Various Curations
These collections have been shaped for different reasons – sometimes around a theme, a material, a movement, or a kind of attention. There’s no single logic here – a series of curations – each holding something together for a reason, even if the reason is quiet.
This is where they live.
The Shape of a Room: A Gentle Reckoning
A gentle reckoning with wabi and material presence, alongside works by Andrew Szczech.
The Woman Who Painted for the Future
Before Kandinsky, before Malevich, before the history books laid down their version of events, Hilma af Klint was already painting what she was receiving. She believed the images were given to her – channelled, not invented – and she kept them hidden, convinced the world wasn’t ready. It wasn’t about recognition. It was about alignment.
She followed what came through and did the work anyway.
In The Mix: How Memories and Art Create a Home Full of Character
It is not about getting it right. It is about creating a life on the wall.
When Art Speaks: Pairings and Groups
In this section I’ve curated some pairings and small groupings.. considering how their relationship together creates cohesion and communication.
Curated by New Blood Art artists.
We are fascinated by the choices artists make – especially the art they are drawn to, collect, or choose to live with..
A curated a selection of work to energise the wealth corner of your home. These pieces incorporate the colours and themes that align with abundance, and they’re a beautiful way to activate this energy in your space.
Shaping Energy Through Art – Art that Enlightens
It’s well-known that our surroundings profoundly impact our well-being. Psychologists, architects, and interior designers emphasise how the structure and organisation of our spaces shape our state of mind. Ancient practices like Feng Shui highlight how the selection and placement of objects influence our energy and overall well-being.
Here, you’ll find a curated selection of artworks chosen for their ability to enhance the energy of a space. When integrated with sensitivity, these pieces can help create environments that nurture balance, peace, joy, mindfulness, and emotional well-being, guiding you towards a more conscious, intentional way of living.
FRAMED: Art that is ready to hang
This section features many of the framed works that can bought at New Blood Art, including works on paper, plus paintings, collages and more.
Nominated Artists – Emerging Art Prize, 2024
We are delighted to present a curated selection of works from The New Blood Art Emerging Art Prize 2024.
Explore and enjoy this vibrant collection, spanning painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, and more. There’s much to discover and invest in!
Earth_Nature
The Earth_Nature collection on New Blood Art features an array of artworks inspired by the natural world. The pieces vary in style, from abstract to representational, and include diverse media such as paintings, prints, and mixed media works. The collection highlights emerging artists who explore themes of landscapes, flora, and organic forms, reflecting their unique interpretations of nature’s beauty and complexity.
Warm Notes That Recall Skin Tones
From cream and peach to cocoa and rich dark browns via coral and tan, these paintings all carry a depth of colour, warm notes that recall skin tones. The principles of Feng Shui have guided the selection of these works, chosen in the belief that skin tones in the bedroom are both restorative and nourishing, providing positive and soothing energy.
Learning from People: From photography to Painting
Our curated selection, ‘People’, is a grouping that spans painting, drawing and photography, with each work containing its own possibilities and stories. Each is a space for thinking, a moment for reflection.
Small is Beautiful: A Collection of Small-Scale Artworks
In this curated collection, “Small is Beautiful,” we celebrate the compelling nature and versatility of small-scale artworks.
Little Pops of Colour
The artists featured in this curation show contemporary approaches to colour. Jolts of colour energise Lindsay Mapes and Joanne Wheeler’s textile works. Sophie Baker and Yasmin Davidson’s vivid outdoor scenes offer a lift, a visual boost that carries us toward spring.
Fine Detail
In this curated selection, attention moves across macro and micro.
Take a look and find approaches, ideas, mediums and scales, each embracing detail in its own way.
Colour & Pattern
Each artwork in this collection carries immediacy. Both colour and pattern often sit at the centre of the task, creating impact through their rhythm and intensity.
Gallery Walls
Curated Gallery walls create a canvas for expression, a window into personal rhythm, taste, and memory.
Explore a curated selection of small-scale works, each under 50cm x 50cm. Each piece brings potential for a considered, grounded gallery wall.
Adding Depth
Explore a selection of original works recently added to the gallery. Each carries depth of colour and resonance of feeling. Many pieces sit at a small scale while offering strong presence, authentic materiality, and a distinct vision.
From London to Japan
A wide artist roster brings a wide span of influences. Emiko Aida currently represents Japan within the gallery, yet many artists carry experiences of Tokyo or Kyoto exhibitions. These encounters shape their practice and bring richness to the work shown here.
Action, Gesture, Paint
This collection showcases artists who channel spontaneous energy and emotive force through physical, intuitive paint application.
Bridging Eras: Contemporary Echoes of Classic Mastery
This collection gathers contemporary works that resonate with themes seen in classic art. Modern perspectives meet traditional styles. The result is a dialogue across eras within figurative realism, landscapes, and portraiture.
Shaping Energy Through Art: Elevate Your Space
A curated selection of artworks chosen for their ability to enhance the energy of a space on multiple levels. These works invite deeper engagement with their presence, shaping environments that nurture balance, mindfulness and emotional well-being.
As you explore these pieces, consider how they resonate with the energy you wish to cultivate. The elements in your environment carry the power to uplift, soothe and guide you toward a more conscious and elevated state of being.
Control and Surrender
We are pleased to present a selection of four pieces from four distinctive artists – Emma Philips, Orlanda Broom, Felicity Talman and Helen Latham – each exploring themes of control, surrender and our intricate relationship with nature. This curated collection highlights how these individual works resonate with one another while carrying the distinct perspectives of their creators. Together, they form a cohesive narrative that invites reflection on the complexities of nature and celebrates each artist’s unique vision.
