KArtsCon 2022 Featured Artists

Jonathan Ash is a Medway-based fine artist. His colourblindness and a late diagnosis of Level 1 autism have given him a unique style and have both helped and hindered his practice.

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Julie is passionate about opening dialogues into mental health difficulties and empowering others to take steps towards transformation and healing. Her life has been one long journey learning to identify and take action to support her mental health; navigating her way through depression, anxiety, fibromyalgia, and most recently, menopause. The onset of menopause symptoms coincided with lockdown and life suddenly became much more difficult to manage. For her, the most distressing symptom was undoubtedly the cognitive impairment.

Anne Baldwin is based on St Mary’s Island. I’m 56 years old and learnt to draw in 2020 after injuries sustained in a car accident in 2015. I started doodling and found this focused my mind. I then scoured YouTube for tutorials to teach me to draw I was fascinated with pastels and focused on those although I’ve since tried colour pencils and charcoal and graphite.

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I consider myself a mixed-media artist who works in a variety of media including sculpture, painting, jewellery, and mosaics.

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My works are primarily mixed media abstracts, incorporating a passion for recycling, texture and colour. I take inspiration from all that life has to offer and gain satisfaction when that feeling and essence are captured in my work. Where possible I like to incorporate recycled and found objects into my work and create something pleasing from objects that would otherwise be discarded.
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Bill Lewis was one of the six founder members of The Medway Poets and one of the twelve original members of The Stuckists, the group that spearheaded the International Art Movements of Stuckism and Remodernism.

He is a poet, painter and author of short fiction and was appointed Writer-in-Residence for the Brighton Festival 1984 and was the winner of the Literature Award at the Medway Council Culture and Design Awards 2012, for Literature.

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My name is Jamila Zanna Muhammad. I have been painting on fabrics for the last 25 years and occasionally do some canvas painting as a hobby which I gift to friends and family members during special occasions. However, during the recent coronavirus lockdown, I got the inspiration to start full-time acrylic and oil canvas paintings. My paintings are abstract and metaphysical with a deep linkage between what we are and what we ought to be, what we are, and what we wish to be with the overall expression of our common humanity.

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Giorgio Quaresima, art teacher, painter and world traveler. During his many travels he was blessed to meet different cultures and their art. Giorgio’s paintings reflect his passion for different and interesting cultures.