The 26TOZERO Online Charity Art Auction Catalogue

26TOZERO CHARITY ART AUCTION

THE CATALOGUE NOVEMBER 2021

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THE 26 AUCTION ARTISTS

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Alexandra Gallagher Anita Klein Charley Jones Claire Jackson Emily Stapleton ur’ a am Ernesto Romano pai nd t h C Esther Schnerr eir w gn gro lima up Eme ork te a Han Chunlin o r n g n th ‘Zero d e w n E ith a c e c Joanna Green rt g y Bill, i ologic The alle Julie Bennett np artn al ry D Kasia Sifantus e egr eeA rship Kelly Jenkins rt.c om Kiss&Arrow / Luca M. Damiani .

Laura Fishman Linda Bachammar Louise Morgan COLLECT NOW ARTISTS Lucy Stevens Luke Walker Alice Lenkiewicz Lyra Morgan Amanda Randall Mandy Robertson Corinne Natel Mary Dalton Hermione Macmillan Minna George Julie Bennett Paz Perlman Katy Kann Peggah Samaei Laura H Elliott Philip Hearsey Miguel Sopena Rene Gonzalez

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Coinciding with the COP26 summit this November, 26 TO ZERO presents the artwork of twenty-six premium, contemporary artists who have each responded to the call to support the work of The Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill. The artists have each created exclusive pieces, for an online, charity auction in partnership with Zero Hour and online art gallery DegreeArt.com.

The handpicked artworks lots, which start from £150.00, all explore the theme of: ‘Our Future. Our Planet’. To support the work of the Zero Hour Auction, artworks have been endorsed by many charity supporters, including MPs, who are backing the bill. The auction collection comprises 52 artwork lots and 15 works that bidders can Buy Now. The online auction will open at 6pm on Thursday 4th November 2021 for live bidding and last bids will be accepted until 11:59pm on Sunday the 21st November 2021.

To register to bid in the auction and receive updates - please click here To discover the auction collection - please click here About Zero Hour: Zero Hour are the campaign group behind the Climate and Ecological Emergency (CEE) Bill, a Private Member's Bill, first presented in the UK Parliament in September 2020 by Caroline Lucas MP, along with supporting MPs from seven political parties. Over the last year, it has gathered the backing of over 140 MPs and Peers from all major parties – as well as from hundreds of organisations, businesses and local councils. www.ceebill.uk About DegreeArt.com As one of the UK's first Online Art Galleries, over the past 18 years, DegreeArt.com has established itself as the market leader in UK graduate art sales, hand picking & promoting the most promising talent. As well as selling, commissioning and renting the finest artwork created by the artists emerging from the most prestigious art establishments, DegreeArt.com runs an Artists' Residency and Exhibition program and takes part in international Art Fairs throughout the year. Based in Somerset House,London DegreeArt.com offers international clients the opportunity to invest in the artists of the future. We help artists grow their careers. www.DegreeArt.com

For information about the artwork, artist and for images please contact: Jenna@Artellite.co.casperhorton@ceebill.uk

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We hope you enjoy browsing and bidding in support of Zero Hour.

THE AUCTION WELCOME TO THE AUCTION COLLECTION!

If you have any questions, we are here to help.

Please do not hesitate to contact Gallery Director, Isobel Beauchamp: Isobel@DegreeArt.com 07708 251 687/ 020 3 701 7411

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To Register via SMS Text: 26tozero followed by your full name To: +447481337598 Example: 26tozero John Smith Follow the registration link you are sent from GalaBid to log in and start placing your bids!

To Register via browser Visit: galabid.com/26tozero or scan the QR code Click on the 'Register' button Enter your details and click 'Register'

You will then receive a text to your mobile phone with a verification link. Either enter the verification code into your device, or simply click the link in the SMS to login. You are now ready to start bidding for your artwork!.

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We are here to help you Browse, Follow, Register and Bid! Please get in touch if you would like any help.

If you would like any assistance with your purchase, please do not hesitate to contact Gallery Director Isobel Beauchamp Isobel@DegreeArt.com/ 07708 251 687.

For enquiries regarding the campaign group Zero Hour, please contact Casper Horton: casperhorton@ceebill.uk

WHAT HAPPENS IF I WIN? The winning bidder will be contacted by a member of the team on, or just after the 22nd Nov to arrange payment and delivery.

Your art will be delivered to your door along with a Certificate of Authenticy.

We can also help with installation and any framing you may require!

Artwork can be shipped worldwide.

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ALEXANDRA GALLAGHER

Award winning Alexandra Gallagher’s beautiful work, inspired by the natural world, takes the form of collage, street art, prints, photography and painting.

Her work celebrates the surreal and sublime. Between the realms of memory, dreams and experience, her work looks beyond our subjective limits and often tells a story of inner imagination and thoughts.

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‘Perspective on Happiness’ 60 × 60 × 0.1 cm A beautiful limited edition Giclèe signed print on 310g 100% cotton Limited Edition Print of 25 * Requires framing

RESERVE: £270.00

‘Swallow’ 60 × 60 × 0.1 cm A beautiful limited edition Giclèe signed print on 310g 100% cotton Limited Edition Print of 50 *Requires framing

RESERVE: £270.00

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ANITA KLEIN

“I want to do my bit to save our planet for my grandchildren.”

