Together Through Painting: Exhibition Catalogue by London Paint Club

LONDON PAINT CLUB

Together Through Painting Exhibition Catalogue 18 May - 6 June, 2021

EXHIBITING ARTISTS Alanna Eakin Alex Skorija Alma Bakiaj Alice Mansfield Alison McWhirter Anna Moser Ashley Collin Bae Yoon Hwan Barbara Howey Catherine Cole Catherine Lette Christian Murzek Christine Turner Ekaterina Dimieva Elisa Filomena Emiliano Mondragón Fawad Malik Gemma Carson Graham Harwood Gulja Holland Hidetaka Suzuki Hugh Delap Ignacio Alvaro 2

Jan Vasilko Jessica Matier John Mulvany John Wagner Jung Soo Cho Karen Ösp Pálsdóttir Karen Thomas Keerim Kim Kelly Norman Lucy Threlfall Megan Baker Mitja Ficko Nejal Mehta Nicole Durocher Olivia Mansfield Rob Conibear Rupert Hartley Shanery Obeso Shelli Tollman Susan Grace Vilma Määttänen Yevhen Nahirnyy Yoon Suk One

TOGETHER THROUGH PAINTING 18 May - 6 June, 2021

London Paint Club is proud to present the 3rd edition of our international Open Call. LPC continues with its vision of connecting painters from all around the world on a single, global platform. Together Through Painting celebrates the intergenerational and transnational aptitude of a medium that creates a new form of dialogue between the artists, previously unconnected. Defying geopolitical borders, and merging interior and exterior worlds, emotions and thoughts, these selected paintings serve as a source of great inspiration and consolation for all of us. The strength of this online community is therefore once again proving necessary as we continue to face challenges in our everyday lives. Kelly Foster is the director of London Paint Club. She lives in London, UK.

Alanna Eakin b. 1988, England. Lives and works in London

Alanna Eakin graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martin’s London. She has participated in several UK exhibitions. Alanna’s paintings are inspired by nature, using rich, highly saturated colours. Her technique is abstract but incorporates representations of nature such as trees, the sky and land. Her mediums include oil and acrylic paint. She has been influenced by the works of Matisse, Monet and Georgia O’Keeffe.

Alanna Eakin Lost But Found, 2021 Acrylic and oil bar on canvas 80 x 80 cm © The Artist £775

Alanna Eakin Hope & Dreams, 2021 Acrylic on canvas 80 x 100 cm © The Artist £950

Alanna Eakin The Chase, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 70 x 70 cm © The Artist Not For Sale

Alex Skorija b. 1988, USA. Lives and works in Kansas City, Missouri

Alex Skorija graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Washburn University in 2015. Alex’s paintings and drawings are inspired by the interaction between materials, processes and extemporaneous emotion.

Alex Skorija Gleaning, 2020 Charcoal, oil and oil stick on canvas 61 x 61 cm © The Artist Not For Sale

Alex Skorija Mules, 2020 Charcoal and oil on canvas 46 x 61 cm © The Artist Not For Sale

Alex Skorija Title, Year medium 70 x 50 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Alma Bakiaj b. 1984, Albania. Lives and works in London Alma Bakiaj is currently pursuing an MA in Fine Art from Middlesex University London. Alma Bakiaj creates mysterious narratives of bizarre domestic settings, exploring the tensions between the physical and the imagined world, origin and ephemerality, personal and collective memory, female sexuality and subjectivity. Her oil paintings are alluring and dark fields of pictorial emotional exploration which speak directly to our contemporary fragmentary culture. Her ghost-like figures introduce a complex reality of the female’s intimate space and psyche. She is also interested in traditional painting techniques, materiality, as well as blocks of colours and shapes and their relationship across the painting.

Alma Bakiaj Untitled I: From the series, she figured out that was the way it was supposed to be, 2019 Oil on canvas 160 x 110 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Alma Bakiaj Untitled II: From the series, she figured out that was the way it was supposed to be, 2019 Oil on canvas 160 x 110 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Alma Bakiaj Untitled III: From the series, she figured out that was the way it was supposed to be, 2019 Oil on canvas 160 x 110 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Alice Mansfield b. 1997, UK. Lives and works in East Sussex and London

Alice Mansfield is currently pursuing an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art. Alice’s paintings combine abstract and figurative elements, and she uses intuition to guide her creation rather than contemplation or plan. This free approach results in an organic expression of feeling, uninhibited by strict rules or too much thought.

