02nd Jan 2023

People in Paint


In these works of people, you’ll find introspection, psychedelia, monumental figures, vulnerable ones, groups at table (at séances and bars) and couples in a world of their own. 

Julia Blackshaw’s ‘Reader’ is compositionally centered: emanating a sense of equilibrium in the midst of a meditative pursuit.  

Alternatively, Sarah Shaw’s complex rendering of paint amounts to the figure of a living being in flux. More than a discernible person or fixed personality, an internal state is being transmitted through a restless, instinctual application of pigment. In this way, her latest work recalls the mutating emotional states of Francis Bacon. 

You’ll also see how: Isaac Aldridge works to the tune of his own style in the verdant collages of his latest works; Laura Gaiger’s figures begin to blur into anonymity in the crowd; and Katherine Lloyd shows an archetypal, metamorphic interrelation between wolf and human.  

Browse all artwork with PEOPLE – or check out ABSTRACTS or STILL LIFES


All works available to buy with an interest-free art loan: select OwnArt at checkout. 

Reader by Julia Blackshaw, £220
No Realer Than Dreams by Julie-Ann Simpson, £3,150
Good Times by James Lang, £2,670
Love Never Suited Me Anyway by Natalie Chapman, £1,200
Sitting Figure by Heini King, £175
Beast by Sarah Shaw, £2,450
Headaches by Jack Drummond, £500
Quans Bar by Charlie Yates, £680
Ego Death by Jessie Taylor, £500
The Light by Julia Blackshaw, £250
I Rock Myself in the Nothingness of Time by Sonja de Graaf, £250
Kiss Me Quick by Paris Foot, £800
Rosa by Paris Foot, £1200
Man Eating Wolf by Kathryn Lloyd, £500
Playing the Past by Laura Gaiger, £400
Know Your Bothy by Isaac Aldridge, £5100
And What Can Be the Use of Him Is More Than I Can See by Scarlett Budden, £1450
Seance by Gabrielle J Moore, £875

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