Summer Exhibition

The wet weather is not dampening Creative Art Gallery’s Summer Exhibition of Original Artwork and Limited Editions featuring five new international artists to the gallery covering a variety of styles and mediums.

Harry Brioche was born in the Seychelles in 1965 of Creole and American parentage, however it is the moody skies of the UK that have captured his imagination more than the famously beautiful surroundings of his upbringing. His beautifully lit scenes in oils of the British Countryside are strongly influenced by masters of the landscape Turner and Vernet.

Danielle O’Connor Akiyama is a Canadian artist based in Toronto who has been painting for over 30 years, during which time her flamboyant artwork has become highly sought after worldwide. Her exhilarating floral images are vibrant with life, energy and riotous colour. Her deceptively loose and impressionistic style disguises the intricacy of her brush work and the stylish formality of each delicate composition.

The work of Tuscan Artist Bruno Tinucci also employs a distinct pallette of stunning vibrant colours to interpret both the appearance and the atmosphere of this most beautiful of landscapes. He has a unique initiative ability to capture the vivid scarlet of a field of poppies, the golden shades of a sunflower in full bloom and the changing light of the seasons in his striking oil paintings.

Michael McGuire’s vibrant marine images are derived largely from his imagination, but influenced by the colours and contours of his home on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States and his favourite location of Isla Mujeres, Mexico. His paintings demonstrate a natural progression from his previous sculpture work (he was formally trained in this field) in that they are almost three-dimensional in nature. Michael builds up the surface of each image with layers of paint, applying it with knives.

John Milan has a unique talent for capturing the essence of a character with a simple gesture or expression and this engaging element is evident in all his artwork. Inspired by the coastal city of Kavala in Greece where he lived for a time following his graduation from the Savannah College of Art and Design and the University of Georgia, Milan’s artwork encompasses bold, clean colours and highly contrasted light and shadows in his high-impact landscapes. He has exhibited his work in many galleries across the US and Europe and been commissioned to do murals by businesses and nightclubs in cities as diverse as Miami and Athens.

A little something for everyone!