The innovative technique Sarah MacFarlane has developed to create her work is immediately striking. The ruched surface of her landscapes comes about through using layers of dried paint to build up dimensions, collage-like.

Brilliant graduates continue to arrive at the gallery, and it’s a joy to curate them.

This week’s emerging artists show fantastic sensitivity to the possibilities of their medium – applied in very different directions..

For this week’s Director’s Picks, Sarah reflects on how environment can imbue you taste. In this case, it’s sun, sea, and a different tempo that have caught her eye.    This week’s artwork selection has been informed by my recent week away in the sunshine on the beach: experiencing a certain saturation of colour and […]

2022 Manchester Metropolitan University graduate Rhianna Mone makes hybrid wall hangings. In her process the artist uses chance to foreground the interrelations of shapes and colours. As artist Elsworth Kelly said of using chance to make his collages of colourful squares: “I want to eliminate the ‘I made this’ from my work.” The title of many […]

Here are the latest emerging artists to join this summer. We’re so excited at the diverse range of talent that continues to be evident at the degree shows this year; here is a brief introduction to the newest additions curated by the gallery.  Kaiya Khatri is a graduate of Loughborough University. Flowers are her subject, following the Puja (‘the […]

We’re delighted to introduce Emily Oades to the gallery, a young artist just graduated from Leeds Arts University. The oil paintings she’s producing are ambitious, head-turning works that recall the seminal contemporary British painter Cecily Brown – who once described painting as a transformative “kind of alchemy.”  We hope you enjoy browsing Emily’s work here.  Our take:  In these […]

The two newest artists showing at the gallery are Sammi Mak and Tian Rossana Wong.  In very different ways these emerging artists dramatise the meeting of paint with paper, the myriad possibilities of brushwork, line and tone. Different types of paper – whether rice paper from the ancient Chinese tradition, or Somerset soft velvet paper made of […]

Some fantastic interior designers have spoken in the press of their confidence in us, as a place to find original art. These include Fiona Barratt, internationally renowned designer of interiors, and Sophie Ashby (who mentioned us in Vogue). Studio Ashby is going from strength to strength, and is known for putting art at the centre of design projects.

The brilliant NewBloodArt Master Nicola Wiltshire has been awarded the 2022 Little Van Gogh residency! This residence is awarded by Little Van Gogh Europe, an organisation curating “office art exhibitions promoting the most talented emerging artists in workplaces across Europe.” It will see Nicola hosted at the Spud work space in the heart of New Forest National Park, with the opportunity to further her practice. 

It’s your last chance to acquire work by NewBloodArt master Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf as the now Portugal-based artist leaves the gallery. It’s been a pleasure and a privilege to curate Rebecca’s work over the past decade and watching her develop her unique sensibility, in an original artistic practice, committed to exploring “female identity in its relationship […]