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The State of Art Daniel Williams Mike Leale
Landscape & Portrait #1 Kirsty Wain Dave Morgan-Davies
Bruce Williams Paul Gorman
Jean Gillespie James Reynolds
Susan Mackay Deborah Westmancoat This is the sixth book in The State of Art, art book series and explores some of the more
James Daniel Devlin Sarah Stolar traditional subjects and techniques that artists are seeking to represent. The title alludes to
Peter Clarke Caroline Jane Harris the format of an image as well as the composition of the subject matter, with many artists
Philippa Beale The Flowerbeds, Anita Duller maintaining a much more traditional approach.
Julia Romano & Hannah Stippl
Valeriya Yanushevskaya Cate Inglis The depiction of landscape in art is perhaps as old as art itself, a method of attempting
Robert P. Clarke Philip Westcott to place ourselves within our environment and refl ect the awesome power and beauty
Siobhan Tarr Aled Simons of nature. Creating work which deals with landscape and its many facets is not merely
Sharon Griffi n James Elliott Dixon limited to painting, although this approach is widely favoured. Landscape offers artists the
Val Andrews Anna Didik chance to work through ideas of scale, colour, tone, composition and light & shade, and
Petra Stenvall Karoline Hinz draws a direct line through art history.
Alison Edwards Sujata Majumdar
Ronis Varlaam Gabrielle Cooper Portraiture in its simplest form can be described as the depiction of people through
John Devane Sam White artistic practice. Often focussing on the face, this genre of art aims to depict the
Dj Kenji Lim subject and capture something of their inner essence - communicating more than a
Jane Walker Katarzyna Jablonska straightforward likeness.
John Shanks Paul McCloskey

The State of Art, art book series is published by Bare Hill Publishing.
Copyright © Bare Hill Publishing 2014.
Artwork and photography copyrights belong to each artist unless otherwise stated.
ISBN 978-1-909825-08-6
Editing: Andy Laffan, Chris Hodson and Robin Laffan.
Design: Andy Laffan.
Front and Back Cover: Arrangement #15, 2013, Aled Simons.
Artwork location is correct at time of press, for more information and updates
please contact the artist direct.

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