Alice Mansfield All of Myself, 2021 Oil on canvas 40 x 40 cm © The Artist £600

Alice Mansfield A Life in Parallel, 2021 Oil on canvas 97 x 72 cm © The Artist £950

Alice Mansfield Being My Own Receiver, 2021 Oil on canvas 70 x 50 cm © The Artist £750

Alison McWhirter b. 1975, Scotland. Lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland

Alison achieved her BA in Fine Art and her postgraduate MA in Visual Culture at Bath Academy. Alison uses bold marks and colours intuitively and spontaneously, her paintings are about pure feeling. She has exhibited her artwork in New York, Hong Kong and Singapore. Additionally, her first solo London show, True Colours was at The Russell Gallery and she has also exhibited at The Royal Scottish Academy. In her own words about her work, “I’m striving to get at the beauty in the things that surround us, to that which elevates us beyond reason”.

Alison McWhirter Kismet, 2021 Oil on Linen 40 cm diameter © The Artist £2,195

Alison McWhirter Alicante Lullaby, 2021 Oil on Linen 100 x 100 cm © The Artist £3,950

Alison McWhirter On The Echoing Green, 2021 Oil on Linen 40 x 40 cm © The Artist £2,195

Anna Moser b. 1989, USA. Lives and works in West Sussex, UK

Anna Moser received a BA in Art and Literature from Yale University in 2011, an MPhil in Criticism and Culture from Cambridge University in 2012, and a doctorate in English from New York University in 2020. Anna’s paintings and collages take the form of small-scale abstractions that flirt with references to landscape.

Anna Moser If Love If Then, 2021 Gouache on panel 28 x 35.5 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Anna Moser Bend the World, 2021 Gouache on panel 28 x 35.5 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Anna Moser Salt Sand Wave, 2021 Gouache on panel 23 x 30.5 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Ashley Collin b. 1988, England, UK. Lives and works in Southampton

Ashley Collin received a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from University College Falmouth, Cornwall, UK in 2010. Ashley Collin’s paintings find representation through the language of abstraction and pure geometrical forms, transitioning them to new visual experiences and states. Collin’s paintings emulate modernist techniques such as symmetrical representations, flat areas of colour, line and pattern. In many works a grid-like image is present, dividing the surface to create patterns that relate to the dimensions of the support. Collin’s intuitively recycles the use of the grid concept, existing images and ideas which are layered onto the compositions with vivid or muted colours.

Ashley Collin Untitled (Colour Rhapsody), 2021 Oil on canvas 80 x 100 cm © The Artist £1,750

Ashley Collin Untitled (Quadriptych States), 2020 Oil on canvas 40.6 x 50.9 cm x 4 Panels © The Artist £1,500

Ashley Collin Untitled, 2018 Oil on canvas 40.6 x 50.9 cm © The Artist £1,100

Bae Yoon Hwan b. 1983, Korea. Lives and works in Seoul, Korea Bae Yoon Hwan’s pictorial storytelling stems from political incidents, stories, fables and his personal experiences. By selectively employing images from a constant outpouring of media images or some art-historical pictures considered as classics, Bae juxtaposes and contrasts abundant tales in order to transform them into ceaseless narratives visualized in a variety of scales of forms. Thus, his practice consists of abrupt utterances of fragmental and anecdotal stories instead of following a coherent storyline; it is a manifestation of his original figurative ‘Automatism’. In terms of the technique, the new works are significant as Bae attempts to apply a new painting technique developed from the prior modes which experimented with graffiti-styles with his original rhythmical strokes. The new multiple-sized paintings whose solemn touch reminds us of Realism works of art depict close-up scenes of which animals such as a lion or a deer consume other creatures.

Bae Yoon Hwan Where is Homer?, 2019 Acrylic on canvas 90 x 131 cm © The Artist £9,000

Bae Yoon Hwan Animation 2, 2019 Oil pastel, acrylic on canvas 145 x 145 cm © The Artist £12,000

Bae Yoon Hwan Willow, 2019 Silk screen, acrylic on canvas 130 x 193 cm © The Artist £14,000

Barbara Howey Born in the UK, Lives and works in Norwich, UK

Barbara Howey received an MA in Art History from Leeds University in 1992, and a PhD in painting and theory at Norwich University of the Arts in 2001. In her current work the viewer is invited in-close to fungal, animal and flowery subjects to experience the energy of short intense non-human life. Barbara Howey’s paintings are part of an ongoing personal ecological and botanical exploration gathered from suburban green spaces on the edges of cities. The work is made wet into wet in one sitting revealing the process of making through the stains, drips and marks that describe the forms. The use of heightened colour and gestural marks evokes the aliveness and the pleasure of such human/non-human encounters. Barbara Howey has exhibited nationally and internationally both in solo and group exhibitions and has taken part in major UK painting prizes such as the John Moores and Exeter Phoenix Contemporary. In 2018 she was artist in residence at Norsk Kunstnercentre Dale, Norway. Her work is in national and international public collections.

