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Introductions - Housman, Nightingale, Upton

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Creation Fine arts

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Cover painting - Steve UptonQueens Gate, Beverley

Acrylic on Canvas36 x 48 inches

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Welcome to Introductions - a series that aims to introduce artistsshowing with Creations Fine Arts to the wider public.

Creation is based in Beverley, East Yorkshire. It has regular(roughly six weekly) exhibitions of artwork but also houses

ceramics, jewellery, photographs and prints .

We seek to support local artists but have work of note bynational and international creators from across Europe. In addition

have close links with Cuba and their art.

This volume introduces three artists of very different styles andsensibilities who live in the Humber area. Anthony Housman,

Esther Nightingale and Steve Upton. You will find something abouteach within this volume. What draws them together for me, as a

curator, and despite their differences, is their human interpretationof the world as they see it and the use of their keenly practiced skills

as artists to render that for our sensibilities.

I am delighted to be able to present all three through Creation

Nigel Walker

Director/Curator

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Anthony HousmanStill Life (Egg Cup)Acrylic on canvas

30 x 40 cms

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Anthony HousmanMussels

Acrylic on Canvas25 x 30 cms

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Anthony Housman

Anthony Housman was born in Grimsbyin 1977 and completed an MA inPainting at Chelsea College of Art, Lon-don, in 1999. He currently lives andworks in Hull.

Anthony makes paintings that combinerepresentation with abstraction and aredeveloped from a range of subjectmatter, including most recently, depic-tions of ruins, as well as still lifearrangements. His activated surfaceshost brushy swatches andconglomerated colour, in works thatare heavily concerned with the processof mark making and form.

Throughout the past fourteen years,Anthony has shown his work as part ofboth solo and group exhibitions.

Anthony HousmanArch I

Acrylic on Canvas52 x 41 cms

Anthony HousmanStudy of a Ruin

Acrylic on Board25.5 x 20.5 cms

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Anthony HousmanStudy of an AppleAcrylic on Board

18 x 25 cms

Anthony HousmanStill Life (half dish)Acrylic on Canvas

25 x 30 cms

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Anthony HousmanLime

Acrylic on Canvas30 x 40 cms

Anthony HousmanMarching Band (Night)

Graphite on paper21 x 29.5 cms

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Esther NightingaleEmerge

Oil on Canvas20.5 x 14.5 inches

Esther NightingaleSuspended

Oil on Canvas26 x 16 inches

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Esther NightingaleFertile GroundOil on Canvas

39.5 x 28 inches

Esther Nightingale

The paintings I make are as much concerned with the process – the “how they happen” as with their subject matter.I experiment with the process of painting, initially working on the horizontal. I pour, splash, roller layers of paint on-to the picture surface until the grounds I create suggest a direction, at which point I merge background and subject

together so that the two become interwoven with each strengthening the other.

In terms of subject matter, I use photography to record objects and events around me. The subjects I choose to cap-ture are selected for their transitory nature. For example, the bubbles I record are created by the breath of a child,which are then given their own life by the weather as they expand, distort and ultimately disappear. The newbornbabies, within moments make the transition from one environment into another, rapidly changing and adapting totheir new world. These fleeting moments are given permanence through making the paintings, which document

memories of moments in time, of life lived, events passing and life looking forward.

Esther Nightingale completed her BA (Hons) in Fine Art at De Montford and Kingston Universities in London. She hashad several teaching posts and residencies, the latest being at the Octagon Centre in Hull. She has exhibited numer-ous times, both as part of a group and individually and has undertaken a number of commissioned portraits. She is

also a member of Kingston Art Group.

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Esther NightingaleWonder

Oil on canvas board10 x 8 inches

Esther NightingaleWaking

Oil on canvas board7 x 5 inches

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Esther NightingaleCome Fly with Me

Oil on Canvas39.5 x 28 inches

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Esther NightingaleBubble II

Oil on Linen6 x 6 inches

Esther NightingaleBubble I

Oil on Linen8 x 6 inches

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Steve UptonCone. BridlingtonAcrylic on Canvas

42 x 42 inches

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Steve UptonTwo Cherubs

Acrylic on canvas40 x 50 inches

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Steve UptonTattooed man

Acrylic on Canvas46 x 48 inches

Steve Upton

…was born in Cleethorpes in 1947 andattended Grimsby and Maidstone Schools

of Arts as well as attending ManchesterUniversity. He taught art in Nuneaton be-

tween 1972 and 2004 and during that timeexhibited widely in the Midlands. Since

moving to East Yorkshire Steve has exhibit-ed many times in both group and soloshows and won the Elwell Landscape

Painting competition sponsored by the BBCas well as winning first prize in the

“Humber to the Wash” Open Exhibition atRope Walk gallery. His work has also been

purchased by the Franklin FoundationPublic Collection.

Steve says“These paintings are a combination of work

produced in Nuneaton, Warwickshirewhere I lived and taught for thirty two

years and new work, the majority ofimages, made in Beverley as a response tomy move to East Yorkshire in 2004 and the

influences of Hull and the East Coastseaside towns.

So why is this subject matter? I paint whatis around me. The bus station, the people,

the fairs on the local field. I like thatuniquely English outlook that can be an

uneasy combination of the humorous, thesomewhat grotesque and the surreal and I

see it perhaps no longer as a celebrationbus as a record and portrait of a certain

English lifestyle.

As a figurative painter I look for these visu-ally odd and edgy combinations of places,

objects and people which might bestumbled across in the everyday

environment of many people. Sometimesit’s the unexpected places around the cor-

ner or behind the wall and of course thesurfaces layered with statements political,

heartfelt, personal and rude.”

Steve UptonRailway Bridge, Beverley

Graphite on paper20 x 25 inches

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Steve UptonDriffield. Wall

Acrylic on Canvas36 x 48 inches

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Steve UptonU2

Acrylic on Canvas36 x 48 inches

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Creation Fine Arts is pleased to announce exhibitions of work

by Steve Upton

from Wednesday 2nd July until Sunday 3rd August 2014

& Esther Nightingale

from Wednesday16th July until Sunday 25th August 2014

Work by Anthony Housman is always available and usually on show at the gal-lery.

Further information will be posted on our website and Facebook nearer the time.

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Creation fine arts7 North Bar Within, Beverley, East Yorkshire HU17 8AP

Tel:- +441482868884

www.creationfinearts.co.uk