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BELLA MARTINEAU.
I enjoy painting objects which are more than just themselves- they might represent characters on a stage, telling their own story.
I love mixing colours, drawing with line, marks and shapes, trying to capture what I see in front of me, hoping to record a memory or emotion. Paintings can recreate experiences and feelings as freshly as if you were there again, just as music can so often take us straight back to a specific time, place or person.
After leaving City and Guilds of London, where I studied Decorative Arts, I joined a studio in Notting Hill Gate, where I developed as a painter, moving away from gilding techniques and taking on commissions of murals and still lifes. The scale of murals was always a challenge. Now my work is usually small, on an intimate scale.
I travel occasionally, most recently to Collioure in the south of France, Rajasthan and Venice. I am doing more landscape painting nowadays. For the last 2 years I have been an elected member of Chelsea Art Society.
I am always happy to discuss ideas for commissions, and you can contact me here.
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
June 2024 Chelsea Art Society, Chelsea Old Town Hall
November 2023 Chelsea Art Society, 340 Kings Road
June 2023 Chelsea Art Society, Chelsea Old Town Hall
May 2022 ‘Triptych’, The Bakery, Portobello Road, with Emma Hill and Eve Pettitt
June 2022 Chelsea Art Society, Chelsea Old Town Hall
October 2021 Wedlake Bell Award, Chelsea Art Society, 340 Kings Road
September 2019 ‘Anniversary- 20 years in Still Life Paintings’ 340 Kings Road SW3
June 2019 Chelsea Art Society Open Exhibition
June 2018 Solo exhibition, Holland Park Lawn Tennis Club
October 2018 Chelsea Art Society Open Exhibition
EMMA HILL
Emma is a figurative painter living and working in London. Her work encompasses portraiture, still life, landscape, interior scenes and quiet corners in small London gardens. ‘In my work I seek to convey the essence of a person, a place or a thing caught in a fleeting moment. I want to give you just enough in my painting, so you know what or who you are looking at, yet there is still space to find your own way in.’
Emma had an art school training in the early 1990s, both in the UK (BA Hons Fine Art and French at Exeter University) and France (Ecole Supérieure d’Art, Aix-en-Provence) and later time at Heatherley’s in London and the Florence Academy of Art. Seduced early on by the world of glossy magazines, Emma became an award-winning beauty and fragrance journalist writing about the subject for many years, yet painting was never far away.
Today, Emma exhibits in group shows and independently. She has been a member of Chelsea Art Society since 2022 and has shown with them since 2018. In 2023 Emma was invited to take part in Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year. Emma is available for portrait commissions. If you would like to see more of her work or are interested in discussing a commission you can contact her here.
Solo Exhibitions
2023: Porcelain and Painting, at Edward Bulmer, Pimlico with Corisande Albert
2022: Triptych, The Portobello Bakery Gallery with Bella Martineau and Eve Pettitt
2021: Emma Hill, Finding the Light, 35 North Contemporary Fine Art, Brighton
2019: Emma Hill Paintings, Holland Park Tennis Club
LUKE MARTINEAU
Born in 1970, Luke is a London-based artist who studied at The Heatherley School of Fine Art in London after reading English and Modern Languages at Magdalen College, Oxford. He began to paint professionally in the 1990s, although his earliest passion for art began in his teens.
Luke is a versatile painter whose output encompasses portraiture, landscape, still life and illustration. He has regular solo exhibitions in the West End of London and a thriving portrait practice. Luke discovered a passion for landscape painting at an early age, and plein air painting, whether on his travels or in London, is still an important part of his work. He is also happy to accept portrait commissions of all shapes and sizes, from family groups and children to more formal or official subjects.
In 2010 he travelled to India with Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall as official tour artist. His work is held in many public and private collections, including the Royal Collection. This summer saw the 40th anniversary of King Charles’s tour artists celebrated with a book, The Art of Royal Travel, and an exhibition at Buckingham Palace.
Over the last twelve years Luke has also developed a series of alphabetical designs based on his own children and inspired by the woodcuts of William Nicholson, which celebrate the simple pleasures and enduring themes of childhood.
In November 2017 he collaborated with writer Kate Bingham and bookbinder Kate Holland to produce two limited edition books, Every Girl’s Alphabet and Every Boy’s Alphabet- these can be purchased from Kate Holland’s website.
In 2018 the two books were published in a more commercial format by by Welsh independent publisher Graffeg, priced at £12.99.
Luke was President of the Chelsea Art Society from 2013 to June 2022.
ROSIE COPELAND
Rosie grew up in the Cotswolds and gained an M.A in Art History from Edinburgh University in 1993 before pursuing a career in London. Her passion for art and painting has been lifelong, but it was not until she married and was raising a young family that she returned to study fine art more formally at Putney School of Art and Design and Heatherley School of Fine Art in Chelsea. Rosie currently lives and works in Hampshire and London.
In the last few years, she has exhibited frequently in London and the Home Counties including The Affordable Art Fair, The New English Art Club and The Royal Society of Oil Painters Annual Exhibitions at the Mall Galleries as well as being a regular at the Moncrieff Bray Gallery in Petworth. In 2019, she was elected a member of Chelsea Art Society and is currently a Council Member.
Rosie works mainly in oils but enjoys experimenting with a variety of techniques in acrylic, watercolour, pastel and charcoal. Her practice is based on painting and drawing from observation either outside in the landscape or back home in the studio working on still life or the figure. Rosie has developed a painterly expressive style and seeks to capture the essence of a subject and explore colour, light and form.
Gallery Representation
- Moncrieff-Bray Gallery, Petworth, www.moncrieff-bray.com
- Suzie Horsey Art - www.suziehorseyart.com
- The Gallery, Little Bedwyn, Hungerford - www.thegallerylittlebedwyn.com
- Kate Preston Art - www.kateprestonart.com
- Chelsea Art Society - www.chelseaartsociety.org.uk
2019 Elected member of Chelsea Art Society
LOUISE DIGGLE
I’m a Chelsea based plein air painter. I work outside in all weathers.
My work is all about light - the way it hits and transforms places, streets and corners. The beauty is in the moment; the knowledge that the light will change makes it even more special.
I work mainly in pastel as it can be worked rapidly and has a marvellous glow. I love the fragile quality of it too. I’ve recently got back into oils; I enjoy squeezing the paint out of the tube.
There are two free light shows a day, sunrise and sunset and four different seasons - never ending subject matter. Art is a form of communication and I hope that my work conveys my wonder of the world.
I’m a member of the Pastel Society, Chelsea Art Society, Wapping Group of Artists and the Small Paintings Group and my studio is at Wimbledon Art Studios.
I have exhibited at the Jerram Gallery, Moorwood Art, Found Gallery, Russell Gallery, Panter & Hall and Piers Feetham Gallery amongst others.
Awards received at the Pastel Society 2024 & 2019, Chelsea Art Society and the RBA. I was joint winner of the Sloane Stanley show at CAS last year
This is an exhibition very close to my heart as three worlds come together in this exhibition: health, painting and place.
Painting is my profession and also my passion. I’m lucky enough to be able to combine the two - but even luckier to be alive thanks to the incredible expertise, skill and kindness of the team at the Royal Marsden Hospital.
My painting has also helped with my treatment. Scrutinising colour and light is endlessly absorbing for me.