Art Aid : Embrace

Art Exhibition and Auction 18th - 21st June 2008

No Lifeguard
Mixed media, oil, acrylic
60cm x 50cm
£300No Lifeguard by Maria Emilov

A year ago I received a photo from my sister in Ghana of a deserted sea beach with only a signboard ‘Warning No Lifeguard between 6pm to 6 am’ and a bird staring out to sea on the top of the sign. I like the evening walk along the Thames and I did this painting about both places, thinking of the world news and how small the world is sometimes, and everything is connected, the river to the sea, people in their hopes or despair.

mariaemilov@yahoo.co.uk
www.artmajeur.com/mariaemilov

Kigali Boys
Ink and acrylic on paper
30cm x 40cm
Price Guide £150

Kigali Boys by Paul GentPaul Gent’s paintings are inspired by the people he meets when working and travelling in Palestine, the Balkans and Rwanda. ‘Kigali boys’ is dedicated to the rowdy and loveable children of Kigali, Rwanda, whom he met walking to the bus stop each day last summer.

pablogent@yahoo.com
www.linkpalestine.org

Seascape
Oil on canvas
30cm x 40cm
Price Guide £495Seascape by Colin Halliday

Contemporary landscape painter showing in many galleries across England.

colin@halliday64.eclipse.co.uk
www.colinhallidayart.co.uk

The Beautiful Earth
Acrylic on paper
91cm x 60cm
Price Guide £650The Beautiful Earth by Satta Hashem

Born in Bohriz – Diyala, near Baghdad, Iraq in 1959, Satta now lives and works in Leicester. Satta is represented in a number of collections, with drawings in The British Museum’s permanent collections, and paintings in the Museum of Contemporary Arts, Kaleningrad, Russia, and many private collections.

hashem59@yahoo.com
www.sattahashem.com

Cromford Canal
Acrylic on paper
82cm x 100cm
Price Guide £600Cromford Canal by Sandy Hillyer

I studied fine art at the University of Derby graduating in 1999. My paintings are inspired by the landscape with wild open spaces, big skies, remote moors and empty beaches. Since graduating I have demonstrated my techniques in art groups and now teach watercolours on cruise ships although I usually work in acrylics on canvas.

Sandy-hillyer@tiscali.co.uk
www.sandyhillyer.com

Gaia Fights for Equilibrium
Acrylic on Canvas
40cm diameter
Price Guide £100Gaia Fights for Equilibrium by Fiona Hodges

My painting symbolises Mother Earth’s fight to regain equilibrium in her ecosystem. There will be destructive weather patterns, natural disasters and extinction of species, but eventually, Gaia will survive. If we don’t take personal responsibility for positive action to help her NOW, will she bother to save the human race?

fiona@fionahodgesart.com
www.fionahodgesart.com

The Rain and River
Acrylic and oil on canvas
90cm x 90cm
Price Guide £800 The Rain and River by David Howat

Howat’s work is widely sought after and is held in private collections in the US, Germany, Italy, France and the UK.
The work submitted is from series of landscapes based upon the effects of climate change on the mega-cities and landscapes of the near future.

davidhowat@gmail.com

Hot as Hell
Water mixable oil on canvas
3ft x 3ft
Price Guide £250
Hot as Hell by Josephine Howard
I paint - nothing is typical. Botanical/portrait/landscape. Recently photographed rubbish for a regeneration project and this lead towards various aspects of nature and not-nature. Thus – a depiction of a burning rain-forest, with rubbish.

Josephine-mary.howard@ntlworld.com

Umhlanga Street Market
Oil on canvas
70cm x 90cm
Price Guide £250Umhlanga Street Market by Tim Iddenten

This painting was inspired by a trip to Umhlanga, near Durban in 2002. This particular market was open daily, selling all manner of goods from locally made souvenirs, to sweets, to shoes and sandals. I love the bright colours under the African sky.

tim.iddenten@ntlworld.com
www.art4arnold.com

My Flag is Better than Yours, Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Oil on board
30cm x 30 cm x 2 canvasesMy Flag is Better than Yours by Geoff LitherlandSomewhere Over the Rainbow by Geoff Litherland
Price Guide £300

The processes of making and viewing a painting are intimately related. The question that arises when looking at an abstract painting; “What is that supposed to be?” can be answered both in the abstract forms themselves and the titles I have given, which provides viewers suggestions to help them perceive pictorial images, thus creating a space where half the work is mine, and half of it the viewers.

info@geofflitherland.info
www.geofflitherland.info