Anita Klein studied at Chelsea and the Slade schools of art. She is a fellow and past president of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers (RE) and her work is in many private and public collections in Europe, the USA and Australia, including Arts Council England and the British Museum. She divides her time between studios in London and Anghiari, Italy.

“Ravel said he wanted his music to be complex, but not complicated.

Anita Klein might say the same of her art. There is a grand simplicity to her works, but that is not the same as saying they lack subtlety and ambiguity. On the contrary, they have the sort of unselfconscious directness that comes from living and breathing art for so long that it becomes second nature” - John Russell Taylor

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‘Betty Smiles’ 82 x 67 cm Acrylic on canvas, framed Ready to hang

RESERVE: £4,500.00

‘Uccello della Pioggia (Bird in the Rain)’

66 x 102 cm Acrylic on canvas, framed Ready to hang

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RESERVE: £5,500.00

CHARLEY JONES

“I am an expressive painter inspired to paint about how our connection to nature is evolving in times of drastic changes my paintings are about our harmony with elements and our natural organic expressions.”

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‘Let The Water Run Over Us’ 60 × 50 × 3 cm This Painting was created using oil paints and acrylic paints impasto , on hand stretched canvas mounted on quality wooden stretcher.

Ready to hang

RESERVE: £900.00 This piece again is a reflection about environment and the elements and how we are evolving with our harmony and connection to nature . This expressionist landscape explores the idea of flying amidst the elements of water and fire.

‘Flying Over The Caribbean’ 120 cm x 100 cm, Oil, acrylic and river water on canvas.

Ready to hang

RESERVE: £975.00

This piece is about our connection with nature and the elements it’s an expression of humanity in harmony with yourself and water and Mother Nature.

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CLAIRE JACKSON

‘I have a great passion for nature. And my art practice has always focused on nature. I create biomorphic organic forms in my unique white smart medium plastic which is biodegradable. I often find it a stimulating subject to create my artworks based on nature out of plastic which is such a taboo medium.’

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‘Your Time Is Up’ 110cm x 60cm x 60cm Polycaprolactone and green paint Unique sculpture Ready to display

RESERVE: £2,000.00

‘Toxic Relationship’ 90 cm x 50 x 50 cm, Polycaprolactone latex, red paint.

Ready to display

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EMILY STAPLETON

“My work is inspired by the beauty of nature and the ever changing elements. The natural environment is very important to me as an Artist as my inspiration and generally, living in The Lake District, I see regularly first hand the impact climate change has on our natural environment, but also the amazing work that people put in to protect it.“

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‘Parting Storm’ 38.5 x 38.5 cm Oil paint on specially primed paper, framed Ready to hang Oil painting of a parting storm over Bassenthwaite Lake in the Lake District, Cumbria.

RESERVE: £450.00

‘Clarity’ 91.44 × 152.4 × 3.8 cm Oil Hand Stretched Canvas Ready to hang

RESERVE: £3,000.00

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Ernesto romano

“I often use nature (plants and flowers for my work) and imply a symbiosis-like relationship between humans and natural world in my works. I believe we have a responsibility to take care of our planet and understand nature and how we can be part of it in harmony.

The two works I present show this concept: the rib cage has blood vessels that resemble roots or branches while the skull with purple flowers tells a story of symbiosis between man and nature.“

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‘Blood Type G’ 75 x 90 x 3 cm Framed unique digital print with glitter overlay Ready to hang We are one thing with nature. Blood vessels that looks like roots bring life to our body.

Only when we learn to respect and protect nature we will breathe new life.

RESERVE: £1,150.00

‘Purple Dream’ 80 x 60 x 3 cm Framed unique digital print with Swarovski crystals Ready to hang My piece talks about a symbiosis between man and flowers, a relationship forged by natural evolution. Plants are fundamental for the survival of all living species on Earth. As long as we understand their importance and we stop deforestation and all activity that damages the plant world, we will protect the planet and ourselves.

RESERVE: £1,755.00

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ESTHER SCHNERR

“Climate in general (and more specific the impact of men on nature) is the main theme of my work.”

Esther Schnerr is a painter based in the Netherlands. From a young age, she had a great talent for drawing but becoming an artist was not in line with her background. After 30 years of working in management and finance, she decided to start a second career in the arts. In 2020, she obtained a master's degree in painting at the Classical Academy of Painting in Groningen (Netherlands).

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‘Human Destruction’

RESERVE: £7,500.00

150 x 210 x 0,1 cm Pencil on paper *Requires framing This is a depiction of men's impact on nature.

‘Human Remains’ 130 x 180 x 0,1 cm Pencil on paper *Requires framing This is an artistic impression of the impact of human life on earth.

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HAN CHUNLIN

“I care about the change of environment”

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‘The Lodang Temple of the Aligug Dynasty in Tibet‘ 50 x 40cm, Oil on canvas

A thousand years ago there lived here many people are an ancient dynasty, now is a desert.

RESERVE: £5,000.00

‘The Most Normal Day’ 30 x 40cm Oil on canvas The future is not a thrilling accident, but a normal day with sunshine, rain and dew, and flowers in full bloom on the windowsill.

RESERVE: £3,000.00

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JOANNA GREEN

“I believe in nature and saving our planet.”

