Chris Appleby

Solo Exhibitions

2005	Joey Two Streams
2003	The City Staged

Group Exhibitions

2003	Starting A Collection

Luciano Bonomi

1939	Born in Milan, Italy
1969	Trained at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan
1975	Exhibited in Italy
1978	Travelled extensively in Africa; worked in Kenya and Nigeria
1986	Worked in the Midlands
2003	Worked in the United Arab Emirates
2006	Lives and works in Latina, nearby Rome

Solo Exhibitions

1995	Re-Telling the Tales
1998	Tale: Ancient and Modern
2003	Story Lines
2008	Novellas
2009	da Mercato Irlandese a Polifemo, Galleria d'Arte Ghelfi, Vicenza (Italy)
2010	Artverona, Verona (Italy)

Group Exhibitions

1994	London Contemporary Art Fair
1999	Starting a Collection
2001	Ten years Celebrity
2006	Twelve Square
2007	Election
2007	The Postcard Project
2008	The Postcard Project
2009	The Postcard Project
2010	4 Scultori all'Abbazia di Fossanova, Fossanova (Italy)

Luke Elwes

Luke Elwes was born in London in 1961, but spent his early years in Teheran, Persia. He studied history and history of art at university before going on to Camberwell School of Art. His journeys form the basis of his solo exhibitions. Since 1984 he has participated in various group exhibitions in London, Paris and New York. He also writes about contemporary art for journals including Modern Painters, Royal Academy Magazine and Galleries Magazine.

Solo Exhibitions

2007	Refugia
2004	Compass: New Paintings
2002	Art First, New York
2002	The Osea Paintings
2000	Sanctuary
1998	Pilgrim

Group Exhibitions

2006	Translations
2004	Spoilt for Choice: A Christmas Exhibition
2003	Christmas Exhibition
	Look, Stranger! (Three person show with Alex Lowery and Bridget MacDonald)
2002	Art 2002, London Art Fair, with Art First
	Water's Edge (Three person show with Anthony Whishaw and Lino Mannocci)
2001	10th Anniversary Exhibition
2000	Art 2000, London Art Fair, with Art First
1999	Art '99, London Art Fair, with Art First
	Starting a Collection

Kimberley Gundle

Kimberley Gundle was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1963. After completing her BA and Postgraduate Studies at the Michaelis School of Art, University of Cape Town (1983-88), she came to London in 1988 to study at the Slade and has lived and worked here ever since. Gundle has exhibited regularly with Art First in London, including three solo shows in 1996, 1999 and 2003. She has also had solo shows in Belfast (1991), at the Oxford Gallery, Oxford (1994) and at the Museum Annex, Hong Kong. She has participated in various group exhibitions in the UK, South Africa and Hong Kong from 1988 to the present, including the 2002 national touring exhibition, SHOE, curated by Kathy Fawcett at the City Art Gallery, Leicester. Her work can be found in various collections in the UK and South Africa, and individuals and families have commissioned her to paint them in their favourite shoes, knee downwards.

Solo Exhibitions

2009	A Slice of London
2005	Hall of Fame
2003	The Shoe Fits: Portraits Below the Knee
1999	Flower Sellers of London
1996	Cafe Observations

Group Exhibitions

2004	Spoilt for Choice: A Christmas Exhibition
	Director’s Choice
2002/03	Art London Art Fair, Chelsea, London, with Art First
	The London Contemporary Art Fair, with Art First, London
2002	12” x 12”
2001	Starting a Collection III
	10” x 10”
2000	Starting a Collection II
1997	Three Years On
1996	Art Miami 96, Miami, Florida, USA: with Art First London
1995	Londoners
1994; 96-98	The London Contemporary Art Fair: with Art First, London

Diana Hulton

Diana Cécile Hulton, Born 1945, Cape Town, South Africa.
Painted under the name of Diana Kenton from 1975-1991.

