Ahmad Dastband
The Land, in Its Absence – Written by Lisa Gray. Ahmad Dastband began painting in 2018, developing his practice through sustained experimentation with movement, texture and colour. His work moves between abstraction and landscape, often allowing a place to...
Elham Mohammadi Nezhad
The Body as a Place of Becoming – Written by Lisa Gray. In Elham Mohammadi Nezhad’s paintings, the body is rarely a complete, self-contained form. It is divided by colour, crossed by lines, joined to roots or set against structures that appear to press upon it....
Elaheh Abbas Zadeh
What the Landscape Leaves Behind – Written by Lisa Gray. A landscape can remain with us long after its details have become uncertain. We may forget its boundaries yet remember the pressure of its colours, the movement of light or the sensation of being there....
June Hou – Critical Review
Listening as an Artistic Practice – Written by Lisa Gray. June Hou’s work begins with a question that is easy to ask and difficult to answer: what does it take for someone’s story to be heard on their own terms? Across documentary film, community projects and...
Aysha Choudhury – Q&A
Aysha Choudhury’s practice is rooted in emotion, intuition and a deep connection to the natural world. Working through painting, she draws on flowers, water, colour, light and organic forms to explore ideas around healing, growth, identity and personal experience....
Tess Powell – Critical Review
The Uneasy Architecture of Home – Written by Lisa Gray Tess Powell’s paintings occupy the unstable territory between home as a physical place and home as an emotional condition. Domestic rooms, familiar possessions, beds, tables and houses recur throughout her...
Natalia Vypritskaia – Q&A
Natalia Vypritskaia is a contemporary artist originally from the Republic of Bashkortostan, now living and working in Poznań, Poland. Moving between abstraction and figurative painting, her practice explores memory, emotional experience, identity and the fragile...
Alex Pascual – Q&A
Alex Pascual is a figurative artist whose coloured pencil drawings explore the shifting relationship between memory, perception and the human figure. Working primarily on paper, his practice moves between observation and ambiguity, allowing recognisable forms to...
Krazy-K – Q&A
Based in Shizuoka, Japan, Krazy-K is a Japanese painter and tattoo artist whose practice brings together more than two decades of underground street culture, Black & Grey realism and contemporary fine art. In 2003, he moved to California, where he apprenticed...
Claudi Borgna – Interview
Claudi Piripippi (Borgna) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice has evolved over several decades through installation, performance, video, poetry and socially engaged art. Born in Germany and raised in Italy, her creative life has taken her through London and...
Morgane Pairain – Q&A
Morgane Pairain is a French painter based in South London whose work is shaped by emotion, intuition and a deeply personal response to the world around her. Drawing inspiration from her surroundings, her upbringing in France and Morocco, and her travels, Pairain...
Corinne Rockall – Q&A
London-based artist Corinne Rockall’s ceramic practice explores the dialogue between physical urban spaces and our digital anxieties. Working with hand-built clay, she investigates modern surveillance, digital identity and the accidental art found on city streets. In...
Mirabelle Morah – Critical Review
Mirabelle Morah’s work occupies a compelling territory between motion design, image-collage and illustrations for motion, as well as culturally embedded visual storytelling. Across a practice that moves between autonomous creative work and commissioned design...
Cordia Ezekiel – Q&A
Cordia Ezekiel is a contemporary artist whose practice moves between abstract expressionism and impressionism, exploring emotion, atmosphere, memory and transformation through colour, texture and layered surfaces. Her artistic development spans more than two decades...
Katja Tonja – Q&A
Katja Tonja is a Croatian-born, Cyprus-based artist whose practice is defined by continuous exploration, experimentation and a strong commitment to visual storytelling. Primarily self-taught, her artistic development has also been shaped by formal study in Dubai and...
Brit Lindstrøm – Q&A
Brit Lindstrøm is an artist whose practice is shaped by personal exploration, observation and a lifelong passion for painting. Primarily self-taught, with additional artistic development through selected formal lessons and recent tuition with Marina Emphietzi,...
Orly Sawdaye
Orly Sawdaye is an artist whose practice is rooted in a close observation of nature and an interest in the emotional atmosphere of landscape. Working primarily through painting, she draws inspiration from woodlands, coastlines, trees, the sea and changing light,...
Linda Brian – Q&A
Linda Brian is an emerging visual artist whose work explores emotion, identity and humanity’s connection to nature through paintings of flowers, faces and the sea. Currently developing her practice through formal study with Marina Emphietzi, while also pursuing...
Michael French – Q&A
Michael French is a self-taught artist whose practice has developed from a deeply personal form of creative therapy into an expressive exploration of memory, emotion and freedom. Working primarily within abstract expressionism, he creates energetic compositions shaped...
Melanie Coberman – Q&A
Melanie Coberman is an artist whose practice is centred on colour, nature and the emotional impact of everyday visual experiences. Inspired by flowers, trees and landscapes, she creates expressive paintings that celebrate joy, spontaneity and a sense of freedom. Her...
Bella Kotantaki – Q&A
Bella Kotantaki is a London-based artist whose abstract practice brings together scientific observation, emotional experience and a deep engagement with the natural world. Working across painting and mixed media, she explores fragmentation, transformation, memory and...
Monika Tkaczyk – Q&A
Monika Tkaczyk is a London-based contemporary glass artist whose practice explores light, perception, fragmentation and transformation. Working primarily with kiln-fired stained glass, she combines traditional techniques with a distinctly contemporary approach,...
Nadiia -Rom
Nadiia Rom is a Ukrainian artist based in London whose practice explores memory, migration, identity and the emotional significance of everyday life. Working primarily in oil and pastel, she creates figurative and semi-abstract compositions in which domestic spaces,...
Deborah Jones – Q&A
Deborah Jones is a British contemporary artist whose richly detailed paintings bring together her background in printed textiles and design with a deep fascination for nature, wildlife and colour. Working across acrylic, oil, spray paint and 24ct gold leaf, she...
Kim Dackombe – Q&A
Kim Dackombe is a London-based artist whose practice focuses on acrylic landscapes and seascapes, exploring the emotional and atmospheric relationship between land, water, and light. Drawing inspiration from the shifting moods of nature, her work captures both the...
Tierre – Q&A
Tierre is an Italian-trained artist whose practice explores the tension between chaos and stillness through a predominantly black-and-white visual language. Working intuitively across painting, collage, ink, paper, and textiles, the artist is interested in balance,...
Pinoo Shukla – Q&A
Pinoo Shukla is a self-taught artist whose practice is deeply rooted in a lifelong connection to nature. Encouraged from a young age, his early development began with watercolour studies of still life, landscapes, and natural forms. Over time, his work has evolved...
Urban Skeleton – Yuange Sheng
Collective Gallery, St Albans 10–16 August 2026Collective Gallery, St Albans In Urban Skeleton, Yuange Sheng approaches the contemporary city not as a stable architectural environment, but as a body under continuous pressure. Structures bend, materials migrate from...
Annette Aspen – Q&A
Annette Aspen’s abstract expressionist paintings are deeply rooted in personal experience, using colour, movement and layered mark-making to transform emotion into something tangible. For Aspen, painting is both a creative practice and a cathartic process, allowing...
Sally Watson – Q&A
Sally Watson’s paintings are rooted in a deeply personal response to landscape, capturing not simply how a place looks, but how it feels to inhabit it. Working within an abstract expressionist language, she uses energetic mark-making, colour and layered surfaces to...
Lisa Srao – Q&A
Lisa Srao is an award-winning British contemporary artist whose large-scale, hyper-realistic oil paintings explore the expressive possibilities of the natural world. Based in Yorkshire, her practice centres on flowers, wildlife and landscape, transforming familiar...
Rina Bakis – Q&A
Rina Bakis is an abstract artist whose vibrant paintings explore movement, transformation, space and time. Working instinctively, she responds to her surroundings and emotional state through colour, shape and composition, creating works characterised by energy,...
Estuary – Art, Memory and Transformation
Curated by Lin Wu and Tabish Khan | Trinity Art Studios, Trinity Buoy Wharf | July 2026 At Trinity Buoy Wharf, a place already shaped by water, industry and continual reinvention, Estuary brought together four artists whose residency developed in direct response to...
Peterjon Skelt – Q&A
Line, Imagination and the Spaces Between Stories. Peterjon Skelt is a British artist whose intricate ink drawings combine figurative imagery, fantastical creatures, graphic precision and a deeply literary imagination. Working primarily through line, Skelt creates...
Kal Flynn – Q&A
Colour, Culture and Conversations with Nature Kal Flynn is a British-Indian artist whose vivid, expressive practice is shaped by colour, pattern, nature and cultural identity. Trained in illustration at the University of Westminster and St Martin’s School of Art,...
Eli Pimentel – Q&A
Photography, Memory and the Poetics of the Unexpected Dominican-born photographer Eli Pimentel brings together documentary observation, magical realism and conceptual experimentation to explore the ways in which we understand identity, labour, grief and the...
Ana Rotari – Q&A
Engineering, Nature and the Art of Carbon Fibre Originally from Moldova and now based in Northamptonshire, self-taught artist Ana Rotari brings together the precision of advanced engineering and the expressive freedom of nature. Her distinctive wall-based works...
Yucen Liu – Unit of Living
Yucen Liu is a London-based artist and researcher whose multidisciplinary practice encompasses installation, sculpture, moving image and system-based experimentation. Working within the field of Creative Research and Development
Creetcha – Q&A
Creetcha, born Christian Contemori, is an Italian figurative artist, portraitist and colourist based in London. Working across watercolour, gouache, acrylic and oil, his practice is grounded in the study of human anatomy and the expressive possibilities of the body....
