You may have already seen something interesting in the left hand column of our website.. it’s our poll where you can vote for your favourite artist of 2009.
We’ve taken a selection of the most popular artists this year… they are:
Todd White
Todd White’s work has caught the imagination of art collectors around the world in addition to many Hollywood celebrities, members of the Rich List and ambassadors of the high life. At face value, the pieces appear as simple caricature. Contorted body shapes and exaggerated expressions expose a past in cartooning and animation; the perfect place to develop the skills to understand character from a simple look, or simulate body language with utmost economy.
Sarah Jane Szikora
Coming from a large family Sarah Jane Szikora was constantly looking for ways to amuse herself and soon discovered that drawing and painting were by far her favourite. She enjoyed art and music classes, so it was natural to pursue an artistic career. Sarah completed a foundation course at Harrogate College of Art where she studied a range of subjects, including photography, sculpture and graphics. During this time she maintained a lifelong interest in simple drawing, and always enjoyed the life class most.
Doug Hyde
Doug Hyde is well known for recently being named as the UK’s best selling artist, and has often been featured on the BBC news- both national and local. He has also appeared on channel 4 and various radio shows and won the title of ‘The most popular living artist in the UK’ from BBC National News.
Doug Hyde’s art will almost certainly put a smile on your face, just from the affection you begin to feel for the subjects in his paintings.
Henderson Cisz
Henderson Cisz paints in a very characteristic fashion with soft tones and paints many images of cities in a beautifully mood stirring style. He always brings out the effect of weather on the appearance of the urban environment. Not only does this subtly affect the way the people in the painting are standing, but it affects the way the observer feels too.
Alexander Millar
Alexander Millar’s prints are incredibly emotive, prompting touching memories of families and loved ones that have long since gone, powerfully mixing sadness and humour.
Inspired by his native town of Springside, and his adopted home of Newcastle, Alexander Millar’s paintings depict the shambling shapes of the old “gadgies”; he would see these crumpled characters traveling to and from work, or slightly worse for wear coming back from the pub.
Caroline Shotton
Caroline Shotton’s infectious sense of humour shines through her work, somehow managing to create paintings that do not resort to lampooning the classic works and icons of popular culture it inspires. Instead, Caroline draws on genuine affection for the subjects, and you can’t help but enjoy the cheeky punning of Caroline Shotton’s artwork.
Paul Kenton
As a teenager, Paul Kenton learnt to surf on the wild beaches of North Devon and as a keen surfer he has travelled the world realising inspiration for another passion; his art. Much like Henderson Cisz, he takes great inspiration from the sea and paints wonderfully perceptive urban landscapes.
He says: “My Cityscapes reflect the many moods of manmade landscapes; I find it exhilarating to express furious movement, artificial lights and the vibrancy of a busy City centre at night as well as the subtler moods of a misty dawn at the same venue.”
Vote for your favourite artist today, to decide who will be the nation’s most popular artist of 2009!
We are very excited to announce that we will be exhibiting at the Homes & Interiors Scotland annual exhibition at the SECC Glasgow. Fifth year running and now firmly established as the leading interiors event in the country.
With Inspirational new limited edition prints and original art from Pam Carter and some exciting and exclusive features from Lorenzo Quinn and James Blinkhorn, there will be something for everyone. You’ll also find many framed and boxed canvas open prints available to order directly from the stand.
Many attractions can be found including a new Wine Tasting Theatre, learn how to appreciate wine and talk through some excellent vintages with industry experts.
We are delighted to invite you to view our fantastic new Spring 09 Collection.
With exciting new tips from the forever famous queen of the television DIY makeover, Carol Smillie – art lover, painter and sculptor, and busy Glasgow mother of three, still has a keen eye for interiors and what makes a room work – or not! We also take an up close and personal look at Fabian Perez’s new pieces and catch up on all the latest developments in the art world.
Not only is reading online a great, fast way of finding out what’s happening in today’s world of art but it will reducing your carbon footprint. Unlike a newspaper which is being distributed worldwide already, and has been argued that it can be almost equal to reading on paper. The magazines we offer are less available publicly as they are from galleries only and this means that it costs more in terms of ‘greenness’ to distribute these magazines by post.
This is where Yudu.com comes in, Washington Green Fine Art has invested in having their publication, the Fine Art Collector published interactively by Yudu who create amazing carbon neutral publications which work as if you are really reading the magazine. To make sure all YUDU digital publications are as carbon neutral as possible, they completely offset all their CO2 emissions by donating money to Carbon Clear, a leading carbon management company. They invest in projects that improve living standards in developing countries and which provide global climate benefits with clean energy projects and reforestation initiatives and their main goal is to eventually have everyone reading online.
It is with great sadness that we announce the tragic death of one of the country’s greatest contemporary artists – Govinder Nazran. Govinder died on Tuesday 30th December after an accident on Christmas Day which left him with severe head injuries.
Upon moving back to his home town of Saltaire in West Yorkshire, Govinder took up the position of designer for a greetings card company, which involved all aspects of product design and development. Following that he became a photographic art director, directing fashion shoots all over the world. He did this for the next year or so until 1993, when he decided to swap his hectic photographic job and lifestyle, for a quieter life back in Saltaire. He spent the next five years here in the UK, working freelance on card designs with major publishing companies.
We here at the Enid Hutt Gallery would like to thank all our customers and visitors for supporting us through what has been a fantastic year and certainly a tough year of economic uncertainty for us all. We mainly focused on the website through 2008 with some fantastic new features and new artwork made available to you from both our more popular and up and coming artists.