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

Alphabet photography is the process of taking photos of everyday objects that resemble letters of the alphabet, then arranging these pictures to create a personalized display of letter photo art. These alphabet pictures make a unique addition to any home and make a fabulous gift for any occasion.

Location: Maidstone
Website: www.alphabet-art.co.uk
Contact: info@alphabet-art.co.uk

RavinderFrank are a duet of digital artists working as a jugalbandhi where, the whole is bigger then the sums of it parts. Their work medium is digital photo montages, complemented with mixed media and textile art. They mix old school with the latest tech.

Their work makes a heavy use of textual noises and layers to mashup and twist existing images into something new and unexpected.

They are part of the xross-polynation artistic collective which aims to blur the boundaries between race, age, sex, nations and any other boundary you can think of.

They have taken the ideas of Xross-polynation forward upon a blank canvas with the creative harmony and esthetic discord between an Indian and a British artist.

Location: Maidstone
Website: www.ravinderfrank.dontexist.com
Contact: momkalsi@hotmail.com

I have worked with paints and inks for over 34 years, initially decorating fine bone china for Royal Crown Derby for 3 years, followed by a 17 year periodwhen I printed fine art etchings for many successful local artists including Graham Clarke, Michael Chaplin and Robert R Greenhalf.

Feeling the need to expand my mind and develop more self-confidence, at the age of 39 I took on a graduate diploma in counselling and I have since specialised in the field of eating disorders, working with people suffering from anorexia, bulimia or binge-eating.

Over the past 2 years I have been developing my own artwork which provides a calming, restorative balance to the psychological demands of my counselling work.
I work on canvas using acrylic paints, which I love for their vibrancy, texture and immediacy. I mainly work from photographs that I have taken myself although sometimes I will use images provided by the friends or family who have commissioned a painting.

I have been inspired by the work of Georgia O Keefe whose flower paintings have a life and boldness that I resonate with. I also love the photographs of Christopher Beane who creates images using flowers and oil colours floating on water which fire my imagination.

In my own work I see each painting as an individual portrait, trying to capture the essence of each flower as a unique being with its own intricate complexity, which is very like what I do with my clients in my counselling work.

Location: Maidstone
Website: www.pamsflowerpaintings.co.uk
Contact: pamcaney@aol.com

I am artist, illustrator and writer.

I have been drawing and writing since I was able to hold a pencil, and have always found human form and crazy colours fascinating. These twin interests feature heavily in my work,. A lot of my work is also inspired by my love of british and international folklore and mythology as a metaphor for the human and global state, but also for the pure visually stunning inspiration they provide.

I have a BA(hons) Printmaking, but work in many other arty and crafty mediums….and I am available for commissions!

Location: Maidstone
Website: www.artofalex.weebly.com
Contact: alexprocterart@hotmail.co.uk

A portrait should be as much about the person as it is a likeness. I incorporate elements of their life and personality into the composition to place them truly as they are, at that time. What you see is the truth.
My murals on the other hand are imaginary – even a realistic Trompe L’Oeil is illusion.

Location: Maidstone
Website: www.theoilyrag.co.uk
Contact: steve@theoilyrag.co.uk

Coby Gardiner
12th August – 15 September
A collection of work, old and new, by Coby Gardiner. Coby’s distinctive and very personal work uses found objects and mixed media in a hugely inventive way, often with a pleasantly sinister undertow.

Exhibition is on at One White Wall, at Gilbert & Clark Frame and Print, 4 Mill Street, Maidstone, Kent, ME15 6XH. Tel: 01622 685146 Opening hours: Monday – Saturday 8.30am – 4.30pm

Chris F Clark uses vivid colour and daydreamy inspirations to create work that dazzles the eye and draws you into a wonderful whimsical world, invariably a space we share with the birds above our heads.

Location: Whitstable
Website: www.chrisfclark.blogspot.com
Contact: chrisfclark2@btinternet.com

Adam Harrison
Double Take
31st July – 6th August
Opening night: Friday 30th July, 7-9pm with music from The Aquitaine Progression
Come and see Maidstone through the sideways glance of street photography. Raw, sharp, tongue in cheek; the first photography exhibition at the Craig Turner Gallery will pull a fresh perspective out of a walk through town.

My work is about materials and technique while exploring the visual world around me, and issues that are important to me. I enjoy using textiles and textile techniques, though I do not do so exclusively. I have been interested in using waste plastics to draw attention to the pollution they create. I am also exploring the potential of used colour catchers. The stuff of human detritus is often my medium.

Location: Maidstone
Website: www.sues-stuff.co.uk | www.mvan.info
Contact: suepritchard@tesco.net