BIOGRAPHIES OF ARTISTS & PHOTOGRAPHERS IN THE W&G ...

new building to the horizon or
highlighting how a building is
lit, and studying its effect on
the shape of the skyline and its
relationship with the Thames.
Like many artists before him he
enjoys painting the contrast of
man’s artificial impact on the
earth with the natural reflections
of water and how light
plays between them.
However the city inhabits only
the bottom fifth of the
paintings, allowing room for
magnificent skies which with
changing moods and cloudscapes
add a narrative element
to tell the story of the city. How
light plays and bends in the
city’s pollution, celestial reflections
from sodium lights - even
dust and fine sand from a far
distant storm swept over to our
shores - creates a changing
horizon line above cloud level
to the clear night sky. Roy
paints in a scale mimicking the
expanse of a vista we too often
take for granted. It gives his
work a double horizon with
three bands – water separating
cloud and sky with a band of
city, then sky, seemingly
separated from space by ozone
– the limit of man’s impact –
with the unknowable expanse
of space beyond.
Roy is painstaking in his
attention to detail, almost as if
he was a cartographer and
chronicler of the city, and not
an artist.
AYUTTHAYA
Ayutthaya is one of Thailand’s historical
and majestic highlights. Serving as the
Thai capital for over four hundred years
between the 14th and 18th centuries, it
was once glorified as one of the biggest
cities in south-east Asia. During the
17th century, most foreign visitors to
Ayutthaya, traders or diplomats alike,
claimed Ayutthaya to be the most illustrious
and glittering city that they had
ever visited. The name was chosen by a
young Thai sculptor called Suchart
Srisai to represent his life size bronze
sculptures.
Srisai’s style reflects not only his disciplined
beliefs, but also those of other
Buddhist cultures, hence the title of one
of his pieces, Buddha Sakyamuni, who
lived in India over 2,500 years ago..
BERTRAM BAHNER
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SANDRO BALDINI
Born in 1951, Baldini is an Italian
painter and illustrator who has lived
mainly in England since the late 1960s.
Baldini turned to painting professionally
after working in a small gallery in
London that he had managed and
subsequently owned for over twenty
years. Although having occasionally put
brush to paper as a means of relaxation
during this time he was unaware until
later in life of his other creative talents.
Now based in the Dordogne area of
France, Baldini continues to paint neoabstracts
and has recently produced a
number of pieces showing the subtle
variations of colour that nature provides
in early morning and at sunrise.
TREFOR BALL
Ball graduated from art college in
Plymouth, England in the late 1960s,
immediately moving to London and
joining the ranks of the music press.
During this period he worked for for
New Musical Express, Sounds, Zig Zag,
and Melody Maker documenting many
pop music icons of the time.This work
lasted into the punk era of the late
1970s.
Ball moved into education and spent a
number of years helping fulfil the
creative desires of students including
winning various photographic competitions
on their behalf such as those for
major brands Wrangler and Olympus
He says this was a very rewarding
period and enabled him to also work
commercially, for example having
created many covers for various
publishers including Penguin.
Having recently left education, Ball’s
endeavours are now in the realm of fine
art prints and “searching for the elusive
book deal.”
LUCY BARNARD
Barnard was born in Cheltenham,
England in the hot summer of 1976
and grew up in the beautiful
Gloucestershire countryside, later
going on to gain qualifications in
art and a degree in illustration.
She says, “My Grandmother was
fantastic, a real character and very
inspirational. She attended the
Slade School of Art when she was
young and had many tales to tell.
My mother and my sisters are also
very creative.”
Lucy goes on to say that she gets
inspiration from people and places
all around her. Her work is all done
by hand starting with sketches and
then using oil or acrylic and often
finished with coloured pencils.
“I feel that I still have a lot to learn
and that my art will develop and
grow as I gain more experience. I’d
like to experiment with using the
computer as another tool and hope
to start some bigger paintings on
canvas too – scaling up, as most of
Trefor Ball