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Meet the artists exhibiting in Shifting Sands @ccagalleries_international
Next up is Nick Ivins with his expressive, beautifully textured paintings inspired by the seaside.

NICK IVINS is a British painter based in Dorset. “On many mornings I’ll start the day with a small oil painting on a panel down on the shore whilst my wife swims. I tend to paint from the same few positions - a jetty sticking out into the morning light, a seat beneath the dense vegetation on the under cliff, or above sets of rolling waves. The same few places but always the sea state, tide and weather varies”.
“Nick Ivins creates scruffy, vibrant paintings that blend humour, wit, nostalgia, and rich colour. Drawing inspiration from seaside life, his work captures fleeting moments - utterly irrelevant yet deeply precious – infused with juicy, expressive paint.” - The Newlyn Gallery.

https://www.nickivins.co.uk/

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Meet the artists exhibiting in Shifting Sands @ccagalleries_international Next up is Polly Tomlinson we love her energetic brushwork and vibrant colours. These two stunners stand as sentinels in the exhibition.

POLLY TOMLINSON is a British artist based in West Lancashire. Tomlinson holds a Master in Fine Arts from Manchester Metropolitan University and is currently part of the Turps Banana Cohort 2024/5. Her practice focuses on a combination of gestural abstraction, flatness and looking down on the painting. The paintings are an interplay between figure and gestural whilst attempting to maintain characterful and lively handling of mark making. Action is the generating mechanism, a sort of self perpetuating mechanism with both positive and negative feedback loops which may cause a feeling of uneasiness or harmony.
There may appear to be fragments of images alongside a restless push and pull between implied depth and flatness, organic and geometric, erasing and superimposing. An enquiry into a somewhat nimble process of building up and taking down.

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Meet the artists - during the exhibition Shifting Sands we are profiling each of the painters in the exhibition.
Next up meet Julie Annis - Annis constructs her ground - the canvases she works on are pieced together, stitched, folded, and layered; constructed sometimes roughly and at other times with such delicacy all from found fabrics that carry with them a history of human use. These textile surfaces might be fragile or brutal; each one holds embedded histories much like the strata that lie below the lines and forms of the landscapes she depicts on them.

We are delighted to welcome Julie Annis to Jersey to talk about her work and to offer audiences a glimpse into her material practice.
Julie Annis will be in conversation with Laura Hudson @ccagalleries_international
Saturday 26 April 11am book tickets on eventbrite and take up our special 2 for 1 deal

JULIE ANNIS holds a BA in fine art, painting and drawing from Edinburgh College of Art and is currently on the Turps Hastings painting programme.
The landscape of Sussex downland is at the core of Annis’ work being a place of childhood memories and her current home. The gentle hills provide a linear structure to her paintings as well as the plough lines, tracks and field boundaries and the strata and layers of chalk. Below one’s feet, one thinks of the countless barrows encased in burial mounds and the fossils and treasures sandwiched between the unseen layers of soil. Annis incorporates domestic linen into the painting surface, which is sewn together to create the desired composition. It’s important for her that there is a human presence within the work and a domestic framing of the landscape speaking of the longing of the natural world through an interior window. The linen sourced is worn down and smooth, eroded by skin and time, sometimes aged with stains, snags and tears or fades from sun and multiple washes.

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Meet the artists - we are profiling each of the artists as part of the Shifting Sands exhibition @ccagalleries_international

Next up is George Badescu, such a delight to meet the maker of these two paintings in Jersey. Thanks George. Wonderful use of raw canvas as part of the composition - we are really captivated by these two paintings. Sparse and lush at the same time - they resonate so strongly - just perfect.

GEORGE BADESCU is Romanian / British artist who lives and works in London. With a background in life sciences and theatre directing, painting has become the main part of his creative practice since the pandemic. He is currently part of the Turps Banana cohort 24/25.
“Born in Transylvania, Romania, under the oppressive regime of Ceausescu, I experienced the duality of a magical childhood amidst political turmoil and the trauma of the 1989 revolution. These early contrasts — beauty and violence, belonging and estrangement — shaped my understanding of identity, home, and the human condition. Leaving Romania for the UK was a self-imposed exile that ignited a profound and continuous questioning of my identity.
My work explores the cycles of exile and return, the transformation that happens in between. Displacement, separation, disconnection — these are not just physical states but deep emotional and existential conditions. The return is never a simple homecoming. It is a journey of discovery, of transformation, of becoming. Painting is a way to process, to unearth, to reimagine. A search for ways to return — not only to what was, but to what could be.”

