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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 PS
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.
CAROLINE ATKINS
Caroline worked as a writer and magazine editor before painting started to take over about 15 years ago. Her semi-abstract style adapts from still-life and interiors to figures, faces and small landscapes - and she often paints into previous images, so that traces of the original work add their own ambiguities. Her paintings have been shown at the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition, at the Mall Galleries (with the New English Art Club, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and ING Discerning Eye) and with the Chelsea Art Society, of which she has been a member since 2016. The author of several books on colour and interior design, she continues to write - in particular interviewing artists and makers for Country Living and Modern Rustic magazines. She makes her own frames, lives in Notting Hill and is a founder member of The Bakery artist-run gallery on Portobello Road.
penny German
Penny German is an artist from Northamptonshire who paints, from life, in oils. Having spent eight years painting a small still-life oil sketch on a daily basis, she continues to examine the effects of light on objects and flowers, albeit more often now in larger still life works and also in plein-air work.
A full member of Chelsea Art Society, Northampton Town and County Art Society and an associate member of the RBSA, she also exhibits regularly at the Mall Galleries and with Chelsea Art Society at Chelsea Town Hall. She also is a founder member of Floris Fine Art, a new collaboration of floral oil painters.
Penny also enjoys running workshops and painting holidays and gives demonstrations to art groups. She is a regular contributor to The Artist magazine and has judged paint outs and exhibitions.
JOANNA VOLLERS
Jo has lived in East Devon for over 40 years. She spent her early years in Australia and is aware that this is where her love of colour and light originates. Her father was an exceptionally talented watercolourist who exhibited both in Australia and in the UK. She grew up in a musical and artistic family but only came to painting after bringing up her family. She exhibits widely in the UK and is a member of The Chelsea Art Society. She paints in oils and acrylic. She is keen to explore and experiment in her quest to learn the 'language of art'. Her artistic development has been guided by various teachers including Robin Child. Many of her paintings sit between figurative and abstraction, colours and how they intereact with each other being so important. 'The painting grows with its own personality to meet the creative thought, else the result will be devoid of life' - a quote from Ivon Hitchens.
SUSANNA MACINNES
Born 1976
BA (HONS) degree in Fine Art from Manchester Metropolitan University with an Erasmus exchange to L'Ecole des Beaux Arts, Rennes
Lived and worked with Cavendish Morten on the Isle of Wight
Exhibited at Kendalls Fine art Gallery, Isle of Wight
Exhibited at the Bembridge Gallery, Isle of Wight
Lived and worked with Philip Erskine in Cape Town, South Africa
Exhibited at the Medici Gallery on Grafton Street
One or two man shows at Gallery 54 Shepherd Market in 2003, 2005, 2008, 2015, 2018
One man show at the Aldeburgh Gallery 2018
Chelsea Art Society exhibition 2005, 2006, 2007, 2018, 2019
Selected to take part in Landscape Artist of the Year 2019 as a wild card
Royal Yacht Squadron charity exhibition 2019
Chelsea Art Society Members exhibition 2020
Green and Stone Summer exhibition 2020
Susanna is a member of the Chelsea Arts Club
Member of and Secretary to the friends of the Chelsea Art Society
Selected as a contestant for Landscape Artist of the year 2021
Winner of the Wedlake Bell Award 2021 Chelsea Art Society
Winkworth solo show May 2022
Solo show at The Aldeburgh Gallery 2022
Selected as a contestant for Landscape artist of the Year 2023 where she won her heat at Royal Ascot, taking her through to the Semi Final.
Exhibited with the New English Art Club at the Mall Galleries 2023
Exhibited with the TALP Open Art Exhibition and won the Batsford Art Books prize
Selected to exhibit with the Jersey Arts Centre Fox Art Exhibition and receiving a Highly Commended award for her painting.
Vice President Chelsea Art Society 2024
Exhibited with the Royal Institute of Oil painters ROI 2024
Invited as a guest Artist to Henley Royal Regatta in 2023, 2024, 2025 and exhibited in the Stewards enclosure Gallery
Exhibited with Stddd
Solo Show at the Aldeburgh Gallery 2024
President of Chelsea Art Society 2025
Exhibited with the Royal Society of Marine Artists RSMA 2025
Exhibiting with Royal Institute of Oil painters 2025
EVE PETTITT
Painting in oils from observation, imagination and memory, Eve's work explores the exquisite wonders of nature and the human form, delving into both their presence and absence in space. Influenced by her lifelong studies of yogic teaching and spiritual thought, she searches to crystallise on canvas the unselfconscious present state of being of the natural world; a sense of mortality clashes with vivid embodiment. Her work is delivered with potent emotion and is often autobiographical, exploring memory and reflecting her state of mind.
Eve's practice is fundamentally concerned with colours and their relationships, she explores what happens when two colours meet, how they dance side by side and what occurs at the borderline. Colour is both the subject and the form in her paintings. Understanding colour is essential to her creative process, each hue sings and resonates with its neighbour, creating a rhythm within the composition. Drawing inspiration from the shallow planes of modernism, Eve builds form through geometric shapes, clear facets and defined edges. Each of her paintings expresses a personal approach to the dynamic articulation of colour, and this ravenous enquiry results in works that are exuberant and deeply expressive.
Drawing is an important part of her process. Eve is constantly sketching, seeking
to capture not only a moment in time or a fleeting shape but also the circulating air and the perception of space and light. She draws in order to better understand the world; the unfolding can be extremely cathartic.
