Jay Burridge - Studio 6

1. Describe your work.

Kids toys from Lilliput. The theme which has run throughout all my work has been a question of scale. Children's toys are often scaled down simplified versions of everyday things in the world, I reverse this and scale them back up to life size but retaining a childlike simplicity.

2. How did you come to be doing the work that you do?

Luckily for me, my brother and sister, our parents met at the Royal Collage of Art in the Pop Art Revolution so we had paint and pencils thrust on us as soon as we could hold them.

I was never going to be an academic.

3. Where do you look for inspiration?

Toys'R'us and my old sketchbooks. My artwork needs to mature over time between the pages before it's ripe for making.

4. What is your favourite place?

In bed cuddling my family on a lazy morning.

5. If you could own one piece of art what would it be?

Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Horse There's always one on display at the Pompidou in Paris and luckily for me I get to go at least 3 times a year and stand in front of it for a day or so.

6. What is your favourite website?

Totally biased but it has to be my little fashion project Lucky Seven custom made caps www.luckyseven.tv About four years ago I had a foray in to the fashion world which resulted in me meeting my wife and starting this company supplying bespoke baseball caps to discerning customers world wide.

The other site I look at every day is the Wooster Collective www.woostercollective.com

Jo Ratcliffe - Studio 6

1. Describe your work.

Currently I am drawing, painting and printmaking.

2. How did you come to be doing the work that you do?

When I was 16 I used to write the slate signs for the produce department of a supermarket, it was a glamorous job, I even had my own office but I was hungry for more.

3. Where do you look for inspiration?

Dirty streets, rolling fields, google images & most haunted.

4. What is your favourite place?

Bed in the morning.

5. If you could own one piece of art what would it be?

For the bathroom anything by Gustav Dore from his series of illustrations of ‘The Divine Comedy’ or ‘Death Depicted as the Grim Reaper on Top of the World’ for the hallway Gustave Courbet - The Origin of the World, for the study Carolus-Duran - Equestrian Portrait of Mademoiselle Croizette and for the living room a Glen Brown or a Eugène Carrière painting.

6. What is your favourite website?

Google images!

Jo Ratcliffe

Katherine Lubar - Studio 44

1. Describe your work.

Light patterns on man-made structures, usually interiors. For the past couple of years, I’ve been working on a series of lamp paintings – which I see, in a way, as portraits - they have a sort of human character to them.

2. How did you come to be doing the work that you do?

Actually, I can't remember a time when I wasn't painting or drawing, even when I was 2 and drawing on the wall, apparently!

3. Where do you look for inspiration?

Light, shadow, architecture, the colours in nature. Artists I've been influenced by: Michael Craig-Martin, Patrick Caulfield, Wayne Thiebauld, Vermeer, Caravaggio, Edward Hopper

4. What is your favourite place?

Would have to be the Maldives... if only I could afford to go back!

Also Puck's Glen in Scotland - a magical place

5. If you could own one piece of art what would it be?

St George and the Dragon by Uccello or one of Memling's triptychs


6. What is your favourite website?

interesting stuff about colour: coloracademy

to help the world: The Hunger Site, and the Rainforest site, Animal Rescue site, etc. etc.

and lastly, the craziness that is the US - The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Katherine Lubar