It’s not always easy finding the space to hang large statement pieces and with this in mind I’ve put together a collection of small-scale work. There’s an intimacy that comes with work on a smaller scale and a versatility too – as you can re-arrange your collection more easily over time… View all works under 50cm x 50cm. […]

Sometimes you come across an artist – who you immediately know has something special, and yet it takes a little time for them to gain the recognition they deserve and then once they do – they fly… Natalie Chapman is a good example of this. As a result of Moma Wales Prize 2019 and 4 exhibitions in the last […]

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Portrait of Britain 2018 winner, Vikram Kushwah is gaining significant recognition, this time with selection for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2019 – a leading international competition, which celebrates and promotes the very best in contemporary portrait photography from around the world. Whether artistic or commercial, Kushwah’s pictures have a dream-like quality, in which the boundaries between fiction and […]

We tipped Jo Hummel as an investable artist back in November 2017 (read here) and the last 12 months have been the best yet for Jo – whose career is flourishing. Having enjoyed a recent successful solo exhibition in West London she has two more solo shows scheduled for later this year – in Edinburgh and in Sweden (Sept and October respectively). As demand […]

Jan Valik creates very beautiful paintings which emerge “from a space among ‘absorbed’ landscape, recollections, sense and memory”. He is attracting buyers at the moment and enquiries about his work are increasing – good indicators that his sales (and therefore prices) are likely to see increases. With an extensive exhibition history (since graduating in 2012) […]

Ella Squirrell Ella graduated last year, was subsequently selected for FBA Futures, awarded a well-respected art residency, the recipient of the Wilhelmina Barns Graham Travel to Italy Award and has undertaken a two month internship in Iceland – all notable achievements within less than 12 months. Ella has a unique vision, an identifiable style – a deep […]

There are plenty of overlaps between art forms… particularly between literature and visual art, and as it’s National Poetry Month – yes, there is such a thing (!) and as this influence often goes unseen… I wanted to shine a light on the many ways in which words inspire our artists. For Toni Cogdell, poetry […]

I saw an Instagram post recently – a photograph of the contents of a fallen packet of spaghetti. The strands of pasta had landed in a wigwam-shaped pile and the caption joked that the results had awarded him an Art MFA. It made me chuckle – especially as degree show season is about to start […]

In conversation with Sarah Ryan, founder and director of NewBloodArt NewBloodArt is a niche / boutique online art gallery, selling unique, original art by carefully selected emerging artists. We sat down with its founder and director, Sarah Ryan, to find out more about her background and work as a gallerist and the challenges she has […]