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We have just taken delivery of some beautiful new Nom Kinnear King original paintings! The wonderful 'Poppy' and 'Dasha' can be viewed at our gallery in Walcot Street, Bath. These detailed pieces see a turning point in Nom's works, as she moves on from canvas to wood for a more sleek and defined finish.

COMING SOON!

New Print Release from Natalie ShauNatalie Shau’s latest release ties in with her first solo show in LA. The ever growing popularity of her stunning digital renderings has finally seen her talent become recognized in the United States. Though the Lithuania based illustrator has been known for her work with clients such as Def Jam Records, French Vogue and Sony BMG, Shau’s passion for contemporary art glows with the growing success of her personal works and exhibitions now shown around the world. The limited edition giclee print ‘Sanitarium’ is set for release from Fine Grime in July 2010. This stunning piece, selected by Natalie herself celebrates Shau’s fantastic gift of capturing gothic charm and fantastical symbolism.Signed and number by Natalie shau, this print shows a dainty doll-like figure, dressed in beautiful pink and lilac garments detailed with a floral design, positioned in grand hallway .

‘Welcome to where time stands still No one leaves and no one will Moon is full, never seems to change Just labeled mentally deranged Dream the same thing every night I see our freedom in my sight No locked doors, no windows barred No things to make my brain seem scarred’- Lyrics from Metallica’s Sanitarium

This print is an attractive piece for any admirer of Natalie Shau’s works, and with edition numbers limited to only 50 is soon to be a sell out.Please contact the Fine Grime Gallery for more information or pop in to view the piece in person.

http://www.finegrime.co.uk/index.php?_a=viewCat&catId=19

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SYLVIA JI

Sylvia Ji is a master of capturing the dark side of the beautiful and the sublime. Macabre ‘Day Of The Dead’ catrinas intermingle with exotic empresses, with a regal elegance. Ji’s imagery is a visual elixir of life and death, combining sacred symbolism with mystical glamour and opulence. Influenced by historical costumery, Ji incorporates Baroque detailing such as luxurious tapestries, ornamental feathers, and gold leafing into her work for a more elaborate and decorative effect.Ji’s work encapsulates an alluring beauty that is both cutting edge and a nod to time-honored technique. Her paintings are symbolic reflections of herself, portraits of people she knows or nameless faces set in a landscape of fleeting and decaying beauty. Possessing an artistic voice as unique as the times we live in, Ji is at once contemplative, spiritual, enigmatic, and yet whimsically funny. Above all else, it is perhaps beauty that emerges as her defining characteristic, and her art reflects this: an extension of herself; a passionate appreciation of simple aesthetic pleasure fused with intimately complex subject matter.Sylvia Ji was born in 1982, and raised in San Francisco, California, where she received her BFA at the Academy of Art University. Upon graduation, she relocated to Los Angeles in 2005 where she currently resides. Ji’s work has been featured in numerous gallery exhibitions including White Walls, Thinkspace, Lineage Gallery, BLVD Gallery, and Art Basel’s Art Fair Now. She has been profiled in publications such as Juxtapoz, Trace, and Mesh Magazine, and her painting “Dona Dolorosa” graced the cover of the LA Weekly.

Sylvia Ji Haute Epoch Process 4/09

http://www.finegrime.co.uk/index.php?_a=viewCat&catId=13

Bradley Macmath

Brad Macmath is a graffiti artist from Bristol. With the use of spray paint he creates the most magnificent cityscapes, detailed and vivid in colour. His current work is a visual response to time spent as a tourist in Tokyo, Japan. With these paintings he has managed to capture the layered feel of the city and its overwhelming appearance by using a range of painting techniques. Brad encourages his works to have this feel of multiple different elements combining to create something new, much like the structural makeup of the city itself. Recently he has been studying the collectibles culture, centred on computer games and animation merchandise which is very popular in Japan and is something which saturates the media. Brad is receiving massive commercial success all over the world paving the way for many graffiti artist but more importantly by utilizing his ‘aerosol routes’ he is now taken seriously within the art world as a master craftsman.

http://www.finegrime.co.uk/index.php?_a=viewCat&catId=21

New Release: 'Cosmo' by Joshua Burbank

Limited Edition Print
Medium: Giclee
Paper: 310gm2
Size: 310 x 360 mm
Edition size: 50
Signed / Numbered / Titled by Artist

http://www.finegrime.co.uk/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=96

