Our Artists in 2025
Diverse international talents for our 15th year as an Artists Open House
Akronos Art Italy
Alejandro Pantin Spain
alfonso doncel Spain
Ana Ibarra Spain
AnneMette Beck Denmark
Andreina Mujica France
Bea Eggli Switzerland
Carlo Alessandro Mazzocchi Argentina
Eduardo Skinner Spain
Elizabeth Cemborain Venezuela
Fernando Adam Spain
Flor Troconis USA
Francisco Itriago Venezuela
Hannah Davies UK
Jacob Frerichs UK
Jesus Briceno Reyes Venezuela
Jonidel Mendoza Philippines
Linda Lieberman UK
Lise Moller Chile
Mette Mayer Denmark
Miguel Balliache Spain
Nadia Benatar USA
Patricia Davenport UK
Philomena Harmsworth UK
Rafael Rèverón-Pojan UK
Ricardo Jiménez Venezuela
Richard Bagguley UK
Roger Sanguino Spain
Romany Mark Bruce UK
Ruben Dario Monsalve Costa Rica
Serena Sussex UK
Simon Page UK
Akronos Art
A memory, a search, an idea: AKRONOS
AKRONOS is our artistic signature: we are Angela Longares and Anita Mollo.
Our artistic endeavour was born in Florence in 1982, a work at four hands and therefore no holding to separate identities. Our work includes installations, polychrome sculptures, scriptural paintings and art books and it is characterised by elements of geometry and our very particular vision of colour by which it invades essential geometries creating paths of perceptual order where each line goes to unite or divide sensations in the viewer and so immerse him/her within different chromatic synchronicities.
Part of AKRONOS work incorporates the written word or ancient letters which emerges in the basic geometry and may be interpreted as an unconscious encrypted message from remote eras of humanity.
alfonso doncel
The work of doncel has a strong experimental aspect which place the artist at the forefront of contemporary Spanish art. He is a productive and versatile artist who enjoys exploring emotional landscapes that often have a simple appearance but contain complex and ambitious conceptual environments.
On show in Encounters 2025
Alejandro Pantin Gil
Alejandro decided to leave an architectural studio to focus on art, perfecting a unique sculptural technique based on carving his works into the pages of discarded books, making delicate and precise topographical cuts and drawing the relief of the bark. Using a three-dimensional model that he digitally develops thanks to his technical knowledge of architecture, the artist transfers the topographical information to the books he rescues from destruction, generating unique and irreproducible figures, as they are not only the achieved form but also the content of the publications that someone did not want. Alejandro raises questions about the works but also about current issues such as sustainability and recycling, which are encouraged in a society that, in turn, prints thousands of supermarket catalogs, which are inherently outdated. Alejandro takes defective, discarded, or forgotten books to give them a new life, elevating what someone once didn't want to the category of art, from discarded to an object of desire with just his gesture.
Annmette Beck
The Danish textile designer and weaver Annemette Beck works from the basic principles of weaving and experiments with new combinations of structures and materials. Her works covers designs for rugs, runners, room dividers, blinds, panels, wall hangings and upholstery fabrics. Materials are paper yarn - rubber - metal threads as silver, copper, brass or stainless steel - lurex - crystals - coated polyester - recycled bicycle tubes - plant fibres - wool - linen and more.
"The philosophy behind my work is to simplify the design - to remove what is unnecessary so what only is essential remains - to make a clean, clear and sharp design by the way of carefully controlled fantasy", Annemette Beck
Annmette in Encounters
Andreina Mujica
Andreina Muijica’s Scarface, shown in Encounters 2025, is a combined performance and a photographic image. The artist recreates an iconic moment from cinema with herself as the model to draw attention to hunger in the world. In Andreina’s re-creation of Tony Montana in the movie Scarface she sits at a table overflowing with food. Andriena writes: “Such images are iconic. I reinterpret these with much concern for world hunger and a touch of humour”.
The Artist in the photo shoot
Bea's Brighton
Bea Eggli
Bea writes: "I am driven by giving form and visibility to the immateriality, and catching the impermanence of memories. I am inspired by gratitude to life and the possibilities that lie in each moment of existence as a key to the unknown. I present a creative act that allows the connection with the sacred source of divine nature.