Since gaining my 1st degree in Art, I have been steadily painting, showing and selling my pieces in various galleries and art fairs both in London and nationally.

I am a descendent of the artist "John Constable" although my painting style is quite different, less classical though still figurative and more influenced by French Impressionism, Degas, Monet and Cezanne in particular.

I am currently living in London, and I have a studio in my Victorian house, where I create all my paintings. My work is usually inspired by beautiful places I have visited and interesting faces I have observed.

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‘The Tree’ 60cm x 60 cm Oil on canvas Ready to hang A simple tree, a reference to deforestation and the importance of trees for our health and well being.

RESERVE: £2,400.00

‘Life Between Water, Mountains and Sky’

RESERVE: £5,000.00

120 by 80 cm Oil and leaf on canvas Ready to hang The delicate substance of human habitat delicately seated between earth, sky and sea.. illustrates how precarious we are and how important our earth is to our survival.

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JULIE BENNETT

“I have wanted to do a portrait of Greta Thunberg but never had the reason! And this is it!”

Julie Bennett is a portrait painter living and working in London. Her bold, unapologetically confident portraits appropriate pop culture icons from the music industry and art world, creating contemporary homages to the likes of David Bowie, Elvis, Frida Kahlo, Boy George, Patti Smith, and Her Majesty The Queen.

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‘Greta: How Dare You!’ Oil on canvas 61 x 50.5 x 2cm Ready to hang

‘I painted Greta Thunberg because she has done so much to raise awareness of the climate change emergency.’

RESERVE: £750.00

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Kasia Sifantus

“The wellbeing of our planet is the most important thing we should be caring about, I try to live as eco friendly as I can, I've been wanting to take part in a auction like that for a while now, so would very much welcome this opportunity.”

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‘Blue Haze’ 60 x 60cm

Acrylic, natural pigments, golden leaves on stretched canvas Ready to hang Blue Haze is inspired by the nature, the beautiful sky and deep water.

Simply like that, if we won't change how we're living, that won't be there to enjoy.

RESERVE: £585.00

‘My Way’ 40 x 45cm Acrylic, mineral pigments and golden leaves on cotton canvas.

Ready to hang

RESERVE: £265.00

This piece is inspired by the ocean water splashing on the beach, making its way on the sand, carving little pathways, only until the next wave arrives and covers it, leaving a smooth space for the new pattern. It's touching on how fragile a moment can be, our life, this planet. We clearly got lost in our way of living, finding The Way is the solution to save us and Earth.

Starting from yourself and acting together can make a difference. 27 Have you found your way?

KELLY JENKINS

“The work I am submitting focuses on the changes in climate due to less air pollution during the first UK Lockdown. I feel it is important to share this work to a wider audience to raise awareness of climate change and how, by our collective actions, we can help to slow down or reduce the effects of climate change.”

Kelly Jenkins is a contemporary painter and textile artist based in Hampshire. Starting from an interest in contemporary visual media, such as the internet. Her meticulously embroidered paintings reflect graphically the complex world we now live in. Her current series explores stitched data visualisations, where she reveals to us another way of understanding our reality and takes a critical view on human experience and existence.

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‘We Met In The Sky’ 30.3 x 30.3 Hand embroidery, acrylics and oil pastel.

Ready to hang

RESERVE: £700.00

When a national emergency was declared concerning the Covid-19 outbreak in early 2020, families around the world began to stay home to stay safe. This impacted on our air pollution due to many people working from home, furloughed or not being able to work at all.

This had a remarkable effect in dramatically reducing NOx levels across the world.

‘Above & Beyond’ 33.3 x 33.3cm Created using a fusion of hand embroidery with acrylics, spray paint, pastel and graphite on canvas Ready to Hang

RESERVE: £700.00

When a national emergency was declared concerning the Covid-19 outbreak in early 2020, families around the world began to stay home to stay safe. This impacted on our air pollution due to many people working from home, furloughed or not being able to work at all. This had a remarkable effect in dramatically reducing NOx levels across the world.

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Kiss&Arrow / Luca M. Damiani

“Our Planet Earth needs us all to take action. Take action now.

Kiss&Arrow is a wider series of my artistic practice based on my sensory disability and neurological disorder...it is a KissI to the way we are, and an Arrow for present action and direction to take. This works for my acceptance in terms of identity, but it also works in terms of wider meaning. The Kiss&Arrow artworks I am presenting here are "Giant Love" and "Mi Ami? / Do You Love Me?" both for the Climate Change action: a Kiss to our planet, an Arrow for immediate action and direction.”

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‘Giant Love’ 150 x 126 cm

Natural water based acrylics on recycled canvas Ready to hang

RESERVE: £3,500.00

Giant Love is an artwork combination of 15 different individual pieces. It creates a vision of impact on the seasons, on diverse effects of climate change, of time, of beauty of colours and of risks we face. It also underlines a sign of inclusion, community action, love and hope for a Kiss&Arrow we can give to our Planet Earth. // The artwork can be combined in different ways, hence it is changeable as climate is, and it is created with the viewer in mind for self-direction into how to create the composition too, hence how to take action as an individual but also as a group.

