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 Chris Christoforou is a Co-Founder of The Portrait Guild and the Managing Artistic Director. His experience in this business comes from over 30 years of working in fine art and illustration, publishing, exhibitions, workshops and seminars. He has been handling commissions for artworks and sculptures in all that time and will actively deal with all clients to advise and meet their requirements. Chris is also a sought after artist in his own right and has gained an international reputation for his fine art paintings, where he has sold artworks at Christie’s and Sotheby’s Art Auctions, and at many exhibitions around the UK and in Dubai. He has collectors of his artwork in Britain, America, Canada, Australia, Spain, Qatar and Dubai. Chris has worked with Chromacolour since the invention of the Chroma Artist Colours some 20 odd years ago and is still very committted to promoting the medium he loves the most. Chris says "Chromacolour is one of the most versatile paints I have ever used in my long career as an artist. It will perform to whatever requirements I demand of it, for example when I need a smooth wet in wet watercolour or hard edged acrylic style, this medium is perfect for the job. My work is very demanding in detail and Chromacolour suits this best." |
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Rachel Byass Rachel owns her own Art Studio/Gift Gallery in Pontefract West Yorkshire where she holds Art and Ceramic Workshops. Over the years she has gained 8 different Certification in Art and Ceramics. The most recent one made her a Copic Teacher; one of only three in UK. ChromaColour UK can now offer the official Copic Certification Course. Rachel loves to teach and pass on her knowledge and enthusiasm. Her biggest passion is painting Botanical flowers which started when she studied Horticulture at Askham Bryant in York. Rachel became the ChromaColour “In-house” Artist 3 years ago. She has worked with many different Acrylics, but loves ChromaColour’s vibrant colours the best. From our original 80 colours Rachel has introduced ChromaColour Inks, Fabric (T- Shirt) Paints and most recently our own range of One Stroke Paints. She says that no other Acrylic works as well as ChromaColour and they are especially stunning on black card. As an Artist she loves to see others enjoy painting through her workshops and has introduced many new products, including Pattern Packs and Practice Sheets as well as having a book published to help others enjoy her Art.
ChromaColour has 2 classrooms for Workshops and these are held in Croydon and Pontefract all year round or at your own location. Contact Rachel for more details on 079707937267 or email on sales@chromacolour.co.uk or Rachel.byass@homecall.co.uk
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As I paint in a very traditional style I can build up in very thin glazes to produce clean colours which is brilliant for flesh tones and shadows. also I can use a thickener to build up impasto when required for acrylic and oil style. My subject matter varies from commissioned portraits and pet portraits, to wildlife, flowers, and still life, but what ever the subject, chroma artist colour can deliver. Angela Gaughan.
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Robert Phillip Jones (b. 1950) is a land and sea-scape artist working in oil, watercolour, acrylic and increasingly in Chromacolour, reflecting the scenery of the Isle of Wight, where he has lived all his life, and Southern England. Chromacolour, he says, is a remarkable paint which imparts a living glow to his work, offering a wide range of techniques including glazing, scumbling, and direct alla prima painting in strong, vibrant colour. Website is at www.isleofwightlandscapes.net |
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Gillian Burrows tel: 02075159935
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 Andrew Forkner-Natural Art A self-taught artist, Andrew works in a variety of media, including Graphite Pencil, ChromaColour Acrylics and Pastel to complete his originals. He has produced several commissions for the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds), of which he has been a member for over thirty years. He is a keen naturalist and has travelled in both this country and abroad in search of wildlife. His artwork has also travelled widely, with examples of his art in collections in the UK, Europe, Kenya, Canada, USA and Nepal. Andrew is a signature member of The Artists for Conservation Foundation and also a member of The Wildlife Art Society International and the Marwell International Wildlife Art Society. His work has been displayed at many British venues including Nature in Art at Gloucester (where he participates in their ‘Artist in Residence’ programme and runs drawing workshops), The Mall Galleries, Christies, Sotheby’s, The Art Materials Live at the NEC and Galleries at WWT Slimbridge, Arundel and The London Wetland Centre.
