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Ray Tsang

Website: raytsang.com

Email: info@raytsang.com

‘Orna’, Oil on canvas.

What made you want to become an Artist?

I wanted to spend my time doing something I enjoy.

What’s your background?

I studied painting at Crawford college of art and design, after college I continued to learn from books and videos. I became a professional artist in 2012.

What work do you most enjoy doing?

I prefer to do narrative work with figures.

What inspires you?

Mostly I am inspired by works painted by artists that I admire.

What is your dream project?

I would like to illustrate some book covers in the future.

View Ray Tsang’s gallery below.

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Alexandra Gallagher

Website: alexandragallagherart.com

Email: alexandragallagher@sky.com

Untitled

Untitled, digital media.

What made you want to become an Artist?

I don’t think there was anything that made me want to become an artist; it’s just what I’ve always done. I have to create. I’m quite hard to live with when I don’t do something creative, it’s part of who I am. I know that sounds like a cliché, but it’s true.

What’s your background?

I started out painting portraits and felt that was my thing for a while, but I wanted to experiment more, challenge myself. I felt my work wasn’t progressing the way I wanted it to. Thats when I started in a whole new direction. I still paint portraits on request, as I love doing them, but I also love the journey I’m on with my more conceptual work. It’s exciting and I love learning new things.

What work do you most enjoy doing?

I love finding new ways of creating work. I’m always looking for something new to try, but my two joys have always been oil painting and collage. They require different disciplines and I like the contrast between them.

What inspires you?

That’s a tricky one to answer, because in a way, as an artist everything inspires me. I spend a lot of time absorbing as much art as possible. I find other artists both intimidating yet greatly inspiring. There is so much amazing work out there! I absolutely love Benjamin Cohen’s work at the moment. His early work and more recent work all appeal to me. It’s his use of the paint – his brush strokes – the movement, colour, composition.

What’s your favourite piece?

Wow! That’s a hard one to answer! Hmm… maybe “Back Street Play” because it was the start of a whole new direction in my work.

What is your dream project?

I’d love a project with a single strong, core concept, to be shown in a unique event space, and I get to experiment with different media. A bit of painting, mixed media, digital, sculpture, to fit the space the work would be exhibited in.

Pieces are available priced £36.00 – £200.00.

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Mondrian and Colour

Turner Contemporary |24th May – 21st September 2014

Standard Ticket: Free

From figuration to abstraction, the exhibition explores the evolution of the artist’s work through his use of colour.

Piet Mondrian is renown for his iconic series of geometric abstracts, yet look back to the early 1900s and the young artist was producing dreamy depictions of rural landscapes, populated with farmhouses and windmills. What unites these two distinct phases of Mondrian’s career is his innovative use of colour.

Straying from impressionist ideals that were popular in the preceding decades, Mondrian refused to see painting as simply a means of capturing external reality. Instead he wanted his works to be expressions of spirituality, prompting him to radically rethink his approach to colour. From 1921 he painted solely using the primary palette, a decision which would lead his work into abstraction.

Not only do his landscape works reveal the manifestations of Mondrian’s abstract thinking, but they also place his grid paintings in their proper context. Far from simple mathematical exercises in form, they were the development of Mondrian’s search for a new universal harmony.

Composition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Grey, Blue, 1921

A second exhibition at Tate Liverpool, Mondrian and his Studios, will chart the later years of the artist’s career, particularly his time in Paris and New York. Together the two displays form A Season of Mondrian, which spans the full breadth of his career.

Turner Contemporary, Lifeboat Station, The Rendezvous, Margate, Kent, CT9 1HG

Tel: 01843 233 000

Website: www.turnercontemporary.org