Original art, selected for real spaces.
artworks4you is being rebuilt as a modern online gallery,
beginning with the preserved story of the original artist collective.
The Founding Collection
Jean Atkinson
Jean has been involved in visual art for most of her life. After a disrupted session at art school in her early years, she returned to art college as a mature student and gained an honours degree in Fine Art. She mainly works in oil on canvas and has also been a printmaker. Life, places, metaphor, memories and personal observations on landscape and nature all help shape her work.
Liz Boast
Liz concentrates on printmaking. Her larger prints are hand-burnished onto Japanese paper, while her drypoints are made by drawing onto perspex sheets and then developed with colour rolls and Chine-colle, making each one unique. Liz won an award to be a student associate member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, and her work Consequences was accepted for the International Print Biennale at the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle in 2011.
Frances Ewing Press
Frances has made line drawings for over twenty years, seeking to create the maximum from the minimum. A straight line is drawn freehand from left to right, and the next line is drawn underneath, but it wanders. The textures are determined by the succession of minute meanderings. Her work has been influenced by Agnes Martin and David Connearn, and one of her panels from the Banners of Contemplative Order series was selected for the John Moores Biennale at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
Maud Eager
Maud has always loved working from the human form in one way or another. Having finished the art school experience, moved through photography and video, and waved goodbye to the conceptual and post-modern, she returned to the physical experience of charcoal, paint, collage and oil pastel. Dirty hands, and people, brought the work full circle.
Featured founding artists
A small selection from the original collective. More archive profiles are available in The Founding Collection.
Terry Sadler
Terry acted as co-ordinator for the Artworks group, planning exhibitions, workshops and networking events in and around London. She has managed a number of Hertfordshire visual arts projects and sculpture commissions. Terry has always been drawn to sculpture and the power of materials, combining wood, stone, glass, hessian, steel, lead and found objects. Photography and printmaking have also become increasingly important in her work.
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Julie Cooper
Colour is the predominant force in Julie Cooper's increasingly pared down abstract and figurative paintings. Her subjects are drawn from landscape, horses, dogs and an interior world. Mark making, layering, drawing into the surface and scraping back all contribute to the energy or quietness required. She has exhibited throughout the UK, with paintings in private collections in France, Germany and Australia.
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Julie Scarr
Julie Scarr had recently been working with print processes and techniques when the old site was archived. The works represented a first production of prints including drypoint, screenprints, monoprints, photopolymer solar and hybrid prints. It was an exciting new departure after not using those processes since 1986. Her most recent exhibited work had been conceptual and abstract in content.
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Archive Notes
Past exhibitions
Material Matters II
Eight artists showed work at the Apsley Paper Trail Gallery in October 2014, returning after enjoying the place and experience in 2013. The title referred to the historic surroundings of the Paper Mill, and the gallery was hung with recent work. Several artists also set up playful collaborative sessions during the exhibition.
Material Matters
An exhibition at the Apsley Paper Trail Gallery in October 2013. The title and formal work referred to the historic surroundings of the Paper Mill, while artists also ran informal collaborative sessions each afternoon.
The first chapter remains part of the gallery.
The new artworks4you will grow into a broader online gallery, but this first chapter will remain part of the site and its history as a lasting record of the origin story, artists and archive works.
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Founding artist archives
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Archive exhibition notes
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