Carles Gomila ANATOMY

Carles Gomila

Carles Gomila seeks to paint works that are tender and yet disturbing, evocative full bodied and elegant. He feels free to represent the human figure and redeem the values of classical art from a contemporary perspective.Gomila was born in Ciutadella de Menorca in 1978. At the moment he makes paintings and drawings of compositions of figures, as much of the natural world as from his imagination, working with great variety of subjects, from the smallest to the monumental. In addition to the author painting, he dedicates a part of his work to how the paintings are prepared. For more than four years he has been intensely dedicated to the experimentation and study of old techniques of oil painting, acquiring a habitual practice that is not often seen in our days: he prepares the supports of the canvasses in an old wold style, using only the best pigments, oils, balsams, resins and other raw materials. All the used materials are of superb quality and guaranteed to survive well into history. Thus, the works receive greater depth of color, wealth of shades and an excellent conservation.

Coming Soon: Vanilla & Pepper

“…winks like something Gabriel García Márquez might
have wanted on an LP cover had he joined the rock group Blind Faith”
THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE (UK)
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“Moved by the traditional, but also drawn to the contemporary,
Carles Gomila harmonizes both with a dash of technical agility”
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST MAGAZINE (USA, CANADA & UK)
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‘THE SIRENS CALL’

Carles Gomila seeks to paint works that are tender and yet disturbing, evocative full bodied and elegant. He loves painting the human figure based on the real human anatomy plus his own imagination and feels free to represent the human figure and redeem the values of classical art from a contemporary perspective.
Gomila was born in Ciutadella de Menorca in 1978. The glowing Mediterranean light of the island suffuses each of his works. Gomila’s magical surrealism places him at the forefront of living European surrealists. At the moment he makes paintings and drawings of compositions of figures, as much of the natural world as from his imagination, working with great variety of subjects, from the smallest to the monumental.
In addition to the author painting, he dedicates a part of his work to how the paintings are prepared. For more than four years he has been intensely dedicated to the experimentation and study of old techniques of oil painting, acquiring a habitual practice that is not often seen in our days: he prepares the supports of the canvasses in an old world style, using only the best pigments, oils, balsams, resins and other raw materials. Gomila has been dedicating to historic authenticity in material and techniques in his work, prepares his own oil paints and supports in a totally artisan form even and all the used materials are of superb quality and guaranteed to survive well into history. Thus, the works receive greater depth of color, wealth of shades and an excellent conservation.

http://www.finegrime.co.uk/index.php?_a=viewCat&catId=14

New Release: Kuchisake Onna

Kuchisake-onna translates as ‘slit mouthed woman’ and this Yōkai is based on a legend about a young woman, either the wife or concubine of a samurai. She was supposed to have been very beautiful but vain and possibly cheating on her husband. The jealous samurai attacked her, slitting her mouth from ear to ear screaming, "Who will find you beautiful now?"

The story is then taken up in various urban myths, usually involving a woman or girl wearing a surgical mask (often used by those with a cold in Japan) who upon meeting someone - usually children or college students - will ask whether she is beautiful. If they answer yes the mask comes off revealing the slit mouth and sharp teeth and the question is repeated. If the victim answers no she will slit their mouth too. If they say yes she will follow them home and slay them on their doorstep.

Tom Bagshaw

The darker, creepy elements in Bagshaw’s paintings are often balanced out with quirky or humorous details which are charming for the viewer to discover. While feminine beauty plays a large role in his work, the women he depicts are never frail damsels in distress. More often than not they’re strong, intriguing characters, with an air of mystery to them.

Though much of his reputation was gained through commercial work it is Yokai Dreams - his first exhibition - that marks his graduation from successful illustrator to highly-skilled, original and intriguing fine artist.

Tom Bagshaw

Sylvia Ji

Sylvia's gorgeously creepy paintings are brimming with a mixture of sexual provocation and consternation. Images of beautiful women resembling Marie Antoinette in Día de los Muertos face paint. Miss Ji’s interest in art was implanted at a very young age when she would look through her mother’s sketchbooks and watch her father paint. In her art, she explores themes of beauty, sexual provocation, and social notions of femininity, juxtaposed against the dystopian reality of modern cities to create highly charged paintings of women. Some of her paintings are symbolic reflections of herself, portraits of people she knows or just nameless faces set in a landscape of fleeting beauty. She graduated with distinction in 2005 from the Academy of Art University of San Francisco with a Bachelors in Illustration and had her first ambitious and successful solo show while still in her last year of school. Since then she has been in high demand, keeping continuously engaged in an onslought of numerous shows on the West Coast.