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A Loyal Toast
Issue 80
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Maven Leads £1.5 Million Investment In Roman
Issue 80
Maven Capital Partners (”Maven”) has led a £1.5 million investment in Roman Ltd (”Roman”), a local business that manufactures, sells and installs shower screens, trays, bathroom furniture and fixtures and fittings. The transaction includes an £800,000 investment from the Finance Durham Fund (”Finance Durham”) established by Durham County Council and overseen by Business Durham, and a £700,000 investment from the North East Development Capital Fund (”NEDCF”), supported by the European Regional Development Fund. The funding package will be used to support a significant increase in demand, invest in Roman’s 400,000 sq ft manufacturing plant in Newton Aycliffe to purchase new…
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Portrait Of An Artist
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The flattened picture space, simplified forms and rich colour of Phoebe’s recent paintings reveal the influence of early European modernism, particularly Matisse and Bonnard. Other key influences include later 20th Century artists, like the Scottish painter John Bellany along with contemporaries, such as Joy Labinjo, whose large-scale paintings were shown at Baltic in 2019, and whose example as much as her work has proved a particular inspiration. Labinjo gave a guest lecture at Northumbria University, where Phoebe graduated in 2019 with a first in Fine Art, and this gave Phoebe the confidence to return to painting after making extensive use of sound and animation in her degree show. Like many other students and young artists, Phoebe has taken jobs in pubs and restaurants to support herself and pay the rent. Her most recent job was as a rather unlikely lab support worker at the Covid Lab, processing PCR tests. However,…