Vincent Berquez is an artist, poet, a curator and sometimes works in Broadcasting – but mostly is an artist and poet.  He has published in Britain, Europe, America and New Zealand.  

  He has been a judge for Manifold Magazine and had work read as part of Manifold Voices at Waltham Abbey and was nominated for Poet of the Year with the Forward Prize for Literature.  As an artist, he has shown his work world wide, winning first prize at the Novum Comum 88’ Competition in Como, Italy.  He has worked with Eins von Hundert, an art’s group from Cologne, Germany, for over 16 years.   He has recently exhibited in Gazing on Salvation, at St.Pancras church for Lent 2007.  

                           VINCENT BERQUEZ

                                   29 October - 12 November 2007

Crucifixion   Mixed media

Fatima Zahra Hassan is a multi-skilled visual artist.  She holds a MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London, followed by a PhD in Fine Art. She has taught since 1993 at the Undergraduate & Postgraduate level both in the UK and abroad. She has also conducted regular workshops on painting/drawing for young adults & adults, at venues such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, The British Museum London, Birmingham Museum, etc. She has given numerous illustrated talks, conducted seminars and has been actively involved in developing the Visual Arts curriculum at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. She was also declared the best artist of her year at the Royal College of Art’s degree show.

She has exhibited in the UK and internationally and her works are included in major private collections, including that of HRH Prince of Wales.

Contemporary Islamic Miniatures

by Dr Zahra Hassan

20 Sept - 3 Oct 2007

Pneuma    

Duncan Bullen

7 - 28 March 2008

Duncan Bullen’s paintings explore barely perceptible tonal gradations and are concerned with chromatic density and luminosity, where colour at the edge of its manifestation is seen as an embodiment of light. The binding of colour and light, its instability and evanescent nature, its ability to emerge, dissolve and re-form on the eye is of particular interest to him. He articulates the painting surface in such a way as to create subtle visual rhythms of expansion and contraction. His paintings are at once self – contained, yet through a process of reductive abstraction may be analogous for other states, in which notions of immanence and transcendence can be tested.

STUDIES OF ETHIOPIAN, COPTIC & BYZANTINE ICONS

ANTHONY B. GOBLE

                    artist and teacher, born October 20 1943; died April 13 2007

28 June - 31 August 2007

Anthony Goble's work was utterly individual, yet he belonged to an artistic family that

runs from European folk painting through William Blake and Marc Chagall to Cecil Collins, Ken Kiff and others. He might be termed a magical realist: his subjects were his own life and everyday surroundings transformed by free association into other-worldly narratives. He plucked imagery from many sources, capturing birds, boats, medieval sculptures and Coptic icons to place alongside his own pictorial persona. His vitality of form and vividness of colour were seductive, and his worlds were persuasive, yet his mysterious images remained richly open to interpretation. He was admired especially by poets: Sheenagh Pugh, Paul Henry and Malcolm Parr were among those who responded to his works in words.

From an article by Peter Wakelin /Guardian obituary/ April 27 2007

Virgin & Child                          

 Pencil on Paper

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Courtesy of the Fine Art Society

EMILY YOUNG

LIGHT IN STONE

5 December 2007 - 28 January 2008  

Emily Young was born in London into a family of writers, artists and politicians. She spent her youth in London, Rome, and Wiltshire attending many schools, including Chelsea School of Art, and St. Martins School of Art.  As a young woman, in the late sixties and early 70's, Emily travelled widely, living in the USA, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, France and Italy, and visiting Africa,  South America and the Middle East. It was in these years that her broad view of art was formed. In the 70's and 80's Emily  worked with the late Simon Jeffes of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. She also worked and exhibited as a painter, until the 80's, when she began carving stone.  Since then, Emily Young has worked exclusively in stone, and has exhibited widely. Her work is in collections all over the world and she is widely acclaimed as one of Britain’s foremost female sculptors.

