The Founding Collection
artworks4you began with a group of artists who met as Fine Art students in Hertfordshire. This archive preserves the original collective while the new gallery takes shape.
Origin Story
These artists met as Fine Art students in Hertfordshire. The group regularly met, exhibited and worked together. Despite widely diverse backgrounds and careers they remained a committed group of working colleagues, while retaining the strong individuality shown in the variety of their work.
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Archive Artists
These pages preserve images and biographies from the former artworks4you site. The works are archival and may not reflect current availability.
Jean has been involved in visual art for most of her life. After a disrupted session at art school in her early years, she returned to art college as a mature student and gained an honours degree in Fine Art. She mainly works in oil on canvas and has also been a printmaker. Life, places, metaphor, memories and personal observations on landscape and nature all help shape her work.
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Liz concentrates on printmaking. Her larger prints are hand-burnished onto Japanese paper, while her drypoints are made by drawing onto perspex sheets and then developed with colour rolls and Chine-colle, making each one unique. Liz won an award to be a student associate member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, and her work Consequences was accepted for the International Print Biennale at the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle in 2011.
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Colour is the predominant force in Julie Cooper's increasingly pared down abstract and figurative paintings. Her subjects are drawn from landscape, horses, dogs and an interior world. Mark making, layering, drawing into the surface and scraping back all contribute to the energy or quietness required. She has exhibited throughout the UK, with paintings in private collections in France, Germany and Australia.
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Maud has always loved working from the human form in one way or another. Having finished the art school experience, moved through photography and video, and waved goodbye to the conceptual and post-modern, she returned to the physical experience of charcoal, paint, collage and oil pastel. Dirty hands, and people, brought the work full circle.
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Frances has made line drawings for over twenty years, seeking to create the maximum from the minimum. A straight line is drawn freehand from left to right, and the next line is drawn underneath, but it wanders. The textures are determined by the succession of minute meanderings. Her work has been influenced by Agnes Martin and David Connearn, and one of her panels from the Banners of Contemplative Order series was selected for the John Moores Biennale at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
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Lorraine's landscapes are inspired by her home surroundings and visits to Orkney, Scotland and Central France. She often works in series, exploring different themes and media. She has enjoyed working with egg tempera and gold leaf, a time-consuming technique that gives brilliant colour and luminosity. Lorraine has work in collections in the UK and USA and has exhibited at the Mall Galleries, London.
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Mitzie's paintings are eye-catching for their vibrant colour and dynamic composition. She paints landscapes, townscapes, flowers and abstracts, often working spontaneously so the medium can flow. She has a Diploma in Stitched Textiles and a Degree in Painting and Printmaking, has exhibited widely around the country, and has taken part annually in Bucks and Herts Open Studios.
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Su is primarily interested in drawing as a means of communication. She finds excitement in many subjects, especially the dynamic energy of the human figure and the changing nature of landscape. Using a variety of media, she seeks an expressive and spontaneous response underpinned by many years of drawing from observation and exploring ideas of movement and space.
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Teresa works from her studio in Cornwall close to the River Tamar, Dartmoor and the Cornish coast paths, seas and estuaries that inspire her. Her work is rooted in the nature and effects of landscape through changing emotions, movement, light and colour. She gained a first class honours degree in painting from the University of Hertfordshire and has exhibited in galleries countrywide and internationally.
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Terry acted as co-ordinator for the Artworks group, planning exhibitions, workshops and networking events in and around London. She has managed a number of Hertfordshire visual arts projects and sculpture commissions. Terry has always been drawn to sculpture and the power of materials, combining wood, stone, glass, hessian, steel, lead and found objects. Photography and printmaking have also become increasingly important in her work.
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Paula's work emanates from transient things in nature, though hardly ever directly from nature. Forms and words may propose themselves and trigger a response. She tends to go straight to the canvas in a particular frame of mind, with photographic reference, pencil sketches and remembered images, developing paintings through a dialogue between pure colour and vigorous erasures with palette knives and rags soaked in turpentine.
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Jenny's work is a visual diary of her life and travels. Wherever she goes she makes sketches, searching for patterns and resonances in nature. She has explored many processes in printmaking and teaches printmaking workshops from her studio at Butlers Cross and to art groups and societies. Jenny originally worked as a graphic designer and gained an Honours Degree in Fine Art in 1991.
