MASA-UK Art at the Downs 8, Altrincham
MASA-UK Gallery, Art @ The Downs
Friday 16th February 2024
6pm - 9pm
8th The Downs, 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
Kate Collins
Kate Collins was born in Macclesfield 1948. She began as a freelance illustrator with an ambition, designing cards for the Medici Society and other companies.
Her work has been described as naive by various commercial galleries, but she sees it as ‘Outsider’ art in the main. Kate follows her own instincts experimenting in different mediums. She has work in many private collections national and international. Kate has been mentioned in the Who’s who in Art and is a Member of ABNA and Association of British Naive Artists.
“The ideas I have stem mainly from life’s experiences, a love of the countryside and decorative objects which are incorporated in ceramic design, and paintings of varied subjects. Influenced by the vintage Fairyland ware produced by Wedgewood in the 1930s, my ceramics are decorated with precious metal lustres and enamel. Paintings are egg Tempera and oils.”
Kate Collins
Title: Winter Neighbourhood
Medium: Oil on canvas
Kate Collins
Title: Winter on the Canal
Medium: Oil on canvas
Linda Mustafa
Linda Mustapha was born in the USA and attended The Kansas City Art Institute, after graduating university with a BA degree, she has moved to Australia to work as an Art Teacher, from Victoria to South Australia.
“Drawing inspiration from 23 years in Australia, I retained my interest in repetition, patterns and mathematics in nature.” For several years Linda was involved in a cooperative gallery in Adelaide, South Australia, with additional group shows in Port Adelaide, South Australia.
I moved to England with my family in 1999 and have recently been involved with The Green Man Gallery (Buxton) and The Old Lockup Gallery (Cromford)
Linda’s preference at the moment is Pen and Ink, where she takes observational studies and sketch and play with the shapes.
“Using Japanese simplicity ofline and the stark use of black and white, I like to engage the viewer to step into the picture and see how the work has evolved.”
Linda Mustafa
Title: And the Trees Danced
Medium: Pen and Ink on paper
Linda Mustafa
Title: Hold Me Close
Medium: Pen and Ink on paper
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: Dusk at Ashaig
Media: Acrylic on canvas
Alleyne Parry
Title: Top Wood
Media: Acrylic on canvas
Charlotte Elizabeth
Charlotte has been working as an artist professionally for over fifteen years. A prestigious training in Theatre Design preceded a busy career, as a Theatrical Scenic Artist in London’s West End.
Working with some of the best scenic artists in the world, Charlotte created huge scale backcloths and murals for many famous venues all over the world. A move to Asia inspired a change in direction. Inspired by the evocative and dramatic climate and surrounded by buildings so tall, Charlotte describes life as ‘surrounded by clouds’, she was empowered to create the ‘Skies series’.
Receiving much acclaim and winning clients all over the world, Charlotte has continued to work within this theme, now back in the UK.
BA hons Drama and Hispanic study, Queen Mary, university of London Post Grad Art Motley Theatre design school Drury lane, London.
Charlotte has exhibited at Affordable Art fairs in London, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore And Manchester art fair.
We are looking forward of welcoming for this exhibition at MASA-UK Art Gallery on 8 `The Downs, Altrincham this January 2025
Charlotte Elizabeth
Title: Hunters Moon
Media: Mixed media on canvas
Charlotte Elizabeth
Title: Deep Waters
Media: Mixed mediaon 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
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