I superimpose images to create representations that move like the memories in my mind the same way I use the scans to show an intimate view of what is to come to light.
My work opens a framework for dialogue about our own inhabited places, including the physical body, which reveals us its divine essence."
Bea in Encounters
Carlo Alessandro Mazzocchi
Carlo Alessandro Mazzocchi was born in Buenos Aires in 1957, comes from an Italian family with a long tradition in the fields of painting, scenery, sculpture and restoration. His first masters in artistic and decorative painting were his own father and the prestigious artist Ugo Gnocchi, entering in 1976 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires.
Carlo Mazzocchi in Sussex
Edgar Sanchez at Encounters 2016
photo © D L Francis
Edgar Sánchez's
La Montaña Abierta
This work is a tribute to the countryside around Aguada Grande, which is the town in Venezuela where Edgar Sanchez was born. The painting captures the artist’s recollections as a child as he was engaged in subconscious conversations with the power, majesty and alchemy of the natural world. Sánchez searches for a total representation of the landscape, not a fragment. As we encounter this work, we do not experience a single moment in time, rather we sense a presence felt strongly, but no longer distinctly recalled. The trees and plants are one with the clouds and sky. All is alive. The heartbeat of the earth vibrates. Time is incidental: it was always thus.
Painting on show in Encounters 2025
Eduardo Skinner
Eduardo is a photographer with great expertise in digital manipulation. His self-portraiture has highly defined shapes that beckon the viewer to explore the image as one does with a wood carving. He was born and lives in in Spain.
Elizabeth Cemborain
Throughout her artistic career Elizabeth Cemborain has been interested in urban landscapes using the resources provided by digital media. She began with photographs taken in motion -as a passerby, driving or on public transportation- to discover in these stripes, lines, superimpositions and plays of light the possibility of transforming them into unique works and videos. In this journey, and continuing with her research, she has made videos where she explores the aesthetics of photograms achieving strips and color zones that digitally manipulated, refer to geometric abstraction, generating a synthetic landscape with distinctive rhythms and colors for each urban experience.
Ana Ibarra
Ana writes: "To repeat is to remember. Each image resembles the one before, but it is not the same. Like an echo from the past, returning again and again. That is how memory works: it insists, it changes, it erases, and it transforms. The horizon — sometimes clear, sometimes invisible — draws a line between what was and what we imagine. A boundary that can never be reached, because it is always just a little farther away. Repeated images do not only show — they also ask. What remains of what is no longer there? What meaning lies in what returns?
On show in Encounters 2025
Fernando Adam
Born in Venezuela, of German origin, settled in Barcelona since 1998. An emigrant who, looking for the promised land, had to move away from his paradise. The Caribbean is for him, a memory of light, colors, sensations… a dream full of silences and longings for times lived, a complete unreality of spaces and evocations. Meditated, serene and slow, Adam’s painting has only grown in the last 15 years. Now it is his work that goes around the world in important international fairs and exhibitions.
Flor Troconis
Driven by an adventurous and curious spirit Flor has traveled extensively, residing at various times in many cities around the world. Currently she divides her time between London and Miami. Each habitat has enriched her art with unique revelations, color palettes, organic geometries, concluding in balanced harmony.
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Flor is a self-proclaimed perpetual student of life and art- with a background of formal studies that began in interior design, then liberal arts at Bennett College in Millbrook, NY, moving on to NYC to the renown Parsons School of Design, and later at The Brentwood Art Center of Los Angeles.
Francisco Itriago
I have a revelation: it is that my painting extends a hand to me as a child.
Perhaps I am striving not to abandon the intimate aesthetics of my childhood.
Also, perhaps as I age, I miss the purity and truth of a happy child.
As I paint, I slip back through time but I am encumbered with the baggage that age has given me.
My work addresses different themes but is full of clues of commonalities. These have become elements of my personal plastic vocabulary. It sustains me.
Hannah Davies
Hannah’s pure love of drawing and process are shown in her “light patches”. An exploratory technique of building up layers of light on a canvas. Light filters through a window for a fleeting moment and is given a permanence in her drawing. A memory of a hazy impression, long forgotten. Hannah aims to leave the viewer with a sense of calm hope. The simple beauty of sunlight.
