MASA-UK Art at the Downs 8, Altrincham
MASA-UK Gallery, Art @ The Downs
Friday 16th February 2024
6pm - 9pm
8th The Downs, Altrincham WA142PU
Masa-UK Art Gallery has been a cultural hub for over ten years. Many emerging local and international artists have found us as an important platform for their artistic journey. We have represented our artists at many international art fairs and in the UK and aborad.
As a family run Gallery, our main mission is through our model of communication and gallery setting, the artists, customers and art lovers are becoming a part of our extended family.
We have carefully curated art that captures the moment of life, leaves stamp in history, evokes feelings and tells a story, hoping it will make easier for you to choose your own original from the preselected wide range by the diverse and highly regarded artists.
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We hope to see you there
Artists presented at the Gallery
Stevie Cohen
STEVIE COHEN SOLO EXHIBITION
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"When small, I envied the cartoon girl on the TV.
With her magic crayon, she could draw a door and then walk through it.
As for me - Still Trying".
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Stevie Cohen's work can subtly shift how we see and understand the world. It continues a long standing and deeply spiritual enquiry concerning the measured and immeasurable aspects of life. Elements such as graph paper, wallpaper, numbers and now dots are used to signify the physical. whereas as spontaneous and uncontrolled scribbles signify immeasurable or metaphysical attributes.
Motifs, symbols and signs are strategically used. An arrow often pointing the edge of the frame questions what is beyond the physical boundaries of time and space.
"All work is nothing more or less than an exact recording of events"
So the state of mind is everything whilst creating work. Through rigorous practice, what begins as descriptive becomes more spontaneous, and focussed play becomes paramount. This is when wonder and surprise occur. And if this sensation is not experienced by the artist, then it will not be recorded and the work cannot contain it.
Stevie Cohen is a North West based artist. Her practice, based in drawing, painting., collage and text has continued for over 30 years. She is a past University Lecturer in Contemporary Fine Art and has widely exhibited both in the UK and abroad. Her ideas are influenced by scientific, mathematical as well as spiritual philosophies and have allowed her to formulate her own version of the world, often with humorous connotations. She feels an affinity with artists - Tapies, Motherwell and Twombly (who in turn influenced Basqiat} - and some similarities with these artists can be appreciated
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​Don't miss this special opportunity to experience IRL. {In Real Life]
Through the interplay of precise structure and spontaneous gesture-
Stevie invites you to step into a space where imagination itself is the essential element, and is magically captured, trapped in fact -
IN Real Life !!!!!​
Stevie Cohen
Title: Room 2
Media: Mixed media on paper
Stevie Cohen
Title: Faces
Media: Mixed media on paper
Charlotte Elizabeth Lane
Charlotte has been working as an artist professionally for over fifteen years. A prestigious training in Theatre Design preceded a busy career, as a Theatrical Scenic Artist in London’s West End.
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Working with some of the best scenic artists in the world, Charlotte created huge scale backcloths and murals for many famous venues all over the world. A move to Asia inspired a change in direction. Inspired by the evocative and dramatic climate and surrounded by buildings so tall, Charlotte describes life as ‘surrounded by clouds’, she was empowered to create the ‘Skies series’.
Receiving much acclaim and winning clients all over the world, Charlotte has continued to work within this theme, now back in the UK.
BA hons Drama and Hispanic study, Queen Mary, university of London Post Grad Art Motley Theatre design school Drury lane, London.
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Charlotte has exhibited at Affordable Art fairs in London, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore And Manchester art fair.
We are looking forward of welcoming for this exhibition at MASA-UK Art Gallery on 8 `The Downs, Altrincham this January 2025
Charlotte Elizabeth Lane
Title: Wolf Moon
Media: Mixed media on canvas
Charlotte Elizabeth Lane
Title: Undercurrent
Media: Mixed media on canvas
Kate Collins
Kate Collins was born in Macclesfield 1948. She began as a freelance illustrator with an ambition, designing cards for the Medici Society and other companies.
Her work has been described as naive by various commercial galleries, but she sees it as ‘Outsider’ art in the main. Kate follows her own instincts experimenting in different mediums. She has work in many private collections national and international. Kate has been mentioned in the Who’s who in Art and is a Member of ABNA and Association of British Naive Artists.
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“The ideas I have stem mainly from life’s experiences, a love of the countryside and decorative objects which are incorporated in ceramic design, and paintings of varied subjects. Influenced by the vintage Fairyland ware produced by Wedgewood in the 1930s, my ceramics are decorated with precious metal lustres and enamel. Paintings are egg Tempera and oils.”
Kate Collins
Title: Winter Neighbourhood
Medium: Oil on canvas
Kate Collins
Title: Winter on the Canal
Medium: Oil on canvas
Mark Beresford
Whilst enjoying a successful career in Logistics, Mark renewed his passion for art.
