Artist’s Profiles

Tracey Jane Cooper

Tracey is a self taught artist, showing her artwork since 2014. Her inspiration and love of natures’ colour and patterns are clearly evident in all her work.

As well as painting with acrylic, in recent years Tracey has developed a passion for working with alcohol ink; the vibrancy of the highly pigmented ink and the way it moves and creates different tones when it mixes with the alcohol is quite mesmerising to see.

Working without brushes, using only a straw, she creates fluid shapes which have many intricate layers often giving the appearance of a delicate, chiffon like quality. Tracey often adds metallic ink to highlight the details and bring the work even more alive.

Jackie Fitz-Gerald

My name is Jackie Fitz-Gerald. I’m a wheelchair user with limited mobility and normally fit as a fiddle. I was born right-handed but my right hand no longer works very well, so I do all my art left handed. My vision is very much impaired. When I am looking carefully, I can see shapes and colours but it takes me a while to get focus. For me to produce artwork, I need an assistant to help me source the pictures I will incorporate into my “Janksy” canvases. She cuts out templates but apart from that, I do it all. Every bit of paint on the canvas is put there by myself. I am so amazed and delighted that I am able to express myself through art. It makes me smile and I hope you get as much pleasure out of it as I do.

Bogdan Schiteanu

When you do something with passion, the results seems to be different - in a good way… With passion you see more details, different angles and other little things the eye may miss otherwise. This is my passion: photography. I lived in Dorking for the past 19 years and every time i go out for a walk, i discover new things to photograph, a new light or more flowers or a coveted blanket of mist laying low above the Surrey Hills.
For two years in a row i did Dorking Calendars and displayed some of my work at Denbies Gallery last December alongside my fellow colleagues from Dorking Camera Club. Sharing is knowing and learning from others and i will continue to let others see out local world (and other places) through my eyes.

Nicola McNair

I consider myself as someone who messes around with paint rather than an artist but sometimes the result can be very good on the eye. I like to experiment with different techniques some of which I have employed as an art teacher and still use as a private art tutor for people with disabilities.

Gloria Whiting

Gloria is a mixed media artist, inspired primarily by nature and her love of the natural world. She is heavily influenced by fluidity of form in trees and leaves, and her local countryside. She uses painting, hand dyeing and texture to bring her subject matter to life.

In recent years, she has focused on ceramics, textiles, glass and mosaic work.

Her work has been exhibited extensively in France – in Paris, Versailles, Saint Germain en Laye and Saint Nom La Bretèche.

Recent exhibitions in the UK have been at Standen House, a National Trust property just outside East Grinstead in Sussex, and at the Barbican Library in London.

Uncle Stubble 2

Uncle Stubble has been painting walls, canvases and anything that doesn’t move, up and down the country for a long time now. Using spray paint, he has been focusing more on painting wood lately and then danish oiling, for a fabulously glossy finish.

Uncle Stubble will give a live display of street art on an 8 X 8 ft panel at the Art Exhibition on Sunday 22nd May.