This Week's Window - Susan Brown

Susan was born in Yorkshire and graduated from Leeds with a BA Honours degree in Three Dimensional Design in 1979. She went on to become a highly respected interior designer but in her spare time worked on her personal passion, fine art painting.

Now an established artist, Susan creates bold and vibrant images which present what she describes as the real world. She sees them as an interpreted record of life through architectural studies of existing surroundings. These explore the mathematics, rhythm and movement within structures and the relationship between man and the built environment in an exciting and immediate style. Her background in design has given her an exceptional command of colour, texture and pattern, which gives these images a dual quality of technical and aesthetic beauty.

Susan is an elected member of both the Chartered Society of Designers and the Society of Architectural Illustrators. Official recognition has also come in the form of awards at the Laing Art Competition, Hunting Art Prizes and Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Competition. Her paintings can be found in a number of prestigious collections including those of Dame Janet Baker, the Sir George Martin Trust, Arthur Anderson, Benningbrough Hall, The National Trust, Halifax plc, Natwest Bank and Provident Financial.

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This Weeks Window - Rob Shaw

This Weeks Window - David Kincaid

Born in 1963 in Des Moines, Lowa, he was deeply influenced by the rolling hills and expressive forms in the landscape of his own state. He became interested in art at an early age and experimented with many techniques, mediums and styles during his youth. Eventually he has come to focus on abstract pieces, expressing emotion and idea through shape and colour.

In 1987 he graduated from the University of Lowa with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. After college, he travelled throughout the United States and Mexico, learning from many styles of art he came across.

He finally settled in New York City in 1990. He continues to live there, constantly innovating his art, incorporating aspects of many cultures and ideas present in the city. His work communicates the vibrancy and poetry he experiences in his life; he shares his vision through colour and expressive form.

This Weeks Window - Chris Parks

Abstract artist, Chris Parks, creates an ethereal world through his dynamic fluid paintings which capture light, movement and depth in a totally unique way. Using mixed media within a liquid medium, Chris creates moving fluid paintings which continually change and develop over time and are frozen at a particular moment in time through the use of photography.

All the paintings are naturally occurring events that Chris creates in his studio using organic ingredients. Nothing is digitally manipulated in any way: all colours are visible at the time of capturing the image. Organic particles are used to add a natural randomness to the flow and feel of the images. The paintings only exist for a moment before they evolve into something different and the desired effect is gone forever.

Having studied Engineering at Imperial College, London and then Design at the Royal College of Art, London , much of Chris's professional life has been concerned with the oceans, film and photography. The fluid paintings that he creates are both inspired by, and draw on the movements and dynamics that he has discovered whilst filming some of the smallest organisms that inhabit the oceans.

It is this rare combination of engineer, artist and photographer, combined with his experiences under the sea, that has enabled Chris to produce work that is not only created in a way that is totally unique, but which is also unparalleled in its fluidity, movement and subtlety.