Harmonious Eclecticism
Explore our curated collection of contemporary works that embody an eclectic warmth and engaging atmosphere. This selection features a wide array of artistic expressions, from striking portraits to compelling abstract pieces, each contributing to a rich and varied visual experience.
With an emphasis on earthy palettes and textured surfaces, these works create a sense of comfort and connection, offering space for contemplation and personal engagement.
In this collection, we are drawn to contemplate the timeless nature of creative expression – the works of Maryna Shkoliar and Glib Franko, two Ukraine-based artists whose creations transcend geographical boundaries and speak to our shared human experience. The friendship between these artists, and their connection with our gallery, reflects the interconnectedness of creative endeavour. Their work holds a reminder of the shared language of art that moves across time and space.
Start with the Art: Pieces to Anchor Your Vision
Starting with art allows the interior design to be driven by inspiration rather than imitation. This approach often leads to a more original, distinctive scheme because the artwork serves as a muse, informing colour, texture and the mood of the space. The result is a design that feels cohesive and tells a story, rather than leaning on generic or trend-driven choices.
Small is Beautiful: A Collection of Small-Scale Artworks
In this curated collection, “Small is Beautiful,” we celebrate the intensity and versatility of small-scale artworks. These pieces work well in a gallery wall or in an overlooked corner of the home, bringing a sense of intimacy and focus.
Circling Home: Embrace the Infinite
The circle is a shape as ancient as humanity itself, a symbol that transcends time, culture and place. From the rising sun to the moon, the circle evokes the infinite, the boundless and the cyclical nature of existence. It draws us in, offering a sense of both beginning and return.
Multiplicity | Arrival | Pattern
There’s something very rejuvenating about these mainly abstract works: a kind of cellular reset through living colours and organic shapes. Many have a diffuse energy, and they would make a strong focal point in a room. Such works – in any colour or neutral palette – can bring balance to a space. Multiplicity, arrival and pattern are the key words of this curation.
How Paint Works: Verging on Abstraction
This curation brings together artists exploring the mechanics of paint itself. From James O’Connell’s modernist echoes to Andrew Szczech’s weathered surfaces and Sarah MacFarlane’s sculptural forms, each work holds a different question about surface, depth and meaning. Through varied approaches, these pieces open up the possibilities of what paint can do.
The Sea: A Space for Invention
In the popular imagination, the sea is a site of possibility. Stephen Todd’s layered seascapes and Octavia Madden’s glowing harbours evoke visceral responses and open invitations for interpretation, encouraging viewers to move into memory, atmosphere and inner experience. These works create space for imaginative drift.
A Floral Rebellion: The Drama of Transience
Floral painting often carries a layer of sentimentality. In this curation, Orlanda Broom’s lush, exotic landscapes, Emily McGuire’s reflections on transient beauty, and Xiaoyu Shi’s explorations of life and decay use the motif as a way to think about cycles. These works hold beauty and breakdown together, tracing movement through bloom, fade and renewal.
The Colour of Outdoors
Nature and gardening invite contemplation, saturated colour and a sense of play. The works in this curation all move through the outdoors, each in a different register: some heighten colour, some quiet the eye, others carry a more narrative charge. Together they sketch the many ways artists work with the living world as subject, atmosphere and memory.
How to Make an Impact
Each work in this curation lands with a clear first impression, using colour, scale or pattern to pull focus. In a field crowded with images, these pieces create a small interruption in the day. Their presence asks for a second look, and with it a quiet enquiry into how they were made, what they hold, and why they stay in the mind.
Joy and Music: A Space to Dream
Drawn from the old English ‘drēam’ – joy and music – this curation gathers works with a quietly dreamlike charge. Winter streets, lit tents and small gatherings give a sense of shelter and shared time. These scenes feel both everyday and slightly shifted, offering a place for the mind to wander and rest.
From Feast to Picnic
From Bruegel’s crowded tables to Manet’s Dejeuner sur l’herbe, food has long been a way to look at how we live together. This collection moves from laden plates to half-finished cups and shared picnics, catching moments along the route from kitchen to table. The works sit with appetite, ritual and rest – the simple, daily scenes that hold so much of a life.
From Fur to Feathers: The Wild Other
Animals have moved through art history as gods, witnesses, companions and mirrors. From Egyptian falcons to Leonardo’s studies and Victorian miniatures, they carry projection and presence in equal measure. This curation gathers works that meet animals as dignified others – alert, mysterious, fully themselves – and invites a slower look at the worlds they move through.
A Void of Colour: Neutral & Achromatic Works
Pared back and neutral, these spaces give artwork room to breathe, allowing a single piece to hold the room. This curation draws together achromatic and black-and-white works where texture, line and form lead, and small shifts in surface carry most of the mood.
Contemplating China
These works sit inside a long conversation between landscape, ink and interior space. Zhize Lv’s tranquil, slightly uncanny ink paintings and Sara Willett’s layered pieces from her residency in China share a reflective, searching tone. Alongside Sammi Mak and Kyle Noble, drawing on Chinese landscape traditions in their own ways, they open up questions about distance, place and how we meet the more-than-human world.
Stars of the Future: New Blood Artists at the Royal College and Royal Drawing School
Artists connected with the Royal College of Art and the Royal Drawing School bring a shared commitment to craft, even as their languages diverge. Malcomson and Williams work with saturated colour and generous brushwork, Davidson and Francis lean toward collage and layered surfaces, while Valik and Martin draw with a stripped-back, precise economy. Together they sketch a line through where the next wave of practice is heading.