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Trevor Allen
For many years I have worked in retail as a window dresser and my art school ceramic training put me in good stead to work for London's top retailers. Window dressing is a bit like making sculpture you choose the most luxurious things and you arrange them to look at their most magical.
Angelika Hinton (known as Geli)
Though born and educated in London, Angelika has spent most of her adult life in the Middle & Far East. The tropical beauty of Singapore and the cultural diversity of Hong Kong have had a profound influence on her work.
Returning to Hertfordshire she brings the flamboyant colour and rich expression of these cultures to her ceramic sculptures which she produces in her studio at Parndon Mill.
Angelika works in stoneware clay, and most of her pieces are suitable for exterior locations.
Liz Boast
Liz Boast has had a studio at Parndon Mill since 1999. It is set up as a printmaking studio, but She also paints in here too.
My collection of "stuff" that I use for inspiration is also kept here: dolls, puppets, bric-a-brac, junk shop pieces, car boot finds, beach combing treasure, things brought back from travels. Also my sketchbooks, full of drawings, paintings, cuttings, photographs, life drawings, tales and memories all to be used one day.
Suman Gujral
Suman GujralI graduated in 2018 with an MA in Fine Art, with distinction, from the University of Hertfordshire. She has shown her work extensively at Parndon Mill, Flatford National Trust, Candid Arts, Vyner Street and Mall Galleries in London, St Albans and Welwyn amongst others. She has also been selected to show work with the prestigious Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair- last year and again this November. She has been invited to take part in an exhibition next year at the internationally renowned Whitworth Gallery in Manchester. Earlier this year, She was awarded a bursary, by AN Artists, for career development and Lewis Biggs, formerly director of Tate Liverpool and Liverpool Biennial and now of Folkestone Triennial, is mentoring her.
“The interplay of light and shadow in our lives fascinates me. Light creates shadows and shadows help us appreciate the light. This has been particularly sharp for me during lockdown where the beauty of the landscape has provided light in the darkness. Being outside, in my garden, the countryside and by the sea, has kept me sane! I often take my sketchbook along with me and the drawings lead to my original, hand-pulled prints., made in my studio in Hertfordshire, looking out onto my garden.”
Kathy Gales
Kathy Gales' art is inspired by the scenes experienced whilst on her travels or locally in Harlow. Recently she has been developing her painting style using acrylics on clayboard. Her new paintings explore graphic line along with loose brush work to convey the beauty and drama of the landscape
John Durham
John lives in Hertfordshire and holds degrees from Hertfordshire, London and the Open universities. His academic research studies in geology inspired a love of our varied and dynamic national and international landscapes, and his passion for rocks and stones has been the inspiration for his art.
His contemporary paintings have focussed on revealing the underlying structures of some of his favourite places and landscapes. Vibrant colours and tints illustrate the composition of these geologically interesting sites and the artist’s understanding of the underlying structures of these landscapes lends these works a fascinating insight and new perspective on these familiar views. The result is work that is colourful and informative, but which seeks to lay bare the inner beauty of its subjects.
He has prepared a limited number (25)of high quality giclee prints of these paintings which are offered for sale.'
Chris Seaber
Chris Seaber was born in London in 1947. He studied at Camberwell, Falmouth and The Royal College of Art and since leaving the RCA in 1971, and in parallel with his teaching, has continued to make paintings, drawings and associated works.
His work revolves around ideas that can be instigated by any event or encounter. The starting point for these investigations can be as varied as the work produced. Something seen, heard, read or remembered can spark the initial engagement. The resulting body of work has produced collections of drawings and paintings far abstracted from the original source of engagement — but each group of works is bound together by a consistent theme.
Neil Robbins
Following an absence of several years Neil Robbins recently reintroduced himself to the Cornish coastline. He describes this as “a transforming moment of aliveness as I stood by the sea”. He experienced it all with a fresh vision, and has since returned many times to paint.
“I have been painting the sea and coast of Cornwall for over 20 years. Many people ask me why choose Cornwall? The appeal of the Cornish coast to me is, for some reason overwhelming, almost magical.
Over recent years, I have found a deeper peace and happiness painting this coastline. Collectors of my work have already noticed the change, becoming less abstract more studied, and quieter in tone. But I hope still mindful of the poetic, and the wonderment of an imaginative source, the sea and sky.”
Bob Boast
Bob Boast studied at Hornsey College of Art achieving BA (Hons) in 1969. His work is observational paintings in acrylic and mixed media, he is interested in colour and multiple perspectives. He also makes 3D works, which move and confuse the eye. These have been on display in the window of the Civic Centre in Harlow. He lives and works in Essex
Exhibitions -
Parndon Mill Gallery, Harlow, Essex
Courtyard Arts, Hertford, Hertfordshire
High Roding Arts, Dunmow, Essex
Broxted Hall, Wheathamstead, Hertfordshire
Hanbury Manor, Ware, Hertfordshire Essex
Open , Beecroft Gallery, Southend
Commissioned work on permanent display in Astro Lighting, Harlow Essex and Harlow Playhouse, Playhouse Square, Harlow
Alan Burgess
Landscape has been the favourite subject for Alan Burgess for most of his long painting career. His works are not detailed because he is interested in grasping the essential character of the subject as revealed by light. It is important for him also to enjoy the actual quality of paint. For these reasons anyone looking at a painting by Alan can get the same feeling of the subject that he himself experienced of a specific play of light and shade.