Artist of the Month
Alex Cullen
“I like to create works that have a sense of time and place. Having people in my paintings helps do this - on occasion I’ve added people to a painting who weren’t in the original scene. I get enormous satisfaction from the process of painting; the studies done in advance to work on key elements, and the progression of refinement until I can stand back and say ‘that looks right’.”
Lissa Banks
In 2012 I began a series of three paintings of flowers. The vision arose the morning after a birthday celebration when many small vases of red flowers were left together on a garden table. It was the catalyst for work done over the next ten years which has since moved on to include paintings of single tulip portraits. In addition to finding inspiration from party detritus, I also find it in my own back yard and from local farms and florists.