summer shimmer

About

Artist included are:
 

Annica Neumuller was born in 1963 in Stockholm,      Sweden. She trained in Fine Art at Stockholm's Folkhogskola and then at the Ostersunds Konstskola, becoming a full time artist when she moved to the UK in 1999. She now works from her Monmouthshire studio producing works in oil, acrylic collage and mixed media.

Annica's abstract works are both delicate and powerful and presents a constant tension between chaos and order. The viewer's response is not closely predetermined or guided by established motifs, but rather the emotional content is elicited through the subtle use of colour, contrasts, and texture.

Her paintings, whilst being acutely personal outpourings of the self, are not inextricably private and successfully provide a vehicle in which the viewers' own contemplations can be fed; generating an unpredictable fluency of ideas.

Janet Mary-Leek was born in Swansea in 1955. She was educated at Newport College of Art Painting School in the 1970's, and was taught by such eminent painters as Tom Rathmell, Ernest Zobole, and John Selway.

Janet has worked in many mediums, most notably oil, watercolour and etchings. Her work at Art College was varied and original, and she found success in her oil portraits, which were admired by the late Ian Dury when he visited her graduation show. 

Working now predominantly in oils, she produces beautiful portraits that work on many levels. Janet captures the innermost character and the best qualities of the sitter, and combines this with a keen design sense.

She has also embarked on a new series of paintings of rock and roll dancers, drawing inspiration from Degas and Sickert.

Millie Gleeson is based in the West Country and is a young artist with huge potential. Her works are vibrant, dominated by a strong female form and perfused with a kaleidoscope of colours.

"My paintings are studies of female expression and the body. My influences come from stories, mythologies and fantasies revolving around emotion.

Some of my paintings are from photos of myself, while others I have made up to act out different characters and emotions. This is because I like to be involved in all creative aspects of my work, and I am interested in what the body can become.

I like to keep a theatrical element through out my work by making images with a strong presence. At the moment I paint with acrylic, spray paint, button polish and anything else I can get my hands on, as I will continue to explore different materials and methods." 

No newcomer to Off the Wall and Wales, but her work never fails to amaze us.

Corrie's art embraces realism but this direct representation of nature is only a means to an end. Her art does not simply depict but endeavours to evoke through a visual language those things that we do not see. 

Her perception of reality can be compared to a crime scene where clues are left to indicate what is happening. In much of her work she uses symbolism that embraces dual and frequently opposing meanings. This visual ambiguity contributes to the dreamlike quality of the work and acknowledges the canvas as a portal to another world - a world where there is freedom to create or manipulate anything. 

Through this symbolism she invites the viewer to decipher an underlying cryptic narrative that reflects her interaction with her environment. Although the work is often intense and introspective, it challenges the viewer to explore and recognize themes of universal experienc