P.O.V (Point of View)

P.O.V (Point of View) A group exhibition presented by Paul Smith Space

P.O.V (Point of View)

P.O.V is a group exhibition including thirteen artists including Lottie Cole // Fred Coppin // Bobbye Fermie // Joana Galego // Davina Jackson // Kate Malone // Derek Marks // Katy Papineau // Ian Robinson // James Straffon // Ilona Szalay // Lawrence Watchorn // Sue Williams A’Court.

The artists in the group exhibition, P.O.V reveal the world through a distinct lens. Their works span intimate figurations, reimagined histories, domestic reflections, and material explorations. What we see is shaped by who we are. These artworks remind us that perception is personal, shifting, and full of possibility. In this exhibition, multiple perspectives meet, offering new ways to look, connect, and reconsider our place in the picture.

Image detail: Fred Coppin, Mougins

Bobbye Fermie

Bobbye Fermie (b. 1990, Amsterdam, NL) is a London-based visual artist whose practice centers on painting. She studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and completed a postgraduate degree at the Royal Drawing School, London in 2015. Fermie has participated in residencies including Porthmeor Studios, Hafod Residency, and Villa Lena, supported

by Cura Arts. Her work has been exhibited at Christie’s London, Oliver Projects, Blue Shop Cottage, and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, and she is currently preparing her second solo show at Wilder Gallery.

Her paintings are held in collections including Soho House, the Chancery Rosewood, The Royal Collection, and private collections across the UK, US, and Europe.

Fermie’s work explores themes of personal boundaries and belonging.

She creates intricately layered compositions of collage and paint, situating female figures within their surroundings to reflect on the intersection of private and public space.

Drawing on cultural depictions of the home—from pre-Renaissance interiors to contemporary set designs—her paintings investigate how spaces shape identity and the subtle narratives embedded within domestic environments.

Let’s be Kind to Ourselves 2025 Acrylic on canvas

120 x 90 x 3.5 cm £6480 inc VAT

The Comfort of a Daily Routine 2025 Acrylic on canvas

90 x 70 x 3.5 cm £3780 inc VAT

Finding a Place of Solace 2025 Acrylic on canvas

91 x 70 x 3.5 cm £3780 inc VAT

The Song of a Bird at Dusk 2025 Acrylic on canvas

30 x 40 x 3.5 cm £1590 inc VAT

To Capture and Release 2024

Watercolor, collage 76 x 57 cm £1620 inc VAT

In Another Dream 2025 Acrylic on canvas

30 x 40 x 3.5 cm £1590 inc VAT

We Waited for a Sign 2025

Watercolour on paper 56 x 76 cm £1590 inc VAT

I Remember A Silence 2025

Watercolour on paper 57 x 57 cm £1590 inc VAT

Image detail: Bobbye Fermie, Let’s be Kind to Ourselves

Davina Jackson

Davina Jackson (b. 1971) is a London-based figurative artist working from Kingsgate Workshops. She studied at Central St Martins and The Byam Shaw School of Art, completing her postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy Schools, where she was awarded the Gold Medal for Painting.

Her work has appeared in fifteen Royal Academy Summer Shows, eight solo exhibitions nationally and internationally, and is held in private and public collections. Recent accolades include the Highly Commended Prize in the John Moores Painting Prize, election to the Royal Watercolour Society in 2023, and a 2024 shortlist for the Contemporary British Painting Prize.

Davina’s work explores emotion, memory, and introspection through the quiet moments of everyday life. She examines how we inhabit our bodies and reveal inner truths through subtle gestures, eye contact, and posture.

Drawing on theatre, storytelling, photography, and personal experience, she investigates the poetic and human aspects of ordinary spaces.

Her experimental practice includes painting on found book covers and objects, using pre-existing surfaces as both a palette and a conceptual layer, exploring the interplay between inherited meaning and personal expression.

