Ongoing exhibitions at MASA-UK Art Gallery
SUTHAMMA (TA) BYRNE
Unlike many surrealists, who present their dreams, the central subjects to Ta’s work are people and bold colors. Her work opens up a new art dimensions to explore. Her Blue Valentine figures are radiating emotions of closeness, love and feeling safe and her conspirator characters evoke curiosity. “My subject matter is people, but my real passion is in colour and how the arrangement of colour can produce a different emotional experience of art.”
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​It is a testament to Ta’s creativity and talent, that her art is hanging in homes in Europe, Asia, North America, Middle East and Australia.
Suthamma (Ta) Byrne
Title: Lady in a red in a Jazz club
Medium: Oil on canvas
Suthamma (Ta) Byrne
Title: The Long Goodbye
Medium: Oil on canvas
Daniel Riley
Daniel is an artist, inspired by his love of the outdoors and his personal connection with the spaces and places which he experiences. He loves to hike out to remote places away from civilisation and sit and absorb the ambiance of his surroundings. As a keen photographer he enjoys capturing scenes with his camera; his landscape photographs being artworks in their own right. Back at the studio however, he uses the photographic documentation as references to be abstracted and mixed with his memories of how a place felt. He then strives to communicate the essence of the place through textures, multiply layers of paint and ambiguous forms.
His work can often be minimalistic or reductionist, breaking things down to their base elements to communicate something that is purer and more refined. Daniel is inspired by the ever changeable light and weather conditions synonymous with the British countryside and the atmospheric conditions found in the moorlands of the Peak District and Pennine Lancashire, Daniel uses texture, tone and ambiguous, abstract forms to communicate how a location felt physically and emotionally rather than aiming to produce a literal representation of the scene.
Daniel Riley
Title: Loch Moy
Medium: Acrylic on panel
Daniel Riley
Title: Great Dovestone Rocks
Medium: Acrylic on panel
Tim Schofield
'I grew up in the North West and have spent most of my life in the Lancashire and Yorkshire areas. I’m a self-taught painter and my work has been displayed at Saltbox Gallery in Helmsley, and both Hope Gallery and the Town Hall in Hebden Bridge.
Tim started creating landscapes from his childhood, initially preferring oil paints and acrylics for many years, before picking up watercolours as an adult. This transition resulted in a desire to find new and unconventional ways of working with watercolours.
A large part of Tim’s practice in recent years has been an exploration of the ways we interpret and absorb visual information in different stages of sleep and wakefulness. The goal is to create a scene that seems real and cohesive in one moment, but illusive under closer inspection, mirroring the manner in which dreams appear to unravel as we look closer and start to wake.'
Tim Schofield
Title: Resistance
Medium: Watercolour
Tim Schofield
Title: Neptune
Medium: Watercolour, wax and ink on cotton paper
Zani Gelevska
Internationally recognised Fine art Graduate Zani Gelevska Veljanoska. Her authentic style, created with a rich palette of strong warm tones, layered surfaces of colour and texture, has caught the attention of many art collectors over the years.
Zani is always experimenting and her paintings are a unique blend achieved by combining acrylic and mixed media and a range of unusual materials. Zani has been exhibiting her art work in over 15 countries worldwide and has been part of many art projects.
She has exhibited her work in many art galleries in London, such as the prestigious Blains Fine Art Gallery in Mayfair, as well as, having a permanent exhibition at the Macedonian Embassy in London, Vienna, New York and Paris.
Zani Gelevska
Title: Night Out
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Zani Gelevska
Title: By the Sea
Medium: Mixed media
Zani Gelevska
Title: Meditation
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Zani Gelevska
Title: Love
Medium: Mixed media
Danny Cawley
Danny was in one of Manchester s first graffiti art gangs back in the mid 1980s.
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'I loved the excitement and vivid colours in graffiti art and I combined my love of the hip hop culture coming from New York and my love of Psychedelic music and it's accompanying visual experience. I didn't want to use paint brushes or stand at an easel, l wanted to play with the paint and direct from overhead using chopsticks and other sticks.l used mainly water based paint and glosses...l also used aerosols. After a few years of playing with the paint l began to learn and understand what certain techniques would achieve.’
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Danny has sold his now ground breaking Paintings around the world for the last 15 years. His list of famous clients include members of The Verve, The Charlatans, The Levellers, The Happy Mondays, Ricky Hatton etc etc.
Darko Taleski
Driven by a passion for artistic expression, I translate inspiration through diverse mediums, including acrylics, chalk, ink, animation, augmented reality, and video art.
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My journey began at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Bulgaria, and since then, my work has graced exhibitions across continents, from Sofia and Istanbul to Berlin, Vienna, and Taipei.Recognised for my innovation, I received the prestigious Special Drawing Award at the Osten World Gallery and grants from the North Macedonian Ministry of Culture. My video art, like "Nostalgia for Art," has resonated with audiences at the MOCA Taipei, Berlin Biennale, and Toronto Urban Film Festival.