‘Mi Ami? (Do You Love Me?)’ 29.7 x 42 cm

Acrylic on canvas Ready to hang

RESERVE: £450.00 This Kiss&Arrow is designed as a kiss between Planet Earth and Humanity (in the Kiss&Arrow design). The title reflects the question that Planet Earth asks Humanity at this point in time: "Do You Love Me?" 31

LAURA FISHMAN “The daunting concept of climate change can be hard to process emotionally; it’s easy to be overwhelmed when confronted with a plethora of scientific statistics. As an artist I can help envisage and experience that which is hard to come to otherwise contemplate.

In 2018 I visited Iceland which left a profound and indelible impact on my views about climate change and inspired a new creative direction in my artistic pursuits. I witnessed first hand glaciers shrinking, ice breaking and rivers surging. Iceland opened my eyes to the immediate effects of climate change and how it impacts the landscape. My work aims to explore the issues of rising temperatures, natural disasters and rising sea levels. I strive to show the beauty of the transforming landscape, celebrating with hope what is still here.”

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‘Glacier Blue’ 95 x 95 x 5.5 cm Acrylic on canvas Ready to hang

RESERVE: £2,700.00 ‘Glacier Blue’ is from my series of paintings inspired by my visit to Breiðamerkurjökull Glacier, on the south coast of Iceland. This Glacier is among the biggest of the dozens of glaciers that descend from Vatnajokull ice cap, which loses an average of 100 to 300 meters in length annually. Scientists predict that glaciers may largely vanish in the next 100-200 years. I wanted to capture the melting ice, which was beautiful and sublime yet equally disturbing, knowing it’s from the effects of climate change.

‘Fires and Floods’ 85 x 85 x 5.5 cm Acrylic on canvas Ready to hang

RESERVE: £2,070.00 Scientists have been warning for years that rising temperatures will make dry conditions for wildfires more common in some parts of the world and, in other places, trap more moisture in the atmosphere, leading to heavier rainfall during storms. This was predicted in climate science decades ago, everything we worried about is happening now, even faster than the previous most pessimistic estimates.

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LINDA BACHAMMAR

“All my art is a tribute to the Earth and to the living. I want to show happy moments in the landscape, in the gardens, of humans in the heart of nature to raise awareness of ecology and show the strength of the links that unite us.”

An actress by training, Linda Bachammar Clerget extends her artistic field from theater to visual arts through the practice of photography and painting. The artist seeks to create a poetry of links between humans and nature, dreams and reality, the human species and spirituality.

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‘I Decided To Wait For Spring’ 61 × 50 × 1 cm Acrylic on canvas Ready to hang RESERVE: £765.00 This painting invites us to relax among the flowers, to connect with nature and our inner child. This work encourages all adults to be inspired by the carefree and joyful optimism of children for whom nothing is an obstacle.

Thanks to play, dreams and escape at their fingertips anywhere and anytime, children have incredible resilience.

‘Paradise of the Other World’ 90 × 60 × 1 cm Acrylic on canvas Ready to Hang

RESERVE: £1,350.00

This painting speaks of the place of man as a whole, in the world, in nature. It is a question here of getting lost in a plant paradise in order to find oneself better. The canvas was made in acrylic on canvas, and is inspired by an artist walk in the Botanical Garden of Bayonne in France.

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LOUISE M S MORGAN

“Time is running out for our planet; we are reaching the point of no return when we can no longer undo the damage we have done I try to do my bit but it needs the governments of all the countries in the world to step up, admit we have a problem and invest in developing alternatives to fossil fuels …. we do not much time to do something about it and I would very much like to be part of raising awareness and helping to raise funds to assist the Climate Change Bill.”

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‘Sweep of Heather’ 40 x 40 cm Acrylic paint on canvas Ready to hang A sweep of pink heather over the side of the mountain …. this world is diverse and beautiful we need to keep it this way

RESERVE: £100.00

‘Haze over Paradise’ 40 x 40 cm Acrylic paint on canvas Ready to hang If we are not careful paradise will cease to exist and the only place we will see lush greenery, and crystal clear water will be in photographs

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LUCY STEVENS “My art practice focuses our relationship with the natural world. My most recent work in collaboration with The British Trust of Ornithology and Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust explored the effects of climate change on migratory birds. The new collection of mixed media artwork was informed by scientific research to demonstrate declines in bird populations and changes in bird behaviour due to extreme weather conditions. "The two artworks I've submitted reflect the songs and habitats of the Blue tit, a common bird found across the UK and the Lago Sparrows, which is endemic to the Cape Verde archipelago near western Africa.”

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‘Blue Tit (Gold)’ 41.9 x 29.7 cm Original: Photography and mixed media (household paint, wax pastel, pencil, Indian ink, spray paint, and genuine 24-carat gold leaf) on Fabriano 310gsm paper. *Requires framing

RESERVE: £280.00

‘Lago Sparrow’ 59.4 x 84.1cm Acrylic paint, drawing ink, Indian ink wax pastel, pencil, and Posca Pen. *Requires framing

RESERVE: £315.00

Original mixed media drawing (acrylic paint, drawing ink, Indian ink wax pastel, pencil, and Posca pen) produced in response to a collection of sketches gathered by Lucy on a trip to Cape Verde.

