2 new artists & a tip: Bella Marr and Elke Finkenauer

2 new emerging artists & an investment tip

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This week we are pleased to welcome 2 new artists - Bella Marr’s abstract paintings traverse the subconscious via texture and tone. This unconventional young artist creates a selection of unique and embryonic pieces, all of which have a superb narrative underpinning fertility and femininity.

Comparisons could be made to Rorschach’s Inkblots. Rorschach was also fascinated by the concept of letting the subconscious take the lead, saying that his inkblots were ‘incursions of the spirit world,’ - shapes that came naturally rather than by force.

Glasgow School of art graduate Elke Finkenauer has been busy carving a name for herself in the contemporary art scene the last few years; winning a range of notable awards including the Wallace Art Award and Gilbert Bayes Postgraduate Scholarship. With work that focuses on "coalescing slices of image" and "an interface between the haptic, sensory, physical world," Elke’s work is an enchantingly minimalist display that is as tender as it is contemplative.

She could perhaps be compared to Ian Hamilton Finlay; known for his particularly poetic brand of Neoclassical inscription. Elke herself has created the radiant 11,099 miles (Silver foil embossment) putting that wonderfully mind-jangling quote "Your skin, an ocean, incalculable, immediate…" to the paper and embossing it in scintillating silver…

Blue, Large by Bella Marr