Artist Marcela Escobar

My name is Marcela Escobar. I was born in San Salvador, El Salvador on August 19, 1986 and moved to Houston TX when I was 4 years old and have been living here since.

I was not into art growing up, I would just draw during school to get through the day. I started to have problems with social anxiety during highschool which resulted in me dropping out when I was 16. My anxiety went untreated causing me to become house bound for 3 years. But it was during those 3 years that art entered my life.

I am self taught and like to experiment with different materials. My favorite artists are Remedios Varo and Francis Bacon.

I'm inspired by.....many things....sometimes it's boredom, sometimes it's love, sometimes it's music or nothing at all.

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Artist Jane Kellahan

Jane's visually rich and stimulating works are based on a tension between abstraction and representation, relying on an atmospheric ambiguity for much of their strength. While reducing elements to bare essentials, she employs consideration of scale, organic textures and constrained tonal variety to achieve stunning works that are imbued with light and potency. Jane has exhibited in New Zealand, Australia, Spain, The Netherlands, and England. In 2006 Jane was selected for Denis Robinson’s latest book, “New Zealand’s Favourite Artists”. In December 2005 Jane was invited to exhibit at the Florence Biennale in Italy. Predominately self-taught, in 2000 Jane studied at Central St Martins and Camberwell College of Arts, London, where she had her work selected by the Royal Academy of Arts.

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Artist Julia Everett

Julia graduated in Fine Art at Brighton University and has recently successfully exhibited in London, Birmingham, Bristol, Southampton and New York. Many of her paintings are in private collections and in 2004 one of her paintings was purchased by the Art for Hospitals Commission for display at St Mary’s Hospital Paddington, London. Later that year Julia won first prize in the Originate Competition showcased at Art on the Walls London, and was short listed for the Fusion Competition shown at The Artist's & Illustrators Expo at the Business Design Centre in July 2005 and the International Open Image in July 2006. Last September Julia collaborated with Italian artist Massimo Bartolini on a painting exhibited in 'Core' a group show at the Union Works on the South Bank.

Julia was recently short listed for the Barclays Bank Liberte d'Expression painting prize at their global headquarters in Canary Wharf. Julia’s paintings are expressive colourful abstracts with an organic landscape feel. They are concerned with the personal reflective aspects of natural beauty as realised in water, landscape, light and pure colour. Each painting is an emotional response to a sensory experience and an attempt to evoke a fleeting visual reference to something that is essentially ethereal.

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Artist Duncan Pearson

Painted on a professional basis for the last 10 years & have exhibited in America, Brazil, Italy, Spain & Belgium as well as all over the UK. I like to work in a combination of oil & household gloss paint as I've always been interested in the images seen in books and the real thing. Using the gloss & oilI I try and make the paintings notifiably different if one is to see them face to face rather than printed. Which someone prefers is up to them. I paint a wide range of things with many being about everyday situations which people can relate to although I'm constantly looking for new ideas & trying to push my work further.

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