Looking Out 2021 Oil on found book cover

24 x 13 cm £1020 inc VAT

Listening to the Ocean 2025 Acrylic and ink on found book cover 20.5 x 15 cm £900 inc VAT

Lovers 2025

Oil on found book cover

15.5 x 20.5 cm £1020 inc VAT

Freshwater Fishes 2025

Acrylic and gouache on found book cover

17 x 20.5 cm £1020 inc VAT

Listening to the Ocean 2025 Acrylic , watercolour and gouache on The Observer’s Book of Sea and Seashore 20.5 x 15 cm £960 inc VAT

Mother and Child / The Observer’s Book of Birds 2025 Acrylic and ink on found book cover 19.5 x 14.5 cm £1080 inc VAT

Ships 2025

Acrylic and gouache on found book cover

16 x 19.5 cm £1080 inc VAT

Memories of Summer 2025 Acrylic and ink on found book cover

18 x 20.5 cm £1020 inc VAT

Figure in Green 2025

Acrylic, gouache and ink on found book cover 20.5 x 17 cm £1020 inc VAT

The Observers Book of Birds 2025 Acrylic and ink on found book cover 20.5 x 17 cm £1020 inc VAT

Horses and Ponies 2025 Acrylic and ink on found book cover

20.5 x 17 cm £900 inc VAT

The White Horse 2025

Acrylic and ink on found book cover

15 x 20.5 cm £900 inc VAT

The Observer’s Book of Aircraft 2022

Acrylic and gouache on found book cover 20 x 16 cm £1020 inc VAT

Dreaming of Somewhere Else 2022 Oil on acrylic on found book cover 36 x 32 cm £3000 inc VAT

Winter’s Breathe 2023

Acrylic and ink on found book cover

19.5 x 26 cm £1020 inc VAT

Aviator 2025

Acrylic and ink on found book cover

17 x 20.5 cm £1020 inc VAT

Thinking of You 2025

Acrylic and ink on found book cover

14.5 x 19.5 cm £1020 inc VAT

The Conversation 2025 Oil on Board

33 x 23 cm £2340 inc VAT

Derek Marks

At nineteen, while studying Fine Art at Goldsmiths, Derek Marks’ paintings were selected for three consecutive years to represent the college at the Royal Academy’s Stowells Annual Award—an unprecedented achievement.

Taught by John Bellany and Michael Craig-Martin, he went on to exhibit alongside leading contemporaries at venues such as the ICA and Riverside Studios in London during the early 1980s. His work has since been shown at art fairs across America, Europe, and Asia. Marks continues to live and paint in East London, where he was born.

As described by Rebecca Bergese “Marks’ paintings reveal the hand of a consummate artist. Drawn from life and made in the fleeting moments of observation, his works elevate the ordinary into quiet social commentary.

Though not overtly didactic, his attentive eye encourages us to reconsider our own perceptions. As Helen Cixous wrote, what higher aim can an artist have than to capture the ‘living of life’? Few succeed, but Marks, through his deft use of colour, form, and confident brushwork—recalling Edward Hopper and Roger Hilton—captures something deeply human in his solitary figures.”

Cindy 2018 Pencil on paper

108 x 86 cm £4800 inc VAT

Another Country 2013 Oil on MDF

60.5 x 40.5 cm £5400 inc VAT

Without Ties 2013

Oil on canvas

132.5 x 97 cm £9600 inc VAT

Fred Coppin

Fred Coppin completed a Fine Arts degree at Oxford Brookes in 2011 and balanced his developing practice with a career in music marketing until 2018, when a series of successful self-promoted exhibitions and awards allowed him to focus on painting full-time. He quickly gained recognition with solo shows including Ping Pong (2021) at Paul Smith, and Lightspeed (2022) and A Well Constructed Treehouse (& Other Modern Delights) (2024) at Candida Stevens Gallery, Kensington. In 2025, he was shortlisted for the prestigious Jackson’s Painting Prize. Coppin lives and works in Chichester on the South Coast of England.

Coppin’s paintings combine amplified colour, playful forms, and a dreamlike energy to explore the world with optimism. His work dissects, exaggerates, and reassembles reality, creating compositions where imagined and real spaces, objects, and icons overlap, inviting a sense of wonder and possibility.

