Creation Fine arts introductions Anthony Housman, Esther Nightingale, Steve Upton
Mar 05, 2016
Creation Fine arts
introductions
Anth
ony
Hous
man
, Est
her
Nig
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, Ste
ve U
pton
Cover painting - Steve UptonQueens Gate, Beverley
Acrylic on Canvas36 x 48 inches
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
Anthony HousmanStill Life (Egg Cup)Acrylic on canvas
30 x 40 cms
Anthony HousmanMussels
Acrylic on Canvas25 x 30 cms
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
Anthony HousmanStudy of an AppleAcrylic on Board
18 x 25 cms
Anthony HousmanStill Life (half dish)Acrylic on Canvas
25 x 30 cms
Anthony HousmanLime
Acrylic on Canvas30 x 40 cms
Anthony HousmanMarching Band (Night)
Graphite on paper21 x 29.5 cms
Esther NightingaleEmerge
Oil on Canvas20.5 x 14.5 inches
Esther NightingaleSuspended
Oil on Canvas26 x 16 inches
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.
Esther NightingaleWonder
Oil on canvas board10 x 8 inches
Esther NightingaleWaking
Oil on canvas board7 x 5 inches
Esther NightingaleCome Fly with Me
Oil on Canvas39.5 x 28 inches
Esther NightingaleBubble II
Oil on Linen6 x 6 inches
Esther NightingaleBubble I
Oil on Linen8 x 6 inches
Steve UptonCone. BridlingtonAcrylic on Canvas
42 x 42 inches
Steve UptonTwo Cherubs
Acrylic on canvas40 x 50 inches
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
Steve UptonDriffield. Wall
Acrylic on Canvas36 x 48 inches
Steve UptonU2
Acrylic on Canvas36 x 48 inches
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.
Creation fine arts7 North Bar Within, Beverley, East Yorkshire HU17 8AP
Tel:- +441482868884
www.creationfinearts.co.uk