Partners Art

Recent Projects

• Hsiao-Mei Lin. Taiwan. RA 1994-97

  

  RA 1994-97 

  Hsiao-Mei Lin is an artist fascinated by the universe and its creation. She is moved to paint in wonder at the beauty of the earth around us, and to show her appreciation of the world in a fresh and dynamic way. 

  “A windy day.” – Right 

  She is an artist who has always had a deeply original and striking style that combines the discipline and precision of Chinese calligraphy with the freedom and textures of western abstract traditions. At the Royal Academy Schools, she won accolades and scholarships recognising the individuality of her painting technique. 

  By portraying elements such as water and air in paint, Hsiao-Mei’s paintings seem alive. There is always something new to be explored. Although they are visually engaging they speak to our emotions as well as to all our senses. Their energy shows her awe in the splendour of our world and the magic that marks of a brush on a surface can create when one gets it right. 

   

• Victoria Olt

  

  Victoria Olt is a traditional artist whose ethereal paintings blend classical realism with the vibrant colours of contemporary art.

  Employing mixed mediums, Victoria creates windows into the human soul, exposing all the endlessly complicated emotions we try our best to hide.   They offer solace to whoever needs it, and help find a sense of belonging in an otherwise perplexing universe.  

  Left – “Of Sorrow Sleep and disbelief” 

  Her works are shown in various galleries and held in private collections all around the world.She was born and spent her childhood in Estonia then moved to Spain where studied fine arts in the University of Seville, she also worked in Madrid and Amsterdam, and spent the height of the pandemic on the isolated island of Nevis, before returning to Estonia late 2021 where she now runs her own gallery. 

• Cuban artists

  “On the banks of a Dream” Retamero

  One of Charles Bromley’s favourite pictures, immaculately painted with illusions of childhood, sunny summer days outdoors, timelessness and being cocooned in domestic security.

  Charles Bromley has travelled to Cuba several times. On the first time for the 2nd Cuban cigar festival. At this time the event was relatively small and the highlight was a dinner with Fidel Castro – immaculately dressed in silk combat fatigues, and at the end Compay Segundo stood up and sang – Chan Chan.

  On the first visit Cuba was desperately poor but vibrant. Subsequent visits have seen a middle class emerging and teenagers with smart phones listening to Western Rock music. Nevertheless the country remains fiercely committed to following its own path and being independent of the US.

  Artists often use surreal images to represent cuba and the social situation to avoid overt criticism of the regime. The diptych hanging opposite the stairs shows Cuba in the centre of the Americas being squeezed by grotesque fantasy creatures.

  

  

• Romanie

  

  The paintings of the Ibicencan artist Romanie are a product of the inner work that is developed every time she picks up her brushes.

  The motifs and repetitive shapes we see are the inheritance of a childhood spent in the countryside in Ibiza in the 1970’s, whilst the embodied themes in the work arise from a constant spiritual search. For Romanie painting works as a medium rather than an end in itself, she paints out of a spiritual necessity.

  

  The paintings take form whilst the artist establishes an inner dialogue and relates it to that which her hand paints freely upon the blank surface of the canvas or board.  The first strokes are traced by chance, emerging from the subconscious, until the first defined forms appear; at this point a relationship begins between ideas, emotions and inner thoughts,  turning into recognisable images as a result of the process.

  

  In her work we find much esoteric symbology; this is a vital part of  of the artist.  Right – “The Observer” 

  

  Romanie began exhibiting her work in 2001 and paints practically every day in her house in the countryside of Ibiza. When traveling she paints in her notepads and gathering ideas and images that appear in later works.

  Left – The six dimensions.

• Danchu

  Danchu was born in Ibiza in 1986. Having then grown up in Asturias and Tenerife she then developed her artistic studies between Switzerland (Ecole d’Humanite), Cyprus (Cyprus College of art) and California (Academy of art University).

  Since 2018, she has applied a realistic technique to her surreal works creating imaginary organic forms and maintaining a surrealist style with psychedelic reminiscences. More recently much of her work is born from sacred geometry patterns.  She always paints with Oil and charcoal on recycled wood.