While often representational and drawing on the legacy of British painters, Coppin integrates glitches, geometry, and pastel tones that situate his work firmly in the digital era, blending classical sensibilities with contemporary visual language.

Budgies II 2024 Oil on linen

60 x 60 cm £3000 inc VAT

Palazzo 2024 Oil on wood panel

60 x 90 cm £3600 inc VAT

Lovers Lake 2025 Oil on linen

125 x 198 cm £14400 inc VAT

Mougins 2025 Oil on linen

125 x 150 cm £10560 inc VAT

Apple 2025

Oil on wood panel

61 x 76 cm £3000 inc VAT

The Sun Never Set 2025 Oil on panel

41 x 51 cm £2160 inc VAT

Paradise Zebra 2025 Oil on linen

60 x 75 cm £3360 inc VAT

Spider Snake 2025 Oil on wood panel

61 x 76 cm £3360 inc VAT

Flat White 2024 Oil on linen

65 x 85 cm £3660 inc VAT

Sci-Fi 2023

Oil and linen on panel

50 x 60 cm £2820 inc VAT

Looking Across 2022 Oil and linen on panel

50 x 60 cm £2400 inc VAT

Diamonds 2024 Oil and linen on panel

30 x 40 cm £1500 inc VAT

Clubs 2024

Oil and linen on panel

30 x 40 cm £1500 inc VAT

Ian Robinson

Born in Northumberland, Ian’s studio is based in South London and regularly takes on commissions that represent collections.

Work from his 2010 graduation show is in the Landmark plc collection and was featured in the Guasch Coranty International Painting prize. He completed a graduate residency with the Muse gallery in 2011. In 2015, Ian won the Bryant & Keeling painting prize, and recently featured in the New Light Painting Prize.

The Paintings portray collections of objects such as books, records and ephemera that reveal hobbies and passions. I am fascinated by the backstories of keepsakes and cherished possessions and how they ignite our interests motivating us to connect with them as tokens and trophies. And how that memorabilia can model counter cultures.

Creating paintings of UK pop culture, all lovingly rendered and curated, working with themes connecting to the vinyl enthusiast and book collector.

And revelling in the collected material found in private collections and at Museum and library study rooms or close-to-home book shelves.

Hip Hop Connection 2024

Oil on paper

49.5 x 28 cm £4200 inc VAT

Records Underpainting 2025 Oil on linen

72 x 46 cm £4500 inc VAT

7” and Stylus 2024

Oil on canvas 60 x 40 cm

£5400 inc VAT

Ilona Szalay

Born in Beirut in 1975, Ilona Szalay completed an English Literature degree at the University of Oxford in 1997, before undertaking further studies at Central St Martins (Byam Shaw School of Art) from which she graduated in 2002 with an MFA. This year she won the inaugural Women In Art Fair Prize, in past years she has been a finalist for the prestigious Threadneedle Prize (UK), and won the Ora Prize (Italy). Her exhibition history includes the Royal Academy, the British Painter’s Association, the Trinity Buoy Wharf prize and the Barbican as well as countless solo and group shows spanning the past two decades. Her work has been extensively exhibited in cities including Milan, London, Miami, Basel, Rome, Zurich, Toronto and New York.

Through a range of media from canvas to tracing paper, LED light to glass, Szalay engages the multitudinous dichotomies that make up both collective and individual subjective experience in restrained, poetic visual language. It is in liminal space – that between sites of dominance and submission, or power and vulnerability – that the figures in her work encounter one another.

The contrast between the subject she paints and how it is painted is never sharp or demanding; the heavy, looping strokes and soft lines made by her brush point towards something much more ingenious and intuitive.

These are contrasts that are gestured at, never insisted upon, and allow for a kind of dialectic with the viewer: a set of techniques more native to the literary arts than to the visual medium in which she works.

