Artists

	Gallery: ArtGallery.co.uk (Stand 164) Artist Ed Chapman Biography Ed Chapman is a contemporary North West-based artist specialising in ceramic mosaics. He achieves incredibly detailed results, creating his subjects using thousands of fragments of ceramic tile. Ed has exhibited hroughout the UK and Europe. He has a number of high profile collectors including television personalities and international sports stars and has received substantial national and international press coverage and was selected to appear on the jacket of international best-seller Mem Mehmet's, 'Diana in Art'. Artwork Bowie
	Gallery: Curwen & New Academy Gallery (Stand 154) Artist Edward Bawden Biography Edward Bawden, CBE, RA (1903 – 1989) was a British painter, illustrator and graphic artist. He was also famous for his prints, book covers, posters, and garden metalwork furniture. Bawden studied at Cambridge School of Art, then the Royal College. By 1925, Bawden was working for the Curwen Press. It was here he produced illustrations for London Transport, Westminster Bank, Poole Potteries, Twinings and Shell-Mex. He also served as one of the official war artists in the second World War. Artwork Queen's Garden, lithograph, 1986, 47 x 61cm
	Gallery: Manchester Craft & Design Centre (Stand 210) Artist Edward Chadwick Biography Serene & delicately manipulated still lifes & landscapes contrast with explosively vibrant urban colourscapes & beautifully printed traditional black & white landscapes. Artwork Photographs
	Gallery: Vivienne Gaskin Cultural Management Ltd (Stand 144) Artist Edwyn Collins Biography "Ornithology (birds) have fascinated me for a long time. When I was a boy, I could identify every British bird, most of them on the wing. I collected stuffed birds, too. I thought I would do a collection of bird illustrations when I retired from music. I loved Archibald Thorburn, a Victorian illustrator, particularly. I had a stroke, a brain haemorrhage, in 2005. I couldn’t say anything at all at first and I couldn’t read or write. I couldn’t walk at first. My right hand didn’t work. I’m right handed. So, no more guitar. The first time with a pencil, a scribble, that’s it. What could I do? Gradually I took my pencil more and more. At first I drew “The Guy” over and over again. It’s mad, totally mad! Then I drew my first bird, a widgeon. It’s quite crude, but I was pleased with the result. I’m back on board. The possibilities are endless!" Edwyn Collins Artwork Bat, 2009, Pencil on Paper, A3
	Gallery: Castle Arts (Stand 264) Artist Elizabeth Akehurst Biography Elizabeth Akehurst graduated with a first class degree in mathematics from the University of Kent in 1972 and continued postgraduate studies at Cambridge and Newcastle. However a strong interest in painters and paintings has always formed an integral part of Elizabeth’s life. After a short career in full-lime teaching, having a family allowed her the opportunity to paint. Elizabeth began exhibiting regularly in the early I 990s. She taught art for a number of years and acted as Medway Co-ordinator for the South East Open Studios before setting aside these commitments to concentrate solely on her painting. She exhibits regularly at Castle Arts and David Lilford Fine Art, Canterbury and other galleries across South and East England and has been represented at Art Fairs in London, Dublin, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Canterbury. Her subjects are always drawn from particular experiences. Thus figurative pieces can originate from events such as meals with friends, watching builders and decorators at work, or going to concerts. Landscapes are inspired by the Medway area with its combination of mudflats, reed-beds and industrial history; by the Shropshire and Norfolk countryside or from sitting in the gardens of friends. The paintings arise slowly out of a long period of working. Initially preliminary studies are made, often on the spot, in pen, ink or watercolour. These, sometimes supplemented by photographs, are used to produce a large number of small pieces exploring compositional forms, colour and tone. Some of these may develop into larger watercolour and gouache or collage works in their own right. The subject begins to become “known” and work is begun on a series of oil paintings, maybe five or more at a time. Sometimes the subject is considered from a viewpoint first taken within the very subject itself, then drawn up and over as if looking down from above. Paint is applied using a range of brushes or with roller and palette knife. Additional line is added, a vital compositional element in the work, with charcoal, oil pastel or the end of the brush. Texture and depth of paint is used to create planes, drawing forms forwards or backwards while brush work moves and animates the surface. Above all colour evokes not only the space, but the season, the time of day, the mood — the very essence of the piece. The paintings are worked over many times, the artist moving from one piece to another as each establishes its own identity and until some element of that original event has been caught. By this time the subject has acquired a life of its own. Artwork Winter Sunset
	Gallery: The Old Sweet Shop (Stand G11) Artist Elizabeth Von Graevenitz Biography Elizabeth tends to surround herself and absorb the environment, social behaviour, smell and taste it. Her studio and brain alike are cluttered with a melee of activity. By using found objects, sound recordings, film, photography, model making and book making she presents the condensed information she collects to the audience. The core essence through out each chosen media brings her to the richness of environment, city life and the oddities of people. Artwork Elizabeth Von Graevenitz
	Gallery: Castle Arts (Stand 264) Artist Emmy Elphick Biography Born in Berlin, Emmy Elphick studied at Victoria Fachschule, and St. Martin’s College of Art in London, before becoming a part time Lecturer. She later ran a publishing Design Studio creating educational products and greetings cards for the children’s Market. After the sale of the business she fulfilled her ambition to become a full-time Painter. Emmy’s extensive travels have taken her repeatedly to the South of France, Italy, Spain, and the Far East, where the clear sunlight light led her to work in an impressionistic style. She has worked in watercolour for many years but more recently has gone on to working in oils. Her love for bright and vibrant colour is evident in her work and is her first consideration when planning a painting, may it be ‘en plein-aire’ or in her studio at home in Kent. Emmy has exhibited in numerous solo and group events all over the South East of England and has sold her paintings extensively abroad. Medici Publications have selected many of her paintings for reproduction. Artwork Tuscan Landscape
	Gallery: Gallery Rouge (Stand 237) Artist Eric Waugh Artwork Barks and Bubbles
	Gallery: Vernon Mill Artists (Stand 114) Artist Eva Hamilton-Fisher Biography Eva's work is a link between her past, teaching fine art, in Budapest and her present, working as a full time artist in the North of England. Her sensual oil paintings are colourful and atmospheric often referencing her homeland whilst being clearly influenced by her new life in the UK. Artwork The Power of Our Nature