by Lisa Gray | Aug 3, 2026 | Interview
Contemporary British artist and printmaker David Studwell brings the glamour, attitude and visual charge of mid-century celebrity culture into sharp contemporary focus. A graduate of Central Saint Martins School of Art, Studwell has spent more than two decades...
by Lisa Gray | Jul 22, 2026 | Q&A
Sandy Coburn is an award-winning American fine art photographer based in The Hague, whose work explores landscapes, wildlife and cultures through vivid colour, light and carefully considered composition. Largely self-taught, she developed her photographic practice...
by Lisa Gray | Jul 17, 2026 | Art News
Listening with Eyes, Watching with Ears Carmela De Falco. Sat 6 Jun 2026 to Sun 19 Jul 2026 by Vitto Giusti There is a particular kind of attention this exhibition demands, not the alert, forward-leaning attention of someone waiting to be told something, but the...
by Lisa Gray | Jul 17, 2026 | Q&A
Carol Burns is an award-winning contemporary artist whose layered abstract paintings explore memory, identity, connection and the stories that shape human experience. Working through collage, paint, drawing and reclaimed materials, she creates richly textured surfaces...
by Lisa Gray | Jul 11, 2026 | Q&A
Rachel Le Roux is a British-Filipino contemporary artist whose practice centres on the female form, identity and the shifting experience of becoming. Through expressive figurative painting, she explores femininity, movement and the space between vulnerability and...
by Lisa Gray | Jul 3, 2026 | Art News
Reclaiming Weight in a Frictionless World In June 2026, ArtCan collaborated with K:art, a London-based art organisation, to present ρ ≠ 0, a virtual exhibition exploring the persistence of weight, resistance and embodied presence within an increasingly dematerialised...
by Lisa Gray | Jun 28, 2026 | Q&A
Dawn Fincham’s richly layered works transform fragments of the past into vivid, character-led worlds. Combining vintage engravings, found imagery, digital collage and direct painterly intervention, the London-based artist creates compositions that invite viewers to...
by Lisa Gray | Jun 27, 2026 | Q&A
René Porter is an award-winning realist artist from Los Angeles whose practice spans oil painting and charcoal drawing. A graduate of Columbus College of Art & Design, she works across portraiture, still life, figures and cityscapes, using light to shape the mood,...
by Lisa Gray | Jun 23, 2026 | Q&A
Wei Keong Tan is a designer and artist whose ceramic practice explores the complex relationship between human control and the natural world. Born in Singapore and now based in Gloucestershire, Tan brings together an early background in product and industrial design,...
by Lisa Gray | Jun 23, 2026 | Q&A
Greg Kent’s sculptural woodturning begins with an appreciation for the innate character of timber, its grain, burrs, colour and evidence of decay, but it extends far beyond the material’s natural beauty. Self-taught and later supported through a QEST Scholarship, Kent...
by Lisa Gray | Jun 22, 2026 | Q&A
Painting Light, Atmosphere and Wonder For Kathryn Thomas, painting is an act of attention: a way of meeting the shifting drama of light, colour and atmosphere before it slips from view. Trained in Fine Art Painting at Bristol Polytechnic, now the University of the...
by Lisa Gray | Jun 18, 2026 | Interview
Scale, Colour and the Sculptural Language of Form John Carpenter’s abstract paintings are defined by a striking balance between boldness and refinement. Trained as an illustrator at the University of Westminster before completing his master’s degree at the Royal...
by Lisa Gray | Jun 18, 2026 | Featured Artist
Painting the Space Between Memory and Perception A Contemporary Practice Shaped by Colour, Emotion and Cultural Transition For London-based mixed media visual artist Chen Chen, art is a means of tracing the subtle spaces between memory, perception and emotional...
by Lisa Gray | Jun 15, 2026 | Q&A
Neal Scrase is a contemporary artist whose work moves between surrealism, portraiture and imaginative storytelling. Self-taught, he has been painting for most of his life, developing a practice rooted in inner vision rather than direct reproduction. His paintings seek...
by Lisa Gray | Jun 14, 2026 | Q&A
Amarajyoti is an artist whose practice brings together painting, meditation and a lifelong engagement with creativity as a form of inner exploration. Trained in Art and Design in the 1960s, she went on to teach art for more than 20 years before travelling to India and...
by Lisa Gray | Jun 13, 2026 | Industry Expert Feature
Kate Enters is the founder and director of ArtCan, an international arts organisation dedicated to supporting artists through opportunity, visibility, community and fair payment. Founded in 2013, ArtCan has grown from a peer-led exhibition initiative into a...
by Lisa Gray | Jun 8, 2026 | Q&A
Jenette Coldrick Morrell is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans more than five decades, moving between painting, pottery, printmaking, textiles and mixed media. Born in Cornwall in 1952, her early encounters with artists including Isobel Atterbury Heath...
by Lisa Gray | Jun 7, 2026 | Q&A
Vikoi’s practice unfolds through bold, colourful acrylic works that use playfulness as a way into more complex questions of identity, neurodivergence, mental health and the structures that shape contemporary life. Born in Somerset and self taught, she creates work...
by Lisa Gray | Jun 6, 2026 | Q&A
Neil Eckersley’s journey from Olympic judo to contemporary abstract art is one of transformation rather than departure. A two-time Olympian and Olympic bronze medallist, Eckersley brings the discipline, resilience and intensity of elite sport into a visual language...
by Lisa Gray | Jun 5, 2026 | Q&A
Alexander Stepanets’ practice uses satire, allegory and a sharply controlled visual language to confront the psychological and social conditions shaped by violence, fear and moral collapse. Trained in printmaking at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Fine Arts,...