Barbara Howey bonnet fungi, 2021 Oil on board 28 x 35 cm © The Artist £800

Barbara Howey Frog, 2021 Oil on board 28 x 35 cm © The Artist £800

Barbara Howey woodland snowdrop, 2021 Oil on board 28 x 35 cm © The Artist £800

Catherine Cole b. 1955, USA. Lives and works in New York City. Catherine Cole received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, from the University of Iowa in 1977. Catherine Cole has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in the US and Europe. Cole uses strong color, line and formal space inspired by the natural world and urban life. Using traditional mediums of oil on canvas and acrylic, gouache and mixed media on paper, Cole’s paintings capture eternal truths and process emotion in a search for the sublime.

Catherine Cole Entering, 2021 Oil on canvas 91.44 x 121.92 cm © The Artist £7,500

Catherine Cole Spring Rain, 2021 Oil on canvas 91.44 x 121.92 cm © The Artist £7,500

Catherine Cole Burst of Spring, 2021 Oil on canvas 91.44 x 121.92 cm © The Artist £7,500

Catherine Lette b. 1979, United Kingdom. Lives and works in London Catherine Lette received a BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins in 2012, and has recently completed the Turps Off-site Painting Programme in 2021. Catherine Lette has exhibited in multiple group exhibitions in the UK. Inspired by current events, Lette paints and draws figures disassembled in relation to her gaze, framed by the real and virtual spaces we occupy. Her practice questions the impact of contemporary life upon body and mind and how that might be manifested in a portrayal of the figure. Drawing from life, memory and photography her compositions are populated with the figures around her moving between a state of painted real and unreal. The figures are often broken down or distorted in a parody of their own activities, mixing humour and irony with an underlying question about societal anxiety. Drawing is at the heart of Lette’s practice, a daily activity that connects her looking to life around her and allows a sense of the journal or album to begin to permeate the work.

Catherine Lette Where to next?, 2021 Acrylic on canvas 70 x 70 cm © The Artist £950

Catherine Lette Roll-up, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 51 x 51 cm © The Artist £500

Catherine Lette Hazard, 2021 Acrylic on 350gsm paper 100 x 100 cm © The Artist £450

Christian Murzek b. 1986, lives and works in Vienna and Lower Austria Christian Murzek studied philosophy at the University of Vienna, and graduated from the Akademie der bildenden Künste (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna) in 2017. Christian Murzek focuses on the interface of digital and analogue processes, where codes and algorithms serve as the starting points of his artistic expressions and are then transformed into prints, paintings, drawings and sculptures. Murzek’s work reflects the use of digital processes that have been integrated in today’s society such as algorithms, binary codes, AI, big data, and software. His work aims to reconquer digital processes by using them in a controlled manner, achieving an analogue transformation in painting, printed graphic work and sculpture. The computer-generated outputs from a cornucopia of calculation processes are transferred and developed as an instrument for Murzek’s design vocabulary.

Christian Murzek SEGLER, 2021 painting combined with silkscreen on canvas 180 x 120 cm © The Artist £4,000

Christian Murzek SNAIL, 2021 painting combined with silkscreen on canvas 100 x 70 cm © The Artist £2,300

Christian Murzek ROOK, 2021 painting combined with silkscreen on canvas 100 x 70 cm © The Artist £2,300

Christine Turner b. 1990, lives and works in Chicago, USA Christine Turner received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in 2020. Her work explores literal and metaphorical blindspots through the language of abstract painting. Coming from her own embodied experience of abstracted vision, her paintings incorporate visual phenomena, disruptions to sight, and motifs of visibility. She embraces perceptual and formal abstraction as a way to create a visceral and optically charged experience for the viewer. Painting with hivisibility fluorescent, metallic, and interference paint she aims to create work that is simultaneously ‘high-alert’ in it’s immediate reception and quiet in the way that it requires persistent perception.

Christine Turner Float, 2019 Acrylic and oil on canvas 91.4 x 121.9 cm © The Artist £1,580

Christine Turner Dizzy Dots III, 2021 Acrylic and flashe on canvas 60.96 x 60.96 cm © The Artist £720

Christine Turner Stella Dots, 2020 Acrylic, spray Paint, and oil on canvas 91.4 x 152.4 cm © The Artist £2,000

Ekaterina Dimieva Born in Sofia, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand Ekaterina Dimieva received her MFA from Elam School of Fine Arts in 2020. Ekaterina’s painting practice explores differentiation and interference, conflicting intensities, and the state of becoming. It engages with the notion of painting being in flux, undergoing transformation and becoming multiple. Her paintings embody metaphysical rhythms, flows and forces and generate their own multiplicity, within their own worlds, through the materiality of paint. The focus on sensation is central to Ekaterina’s work. There’s an emphasis on profusion, overabundance and excess in the mark making and paint application. She is interested in achieving a certain complexity and thickness of the surface, which encourages the viewer’s eye to continually shift in the painting, searching endlessly for the next movement or displacement.