Qualifications:

1985-89
MA (Fine Arts), University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg

1970-74
BA Fine Art (cum laude), University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

1963-65
B. Com, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Solo Exhibitions

2003	Parables of Light

Group Exhibitions

2004	Spoilt for Choice: A Christmas Show
	Director's Choice
2003	Starting a Collection, Contemporary British Art
	Small Pictures for December
	artLONDON Contemporary Art Fair, with Art First Ltd
	Art First in Print
2002	12" x 12" Temptations
2001	Art First at 10
1996	Three Years On!
1995	Art ’95 The London Contemporary Art Fair, with Art First
	Under Other Skies
1994	The Featured Land
	Art ’94 The London Contemporary Art Fair, with Art First

Gillian Lever

"My primary interest is in using colour to express a range of basic human emotions. Although my work is abstract, there are often suggestions of doorways or openings, passing places from the known to the unknown. Music that evokes a spiritual realm through the abstract language of sound has provided me with a rich source of inspiration in recent years. I search for the expression of such mystery through the physicality of paint."

Solo Exhibitions

2009	New works (with Clement McAleer)
2007	Subliminal Language (with Kevin Laycock)
2003	Loving the Questions
2001	New Paintings

Group Exhibitions

2006	Starting a Collection
	Christmas Exhibition
2005	Mixed Doubles
	Christmas Exhibition
2004	Fired Earth, Celebrating Twenty Years
2002	Starting a Collection
2001	Directors Choice, Art First, New York
1996	Three Years On
1994	Abstractions

Lino Mannocci

Lino Mannocci was born in Viareggio in Tuscany. He arrived in London in 1968 and studied at Camberwell School of Art (1970-73) and the Slade School of Art (1974-75). Since 1976 he has divided his time living and working in London and Montigiano, a small hilltop village just outside his birthplace. For the past 24 years he has exhibited regularly both in London and Italy. Recent solo exhibitions include Galleria Ceribelli, Bergamo (1996 and 1998), Galleri Ghelfi, Vicenza (1996), Eagle Gallery, London (1997). His first painting exhibition with Art First Storie di Mare took place in October 1999 and was held in conjunction with The Italian Cultural Institute(London) where a further selection of works on this theme was displayed. Since then he has had two further exhibitions with Art First Storie de Mare in 2000 and Bonfires and Other Stories in 2001. His work has been purchased by the British Museum, London; Altoner Museum, Amburgo; W.Hack Museum, Ludwigshaffen; Jenish Musée, Vevey, and numerous private collections in Europe and the USA. Mannocci’s images are quietly captivating. Using a palette of soft blues, browns and off-whites he imbues his subjects with an almost mystical light. Forms are pared down to their simplest shapes; paint is scraped and pulled across the surface of the canvas. The finished works are elegaic and invite contemplation. Narrative is suggested by the creation of quadrapartite groups of images placed in the centre of the canvas (they do not always follow on logically from one to another as in a strip) and these give a different sense of time and place to the single scenes. He also works on picture postcards, manipulating their imagery, challenging us to relook at places we think we know well. Painting out features or backgrounds and replacing building and/or objects out of context shows a lighter side of the artist, and places him as a contemporary exponent of the Italian capriccio.

Solo Exhibitions

2005	Cloud Paintings
2001	Bonfires and Other Stories
2000	Storie de Mare (postcards and prints)
1999	Storie de Mare

Group Exhibitions

2004	Works on Paper
	Directors Choice
	Spoilt for Choice: A Christmas Exhibition

Amanda Vesey

Born in 1939 in Hampshire, Amanda Vesey was educated at the Salisbury School of Art and at the Chelsea College of Art. She lives and works in Salisbury. With the diligence inherited from her career as a prominent writer and illustrator of children's books, Vesey observes ordinary moments of our quotidian landscape. The snapshot locations range from the parks of south London, glimpses caught touring France and Ireland to the random material of television. At first the work seems unassuming, then we understand the sympathetic familiarity and wry darkness of her pared-down vocabulary.

Solo Exhibitions

2009	New Paintings
2006	Paintings & Works on Paper
2001	Solo Exhibition