Hannah was recently selected for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing prize and Discerning eye, and won the BTA Painting prize 2024.
Jacob Frerichs
Jacob is a Dutch artist living in Hove who sculpts primarily in wood which is then painted, mixing up his own colours with linseed oil and pigments bought from a traditional pigment-producing windmill in the Netherlands. The paint is applied following the contours.
Jacob creates sculptures that stand by themselves but in a fragile, precarious way. Often the works deal with the challenge of creating a balance between the way the weight is distributed and using minimal floor surface.
Jacob studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths, London and has had exhibitions in Amsterdam, London, Hastings and Brighton. Further examples of his work can be found at www.jacob-frerichs.com.
Jesús Briceño Reyes
"I’m Jesús Briceño Reyes, a visual artist-teacher from the vibrant city of Caracas, Venezuela. I create paintings, prints, and murals that explore the intricate connections between art and society, highlighting the relevance of traditional media in contemporary art practice".
Jonidel Mendoza
Jonidel Mendoza is emerging as one of the promising new talents in Venezuelan art. His work transitions between drawing and sculpture. Mendoza uses a variety of materials including industrial fibreglass nettings, aluminium micro-perforated stripes, metallic mesh, platen and wire for his human lightweight shadow figures. He is interested in the physical and philosophical qualities of the immaterial, which he communicates through transparency and levity. The human shape appears as a suggestion, as an emerging presence, as a “failed specularity” in his own words.
Jonidel in his studio
Linda Lieberman
Linda is a Scottish born artist. Her work draws inspiration from changes in ecology and environment.  Motivated by feelings about our planet, the ocean and its diverse species, her works depict the world from a perspective that embraces all creation, rather than just the human point-of-view. Linda re-imagines the Ocean, Seed, Egg, Fish and Mankind within her artworks. Working with mixed media, sculpture, photography and video, her works create a unique and compelling aesthetic; a multi-disciplinary approach allowing full freedom for creation.
Marion Brandis
Marion Brandis is a Sussex-based artist who works primarily with ceramics. She has created a number of public art installations, including works in Broadmead shopping centre in Bristol, at St George’s Hospital in London and even aboard an ocean liner.
Marion writes:
“I specialise in ceramics, tiles and mosaics in indoor and outdoor settings. Ceramics are very suited to public settings, because they are tough, easy to clean and maintain, and vandal-resistant.
Knowing my materials is important to me. Because I hand-make most of my pieces, I can obtain both bright and subtle colours to suit any design".
Lise Moller
Lise Moller’s sculptures fashioned from sea plants known as cochayuyos. The encounter is more than spatial. Moller seeks to honour unloved nature. Remembering the past we sense the truth of holding dear a dignified respect for nature.
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Lise Moller belongs to a productive generation of artists whose experimentation has elevated ceramics, along with other organic and precarious materials, to the status of art. She studied her craft at Loughton College of Further Education and the London Borough of Waltham Forest in London in the 1970s, and continued her artistic training at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Santiago
The artist collecting sea plants
Made of sea plant material
Mette Maya
"Working with clay is a necessity for me. From an early age clay has been a material that informs and reaffirms my identity. I have never felt like I belong anywhere and so the making process has become both a search for, and an escape from, my environment. I work in two quite different ways. One is the making of waves and the other is constructing; one is loose and wild, the other is fine and measured – similar to how I live my life, drifting off and trying to disappear and travel, in response to staying grounded and building my home".
Miguel Balliache
He studied architecture and complemented his training with various workshops and courses in sculpture, painting, printmaking, wax casting, and jewelry.
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Born with a Venezuelan father and a Basque mother (from San Sebastián), he is the son of immigrants.
He has lived and worked in San Sebastián (Basque Country), Spain, since 2003. Since his arrival, he has maintained his studio. In 2022, he opened his permanent space, BALLIACHE ESPACIO ARTE, in the central Egia neighborhood, where he teaches ceramics and painting classes.
