Sally Moore was born in Barry, South Wales in 1962. She trained at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford and subsequently won a scholarship to study at the British School in Rome.

From an early stage in her career Sally’s paintings made an impact, winning her awards at the National Eisteddfod, and at the Discerning Eye exhibition in London, where William Packer awarded her the critic’s prize. Sally also won the Welsh Artist of the Year Award in 2005.

 The painstaking, detailed style of Sally’s work has necessarily meant a very low output of paintings, with the result that her solo exhibitions are infrequent and always eagerly anticipated. Her surreal, often humorous paintings are in numerous private and public collections, including the National Museum & Gallery of Wales, National Library of Wales, Newport Museum and the Contemporary Art Society.   

This new group of small-scale paintings sees Sally develop her themes, where each painting is a mini psychological drama - often absurd, sometimes surreal and invariably humorous. Sally herself speaks of her hope that her paintings may both amuse and unsettle the viewer. Her collectors will be delighted with these superb new paintings which promise to repeat the success of her previous exhibitions.

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Born in Swansea in 1955, Vivienne Williams took an M.A. in ‘ The Literary Response to the Visual Arts’ at  Reading University, before travelling and teaching worldwide. In Australia between 1980 and 1982 she took drawing classes, subsequently returning to Britain to study and work at a Buddhist College until 1990. It was at this point that Vivienne became a full time artist, since when she has exhibited with increasing success. Since 1991 she has shown regularly with Martin Tinney Gallery, both in Cardiff and on our stand at The London Contemporary Art Fair and the 20/21 British Art Fair. This is Vivienne’s seventh solo exhibition at the gallery.

Vivienne’s work is strongly influenced by Tibetan Buddhism in it’s celebratory use of colour and it’s quiet contemplative qualities. This exhibition of new paintings shows her continued development with a rich use of texture and emphasis on form.

 Vivienne says of her work :

“It has always been difficult to distil in a few words what has been attempted in another medium. The recurring preoccupations - pots and bowls, flowers and fruit. The constant decisions about what to leave in and what to leave out. The same balancing act. The elements within a painting are often rearranged many times until it ‘works’. The surface texture becomes interesting as more and more paint is applied. It is then scratched and rubbed back to reveal underlying colours. It always surprises me when a battle on the paper finally resolves itself into a calm painting.”