Artists

Ashley Amery is a San Diego-born, London-based artist represented by the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery. Her practice draws upon line and pattern making as a means of investigation. Ashley works on paper in fine detail to create beautiful paintings full of botanical and abstract forms.

Raphael Avigdor's passion for photography began at the age of 18. Since then he has documented his travels in South America, Asia, and Africa. For his most recent project Avigdor traveled through the Sahel Desert Belt of the Southern Sahara Desert in Niger. He was able to photograph the extraordinary Neolithic Rock Art left by the historic indigenous inhabitants of this once-fertile part of the Sahara.

Rose Blake is an illustrator and contemporary artist represented by the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery. Choosing vast museum-scapes as her chosen subject, Blake captures the busy hum of gallery concourses.

The anti-heroic sculpture of Ross Bonfanti, represented by Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, is energised by a tension between the delicate and the sturdy, the fixed and the flexible. Bonfanti's concreatures are created from cement, hardware materials and found soft toys, all collected in the contemporary artist’s native Toronto.

José Borges is one of Brazil’s most celebrated folk artists. Indeed he is famous across the globe, having exhibited everywhere from the Louvre to the Smithsonian Institute. Borges creates vividly imagined woodblock prints that derive from the centuries-old Brazilian tradition of ‘literatura de cordel’.

G.W. Bot is the artist’s name for the leading Australian artist Christine Grishin, who has been practicing as a full-time artist for more than 30 years. The contemporary Australian printmaker, sculptor, painter and graphic artist is represented by the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery.

Sophie Charalambous is an award-winning artist, who lives and works in London. She works on paper between drawing, watercolour and mono-printing. She regularly visits Cyprus (she is half British/half Cypriot) and in her work the Island's flora, fauna, folk art, ancient history and festivals are re-imagined into personal landscapes which fuse the old world and the observed present.

Mersuka Dopazo is a Spanish artist, represented by the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, who creates large-scale naïve-style collages from couture fabric and hand-made, natural papers. These materials are sourced all over the world directly from the craftsman, from locations such as Spain and Italy.

David Frazer is an Australian artist renowned for fine wood engravings, linocuts, etching and lithographs as well as his sculptures and paintings of Australian landscapes. Represented by the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, his work explores a sense of place, and the emotions of longing, nostalgia and isolation that accompany it.

Emma Haworth is a painter of the urban scene. Her art, represented by the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, is built upon meticulous observation of the ebb and flow of modern metropolitan life - in the streets, the parks, the squares of London, New York, Paris or some other great urban centre: it is a constantly shifting drama, of moving people and changing light, played out in a great arena that is both architectural and natural.

John Holcomb is an American artist, based in Kansas and represented by the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery. His paintings are energised by confident line and clear silhouettes. And yet, the bold simplicity of his mark-making originates in a complex web of cultural and artistic influences. Fauvism and Old Master's Holland meet Grant Wood and American Regionalism, as Holcomb draws on the imagery of America in a lost time.

Louisiana-born Jerry Jeanmard's artistic process is one of intellectual freedom and improvisation, as whimsical as the characters he creates. From his collection of found papers, the artist, represented by the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, plays around with forms, patterns and compositions, letting a figure grow organically before gluing it in place.

Laurence Jones is a British artist, based in London and represented by the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery. His paintings focus on psychological space, and play with ideas of narrative and the cinematic in art. Derived from first and second-hand photographic images of Los Angeles, the paintings combine reimagined modernist interiors and intense vibrant hues, blurring the boundaries between real and imaginary.

Dutch-born artist Carla Kranendonk's works are informed by her travels to West Africa and combine vivid brushwork with hand-embroidered paper collage, as well as photographic elements. Her mixed media works – available through the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery – come to represent a travelogue of collected images and memories.

Tilemachos Kyriazatis is a Greek artist, based in Athens. He is inspired by the sea and paints ships to communicate the awe and sense of greatness that they evoke. For Kyriazatis, who is represented by the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, ships have connected people and transcended boundaries since early times, helping mankind to discover the world as we know it today and build civilisations.

Fons Van Laar is a Dutch artist who creates wonderfully colourful, hand-moulded, glazed ceramic works. His vessels take inspiration from the work of Rembrandt and from Dutch Delft pottery. In decorating his works, Laar playfully combines these Dutch artistic traditions with his strong interest in images that evoke far away places. Vibrant floral motifs and birds more familiar to his native Amsterdam are thus painted alongside Persian paisley patterns and Spanish knights from the Middle Ages.

Morten Lassen is a Danish abstract painter, based in Copenhagen. The artist, represented by the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, works in series on several canvases at a time, building up layers of oil paint in subtle grids of variegated texture and colour.

French painter Sylvain Lefebvre sees himself as an explorer of his own personal universe, an ‘imaginary wanderer in search of new lands’. He is inspired by the sea and most known for his wonderful paintings of whales, filled with allusions to art history, literary references and motifs from popular culture, to create a strange, dream-like scenography, available through the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery.

