Adrian Eckersley

I first learned about painting more as criticism and history than as a practice. I studied Literature at university and followed a respectable career path teaching this to adults. I paint to help make sense of the world. I believe that most of the time we are strangers, to ourselves and where we live. I paint the city and its hinterlands, which turn out to be the places we pass through every day but do not see, full of voids and energies we sense without much grasp of what is there. I have been exhibiting, solo, with small groups, and in larger often themed shows, usually in London and the south east, since around 2000. At first I painted motorways and malls, lonely and alien spaces; now I paint public spaces, lonely crowds, visions of cities, often at night, transit spaces, or spaces that are nowhere in particular. My subject is London but that does not exclude other cities

Alice Perse Clarke

Alice makes colourful paintings of small pot plants; the nature we bring into our homes. The designs are reminiscent of stained glass windows: by drawing a link between worship and nature she celebrates our love of the natural world.

Angela Britton

Angela Britton is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer based in London and runs 'The Daily Dream' from her studio in Tottenham, selling prints and accessories based on her designs. Her background in design lends a graphic and illustrative tilt to her work - be it organic or geometric. A degree in History of Art & Philosophy has also provided inspiration - from Egyptian art, Bauhaus to Deco; vivid and symbolic images really spark her imagination. Most of her work is drawn in pencil, pen and gouache initially, then often enhanced digitally before being printed or silk screened.

Anne Adamson

My work is about journeys through imagined spaces. Some of the images reveal figures en route to an unknown destination; others depict places that, while apparently uninhabited, suggest an earlier human presence through a discarded object or an abandoned structure. I work in oil and acrylic as well as making ink drawings.

I studied Art History at Trinity College, Dublin, and Fine Art at UWE, Bristol, and at Wimbledon, University of the Arts, London. I have won several awards for my work and exhibit regularly in the UK and abroad.

Berfîn Çiçek

Berfîn Çiçek (b.1991) is a British Kurdish artist from North London. After quitting her profession in architecture to follow her ultimate passion in the arts, she trained in the old masters methods at the London Fine Arts. Berfin contemporary cubism paintings evokes feelings and memories derived from the world around her through vibrant colours, shapes and bold lines expressing reality in a playful manner.

Didi Baldwin

She has a MA in Printmaking from the RCA and co-leads the Warehouse Art School, in Oxford.

EC

“We do not suffer from conflict, but from being able to bear too little conflict. By not being able to straddle the contradictions, to keep all the voices in play, to sustain the drama by stopping it from turning into a perpetual soliloquy” – Adam Phillips, British essayist and Psychoanalyst.

"EC’s work handles conflicting ideas, a crashing of elements that could mechanistically retain their boundaries; oppositions that instead are complexly interpenetrating and actually related, occupying cusps or on the verge of collapse. As well as being a visual exploration – space, imbalance, complexity, matter and things falling apart – this (visual) metaphor perhaps relates to his ideas about human experience and cognition as being part of something whole and combinatorial rather than the splitting of human experience, cognition and expression into hierarchical modes of thinking or structures (“Descartes’ Error”). 

EC works with the idea that opposition is necessary to life, to something integral and vital. She is interested in accessing (visual) babble and incoherent visual ‘utterances’ in order to approach or retrieve something unknown as opposed to relying on assertions and “branding”. There is no clear ‘aboutness’. Material floats in a someplace in between that cannot quite be named.

EC feels and thinks that incoherence is something that has perhaps not been given enough regard or respect. It is frowned upon in our field it seems (yet is valued elsewhere. Indeed it is vital to getting at the “truth”). This approach can lead to work that presents us with schisms or something that is difficult to “get a handle on”, possibly work that also belongs to “the category of the ugly”. We need not “only” examine this visually (as if visual experience is isolated in a vacuum), nor as something purely non relational. The artist inevitably looks at layers of potential meaning and experiences the work through many lenses"

Flora Lawrence

Flora is an abstract painter working on canvas with varnish spray paint and pencil. She has recently moved her practice down from Glasgow to Gaunson Creative Studios and is excited to navigate working in North London. Her biggest achievements are being recognised on art contemporary’s instagram and several group shows in Glasgow. Floras work can be seen in some popular BBC tv programmes, HBO series like Succession and several films over the last few years.

