Sikelela Owen
PageSikelela Owen Sikelela Owen was born in 1984, in London where she lives and works. Owens work is made up predominately of loose figure paintings, drawings, and prints of friends, family, and people of interest. She holds a PG Diploma … Read More
Barbara Peirson
PageBarbara Peirson The first thing I do when I wake up is squeeze some paint onto a palette so that I’m ready to begin painting before there is any time for thoughts to interfere, attempting to make the most of … Read More
Sam Douglas
PageSam Douglas Sam Douglas works in a tradition of British visionary landscape painters of the past such as Samuel Palmer, Graham Sutherland, and Paul Nash. Like many of his 19th and 20th century forebears, he spends a large amount of his … Read More
Susan Gunn
PageSusan Gunn “In Gunn’s paintings there is a subtle tension between the golden section formalism of their geometry and the unruliness of the free-form cracking. They each balance control and abandon, deliberation and chance. This is not the frivolous feminine … Read More
Claudia Boese
PageClaudia Böse Claudia is drawn to regions which are borderlands, geographically and psychologically and have been rendered throughout history by artists. Her work is process driven and deeply shaped by its relationship to daily life, a passion for history and … Read More
Nathan Eastwood
PageNathan Eastwood Painted on primed gesso board, Eastwood’s paintings have their origin in snapshot photographs taken of his environment both, domestically and out and about that started in started in 2011 with a small painting of his staircase ‘Nook’ at … Read More
Marco Cali
PageMarco Cali My paintings focus on figurative subjects influenced by renaissance and surreal traditions. I am interested in the suggestive narrative and compositional subjects that permeate the history of painting and work to create pieces that are contemporary.Pictorial bodies are … Read More
Joe Packer
PageJoe Packer Joe Packer’s recent paintings could be described as invented landscapes with a psychological element. These paintings try to evoke memories of places, but at the same time, they have evolved through making processes that are not preplanned or … Read More
David Sullivan
PageDavid 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 … Read More
James Quin
PageJames 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? … Read More
Geraint Evans
PageGeraint 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 employ a stylized pictorial language to explore the idea that landscape is largely … Read More
Kirsty O’Leary Leeson
PageKirsty O’Leary Leeson My practice explores both the physical and psychological geography of existence which I feel is complimented by my use of pencil on gesso where the subject matter of each drawing records the unfolding of an event. As … Read More
Bryan Lavelle
PageBryan 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 … Read More
Suzanne Holtom
PageSuzanne Holtom There is an overriding interest in the creative tension between content and structure in my work. I do think in terms of narratives and themes to each series of paintings, but the actual process of making is also … Read More
Freya Purdue
PageFreya 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 … Read More
Amanda Ansell
PageAmanda Ansell Each line is portrayed one at a time using a thin layer of oil paint. The colours are applied wet-in-wet and reworked several times. This method of making betrays the haze of memory and nostalgia and eventually the … Read More
Deb Covell
PageDeb 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 … Read More
Lisa Denyer
PageLisa 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 … Read More
Paula MacArthur
PagePaula 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
PageCara 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