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| Janet
Skea RI Janet was born in South Africa and gained a BA in Fine Art from Stellenbosch University. She moved to the UK in 1974 and obtained a BA in Literature, History and Philosophy from the O.U. whilst working as a graphic designer and illustrator in advertising. She has painted fulltime for the last 24 years. Janet was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour (RI) in 2002. She has exhibited widely in the UK as well as London at the RSMA and in St Ives. At the Tregaquarell International watercolour competition in Tregastel she won the Talenz Watercolour Prize in 1998. Janet is a member of the St Ives Society of Artists. She works mainly in watercolours but also in tempera, oils and gouache. Her favourite subjects are interiors and still-life, exploring the quiet delight of everyday things, with particular interest in detail and the different effects of light. |  | |
| Alistair
Butt
RSMA Alistair Butt attended the local art group which his father, Adrian organised. Alistair was born in Umtata, Transkie, South Africa (now Mthatha, KwaZulu, Natal). He moved to Derbyshire at the age of 13. Alistair attended Art College for four years and went on to study Technical and Scientific Illustration for a further three years. He spent time in the Advertising Industry as a graphic designer and illustrator. Alistair works in watercolour and oil. He has held a series of successful one-man exhibitions and at the Royal Society of Marine Artists. Light in all its forms and its effect upon the subject provides sparkle, impact and mood to landscapes and seascapes. Sunlight through trees, long shadows from a winter sun on snow covered ground, or a grey misty morning, these, are the things that inspire the artist. Alistair was elected a full member of Royal Society Marine Artists in 2009 |  | |
| Chris
Forsey RI Chris studied art and graphics at Bristol and became an illustrator in a publisher's studio, self taught as a watercolour painter he is constantly trying to extend and add to his skills. He has exhibited with the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour and runs his own watercolour classes in Surrey and Sussex and in the Greek Islands. He re-appraises his style and technique on a regular basis and this has led him towards a mixed-media approach in his work, combining watercolour, acrylic, pastel and gouache. Exhilarated by colour and surface he enjoys creating textured layers of dry-brushed colour that allow hints of complementary hue to glow through, thus creating an exciting surface of scattered, broken colour. Specialising in landscape subjects, exploring the themes of man-made alongside the organic: buildings by water; structure emerging from a rocky cliff, sometimes with figures contributing to this theme, inhabiting the middle ground between buildings and the wildness of nature. Inspired by downland, coastal scenes of the UK and the Mediterranean, cafe life and townscapes. He captures the sense of a place at a specific moment, season or time of day, always endeavouring to bring passion and immediacy to his work. He won the Matt Bruce Memorial Award light and colour at the 2007 RI exhibition. Chris Forsey was awarded the Lincoln Joyce / F. Donald Blake Award at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour in 2006. Chris was elected a member of the Royal Society of Painters in Wayercolour in 2010. |
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| Jacqueline
Fletcher ARCA Jackie Fletcher attended the Bourneville School of Art, Birmingham from 1948 to 1952 and won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art. She studied under Edward Bawden, Abram Games and John Nash. Jackie gained her ARCA in Graphic Design in 1955. Jackie is best known for her imaginative landscapes and interiors in pen and ink and watercolours and has exhibited in Yorkshire, Ludlow, Leominster and many other areas. In Malvern she won the watercolour prize at the Millennium Visual Arts Exhibition. Jackie has exhibited at the Mall Galleries in London and was accepted for the Singer and Friedlander/ Sunday Times watercolour exhibition. |
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