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Sally's mission in painting is to simplify, remove unnecessary detail and find the essence of what she sees. A body of work may come from one sketch and photographs, with collected information acting as a visual diary. In wild sea paintings she is not seeking a photographic record, but the essence, movement, splash, drip and roar of waves on shore and over rocks.
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Asiya's work is influenced by nature and our search for meaning. Her abstract paintings catch in a split second what the eye cannot see, then become subject to personal interpretation in a playful attempt to make sense of things. She is an MA graduate from Goldsmiths College, where she focused on sculpture made from recycled materials.
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Paul graduated in 1980 with a BA (Hons) Fine Art degree in painting at Wimbledon School of Art. He has taught and exhibited throughout the Eastern region and in Chagny, France, as part of a town twinning collaboration. His recent work is inspired by the natural world and his spiritual practice, leading to a more open and intuitive creative process.
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Elaine Etkind was part of the original artworks4you collective. This archive preserves a selection of her work from the former site while the new artworks4you gallery is prepared.
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Penny's main interest is in landscape, using drawing and photography as sources and starting points. She does not aim to produce a topographical representation, but allows the picture to evolve until it has a life of its own. Experiencing the place is important to her, but equally important is the free development of the image.
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After gaining an NDD in Graphic Design, Gillian worked as a graphic artist in London and Canada. In her forties she studied for a Fine Art degree at the University of Hertfordshire and completed a postgraduate diploma in printmaking at Watford College. Her work has been exhibited mainly in London and Hertfordshire. One archived work was inspired by a fairground, synthesising rides into abstract shapes with a colourful sense of gaiety.
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As a musician and prolific painter, Lizzie Hale is interested in the correspondences and differences between music and painting, believing that painting should be able to express itself as freely as music. Using images based on still life and landscape, she responds subconsciously through mark-making to moods and feelings linked to her experiences.
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Barbara's art career began in mid sixties London. Working in the art services industry and experiencing major contemporary works first hand fired her imagination and creative spirit. She later embarked on a degree course, and her work progressed from fluid abstractions to mostly geometric abstractions. Plain, uncluttered works attract her, and she uses essential elements, colour interactions and chance as part of the finished work.
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Susan's archived work revisited old sketchbooks and early ideas, alongside inspiration from textile archive design work from the early 1800s to the present day. She was especially drawn to the textile designs of Lucienne Day and the use of line drawings, geometric shapes, motifs and pattern. Her work uses collaged or arranged pieces of watercolour paper drawn or painted with Chinese ink, coloured acrylic ink or watercolour.
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Julie Scarr had recently been working with print processes and techniques when the old site was archived. The works represented a first production of prints including drypoint, screenprints, monoprints, photopolymer solar and hybrid prints. It was an exciting new departure after not using those processes since 1986. Her most recent exhibited work had been conceptual and abstract in content.
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Sue's work explores ideas of individuality and imperfection, looking at how we present ourselves to the world, how we wish to be perceived and how others see us. Sculptures and installations use many media, from video projection to clay and personal objects, with material chosen for its relevance to the exploration.
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Archive Exhibitions
November 3, 2014
Eight artists showed work at the Apsley Paper Trail Gallery in October 2014, returning after enjoying the place and experience in 2013. The title referred to the historic surroundings of the Paper Mill, and the gallery was hung with recent work. Several artists also set up playful collaborative sessions during the exhibition.
Artists: Asiya Clarke, Angela Edmonds, Elaine Etkind, Frances Ewing Press, Sue Eyles, Barbara Jepps, Terry Sadler, Paula Stanley
November 4, 2013
An exhibition at the Apsley Paper Trail Gallery in October 2013. The title and formal work referred to the historic surroundings of the Paper Mill, while artists also ran informal collaborative sessions each afternoon.
Artists: Jean Atkinson, Liz Boast, Asiya Clarke, Angela Edmonds, Elaine Etkind, Frances Ewing Press, Sue Eyles, Penny Figgis, Lorraine Fox, Mitzie Green, Barbara Jepps, Terry Sadler, Jenny Watts
November 2, 2015
Archive listing from the original artworks4you site. Further detail to be restored if available.
May 2, 2016
Archive listing from the original artworks4you site. Further detail to be restored if available.
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