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Anne-Marie Butlin

Anne-Marie’s work is essentially an attempt to make a beautiful, uplifting image. In both her garden and still life paintings she hopes to convey the character of different flowers and the unique feeling they can create in a space; the strong structures and often the sheer joyfulness of their appearance.

Kate Evans

Based in Bristol, Kate uses delicate line drawings and watercolour washes set against large areas of negative space, to produce images that reflect the richness of their subject matter.

Andrew Hood

As a student Andrew Hood won the Gorstella Award for Fine Art and the Liverpool Life Painting Open and on graduating he was asked to participate in a group show at the Gorstella Gallery, Chester and has exhibited very successfully many times since.

Anita Klein

Anita’s work is a humorous visual diary celebrating the small domestic moments we all share; having breakfast with her daughters, shaving her legs while husband ‘Nige’ does his exercises and many more. These moments are encapsulated with the soft blackness of the drypoint line, and while irrelevant details are ignored, others like Nige’s hairy legs, or the television remote control are lovingly described.

Viki Metzler

Viki completed a postgraduate in Character Animation at Central Saint Martins in London and now works as a freelance cartoonist, illustrator and painter.

Originally from Switzerland, Viki moved to South Wales in 2012 and we are delighted to be showing Viki’s work for the first time.

Clare Shaughnessy

Based locally, Clare is a professional wildlife artist, specialising in birds and animal subjects. We are looking forward to showing Clare’s work for the first time at Gorstella Gallery.

Malcolm Taylor

Malcolm Taylor has been painting for over forty years, initially whilst fulfilling a successful career with an international design consultancy but for the last ten years he’s been a full time artist working each day in his garden studio. During this time he’s been elected as a member of The Royal Society Of British Artists, The Pastel Society and is a former President of Manchester Academy of Fine Art.

Matthew Wood

Matthew Wood produces paintings in the studio and on location be they landscape or interior. His art practice stems from the process of working from primary observation or plein air where he has attempted to develop a method and technique that is both expressive and direct both in and out of the studio.

For Matthew the challenge of creating a successful painting in sometimes adverse conditions – from rain and snow storm to darkened corridor or church – adds to the experience of the process of painting.

Annie Williams

Annie Williams grew up in South Wales and trained as a nurse before studying at City and Guilds Art School 1966-69.

Annie’s recent work has been almost entirely still-life. She enjoys playing with shapes, pattern and colour, mixing the familiar with some abstraction, and precision with suggestion. Her foregrounds are a few simple objects, usually pots, and backgrounds are created from textiles or old newspaper cuttings, and even some unfinished paintings as a starting point.

Annie first exhibited her watercolours at Gorstella Gallery in November 1994, and we are delighed she is still exhibiting 3o years later.