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Terence Lambert Still driven today to master the complexities of pen pencil and paint, he can justly be described as a key player in the development of contemporary wildlife art". Email: terencelambert@btinternet.com |
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Dick Twinney
Alongside his more serious work in the wildlife field, Dick loves cartooning and had great success with his 'Know your Dog' series of wall plaques. In fact he still gets regular emails from people trying to locate these and they were done over 25 years ago! He still continues to do cartoons on occasion but these are usually based on his favourite car, the Citroen 2CV and are usually for 2CVGB magazine. In 1990 Dick realised a long-standing ambition by having his own book published by Webb and Bower of Exeter, Devon who had just had huge success with 'Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady'. Titled 'The Painted Seasons' it featured paintings of Cornwall's wildlife and countryside throughout the year and is still available as a third edition. Throughout the 90s he continued to flourish with successful exhibitions at The National Trust's Lanhydrock House and the Chase Art Gallery in Wadebridge. He also enjoys what he calls are his 'laid back' charity exhibitions which are very informal and usually held in local hostelries, combining business with pleasure! In late 1997, after working in watercolour and gouache for so many years he changed mediums and started using Chromacolour which was fairly new at the time. This paint is water-based and is extremely versatile which makes it still suitable for highly detailed book illustrations on art paper but can also be used on canvas and many other surfaces, allowing Dick more freedom to paint larger works. This is something he wanted to do for some time, moving on from the tight restrictions of book illustrating. Recent years have continued to be busy for Dick with the publication of the very successful children’s book 'The Brave Little Owl' which he illustrated entirely. In 2008 Dick secured a weekly feature in the Western Morning News daily newspaper, something he is extremely proud of doing. As he says "This is one of the best things that has happened to my career over recent years. The Western Morning News has been my daily newspaper all my life, as it was also my late father's, so to actually have a regular feature in it is like coming home. All my artwork nowadays is local and confined to the South West so it is such a pleasure to share my passion for this part of the world and its wildlife with local people through my paintings". In 2009 the second book of his nature notes and paintings, From Hedgerow to High Tor - The Wildlife Diary of a Country Artist, was eventually published by Alison Hodge of Penzance. It was supposed to be a follow-up to The Painted Seasons which it was in a way, over twenty years later! However, so as not to leave it so long this time he has gone straight into working on a third book, From Source to Sea - The West country’s Wildlife and Waterways. This will involve many trips out and about the South West, following our rivers from 'Source to Sea' sketching and photographing along the way, as Dick says "The ultimate job!" . |
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"The Writers’ Gallery" 39'’ x 16'6' mural painted by Peter Dodd at Alnwick Station, Northumberland. This work took Peter two years to complete and is painted solely using Chroma Artist Paints. |
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Phil Daniels Tel: 01603 879378
For more examples of Phils' work please visit his gallery at www.maverickgallery.co.uk |
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Fay Draper I am available for teaching, demonstrations and workshops, please contact me at fay.eatonfolk@fsmail.net for more information.
