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

My practice is painting, a visual language depicting emotion. I aim to create paintings that are thought provoking and encourage the viewer to arrive to an interpretation of meaning or narrative. a created ideal, were expression, composure and background all play an important role to one another.

Location: Faversham
Contact: cheriepeters@btinternet.com

I am a sculptor and traditional carver who works in wood, stone, clay & wax.  I work with the organic nature of the material to create ornamental and figurative art and to bring portraits to life.  I also carve and restore period pieces such as furniture and church ornament.  I also do traditional gilding and hand carved lettering.

Location: Rochester
Website: www.professionalcarving.co.uk
Contact: sarahliptrot@professionalcarving.co.uk

Work includes pastiches of work by earlier artists, usually in oil paint, original oil and pastel paintings, some of it commissioned. At one time figurative subjects predominated, with drawings from life in pencil and ink. Nowadays I engage almost exclusively with abstract imagery, often involving length ratios and distortions of the plane related to the geometry of physical entities such as growth spirals and fields representing the forces of nature. However, I am also increasingly involved in the development of electro-mechanical and electronic circuits related to those fields and their study. I have an online illustrated catalogue at: – http://id.sito.org/sms.

Since fully developed artistic genres existed ~60,000 years before, on the evidence, scientific concepts appeared, it is probable that art is always in the vanguard of intellectual activity and science just follows its lead. Therefore, I have sought to experiment with basic materials to find out whether they generate unexplained observations and with theories to find out if extensions to the Standard Model appear by taking a more imaginative approach to its axioms than is usually employed. Often, experimenting with electrical circuits and mechanical devices can throw up previously unobserved results, such as the use of a solar radiometer as a switch, which have no great significance but have not, apparently, been tried. Sometimes anomalous results are produced by simulating the effects of previous unexplained devices, such as the jumping top. Usually, interesting art comes out of the illustrations for novel devices and, to an even greater extent, the ideas behind them. In turn, this is very important for developing my scientific ideas, which seem to derive from this approach in a way
that they would not do so from a text or algebra.

Location: Herne Bay
Website: http://id.sito.org/sms
Contact: smshires@live.co.uk

I am a self taught artist and have been
producing artwork from an early age. I find the creative process extremely therapeutic and enjoyable, art has the ability to relax or excite me depending on what I’m painting. I love art and cannot imagine my life without it.

I enjoy working in all mediums but acrylics and oil pastels are my favourite, I love the bright colours and rough textured look that oil pastels bring to a piece and the versatility and permanence of acrylics. I am currently experimenting with using acrylics on a variety of surfaces and finding new ways to apply the paint.

When I am in a creative mood I tend to withdraw from real life and spend my days in my own little world painting intensely, sometimes for whole months at a time!

Location: Canterbury
Website: www.stylishimoarts.co.uk
Contact: stylishimoarts@yahoo.co.uk

I have been working as an artist ever since I left Art College. My work is classically realistic, concentrating on portraits, nudes, murals old master copies and various figurative subjects. I like to work from life , except animals as I can’t persuade them to stay still!

Website: www.fontaine-wolf.com
Contact: victoria@fontaine-wolf.com

I am a painter, printmaker and multi-media visual artist currently living and working in Kent. With a palette of diverse figurative elements, I explore emotional responses to life, colour, pattern and language. Images often develop out of quick sketches, inspired by many things such as a dream, a feeling, something suddenly remembered, a song, or a particular experience. I work with a diverse range of materials, enjoying experimenting with different art media (collage, drawing, painting and printmaking). Sometimes great surprises and discoveries come from working in an alternative medium.

My artwork has been commissioned and represented in various publications, with solo and group exhibitions showing in the UK, France, Holland, Spain, Germany, Italy and the USA.

Location: Dover
Website: www.miketedder.com
Contact: mike_tedder@hotmail.com