Gary William Myatt

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Gavin Maughfling

Gavin Maughfling has shown internationally, including at the Lounge Gallery, London, the Mostyn Biennial, MOMA Oxford, Galerie Van Der Planken Antwerp, the ICA, the Carroussel du Louvre, the Elzenveld Foundation Antwerp and Objectifs Singapore. He has work in private collections and the National Government Art Collection. Recent projects include ‘Over Time’ at the University of Greenwich and National Maritime Museum, and film collaborations with Min-Wei Ting for Objectifs, Singapore and 'No Go’ at Sheffield Arts Institute.

In 2018 he was selected for the Emerald Art exhibition 'Beyond the Binaries' at the House of St. Barnabas, London. In 2019 his solo exhibition 'Did You see Me Coming?' opened noformat Gallery's new space at Deptford Foundry, and he was selected by Sacha Craddock for the Creekside Open 2019 and for Artworks 2019 at the Barbican Arts Trust. In 2020 he was selected for the Beep Painting Biennial, and In 2021 will be participating in ‘This Year’s Model’ at Studio 1.1, London. He is the co-founder of DEM Projects and has curated major exhibitions in London and Singapore. With fellow artist Steph Goodger, he is currently developing a new project, Pull Back the Curtain

Geoff Gunby

 I grew up in a small town next to the sea, an experience which has affected me profoundly. the effect of the clear bright light picking out every detail on the faces of the people all around me and of the tawdry seafront building s towering over me as a child has stayed with me all my life and set the basic template for the artwork I have gone on to produce.I like to paint people and things as they are in all their itness, strangeness and complexity and to try and express the uniqueness of their being, what it is that makes them what they are to me. Long experience of staring at album covers had led me to embrace pop , or rather faux pop, art as a means of embracing failure. I particularly enjoy painting portraits and actively seek commissions.

Helge Nordlie

I work mainly with acrylic paint, but also using other media in combination or on its own - ink, pastel, charcoal and collage. My themes are basically abstract, exploring shapes, colour and lines to explore and express ideas or emotions from within.

I moved from Oslo, Norway, to London in 2000, after nineteen years as a prop master/prop maker at the national opera house.

Alongside my job, I was painting and drawing. I continued this practice in London over the last twenty years, being involved in the Artscope project at Haringey Day Opportunities for adults with learning disabilities and autism. I ran regular art workshops with clients over these years. I was also involved in a project combining gardening and artworks, various stage productions and celebrations; providing design, decor and technical solutions.

I am now retired from my day job and focus extensively on my work as an independent artist.

I did my formal art education in Norway:
One year fundamental college course in Arts and Crafts.
One-year fundamental college course in Drama and Music.

Iain Isacsson

Community and education based artist living in London but originally from Glasgow. My work is care free, bold and often contradictory. Much of my work is geometric and graphic in style and is a throw back to my engineering days.

James Canty

James Canty is a multidisciplinary artist from Limerick, Ireland. He works with painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. He has recently completed an MFA at Central Saint Martins.

Judy Clarkson

Judy Clarkson is a figurative artist who works in oil on canvas. Through this traditional medium she aims to convey a contemporary vision. The subjects of her paintings are depicted with banal objects such as mirrors or high-heeled shoes. However the compositions are disconcerting, the figures seemingly in the throes of extraordinary moments or lost in impenetrable thoughts. Shoes become gloves and reflections take on a sensual, almost conspiratorial significance. These people are poised in abeyance: their lives are structured around these props, yet somehow they are dissatisfied, seeking authenticity.

Clarkson's choice of oil on canvas, links directly back to art as practised through the centuries. For her painting is a physical and tactile experience. The surface is intensely worked, the paint knotting into thick layers in places to become almost 3 dimensional. While the overall effect is realistic, seen closely the paint takes on a complex, abstract appearance, skeins of paint retaining brush marks as if still in motion.

Louise Sunnucks

Within her multi-disciplinary practice, drawing and painting play a central role. She employs different media in her painting such as oils, acrylics and wax to construct a delicate sense of surface. Paint is applied in layers, one surface building from another, while transparent wax and glazes reflect the temporality of the subject matter. In her graphite and charcoal drawings, she both applies and erases the material, in a process of removal as addition, using mark making as a tool to explore physical memory through materials. The accumulated information is collated and flattened into a compressed picture plane in order to fossilise memory. These processes result in an openended and more abstracted response rather than a literalised one. Louise returned to full time education and graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2013. She has collaborated in several group shows and had her first solo show in 2019 at the Kaleidoscope Gallery in Kent and exhibited with fellow artists at the Green & Stone Gallery in London in 2019.