Ekaterina Dimieva Tumbling, 2021 Acrylic on canvas 120 x 150 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Ekaterina Dimieva The Waves, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 120 x 150 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Ekaterina Dimieva Lotus, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 120 x 150 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Elisa Filomena b. 1976, Italy. Lives and works in Turin, Italy Elisa Filomena received a degree in Painting from Turin Academy of Fine Arts in 2002. Elisa Filomena has exhibited in numerous Solo and Group exhibitions in Europe. Filomena’s paintings focus on the human figure and nature, both experienced as everlasting and tender forces in contrast and harmony with the transience of existence. The artworks are often made up of unnatural images revealing hidden dreams and stories. Filomena’s work originates from photographs from the early 1900s that act as a starting point for tales that emerge during the creative process.

Elisa Filomena Shadows, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 96 x 90 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Elisa Filomena Redemption, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 175 x 130 cm © The Artist Not For Sale

Elisa Filomena Oracle, 2021 Pastel on paper 50 x 40 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Emiliano Mondragón b. 1996, in Mexico City. Lives and works in Cuernavaca, Mexico Emiliano Mondragón is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Morelos Art Center. His work has been exhibited in multiple group exhibitions in Mexico. Inspired by poetry, he incorporates oil, acrylic, spray paint and oil sticks in collage-like paintings that juxtapose different images simultaneously.

Emiliano Mondragón Cotton Candy Dream, 2021 Acrylic and pastel on canvas 120 x 82 cm © The Artist £820

Emiliano Mondragón Euthanasia, was it?, 2021 Acrylic on canvas 120 x 82 cm © The Artist £820

Emiliano Mondragón The most terrible variant of solitude, 2021 Acrylic and soft pastel on canvas 120 x 82 cm © The Artist £820

Fawad Malik b. 1968, Lahore, Pakistan. Lives and works in San Jose, California, USA Fawad Malik has exhibited in multiple group and solo exhibitions in the US and Pakistan. Malik’s work explores the beauty in breakdown and the chaos of everyday life. His paintings are an exploration of emotions and aim to condense feelings of spontaneity, urgency, ambivalence, intuition and instinct. Inspired by Abstract Expressionism, Malik creates paintings that are raw with emotion and feelings that have the power to stand the test of time. As a healthcare worker with a Post Doctorate degree from Stanford University School of Medicine, Malik’s work in mental health plays a crucial role in his work as an artist.

Fawad Malik Private Idaho, 2021 Oil and acrylic on canvas 91.44 x 121.92 cm © The Artist £1,510

Fawad Malik On Golden Pond, 2021 Oil and acrylic on canvas 91.44 x 121.92 cm © The Artist £1,510

Fawad Malik My Secret Garden, 2021 Oil and acrylic on canvas 91.44 x 121.92 cm © The Artist £1,700

Gemma Carson b. 1994, USA. Lives and works in Groningen, Netherlands Gemma Carson received a BA from Norwich University of the Arts, UK in 2017, and is currently pursuing a MA in Painting at the The Frank Mohr Institute, NL. Carson’s work is an expression of a curiosity between the three dimensional and spiritual.

Gemma Carson Of Kin, 2021 Oil, acrylic, spray paint, cement, pastel, charcoal on canvas 125 x 90 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Gemma Carson Of Kin 2, 2021 Oil, pastel, charcoal, spray paint, wall paint on canvas 125 x 80 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Gemma Carson Untitled, 2021 Acrylic, oil, pastel and collage on canvas 140 x 90 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Graham Harwood b. 1954, London. Lives and works in London Graham Harwood received a BA (Hons) in Painting from Ravensbourne College of Art and Design in 1983, and a MA in Painting from the University of East London in 2005. Harwood explains, “My ‘landscapes’ are my response to the world I see and experience, filtered through discourse with philosophy, science, music and literature. In the act of painting, layering marks, working with fine transparent paint to thick impasto and disrupting the surface with spray paint, I find things that come to dominate the piece. I think of this as the ‘Unicorn’ in the work. The uninvited guest that makes things more interesting. In this way the painting itself isn’t necessarily limited to the ideas used to hang it on. Within the ‘great complexity’ my painting is a celebration of existence.”

