Curated Collections

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 future resides in the colours deployed by the artists curated here. Colours like an upbeat song, bringing you into a more vibrant moment.  See the earthly paradises of Ed Saye (see our profile on ‘Happy Hippy Home’), the lucid drip and drift of paint in Francesca Bleay’s paintings, Audrey Corbelli’s primal abstractions, and Tatiana Leony’s phantasmagoric, flame-lit scenes.  These artists are very different from […]

We’ve spoken to artists about their journey of discovery with framing; a topic they unsurprisingly gave some great insight on. It’s also worth bearing in mind that framing a work increases its value. Using a framer you can trust is important, and we can give you recommendations..

“This work is an expansive pause between here and there, now and then, peppered with patches of luminescence.” The creaturely and the mystical, the alien and the terrestrial co-exist in a medley palette distinctive to Saye’s works. From a distance, the composition thrums, muted by the harmonising of the colours; up close, the vividness of […]

A delicate implosion of colour and shapes: this describes ‘Daytime Illusions’ by Rosalyn Ng, in being abstract as well as recognisable as a bouquet. Colourful arabesques fuse toward the centre of the artwork, while around the edges density begins to dissolve. The accelerated, gestural mark-making makes us think of Cy Twombly – who said, “Everything lives […]

This March 11th a 1980 David Hockney print of a swimming pool will go on auction at Phillips. It’s a “problem to represent water” says the artist “because it can be anything…any colour”. Here Hockney does so with stylistic hallmarks that have become vernacular in contemporary art over his long and hugely successful career. In […]

L’empire des lumières (1961) by René Magritte shattered all auction records this week at Sotheby’s to reach an astonishing £59,422,000 – the highest price ever paid for a painting in GBP in Europe (as well as tripling the artist’s record).  In 1961 René Magritte, the exemplary surrealist of the 20th century, made ‘L’empire des lumières’ (‘The Empire […]

“Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a colour”. So embarks poet Maggie Nelson on a book-long meditation on this one colour and everything it contains and mediates for her. Browse here a selection of works in this palette: a rejuvenating spin on those January blues! 

Its the end of the year, and time to celebrating the artist’s highlights from the past year. It’s incredibly impressive to see the diverse achievements showcased here, with prizes, residencies, acquisition by notable collectors and solo shows all in abundance. All of these are good reasons to invest in an artist, on the basis of […]