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DateAugust 13, 2017
AuthorColin
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- Skylark Galleries Artists
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Jane Skinner artist

Jane Skinner is a most interesting, highly unusual, and very amusing artist member of the Skylark collective showing at Skylark Galleries in London. ‘Most interesting’ because the subject-matter of her …

DateAugust 9, 2017
AuthorColin
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- Skylark Galleries Artists
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Trinidad Ball .. ARTIST’S STATEMENT

Trinidad Ball ARTIST’S STATEMENT Born in Barcelona, of Catalan parents, I have lived in Spain and Latin America before moving to England, where I have lived for …

DateAugust 9, 2017
AuthorColin
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- Skylark Galleries Artists
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Sara Sherwood tells us about her art.

“My Art Practice” by Sara Sherwood Aug 2017 Painting gives me a sense of freedom and escapism into another world. I listen to music and that helps me transcend into …

DateJuly 28, 2017
AuthorColin
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- Skylark Galleries Artists
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Heather Tobias in conversation with Colin Ruffell.

There is a theatrical element to my work as well as humour and irony. When starting a piece of work I find the image within the work as it is revealed. So although I start with an idea it is soon changed into something unforeseen. I find this exciting and respond to the journey unraveling in front of me.

DateJuly 24, 2017
AuthorColin
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- Skylark Galleries Artists
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Clare Johnson

I make images very much inspired by early hand tinted post cards where the image was printed using silk-screen or lithography in a neutral colour. They were then coloured individually by hand, often in inspiring colours which showed more than the reality.

DateJune 28, 2017
Authorkitboyd
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- Skylark Galleries Artists
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KIT BOYD

It is perhaps where we may need to go soon…a dreaming landscape.

DateJune 18, 2017
AuthorColin
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- About art
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OILS, ACRYLICS, and WATERCOLOURS

OILS, ACRYLICS, and WATERCOLOURS Oils, acrylics, and water-colours, and are kinds of artists paint. There are lots of ways to make coloured marks on a surface. This blog is about …

DateJune 2, 2017
AuthorColin
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- Skylark Galleries Artists
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Talia LeHavi artist at Skylark 2

London-based artist Talia LeHavi has been working with traditional Japanese ink painting techniques for many years. Talia has been teaching Japanese ink painting, calligraphy and watercolour techniques at her London studio, as well as lecturing at various museums, art councils and associations in the UK and worldwide.

DateMay 18, 2017
AuthorColin
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- art gallery
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The Tate Modern Blavatnik building.

Tate Modern has re-named the new extension ‘The Blavatnik Building’. The Tate announced that the extension is named after the USSR-born billionaire oligarch Len Blavatnik, who made one of the largest donations to the institution in The Tate’s history.

DateApril 27, 2017
AuthorColin
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- Skylark Galleries Artists
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Nicolette Carter artist

Spring Fields’ is the latest in Nicolette’s series of ‘Garden Town’ paintings. These paintings are strongly influenced by moving to live on the Oxfordshire/ Berkshire border after living in South …

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2 weeks ago by skylark_galleries_London Loving these new Winter Story paintings by @balltrinidad up now in our gallery @oxotowerwharf as part of her feature artist show. #painting #landscape #treeart
2 weeks ago by skylark_galleries_London Sara Sherwood and Trinidad Ball are this months featured artists in Skylark Gallery 2. Their work is both calm and sophisticated with a certain depth which is compelling to the viewer. Exhibition continues until 27 August Unit 1.09 Oxo Tower on London’s Southbank. For opening times www.skylarkgalleries.com Sara Sherwood creates vibrant and expressive cityscape and abstract paintings they are sophisticated and infused with a sense of style. Painting with colours instinctively, blending with brushes and using a palette knife with intuition and spontaneity. Her compositions reveal cities as we have never seen them before. She takes iconic and legendary buildings…
1 week ago by skylark_galleries_London Hand-made cards in our galleries on London's south bank. Every card we sell helps support our artists and helps us pay the rent. These mini originals are bargains in their own right as retail from about £5 each and can be framed after use. This selection includes #monoprint #linocut #drawing #ink #collage #ceramic #frottage #justacard @justacard
1 week ago by skylark_galleries_London Stunning photographic collage with mixed media by Simon Brewster available now from our gallery @oxotowerwharf #thames #londonart #london
4 days ago by skylark_galleries_London For London Design week ( 16th-24th September ) our galleries @skylark_galleries_london will focus on "Materials of Choice" . Here's our list of events: Sun 17th Sept 2-5pm river finds - Thames Glass Fish Mudlark NICOLA WHITE "each piece of glass has a secret history" Nicola will show glass and other objects found on the foreshore and talk about the secrets and stories hidden in the murky waters of the Thames. Mon 18th Sept 2-5pm hand-made papers from around the world. Artist GILL HICKMAN will show a selection of the fine papers that she uses in her embossed collages LATE NIGHT…