Lloyd Durling, based in London, had his first international solo show at Golden, Chicago, USA, in 2010. He has exhibited in London and widely throughout Europe, Asia and the USA. In 2017 he was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. Lloyd's works are held in public and private collections worldwide, including the Whitworth Art Gallery and Museum, Progressive collection, America and Nomura Bank, Japan.
Lloyd Durling's current body of work uses mixed medium with oil stick, oil pastel and graphite, with which he explores the interface between painting, drawing and collage. These materials are used as the ground for a series of paintings where texture is as important as colour in the play between the surfaces of paper and the various densities of paint. Topographical themes are central to this work and explored through continuing walking projects. These serve as opportunities to gather diverse source material through physical and emotional interactions with the environment. This gathering of information during urban and rural wandering feeds into a deep connection with landscape, arrangements of ancient monuments, light, shadow and forgotten histories. All of these elements provide a rich source for Lloyd's compositions.
Heath Hearn lived in Jersey for a time and is now based in south east Cornwall. He is inspired by his local landscape and the coastal position of his studio. Often inspired by painters from the British art movement, his influences can be noted as he creates images with his own unique and distinctive approach. Heath Hearn exhibits both nationally and internationally, his work is also held as part of the UK's national art collection through the Jersey Museum. Represented by David Simon Contemporary since 2025.
Julia Cooper's studio overlooks a Cornish harbour estuary on the south coast and so the changing lights reflected off the water invariably provide inspiration for her palette. Julia's abstract paintings are a series of colour notes observed from wild Cornish beaches, coastline and moods of the weather. The subjects in her still life paintings jostle amongst themselves in various bucolic arrangements of flattened perspective and simplistic narrative with softened palettes. Julia regards the works of the St Ives Artists particularly that of William Scott and Patrick Heron as having influenced her own work.
Julia has been represented by David Simon Contemporary since 2014, where she has had five solo exhibitions in addition to participating in numerous group shows. Her work has been exhibited across Cornwall, Bristol and London. She studied Fine Art and Interior Design and worked on a number of commissioned paintings for The National Trust.
