I spent my childhood in Northumberland and now I am living in Kent. I studied a BA and MA in Fine Art at De Montfort, Leicester and a PGCE at Christchurch Canterbury. My practice consists of both printmaking and painting both of which are inspired by my surroundings. I experiment with layers in both disciplines to create a narrative within my work.

At present I am working with watercolours to portray nature as I see it, using vibrant colours although true to my earlier printmaking each painting has it’s hidden past and associated memories.

Location: Sittingbourne
Contact: dianekembery@hotmail.co.uk

Aviation Art painted in Acrylic or Oil on canvas or Primed Board.

My Paintings are created using a wide range of reference material including models,old photos,books and militery records to create an as accurate as possible representation.

This is a recent transition from painting Landscape and Marine Subjects which I also still dabble in.

Location: Dartford
Website: www.paulcrocker.com
Contact: paulcrocker@ymail.com

For most of my painting life I have concentrated on abstracts in acrylic. This has taken me most especially on a 6 year journey into space – literally. 98% of the paintings that I did during that time were inspired by deep space. This means a couple hundred paintings. Exploration of the subject was fascinating and brought me some very memorable experiences, including meeting the 4th man to have walked on the moon, Alan Bean. Exploration of acrylics on unprimed canvas was also a fascinating and very fulfilling experience. Acrylics and I have become friends.

The last 4-5 years have has my art journey take me to a mixed bag of non-objective abstracts and more traditional representational oils. Today’s paintings have narrowed down to an exclusive study of oils. And for as long as this muse calls me I will follow her.

I am an American living in Kent for the last 2 years. My husband and I have rented a place on a small farm in West Malling. This has me exposed to Jacob Sheep, Alpacas and Gypsy horses. A short walk to the park and I get my fix of Highland Cattle eating grass in a grazing program.

My current paintings reflect my love of farm animals, my admiration for the English paths, my appreciation for what I see in my travels and my missing of my kids and grandkids. Abstracts will be back in my portfolio again I know but for now it’s all about the oils. There is a lot still to learn.

Location: West Malling
Contact: eileen.mcconkey@gmail.com
Website: www.eileenmcconkeyartist.blogspot.com

I graduated as an illustrator, but now consider myself as an artist, but still enjoy illustrating.
I like creating paintings that explore the border between abstract and figurative, playing with the connections we make with image and forms, creating surreal worlds using familiar shapes and suggestive images that are open to the viewer for interpretation.

My paintings would be hard to reproduce and harder to explain, because they are seen differently by different people. I ‘am inspired by all forms of painting and image making, the dualities in painting; light and dark, natural and artificial, micro and macro, chaos and order, messy and clean etc. Texture and pattern are important in my work they help take your eyes on a journey around the canvas, creates a contrast or extra layer and influences what I paint and how the canvas takes shape.

Location: Folkestone
Contact: davcreation@yahoo.co.uk
Website: www.davespainting.co.uk

My art is quite varied and I am still finding my feet after so many years but I have recently had the pleasure of creating some commission paintings (acrylic) for a local school music room and it has lead me to take an interest in portrait painting. I also have a passion for life drawing and painting nature. Watch this space.

Location: Sittingbourne
Contact: nikig19@hotmail.co.uk

Each colour has its own character which with the right intervention can foster a unique connection with another. Relationships can vary where two colours have the ability to integrate or repel one another. My aim is to offer a combination that creates harmony, beauty and energy while avoiding impoverishment embodied by coarseness and negativity. My real satisfaction however, comes from my audience identifying these alliances within the whole or any part of the painting.

I begin a piece with little consideration towards the finished article. The physical landscape of the North Downs surrounding my studio is the only vehicle I use to influence these abstract works. The canvas will evolve as I layer on more colour while manipulating the transparency, viscosity and flow of brush marks. These elements I’ll pursue until the canvas sings and the door to the cave is open. The result, after what is often a labour intensive process can look and feel as spontaneous as a chemical reaction.

Acrylics are a superb medium for attaining these goals. They are malleable, mix well and relatively quick drying depending on the thickness I choose to lay down. A final coat of gloss enhances the feeling of energy and character that would ordinarily be unobtainable.

These explorations in colour challenge an inherent resistance I had previously to using colours unhindered. It has been a liberating performance and experience for me and I view these paintings as each having a life and character of their own.

Location: Bearsted – Maidstone
Contact: marc_lawrence123@hotmail.com
Website: www.marc-lawrence-art.blogspot.com

Using repeated imagery and a conflicting colour scheme, my work examines the visual threshold from one aesthetic reality to another. Influenced by artists such As Anselm Kiefer and Mark Rothko who explored similar themes to do with the threshold from a physical, to a transcendental plane, I hope to do something similar by creating an outrepasser from visual reality to another. With the use of repeated figuration, I’ve tried to, like Kiefer’s series, Karfunkelfee, create a threshold from a physical reality to painted reality. And so induce a kind of negation of the figurative element of my work; so to go from viewing it to viewing past it

Location: Orpington
Contact: jay-s-bakerart@hotmail.com
Website: www.jayshaw-bakerart.co.uk

I am an artist/tutor working in Kent. I create images in water based media and also teach confidence buiding workshops in a variety of art skills to both adults and children.I have been shortlisted for The National Open Art Competition at Chichester, The John Moores Contemporary and The Saatchi Art of Giving. I am a member of The United Society of Artists and also a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts. My work is held in collections worldwide.

Contact: janetdarley@yahoo.co.uk
Website: www.jandarleyabstractart.moonfruit.com

A dedicate artist since my youth, my work covers a range of styels and subjects, working in oils, acrylics, pen and ink coloured pens and pencils and gouche. Work for sale or hire, Commissions welcome

Location: Rochester
Website: www.kent-arts.co.uk/johnbeckett
Contact: hondacd175@gmail.co.uk

I create imagery in the format of Landscapes, Portraits, Abstracts, psychedelic, Surrealism, Wildlife, Classic Cars and Motorcycle portraits and pet portraits, particularly have a fascination with painting or drawing ancient monuments and medieval scenes. I also like to create paintings/drawings after some of the famous masters particularly Van Gogh, Palmer, Leonardo and Botticelli. All my works are for sale unless otherwise stated and commissions are most welcome.

Location: Rochester
Website: www.kent-arts.co.uk/JohnBeckett
Contact: hondacd175@gmail.com