About The Artists

Alan Ferebee has been painting full time since 2000 and in that time has had his work exhibited in various galleries including the Anne Hicks Gallery in Wimbledon, the John Arthur Gallery in Dorking, the Bruton Gallery and The Ruiz Gallery in Cambridgeshire. He has also exhibited at the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea and in exhibitions for the Marine Artists and New English Art Club at the Mall Gallery and in the Royal Watercolour Society’s C21 Exhibition at the Bankside Gallery (where he was awarded The Artist Magazine’s prize, voted for by the readers of The Artist Magazine and visitors to the exhibition). Alan works mostly in oils but has in the past also worked in watercolours, charcoals, acrylics and even with an airbrush. He paints mostly life studies, figures, landscapes, cityscapes and street scenes. He is particularly fond of marine subjects. His paintings can now be found in private collections worldwide having sold and sent work to the USA, Canada, Australia, the Caribbean and Scandinavia.

Alan Whitehead was born in 1952, in the Isle of Sheppey and has always been
interested in the sea and ships. He spent six formative years in the Royal Navy,
and during this time taught himself to paint, concentrating on marine and nautical
subjects.
On leaving the navy he began to paint full time and now lives in Rochester. He
has taken easily to watercolour and his knowledge of the East coast of England
and particularly of the classical sailing barge, is reflected in his work.
He has also painted the West coast of Sweden, resulting in two highly successful one
man shows in Gothenburg. His first exhibition in the City of London, in 1981
was completely sold out. He has since had many successful exhibitions, and his
work has travelled to galleries in Australia and the U.S.A.

Alexei Jawdokimov Born in Smolensk, Russia, Alex Jawdokimov has led a remarkable life. He was brought up on a kolhoz (collective farm), but spent many of his childhood years in various concentration camps across Europe. He came to England in 1950 by way of Germany with his mother, who was a World War II refugee. He speaks Russian, German and English and became a naturalised British subject five years after arriving in the country. He was a student at the Somerset College of Art, Taunton. In 1956 Alex Jawdokimov spent a brief spell in Canada, learning to fly with the RAF. He then settled in London in 1958 and formed a Russian Cossack Dance Company (his mother had been a professional dancer in Russia) which toured Britain. He also began to act, mostly in minor roles for television. Film parts then followed and he can count amongst his credits films including ‘Music Lovers', ‘The Tamarind Seed' and ‘The Eagle Has Landed'. Film locations offered wonderful opportunities for on-the-spot sketching and the recording of various landscapes. As a result, Jawdokimov has painted many different areas of the British Isles and the Continent. He lives in North London with his family and his love of the city is exemplified in his many pieces of artwork depicting the famous landmarks and characters of the city where he has chosen to settle.

Carl Scanes "SUMMER FLOWERS" Significant moments Born: London 1964 Educated: Holburn Central School of Art. First one man show: Gallery Flasthead, Copenhagen 1983. Joint Exhibition: Geneva, Switzerland 1984. Work completed for London Contemporary Art 1989-90. Publication of Giverny Celebration Paintings by Rhosenstials Chelsea 1991. Second Garden Collection for Rhosenstials 1993. Work completed for Lynton-Smith Collection, Hong Kong 1998. 'Porters' English Restaurant Collection 1997-98. 'Jal Simensen' Collection - Florida 1999. Paintings purchased by Jack Palance 'actor', Benazia Bhutto Pakistan former premier. e.g. Carl's paintings these days are commissions which he has in abundance.

Ken Burton was born in Peterborough in 1946. Ken Burton's interest in art began at school, leading to an initial choice of career in design and engraving. Subsequently entering public service, Ken finally "retired" in 1985 and settled down to his real vocation, capturing the beauty of the countryside in watercolour and acrylic.
Increasingly sought after, his works may be found in leading galleries throughout the United Kingdom, and are represented in many private collections both here and abroad, particularly in the United States.

Maria O’Neill was born in Ireland in 1951. Her first love was drawing and painting
and she went on to win many awards. Her lifelong ambition was to be an artist.
A self-taught artist, she is well travelled having lived and worked in Malawi, Africa
and Bahrain in the Middle East. She has also travelled extensively in Europe, her personal favourites being Venice and Greece. Her paintings can be found in collections all over the world.
Maria is now based in Surrey where she paints local scenes close to the River Thames and many other sites. She also undertakes commissions, her mediums being oil and watercolour and her sheer enthusiasm for her subject is always apparent. Her paintings display her love for light, colour and atmosphere, season and mood.

Richard Price began his career as a promising sportsman. He was capped for rugby seven times for Surrey and twice for London counties, before a serious injury curtailed his sporting potential. After training as a schoolmaster at Culham College, Oxford he embarked on a teaching career in London. In 1970 following two years teaching art at the Clapham and Balham Institute, he turned professional and remains a full time artist today lecturing occasionally at schools and colleges in Berkshire.
Richard’s work has always reflected a personal individuality, capturing with simplicity of vision the surrounding countryside. In an interesting manner it is what he leaves out of his paintings that gives them that crucial and unmistakable uniqueness.

Michael Simpson studied fine art at Staffordshire Polytechnic it was the traditions of his home town of Stoke-on-Trent which inspired his love for sculpture. The famous towns forming the region have created some of the worlds finest works and respect for the craft of the sculptor and designer is well deserved.
There are few modellers who can produce accurate and detailed studies covering such diverse subjects as dogs, cats, African wildlife and the female form. Mick is one of the few who can achieve this goal working from reference books, his own drawings, photographs and observation. Like so many artists and sculptors, his studio walls are covered in this reference.
Mick is unusual in another way in that he is one of the few sculptors preferring to model in clay. Mostly wax is used for its versatility but Mick loves the freedom clay offers and is quite content to work around its limitations.