INNSiDE Melia Hotel Proposal

North East Art

Collective for Art

Collaboration

with INNSiDE

Monday 23rd November 2020

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4. About North East Art Collective
5. Working with INNSiDE
6. Suite Proposal
8. Artwork Examples of Rasa Zilinskaite
10. Artwork Examples of Darren Mundy
12. Artwork Examples of Robert Myers
14. Artwork Examples of Peter Davidson
16. Communal Areas Proposal
18. Artwork Examples of Christine O’Donnell
20. Artwork Examples of Rasa Zilinskaite
22. Artwork Examples of Alfie Joey
24. Remaining Rooms Proposal
26. End

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With Pride and Passion we support people within the North East to create
opportunities to flourish whilst celebrating our unique talent, culture and
heritage around the world.

Our main gallery is based in Eldon Garden Shopping centre. Here we house 10
displays rooms and showcase the work of over 100 artist , all of whom live and
work in the North East. We are dedicated to supporting our community with a
commitment to not only working with local artists but also supporting local
businesses, everything we choose to do is to support and enrich our city and the
wider North East region.

As an independent business we believe that working together to showcase our
region is the best way for people to understand the true beauty of Newcastle
and our surrounding North East. Each of our artists uses the North East as their
main influencer, representing their interpretation of the area in their own unique
style.

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North East Art Collective welcomes the opportunity to work with Melia at 5
your Newcastle hotel and as such have put together the following proposal
for your hotel bedrooms & communal areas.

Based on the artists that Scott Brown showed initial interest in and the details
provided by Joanne Greer we hope that you like what we are presenting here.

As your ethos is to celebrate the culture of the city we have used our
dedication to North East artists to provide you with a vibrant collection of
local art that we feel will truly enhance your guest experience while staying at
INNSiDE.

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Suite Proposal

In the following slides you will see the works of art by a selection of our artists
for your 40 suite rooms.
These canvas works will be provided unframed.

The artists we have selected showcase a variety of styles and are proven to be
loved by consumers within your target audience.

Rasa Zilinskaite

Rasa absolutely loves the North East, with its friendly people and its fascinating
industrial heritage. The subject matter of her paintings vary greatly. The natural
world and the city is a constant source of wonder, inspiration and delight. Fast,
energetic, urgent brush strokes enable Rasa to capture mood of a fleeing
moment.

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Darren Mundy 7

Darren works from his home studio in Whitley Bay where he lives with his wife and 2 sons. He is a
self-taught artist and has developed his Hilltown brand from a small sketch in a book to paintings and
prints that are recognised and popular in the whole of the UK and beyond. Hilltown works are created
in a popular and commercial style that have charm and a hint of humour. Darren’s ultimate aim is to

make you smile – he usually succeeds.

Robert Myers

Robert Myers is a North East based artist with a history in computer graphic visualisation. He has over
20 years of experience, growing up with a developing industry. Robert loves working in oil and trying
to capture the world around him. Robert’s City paintings have provided him with so much joy and
inspiration and allowed him to see the world in a different way.

Peter Davidson

Peter’s work is inspired by the nostalgia of his childhood. Using his own memories Peter creates
several different collections of work reflecting different times and events in life that nearly all can
relate to.

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Rasa Zilinskaite 8

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Rasa was born and educated in
Lithuania, she graduated from
Vilnius Art Academy with a
Masters degree in Art and
Design. Nearly 20 years ago
Rasa married a Geordie named
Nick and has been living in
Newcastle ever since. They have
two lovely children. The North
East is home to Rasa now, and
she absolutely loves the area,
with its friendly people and its
fascinating industrial heritage.
The subject matter of her
paintings vary greatly. The
natural world and the city is a
constant source of wonder,
inspiration and delight. Fast,
energetic, urgent brush strokes
enable Rasa to capture mood of
a fleeing moment

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Darren Mundy 10

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Darren works from his home studio
in Whitley Bay where he lives with his
wife and 2 sons. He is a self-taught
artist and has developed his Hilltown
brand from a small sketch in a book
to paintings and prints that are
recognised and popular in the whole
of the UK and beyond. He is creating
avid collectors of his work and is
selling his paintings to international
clients. Darren works in acrylics and
uses a vivid colour palette to achieve
maximum impact, with a strong
contrast of light and dark colours.
This has become one of the main
trademarks of his art. You could be
mistaken for thinking that Hilltown is
just little houses on large hills.
However, each Hilltown has its own
story to tell. Hilltown works are
created in a popular and commercial
style that have charm and a hint of
humour. Darren’s ultimate aim is to
make you smile – he usually
succeeds.

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Robert Myers 12

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based artist with a history in
computer graphic visualisation. He
has over 20 years of experience,
growing up with a developing
industry. As his role was leading to
less creative work and more
managerial duties Robert began to
grow tired and uninspired. This
spurred him to start painting
which is something he had always
craved to do but with young
children and work commitments
never had the time. In October
2018 Robert was given an
opportunity to leave this industry
and grabbed it with open arms.
Robert has only one goal in mind
and that is to paint. He loves
working in oil and trying to
capture the world around him.
Roberts City paintings have
provided him with so much joy
and inspiration and allowed him to
see the world in a different way.