Graham Harwood Butterflies don’t fly at night, 2020 Oil and acrylic on canvas 153 x 122 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Graham Harwood For Mnemosyne - A whiter shade of pale, 2020 Oil and acrylic on canvas 122 x 153 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Graham Harwood Interface - The smile on the face of the Tiger, 2020 Oil and acrylic on canvas 153 x 153 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Gulja Holland b. 1990, Malta. Lives and works in London Ġulja Holland received a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Leeds Arts University in 2015 and is currently pursuing a MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art. Ġulja Holland has exhibited in multiple solo and group exhibitions in Malta, the UK and Europe. Ġulja Holland psychologically charged works explore themes of identity, love, human conflict and her growing concern for the natural environment. Holland’s work explores the darker aspects of the human condition on a personal scale as well as on a global scale. Self-identity, environmental destruction and existentialism are recurring themes in Holland’s work. The human form and its surroundings are often abstracted in an attempt to move the image beyond language and toward metaphor, leaving room for interpretation.

Gulja Holland The Watchers, 2021 Acrylic and charcoal on canvas 120 x 150 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Gulja Holland Thirty, 2021 Acrylic and charcoal on canvas 120 x 100 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Gulja Holland Eve, 2021 Acrylic and charcoal on canvas 55 x 65 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Hidetaka Suzuki b. 1986, Japan. Lives and works in Tokyo Hidetaka Suzuki received a BFA in 2012, and a MFA in 2014 in Painting from the Musashino Art University, Tokyo. Hidetake Suzuki has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in Japan. Hidetaka Suzuki’s paintings explore the duplicity of images onto canvas to create new visibilities and meanings of an image.

Hidetaka Suzuki Stabilize, 2021 Oil on canvas 116.7 x 72.7 cm © The Artist £2,600

Hidetaka Suzuki Diff, 2020 Oil on canvas 116.7 x 91 cm © The Artist £2,700

Hidetaka Suzuki Flower, 2020 Oil on canvas 72.7 x 91 cm © The Artist £1,500

Hugh Delap b. 1985, lives and works in Dublin, Ireland Hugh Delap has exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Ireland, the UK, Europe and the US. Hugh Delap’s paintings are a visual experience for the viewer to reflect upon their inner self.

Hugh Delap Pandemic I, 2021 Hand Made oil paint on Fabriano Paper 60 x 80 cm © The Artist £1,200

Hugh Delap Pandemic II, 2021 Hand Made oil paint on Fabriano Paper 60 x 80 cm © The Artist £1,200

Hugh Delap Pandemic III, 2021 Hand Made oil paint on Fabriano Paper 60 x 80 cm © The Artist £1,200

Ignacio Alvaro b. 1983, lives and works in Lima, Peru Ignacio Alvaro attended the National Superior Autonomous School of Fine Arts of Peru, and has exhibited in multiple group and solo exhibitions in Peru. Alvaro’s paintings point to contemporary culture as a historical reference in which social and political elements become altered. Alvaro combies Pan American rituals and symbols with postmodern and contemporary visual trends.

Ignacio Alvaro Cavern IV, 2021 Mixed media on sewn canvas, neon lights 160 x 100 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Ignacio Alvaro Moonwalk, 2021 Mixed media on sewn canvas, neon lights 141 x 100 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Ignacio Alvaro Tiger Uppercut, 2021 Mixed media on sewn canvas, neon lights 157 x 101 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Jan Vasilko b. 1979 in Humenné, Slovakia. Lives and works in Košice, Slovakia Jan Vasilko graduated from the Faculty of Arts in Technical University, Kosice, Slovakia in 2005. Jan Vasilko has exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Europe, and his work is held in private collections in the Czech Republic, Austria and Slovakia. Vasilko’s paintings walk on the border between abstraction and reality primarily using lines to express emotions, feelings and thought. Vasilko’s paintings are introspective, focusing on the subconscious mind while examining images, signs and symbols that stay in his memory.

Jan Vasilko Horizontal and Vertical Lines (Formation of Geometric Forms), 2019 Acrylic on canvas 180 x 160 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Jan Vasilko Horizontal and Vertical lines (Industrial Structure - Pixel Federation), 2021 Acrylic on canvas 160 x 140 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Jan Vasilko Horizontal and Vertical Lines (Non Symmetric Version), 2019 Acrylic on canvas 220 x 190 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Jessica Matier b. 1985, USA. Lives and works in Belford, NJ Jessica Matier attended Parsons School of Design. In 2016 she departed from watercolor and collage practices to pursue a mixed media approach to abstract painting. Matier has exhibited in group exhibitions in New York City, New Jersey, Chicago, FSU Museum of the Arts, and The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn. In 2019 Rutgers University acquired the painting, Natural Things, on display at the Camden Center of the Arts. Matier was born in South Korea in 1985. When she was three months old, she was adopted and raised in New Jersey, where she currently resides.