Nadia Benatar
Draftswoman and graver. Born in Caracas, in 1949, she studied three-dimensional design at the Neumann Institute (1971) and engraving techniques at Cegra, where she graduated in 1979. Nadia Benatar is an artist who has gone through various creative periods, where the use of non-conventional materials has prevailed. From toilet paper to wires for industrial use, Benatar has experimented with different techniques and materials. Interested in everyday and intimate subjects, she has sought to explore in the last years, a myriad of possibilities, transforming the material to a level of lightness that allows her to "draw" on unconventional media.
Patricia Davenport
Painter Patricia Davenport exhibited her work in May 2015 in Encounters Open House. Patricia Davenport writes: “My Muse has always been my travels".
Philomena Harmsworth
"After a 25 year obsession with working in oils, hunting for the deepest version of the narrative plot, my paintings physically started to leave the canvas. Cutting them out I incorporated them into experimental models that provided the foundation for my current practice.
I started writing poetry alongside sculpting which is part of the dual narrative of my final piece (click on both images for videos). I juxtapose the visual and spoken like two ribbons undulating alongside each other but not always in complete accord. My exhibitions are creeping into the world of installation.
Either I am creating portraits of the land personified, or externalising my emotional responses into beings".
Ricardo Jiménez
As a professional photographer, educator, family lover and a sensitive friend Ricardo Jiménez made a unique contribution to Encounters and to the people who knew him. His artistic practice and deep commitment to his Venezuelan roots moved Ricardo to focus his research, travel and his camera lens to capture pattens of everyday life in his home country. Diverse photography projects, such as La Sombra del Apostador, Desde el Carro, La Noche, El Ávila es Azul, demonstrated his sensitivity, were exhibited internationally and are in many private collections. When Encounters began in 2010 Ricardo generously offered his superb photographic essay La Sombra del Apostador that captured dimensions of Venezuelan folklore and its distinctive culture.
Rafael Barrios
His work can be found in permanent collections in the Ontario Art Gallery and the Carmen Lammana Foundation in Toronto, Canada; also in the National Art Gallery in Caracas; the Sofia Imber's Caracas Museum of Contemporary Art; as well as in the private collections of HRH Don Juan Carlos de Borbón, King of Spain (Levitating Symmetry); and the collection of HRH Gloria, Princess of Germany. The renowned futurist Marshall McLuhan said in a lecture at the University of Toronto: "The work of Rafael Barrios is like fresh fruit for thought." Rafael Barrios plays with shapes, altering the laws of geometry, fabling volume in space. His sculptures are characterized by breaking orthodox directionality, accessing new possibilities of perception.
Rafael in Encounters in 2021
On show in Encounters 2025
Rafael Reveron
"My “automatic architectures,” are conceived as models of “creation and destruction.” Their origin is tangentially dominated by patterns, actions around the notion of “appropriation.” To make myself one with space, place, and object, through a predetermined and preconceived model. An ideological, formal structure that models actions. To think of void as a structural content, is that border between collapse and equilibrium of content and container… Lines that intersect, supremacy battles between horizontality and verticality of space, of the object and its drifts. The imminence of matter to be transformed into an object, regroup and reconcile as a new form. To join spaces… imposing the plural to the singular, to the individual… Making the indivisible visible. To join as defense, not as addition. Build up to distract, to sublimate, to delete, eliminate, destroy".
On show in Encounters 2025
Richard Bagguley
Richard Bagguley was born in England on November 12th 1955. After a private education he went to Bournemouth and Pool College of Art to study art and photography. Later he travelled the world extensively photographing and drawing the people of South America, Asia and Australia and staging exhibitions in Europe.
In 1987 he turned to mural work to complete over 450 commissions for private clients and interior designers in Europe and Asia. Richard is either commissioned direct or is engaged by interior designers and architects as part of a wider brief.
Commercial commissions have included clubs, shops and restaurants, and Richard’s work has been published in magazines and books.
Roger Sanguino
The Venezuelan artist Roger Sanguino now lives in Spain. His portraits show an influence of classical sculpture and a sense of esoteric uniqueness. They are human yet iconic.Technically complex, some with with rods, piano wire, bolts or nets, create a dialogue between painting and sculpture.
