Artists

Barbara Macfarlane is a painter of the land and the landscape. Her large-scale works, most typically done in oil and ink on huge folios of handmade paper, capture the essence of terrains both familiar and unexpected: from the rugged olive-clad hills of Les Baronnies, in South Eastern France, to grid-like matrix of Manhattan; from the wilds of the Hebridean shore to the busy archipelago of Hong Kong.

Laurence Jones is a British artist, based in London and represented by the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery. His paintings focus on psychological space, and play with ideas of narrative and the cinematic in art. Derived from first and second-hand photographic images of Los Angeles, the paintings combine reimagined modernist interiors and intense vibrant hues, blurring the boundaries between real and imaginary.

Avital Sheffer is a ceramicist working on the coast of New South Wales, Australia, who creates anthropomorphic and architectural earthenware vessels which engage with the multi-faceted nature of Middle Eastern cultures, history and design. She's represented by the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery.

Dutch-born artist Carla Kranendonk's works are informed by her travels to West Africa and combine vivid brushwork with hand-embroidered paper collage, as well as photographic elements. Her mixed media works – available through the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery – come to represent a travelogue of collected images and memories.

Dutch artist Esther Nienhuis studied Fine Arts at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and has exhibited in Europe, the United States, Canada, Asia and Australia. A desire to be elsewhere is the central theme of her work, available through the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery.

Sophie Charalambous is an award-winning artist, who lives and works in London. She works on paper between drawing, watercolour and mono-printing. She regularly visits Cyprus (she is half British/half Cypriot) and in her work the Island's flora, fauna, folk art, ancient history and festivals are re-imagined into personal landscapes which fuse the old world and the observed present.

Jason Shulman, a London-based British sculptor and photographer, uses his artistic practice to challenge the conventional boundaries of media, time, space, and known realities. Using long-exposure photography and sculptural experiments, his works evoke a heightened experience of uncertainty, surreality, pleasure, and loss.

Emma Haworth is a British female painter of the urban scene. Emma Haworth's art, represented by the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, is built upon meticulous observation of the ebb and flow of modern metropolitan life - in the streets, the parks, the squares of London, New York, Paris or some other great urban centre: it is a constantly shifting drama, of moving people and changing light, played out in a great arena that is both architectural and natural.

Richard Nott is a British artist with a reverence for texture, shape and pattern. In a muted palette, with soft colours marbled in layers and metallic elements, his works, available through the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, retain the character of a long career in fashion.

New Zealander Rob Tucker paints compelling still lifes, using oil, graphite and resin on board. His naïve style belies the sophistication of his techniques. Paint becomes a sculptural medium. His works are constructed from layers of colour finished with surfboard resin, as everyday objects are huddled together to create new form. Planes of tone build up the background, suggestive of depth. And yet, replacing shading and contouring with bold painted lines, Tucker’s finish is naïve, almost two-dimensional - as sparsely suggestive as a Giorgio Morandi (1890 – 1964).

French painter Sylvain Lefebvre sees himself as an explorer of his own personal universe, an ‘imaginary wanderer in search of new lands’. He is inspired by the sea and most known for his wonderful paintings of whales, filled with allusions to art history, literary references and motifs from popular culture, to create a strange, dream-like scenography, available through the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery.

Gladdy Kemarre is a highly acclaimed Indigenous Australian artist renowned for her stunning artworks inspired by her cultural heritage and connection to country. Based in Central Australia, Kemarre's vibrant and captivating pieces showcase her mastery of traditional techniques combined with a contemporary artistic vision. With a focus on depicting the rich landscapes and stories of her ancestors, Kemarre's work has garnered international recognition. Explore the extraordinary talent of Gladdy Kemarre and experience the beauty and depth of Aboriginal artistry.

Hepzibah Swinford is a self-taught painter who paints flowers - celebrating the limitless variety of their forms, their textures, their colours, their abundance and their beauty. In her paintings, available through the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, the flowers are gathered together into spectacular arrangements - like floral firework displays.

The anti-heroic sculpture of Ross Bonfanti, represented by Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, is energised by a tension between the delicate and the sturdy, the fixed and the flexible. Bonfanti's concreatures are created from cement, hardware materials and found soft toys, all collected in the contemporary artist’s native Toronto.

Jimmy Pike grew up as a hunter gatherer. Living as a fringe-dweller around Cherrabun Station he eventually joined relatives at the station camp and worked as a stockman. He was named Jimmy Pike, after Phar Lap's jockey, by a cattle station manager. Pike learned to use western art materials whilst in Fremantle Prison. Even before he was released from prison his work was exhibited in major Australian galleries.