by Lisa Gray | Jun 4, 2026 | Q&A
Claudia Tong’s practice moves fluidly between traditional and new media, bringing together painting, illustration, mixed media, computer graphics, digital art and music composition. Rooted in the human experience of ordinary moments, her work finds wonder in the...
by Lisa Gray | Jun 2, 2026 | Q&A
Studio 308’s practice is rooted in the tactile possibilities of material, texture and process. Working across printmaking, mixed media, design and textiles, the London-based artist and educator explores identity, place and the emotional resonance of everyday...
by Lisa Gray | Jun 1, 2026 | Q&A
Nino Memanishvili is a contemporary multimedia artist and photographer whose practice explores the psychological and emotional charge of space, absence and transformation. Working through photography and moving image, she investigates internal states, existential...
by Lisa Gray | May 31, 2026 | Q&A
Fumika Tani is a Japanese textile artist and MA Textile Design candidate at Chelsea College of Arts, London, graduating in 2025. Rooted in the philosophy of Mingei, her practice reimagines the endangered Japanese weaving tradition of Kasuri through British wool,...
by Lisa Gray | May 29, 2026 | Q&A
Shahar Tuchner’s multidisciplinary practice moves across painting, video, sculpture and mixed media, exploring the shifting relationship between material, image and perception. Working through layering, intervention and reworking, Tuchner allows form to evolve...
by Lisa Gray | May 26, 2026 | Industry Expert Feature
Art, Media, and the Evolution of Cultural Dialogue Through Culturalee, Lee Sharrock has established a distinctive voice within contemporary cultural journalism, one that moves fluidly between art, fashion, film, performance and wider creative discourse. With a career...
by Lisa Gray | May 25, 2026 | Industry Expert Feature
Reclaiming the Visual Public Realm Marine Tanguy has built her career around a simple but radical conviction: artists should not sit at the edge of culture, but at its centre. As the founder and CEO of MTArt Agency, she has helped reshape how contemporary artists are...
by Lisa Gray | May 24, 2026 | Industry Expert Feature
Gabrielle du Plooy stands at a distinctive point in the contemporary art world, working across gallery leadership, curation, artist development and advocacy. As director of Zebra One Gallery, a family-founded gallery established by her father in 1976, she has...
by Lisa Gray | May 23, 2026 | Q&A
Beverley Baker’s practice moves between fine art, costume and moving image, bringing together meticulous detail, rich texture and a distinctive use of colour. Based in rural Somerset, her work is deeply shaped by the surrounding landscape, from the natural rhythms of...
by Lisa Gray | May 21, 2026 | Q&A
Tazzy Moon’s practice moves between psychological portraiture, magical realism and philosophical enquiry, drawing on questions of identity, embodiment and transformation. Largely self-taught as a painter, Moon brings a formal academic background in philosophy to a...
by Lisa Gray | May 21, 2026 | Art News
Hanna Benihoud’s Sculptural Trail Through London’s Hidden Edges From 6 May to July 2026, Borough Yards becomes the site of a new public artwork by London-based artist and architect Hanna Benihoud. Titled What Blooms Beneath, the installation moves through the London...
by Lisa Gray | May 20, 2026 | Q&A
Lorraine Cleary’s interdisciplinary practice moves between sculpture, assemblage, textiles, embroidery, drawing and installation to examine gendered violence, trauma and the politics of visibility. Reclaiming traditional craft and the domestic sphere as sites of...
by Lisa Gray | May 19, 2026 | Q&A
Lara Gallagher’s practice explores the body as a threshold between the material and the immaterial, the visible and the unseen. Working primarily in graphite, the French-British artist creates layered drawings in which the figure is formed, disrupted and reconfigured,...
by Lisa Gray | May 18, 2026 | Q&A
Lady Vinogorodska’s practice unfolds at the intersection of painting, philosophy, psychology and symbolic inquiry. Working through a self-defined methodology she calls Architectonics of Emotions, she approaches the canvas as a space where feeling becomes structure,...
by Lisa Gray | May 17, 2026 | Q&A
Ty Barnes is an American artist living and working in the United Kingdom, whose practice inhabits the charged and often unresolved space between fracture, endurance and becoming. Working primarily in acrylic and oil, Barnes creates paintings that do not seek to offer...
by Lisa Gray | May 16, 2026 | Q&A
Abigail Humphries’ practice unfolds through a distinctive language of sand and acrylic, a material process she has refined over more than two decades into richly textured, large-scale works that sit between painting and sculpture. Rooted in questions of memory,...
by Lisa Gray | May 15, 2026 | Q&A
Italian artist Tiziana Rasile creates paintings that move between atmosphere, vibration and metaphysical reflection, where colour becomes a vehicle for light, rhythm and spiritual inquiry. Based in Rome, her practice draws upon both classical technique and...
by Lisa Gray | May 14, 2026 | Q&A
Materiality, Light and Emotional Atmosphere – A Conversation on Nature, Sensory Space and Conscious Creation Born in Coimbra and now based in Lisbon, Portuguese artist and designer Paula Gouveia has developed a multidisciplinary practice that exists between...
by Lisa Gray | May 13, 2026 | Q&A
Based in Devon and deeply connected to the landscapes of the South West, Nigel Waters approaches painting as an act of immersion. Working predominantly en plein air, his semi-abstract compositions respond directly to the shifting atmospheres of coastline, moorland and...
by Lisa Gray | May 13, 2026 | Critical Reviews
Tiffany Foster’s practice operates within a contemporary figurative language that merges technical precision with psychological and emotional inquiry. Rooted in painting and draftsmanship, her work explores memory, embodiment and the residual traces of personal...
