Eric Klein Velderman
I’m a mixed media artist producing work as hand-made prints, drawings, sculptures and AR.
In my career I’ve worked as a professional artist specialising in large public artworks and interior design projects for new build construction schemes. One consequence of being involved in this work has been the numerous explorations of materials and process. I realise now that the root of this stems from my earlier art college training as a sculptor where ingenuity and resourcefulness were key.
Making is what I like doing, finding things, often in skips, has come a close second. In the last few years I have been printmaking which has appealed to me because it’s a very 3 dimensional process and involves lots of techniques and tools.
I’ve always had an interest in convergent technologies and I use digital and analogue processes throughout my work as both a designer and artist.
Recently I have been exploring the use of augmented reality (AR) to create sculptures that co-exist in the virtual world as well as the live environment.
Although my range of interests is wide ranging I’m currently especially interested in concepts around House, Field and Flow and the combination of different, often found, materials.
Don Mason
Don is a prize winning painter. His landscapes and seascapes evoke a sense of place and capture fleeting emotional responses.
Sometimes haunting; Don’s landscapes are suffused with the idea of fleeting memory. The paintings are created using a combination of tools creating a variety of marks.
Don has always painted and drawn and paints places he has visited many times searching to get past a familiarity and capture the emotion evoked. Working throughout the seasons in the open air and capturing the light of the ever changing land and sea – he frequently reinterprets those memories back in his studio.
Bold, sometimes haunting English landscapes suffused with the idea of fleeting memory, past, present and those yet to come. Don’s paintings are made using oils or mixed media and a combination of tools creating a variety of marks.
He has painted and drawn since he was a child and often paints places he has visited many times, and with which he has great familiarity. Working throughout the seasons in the open air to quickly capture a changing scene, he frequently reinterprets the same place from memory back in his studio.
Don says ‘It’s painting a feeling…rather than being a copy, the painting takes on its own life. Changing light, sensing minute by minute changes in nature. You never know what the weather will do “I always trust my memory, as the photo is a snap of an instant, whereas my observations and paintings are over a much longer timescale. This allows me to soak up where I am and allows my memory to intrude and influence my observations and interpretations”