Artist

We are the artists of The Art Cooperative, We are from various walks of life. 

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Ruza Bagaric

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Jane Goodwin's art is orientated towards investigating. Highlighting and echoing the multifaceted shenanigans of 'life in the city'.

Goodwin’s art focuses as much on the people as the system within the environment of 'the square mile'. The white

Suited sculptures are animated images of people working in the financial world -the highly paid prop traders with their frantic edginess whose actions can lead to financial and personal meltdown. They act as metaphors for the current financial global crisis.

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Spanish born Oscar Lassa photographer now working in London works mainly in Portraiture and Fine Art. His unique attention to light and detail make his images stand apart. Oscar explores the shutter speed and aperture buttons with great passion and often wonders whether the tripod works best under or above the camera. There is energy and movement in the type of work he does.

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British born painter Susan Bunn is a professional artist and graphic designer based in Wimbledon, London, specialising in landscapes with an abstract quality. While studying at Putney School of Art She discovered a love of oil, which is now Bunn’s main medium. This has led her to explore the use of pigments to make oil paints from scratch. In the last couple of years, alongside the oil She has taken to working in acrylic paint using gold and silver leaf.  Susan is fascinated by the interplay of light and colour and the way they evoke mood and emotion. Over the course of the day and season, light changes;  She adds elements into her paintings to capture this change, using pigments, gold and silver leaf.  When light catches the silver or gold leaf, these areas reflect, giving another element to the image.  Again, with pigments there is more interaction with light and texture especially with the ultramarine blue, which almost has a velvet texture.

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A British born painter Karen Birt shares these paintings about time.  The waves change every instant, affected by the light, tide, weather and changing morphology of the seabed.  The rocks and beaches, though they appear to be fixed and eternal, change according to the rhythm of geological time, which can act on the scale of thousands of years or can suddenly, shockingly speed up in the face of extraordinary storms.

The timescale of a human life exists within both these scales.  Standing on the sea shore as the waves wash towards and away, again and again, the spectator is transfixed by the roaring proof of the unrepeatablity of each moment – at the same time becoming equally aware of the continuity of the material substance of the human body with the rocks, the sand and the spray.

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Korean born artist Jin Suk Kim studied graphic design and is now a London-based whose major interests are in abstract paintings and drawings.

During this pen drawing process, Jin does not plan ahead what he is drawing: instead aiming for each element, each stroke to be as spontaneous as possible similar to the movement in doodling or graffiti art. However, Kim still finds himself visualising something he already knows There is something interesting to him in this exploration. The virtue of this style is that there cannot be a mistake. Each new stroke nevertheless dictates the next strokes.

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American artist Blair Lamar is a London based painter and curator, originally from Charleston, South Carolina. She continually develops her work in abstract-figuration. Blair explores the point where shape, colour, and the human form become one: inviting the viewer to discover the subsumed configuration. Blair pushes against the instant gratification culture in today’s society by causing a need to realise the recognisable shapes within her hidden figurative composition.

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Norfolk born photographer Matthew Joseph is a commercial and advertising photographer, specialising in portraiture and lifestyle photography. Based in London but working worldwide, his bold and vibrant style is commissioned by various clients across the advertising, corporate, editorial and music industries.

He has an obvious love for the camera and his art and is constantly seeking to push boundaries within the constraints of the brief. Striving to evoke emotion in each image, his work is honest, fun and original whilst remaining sensitive to the subject and brand.

Matthew was recently awarded RICS Infrastructure of the year 2016, and his latest awareness campaign for Tideway, called 'River People', also made it to a prestigious solo exhibition in Westminster, London. His work received national press coverage on TV, radio and in the newspapers, as well as being recommended by Time Out.

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French born photographer Christine Bory is based in London. After graduating an MA in Arts and getting certifications in photography, digital imaging and photography business, she set out to capture images about people and the world around. Fascinated how light shapes and tones everything we see, she loves to translate this into her work and help people recognize beauty where it is.

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London artist and designer Cheryl Tarbuck Studied at Kingston and Chelsea School Of Art: works across all mediums often combining print ,drawing and paint. Her images have been used on everything from wine labels cartons to enormous window displays. She has illustrated books and magazine articles and exhibits regularly-most recently in Wimbledon and Chelsea. She is currently working on a series of prints and paintings around the theme of identity .

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Athenian born artist Eva-Chloe Vazaka is an accomplished international architect and abstract artist whose passionate work ethic reflects her upbringing in Athens, Greece. Based in London, since the late 1990’s, Eva has expanded and developed a distinctive style that builds images from drawing and text. Her paintings focus on the need for discovery: At the heart of each piece is an intense depth, imagination and sublime use of colour. Her paintings will never allow the viewer to bore in under aesthetics.

Chloe has a detailed knowledge of design, which stems from her studies in Landscape Architecture at University of Greenwich and Architecture at Southbank University and Royal College of Art, Eva has a dedicated, meticulous and ferocious approach to work which produces outstanding contemporary works of art whose subject matter reflects and responses to today’s passions and desires.

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London born, Tsiana started painting and taking commissions at the age of 18 in order to earn money to travel after finishing college. Since receiving a Diploma in portraiture from Heatherley's School of Fine Art at the age of 20, she continued painting on a commission led basis, whilst working on her own projects from her studio in South West London. In 2015 she combined her love of travel and art and visited Florence where she studied at the Florence Academy of Art. She has subsequently decided to move her life there, continuing to paint whilst setting up an artist retreat called Art Escape Italy