AFFORDABLE ART FAIR: BATTERSEA PARK, LONDON

Join us in Battersea Park, London for the March edition of the Affordable art Fair.

Find us on Stand C4

PRIVATE VIEW

Wednesday 12 March, 5pm - 9pm

PUBLIC OPENING DATES

Thursday, 13  and Friday   ( times to be arranged )

Saturday 14 until 7pm and Sunday 15 - until 6.30pm

Please contact Julie for complimentary tickets

Prasad Beaven 

Growing up in India, in the foothills of the Himalayas, Beaven was immersed into these mountains and fostered a love for the majestic beauty that all nature has to offer.

As a practitioner of meditation, Beaven emphasises the importance of inner well-being and strives to constantly achieve a state of peace. This is a peace which permeates, flows, and courses into the brushstrokes of his work. Each piece straddles abstraction and realism and so – much like nature – the work is removed from shallow classifications, existing in nuanced planes of reality. He endeavours to highlight the essence of nature’s phenomena while also expressing the internal world of the body. 

While completing a Master's in Traditional Arts, Beaven discovered Chinese Landscape Painting. The philosophical grounding of his chosen genre acted as a significant artistic revelation for him. Since graduating in 2021 and winning the prestigious Ciclitera prize Beaven has exhibited at the Mall Galleries, Affordable Art Fair, Fabriano Watercolour 2022 and most recently at Saatchi Gallery.

Camilla Bliss 

London based mixed-media artist Camilla Bliss blends the digital and the handmade through her practice, utilising a wide range of materials such as ceramics, metalwork, glass, wood, textiles and 3D printing. Crystallising her ideas through digital manipulation, the artist places an importance, however, on handmade processes and qualities. Bliss’ work is influenced by historical craftsmanship, motifs and mythologies which she uses as a framework to communicate ideas about the modern world. Using universally recognisable symbols, Bliss allows the viewer to bring personal narratives to her work, mediated through a playful use of colour, material and surface.

Fi Hunter 

Fiona Hunter is a UK based artist specialising in sculpture. Educated as a graphic artist, she became an internationally awarded advertising art director and creative director, living and working in London, Amsterdam and Cape Town.

Advertising led her to work with many top photographers where she developed a love of photography. Trying her hand in the medium, she produced limited edition fine art gicleé prints and went on to set up a successful pop-up gallery exhibiting her work as well as other photographers.

Not completely satisfied with working in 2D, she began sculpting figurative and portrait sculptures in clay. She is presently focused on experimenting with the many ways she can cast her finished work. She is now producing sculptures in clay and bronze, as well as marble, iron, bronze and jesmonite resins.

Justine Formentelli 

Justine Formentelli is a painter based in London, UK. She spent her childhood living in the Caribbean, the island of Reunion and Morocco. Her work is a profound exploration of inner landscapes through linear and abstract forms. She is fascinated by the interaction of the internal self and the external world, and the porous border between the two.

Justine adopts collage and paint on paper to express inner landscapes, emotions, and experiences. Her bold gestures and layered elements form abstract compositions that possess a vivid energy. Dancing between the worlds of painting and calligraphy, her paintbrush balances the intersection between intention and chance.

While many artists look to the world to offer up inspiration, Justine dares to look inwards to reflect on our mysterious interior architecture. Her combination of shapes and varied textures are suggestive of the fragile formations within us all. In each piece contrasting forms and colours are caught in motion, loaded with a sense of happening. Connections and relationships are created, and we are drawn into a state of mind as well as body.

After 11 years in the United States where she studied Illustration and worked as a production designer at Harper’s Bazaar, Justine travelled around the world before settling back in Europe. She recently graduated from City and Guilds of London Art School, with an MA. She has participated in numerous exhibitions in the United States and Europe.

Mandy Payne 

For Mandy Payne the important concerns within her paintings are materiality, surface textures and facture. She wants to work with materials that have a physical connection to the sites she depicts, namely concrete and spray paint (referencing the graffiti).

Her work suggests that ‘the built’ is in fact a form of nature. Mandy’s use of concrete, a material associated with the ‘made’, which main components actually derive from nature; sand and water, recognise the hidden roots that intertwine and connect us with the natural world. The natural environment where artist’s materials derive from, is in direct relation to the urbanisation of the natural environment. 

Payne is inspired by urban landscape, issues of gentrification, inequality, social housing and the flux of city environments. She is interested in Brutalist architecture, modernism, notions of utopia/dystopia and finding beauty in the ordinary/overlooked.

"I wanted to document the estate in transition and also for the work to speak of the loss and displacement of the existing communities. I am interested in issues of gentrification, social housing and the flux of the urban environment. I am inspired by the spaces people inhabit, the traces they leave and the capacity of places to absorb memories and experiences. I am particularly drawn to locations that are in a transitional state, that are overlooked or derided."

Phillipa Patterson 

Philippa was born in New York, and thereafter followed a peripatetic life, living in many countries such a Switzerland, Cyprus, Japan, Australia, France and South Africa. Paterson has held equally diverse careers such as publishing, PR, translating and horse breeding.
She studied art in Sussex, London, Johannesburg and Sydney and currently paints in her studio in the South Downs.

Her paintings explore the complexities of a feminine world. the figures are usually seen in isolation, caught in a frozen moment against a coloured background, as if heroes from an ancient myth that have strayed into the modern world. Like the ancients, they are frequently accompanied by a symbolic creature.

Philippa’s paintings are held in private and corporate collections across the world, she has been shortlisted for the Threadneedle Prize and won several awards including the National Open Art Competition.

Tim Steward

Classically trained in drawing and painting at Lavender Hill Studios in London, Tim Steward has honed an artistic voice filled with raw, energetic mark-making and a deep emotional connection to place.

Steward’s choice of traditional mediums such as pastel, charcoal, pigment and oil, as well as found materials, such as charred wood, clay mud and sand, mirror his direct and instinctual way of working.  Combining measured observation with working spontaneously at speed is at the heart of his painting and drawing technique.

Often working for long periods of time in specific locations, spending time quietly observing and becoming part of his surroundings. Steward explores the beauty of ‘place’, through study of the physical, historical and spiritual elements which characterise it, and by recording it’s ever-changing nature over time. The process began with a focus on the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford, but more recently has centred around Tregardock, a National Trust owned area of North Cornwall.

Steward has felt a connection with Tregardock since early childhood, stating that he feels a sense of aliveness there and that it has given this work a ‘renewed sense of freedom’, allowing him to work much more from a place of ‘instinct’.  Over the past few years, he has spent time becoming immersed in the landscape there, at times physically sitting in the mud, in addition to exploring the history and story of the place by reading works by Daphne du Maurier, Robert McFarlane and poems by John Betjeman.