Jessica Matier LISTENING TO NOVEL IDEAS, 2021 Mixed Media on canvas 60.96 x 86.36 cm © The Artist £2,371

Jessica Matier WHEN THINGS LOOK A LITTLE ONE-SIDED, 2021 Mixed Media on canvas 2021 x 50.8 cm © The Artist £1,940

Jessica Matier A GLIMPSE BEYOND YOURSELF, 2019 Mixed Media on canvas 100.33 x 100.33 cm © The Artist £2,874

John Mulvany b. 1967 in Kells, Ireland. Lives and works in Austin, Texas, USA John Mulvany graduated from College of Art, Design and Print, Dublin, Ireland in 1990, and Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, Ireland in 2000. Mulvany has exhibited in multiple solo and group exhibitions in Texas, USA and Germany. Growing up in Ireland and immigrating to the US, Mulvany’s work explores the process of leaving and returning as a recurring experience that immigrants face. Mulvany explores themes of the various states of reclamation by nature, cycles of life and the passing of time.

John Mulvany Bloom, 2019 Oil on canvas 122 x 152 cm © The Artist £2,800

John Mulvany Lady’s Well Burn, 2021 Oil on canvas 30 x 91.5 cm © The Artist £1,100

John Mulvany Lit Up, 2021 Oil on canvas 41 x 30 cm © The Artist £800

John Wagner b. 1985 in Florida, USA. Lives and works in Colorado, USA John Taylor Wagner creates images capturing the lives of humans at the cross-section of nature and our post-industrial world. He paints his subjects, often frozen in idyllic moments of presence and stillness contrasted with the demands of passing time and human consumption. The subjects of his work are friends and family who he has connected with deeply in his life. Wagner’s paintings invite tender pause and reflection. Each painting is an invitation to step into the inherent familiarity of the human experience, to steep in the fleeting moments in time and the freedom that lies between.

John Wagner I Stand Tall and Feel Nature Quietly Holding Me, Carrying Me Forever, 2020 Oil on canvas 122 x 97 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

John Wagner Papaya, 2019 Oil on Panel 40 x 30 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

John Wagner Unbuttoned, 2020 Oil on panel 46 x 36 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Jung Soo Cho b. 1996, South Korea. Lives and works in Seoul Jung Soo Cho received a BFA from Dongguk University in Seoul, South Korea in 2020. Jung soo Cho is a multi-disciplinary artist, primarily working in drawing and painting. Jung Soo Cho’s process involves absorbing elements in the artist’s surroundings, such as trees, a plant, a pattern from a wall, the shape of signs in a city, and the sky. The paintings are made through the multiple actions of tracing, covering, cutting and blending.

Jung Soo Cho Walking through the Forest, 2019 Acrylic on canvas 162 x 130 cm © The Artist Not For Sale

Jung Soo Cho Quiet Bright Night, 2021 Acrylic and oil on canvas 116.8 x 91 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Jung Soo Cho Schlumbergera truncata, 2021 Acrylic on canvas 91 x 116.8 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Karen Ösp Pálsdóttir 1992, Reykjavík, Iceland. Lives and works in New York City Karen Ösp Pálsdóttir received a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2013. Karen Ösp Pálsdóttir has exhibited in solo exhibitions in Iceland and numerous group exhibitions in the US. Karen Ösp Pálsdóttir’s paintings investigate fractions of female subjects, rendered in Cobalt Blue oil paint. Adding a botanical element to the work using a collagelike approach, she crops the reference imagery of female subjects and overlays them with botanical compositions captured in nature. By painting botanical compositions in blue, Karen Ösp Pálsdóttir explores the historical context that early humans are considered not to have made distinctions between the colors green and blue due to the rarity of blue in nature. Accumulated layers of oil paint leave visible traces of the process while creating a life-like depth in the portraits.

Karen Pálsdóttir Blue Star Frond (Tiles), 2021 Oil on paper 20 x 20 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Karen Pálsdóttir Kira (Blue Star Fern), 2020 Oil on canvas 60 x 76 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Karen Pálsdóttir Mary (Hands), 2021 Oil on paper 20 x 20 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Karen Thomas b. 1963, UK. Lives and works in Montpellier, France Karen Thomas has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions in the US, Europe and UK and recently exhibited in a solo exhibition in London. In 2019, Karen Thomas completed a residency at Unit 1 Gallery Workshop in London. Karen Thomas’s paintings primarily focus on the figure and push the boundaries of paint as a medium. The paintings shift in and out of focus, oscillating between figuration and abstraction.

Karen Thomas Starlet, 2020 Acrylic on canvas sheet 40 x 30 cm © The Artist £450

Karen Thomas Starlet II, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 50 x 50 x cm © The Artist £650

Karen Thomas Lovely in lilac, 2019 Acrylic on canvas sheet 65 x 50 cm © The Artist £550

Keerim Kim b. 1992, South Korea. Lives and works in New York City Keerim Kim received a BA in Studio Arts from Hunter College in 2019. Keerim Kim has exhibited in group exhibitions in the US and has two upcoming solo exhibitions in South Korea opening in 2021. Keerim Kim’s paintings are inspired by forms, space, and narratives of specific objects. Many of the works originate from drawings, which become manipulated with layers and transformed visually. As a result, Keerim creates imaginary spaces while exploring to find ways to interpret the thoughts her mind possesses. Oftentimes they look ambiguous but also familiar to the world that we live in.