Barbara Macfarlane is a painter of the land and the landscape. Her large-scale works, most typically done in oil and ink on huge folios of handmade paper, capture the essence of terrains both familiar and unexpected: from the rugged olive-clad hills of Les Baronnies, in South Eastern France, to grid-like matrix of Manhattan; from the wilds of the Hebridean shore to the busy archipelago of Hong Kong.

Jim Marshall is one of the most celebrated photographers of the late 20th century. Known for his iconic music photography, Marshall was a maverick with a camera: an outsider with attitude who captured the heights of Rock'n'Roll music, and the seismic changes of an era. He's represented by the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery.

Abigail McLellan belongs to the rich tradition of Scottish figurative painting. Drawing on a incredible sense of both colour and design, McLellan's luminously-coloured pared-down paintings of flowers, corals and interiors have the strength and simplicity of icons. Her highly acclaimed is represented by Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery.

Andrew Mockett is an artist who carries the concerns and tropes of Pop Art into new and unexpected territories. His large-scale brightly-coloured prints of popular cartoon characters, which are painstakingly created from woodcut blocks or multiple screen-printings, are available through the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery.

Aaron Murray is a self-taught ceramicist based in Seattle, Washington. His hand-built clay earthenware owls draw upon the traditions of pottery owls made by artisans of the Oaxaca region of Mexico, which Murray visited early in his career. He's represented by the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery.

Dutch artist Esther Nienhuis studied Fine Arts at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and has exhibited in Europe, the United States, Canada, Asia and Australia. A desire to be elsewhere is the central theme of her work, available through the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery.

Richard Nott is a British artist with a reverence for texture, shape and pattern. In a muted palette, with soft colours marbled in layers and metallic elements, his works, available through the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, retain the character of a long career in fashion.

Nikoleta Sekulovic is an artist and mother who creates in the tradition of Odalisque portraiture and yet redefines her subject as both parent and muse. In a muted palette and void of props and distractions, the artist’s intent is to highlight the female form stripped of external expectations and in a state of authenticity. She's represented by the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery.

Professor Phil Shaw is a ground-breaking British digital-printmaker, famous for his hyper-realistic, conceptually subversive and technically daring images of bookshelves. His distinctive ‘bookshelf’ prints are available through the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery.

Avital Sheffer is a ceramicist working on the coast of New South Wales, Australia, who creates anthropomorphic and architectural earthenware vessels which engage with the multi-faceted nature of Middle Eastern cultures, history and design. She's represented by the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery.

Anne Penman Sweet is a mid-career British painter, based in Australia. She is known for her powerful yet poetic paintings for ships and tankers. Each painting, available through the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, is constructed on a scale to match its subject matter, using oil paint on stretched linen that the artist builds in textured layers, mimicking the rust and weathering of a ship's frame.

Hepzibah Swinford is a self-taught painter who paints flowers - celebrating the limitless variety of their forms, their textures, their colours, their abundance and their beauty. In her paintings, available through the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, the flowers are gathered together into spectacular arrangements - like floral firework displays.

The art of Bakhtiyor Umarov brings the beauty and richness of Uzbekestan and its culture vividly to life. It is suffused with the folk memories of Central Asia, and the traditional symbols of Uzbek culture.

Katherine Virgil is an artist interested in archaeology and anthropology, and their expression in art. She focuses on the lost iconography of Jodhpur, India, simultaneously evoking some of the most ancient techniques of aesthetic expression, making her own papers and mixing her own pigments, and finishing her works with gold leaf. She's represented by the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery.

'One cannot resist the lure of Africa.' These words of Rudyard Kipling's have a particular resonance for the British-born artist Sophie Walbeoffe. Africa has been the presiding spirit of her life and art and the great theme of Walbeoffe's paintings is wild animals in their natural habitat.

Based in Glasgow, Alasdair Wallace is an artist who creates paintings and prints suffused with the surrealism of the everyday. His richly worked and allusively plotted paintings – available through the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery – present a world that is at once recognisable and unsettling. It is a world full of odd juxtapositions and unexplained presences.

David Whitaker was a British 'Op Artist' who investigated the optical effects of colour in paintings of extraordinary daring and technical accomplishment. It was an investigation that he continued to pursue, and to dazzling effect, throughout his life. He's represented by the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery.

Luke White is an American-born photographer based in London. Technically brilliant and conceptually audacious, his work challenges expected boundaries in its investigation of a wide range of subject-matter, from landscape and portraiture to the human form.

Roy Wright is an extraordinary draughtsman. The artist works usually in charcoal to create wonderfully detailed yet vital images of trees and of cityscapes. He's represented by the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery

Ye Xue is a Chinese artist, based in Beijing. The abstract artist's work draws on both the Chinese and Western cultural traditions and his own Buddhist spirituality. To achieve his effects he uses ink-wash, collage, oil paint, acrylic, frottage, and mono-print. He's represented by the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery.