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Stephen Snoddy

Stephen Snoddy Snoddy wants viewers to look at the relationships between his works, and how he carries lines and formats from one picture over to another. He sometimes regards two consecutive paintings as a diptych, with left and right-hand panels forming parts of a composite whole. There is an obsessive commitment to playing out endless…

Molly Thomson

Molly Thomson Molly Thomson’s work concerns the performance of the painting as an object. She is interested in conditions that confine, resist and limit, and in what happens when those given conditions are subject to question and boundaries are breached. Rules are set and rules are broken. The object evolves through the challenging and reordering…

Matthew Krishanu in conversation with Narbi Price

Matthew Krishanu in conversation with Narbi Price

This article was fist published by a-n The Artists Information Company to coincide with Matthew Krishanu’s exhibition ‘The Sun Never Sets’ at Huddersfield Art Gallery from 23 June to 15 September 2018 and MAC, Birmingham from 12 January to 10 March 2019. Large and small paintings sit side by side as Krishanu depicts his own childhood memories, at…

Judith Tucker

Judith Tucker 1960-2023 Judith Tucker’s work explores the meeting of social history, personal memory and geography; it investigates their relationship through drawing, painting and writing. The paintings here are excerpts from two recent series.The first series of paintings: Night Fitties explore the play of light and dark and the uncanny transformations of the chalets on…

Jeff Dellow

Jeff Dellow 1949-2024 In painting I have an approach to open-ended composition with a view to integrating various elements into a pictorial field of development. This gradually allows the identity of the work to emerge. It is itself but relationships may also have implications in my experience. The identity of the work, its light and…

Nicholas Middleton

Nicholas Middleton Fundamental to my practice is the image. In a world of proliferating images, examination of how the image, tethered to reality, is constructed, processed, displayed, has underpinned my approaches as a maker of images, through painting and its histories. Nicholas Middleton was born in London in 1975. He studied at London Guildhall University…

Barbara Peirson

Barbara 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 the liminal state between sleep and wake where the subconscious is still within reach. Every…

Sam Douglas

Sam 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 time travelling, sketching and painting outdoors. Whilst this is where his artistic process begins, it…

Susan Gunn

Susan 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 but the ferocious one, celebrating healing from trauma and taking up space, unapologetically…majestically. Her visceral,…

Nathan Eastwood

Nathan Eastwood Nathan Eastwood is a contemporary Social Realist Painter who was born in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria and is currently based in London and Rochester, Kent in the United Kingdom. He is recognized for his social realist paintings that are created using photographs captured with a camera phone. The artist’s choice of subjects are primarily working…

Joe Packer

Joe Packer Joe Packer’s recent paintings could be described as invented landscapes with a psychological element. These paintings try to evoke the memory of a place, whilst simultaneously, they evolve through making processes that are not preplanned or prescriptive. The resulting images aim to visually function in a self -contained way, with a kind of…