In Dreaming 2024

Oil paint on glass in white frame

60 x 50 cm £3360 inc VAT

Blind Bird 2024 Oil paint on aluminium

150 x 120 cm £4800 inc VAT

The Beach 2023 Oil and resin on wood

70 x 100 cm £7200 inc VAT

Dressing 2016

Oil and resin on wood

50 x 40 cm £2160 inc VAT

Pool 2017

Oil and resin on wood

60 x 60 cm £2160 inc VAT

Red Gloves 2018 Oil on aluminium

63 x 83 cm £3600 inc VAT

Image detail: Ilona Szalay, Blind Bird

James Straffon

James Straffon (b. 1966) is a London-based artist whose work explores the intersection of the natural world and urban life. Beginning as a graphic designer, he shifted focus to street art and ecological projects, creating public, free-to-view imagery that engages audiences with issues of conservation, biodiversity, and climate change.

Paul Smith Space presents three works from Straffon’s series Readings from The Barometer of Life, which depict endangered species through a unique translation of IUCN Red List data into graphic ciphers. Layered with mixed media—found textiles, paint, plastic, and ghost netting—these works reflect humanity’s complex impact on the planet. Drawing on the Japanese principles of Boro (repair) and Mottainai (regret over waste), Straffon weaves discarded materials and natural motifs into compositions that are both a lament for species loss and a call to action, highlighting the urgency of conservation in an era of mass extinction.

e.T2477A156923585 [Blue Whale] 2020

Acrylic, solvent transfer, Sashiko thread, and found materials on cotton

146 x 79 cm £4800 inc VAT

e.T39994A115576640 [Eastern Gorilla] 2020 Acrylic, solvent transfer, Sashiko thread, and found materials on cotton

150 x 75 cm £4800 inc VAT

e.T8005A12881238 [Hawksbill Turtle] 2020

Acrylic, solvent transfer, Sashiko thread, and found materials on cotton

154 x 80 cm £4800 inc VAT

Joana Galego

Photo credit: Imogen Forte

Joana Galego (b. 1994 in Cascais, Portugal) received her postgraduate diploma from the Royal Drawing School in 2017 and her BA in Painting from the University of Lisbon in 2016.

Her work has been included in the solo shows Seashells in my mother’s garden and the giant boulder rolling down, at Isabel Sullivan Gallery, New York (2025), jardins, at Galeria Belard, Lisbon (2024), mole lunar sinal, at Soho Revue, London (2023), spring and all, at the Royal Drawing School, London (2019), o lugar indeciso, at Museu das Artes de Sintra, Lisbon (2016) and several group exhibitions including Monotypes, at Messums, London (2025), Whose Muse?, at Palo Gallery, New York (2024), Liminality, at EY Projects, Beijing (2024), A Hand is Not a Cage, at Soho Revue, London (2024) and What I See I WIll Never Tell, Wilder Gallery, London (2021).

Her work is held in public and private collections including The Royal Collection (UK). She was the recipient of the Sir Denis Mahon Award (2017) and shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize (2019).

Go Gentle 2019

Acrylic and oil on canvas

170 x 154 cm £7776 inc VAT

It’s Late and We Keep Playing 2024 Acrylic and oil on canvas 120 x 90 cm £5640 inc VAT

Mending a Head 2021

Acrylic and soft pastel on paper and calico

112 x 91.5 cm £5400 inc VAT

Mending a Limb 2025

Graphite, a watercolour and acrylic on paper and canvas

30 x 45 cm £1440 inc VAT

College Park Close 2025 Acrylic and oil on canvas 28 x 20 cm £1320 inc VAT

Gelado de Noz (Walnut Ice Cream/ Us) 2025 Acrylic and oil on canvas 24 x 18 cm £1020 inc VAT

Many Warnings, None Considered 2025

Oil on canvas 55 x 46 cm

£2820 inc VAT

Counting Treasures 2025

Oil on canvas 60 x 50 cm

£3060 inc VAT

Image detail: Joana Galego, Go Gentle

Kate Malone

Artist Photo credit: Alun Callender Collection Photo credit: Sylvain Deleu

“I am inspired by the optimism and joy in nature. My highly-coloured, natural forms brim with a sense of growth and abundance and aim to communicate the ‘Life Force’ to the viewer.” – Kate Malone Celebrated British artist Kate Malone (b.1959) is renowned for her distinctive and masterful handling of clay. Her curiosity and dedication to glaze research, particularly her signature crystalline glazes, have shaped a unique artistic vision inspired by nature’s energy and abundance.