Lunar Disc V  Onyx 160 cm, 2005

CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN ICONS

                   8 - 28 February 2008

Born in Nijnyi Tagil, Russia, Tatiana lives and works in St. Petersburg.  She  studied at the Polytechnic University of  St Petersburg in the early/mid 1980’s and worked at the Mining Institute of St Petersburg 89 - 97.  Since 1992 she has increasingly devoted her time to the study and practice of iconography, establishing a traditional icon studio and taking on apprentices.  She has led practical workshops in Russia and the UK and has taken part in several international exhibitions including Sacred Iconography; A Living Tradition held at the Prince’s School of Traditional Art, London, in April 2006.  She has fulfilled  several important church commissions, notably the iconostases of Sts. Peter and Paul’s Church in St. Petersburg, St. Pantheleimon’s, Novgorod and that of St. Varlaam’s of Kereth, Karelia.

Sts Boris and Gleb    

egg tempera on gesso

Stéphane René is a leading exponent of the Neo-Coptic School.  He studied  under the school’s founder, the late Prof. Isaac Fanous, at the Institute of Coptic Studies, Cairo and received his PhD from the Royal College of Art, London in 1990.  He teaches regular classes in both the Byzantine and Coptic styles and leads workshops internationally.  He supervises doctoral research in iconography at the Prince’s School of Traditional Art, London.

The Contemporary Coptic School

10-30 Apr 2008

This exhibition programme was organised around the Constantinople Lecture which in 2008 was hosted by St John’s Notting Hill.  The lecture will be delivered by His Excellency, the Most Reverend Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia, on 27 November 2008.  

The exhibition celebrated Byzantine Art as it is still practiced today in important centres of Byzantine Orthodoxy like Mount Athos and Romania.

It  included icons by Pater Iakobos, a monk from the Holy Mountain, frescos by Adrian Iurco from Romania, as well as a photographic documentary by renowned photographer Dragos Lumpan.  

Contemporary Byzantine Iconography

20 November 2008 - 31 January 2008

Icons, Fresco & Photographic Documentary

Virgin Hodigitria   By Fr Iakobos, Athos

Mandalas & Cosmic Maps

Paul Wilkins

18 Sept - 2 Oct 2008

Paul Wilkins studied theatre design at Wimbledon School of Art and graduated in 1986. For the next ten years he worked as a designer/maker for theatre, film, opera and contemporary dance. In the mid nineties he grew increasingly interested in the craft and art of fine furniture making and after training at the London Guildhall University he started to work as a professional cabinetmaker producing bespoke handmade furniture.

Painting and drawing have always been an important part of Paul’s creative working process and it was whilst he was living on the North West Norfolk coast that he was able to concentrate on developing further this aspect of his work.

Elise DeLong          

23 May - 31 July 2008

Elise DeLong recently completed her PhD at the Prince’s School of Traditional Arts, London. At The Prince’s School, she specialized in Medieval and Renaissance painting techniques and geometric composition in the Islamic and European Christian traditions. Her thesis, entitled "A Book of Remembrance: Elements of Art Considered in Light of the Whole", investigated the symbolic properties of each stage of creating a painting. It is her experience that every aspect of the creative process can become an act of devotion. It is her hope to make work that reflects a love of beauty, goodness, and truth and she finds inspiration in the profound principles of order reflected in the world of nature. Nature obeys fundamental geometric laws – exhibited clearly in the simultaneously infinite and limited forms of snowflakes, the movement of the heavens, the symmetry of a rose. The discipline of geometry has been applied throughout history to build civilization’s most sacred buildings, and was also applied to the craft of painting by medieval and renaissance artists. Elise finds inspiration in these arts and techniques; her paintings have therefore been composed using the principles of what is often loosely termed “sacred geometry,” or in other words, mathematical proportions which have symbolic resonance. Whenever possible, she makes her own paints from traditional pigments derived from earth, stones, insects, and plants.

White Hart  

egg tempera on gesso with gold leaf

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