Lucy Edkins

I'm an artist, writer and actor; have exhibited locally, nationally and internationally.

Mia Wilkinson

Through my work I create compositions of the ‘female’ body forming narratives from original collages, drawings and paint. My paintings explore proximity and entanglement embodying current emotional (and subconsciously personal) values about the female body and status in a current media culture. Despite their commodification and abjection these performers powerfully return the objectifying gaze of the viewer, with humour and powerful resilience.    Purposely provocative, blurring the boundary between actual and virtual appearance. My depictions of the female form are an exploration of this malleable line, using the joyous, exaggerated and sometimes grotesque portrayals of the female body as a method of challenging male objectification and reconfiguring the male gaze. Sometimes resembling excrement, sometimes ice cream, the deliciously repulsive bodies of the women in my paintings are sculpted by their environment and the animals or cherubic figures that surround them.    The figures I paint morph into bizarre avatars, uncertain of their identity and driven by ludicrous compulsions. Humour is a vital essence in the work; the paintings are brimming with ribald narratives, creating claustrophobic scenarios, which topple onto the space of the viewer, creating a pantomime of entangled bodies, in surreal, burlesque oppositions. There is an ambiguity of dominance and submission, jostling the norms of classical painting, from Rubens to Delacroix, to attempt to find where a contemporary female painter can belong. The work aims to seduce, as well as unmasking social absurdities and satirise gender stereotypes.  During the pandemic I challenged myself to produce a ‘drawing a day’ – unplanned and with no limitations. I scrolled through social media and drew with urgency and produced an organic collage of drawings. Using the frustrations, fear and sometimes euphoria of being trapped in a lockdown, yet also being forced to slow down - perhaps embrace the ability to enjoy the worst of the unknown. Currently I have been painting these drawings and exploring their outcome.

Peter Suchin

My paintings are made through an extensive process of working and reworking the material surface of the canvas or board. Apparently “abstract”, these pieces in fact operate between representation and abstraction, convention and chaos, the fragment and the whole. The viewer’s role – and serious responsibility – is to complete the work.

Petra Williams

My work researches relationships through painting the human condition, space, loss and nature. My recent work is focusing on the human body. The source material involves mixed perspectives coming from collages of drawings , memory and life drawing”

Much of her practice has explored plaster in it’s handling of applying and stripping it from the canvas, then reapplying oil, which she feels draws her nearer to humanity with it’s colours darkness and light, and the use of blank canvas as a void or negative space. Since living in France she immersed herself in the language and culture. She has exhibited in group exhibitions there and has had a solo show. In 2015 she moved to London, England and has based her work from her studio in North London now Gaunson Studios.

Sophie Graham-Wood

I am a self-taught artist based primarily in London and, as much as possible, down on the north Devon coast.  I have recently completed two one-year long courses at the Newlyn School of Art in Cornwall which have expanded my practice immeasurably. Inspired by the coast, landscape and more recently, figures, I paint primarily in acrylic. Memory and intuition often inform my work where I may start with loose, gestural mark-making, embracing “happy accidents” and then teasing out an image and onto the surface.  Relatively early on in my creative journey, I am constantly looking at new and exciting ways to create work, working on a variety of different surfaces and with different mediums.

Stella O

Stella O is a multidisciplinary artist and graphic designer. The subject of her work has always been interlinked with the human body, visualising states of existence, using fashion and press photography as her starting point. She studied Visual and Applied Arts in Greece and Graphic Design in London. She has worked for artist Zadok Ben-David and exhibited at The Courtauld Institute of Art, East Wing Nine and The Crypt gallery, London, among other spaces. Currently, her time is divided between graphic design and visual arts.

Tony Berkman

Since graduating with a Fine Art degree at Middlesex University in 2012 Tony has exhibited in various solo and group events in the London area.
Tony’s paintings are predominately abstract, incorporating a range of ideas and personal experiences including travel and observing human behaviour. He is primarily concerned with conveying colour, light and movement, qualities which are so often inspired by observations of the natural world.