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…
Andrew Litten Andrew Litten’s work explores raw human existence. He is searching for the poetry of living, loving, hurting, and dying through depicting the powerful, the vulnerable, and the human. His work articulates anxieties surrounding the fragility of life, unguardedly exploring complex states of our contemporary condition. Litten wants to create “art that speaks of…
Jules Clarke The fluidity of paint is used to explore one moment becoming another, allowing boundaries between figures and their environment to break down. The patterns emerging from the photographed screen in both image and surface interference can let people begin to take shapes of animals or ghosts, or merge with the curtains. Subjects range…
Andrew Crane Born in London in 1949, Andrew Crane studied graphics at the Central School of Art. It was here that he developed his love for letterforms and numerals and the power of the written word. A self-taught painter, he will sometimes use cement as a medium. “Lately, when I show up at a canvas,…
Julian Brown The imagery in my work is very heavily influenced by nostalgic visions of the 1980’s and the folk art from my mother Polish heritage. Both of these worlds have a handmade geometric quality that has a playful and primitive relevance to the world we now live in. I try to explore this ‘clunkiness’…
Ruth Philo Ruth’s paintings are often site specific, exploring colour and abstraction associated with place and walking. A site becomes a physical and metaphysical source for painting, sometimes providing found pigment that Ruth makes into paint as well as emotional or unconscious connections that become resonant in the painting. A sense of the painting’s process,…
Barbara Howey My current body of work is paintings based on plants. Part of my process is photographing the species of plants seen on my daily walks, not rare but local, some native and some finding a space to grow where seeds have blown them from suburban gardens and wastelands. From ancient bluebell woods, woodlands…
Lucy Cox My practice focuses primarily on spatial ambiguity, an interest that I have been engaging with for some time, to construct abstract paintings which toy with interpretation and perception. I am fascinated by relationships between three-dimensional and two dimensional space, colour and rhythm, and figure and ground; as a result, forms, often mined from…
Paul Newman Paul Newman’s paintings weave together a tableau of motifs including; 18th & 19th-century landscape paintings with 20th century industry, architecture and cinematic monsters like Frankenstein’s and the human fly. The imagery also draws from memories and experiences throughout the artists life such as; his father’s Ford Escort van and the museum experience of Romantic…
Alex Hanna Alex Hanna’s paintings explore visual illusions via the depiction of arrangements of objects, surfaces and materials through the interpretation of observed data. He employs observation drawing and digital media. His work examines the surface qualities of the interior everyday objects and materials. BiographyAlex Hanna has exhibited at : Royal Academy of Arts Summer…
Susie Hamilton My painting is inspired by the idea of transformation, with people continually undergoing mutation. I turn human figures towards the non-human—grotesques, cyborgs, monsters and ghouls—consequently adding a layer of menace, pathos, comedy or mystery to the human image. But for me metamorphosis is not just about one image morphing into another, man into yeti for…
“The new Contemporary British Painting Prize is a brilliant new initiative that holds up a mirror to the wealth of practice and exciting talent alive in the UK painting scene today.” Kath Wood, Founding Director of Firstsite, Curator and Arts Consultant The Contemporary British Painting Prize Having decided not to hold the painting prize in…
Ruth Calland Ruth Calland is a painter, performer, curator and Jungian analyst. She has a special interest in alchemy and the emergence of the new, as part of the processes of creativity, healing, decolonisation and social change. Ruth is genderfluid and neurodivergent, areas which she thinks about in terms of the alchemical state of coniunctio:…
Iain Andrews My paintings begin as a dialogue, both with a particular Folk Tale and also with an image from art history – often a painting by an Old Master that may then be used as a starting point from which to playfully but reverently deviate. I am interested in how stories are retold and…
David Manley Manley’s practice is plural, hard to categorise and pin down. Themes have included responses to landscape, locations and events in Italy, Russia & Portugal, an exotic examination of viruses, portraits ‘for’ fictional Scandinavian detectives, and reflections on Heart Surgery. Supports and media are determined by the perceived needs of each series or groups…