ART from HEART is excited to announce the Winners of the Artist of the Season featured in our Winter 2024 edition!
3 Artists, 3 Mediums, 1 Country:
Louise Brook - Mixed Media - UK
Yasmin Grant - Mixed Media - UK
Susan J Hart - Sculpture & Poetry - UK
The competition is open to multimedia artists worldwide and was created to showcase, promote and raise the visibility of the work of emerging and mid-career artists. The winners are featured on our website and social media platforms and considered for any upcoming curatorial projects by ART from HEART. Artworks are selected based on creativity, originality, quality of work, and overall artistic ability.
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Artist Louise Brook - Mixed Media - Northhamptonshire, UK
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Top Left to Right: Whispering with the Waves I; Seasons Winter
Bottom Left to Right: High Rise Living; Playing with Fire I
Artist of the Season Winner Louise Brook, has experience working across multiple styles and mediums. In her abstract work, Louise uses layers of acrylic paint and mixed media to create rich textures and visual interest, inviting the viewer on a journey to explore a contemporary narrative or more complex overarching theme. Louise is deeply inspired by nature as well as what she describes as “the curiosity of being human”. Her art explores complex topics with ideas drawn from an exciting variety of sources including the natural world, current affairs and academic research. Using storytelling and discovery to create an accessible narrative, her intention is to inform and intrigue, sparking interest, curiosity, and conversation.
The themes I explore through my art reflect a lifelong natural curiosity; I am fascinated by nature, by complex topics, progress, and stark juxtapositions. Storytelling, discovery, and the element of surprise bring me joy and motivate me to create.
Louise's recent work celebrates nature from the changing seasons to the beautiful ferocity of a volcanic eruption, while other collections have explored themes as diverse as the cost-of-living crisis, biodiversity and the conflict between urban and rural living.
Her creativity is inquisitive and the intention of her work, like the composition, is multifaceted. She creates pieces which are striking from a distance but demand closer inspection. What seems simple on the surface reveals surprising, intricate details, gorgeous texture and a compelling narrative woven through the layers of the piece. The purpose is to surprise and delight, challenge and question leaving the viewer informed yet intrigued sparking interest, curiosity, and conversation.
Louise's recent achievements include being Highly Commended in the Finals of the SAA Artists of the Year Award and Longlisted for Visual Artist’s Association Professional Artist Award. Louise exhibits regularly with recent exhibitions in London, Nottingham & Northampton.
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Artist Yasmin Grant - Mixed Media - UK
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Top Left to Right: Heather Rise Cairngorm, 2023; Golden Orbit, 2022
Bottom Left to Right: The Black Watch, 2023; Zalpa, 2023
Artist of the Season Winner Yasmin Grant is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist using avant-garde materials to create striking abstract art that blends texture, color, and form in unique ways. Drawing from a diverse range of influences, she explores the power of materials and the emotional depth they convey through tactile, layered compositions.
As a multifaceted artist, her scope of work remains wide, from creating original pieces that evoke rich colours to the ultimate goal of producing a visually polished piece, whether it is a 3D sculpture or a large canvas piece. She uses a variety of mediums—including acrylics, oils, pastels, and found objects—to build rich, textured surfaces that invite both visual and physical interaction.
As a true creative explorer, my approach to art is intuitive and ever-evolving, with each piece emerging from a process of experimentation and self-discovery. My work often evoke a sense of movement and transformation, reflecting the complexities of human experience and the world around us. By deconstructing traditional boundaries between painting, sculpture, and installation, I create immersive pieces that challenge the viewer's perception and invite deeper engagement.
Yasmin explores the realm of abstract, textured art, where she embarks on a captivating journey of expression and experimentation. Striving to transcend the limitations of conventional representation, and embracing the power of texture and abstraction to communicate emotions and ideas in a profound and visceral way.
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Artist Susan J Hart - Sculpture & Poetry - Lincolnshire, UK
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Top Left to Right: Turn Around 2024; Ensconced 2024; Directions 2024
Bottom Left to Right: Note to Self 2024; A Small Part of Me, 2024
Artist of the Season Winner Susan J Hart is an English mixed media sculptor and poet, whose work is a personal reflection on socio-emotional life experiences. Hart works predominantly with wire and clay, exploring issues across the spectrum of emotional wellbeing through a fusion of figurative sculpture and poetry. Combining media elements and utilising their differences, she creates tension, disparity and ambiguity.
Flesh is fused with wire, to suggest poorly masked emotion; or to imply a state of confinement or conversely, sanctuary. Figures are physically and metaphorically fragmented. The human foot becomes a metaphor for indecision or procrastination. In her most recent body of work, Hart examines the concept of the 'comfort zone', represented as a tangible space with which figures are fused, alluding to their dependence upon it, and their unwillingness or inability to vacate it.
As a mature artist, I find myself compelled to draw upon my emotional life experiences, allowing them to serve as a conduit for the growth of ideas. Through my clay and mixed media sculpture, I have in recent years, adopted the human female figure as a vehicle through which to explore and develop my themes. My work is largely subjective, and as it continues to develop, facets of my neurodivergence, anxiety, introversion and lately menopause, invariably influence my approach and guide my concepts and processes.
More recently, Hart has begun to acknowledge the symbiotic relationship between her own poetry and her sculpture, interlinking the two, in an attempt to delve further and expand the depth of expression in her work, whilst challenging the ways in which she addresses some of the consequential issues surrounding its subject matter.
'Directions' Susan J Hart 2024
Don't take the road
That's furthest from your soul,
Where trees hold branches starkly bare
And hills forget to roll.
Go find the path
That leaves unease behind,
That clears the darkling undergrowth
And tangles from your mind.
'Turn Around' Susan J Hart 2024
Turn around.
Watch trees bear fruit
Where you used to hide.
See grass set seed
Where you used to wait.
Be all that lifts you, skylark high...
Not broken, as you were of late.
Susan J Hart graduated with an MA from Birmingham School of Art in the late 1980s. She was awarded the Emma Jessie Phipps Bequest for outstanding achievement, thereafter continuing her practice whilst exhibiting in the UK and curating her first solo show, alongside a teaching residency in Leeds. She continues to exhibit across the UK and online, and has begun to exhibit internationally. Now based in North Lincolnshire.
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