Adrian Gallagher’s fascination with the sublime has led him to explore the exquisite nuances of nature and culture. His portraits have a dark intensity, highlighting the unreachable interior circumstances of his subjects. The women in Gallagher’s intricate ink paintings embody the natural phenomena occurring around them, taking on the characteristics of the wind and sea, and suggesting an intimate relationship between nature and individuality. The facial features alone express a whole gamut of emotion, from reflection to furor. His work engages a beauty-inspired dialogue that has compelled thinkers and artists for centuries. Like Immanuel Kant and Caspar David Friedrich before him, Gallagher is driven to understand the emotional insights that exist just below consciousness.  In his paintings, realism, romanticism, darkness and beauty coexist as one inseparable entity. "My art work is an honest effort at approaching the terror of beauty, and all of the complications that it may broach."

A graduate of Dun Laoighaire IADT, Gallagher has exhibited widely throughout Ireland. He currently lives and works in Hollywood Co Wicklow, Ireland.

Inspiration for Teresa Poole's unique paintings can be credited to her past work as a fine-arts restorer, interior designer, and mural painter. She was emotionally moved by the sense of history in the antiques on which she worked, training which provided her with a lifelong respect for the stylistic traditions in visual arts of all historical periods. Teresa sees her own work metaphorically as a garden, and indeed whether portraying delicate sakura petals against a background of mustard-toned hillocks, Japanese-panel-inspired portraits, or applying gold leaf to trompe-l’oeil wall displays, her works are not only visually stunning, but resonant with her long emotional attachments as well.

Although their forms may hearken back to traditional Asian designs, these are highly personal works, displaying Teresa’s artistic choices, informed by her years of experience and love of all aspects of visual design. Her vibrant and daring mix of traditions and styles continues to bring forth radiant art that is a powerful hybrid of Western visual strategies and Eastern tranquility.

Nicki Price’s atmospheric paintings act as calming viewfinders, bringing disparate international vistas together to give one, all-inclusive impression of the world’s beauty. Influenced by the weather, landforms, and plant life, Price incorporates natural rhythms of into her paintings. As a result, her renderings of landscapes and structures have a self-contained serenity, emphasizing the implicit splendor of pattern and repetition. A row of boats might float quietly, mirroring the tranquility of the clouds hovering above, and boulders might have the same stoic consistency as an uninterrupted expanse of blue sky.

For Price, making art is about looking and discovery-making. An avid traveler, she has spent ample time exploring international landscapes, landmarks, and art by other artists. Ultimately, her paintings take viewers away from themselves for a moment, offering them a glimpse of a sublime world in which cynicism and despondency have no place. Nicki Price, who lives and works in London, participated in the Royal Academy Summer Show. She has exhibited throughout the UK.