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LUKE WALKER Luke M Walker views his practice as an inquiry into memory, time, distance and materiality with each series of works being an opportunity to discover something new, through experimentation, exploration, chance, the collection of data and other records of his personal progress through the environment, whether a city or somewhere further afield. It is an attempt to discover the role of a Landscape Artist today.

Much of his work derives from exploration, primarily through walking. This can involve collecting specific data on walks; the length, the pace, the altitude or number of steps etc. and translating the data into a painting which become physical representations of the momentary act of walking itself.

As an Artist and co-founder of the Wilderness Art Collective: a group of artists, writers and film-makers who's work explores aspects of the environment and landscape; we feel we can help promote, highlight and encourage positive change through the work we choose to make.

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‘Datascape 008 'Inverted World' 14.12.16 La Garde Freinet to Collobrieres, Provence, 12.5 miles’ 76 x 101 cm Oil on Canvas Ready to hang This work documents a walk across a mountain range in the South of France that I undertook around 5 years ago. It was a perfect late Autumn day and I experienced a beautiful cloud inversion from the top of the mountains with the plains below enveloped in the mist.

The colours of the piece reflect the colours of the landscape on that special day. Sadly in August this year a huge wild fire went straight over this mountain range destroying over 7000 hectares of land, damaging very important habitats and leading to the loss of several lives.

RESERVE: £1,200.00

‘Datascape 007 'Pilgrimage Ridge' 12.12.16 Fort Freinet to Rue des Crettes, Provence, 2 Mile’ 76x101cm Oil on Canvas Ready to hang

RESERVE: £1,200.00 As with my last piece, this work also documents part of the Massif du Maures. A walk along a mountain ridge above the village of La Garde Freinet in Provence, South of France.The three lines from the top; represent my elevation, the actual drawn ridge and the speed at which I walked it.

I've been walking this ridge for over 40 years and know every step of it intimately. In August this year, this ridge was aflame for the best part of 3 days and nights, with the village below 41 completely cut off.

LYRA MORGAN

“I feel 'at home' in 3 places....in and with nature, in my studio and in water. This planet is home to us all, the only planet we have available to us to enable life.

Sometimes even Mother Nature needs some TLC and we owe it to 'her' to give her some!

Finding different ways to represent water is an ongoing theme in my practice. I am fascinated with its transient nature and ability to take many forms whether it be a formed yet formless cloud or a flowing river.”

Lyra Morgan’s ‘statement’ paintings evoke the calmness she feels when she creates them, transforming the spaces we live in. Through her love of colour, she creates atmosphere by working in layers with mixed media and a unique non-brush technique making her pieces one of a kind. Each piece is instinctively balanced in composition and is created organically and by Lyra being free enough in spirit to allow each work to build through a cycle of evolution.

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‘Window For Change’ 140 x 100 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas Ready to hang It is a reflection on how when we take time to look up at the skies, we can ‘place’ ourselves in ‘the whole’. Even if we are in a city, we are not separate from nature, we share the same light, we share the same colours, we share the same skies. This piece recognizes that we have a window to do what we can in whatever way we can (small steps or big gestures) to enable a more harmonious, sustainable existence with nature in the future.

‘Unseen Depths II’

RESERVE: £2,700.00

100 x 140 x 4 cm

Acrylic on canvas Ready to hang An invitation to look beyond the surface.

Being over 70% water ourselves, we have a lot in common with the planet. On the surface, this painting might appear to be shades of blue and green but if you look closer, you see more colours.

RESERVE: £2,700.00

When we look closer at ourselves in relation to our planet, we can see more ways to preserve its future, its depths, its colours - the things that make it extraordinary.

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MANDY ROBERTSON

“I would love through creativity and using my art, to contribute towards and support a movement, which aims to safeguard our future and planet. As with so many across the globe who are passionate about protecting the natural world and health of our ecosystems, I too am deeply disturbed by the destruction and disintegration of so much life on earth. The correlation with, and effect on, our own well-being and ultimate survival of humanity is brutally clear. I believe Art and inspiration can be part of the world’s mission to self-heal. It can help remind us of the sublime beauty life offers and channels in all its various forms, colour and expression.”

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‘Fragile Treasures’ Acrylic on canvas 20 x 20 x 4cm “Floating ethereal images combine with bursts of life/flashes of vibrancy, light, colour and detail. These biodiverse treasures ghosts/whispers of the future and past - are suspended in a liminal space where life hangs in the balance.”

RESERVE: £150.00

‘Dance of Life’

Acrylic on canvas 30 x 30 x 4 cm

“It suggests a sense of urgency and motion - dancing for survival echoing the ephemeral nature of life on earth and its rhythmic interconnection. The ghostly images illustrate the fragility of that web/our ecosystems..how so many species are hanging in precarious balance, fast becoming extinct or already extinct. Slight detail whisper their gradual and ever more swift disintegration..a reflection of our entire cycle of life; its birth and eventual death speeding up. But it also aims to inspire, uplift and capture a sense of life, hope and its magical force and flow. The red dot symbolises our collective yet often concealed universal wisdom that runs through all things..”

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RESERVE: £150.00

MARY DALTON “The tales of our family living a life with a low footprint on this planet form the basis of all my practice. The materials and techniques I use within Printmaking are all checked, improved or developed to reduce my impact upon the planet.”