Peter Davidson

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Peter is a self taught artist born in the
mining town of Ashington in 1968. He
moved to the village of Ellington aged
9 and stayed there until a recent
move to Newcastle. Peter's love of
art goes all the way back to his
childhood and a pencil was never far
from his side growing up, more
recently peter has been able to turn
his love of art into an occupation with
his work now being sold all over the
country in many well established
galleries. Peter started out working in
pencil and explored all the mediums
as he progressed until settling on the
oil paintings he currently produces.
'My work is inspired by the things we
did and saw whilst playing out in the
back lanes and streets as kids, heavy
with nostalgia, a little bit of fun and
hopefully seeing the beauty in the
everyday things that surrounded me.
My work takes me back to a much
simpler and innocent time.'

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Communal Areas

In the following slides you will see the works of art by a selection of our artists
for your communal areas.

The artist we have selected, showcase a variety of styles and a range of subjects
that North East artists have to offer. This is a small range of the artist we work
with in the gallery and is a display that we will rotate on a regular bases to suit
local events and changing styles. We intend to use this space for solo exhibitions
as well as short exhibitions that relate to local and global events.

Christine O’Donnell

Christine is a contemporary abstract artist from Newcastle. Christine believes the
most essential tool for her is passion and imagination, this mixed with emotions
allows Christine’s creations to have no limits.

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Rasa Zilinskaite 17

Rasa absolutely loves the North East, with its friendly people and its fascinating industrial
heritage. The subject matter of her paintings vary greatly. The natural world and the city is
a constant source of wonder, inspiration and delight. Fast, energetic, urgent brush strokes
enable Rasa to capture mood of a fleeing moment.

Alfie Joey

Alfie is new to the world of art, launching his carer as an artist in May 2018 with the
exciting opportunity of creating a St Oswald's Elmer the Elephant, for Elmer's great North
Parade. From this Alfie has developed his artistic skill and gone from strength to strength
as an artist, dedicating his time to developing two collections his ‘Northern Skies
Collection’ and the ‘Caricature Collection’

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Christine O’Donnell

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Christine's love for art began
to flourish when she was a
child; as she was able to
express her inner creativity
through art with the
encouragement of her family,
including her late Uncle John,
an artist who inspired
Christine to think
independently and led her to
excel in her own talents. Her
first exhibition was at a
museum in Ocean road, South
Shields. The feedback Christine
received from the art critics
was exemplary and filled her
with confidence in pursuing a
career. This inspired Christine
to study art at college in where
she specialised in acrylics.
Following a short break from
art, Christine has since
exhibited her work on many
different occasions over the
last fifteen years.

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Rasa Zilinskaite 20

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in Lithuania, she graduated
from Vilnius Art Academy
with a Masters degree in Art
and Design. Nearly 20 years
ago Rasa married a Geordie
named Nick and has been
living in Newcastle ever since.
They have two lovely
children. The North East is
home to Rasa now, and she
absolutely loves the area,
with its friendly people and
its fascinating industrial
heritage. The subject matter
of her paintings vary greatly.
The natural world and the
city is a constant source of
wonder, inspiration and
delight. Fast, energetic,
urgent brush strokes enable
Rasa to capture mood of a
fleeing moment

Alfie Joey 22

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23/11/2020 Alfie Joey Alfie Joey is a BBC Newcastle
radio presenter, event host, comedian, actor
& illustrator. The son of a coal miner, he is
from the former pit village, Thornley,
County Durham. Alfie’s range is broad but
he specialises in drawing caricatures in busy
city scenes, coal miners & working folk. He
has also invented a bespoke range called
#anagramart where he takes a client’s name
and rearranges it into a fictional
ancestor/character.

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Remaining Bedrooms

As an addition to the 10 Canvas prints to be displayed in the hotel suites,
We can provide INNSiDE with a range of framed Giclee prints for the
remaining 121 rooms.

North East Art Collective can provide the framed work for the rooms at an
exclusive discounted price to INNSiDE, and can ensure that there are
mounted version of the prints available for guests to purchase.

For this Rasa Zilinskaite who’s work you have seen in previous pages can be
provided or alternatively the work of Kate Miller on the adjacent page can
be provided. We hope that one of these options is to your liking.

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Kate Miller works from her
studio in Newcastle upon
Tyne, making prints using a
variety of techniques,
including linocut,
woodblock, monoprint,
nature printing and
drypoint etching. She also
makes collages from paper,
and collage elements
feature increasingly in her
prints, creating a layered
effect which adds both
depth and texture to her
work.

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Thank you for your time

We appreciate you looking over our proposal and hope you have enjoyed
seeing a small selection of the artists we work with.

We hope that the styles suggested are desirable to you and suited to your
brand and the aesthetic direction of INNSiDE.

It goes without saying that if you want some other ideas we have numerous
other artists, and as such if what we have presented doesn’t hit the mark we
are confident we can find something that does.

Please do let us know if you have any questions

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