Keerim Kim 4pm, 2021 Oil on canvas 35.6 x 28 cm © The Artist Not For Sale

Keerim Kim 6pm, 2021 Oil on canvas 35.6 x 28 cm © The Artist Not For Sale

Keerim Kim You Are a Strange One, 2021 Oil on canvas 45.7 x 61 cm © The Artist Not For Sale

Kelly Norman b. 1976 in the UK. Lives and works in Cyprus Kelly Norman recently completed the Turps Correspondence Course in Painting in 2020, and received a Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art Practice from The Cyprus College Of Art, Lemba, Cyprus in 2003. Kelly Norman’s work explores topographical landscape through line texture, mark making and form. Kelly Norman is fascinated by the grandeur of the landscape, the sense of place and the physicality of a place. In her recent body of work, Kelly follows the continuation of the topographical landscapes but in a playful, painterly style.

Kelly Norman The rights of spring 3, 2021 Oil, oil pastel and emulsion on newsprint 142 x 110 cm © The Artist £500

Kelly Norman The rights of Spring 2, 2021 Oil, oil pastel and emulsion on newsprint 115 x 170 cm © The Artist £500

Kelly Norman The rights of spring 4, 2021 Oil, oil pastel and emulsion on newsprint 55 x 186 cm © The Artist £400

Lucy Threlfall b. 1967, lives and works in North Hertfordshire, UK Lucy Threlfall is a painter based in north Hertfordshire. After a degree in Art History at UCL in 1990 she went on to study at Charles Cecil Studios in Florence. From 1997 she worked principally as a portrait painter, undertaking portrait commissions while looking after a young family. Then looking to expand her practice she completed an MA in Printmaking at the Anglia Ruskin in Cambridge in 2012. Since then, alongside the portraits, Lucy has been making large gestural oil landscapes that fuse observations of nature with imagination and memory. Her recent work explores old master compositions and classical narratives – in particular the theme of metamorphosis – within the context of her own landscape studies. Lucy has exhibited with the Royal Society of Portraits Painters at the Mall Galleries in 2003, at Christie’s in 2005 with the Garrick Milne prize and in 2019 with Wells Art Contemporary at Wells Cathedral.

Megan Baker b. 1996, UK. Lives and works in Worcestershire, UK Megan Baker graduated in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins in 2018. Megan Baker has exhibited in group exhibitions in London and was awarded the Cass Art Prize in 2018. Unfolding through a superimposition of many images, Baker’s large scale oil paintings are in an ever-changing state of coming in and out of being, where fragmented and gestural figures are continually interrupted by the immediacy of the paint. This oscillation of time intercepts the way the painting is perceived, the paint flickering between a recognisable form and a sweeping brush stroke. Abandoning the notion of a narrative, the paintings hover on the precipice of shifting, capturing a motion caught somewhere in the in-between, of dream and reality, of the hidden and found. Often imbued with a sense of pensiveness, Baker’s work floats in an elusive depiction that is never fully recovered.

Mitja Ficko b. 1973, Slovenia. Lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia and Leipzig, Germany Mitja Ficko has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe, mainly in Slovenia and Germany. His paintings intertwine figuration and abstraction. Ficko’s work is a specific combination of the dimensions of layers, time and space.

Nejal Mehta b. 1992, India. Lives and works in Pune, India Nejal Mehta recently graduated in 2020 from Barcelona Academy of Art with a degree in Classical Drawing and Painting. Nejal Mehta has exhibited in multiple group exhibitions in Spain. The spaces and environment that Nejal Mehta has been confined to have played a significant role in the creation of works. The paintings are a direct response to the artist’s surroundings, energies, frustration and motivations. Nejal explores the stillness and subtle elements of time slowing down, such as how light moves during the day, the decaying of leaves and sprouting of new buds; the way that things seem to take a new shape when our gaze shifts.

Nicole Durocher b. 1989, Canada. Lives and works in Vancouver Nicole Durocher received a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies from McGill University in 2012 and studied Graphic Design at Parsons, the New School for Design in 2014. Nicole Durocher is inspired by interior design editorials, new wave films and religious iconography. Durocher is particularly drawn to the spiritual dimension colours possess, their language and potential for communicating mood.

