Art in the Workplace
Core values of Byard Art
Our Gallery and Collection
Immerse yourself in the world of contemporary art with Byard Art, independent gallery nestled in Cambridge’s historic heart. For 25 we’ve enriched spaces with art, transforming homes and workplaces Benefit from our comprehensive corporate services tailored to businesses in both private and public sectors. We work hand-in-hand with our ensuring the chosen artworks seamlessly blend with your building’s company ethos, and the people within.
Explore the diverse styles, subjects, and mediums of over 100 respected and upcoming artists from the UK and Europe. Our collection boasts ers, printmakers, sculptors, photographers, and artisans in glass, textiles, ceramics. Need something unique? We utilise our robust connections artists to create bespoke art pieces, tailored exclusively for your Dive into the transformative power of art with Byard Art.
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gallery, you’ll find an expert team ready to guide you through vast collection to pinpoint the perfect artwork that will enhance workspace. We don’t just stop at advice; we also offer support acquiring information about the artist, purchasing the artwork, shipping, and ultimately assisting you in placing the chosen piece in most suitable spot within your premises.
unique strength lies in our ability to identify and collaborate with to curate artwork that is tailored specifically to your workspace. take a meticulous approach, considering a range of factors, including your company’s values, your clientele, your staff, the architecture of your building, and practical and budgetary considerto find the perfect piece. Our service may include sourcing a centerpiece for your building’s entrance or individual pieces to breathe new life into your office setting. Our assistance doesn’t end just selection; we’re with you every step of the way, from site vispresenting potential artists and ideas, coordinating with artists, and offering support and advise for hanging the piece.
Artwork can drastically transform your employees’ workspace. We believe in employee involvement and offer strategies like voting on selected pieces, hosting a viewing event, or gathering feedback to encourage their participation. Buying new art is an exceptional experience, and the chosen artwork, which will be placed in a space you and your staff spend a significant amount of time, should mirror the identity of your company.
Questions to Consider
What is the purpose of the artwork?
This could be to add personality to a space, be inspirational to our workforce, reinforce your brand, or add a sense of grandeur to an entrance.
Who will see the piece?
Will this be a first impression for important guests? Or a piece to become part of your employee’s second home?
Are there special requirements in the building?
You may have an unusual space, rental restrictions, large windows, or spaces that require extra lighting.
What do we want the piece to say about our company?
Incorporating your brand identity, such as colour or a design detail from your company’s logo can be a great way to personalise a piece. This could also be a statement about the founders of the company, or a positive piece to create joy in an otherwise work-related space.
What’s Next? The Process
To begin, we conduct a site visit to get to know you and your business and talk through the potential spaces to which you would like to add artwork. Sometimes we can envisage quite surprising solutions to add personality to a space, including suspending artworks or works to be placed outside.
If you’re looking for a bespoke piece, we may ask to take away items that represent your brand identity before delivering a proposal of artists. Once you’ve decided on an artist to continue with, we work closely with both you and the artist to progress the commission, ensuring timely updates are communicated along the way until the project is complete. After completion, we can advise and help to orchestrate shipping and installation.
Contact Us;
Call 01223 464646 and ask to speak with Hannah or Jessie
Email info@byardart.co.uk
We look forward to starting your artwork journey
Chris Wood
For Chris Wood, her canvas is glass and her medium is light. She uses one to manipulate the other, with subtle interventions carefully placed in the optical plane. She harnesses patterns of light, which recall ephemeral glimpsed moments in the natural world. As glass is used more and more predominately as a sheeted shield, it is perceived as a material that excludes the majority of people from huge corporate buildings. Alternatively, it is a functional piece of tableware that we unthinkingly use everyday.
Dichroic - from the Greek dikhroos, meaning two coloured.
Chris Wood artworks feature a material called dichroic which was originally developed by NASA in the 1960’s.
Dichroic is a colourless optical coating that selectively reflects certain wavelengths of light. This allows the remaining wavelengths to transmit through, producing a variety of rainbow coloured shadows and projections. The material itself shifts from being reflective like a golden mirror to vibrantly coloured or almost transparent depending upon the viewpoint and angle of light.
