The Heath

Contrasts and Parallels

A community of visual artists, independent creatives exploring their own singular interests, yet unified as members of a close-knit collective group centered around the King's Heath area of Birmingham.

Each has their own specialisms and circumstances. Many are full-time artists. Others are part-time practitioners with backgrounds in healthcare, teaching and costume design. Some paint with oils whilst others use pastels, acrylics or stitching. Subject areas range from urban landscapes and abstracts, through to realism and portraiture. For some, their work is a means to explore Eastern philosophies, whereas for others, it's about recreating the mottled textures of old banana skin. Some are lifelong residents of the area, others are more recent arrivals to the country.

Each of the artists is distinct, with their own history, following personal artistic principles and methods of working that are unique to them alone...

... And yet...

... All share the same intrinsic need to create. Individuals drawn together by the common thread that links them all; an overpowering urge to express something of one's self, to explore their own personal motivations and influences, to seek to take a leap of faith, and to forge something new that has never existed before.