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Celebrating innovation and diversity, United in Art demonstrates the depth and range of work originating from the United Kingdom. Ranging from the figurative to the abstract and enjoying qualities of spontaneity, color and rhythm the works on display teem with energy as they capture both the form and spirit of their subjects.
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Adrian Gallagher
 
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The sublime is the manifestation of what we feel when faced with our own mortality. Regardless of faith or creed, sublime art evokes a religious or spiritual experience. The sublime is an intimate personal experience dependent on the individual circumstances and life knowledge of each viewer. It is not rational or balanced, but an emotive response that is stimulated by the profound and the powerful. The sublime transcends the formalities and generalities of society, culture, and organized religion, instead what it offers is a glimpse of nature’s immortality.
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"View to a Polar Sea 1"
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"Allusions of the Northern Romantic Tradition 3"
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Pat Hay
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From first to last brushstroke, painting is a journey of exploration of colour, texture, form and composition. Rather than depicting the visual world in front of me, I express my emotions, my state of mind or inner life. It is a search to reveal thoughts, emotions and truths words cannot convey. I layer the painting, giving it depth and texture; by scratching the surface I can reveal the colours below. Also, depending on colour usage and canvas, the under-painting reveals itself as it hovers just under or over the surface. Having used a variety of media including pastel, ink and conte, I currently paint in oil and acrylic. I do figurative, still life, landscape and abstract works, inspired by the visual, emotional, cerebral and spiritual; ...by life.
Artists that have inspired me include Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Alice Neel, Frida Kahlo, Marlene Dumas, Emily Carr, Susan Rothenberg, Picasso, Paula Rego and Egon Scheile, to name a few.
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"The Beginning"
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"Closing In"
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Martina O'Brien
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In my paintings, I strive to create atmospheric impressions of water, sea, ocean and the shorelines around Ireland. I try to reflect and convey the mood of the location through colour, texture, movement and light. Living close to Dublin’s coast allows me to gather constant information on the ever changing ebb and flow of the tides, how light transforms and colours merge as it comes and goes. I work primarily in oil paint, applied with brush and palette knife, adding a range of mixed media such as sand, bee’s wax, acrylic and hemp. I layer different mediums and allow them to create a three dimensional type image.
At times, I prefer to apply these mediums by hand as I find interacting with the textures and canvas can produce very unusual effects and capture the luminosity I want to bring-about.
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"Divided Seascape Sandymount"
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"Divided Seascape 2"
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Teresa Poole
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My art has been a journey of love and healing for me in more ways than simple confidence building, revealing a growth of human experience and elemental emotion I didn’t think I could express. I have very strong spirituality in my work, which although mainly involving very ordinary situations in the natural world, draws on a human condition instilling a poetic rush similar to memories of smell or music. I am heavily inspired by the Japanese belief of the fleeting quality of beauty. I see my paintings as a garden, designed to invoke an emotional and psychological response, embracing the spectator as they walk through it.
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"Pecking Order I"
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"Pecking Order III"
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Cristina Rodriguez
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I am a Latino-American Artist. Although I have lived abroad for the past 20 years and I have travelled all over the world, the main source of inspiration for my work comes from the land I was born in. I choose deliberately to see the extraordinary in the ordinary, to see the magic instead of the horror, to aim for peace and harmony instead of ugliness and sadness. I choose to give something positive and enlightening to my fellow human beings and I choose to give it through my beautiful paintings.
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"Outside the Great Western Studios at the Height of the Notting Hill Carnival"
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"The Land of the One Thousand Islands"
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Jo Tunmer
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I love painting landscape views. They always inspired me as a child, seen through a car window while traveling, and I still enjoy admiring the world through the frame of the window. I get a feeling of peace and serenity from the open spaces that I try to convey to the viewer in my paintings, so that the audience can feel as if they are there too.
I'll start with a sketch or a photo, something I can focus on and come back to if necessary, because I use traditional methods - which includes waiting for different layers to dry. Trying different textures and surfaces is exciting for me, and I'm always on the look-out for new inspiration, whether I'm traveling or closer to home. I enjoy new challenges, each coming with new creative possibilities.
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"Day Dreaming"
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"Winter"
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