New Artists

“I draw for the love of drawing, not for a reason.”     

Through a use of technical and expressive methods, my practice deals with the cultural construction of the body. By combining print making techniques with intuitive mark-making, I aim to re-configure ways in which the female form can be consumed viscerally. Incorporating found imagery with projective painting and drawing methods allows me to renegotiate the body’s […]

I’m most affected by imagery – whether from direct observations in daily life or from myriad technological reproductions of images through an ever-growing profusion of devices. Making sense of such a potential overload of visual information requires a decision-making process of selection when choosing an image as representational material in the painting process. Subject matter […]

Walking through the environment inspires me to look at the nature of the objects I observe, from the marks of the hermit crab in the sand, the glint of water on a pebble and the colours in a shell. Untimely experiences in life allow us to slow down and be mindful of our presence on […]

“The paintings don’t have end points; they continually evolve through the application of paint, in a struggle to find what only paint can display. Allowing aesthetic qualities on the canvas to determine my next action. The paintings sit in an area of tension between construction and destruction; they are over painted, erased, before being built […]

My paintings have often been a response to the term ‘Mother’: both the beauty of motherhood and the anxieties that accompany it. The figure of the mother was always present nursing the child. More recently the work has focussed on the fruitfulness and fecundity of life in all its forms but principally the absorption in […]

Anne Baudequin’s paintings of still life have rich, impressionistic presence. Working from life in “alla prima” allows spontaneity, and an ability to capture fleeting, sun cast shadows. Baudequin’s still life arrangements of fruit are painted in subtly sumptuous colour and there’s a sense of the objects being touchable. Harmonious compositional relationships characterise each piece.   […]

William Arnold is a photographer influenced by the first pioneers of the medium and perhaps of the theory that has pervaded photography since its birth. Sir William Newton, the academic painter, declared in 1853 that photography could never capture the ‘atmospheric veil’ which nature throws across the world, and yet Arnold seems to both refute […]

The play between myth and reality is explored with a political edge in the work of Oliver Bragg. Materialism, capitalism and globalization are explored in relation to technology’s export of humanity from its natural environment. Bragg’s work suggests a turn towards simplicity and the folk tradition of myth to develop our sense, once again, of […]

Pastel shades and complementary hues are brought into play with loose circular forms in the paintings and drawings of Sylwia Kaden. The work explores the dynamics of shape and colour and is certainly testament to Man Ray’s theory, that the ‘creative force’ within painting must ‘reside materially in the colour and texture of pigment’ and […]