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Colin Hoppe

PAINTING

Selection of work by painters in Hillingdon

Paintings made by applying oil paint, acrylic, water pigments, coloured inks or other media to canvas, paper, board or panel. Paintings that explore varied representational and formal techniques that  express the concept and intention of the artist. They are narrative, landscape, portrait and interpretive.

Graham Pellow

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SCULPTURE & CERAMICS

Selection of work by sculptors & potters in Hillingdon

Three-dimensional artworks created using hard materials like stone, metal, brick, glass, or wood. Also not so hard materials such as  clay, fabric, plastics, and almost anything usable. Could include sound, text and light or found objects. Carved, assembled,  kiln fired, moulded, pressed or cast.

Brick Wall

I have integrity

and substance

I have tradition and charm

I am robust

I can face anything

But

on one side I am open and scarred

On the other I am protected

by my brick wall

Am I sheltering my reality

or denying it

Shivashtie Poonwassie

POETRY

Selection of words from writers in  Hillingdon

Poetic forms have been developed by many cultures. Some adhere to  highly formalized structure like sonnets, others have looser rules about form and rhyme. Some arise from the collision of two cultures or more.

All is possible work, dogs barking, birds singing, stones, flowers, love, envy, hunger, the name of the poet, everything. In any tense, even the imperative of the future passive participle!

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‘Anticipation’ by Anita Lafford, located outside Uxbridge Station.

Bird sculpture at Lake Farm Park in Hayes.

Derrick Leather

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PUBLIC ART

Selection of work seen in Hillingdon

These are not only a record or a monument, they are a pillar, a support, helping us prevail and improve. They can help us care more for the conditions we live in, and some claim they contribute to the alleviation of  social stresses. There is certainly no doubt that the physical conditions and built environment surrounding us has a profound effect on states of mind (if not the condition of ones soul)

Most of us aspire to that seldom achieved inner peace and sense of balance. It would be foolish to claim that the arts can provide this but it is even more foolish to deny the positive, if hard to define, benefits of public art.

Sometimes the effort and promise of public art falls on fallow ground but mostly they grow to form a part of the cultural background to communal life.

Creating a new visual identity, turning the superficial into the meaningful.

‘Night’  by Tom ‘Carver’ Harvey in the Norman Leddy Memorial Gardens, Hayes

Alan Rhodes

Alison Judd

Rob Hard

Richard Mills

Jenny Wilson

Les Parrot

Simon Roulstone

Richard Wilde

Paul Woods

Carol Diggins

Barbara George

Colin Hoppe

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Selection of work by photographers in Hillingdon

During the 21st century photography has became a very popular art form decorating many walls and galleries. A key distinction is between 'straight photography', the photograph as a thing in itself and not an imitation of something else and manipulated photographic sources. These images display photo literacy.

Philip Sugden

Richard Penney

Sue Varley

Shivashtie Poonwassie

Gallery with selection from painters, photographers, sculptors, potters in Hillingdon also some of the public art accessible in Hillingdon.

Zach Froneman

Patricia Ogundero

Brenda Paddy

Julie Ball