David Sullivan The works I engage with in the studio are framed by the political traditions of Realism and the problem is always the same – to discover the complex set of conditions, the emergent phenomena that make for successful painting – so that an individual work contains its own bounded poetry, its own world,…
James Quin These paintings address what might be considered a reasonably straightforward question: what, if anything, can be achieved in painting from what is often perceived to be a most unpromising strategy for the visual artist – that of repetition? The emergence of repetitive strategies in my own painting practice generated a body of ongoing…
Geraint Evans Geraint Evans is interested in the ways in which we perceive, encounter and experience the natural world and read it as landscape. His figurative paintings and drawings explore the notion that landscape is largely a social and cultural construct, responding to the writer W J T Mitchell’s observation that ‘landscape is a natural…
Bryan Lavelle Bryan’s work is an investigation into the properties of his chosen materials and the process of painting. Bryan’s work has no layers of hidden meaning or narrative waiting to be uncovered, nor does it elude to be anything that it isn’t; through making external references outside of the work itself. Bryan see’s his…
Suzanne Holtom Weltlandschaft – Reimagining Landscape My recent paintings attempt to re-imagine ideas of landscapes, a subject in painting which, for me is able to draw from a rich tradition in painting whilst having such significance today. These landscapes also evoke bodily forms and histories of industries and patterns of energy. The idea of the…
Freya Purdue Freya Purdue’s paintings inhabit the border between abstraction and figuration and have their basis in exploration through seeing, experience and research around the ideas she is working with. She draws upon a wide range of sources from the most obvious classical themes in painting to the subtlety of philosophical and mystical thought. In…
Amanda Ansell Amanda Ansell is interested in pared-down elemental forms, seeking a synthesis between her impressions of a moment and her movement captured in liquid paint. Her paintings focus on gesture, rhythm, light and transparency to convey emotion and a personal experience of being in a place. Aspects of the work suggest things lost and…
Deb Covell Deb Covell’s practice is concerned with bringing a form into being by exploring the material and sculptural potential of paint. She has omitted a traditional fixed support of a canvas or wooden panel as she found them too restricting and influenced the direction of the work too much at an early stage. Instead…
Lisa Denyer Lisa Denyer graduated from Coventry University in 2009 with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. In 2010 she received second prize in the Gilchrist Fisher Award, held at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London. She was shortlisted for Salon Art Prize 2010, The Title Art Prize 2011 and Bankley Open 2013/14/15. In 2015 she…
Paula MacArthur ‘For me, crystals encapsulate love, life, the universe and perhaps even everything. My paintings are explorations of colour and light. They are a contemporary response to Dutch 17th century Pronkstilleven painting – ostentatious still lifes depicting desirable objects which invite us to consider the transience of life, the emptiness of wealth and the…
Katherine Russell Katherine Russell tries to dissimulate a fraction of the mass of imagery that we encounter on a daily basis – often, our only source of visual information that describes the outside world to us. Her work looks at how we as individuals, inevitably engage with these images on a personal, subjective and an emotional…
David Ainley In a sustained but largely underground practice, having regard for Cézanne’s exemplary perseverance, David Ainley has been in art for the long haul. The distillation of ideas in painting through adopting procedural strategies with strong metaphorical associations absorbs him. A systems method he developed in the 1970s evolved from an engagement with the…
Casper White Casper’s work focuses on the intimacy of a portrait, where fleeting and unexpected moments become a place for reflection. The ecstatic experiences of nightclubbing and the tender and fragile moments of the morning after led to a series of works shown at The National Portrait Gallery, London. Recently Casper’s work has focused more…
Monica Metsers Monica is a prize winning Cumbrian Painter and Printmaker, who was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1980, but has lived in the UK for most of her life. She explores depiction of place, particularly the landscapes and natural world she is drawn to; The Lake District and The West Coast of Scotland….
Pen Dalton My art practice over the last 60 years has shifted between the aesthetics of painting and printing, between image and text. Much of this has been drawn from my relationship with my father – he was in the newspaper printing industry and I learned to handle text and printing at an early age,…
David Lock David Lock’s paintings explore men and masculinities in a process of becoming. The paintings utilise a collagist approach. In the process of creating his Misfit paintings, he makes collages culled from advertisements and imagery from mainstream media. In their making, the collages and subsequent paintings have a performative quality, revealing masculinities as a…
Wendy Saunders 1959-2019 “I have been constructing these new painting supports specifically to act as carriers for a number of ideas relating to the reading of human countenance and emotion….I make the stretchers to represent a head shape. They are an evolved, abstracted representation of the human form but are they portraits? Using a combination of…
Harvey Taylor Harvey Taylor has developed a labour intensive painting process whereby each painting can take up to two months to complete. He starts with a photographic image which he breaks down using a grid. He then meticulously and objectively builds up a painting from very close observation of the gridded image. The distance he…
Linda Ingham Linda Ingham’s mostly process-led practice grows out of her interest in landscape and place.Her work has come to observe human- and non-human relationships; nature in conservation; human ‘placings’ of trees within a built environment, and the perceived ‘value’ of this in a world of climate emergency and war.From a close observation of fragmented…
Gideon Pain Gideon Pain’s art derives from a delight in the world around, a play on the mundane and every day that we slip through on our way to somewhere else. It is about collective moments, some tragic some euphoric, when the sharing of an experience gives significance to something unnoticed. These quiet revelations bind…
Stephen Newton The critic Mel Gooding described my painting as a ‘psycho-conceptual project’. The New York critic Donald Kuspit stated in an essay: ‘The detached, oddly mournful tone and subliminal pessimism about human relationships evident in Newton’s pictures suggests that he is no longer protesting his loss and beyond despair, but has settled into defensive…