ARTISTS

Jon Watkins

Pictures by Jon Watkins - an artist living in North Cornwall who has a wide variety of styles and talents to ''''draw'''' on.

Ian Fox

Ian Fox is a well-known and established artist from North Cornwall whose work is owned and exhibited in numerous local homes and galleries.

Kim Hohlweg

Kim Hohlweg has lived in Cornwall since 1967 and started painting in her teens. In the past few years she has built up an enviable reputation as being one of the foremost and popular wildlife artists in the South West, winning a number of prizes for her work.

Celia Creeper

Celia studied Art at Richmond College and has successfully developed and refined her style which has been heavily influenced by her love of the Cornish landscape. She now specialises in watercolour and oil eascapes and lino prints with a strong Celtic theme.

John Bampfield

John was born in Kidderminster in 1947. He came to Cornwall in 1968, where he started to paint seriously and has been painting ever since. John is inspired by life and nature, but he doesn’t attempt to reproduce it. "I love atmosphere and colour, sunshine and rain, seaside, country and town" says John.

Fred Chaplin-smith

Fred was born in 1926 in the Cotswolds and educated at the Royal West of England College of Art, Bristol.Now resides in West Cornwall where he is well known for his paintings in Oils of land and seascapes. He has had several successful one-man exhibitions over the years.

Mick the Artist

After serving for 12 years in the army he came to Cornwall to live. He runs several art classes in and around Padstow and has in the past had his paintings used for printing cards which were sold nationaly. He paints mainly in Oils and Pastels reflecting his love of the Cornish Coastline and Countryside.

John the Artist

John moved to Cornwall in 1983 after a career in the Health Service. He began painting professionally soon after. John is keen on the natural world and draws his inspiration from the wonderful landscape in North Cornwall. He paints a variety of subjects in all media. John teaches art to a few local groups trying not to give up all his secrets.

Anna Turpin

Celia Jayne

Celia first came to Cornwall from Harrow, North London in 1987. Celia did a two year course at Falmouth college of art followed by several years of study in design and illustration. Exhibitions and commissions followed and in 2001 she decided to study fine art textiles. Although Celia works with all mediums her favourite is pastels. She says the colours are bright and immediate and lend themselves to her favourite subject, sunsets.

Nadine de Villiers Kuun

David Parson

Ann Owen

Greg Millwood

It has been a dream of Gregs to be a full time artist since his schooldays, but his father persuaded him down a different path. Now thirty odd years later his dream is real after working in various parts of the world, his sketch pad and paints took up any spare time he had. Greg cannot help thinking that being self taught has given him the freedom to paint in different forms and expressions and feels lucky to have settled in this part of the country which gives him plenty of inspiration.

Doug Hinge

Doug started his artistic career with abstract collages, he then moved on to landscapes and seascapes. His new style is quite unique, paintings with character, boats and buildings in bright cheerful colours and seagulls with attitude.

Lizzie Saddington

Lizzie is a local artist from Launcston who paints in watercolours. Lizzie paints with great detail which is why her paintings have taken many hours to complete, in some cases over 100 hours. At present Lizzie wishes to keep hold of the originals and produces prints of her work we hope in the very near future she will allow us to sell them for her.

Pauline Warne

Pauline started painting when she retired and has been painting for 10 years. Sha is self taught although she has had some tips from well known artist Nicholas Williams. Pauline likes to paint land and seascapes and the North Cornish coast gives her plenty of inspiration.

Tracey Hunter

Tracey was born in Ashington, Northumberland in 1973. She studied art and design at school and college where she gained top grades, besides that she is self taught. She moved to Cornwall in 2001 after the birth of her first child in 2000. Being surrounded by beautiful natural landscapes gave Tracey overwelming desire to paint again. She is now full time mum with two girls and fortunate enough to pursue her desire to paint on a more frequent basis.

Chris Holloway

Chris has spent most of his adult life in the Porthleven and Helston areas of Cornwall. He is self taught and has only been painting for a few years. He has always enjoyed coastal walking, both cliff paths and peaceful tidal estuaries. He cannot imagine enjoying any of this so much as when he is accompanied by his dog and his sketch book, which gives him inspiration for his paintings.

Jon Tremaine

New to Karensa for the 2010 season. Jon was born in Cornwall and lives in Falmouth. Jon has a unique way of creating his contemporary art with pen and ink. His medium is an Isograph Pen charged with Indian ink with the finest 0.10mm nib. His drawing is incredibly analytical when it comes to his craft. He creates original art work, limited edition prints and commissions.

Nicholas

New for 2010 season at Karensa Art. Nicholas was born in 1960 close to Peterborough. He started his artistic career painting the countryside in watercolours. Since then he has had sell out exhibitions in Peterborough, Suffolk and Birmingham with his wildlife paintings. Now living in Cornwall the vast skies and coastline has been a source of inspiration to him. Nicholas works with oil on a variety of surfaces with a pallet knife and soft brushes to his more recent work.

Colin Maccallum

New for 2010 season at Karensa Art. Colin has painted Padstow Harbour in watercolour.

Michael Smith

Michael is an established artist with over 23 years experience. He is a friend of the Royal Society of Artists and was trained by, and studied under Tom Coates. Michael lives and works near St Ives producing local scenes from sketches in his studio. He is an accomplished oil painter but also produces some striking pastel drawings.

Michela Monti

Michela was born in Italy and grew up in the Adriatic coastal town of Ravenna. Living by the sea for over 30 years has influenced all aspects of her work. Her wall art style is centred around coastal themed, acrylic painted canvases, overlaid with driftwood subject.