Paula MacArthur I see my work as a contemporary interpretation of traditional memento mori & vanitas painting. I hunt in historical buildings, museums & churches for still life objects which resonate with me in some way, selecting things which are … Read More
Cara Nahaul Cara Nahaul’s vibrant paintings explore the character of spaces, from quiet domestic interiors to decorated public spaces. Her work aims to examine the relationship with our environment, and the shifts in perception around the value of objects within … Read More
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 … Read More
David Ainley Having regard for Cézanne’s exemplary perseverance David Ainley is in art for the long haul. The distillation of ideas in painting through adopting procedural strategies with strong metaphorical associations absorbs him. The systems method he developed in the … Read More
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 … Read More
Monica Metsers Monica’s work reflects a lifelong infatuation with fantasy and the surreal. She loves painting objects, people and places and works in layers of oil paint, building up different thicknesses to create a sculptural and dreamlike effect. She also … Read More
Pen Dalton Pen Dalton lives and works in Walthamstow. She trained at Goldsmiths Art School and Brighton University and gained a PhD in Creative studies from Plymouth University in 2008. She has published and lectured internationally and taught studio practice … Read More
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 magazines. In … Read More
Wendy Saunders “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 … Read More
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. A mask is then placed … Read More
Linda Ingham Linda Ingham’s process-led practice is based on personal engagement with landscape and place. Increasingly involved with botany and folk-histories of plants observed on location where she walks and her allotments, pieces often are created using gathered plants and … Read More
Cathy Lomax Cathy Lomax is a London based artist. On completing a MA in Fine Art at Central St Martins in 2002 she set up Transition Gallery in East London. She also edits two art and culture magazines, Arty and … Read More
Matthew Krishanu Matthew Krishanu’s recent paintings construct narratives exploring themes from memory, childhood, and art history. Matthew Krishanu is a painter based in London. He received an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College in 2009. Solo exhibitions … Read More
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, … Read More
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 … Read More
Andrew Litten Creativity is empowering and empathy is powerful. I want to create art that speaks of the love, anger, loss, personal growth and the private confusions we all experience in our lives. My aim is to create an unguarded … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
Ruth Philo Ruth’s paintings explore abstraction through colour, light and surface. They often emerge from encounters with place, walking and the everyday to convey a sensory experience of the physical and metaphysical, combining inner and outer states, conscious and subconscious. … Read More