I am a professional printmaker and arts educator. I am the founder of the award winning Washroom Pop-Up Press, which brings printmaking to all. I graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2008, after studying a BSc in Architectural Studies at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. My practice is led by unique, dynamic prints, each one a stand alone, non-editioned artwork. The works tell stories of daily life from an unusual family perspective, from experimenting making Pine Bark flour to the story of the dead pregnant deer.

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‘Fight for the Ivy II’ 100cm x 70cm (paper size) linocut, monoprint, collage, dry point, drawing *Requires framing The piece describes a dispute regarding a very healthy area of ivy that we had been growing for the insects and the birds. Our neighbour ripped some of the down without permission and since we have been gently defending the environmental properties of ivy and its importance for the planet.

RESERVE: £800.00

‘Duff Dance II’ 41cm x 34cm Mokulito, woodcut and monoprint *Requires framing Duff describes the stunning soil created om the woodland floor, formed as all rich leaves and tree mass degrade.

RESERVE: £275.00

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MINNA GEORGE

‘I began creating the ‘Legends’ collection initially as a climate change and environmental visual call to action concept. The way the Legends are produced on a highly reflective thin 5 mm rigid material is to remind us of the fragility and yet robustness of our mountains, glaciers and their contribution to our planet. I am submitting two paintings I feel will relate strongly with the concept and goals of this auction.’

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‘Everest’ 120 X 180 cm Graphite, digital and acrylic on dibond plexiglass composite Ready to hang

This is part of the Legend series concept on the melting glaciers in Nepal

RESERVE: £7,000.00

‘K2 - The Descent’ 120 x 90 cm mixed media, graphite and acrylic on plexiglass composite dibond Ready to hang

Part of the Legends series concerned with the global warming effect on our glaciers , Nepal

RESERVE: £4,000.00

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PAZ PERLMAN “I have been personally supporting climate action for many years and am heading this month to the major TED Countdown climate conference in Edinburgh in my official capacity as an artist to highlight the role and importance of art in elevating awareness and action.”

My art reflects the universal desire to make sense of the world around us and our place within it.

I feel compelled to grapple with the unconscious forces within and to manifest them in abstract forms. In that manner, I see art as a mirror reflecting from the inside out.Having originally trained and worked internationally as an instructor in dance, tai chi and yoga, I draw upon my understanding of movement to inform my practice and am fascinated by the challenge to bring matter to life.

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‘Precious Jewel of the Cosmos’ 40cmx35cm Found object (cardboard) and photographic image The decaying cardboard focuses our attention on the extraordinary beauty and preciousness of our planet and highlights the damage we are doing and the need to take urgent action to protect all life

RESERVE: £450.00

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PEGGAH SAMAEI

“We need to cherish every leaf, every petal. We need look after our green planet as this also guarantees life longevity and wellbeing for us all.”

I admire all of nature but I aspire to produce detailed examinations of my surroundings and combine this with a deeper, slower look at what is in front of me and what I am absorbing in that exact moment. I try to focus on what I am feeling within and how I am communicating with the energy of my subjects; What is it trying to say? Am I listening, looking, smelling, tasting, and hearing enough?

Am I silent enough for the whole of that peaceful moment? Why am I here in this moment?

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‘Healing Recipe Series: Oh My Ivy!’ 30 x 30 x 3.5 Acrylic paint, texture paste, glass beads and sand.

Ready to hang This painting is part of the Healing Recipe Series. I have created this series during a period of my life when the nature played a huge role in mending my broken soul after losing a loved one. I have taken inspiration from my local surroundings and photography images of mine and by a photographer I admire. Using textured paste, modelling paste, sand and glass beads, I have reached an interesting conclusion with these works; I have created something new, original and significant.

RESERVE: £585.00

‘Healing Recipe Series: Snow in Richmond Park‘ 30 x 30 x 2.5.

Acrylic paint, texture paste, glass beads and sand.

Ready to hang I have lived locally to Richmond park for ten years and had truly enjoyed my daily walks in the park. That doesn’t go without noticing the marginal growth of ponds and lakes in the park from the affects of global warming.

My artwork represents itself as a reminder of how unlikely it might be to witnessing snow fall in London in the coming years and how dangerously close are we from losing more inches of land every day around our planet.

RESERVE: £585.00

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PHILIP HEARSEY

“Climate change is already having an effect but the impact on my children and grandchildren could be catastrophic.”

After a formal training at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, Philip Hearsey continued exploring his more artistic interests, and he spent many years developing in different aspects of interiors, furniture and architecture. At current, Hearsey specialises in sandcasting to make sculptures that engage the quality of bronze as a noble material in its own right.

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‘Travelling So Far’ 51 × 26 × 12 cm Bronze / slate composite Ready to display

RESERVE: £2,475.00 The title is an obvious clue but there are many ways the sculpture can be viewed, according to the perspective of the onlooker. A semi-abstract sculpture with a strong narrative origin.

The raised bronze has a multi-directional brushed finish and the sculpture turns on the base allowing either face to be seen. Real slate dust is bound by resin to create the base.

‘Chunk 1’ 34 × 47 × 12 cm

Painted MDF / Resin Ready to display RESERVE: £1,500.00

Chunk is a resin cast taken from burr oak. Painting it in a flat colour gives it a different presence and takes away the woodiness of the original. Organic abstract open to many personal interpretations. Sat in a painted mdf box it can be wall hung or stand on any surface. The box has keyhole plates in the back making it ready to hang. The sculpture can be removed to stand alone.