  Art is a way of life for her and she feels that it translates her subconscious. Through painting, she finds magical moments where all her existential questions are manifested. Her inspiration comes largely in the mountains, where climbing vertical walls she finds a connection with nature that fills her with creative energy.

  

   

• Angel Zababala

  Born in Aguilas (Murcia) in 1975, he has lived in Ibiza since he was 7 years old, mainly self-taught training, although he briefly trained in workshops in Barcelona.

  Although he remembers having always drawn, it was his love of skateboarding and its aesthetics and the deep impression made on him by the work of Giger, DALÍ and the expressionists, which triggered his plastic
  vocation.

  Left – Baile Payes

  Discovering the work of the great Ibizan draftsman Antoni Marí Ribas (Portmany) by the gallery owner Gastao Heberle caused a profound change in his subject matter and technique, moving from detailed and more precise painting to rapid strokes and stains that recreate the whitewashed streets of Ibiza or of any other Mediterranean town full of anonymous passers-by.

  Right – Dalo Todo (Give it all)

  

  Accustomed to openly mixing materials and techniques, he soon included collage in his urban landscapes. A sculpture created in homage to a loved one who disappeared in 2014 reveals his pleasure in volume. In this medium, he focuses for the moment on the human being, presented from his most comical side to the most torn, from naturalness to fusion with machines or objects.

• Marga Juan

  Drawings and brushes have always been part of her life, but it wasn’t until 2004 that she truly started dedicating herself to her craft. Since then, she has made several individual exhibitions in Ibiza, and also participated in group exhibitions, both in Ibiza and on the Spanish Mainland.

  She loves painting in watercolour, the freshness of the colour and the movement of the water Plants and nature are her favourite topics. She tries to capture their spirit, and look for the essence of their colours, and their movements, always in search of sunlight. With this Almond Tree painting she wanted to highlight the beauty and strength of the almond trees when they are in bloom.

• Gerry Clark

  

  A fascinating character and a human treasure Gerry Clark  is a sculptor and painter, born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1945. After several exhibitions in South Wales, Gerry came to Ibiza in 1980, where he quickly established himself as a painter and sculptor on the island. Constructing his own house, studio and kiln, he has exhibited his ceramics and paintings in Sala Sa Nostra Gallery in 1982, in Club Diario de Ibiza in 2008 with John Lodi and in Can Tixedó Arts Café with Júlia Ribas in 2013 (“Illes”) and in 2019 (“Natures”). Gerry has also worked with primary schools creating ceramic murals about the environment. He currently lives in Santa Gertrudis with his lovely wife Elaine and has five children. 

  His Olive tree (right) is a beautiful and simple focus on one of Ibiza’s icons.  His palette is very vivid and the background highlights the tree and gives it an intense immediacy –  similar to de Chirico’s Red Tower which kick started the surrealist painting movement.  

• Madam Dali

  

  Born in Russia in poverty, she combines seemingly completely incompatible things and in doing so destroys the laws of nature and physics. Dali, in Russian means “very far away” – where we do not see what is happening behind the horizon. 

  Inspired in Ibiza by her seeing Salvador Dali’s works for the first times he believes that in the future, dream and reality will merge into a kind of absolute reality, in surrealism. 

  Left – DJ – referencing the island’s dance culture and the Pacha cherries. 

  

  She believes in the liberating power of the dream, therefore she often takes to the canvas immediately after morning awakening when the brain is not yet fully freed from the images of the unconscious. Sometimes she gets up at night to work.

  Right – Homage to Jimmy Hendrix – referencing Es Vedra as the source of energy. 

   

• Monica Benet

  “El proceso , como la espiral de Fibonacci, queda siempre infinito.  La constante evolución de técnica, investigación de materiales y relieves que transciendan”. 

  “The process, like the Fibonacci spiral, always remains infinite.  The constant evolution of technique, investigation of materials and reliefs that transcend”. 

