art

Tuesday, 24 August 2010

Artist of the Week - Helen Davison

This time we have Helen Davison as our Artist of the Week. Helen is a professional, exhibiting artist from East Yorkshire. She specialises in Acrylic abstract paintings and also crafts beautiful little hand-made trinket boxes.
The painting shown is entitled "3 Wise Men And An Interloper" and is an abstract expressionist painting rendered in the 3 primary colours with outlines in black. It is influenced by Picasso's painting "The Three Dancers" and Helen says:
" In this painting, I have used the three primary colours in order to represent the 3 different elements in this painting. However, as the painting progressed, I noticed another "figure" appeared in thebackground so I decided to use him as well! "

Click HERE to view more of Helen's artwork on the Affordable British Art gallery.