80 x 80cm
£4,800
Swirl
Dichroic Glass, Aluminium, Light
Apogee Dichroic Glass, Aluminium, Light
150 x 150cm
£18,000
Apogee Detail
“I discovered Dichroic glass when I was at the Royal College of Art and I was absolutely fascinated by it, however, every time I tried to use it - it just looked too busy! I played with it for over 10 years before I worked out how to use it successfully. I’d moved to the fens in East Anglia and was working with reflective materials against the strong lines of the fenland landscape – it was this that inspired the mathematically engineered approach I use to contain the dichroic effects. If you’re interested in light, glass is the material you naturally gravitate towards, and dichroic is the most eloquent description of the magic of light.”
Artist Chris Wood
Loss
Dichroic Glass, Aluminium, Light 150 x 150cm £18,000
Interference
Dichroic Glass, Aluminium, Light
Individual Panels 40 x 40cm
£2,0000 per panel
Recent Project
In the summer of 2022, we initiated a collaboration with a science-oriented firm based Cambridgeshire, boasting significant office and laboratory facilities. This company, recently relocated and invested an active role in the building’s design, sought to enrich expansive entrance with artistic elements aligned to their brand identity.
We commenced by conducting a site visit to evaluate potential spaces and subsequently developed a curated portfolio of potential artist profiles and options. This portfolio was disseminated amongst interested employees, resulting in the selection of artist Chris
A follow-up site visit with the artist facilitated the creation of three unique design proposals, accompanied by budgetary considerations. Following a comprehensive consultation, design was chosen for implementation. Observing the agreed timeline, the artist commenced work on the chosen piece.
Upon completion, the firm’s in-house team took responsibility for its installation, although provided alternative solutions for this process. The result was a highly satisfied client new feature enhancing an architecturally impressive space.
based in having enrich their subsequently was Chris Wood. proposals, each consultation, one commenced although we with a striking
Sally Burch
At the start of Sally Burch’s life as a painter she fought against her graphic roots, but now fully embraces those skills and influences to stir the “paint pot” with ever evolving ideas from her fine art education. Her art practice is influenced by natural landscapes and phenomena that she personally experiences via both physical and virtual media. Working with sketches and digital media, she builds up a catalogue of simplified references, motifs and colours that she converts into her own pictorial language of pattern, form and pigment.
Blue Moon Ink, Dry Pigment & Polymers on Panel
82 x 63cm
£1,400
£2,500
Spring is in the Air
Ink, Dry Pigment & Polymers on Panel
102 x 102cm
Martha Winter
Martha’s artistic practice has been profoundly influenced by exposure to two vastly different environments. A youth spent in London, surrounded by minimal art and modern architecture gave her the visual language of reduced and economical form, and a fascination with systems, repetition and order. This was coupled with the regular witnessing of the raw power of the East Anglian coastline. In this, Martha became aware of natural laws and gained an interest in the organised chaos of physical matter.
Living near Cambridge, a city at the epicentre of scientific research, Martha became aware how scientific research influences our understanding of the natural world. Through observing nature and biomimicry, she has developed a process that allows her to draw with a sand solution. This painstaking method enables the creation of form through line and texture around which other materials and pigments are then accumulated over time.
Breaking Circle i
Sand and Pigment
50 x 50cm
£775
Breaking Circle ii
Sand and Pigment
50 x 50cm
£775
Waller and Hewett
Creative design partnership Ruth Waller and Lee Hewett explore their fascination for interior textile surfaces to produce impressive installations and bespoke pieces. The duo have combined their areas of expertise to create work that crosses the boundaries between art, design and craft. Both studied at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, with Lee completing his Masters in Product Design in 2004, and Ruth obtaining her Masters in Textiles in 2000. Created using hand dyed and felted wool on steel wire, each piece is unique and can be created to each clients unique brand identity.
Radial Array No 1 90cm Dia
Client Comission 210 x 90cm
Mark Munroe Preston
Mark Munroe-Preston is a photographic and digital artist whose work blurs the boundaries between photography, abstraction, and digital painting. Drawing on decades of experience in image-making, Mark transforms his own landscape photography into dreamlike visual compositions that evoke memory, mood, and atmosphere. His pieces often resemble weathered frescoes or soft encaustic paintings, layered, painterly and immersive. At the heart of his process is a desire to move beyond representation, using digital tools to express the emotional resonance of a place rather than its literal appearance. The result is work that sits somewhere between the seen and the sensed.
N52.6416 E1.2535 edition of 25 Print on Brushed Alluminium Dibond
x 100cm
N50.8970 W0.1910 PANO edition of 25
Print on Brushed Alluminium Dibond
162 x 75cm
£1250
N50.9521 E0.0863 edition of 25
Print on Brushed Alluminium Dibond
100 x 100cm
£1000