Malone’s work draws from natural growth patterns, transforming bisquefired forms into vibrant, life-filled creations. Personal observations and fantastical translations of nature’s energy continue to inspire her whilst captivating an ever-increasing audience.

Floral Moon Jar 2025

Crystalline-glazed stoneware 33 x 37 cm £10000 inc VAT

Stripy Pumpkin I 2025

Crystalline-glazed stoneware 27 x 32 x 31 cm £12000 inc VAT

Stripy Pumpkin II 2025

Crystalline-glazed stoneware 24 x 29.5 x 32 cm £12000 inc VAT

A Tall Striped Atomic Vase 2024

Crystalline-glazed stoneware 77 x 33 x 34 cm £15600 inc VAT

A Large Striped Atomic Vase 2024

Crystalline-glazed stoneware 61 x 59 cm £30500 inc VAT

Atomic Wood Fennel 2023

Crystalline-glazed stoneware 19.5 x 20.5 x 18.5 cm £6500 inc VAT

Fennel 2023

Crystalline-glazed stoneware 20.5 x 17 x 19.5 cm £6200 inc VAT

A Striped Magma Flower Brick 2021

Crystalline-glazed stoneware 19.5 x 44 x 16 cm £9500 inc VAT

A Woven Jug of Coloured Clay 2020

Crystalline-glazed stoneware 33 x 31 x 23 cm £13200 inc VAT

Monumental Atomic Jar 2014

Crystalline-glazed stoneware 103 x 72 cm £30000 inc VAT

Image detail: Kate Malone, Stripy Pumpkin II

Katy Papineau

Katy Papineau (b.1991, London, UK) is a figurative painter. Her practice encompasses drawing, painting and printmaking. She graduated in Philosophy from the University of Bristol in 2014, and completed The Drawing Year at The Royal Drawing School in 2019. Since graduating she has participated in artist residencies in France and Italy, and she presented her debut solo exhibition at Blue Shop Gallery in July 2023.

Papineau is part of the faculty at the Royal Drawing School, where her teaching focuses on symbolism, memory and imagination.

Papineau is interested in the malleability of memory and ambiguity of human relationships. Her practice begins in observations of everyday life.

Drawing in public spaces, she observes people going about their lives and the interactions that take place between them. She takes these drawings back to the studio, allowing the images to gestate in her mind, taking on new meanings and merging with her own history. She paints from pencil drawings and written notes, allowing her inner life to influence her colour choices. Colour is used as a vehicle to express experience beyond the visual - her paintings contain sounds, scents, emotions and memories.

Swiftly Tread 2025 Oil and oil bar on linen

110 x 90 cm £4980 inc VAT

Slippery Space 2025 Oil and oil bar on linen

100 x 80 cm £4500 inc VAT

Tangy Tongue 2025 Oil on panel

50 x 40 cm £1854 inc VAT

Jam Splash 2025 Oil and varnish on panel

50 x 25 cm £1420 inc VAT

Hotel Breakfast 2025 Oil and varnish on panel

50 x 25 cm £1400 inc VAT

Laurence Watchorn

Laurence Watchorn (b. 1999) is a South London–based artist and DJ, and co-founder of the arts and music collective OOZ. He holds a BA in Fine Art from the Slade School of Fine Art and has exhibited widely, including solo shows Cypher Vision; As Above, So Below in Sydney, Eric Firestone in New York, and Echoic Vision in London, as well as group exhibitions such as In Rapture at The Bomb Factory, Marylebone, and The Language of Symbols at Marie Jose Gallery, Kensington.

Watchorn’s work occupies a space between abstraction, sound, and ritual. Floor-bound, un-stretched canvases with rounded edges are suspended to create organic, flowing compositions that integrate colour, rhythm, symbolic forms, and fragments of text. Drawing on influences from dancefloors, spiritual practice, metaphysics, and biomorphic code, his paintings explore the intersection of the organic and technological, improvisation and structure, play and contemplation. Through layered brushwork and intuitive mark-making, Watchorn invites the viewer into a mirrored world of inner and outer realities, questioning communication, language, and our relationship with the natural and mystical realms.