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RENE GONZALEz Rene Gonzalez is a London based artist of Latino background who was born in Montreal Canada, though he lived in Costa Rica by the age of ten before moving to the UK in 2012 to undertake a BA in Fine Art Painting at City & Guilds of London Art School.

Rene paints scenes with dream-like natural landscapes that often feature human or animal characters that guide us through dark forests, ambiguous backgrounds and bursts of trees and greenery against dramatic, eerie skies. These compositions take inspiration from lands that go from tropical forests, European woodlands to the snowy taiga of the northern hemisphere, but always vibrant with a mystical other-worldly feel, evoking the magical and wonder found in our natural environment.

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‘Unfamiliar Footsteps’ 75 x 50 x 2 cm Acrylic on raw canvas Ready to hang It’s about a fox and a human meeting, inspired by the little Prince short book. Foxes are common in London as their habitats continue to recede through human expansion but they are often vilified by the same humans that have taken away their natural environment. I think we need to care about the animals around us if we want a healthier planet for our future.

RESERVE: £2,200.00

‘Sisters’

75 x 100 x 2 cm Acrylic on raw canvas Ready to hang It is a depiction of two tropical trees near the shore and on each tree, resting on their strong branches, is a Jaguar. Animals and their environments are in danger as the world continues to go through a man made environmental crisis

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Alice Lenkiewicz

I am very interested in linking ideas to do with art and the environment. I m very passionate about our planet and I’ve painted a number of works and been involved in campaigns to support our natural environment and against pollution and building motorways over natural land as well as supporting animal welfare.

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‘Free the Animals’ 25 x 30 cm Oil on canvas Ready to hang In this painting, I have created a mystical image that is inspired by my recent interest in theosophical teachings by using symbolism and inward visualisation to direct my thoughts on this subject. With the environment in decline and people becoming alarmed at the continuing growth of technology, increasingly we are becoming less surrounded by nature and more surrounded by an artificial wilderness. I feel this is disorientating and alienating us further away from the spiritual dimension of life so that we are becoming less inwardly orientated.

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‘Beautiful Nature’ 25 x 30 cm Oil on Canvas Ready to hang

The painting is abstracted and depicts vines and flower stems stretching out from the centre of the earth towards the sun and the moon. In the centre of the painting I have painted the yin yang symbol which is a concept of dualism, interconnected and independent and informs us of how opposite forces can be complementary

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AMANDA RANDALL “To raise awareness of the CEE bill.’

From January to June 2021 I will be creating drawings, collages, sculptures and installations in response to the environmental destruction caused by HS2, the high speed rail link in Warwickshire. Travelling by bicycle to locations along the route, I am working on site and then back in my studio to create an elegy for the biodiversity we have lost and to celebrate the surviving, resilient species. Biomorphic sculptures made from clay, local red sandstone and silver examine the fragile beauty and toughness of nature.

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‘Hairy Curtain Crust’ 40 x 30cm Digital giclee print of ink drawing *Requires framing The bright orange Hairy Curtain Crust is a bracket fungi found in ancient woodlands . The fungus has a symbiotic relationship with the trees and, both supporting new growth and decomposing dead wood. This specimen was discovered in Crackley Wood in Warwickshire, in the part of the wood which has not been destroyed by the construction of HS2, the high speed rail link.

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‘Hairy Curtain Crust version 2’ 40 x 30cm Giclee digital print of original painting *Requires framing The bright orange Hairy Curtain Crust is a bracket fungi found in ancient woodlands . The fungus has a symbiotic relationship with the trees and, both supporting new growth and decomposing dead wood. This specimen was discovered in Crackley Wood in Warwickshire, in the part of the wood which has not been destroyed by the construction of HS2, the high speed rail link.

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CORINNE NATEL “Climate change is a very important issue that art could connect people to raise awareness and get people involved.”

Corinne Natel is contemporary artist based in London. She specializes in abstract mixed media fluid paintings, and feels inspired by landscapes, nature, cities, travel, fashion and media. Her work investigates colour, form, space and texture.

Working with mixed media, a blank white canvas takes on a new form through the expression of energy and begins to develop a life of it's own and a new entity, aiming to create vibrant and emotive works.

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‘Yoshi #1’ 90cm diameter x 1.6cm, Acrylic, ink and mixed media Ready to hang It can be represented as an abstract interpretation of climate change, with its fluid aspects representing our planet's elements of the sea flowing into land, it's circular shape representing the planet as a whole

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‘Mieko #3’ 40cm x 50cm x 3.7 Acrylic, ink, mixed media and glitter.

Ready to hang This can be an abstract interpretation of climate change with it's fluid aspects representing elements of the planet, from the sea flowing to the land. Also depicts an abstract butterfly or abstract creature to represent nature on our planet.

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HERMIONE MACMILLAN “The consequences of the effect of fires and flooding, and the impact this has had on many communities’ livelihood across the globe is devastating. I am passionate about supporting anything our country can do to change where we are having a negative impact on the environment.”