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Lyndsey Selley
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Darren Green
Over the past few years painting has become a fundamental part of my life, and now takes up much of my spare time. I don't set out to produce art about one subject matter as I like to test out differing skills and techniques. I get great pleasure from watching my work transform from inner vision to outer reality. I use acrylic paint on watercolour board as it is pliable and versatile, giving strong colours to fine washes, adding depth and realism to my work. I aspire to make painting a bigger part of my life and hope that people get as much pleasure from my work as I do creating it. |
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Jane Booth
Jane has been painting as a regular pastime for at least 25 years. She first started using water colour, then decided she wanted to paint more detail in her pictures moving onto acrylic where she found the Chromacolour range a perfect match for the effects she was looking to apply. (From there she has not stopped studying and developing her own techniques to produce the amazing detailed paintings she does today.) To date, Jane has received all of her commission work through word of mouth following her debut exhibition in September 2009. The work she showcased there brought an attention to her art that has not ceased. For Commission Enquiries and Sales; Jane Booth Fine Art,
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   Penelope Timmis Penelope Timmis is an artist who concentrates especially on the colour , movement and pattern of what she sees ...... " without Cromacolour, I would be lost ..... the strength of colour and versatility this medium offers is wonderful . As a "final touch" to my work I literally pour Chromacolour on ! " Penelope was born in 1956, She studied art at the Froebel Institute in Roehampton and in Shrewsbury. After a long break to raise her family, she returned to painting about 10 years ago. Since then, she has had many solo and joint exhibitons and sells regularly. Penelope lives in Shropshire and now, as an estabished artist, exhibits throughout Wales and England. She is a member of the Society for Women Artists and also an Associate of the Royal Birmingham Society for Artsists. |
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International Watercolour Artist, Flower painter, and Silk painter Pauline Hill, has been writing for Craft and Art Magazines for the past 22 years. A mother of four children, Nottinghamshire-born professional artist Pauline is a regular contributor to the Leisure Painter magazine. As well as being known at home and abroad for her watercolours, flower paintings and skills with pastels and liquid acrylics, she is also known for her innovative techniques and is one of the country's leading silk painters. She has had her own stand at the Patchings Art Convention for thirteen years and has been responsible for several 'one woman' shows. There are examples of her work all around the world and she has recently completed a Danish Royal commission. These pictures were painted with ChromaColour. Email: paulinej.hill@btinternet.com |
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Robert Parkin A nature and folk artist Rob has worked with BBC radio and television on many natural history programs. For over thirty years he has designed and created wildlife and conservation reserves in the UK and Europe. He worked with the late Sir Peter Scott at Slimbridge and undertook the initial design work for the London Wetland Centre. It was Sir Peter Scott who urged Rob to pick up a paintbrush and begin painting again. He was a signature member with Artists for Conservation in Vancouver, Canada. He now works freelance with The National Trust and a number of other conservation and wildlife groups in the UK and western Europe. Rob works in a number of mediums, including graphite and ink. When it comes to painting he say's. "No way could I work without ChromaColour!. It is so strong and so gentle to touch. It's the only paint that I've been happy to get cross with. The reason for that is you can 'work' the paint to do more than any other I have ever worked with".  
http://robertparkin.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/michaelmas-painting-studio-workshops.html
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Peter Sherburne Enquiries : petersherburne@yahoo.co.uk  Photo courtesy of Hyndburn Borough Council Paint in the traditional realist style, applying multiple glazes, finding that Chromacolour is a perfect medium to use for all the techniques that I need to obtain the desired effects. I see my art as a God-given gift and marvel at the wonders of creation. Studied art at local art school. Taught art at adult education level. Presented Professor David Bellamy with framed Kingfisher print. Received East African Wildlife Society Award for a piece of art sold at auction in Nairobi. Peter has been artist for British Naturalists Association for some time. Designed Biblical Art Calendar for world-wide publication. Latest piece of art was a commissioned painting of an English Springer Spaniel which was presented to Her Majesty the Queen for her Diamond Jubilee. The Queen was delighted! Presented a framed print of art to the Lord-Lieutenant of Lancashire. Published artist, prints and cards. Peter finds amazing detail with Chromacolour - wonderful to experiment with the paint - with great results.
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Rachel
has worked in the Art Industry for 27 years. She has worked on many different surfaces and with a wide variety of paint mediums. 
Rachel likes One Stroke Brushwork painting, a popular Art form, especially in the US. People are amazed at seeing 2-3 colours blended on a brush and in one simple stroke a flower is created before your very eyes. What is even more exciting is that with a little tuition anyone can do it bringing out the artist in us all. 
Rachel also Travel Teaches going into Clubs, other Art shops as well as Schools and Colleges throughout the UK. She also teaches overseas in France, Spain, Holland and the US.
As a long established artist, I use chromacolour because I can trust it to do the job Ii require, for example beautiful transparent vibrant washes in watercolour style.
Born in 1943, Dick Twinney has loved the countryside and its inhabitants for as long as he can remember. Growing up in the South Devon town of Teignmouth played a big part in his deep appreciation of the natural world. It is an area of outstanding wild beauty - a tidal river with a huge variety of wading and sea birds, fields and woodlands stretching to the moors are home to popular mammals from tiny harvest mice to otters. 
Pauline Hill
