Nita's work as an artist is usually conceptually concerned with spaces that can't be seen, or owned, incomplete pictures, memories derived from self and others, spaces, time and introspective exploration. The work donated for auction is what the artist sees as an unashamedly enjoyable departure from conceptual thinking.
Nita Walters
Tel: 07779 414598 nitafeeta@hotmail.co.uk www.myspace.com/nitafeeta
James is a freelance digital photographer who works and lives in Birmingham , UK .
This is the second consecutive year Jamie has supported ABplus in raising monies at their art auction.
His work is primarily about capturing passing moments. This time around he is donating three framed photographs taken in three different locations within Europe , all in monochrome. There is a suggested narrative between all images with the central theme of loneliness.
Further to this he also enjoys taking portraiture and landscape photography as well as restoring old photographs.
James has recently been part of two separate collective groups of photographers and artists based in Birmingham culminating in a final exhibition for both of them.
Born to Jamaican parents in Rugby and brought up in Birmingham, drawing has always been a part of Marks life. From an early age Mark has always had a desire to draw, with a great fascination for Africa, the people, the wild life and the colourful environment. In his teenage years he progressively became more serious about life and began to question himself as to who he was and where he came from. This became a burning desire for Mark, which in turn led him to spend a few years of his life in Jamaica and a few years in Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania).
This life experience now embedded in Mark has never left him and has a huge impact in the way he works and the reason why he chooses his particular subjects.
Painting is the best way Mark can artistically get his point across; the subjects he chooses to paint have been acquired by a lot of research and are not just random images without thought.
There are many reasons why people paint and Marks reason is no exception to the rule. He paints because he feels he has to. It brings a satisfying inner feeling inside. Its painful, its enjoyable and often times a struggle, its a moment of peacefulness, a rush of adrenalin, erratic yet calm, lonely and isolated, a language which can be written without words, a part of his life, his love, his concerns, his thoughts his ideas, his tears and experience.
Mark wants the viewer to see the honesty in his work, he wants them to connect with their eyes and look deep into the paintings.
Mark Caroll
markartman@hotmail.co.uk
07871 706622
Title: Peaceful Confusion
Media: Oil on canvas.
Reserve: £75
Dan Auluk is donating works for ‘Curry For A Cause' for the second consecutive year running as well as co-coordinating the event. ‘Peaceful Confusion' is a recent abstract oil painting which was produced in the summer of 2007 based on his series Human Abstraction which is an attempt to produce abstract portraits from photographs which he is continuing this summer.
Dan will also be exhibiting at the New Generation Arts Student Hybrid Collaboration Festival in June this year. See link for more details. http://www.newgenerationarts.co.uk/events/the-tells-of-the-unexpected/
D a n A u l u k
Fine Artist
http://www.newgenerationarts.co.uk/events/the-tells-of-the-unexpected/
Artist Studio
Unit 110 M Jubilee Trades Centre
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Birmingham
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