Currently, I'm collaborating with fellow artists on a groundbreaking project that merges classical techniques with new technologies, pushing the boundaries of neomateriality.
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I have been working as an art teacher for 18 years, bringing the love of art to my students and fostering creativity with using new technology in the art classroom. As an art teacher I have been awarded with the prestigious first prize for Teacher Expert on Global Forum organised by Microsoft Corporation.
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Darko has been a regular exhibitor at MASA-UK Art Gallery since 2013 and his art has been exhibited at: Chester, Manchester, Edinburgh, Gibraltar and Glasgow, Vienna to name a few.
Darko Taleski
Title: Composition V
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Artist: Darko Taleski
Title: Through Vincent's Eyes
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Malcolm Lucas
Malcolm Lucas is one of the most inspirational expressionists in the North-West, known as the Lancashire’s Van Gough.
His influences are mostly coming from the impressionism. Malcolm’s paintings show artist perception of the subject, rather than realistic interpretation. He is leaving a personal stamp on many of his portraits, such as: lost animal toys. The main influences of his are: Lucas Freud, John Piper, Van Gough, Laurie. He finds them very inspiring, exciting and liberating.
His subjects of focus are mostly people he has met in his life.
On this subject he also adds: “I find it fascinating observing characters from a distance, and many times I get the urge to paint them. Still most of my work is concentrated on landscapes. I often try to capture atmospheric moments”. Although his influences come from the impressionism he sees himself as an expressionist.
The theme of his work is based mostly on painting landscapes, with a usage of bold lines, bright colours and big brash strokes in oil or acrylic. For his line of work Malcolm also adds:
“In my point of view, a painting should be a painting, not a photograph. I aim to express a mood or a feeling in my work. People say that even the animals in my paintings have a character.”
Malcolm Lucas
Title: Turn Village
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Malcolm Lucas
Title: Ramsbottom from Fletcher Bank
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Rafael Domingues
We encountered Rafael’s work alongside and in the perfect harmony with Dali’s sculptures in Marbella. His large-scale paintings with a fearfully applied lines and expressive brash stroke reminds of Georgia O’Keeffe,“the mother of American modernism” -.
The unique point of his artwork is that they are open to the imagination of the viewer. Longer one look at his work ,more organic abstractive forms will be discovered.
"I believe that my works are open to free interpretation by the observer. Let it be the painting that establishes connection between the observer and the answers to all their questions.”
He still exploits the traditional themes of the natural world with a fusion of abstraction and reality, where the viewers create own experience.
Rafael Domingues
Title: Star Trooper
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Rafael Domingues
Title: Dunes
Medium: Oil on canvas
Rafael Domingues
Title: Into the Galaxy
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Rafael Domingues
Title: Lotus
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Lita Narayan
Lita, a science degree and accountancy, holder has had an art inclining throughout her life. In the early nineties Lita got the art bug again and decided take on the challenge of developing her own style.
Lita particularly takes inspiration from the perspective, angles, shadows and architecture of places that she has visited; mills and chimneys of the industrial north, fishing villages in Devon and Cornwall, and modern city and waterfront scenes, which she turns into abstract pieces.
She has subsequently exhibited in various galleries in the North-West for a number of years and has her work at the homes of individual and corporate clients.
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Lita herself says that: “a visual scene or the atmosphere of a town or city must “move” me in some way; it is a right hemisphere and I find it hard to put it into words”. As a constant exhibitor at the Manchester Art Fair and MASA-UK Art Gallery her abstract cityscapes and landscapes are loved and appreciated by many art collectors.
Lita Narayan
Title: Dartmoor
Media: Oil on canvas
Lita Narayan
Title: Waterfall
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
Medium: Oil on canvas
Doru Ivan
Title: Chaos
Medium: Oil on canvas
Les Heywood
Les Heywood born in the UK and is an Award Winning Artist he has had numerous solo exhibitions in the North West including Stockport Art Gallery and has exhibited throughout the UK at such prestigious Galleries including MASA-UK Gallery in Bury, The Gallery at Holt, The Grosvenor Gallery Chester, Colin Jelicoe Gallery Manchester and most recently at the Pastel Society Mall Galleries London where he received an award for his painting A Northern Town '.
"My inspiration for my work has always been what's right in front of me whether that be observations in the city streets or in contrast our beautiful countryside. Working in oil or pastel my aim is to absorb subject matter and working quickly translate what I see and feel into paintings that hopefully convey my thoughts."
He has a steady client base of collectors at home and overseas and continues to go from strength to strength.
Les Heywood
Title: Cross Street Manchester
Medium: Oil on board
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Les Heywood
Title: The Flowerpicker
Medium: Oil on canvas
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Les Heywood
Title: Bury Peel
Medium: Oil on canvas
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Les Heywood
Title: Royal Exchange
Medium: Pastel framed