Flavour Gallery Auction

Terry Pastor

Terry Pastor is probably best known for his iconic album art work for David Bowie’s Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust. His credits include book covers for best-selling authors and album covers for artists such as Daft Punk, Beach boys and The Sweet. While it is his albums that usually grabs the headlines, in reality this work is just one element of Terry Pastor’s career as he is too a successful painter. He has had exhibitions in London, New York and Amsterdam and his paintings feature in private collections around the world. Over the years, this illustration work has won him many accolades including two prestigious Art Director of America awards and a Playboy magazine illustration award.

God’s Own Junkyard

Matthew Bracey born 1976 in East London England. Currently living and working in London. An Electrical Engineer and Father of three sons and one daughter happily married since 2002. Son of the late Chris Bracey – The Neon Man. Matthew Bracey is a British neon light artist who’s work follows his father’s love for neon art. Continuing his father’s legacy on a day to day basis, a maker of all things light. Having worked within a family business producing neon for the commercial advertising industry for over 23 years along with his family he is creating beautiful vibrant neon signs and artworks for hundreds of clients that include the likes of Sotherby’s, Selfridges, Coca Cola, The Tate and Google. For over 23 years Matthew has also worked on many TV and film productions, including Mission Impossible, Batman, Tomb Raider, Doom, Captain America and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory which are just a few of the larger productions.

In the 1980’s the business was run from a workshop beside the family home in Wood Street East London. Matthew’s memories of early days as a child was helping his father building signs by hand, During the mid1990’s Matthew would help his father Chris creating neon signs for the sex establishments in Soho London. The family business Gods Own Junkyard over the years has salvaged signs and advertisements from destruction and restored them to their former glory. The Bracey family opened Gods Own Junkyard Studio to display the collection to the public which holds the largest collection of neon in Europe and attracts visitors internationally. Matthews work is created using materials such as reclaimed wood and rusty metal to back his artworks. He has hand painted signs with glitter, led bulbs and loves to use all colours of the neon rainbow. ‘I get such a thrill watching the happiness on faces when neon lights up’. I feel a bit like the Willy Wonka of Neon, if you could eat neon, chocolate would be the next best thing’.

Anja Predojevic

Since arriving on the scene in 2015, Anja Predojevic has worked to capture and intrigue her surroundings. She gathers much of her inspiration from personal tales, the environment and cultures she experienced around the world. Anja Predojevic was born and raised in Serbia. She came to London in 2008 to study english and she finished her BA in Arts in 2014. Being raised in Serbia definitely impacted Anja on who she is today. Growing up through two wars left a deep mark in her opinions about politics and life in general. Anja encapsulates the young energy of a new generation inspired by the world around them but not undermined by it. 

Her art reflects this tendency to accept the turpitudes of the state of the world while making the choice of remaining positive. Her recent work evokes this rejection of the political realm for a rawer state of nature. Through her abstract, colorful paintings, Anja is making an appeal to bring us back to our deep good nature and forget the flaws that culture induces in every single one of us. Her paintings are compositions of colours and movements that portrays the excitement and novelty of her experiences. Some of her paintings are created from the interrelated relationship between her memories and reality. She paints in order to represent unconsciousness and dreams rather than reason.

Tom O’Hare

With an obsession with connecting and understanding objects through feel and exploration Tom has focussed his craft in the most touch-worthy sculptures throughout his young career. Visiting galleries has always been an almost satisfied demonstration of ideas, passions and pains but this unfulfilled feeling is fault only to the gallery rules in which we must abide. Allowing influence from taxidermy this artist created a series of playful latex animal heads to be squeezed and stroked and explored by all. Glorifying a love for latex and silicone as finished piece medium the artist has reversed and boycotted typical sculpting practices which tend to use these materials as the disposable negative to their final productions. Tom offers a fresh retrospect to traditional sculpture experience by nudging and encouraging his onlooker to comfortably explore his work as freely as desired.

London Loom

Our workshops are good for you - like chicken soup, but with yarn. Our weaving classes are satisfying, healing and fun. The London Loom is a weaving and textiles craft studio in Hackney in East London. Created by Francesca Kletz and Brooke Dennis after growing frustrated with their work in education and fashion. The London Loom was founded to build a community of people who love making things with their hands and appreciate how good it is for you. At The London Loom we want to encourage people to learn new, substantial craft skills, to create things that are a joy to make and that you want to keep. We host community workshops and smaller classes in our studio where we welcome adults and children to work alongside each other; we believe that creativity and inspiration can come from anywhere, it’s not limited to age or background.