Olivia Mansfield b.1988, lives and works in London and Milton Keynes, UK Olivia Mansfield’s paintings are figments of fantastical imaginary worlds. They serve as portals to strange distant realms which allude to and echo our own existence. The intuitive nature of Mansfield’s process allows her to engage deeply with the forms which manifest organically in the works. Bodies and beasts, altars, symbols and sacred spaces, caverns, caves and mountains, all exist quietly waiting to emerge from within the delicate but distinct and acute manipulation of paint. Each of her works has roots in classical and historical painting, iconography, theology, culture, religion, ritual and symbolism. These themes converge where time is lapsed and distorted, enabling the landscape and its inhabitants to manifest and nurture an interesting discourse which encompass theory, fact, science and fiction – altogether linked with the apocalyptic force of nature itself.

Rob Conibear b. 1978, Belgium. Lives and works in Amsterdam Rob Conibear explores the human condition through the process of photographing, drawing and creating collages. After further reflection, Conibear creates connections between this work to create paintings.

Rob Conibear Disturbed Sleep, 2021 Oil and Acrylic on Recycled Plexiglass Panel 100 x 100 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Rob Conibear Now Wait For Last Year, 2021 Oil and Acrylic on Recycled Plexiglass Panel 100 x 100 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Rupert Hartley b. 1966, UK. Lives and works in Hove/London Rupert Hartley is a visual artist living and working in Hove, East Sussex. Trained originally in printed textile design at the Glasgow School of Art he later received an MA Art in Architecture at University of East London. His work has evolved through various media and contexts to his current painting practice. His approach to painting is as an open ended process, a game of chance and repetition. His work combines numerous series at a number of scales using both canvas and cardboard as surfaces to paint on and construct. In his recent work he combines formal geometries and colour fields and continues to draw inspiration from his local surroundings and the built environment. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally.

Shanery Obeso b. 1977, Peru. Lives and works in Lima, Peru Shanery Obeso explores the relationship between humans and nature through the use of images from the internet. Obeso creates a discourse that seeks to contrast the overconsumption with nature, due to anthropogenic activities, emphasizing individual and daily behaviors as the engine of our environment, generating a social, political and environmental reality.

Shelli Tollman b. 1966, South Africa. Lives and works in Los Angeles Shelli Tollman’s mixed media canvases address both personal and political upheaval and the complexities of diversity. Rooted in her upbringing during the apartheid era in South Africa, her work expresses themes of hope and hopelessness. African and European folk tales, and multi-woven narratives are depicted with a childlike perspective.

Shelli Tollman Super Spreaders, 2020 Oil and spray paint on canvas 76 x 101.6 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Shelli Tollman Bonding Through Trauma, 2021 Oil, pigment and spray paint on canvas 124.4 x 91.4 cm © The Artist Price Available Upon Request

Susan Grace b. USA, Lives and works in Lawrence, Kansas Susan Grace has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the US. Susan Grace is primarily interested in the exploration of the figure, moving freely between representation and abstraction. Susan Grace’s paintings incorporate fragmentation and layering to create multiple possibilities for interpretation and experience. She often employs techniques of distortion and camouflage while incorporating abstract elements to enrich images both formally and conceptually. These seemingly incongruous elements that appear in carefully constructed, detailed representational passages interrupt the expected flow, creating opportunities for a fresh perspective.

Vilma Määttänen b. 1989, Finland. Lives and works in Gothenburg, Sweden and Karjalohja, Finland Vilma Määttänen has exhibited in multiple group exhibitions and a solo exhibition in Finland and Sweden. Vilma Määttänen’s practice includes painting, moving images and sculpture. She is deeply interested in the materiality of painting, and produces most of her pigments herself from raw materials found in her environment.

Yevhen Nahirnyy b. 1999, Lviv, Ukraine. Lives and works in London, UK Yevhen Nahirnyy has exhibited in group exhibitions in London and has works held in private collections in the United Kingdom, France, and Ukraine. Basing his work on the interlacing between representation, mathematical and surreal spaces, Yevhen investigates the psychological limits of representation through analytical and constructed projections of reality. Recent works have been exhibited in Mall Galleries and the Wallace Collection, and analyse the extent to which subject matter can be perceived under rigorous deformation. Yevhen is currently pursuing a BSc in Mathematics at King’s College London.

Yoon Suk One b. 1983, Korea. Lives and works in Seoul, Korea Yoon Suk One treats painting as a medium for documenting his unique observation and contemplation. Yoon constructs a fundamental resource of his practice by collecting and taking pictures of city landscapes constantly shifting their appearances depending on the change of light and seasons. The viewers can notice the vertical or horizontal repetitive brushstrokes on the top surface of his paintings. Being mainly discovered in the edge of each image which is evenly spread over the surface, this pattern is achieved by brush movements of pressing the surface and pushing it in both directions. This approach decreases the level of identifying outlines of the images while evoking a tone down effect and regional dynamics. Moreover, the oscillation sometimes decides the tonality of each work, as it evenly appears on the entire surface.

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