Eve studied at The Heatherley School of Fine Art and The Royal Drawing School, her work is held in private collections worldwide. In 2025 Eve was commissioned to paint a collection of 14 Stations of The Cross for St Etheldreda's Church in Fulham, London. She is an elected member of the Chelsea Art Society, was awarded the New English Art Club Scholarship and was selected for the The Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize twice in 2023 and 2017. Eve has exhibited widely including with The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, The Royal Institute of Oil Painters, The Society of Women Artists, National Open Art, The New English Art Club, Chelsea Art Society and Jackson’s Painting Prize. She took part in Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year and her portrait was chosen by Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson.
KATIE JAMES
Katie’s passion for painting started as a school girl. She went on to study at Camberwell and Central St Martin’s Schools of Art in London and more recently with The Tite Street Group under the tuition of Paul Gildea, NEAC
Always working directly from life, Katie has developed a confident painterly style and her use of vibrant colour has been much admired. Her technique achieves the likeness of her subjects with a mixture of bold strokes and ones of delicate sensitivity. Whether painting in the calmness of a studio or experiencing the thrill of painting outdoors, Katie has an emotional response to colour and form and expresses herself with the joy of the moment which shines through her paintings.
All Katie’s paintings are in oil and are often framed in one off antique frames from the Charles Daggett Gallery.
Education/Exhibitions
1984 Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts - Foundation course
1985 Central St Martins School of Art and Design - BA Degree course in Textile Design
1999 Kingsbridge Art Gallery, Fulham, first group show
2010 54 The Gallery, Mayfair, first solo show
2010 The Chelsea Arts Society, Chelsea Town Hall - Awarded the Green and Stone prize for best oil painting
2010 St Mary's Church, The Boltons, Chelsea
2010 The Pepper Gallery.com - Represented and is a regular exhibitor
2010 Royal College of Art, Art for Youth
2011 The Chelsea Arts Society, Chelsea Town Hall
2011 Goldsboro Books, Cecile Court, WC2, with The Tite Street Group
2011 Royal College of Art, Art for Youth
2011 Castle Coole, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland
2012 The Pepper Gallery at 54 The Gallery, Mayfair
2012 The Pepper Gallery at the Charles Daggett Gallery, Kensington Church Street
2012 The Charles Daggett Gallery, Kensington High Street, with The Tite Street Group
2013 The Charles Daggett Gallery, Kensington High Street, with The Tite Street Group
2013 Royal College of Art, Art for Youth
2013 Castle Coole, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland
2014 Luma, Barnes, London
2014 Chelsea Arts Club, Solo Show
2015 Royal College of Art, Art for Youth
2016 The Mall Galleries, Art for Youth
2017 54 The Gallery Mayfair, The Tite Street Group Show
2017 54 The Gallery Mayfair, Joint show with Mark McCrum
2017 Chelsea Arts Society, Chelsea Town Hall, London
2017 Moorwood Art, Somerset
2017 The Mall Galleries, Art for Youth
ALEXANDER FOWLER NEAC
Alex Fowler was born in London in 1975. After taking a Foundation Course at Chelsea and a Degree in Art History at Edinburgh University Alex studied painting at Heatherley’s School of Fine Art in London, where he was awarded the Heatherleys Prize. In 2004 he was elected a member of The New English Art Club.
He paints Still Lifes, Landscapes and Portraits predominately in oils, but in a sense it is the experience of looking which is the actual subject of his work, whether he be working on a large still life painting in the relative calm of the studio or out in the streets of a foreign city, all the senses honed for the excitement of whatever visual encounter is round the next corner.
Kate weed
Kate has been passionate about painting for most of her life. She studied History of Art at the University of Leicester and in Rome, before attending the Silvermine School of Art in Connecticut, USA. She is also a member of Heatherleys School of Fine Art in London.
Working from her own studio, Kate paints in both watercolour and oil. Still life is her first love, though she brings the same confidence and sensitivity to landscapes. Above all, it is colour that drives her work.
Georgie Donnelly
Born 25.01.1956, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Independent multi tasker with a busy life starting and still running various micro-enterprises – property consultancy, party organiser, caterer and kids cooking school capo maestra.
Radio journalist, artist, sculptor, ceramicist. English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Afrikaans speaker, lived in South Africa, Paris, USA, Vienna and latterly London for 34 years.
1989 – 2014 Returned to drawing, painting and ceramics
1989 Ceramics Chelsea Art School; Marlborough School;
Sands End with Georg Farkas; Putney Art School and Heatherleys with Clare Ireland
2010 Figurative Sculpture; Park Walk Studios with Tim Beswick; commissions of animal heads
2014 – 2015 HNC (Fine Arts) Kensington and Chelsea College
2015 – 2016 Higher National Diploma (Fine Arts) Kensington and Chelsea College (with Erika Winstone, Jane Eyton, Greg Rook, Daniela Rizzi)
2016 – 2017 Royal Drawing Schools – oil portraiture with Mark Cazalet and Ian Rowlandson. Drawing and painting with Robin Child, Devon
2017 – 2018 Joined Rosvik Gallery and Studio under Carol Davies
Exhibitions
2016 Solo Exhibition, Earl Mountbatten Hospice Art Gallery, Isle of Wight
2016 HND Final Exhibition, RR Gallery, St Peter’s Church, Notting Hill
2015 HNC Final Exhibition, Hortensia Gallery, Kensington and Chelsea College, London
2015 Ready Mades Soft Sculpture group exhibition, Hortensia Gallery, KCC
2014 Ist KCC group exhibition
2013 Ceramics group exhibition, Heatherley’s, London
2012 Group exhibition, with artists, Albany Wiseman, Peter Donnelly and Hugh Fairfax, Bembridge, Isle of Wight
1995 Group exhibition of ceramics, Marlborough School, Sloane Avenue, London