Artists

	Gallery: Clase Contemporary (Stand 170) Artist Alex Gough Biography English Alex’s Finnish ancestry and his own voyages into the magical Finnish landscape are immediately evident throughout his work. He describes mid winter in Lapland as ‘disorienting, beautiful and frightening, where the landscape melts into a long dark night revealing the harshness and enormity of nature’. Many of his works are indeed imbued with the contrasts of the blue and white; reflecting the magical twilight dancing on the snow. The already mature handling of this young artist can be traced to his interest and knowledge of the works of JWM Turner and Caspar David Friedrich. The German master of the sublime informs Alex’s work at times with a strong sense of counteracting desolation and hope. Influences of Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko and Yves Klein are also identifiable in Alex’s work, yet a very powerfully individual style emerges, inviting us in to ‘a dreamy place of isolation; the place of one’s memories’. Education: 2005 - BA (Hons) Painting, Camberwell College of Art London. Solo Shows: 2006 ‘Sinen Syvyys’, The Arts Gallery, London, UK Artwork Untitled acrylic, oil and indian ink on canvas 40x65cm
	Gallery: Art World Gallery (Stand 136) Artist Alexandar Millar Biography Millar became a professional artist in 1988. It is the last few years that have been the most exciting, sales going through the roof everyone wanting his paintings of solitary figures. He has had a number of sell out exhibitions, winning the Daily Mail’s “NOT THE TERNER PRIZE” which was when he exhibited at the Mall Galleries London. Artwork Saddle Sore oil on canvas 49x59cms
	Gallery: Art World Gallery (Stand 136) Artist Alexandar Millar Biography Millar became a professional artist in 1988. It is the last few years that have been the most exciting, sales going through the roof everyone wanting his paintings of solitary figures. He has had a number of sell out exhibitions, winning the Daily Mail’s “NOT THE TERNER PRIZE” which was when he exhibited at the Mall Galleries London. Artwork The Observer oil on canvas 33x43cms
	Gallery: Art World Gallery (Stand 136) Artist Alexandar Millar Biography Millar became a professional artist in 1988. It is the last few years that have been the most exciting, sales going through the roof everyone wanting his paintings of solitary figures. He has had a number of sell out exhibitions, winning the Daily Mail’s “NOT THE TERNER PRIZE” which was when he exhibited at the Mall Galleries London. Artwork Having A Rest oil on canvas 89x59cms
	Gallery: The Smithfield Gallery (Stand 144) Artist Alexandr Onishenko Biography One of the most successful artists in the Czech Republic came to Czechoslovakia with few possessions and began selling his work alongside artists on the Charles Bridge. Alexandr Onishenko, Ukrainian by birth, was not there long. The quality of his work shone out and he was offered exhibitions not just in Czechoslovakia but in Germany, France, Spain, the U.K. and the U.S.A. Onishenko quickly went on to open his own gallery where his new impressionist paintings can be viewed. He breathes life into even inanimate objects giving them a vibrancy and personality of their own. One can explore his landscapes, see around corners in his forests, fly with his birds, gallop with horses, explore Gothic courtyards or soar with him over the rooftops of Prague. Onishenko's paintings are full of energy and, although impressionist in style, rich in detail. His are not one-dimensional canvases; one can return to them again and again, each time discovering new depths, and hidden secrets. Artwork Football
	Gallery: The Smithfield Gallery (Stand 144) Artist Alexandr Onishenko Biography One of the most successful artists in the Czech Republic came to Czechoslovakia with few possessions and began selling his work alongside artists on the Charles Bridge. Alexandr Onishenko, Ukrainian by birth, was not there long. The quality of his work shone out and he was offered exhibitions not just in Czechoslovakia but in Germany, France, Spain, the U.K. and the U.S.A. Onishenko quickly went on to open his own gallery where his new impressionist paintings can be viewed. He breathes life into even inanimate objects giving them a vibrancy and personality of their own. One can explore his landscapes, see around corners in his forests, fly with his birds, gallop with horses, explore Gothic courtyards or soar with him over the rooftops of Prague. Onishenko's paintings are full of energy and, although impressionist in style, rich in detail. His are not one-dimensional canvases; one can return to them again and again, each time discovering new depths, and hidden secrets. Artwork Storm Cloud
	Gallery: The Smithfield Gallery (Stand 144) Artist Alexandr Onishenko Biography One of the most successful artists in the Czech Republic came to Czechoslovakia with few possessions and began selling his work alongside artists on the Charles Bridge. Alexandr Onishenko, Ukrainian by birth, was not there long. The quality of his work shone out and he was offered exhibitions not just in Czechoslovakia but in Germany, France, Spain, the U.K. and the U.S.A. Onishenko quickly went on to open his own gallery where his new impressionist paintings can be viewed. He breathes life into even inanimate objects giving them a vibrancy and personality of their own. One can explore his landscapes, see around corners in his forests, fly with his birds, gallop with horses, explore Gothic courtyards or soar with him over the rooftops of Prague. Onishenko's paintings are full of energy and, although impressionist in style, rich in detail. His are not one-dimensional canvases; one can return to them again and again, each time discovering new depths, and hidden secrets. Artwork Prague 2008
	Gallery: Opus Art (Stand 263) Artist Alexandra McLain Biography Northumbria University Fine Art graduate Alexandra McLain uses bold flashes of oil paint on plywood to craft images which are ‘born from the vapid and indulgent culture of fashion and advertising.’ Noting the transience of the images in their neutered state on the glossy magazine page, McLain chooses to immortalise them with her paintbrush, advocating the unique ability of paint ‘to exceed the two dimensionality of an image and take on a life of its own.’ The vibrant fluorescence of McLain’s painted subjects is offset by their wooden background - an interplay that the magazine cannot provide - giving the images a virile dynamicity. The artist exploits ‘the wood’s predisposition to tolerate the frantic gestures’ of her model subjects. At a time when much of art is charged with heavy criticism of today’s media dominated society, McLain’s approach is somewhat refreshing: whilst she accepts the false reality within which the stimulated identities of advertisements exist, her art unashamedly embraces the luxurious indulgence that they provide. Artwork 'Louis Vuitton II', 2008 Oil on board Signed by the artist 24 x 24 inches
	Gallery: Bleach Box (Stand 128) Artist Amanda Harman Biography Amanda's photography aims to reveal the unseen in the everyday and the ordinary, taking a gesture, an expression and orchestrating it within the frame giving that moment a significance it would not normally possess. Amanda has worked on commissions and projects for galleries and museums and has exhibited widely in the UK and in Europe. Her work is held in a number of collections, including the V & A. Artwork Girl in Showers, Yorkshire 1986
	Gallery: Webbs Fine Art (Stand 182) Artist Amanda Wigglesworth Biography Based in Alderly Edge, Amanda Wigglesworth has featured in exhibitions across the country. Amanda is essentially concerned with abstract forms created by the vitality of colour and the depth of the painting surface.Her paintings engage the eye through and beyond the surface, and form appears flawed by the painterly energy. Artwork City Life