MASA-UK Art at the Downs 8, Altrincham
MASA-UK Gallery, Art @ The Downes
Friday 16th February 2024
6pm - 9pm
8th The Downes, 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.
We hope to see you there
Artists presented at the Gallery
Jo Scorah
Jo Scorah is an artist whose work emphasises the body and its connections to ‘human emotion’, using mediums including textiles and print.
Jo gained a BA in Embroidery in 2005 from Manchester Metropolitan University, followed by an MA in Textiles in 2006.
Drawing is the primary source, in which three dimensional lines and freehand expression are transferred into large scale paintings and sculptural installations.
Her life drawing skills are accentuated by using mixed media techniques which enhance the sensual characteristics of the model adding a textural quality.
Many of Jo’s three dimensional works reveal her interest in issues of displacement and exile, embracing a sense of ‘nomadism’ and self-protection. This is a theme that is seen constantly through her work and where the body is the focus of attention.
Jo has exhibited widely throughout the UK and was awarded Arts Council funding for a solo exhibition ‘Moments of Expulsion’, in 2016.
Previously a member of ‘Suite Studio Group’, Jo now works from her studio in Altrincham.
Jo Scorah
Title: Mother and Child
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Jo Scorah
Title: Refugee
Medium: OIl Mixed Media on canvas
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.
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.
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:
Media: Acrylic on canvas
Alleyne Parry
Title:
Media: Acrylic on canvas
Krystoff Karewitcz
Krzysztof Karewicz is a symbolist and colourist in painting and drawing. For him, a greater challenge is to show the situation, to convey the density of the atmosphere and the tension with gestures or body movements by avoiding showing faces.
Krzysztof Karewicz graduated from the State Secondary School of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the Secondary School of Fine Arts in Łódź with a Technician Decorator diploma. Later on he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and after graduating he became a lecturer at the Post-Secondary School of Advertising in Warsaw. In his atelier in Saska Kępa, he prepared graduates for exams at art schools.
Looking at Karewicz's works, it is safe to say that with his stories he devalues DARKNESS, FEAR and ANXIETY of human existence and death.
Krzystof Karewitcz
Title: Flash
Media: Acrylic on canvas
Krzystof Karewitcz
Title:
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
Mike Waldron
“All art is about how it is made, and must go beyond what is purely decorative, to evoke a feeling” - Mike Waldron
Mike Waldron is an expressionist artist and mark-maker based in Bollington. Conveniently between the urban buzz of Manchester, the city in which he was born, and the wilds of the Peak District, which provide the inspirations behind his work.
His practice is rooted in storytelling, with many of his works, including those veering towards the abstract, weaving a narrative, or hinting at some hidden drama. He is fascinated by the relationship between people, the landscape and the ever-changing urban environment. Having trained at Liverpool Poly in the 80s, he now works as a professional artist, seduced by colour; and ranging across a diversity of media, techniques, platforms and subjects, he steadfastly refuses to accept the artificial distinctions between abstract and concrete.
Mike’s work is held in collections internationally. He has exhibited recently with Blue and Berry Gallery, The Gallery Next Door, inch Arts Gallery, Smith Gallery Brighouse, The Neighbourhood Gallery. He was recently awarded First Prize in the Inch Arts Winter Open Exhibition, for his piece. « Rise Like Lions After Slumber »
Mike Waldron
Title: Let us not give up hope
Media: Oil on canvas
Mike Waldron
Title: Approaching the City From The East
Media: Oil on canvas
Jane Fraser
Jane is an artist, based in Altrincham. I work in various media - mainly oils, but also acrylics, pastel and mixed media.
My main inspiration is the landscape, both urban and rural. I love to observe, interpret and record my surroundings. My subjects could be anything from the familiar farmland of my daily dog walks, to the wild grandeur of the Peaks and Lakes, and the spectacular cityscapes and hidden alleyways of Manchester and other northern towns.
I’m an enthusiastic member of Manchester Urban Sketchers, and like nothing better than exploring the quirky and forgotten corners of our cities. Most of my paintings start life as an outdoor sketch, and what really inspires me is the fleeting effect of colour and light. Thoughtful observation reveals beauty and interest in even the most mundane objects, like a refuse bin or a peeling poster. History, too, is a source of fascination, and I always like to find out as much as I can about where I’m sketching and the changes it’s been through.
My paintings can be seen at MASA-UK, on EASEL (the online presence of Manchester Art Fair), and in galleries in Altrincham and Ashbourne. I also take part in open competitions and outdoor painting events throughout the North West.
Jane Fraser
Title: Blazing Summer
Medium: Acrylic on board
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Jane Fraser
Title: Milltown Memories
Medium: Collage and acrylic on canvas
Leyla Murr
Leyla Murr is an abstract artist, with a studio in Shipley, who paints in oils, acrylic, watercolours on canvas, glass and wood. She says of her work: "I tend to create images which are not directly representing reality, but draw from my own view or feeling of the world. The process is not one of copying, but experiencing the light, colours or feelings and then processing the impact onto the canvas using colours as my guide.”
Leyla’s paintings are constructed by coordinating different elements namely, the application of paint on canvas, the use of colour and spontaneous mark making. The process is rarely planned and her paintings undergo many changes until she brings them to the point where they feel resolved.
Leyla creates art which explores a meeting point between reality and abstraction with a finely tuned sensitivity to colour and deep fascination with the mechanism of light.
Leyla Murr
Title: Autumn Fruits
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Leyla Murr
Title: Still Life
Medium: Mixed Media on canvas