Originally a water-colourist , Mark’s most recent discovery of oil now provides the perfect medium to capture mood and atmosphere of sea, land and city subjects. He likes to pursue subjects that evoke atmosphere, light and ultimately give that ‘sense of place’.
Having grown up in the City of Sheffield UK, Mark has always been fascinated by it’s vibrancy and busyness. A reflection of many childhood memories of rain and glimmering lights add to his work. His great escape ……… the Isles of Scilly reflects the white sands, blue seas and sheer tranquility of the beautiful isles. Images of which are produced following endless hours of watching rather than study.
Mark is currently exhibiting in several galleries including London, Cotswolds, Peak District, Berwick on Tweed and Truro. and has most recently had a collection of works in the Spring Affordable Art Fair , Battersea, London and the Fresh Art Fair, Cheltenham Race Course.
Mark Beresford
Title: Pick Up From Town
Medium: Oil on canvas board (framed)
Mark Beresford
Title: Autumn light on the River Derwent
Medium: Oil on canvas board (framed)
Dave Coulter
Dave Coulter is a British artist who specialises in cityscapes. As part of the Northern Art movement, his particular focus is on painting the streets of Manchester and Salford. In his paintings, he captures the dynamic movement of the multifaceted cities that have been the inspiration for many painters before him. Dave Coulter is, in essence, as much a part of the North as the scenes he paints.
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Now in his early 70s, Dave Coulter has lived through a huge period of change in the area he calls home. He has seen it all - from the gloom of the mills and factories to the Salford slum clearances of the 1960s and now the development of a vibrant, successful region, full of commerce and bright lights.
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What makes Dave’s work unique is the way he brings the years and the changes together. In this way, to look at one of his paintings is to see Manchester and Salford past and present, the buildings changing but the people a constant factor.
Dave Coulter
Title: St Annes Square
Media: Acrylic on canvas
Dave Coulter
Title: Oldham St Vista
Media: Acrylic/oil on canvas
Alleyne Parry
Alleyne has always worked in advertising as a creative and lives in the Peak District National Park, but in recent years, he has turned to his beloved paints for more inspiration. His parents live by the sea on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, and he has been going there since childhood.
He has always been passionate about the quality of light on Skye and is in awe of the changing weather patterns and the contrast in light that this brings; this is where he enjoys the challenge of representing these areas of magnificent beauty.
Alleyne uses acrylic paints and oils with palette knives to give a textural impression of seascapes and landscapes.
Alleyne Parry
Title: Dusk at Ashaig
Media: Acrylic on canvas
Alleyne Parry
Title: Top Wood
Media: Acrylic on canvas
Doru Ivan
My artwork represents an introspection of the human nature and of what can results as an exploration of the human universe (expressionists and ludicrous forms). The evolution of my works reveals as a portraiture of the individual’s destiny which was not explored enough as an interior of the conception of the existence. More than that, I wilfully exaggerate certain aspects of the human existence expressing through form gesture, symbol, what a person could experience over a life time: moments of bliss, moments of panic and uncertainty, reflexion and mystic states.
I work primarily in a realistic, figurative mode, with a preference for the rigorousity of an austere palette of black and white. My work frequently includes dynamic, sweeping brush strokes of watercolour, acrylic or black ink on paper that characterise much of my art. The subjects are not beautiful but my goal is to inspire those who see my work to look more carefully at the world around them, to discover beauty in unusual situations.
Doru Ivan
Title: Study 2023
Media: Oil on canvas
Doru Ivan
Title: Cheating
Media: Oil on canvas
Kevin Haynes
Kevin was born in the small village of Waterhead, Oldham in 1949. Waterhead, at that time, was dominated by cotton mills, where many hundreds of people were employed. On leaving school I served an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer. I am now semi-retired after running my own engineering business for over 30 years, and have started to paint my childhood memories of working people and their environments.
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Kevin is a self-taught artist, having had no formal art training. However from a young age he has always been interested in art, and have been a keen collector of northern artists work for many years.
It has been said that Kevin's work is of a naive style with crisp lines and vibrant colours, which create warm unique pictures that capture the times of the northern textile industry. Painting originally for his own pleasure, Kevin quickly found an enthusiastic audience for his work. He now has his paintings in collections in the UK, Europe, USA, Thailand, China, Australia and New Zealand.
I was elected into the Manchester Academy Of Fine Art, MAFA in 2017. I am also a member of The Association Of British Naïve Artists, ABNA.
He is honoured to have one of my paintings in the permanent collection of Gallery Oldham.
Kevin Haynes
Title: I Think I've Got A Better View
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Kevin Haynes
Title: Where Have You Two Been
Medium: Acrylic on canvas