Simon Ward

1984-87

This is a picture and poem from a book of Poetry I finished in 2009. They are about the sense of place.

Unburnt Flesh

My emollient tears have glued my lids
  from last night.

My head is still numb on the right side
  from listening less well.

The shock of her yawn when I tried so hard-
  but she really was tired.

She is a naked flame,
I am unburnt flesh.

Her tears bled
like the tired ink stains
  on my faltering fingers,

with fisted alarm wrung on her face -
  (her wrinkled brow told me that!)

The sigh,
  an ignominious communication came too,

I ignored,
  waiting for time to pass

but she really was tired.

My fire guttered
as coarse nailed the old plank
  spat life from the chimney mouth.

Frank Gambino 

1984-87

These days I tend to let my work do the talking.  But by way of a brief explanation, it may be useful to know that for the last three years I have only worked with charcoal on paper.  My pictures are portraits and figure studies all drawn from life. Mostly A1 in size, though some drawing are 915mm x 1520mm. 

www.frankgambino.co.uk

Anna Bisset

Illustration
1984-87

This is a recent sketch, 1 of 3, which will hopefully lead to some finished work for the Bath Re-formed exhibition in October...

I wanted to do something with lots of action rather than the tranquil english landscape, which has been a recurring theme in the past. The subject of "The Olympians" is rather predictable, I know, but I love arranging all the figures and as my students were tied up with a similar project, I got involved with the idea myself. I took my students to see the Elgin Marbles at the British Museum for some background info on the origins of the Olympics. We enjoyed drawing the amazing figures and horses which were full of action and energy. I have included a few images from a visit I made to the Olympic site with the boys - a bus tour around the unfinished site at Easter. We have tickets for the Olympics over the summer, so there may be some more detail to add. At the moment the three images go together to form a sort of frieze, but in watercolours. They may or may not end up as oil paintings - depends on how much time I have. But I think the images do represent what for me has been quite a dramatic year. I am very much looking forward to meeting up with everyone from Bath at the show.

www.annabisset.co.uk

Paul Lindt

1984-7

Living in East London, have just been part of the recent "Spring" show at the new Smokehouse Gallery overlooking the Olympic Stadium in Hackney. There is a huge artist's community in this area of London where loads of disused industrial units have been converted temporarily into artist studios, sadly only until the bulldozers arrive. Anyway the show included over 40 artists from around the world including someone from Nepal!

My day job is as a partner in a small graphic design agency, but over the last few years I have been making and selling more and more of my own work in an attempt to regain my sanity. My work is created purely digitally but recently has begun to include photographic elements. It is largely an exploration of architecture and also the urban character of where I live.  

www.paullindt.co.uk