Hermione Macmillan received her MA in Fine Art - Painting and History of Art (Hons) from University of Edinburgh. She is inspired by her immediate urban environment. She sees commercial objects and buildings as abstract shapes and colours and repetitive design. These qualities draw her to her choice in subject matter: from the bright, bold, contemporary range of colours and varying shapes seen in commercial objects in department stores to modern architecture outside.

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‘Tropical Cyclone’ 115 x 118 x 5 cm Acrylic and household paint on backed wood panel Ready to hang Global warming has changed the spread of tropical cyclones around the world. The bold, continuous swirling lines in this piece represents the ongoing increase in tropical weather storms across the world and the scary effect the change in our weather is having on many, often poorer communities, across the globe.

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‘Do You Really Need Another Lipstick?’

155cm

x 122cm x 7cm.

Oil on Handstretched Canvas Ready to hang

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This piece is a comment on consumerism. It is capturing the shiny, attractive objects on consumer shelves in shops, where we are enticed to consume more than we need. With the rows of beautiful lipsticks, it depicts our society catering to a consumer-friendly culture, where we do not always think about the long-term consequences of our purchases and the impact this has on the environment. This piece causes the viewer to stop and think: ‘Do I 67 really need another lipstick?’.

JULIE BENNETT

“I have wanted to do a portrait of Greta Thunberg but never had the reason! And this is it!”

Julie Bennett is a portrait painter living and working in London. Her bold, unapologetically confident portraits appropriate pop culture icons from the music industry and art world, creating contemporary homages to the likes of David Bowie, Elvis, Frida Kahlo, Boy George, Patti Smith, and Her Majesty The Queen.

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‘Greta: How Dare You! (Print)’ 50 × 42 × 0.25 cm (printed area 38.75 x 32 cm) Archival pigment print on Hahnemuehle cotton-rich fibre-based paper *Requires framing

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KATY KANN “I am honoured to take part in an initiative with a mission to fight against climate change”.

Being raised in an artistic family with her mother being a classical ballet dancer and her grandparents mastering in the arts, it gave her the love and desire to produce art that is intense and rewarding. Her grandfather introduced her to the delicate and mystical theme of nudity which can be seen in her upcoming ‘Carnality’ series. Having several other fascinations in the industry of the arts she received a GIA diploma as an accredited jewelry professional and in 2012 left abroad to study Architecture at the University of Manchester. Nevertheless painting to this day remains to her as a profound passion and a full-time commitment as she continues to accept both small and large scale painting commissions using the highest quality oil painting pigments.

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‘Abandoned’

The artist has used the notoriously famous Del Salto hotel to create a visual of what the Earth might look like once we're gone.

130 x 50cm Oil on Canvas Ready to hang

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‘The Journey’ 90x90cm Oil on Canvas Ready to hang The Journey is a poetic r ecycling of a memory of a landscape no longer there.

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LAURA H ELLIOTT “This collection of artworks merge landscapes, animals and insects, playing with cubism, abstraction and a touch of surrealism, constructing a refreshing new collection of artworks. This series includes Laura’s feminine touch, in the form of butterflies, symbolising change, adaption and evolution; additionally, representing constant change, both as an artist and the world around us. The animals featured explore and portray the vulnerabilities of the exotic animals, which are converted and affected by the way the world aspires to live. Climate change is an unavoidable, central concern for each of the animals reflected in Laura’s art, with each animal on the endangered list; put there due to our obsession with perusing the modern exotic in our daily lives.”

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‘The Rare King of the Exotic’ 82.5 × 65.5 × 3.5 cm Acrylic Paint, graphite, ink and photographic Image on natural linen canvas Sheet In a glass fronted deep edged white and cream frame with mount Ready to hang

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‘How Many Bees Do You See B4 You?’ 101 × 101 × 3 cm Acrylic Paint, graphite and photographs on hand-made, deep edged stretched British linen canvas Ready to hang

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MIGUEL SOPENA

“I support Zero Hour and the CEE Bill initiative. I am very curious about different creative processes and techniques and I believe this constant experimentation and exploration makes my practice richer. I look forward to carrying on exploring and breaking boundaries in the future.”

'Art does not reproduce the visible- Rather, it makes visible' -Paul Klee I am an artist and photographer originally from Spain but now based in South London. As an artist, at first my interests were mainly figurative (with a focus on the human body) but lately my practice has evolved to include abstraction (and the whole spectrum between abstraction and figuration) as well as the material properties of the painting medium. I am very curious about different creative processes and techniques and I believe this constant experimentation and exploration makes my practice richer. I look forward to carrying on exploring and breaking boundaries in the future.

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‘The City 8’ Oil paint, impasto medium and marble dust on board 30x25x1 cm

Ready to hang

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‘The Dénia series: Sunset III’ Oil paint, impasto medium and marble dust on canvas 120 x 9 0 x2 cm

Ready to hang

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TERENCE MATTHEWS

“The CEE is the greatest challenge facing us and artists must be play their part in the communicating the problem and finding solutions.”

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‘Puffin With Sandeels’ 47 x 37 cm Etched and cut lino print e.v.

Ready to hang Rising sea temperatures have caused northwards migration of sand eels in British waters resulting in declining puffin populations.

Overfishing of sand eels for export has contributed to the problem.

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‘Puffin, interrupted’ 47 x 37 cm Etched and cut lino print e.v.

Ready to hang

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