David Whitaker was a British 'Op Artist' who investigated the optical effects of colour in paintings of extraordinary daring and technical accomplishment. It was an investigation that he continued to pursue, and to dazzling effect, throughout his life. He's represented by the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery.

Artist Karen Hackenberg takes a light-hearted yet subversive approach to the serious subject of ocean degradation, presenting a tongue-in-cheek taxonomy of imaginary post-consumer sea creatures. Working traditionally with oil, gouache, colored pencil, and graphite, she lovingly and meticulously crafts images of beach trash, aiming to create a provocative visual juxtaposition of form and idea.

Ashley Amery is a San Diego-born, London-based artist represented by the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery. Her practice draws upon line and pattern making as a means of investigation. Ashley works on paper in fine detail to create beautiful paintings full of botanical and abstract forms.

Adrian Jangala Robertson is a distinguished landscape painter and a member of Bindi Mwerre Anthurre Artists since 2002. His work, characterized by a restricted palette and meticulous brushwork, captures the essence of his mother’s Country, Yalpirakinu, with energy, drama, and personal memories. Robertson’s paintings vividly portray the desert mountains, ridges, and trees, reflecting his deep connection to his land and family. Robertson, who is non-verbal, communicates a unique vision of his homeland and 'family' through painting. These are images of extraordinary power and resonance. Robertson now lives in Alice Springs but the recurring subject-matter of his paintings remains founded on the landscapes of his mother’s homeland at Yalpirakinu, in the remote Tanami Desert. It is a terrain invested with childhood memories and a profound sense of spiritual connection. The intensity of Robertson’s vision, the rawness of his feeling, and the boldness of his colour sense, have led to him being dubbed 'the Van Gogh of the Central Desert'.

Fons Van Laar is a Dutch artist who creates wonderfully colourful, hand-moulded, glazed ceramic works. His vessels take inspiration from the work of Rembrandt and from Dutch Delft pottery. In decorating his works, Laar playfully combines these Dutch artistic traditions with his strong interest in images that evoke far away places. Vibrant floral motifs and birds more familiar to his native Amsterdam are thus painted alongside Persian paisley patterns and Spanish knights from the Middle Ages.

John Holcomb is an American artist, based in Kansas and represented by the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery. His paintings are energised by confident line and clear silhouettes. And yet, the bold simplicity of his mark-making originates in a complex web of cultural and artistic influences. Fauvism and Old Master's Holland meet Grant Wood and American Regionalism, as Holcomb draws on the imagery of America in a lost time.

Karen Napaljarri Barnes is an accomplished Aboriginal artist from Yuendumu, a remote community in Central Australia. She belongs to the Warlpiri people and has gained recognition for her vibrant and intricate paintings that reflect the traditional stories and landscapes of her heritage. Barnes often draws inspiration from the rich cultural traditions and natural beauty of her homeland, using bold colors and detailed patterns to convey stories of her people and their connection to the land. Her works are celebrated for their dynamic expression and contribution to contemporary Indigenous art. Karen Napaljarri, Barnes Aboriginal artist, Warlpiri artist, Indigenous Australian art, Contemporary Aboriginal art, Yuendumu artists

Louise Sturgis is a British Post-War and Contemporary painter based in the Lake District. Her expressive painting style is inspired by the rolling landscapes that often become the focus of her compositions. Sturgis works primarily with oil paint on either canvas, board or paper.

David Frazer is an Australian artist renowned for fine wood engravings, linocuts, etching and lithographs as well as his sculptures and paintings of Australian landscapes. Represented by the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, his work explores a sense of place, and the emotions of longing, nostalgia and isolation that accompany it.

Louisiana-born Jerry Jeanmard's artistic process is one of intellectual freedom and improvisation, as whimsical as the characters he creates. From his collection of found papers, the artist, represented by the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, plays around with forms, patterns and compositions, letting a figure grow organically before gluing it in place.

The great theme of British-born artist Sophie Walbeoffe's art is wild animals in their natural habitat.

Based in Glasgow, Alasdair Wallace is an artist who creates paintings and prints suffused with the surrealism of the everyday. His richly worked and allusively plotted paintings – available through the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery – present a world that is at once recognisable and unsettling. It is a world full of odd juxtapositions and unexplained presences.

Mathias Kauage (c1944 – 2003) is the leading figure in the story of contemporary art in Papua New Guinea.