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Meet the artists - during the exhibition Shifting Sands @ccagalleries_international we are profiling each of the painters in the exhibition.
Next up is Tim Dodds with his slippery renditions of 3D constructs, we love the colour palettes, use of paint and the fun of them.

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TIM DODDS is an Edinburgh based artist. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art (1998-2002) and Edinburgh College of Art (2012-14) before undertaking The Drawing Year at The Prince's Drawing School (now the Royal Drawing School). Dodds constructs makeshift models out of different things such as card, clay, foam, found items, and painting materials, including discarded canvases and surplus oil paint scraped from his palette. In his work Dodds explores ideas of connection, inner and outer, as he tries to find his way into the essence and act of painting. His distinctive approach uses the medium as a language, as if it were to become an unpredictable structure for thinking and world-making. Humour, playfulness, and lightness are essential elements in the work: absurd and far fetched motifs create juxtapositions that spark curiosity while textures and techniques shift impression depending on the distance they are being looked at from.

Meet the artists - during the exhibition Shifting Sands @ccagalleries_international we are profiling each of the painters in the exhibition.
Next is Jarrod Becker with his visually narrative piece Pony Boy Birthday.
JARROD BECKER is an American contemporary artist based in Northern Kentucky. Becker’s work is driven by the belief that objects carry their own life and stories. By weaving thoughts and personal narratives into found objects, Becker creates a dialogue between memory, identity, and the world around him. His working process transforms ordinary materials into vessels of history and emotion, and a vehicle to visually and physically explore the human experience. “Nature is a constant muse in my work. Inspiration comes from the smallest details—a word, the scent of warm wool, painted road lines, shells in the sand, or even milk in a cereal bowl. These seemingly mundane elements infuse my work with vitality and rhythm, encouraging viewers to connect with the pulse of the natural world. The human figure also serves as a central motif, acting as a conduit to explore our complex relationships with our environment and each other. Through expressive strokes and intentional chaos, I aim to capture the raw, untamed aspects of the human spirit, celebrating the fundamental goodness within us all”. http://www.jabart.com/
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Meet the artists - during the exhibition Shifting Sands @ccagalleries_international we are profiling each of the painters in the exhibition.
Next up is local artist Tim Le Breuilly with his recent garden studies which are intangibly serene.
TIM LE BREUILLY is a multidisciplinary artist based in Jersey and co-founder of ‘Luddite Press’. Tim has previously been shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize as well as the BEEP painting biennial. In 2023 he held his first solo show with CCA Galleries International.
With these recent paintings there is an oscillation between materiality and illusion which enriches the experience of the work. These garden studies are intriguing in the way they go about dissolving form and not because there are no forms there, one can clearly see tree trunks, branches and foliage but in the way these forms are literally ungrounded. What we see are recognisable forms emerging and submerging within an amorphous atmospheric space. This introduces a vital ingredient of flux in the ways we see things and in the shifting levels of visibility of the things we see. The range of processes worked with are in fact, all deployed in the service of depiction and building up a repertoire of marks and gestures that seek to capture the vitality of nature as a living animate force. The visual vocabulary seems to be deeply rooted and sourced from the natural world. Driven by reflection on experiencing a landscape in all its elusive fluctuating density. Colour modulations and contrasts mould and shape the forms in space giving richness and complexity to the landscape. https://timlebreuilly.co.uk/ @turpsbanana

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Meet the artists - during the exhibition Shifting Sands @ccagalleries_international we are profiling each of the painters in the exhibition.
Next up is Elaine Quinlan, we love these little beauties and so do our gallery visitors.
ELAINE QUINLAN is an Irish artist living and working in rural Co. Galway, Ireland. Quinlan’s practice centres on engaging with the landscape and climate in which she lives in order to challenge her own ambivalence towards her rain-soaked, rocky environment in which she finds a constant source of inspiration in the marshy lowlands, limestone fields, and vanishing lakes known as turloughs.
“In my work, themes of rain, flooded fields, distant fog, and stone walls are regular motifs. My paintings lie somewhere between abstraction and representation, capturing the essence of the land without confining it to literal forms. I’m interested in exploring ways of reimagining my local landscape. https://elainequinlan.com/
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