Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf

Since her early childhood, Rebecca developed a fascination with the human figure, especially that of the female form. She works with oils and other media exploring paint through form and vice versa, as a way of working through her own notions of self and other, of image and meaning.
Images of women have become central to Rebecca’s work and she is particularly drawn to them due to the fact that our culture is so oversaturated with ideas of female perfection, with body image and beauty ideals often being discussed. Images of feminine beauty both capitivate and terrorize her, but through painting she is able to express and begin to resolve the way in which they intrigue and disturb her. The ideas become vehicles through which she can engage with paint, like points of departure into zones of feeling, of colour, texture and surface.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Society of Women Artists, Group show
The Mall Galleries, London, July 2010

The Affordable Art Fair, Group show
Battersea Park, London, March 2010

London versus New York, Group show
Æ Studios LIC, New York, November 2009

NYAXE Gallery Autumn Exhibition, juried Group show
NYAXE Gallery, Palo Alto, California, October 2009

Society of Women Artists, Group show
Fine Art UK, Ledbury, October 2009

British Art in the XXI. Century, Group show
The Opera gallery, Budapest, June 2009

The Alopecia Series, Solo show
The Red Gate Gallery, London, June 2009

The Chelsea Art Fair, Group show
Chelsea Town Hall, London, April 2009

Society of Women Artists, Group show
The Mall Galleries, London, April 2009

The Affordable Art Fair, Group show
Battersea Park, London, March 2009

The Heirs of Whistler, Group show continued
The Chelsea Gallery , Sloane Square, London, ongoing

Cork Street Open Exhibition for Charity, Group show
28 Cork street, London, August 2008

Art Below,
Leicester Square Underground, London, July 2008

Untitled, Group show,
Chelsea old town Hall, London, May 2008

The Affordable Art Fair, Group show
Battersea Park, London, March 2008

HinkyPunk, Group show,
The Paintworks, Bristol, Febuary 2008

The Heirs of Whistler, Group Show
38 Duke of York Sq, Chelsea, September 2007

Young Members Exhibition, Group show
The Chelsea Arts Club, August 2007

Spectacles of the Metropolis,Group show by Zooks Art Collective
The Spitz Gallery, May 2007

Daydream Exhibition, Group show
M&C Saatchi, Soho, May 2007

Resident Talent, Group show
The County Hall Gallery, White Space, March/April 2007

The Inspired Art Fair Prelude, Group show
Spitalfields Market, March 2007

The Great Art Fair, Group show
Alexandra Palace, December 2006

Daydream Exhibition, Group show
Goodge street, November 2006

Direct Introspective, Solo show
The International, Trafalgar Square, July 2006

Knowing me knowing you, Group show
The Chelsea Arts Club, June 2006

Art in Mind, Group show
81 Rivington Street, Hoxton, December  2005

Alternative Beauty, Solo show
The Headstreet Gallery, January 2005

Sold , Degree Show
The Surrey Institute of Art & Design, June 2004

Raw, Solo show
The Tearooms des Artistes, October 2003

OTHER

Finalist for the London Calling Competition at The Scream Gallery London

EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON CHELSEA (2008)
Short Course Dynamic Flash MX
SURREY INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN (2000-2004)
BA (Hons) Fine Art
National Diploma Foundation Studies
EUROPEAN SCHOOL MUNICH (1994-2000)
European Baccalaureate
Mittlere Reife (equivalent to GCSE)

Peter Hall

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Simon Tarrant

Simon currently works as a professional artist and part-time gallerist for Chelsea’s leading Salon des Arts, One Mallord Street. In 1994 he left the diamond specialist De Beers in order to pursue a career in the arts. From then on Simon has worked as a freelance artist, painting and exhibiting from New York to London. During this period, as well as honing his skills as a fine painter, he worked to co-coordinate solo and group exhibitions, as well as initiating a number of artist led co-operatives projects, including the Rose Theatre Arts Festival on the South Bank and the ongoing Notting Hill Arts Festival.

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Caroline List

My paintings are predominately landscapes, which explore the physicality of painting in relation to memory, artifice and the photographic trace.

They are neither grounded in reality or fiction, but are fragmented somewhere between the two. The work stems from original photographs that have been taken of specific places. Our experience of landscapes is not only formed through our physical engagement but the collective memory of others, captured in photographic reproductions and other visual sources. The paintings often have a historical reference, such as Lord Byron’s Garden or Flatford Mill, where Constable painted The Haywain.

The paintings play with notions of romantic landscape, often set within perfect landscapes, un-people, and like Capability Brown’s gardens of the 18th century, perfectly composed for our viewpoint, seamlessly disguising the influences of man wthin the landscape, moving from the picturesque postcard to the tourist souvenir location of historical places such as Flatford Mill and stately gardens. The works explore representations of landscape contrasting the cultivated with untamed roaming vista.

The hyper-colour of the paintings makes the images dreamy so they appear to exist only in a memory distorted by fantasy. It is this part real, part imagined quality that I want to capture in the paintings, creating journeys into the sublime, a desire for a sense of place which hovers between fact and fiction.

The painterly surface and heightened colour explore the visual pleasure of the picturesque beauty in nature, whilst the tonal black trace of the photographic emulsion signify the dark unknown mysteries within landscape, creating an uncanny mist, that hark back to places of memory and time. Whilst this gives them a sense of authenticity, the viewer is still left within a fake illusion.


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Kuti Botond

Two years of qualification in Cluj, currently he is studying towards a master degree. Kuti Botond, son of Kuti Denes.

“I feel that when you see the pictures, they evoke something in us. Something like music, feeling, mood that only truly great works can create. We also have to mention the artist's name. The visitor will be amazed, as if the chest was cut, and then being explored, while more and more values are being discovered in this art. These images either are very easy or very hard to talk about.

If I could talk, as the artist paints, it would go for hours. His talent is already widely recognized, but yet there was no comprehensive solo exhibition of Kuti Botond.

A variety of works when seen on the walls will show the reflection, but with the elementary power the message is refracted from the created images, it is a fascinating scene. It is very difficult to grow up in the shadow of such an artist as Kuti Denes, but we must say: yes, this is a Kuti Botond’s challenge. Full with saturated colors, his black-and-white pictures are rich too. Fully armed with mastership in fine arts it shows us: when painting in classical valuable traditions and even when breaking forms, the all-embracing skill is still demonstrated.”


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Ko Ferenc

Born in Kecskemet, Hungary in 1973, Ferenc studied painting at Obudai art school. After graduation in 1995 he made a trip to Milan and continued learning to paint from an Italian teacher. His picturesque style is characterized by a naturally accurate method of painting, magically dingy, brown tones of the old photographs represent the times of past, present and future moments. 

Most of the artist’s paintings have two worlds – first, the one that you see with the normal light and second, the one that appears with the UV light. The second image is completely invisible in the ‘normal’ life of an art piece. Montage is being used on a constant basis – photographs, small objects are attached to the paintings. The first layer usually represents semi-abstract images and when the second is revealed, viewers discover the hidden recognizable portraits and objects that have been painted with great skill and accuracy.