  

  Inspired by the planet and the cosmos, paintings that respond to the inspiration of the Ibiza island landscape –The sea, land, waters, oceans, stars, galaxies, dunes, sacred geometry, geology.  All these flourish within paintings with a tense and almost abstract language, loaded with meaning and transcendence. The superimposition and abundance of matter offer an aspect of transparency or depth and textures that contrast with tunnels of light which transport us from oceans to  galaxies. Using different materials and applications, including oils, freely, releasing the subconscious.

• Paddy

  Charles Bromley’s first ever painting collected from a young artist.

• Aidan Salakhova

  Aidan Salakhava is an Azerbaijani and Russian artist, gallerist and public person. In 1992 she founded the Aidan Gallery in Moscow. Salahova’s works can be found in many private and state collections. 

  In the late 1980s Salahova became one of the most significant art figures of the new generation in post-Soviet countries. In 2002 Aidan was awarded a silver medal by the Russian Academy of Fine Arts. In 2005-2007 she was a member of the Public Chamber. 

  Having worked for over twenty years as both an artist and a gallerist she has been one of the strongest influences on the development of contemporary art in post-Soviet Russia. 

  Salahova has exhibited her work at major international art fairs and biennales, including twice at the Venice Biennale (1991 and 2011) and at the Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2007). 

  Salahova investigates gender themes, women’s sexuality in the context of Islam, contrasts between the East and the West, matters of prohibition, esotericism, and beauty. 

  At the 2011 Venice Biennale, Salahova’s name hit the headlines when her work was politically censored. Salahova was representing the Azerbaijan Pavilion among other national artists at the 54th Venice Biennale. Two of her artworks previously approved by the ministry of culture were ordered to be covered and eventually removed from the exhibition a day before the opening, “because of government sensitivities towards the nation’s status as a secular Muslim country”. The officials said the works had been damaged during transportation. All the works displayed in the house are untitled but must be viewed with reference to Salkhova’s gender themes. She currently lives and works in Carrara, Italy. 

• Hubert - Lebanese Artist

  A beautiful piece – Lightbulb

  On a wine tasting tour of Lebanon with long time friend and wine journalist Michael Karam, CB took the day off to visit various art galleries and came across this piece.  He subsequently lost all the accompanying documentation and following the dreadful blast in Beirut harbour and subsequent economic collapse he doubts whether he will be able to find out what has happened to the artist.

• Sir Peter Thomas Blake

  Sir Peter Thomas Blake is an English pop artist. He co-created the sleeve design for the Beatles’ album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. His other works include the covers for two of The Who’s albums, the cover of the Band Aid single “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”, and the Live Aid concert poster. Blake is a prominent figure in the pop art movement. Central to his paintings are his interest in images from popular culture which have infused his collages. In 2002 he was knighted at Buckingham Palace for his services to art. This limited edition print “Mona Lisa” contains 6 other personalities. 

• Japanese Artist (Currently Uncatalogued)

  

• Francesca Roxanne

  

  Francesca Roxanne is an Ibiza based artist who creates Visionary Art. 

  Born and bred in East London, Francesca has always loved the creative arts and holds a National Diploma in Art and Design with a specialty in Sacred Geometry. Since 2012 she has been a

  professional artist, creating over 200 pieces and many murals in different countries around the world. 

  The mural above the door was specially commissioned and incorporates elements of Corinthian architecture encompassing a tableau featuring many elements of surreal art as well as the Crest of the owner.

  References are to:- 

  De Chirico – Red Tower. Giorgio de Chirico’s enigmatic works provided a crucial inspiration for the Surrealist painters. The dreamlike atmosphere of his compositions results from irrational perspective, the lack of a unified light source, the elongation of shadows, and a hallucinatory focus on objects. 

  Magritte – The Childhood of Icarus (the rider and games piece) and La Grande Famille (dove). 

  Dali – The Persistence of Memory – (the melting clock) 

  Ozymandius – Percy Bysshe Shelley – the inevitable decline of rulers and the ephemeral nature of power and wealth, as represented by the fallen Corinthian capital and the lizard (referencing Ibiza) crawling across it 

  Arthurian legend – the lady of the lake -in many different versions of the mythology and literature she plays several important roles including providing Arthur with the sword Excalibur, eliminating Merlin, raising Lancelot after the death of his father, and helping to take the dying Arthur to Avalon.