Echoes Encoded to Suburban Blues 2023 Oil, charcoal, oil stick, collage and pastel on 15oz cotton

335 x 145 cm £14400 inc VAT

Calyx Fractal 2023 Oil and mixed on linen

150 x 125 cm £7200 inc VAT

Khymatos 2023

Oil, charcoal, oil stick, pastel

and collage on canvas 295 x 110 cm £10800 inc VAT

Lottie Cole

Photo credit: Sarah Weal

Cole’s paintings reflect her interest in Art History, provenance and the role women have played in both. She regularly looks to women artists & collectors of the past for affirmation, guidance and inspiration. She paints homes, not least because they are a realm of women, an area unlike most others where they are authored by women. Though people are rarely seen in her paintings, she believes the domestic interior contains considerable biography & human emotion from grief to celebration seen through the objects on the mantlepiece or the paintings on the wall.

Cole began a Foundation at Wimbledon Art School and went on to study Art History at St Andrews University. Elected a member of the Royal Watercolour Society in 2025. She enjoys reading a picture, and as such likes her work to operate on different levels - the first simply an interior - the second the decoding of allusions and objects

Interior with Sandra Blow & Elisabeth Frink 2017

Oil on canvas 150 x 120 cm

£9540 inc VAT

With my back to the world Interior with Elisabeth Frink & Agnes Martin 2022

Oil on canvas 60 x 70 cm

£5712 inc VAT

Magnum Opus III 2024

Watercolour and gouche 36 x 26 cm £2004 inc VAT

Plans start on the desk at the top of the stairs 2025

Oil on canvas 41 x 31 cm

£2220 inc VAT

Image detail: Lottie Cole, Interior with Sandra Blow & Elisabeth Frink

Sue Willams A’Court

Sue Williams A’Court’s practice explores the notion of the visual sublime working within painting, collage and drawing. She employs re-imagined landscapes as a trigger for encounter or contemplation; Landscape not as a topographical record but as a medium to visually describe a state of mind.

She references and appropriates from historical landscapes to present them in a new context.

In nature she feels her mind is more enticed into a state of reverie out of the analytical brain shifting to a more divergent focus. She is interested to explore these shifts in perspective and ways of being in her paintings.

The tension between the figuration of the illusory landscape forms and the tactile more painterly background alludes to our unique human ability to hold contrasting mental states in the same psychological space, the relationship between the mind and the body and the possibility of transcendence.

Desire and Longing 30 2025 Graphite and mixed medium on canvas 159 x 130 cm £14400 inc VAT

Kiss the Ground 1 2024

Graphite and mixed medium on canvas 130 x 159 cm £14400 inc VAT

Desire and Longing 29 2025 Graphite and mixed medium on canvas 159 x 130 cm £14400 inc VAT

Grace 2017

Graphite and mixed medium on board,

white gold leaf edge 28.5 x 2.5 cm £3000 inc VAT

Rocky 2017

Graphite and mixed medium on board,

white gold leaf edge 28.5 x 2.5 cm £3000 inc VAT

Hudson 2017

Graphite and mixed medium on board,

white gold leaf edge 28.5 x 2.5 cm £3000 inc VAT

Collage 6 2025

Antique engraving & mixed medium

collage on vintage book cover 30 x 23 cm £780 inc VAT

Collage 7 2025

Antique engraving & mixed medium

collage on vintage book cover 30 x 23 cm £780 inc VAT

Collage 8 2025

Antique engraving & mixed medium

collage on vintage book cover 30 x 23 cm £780 inc VAT

Collage 2 2025

Antique engraving & mixed medium

collage on vintage book cover 30 x 23 cm £780 inc VAT

Collage 3 2025

Antique engraving & mixed medium

collage on vintage book cover 30 x 23 cm £780 inc VAT

Collage 4 2025

Antique engraving & mixed medium

collage on vintage book cover 30 x 23 cm £780 inc VAT

Image detail: Sue Willams A’Court, Desire and Longing 30

Paul Smith Space, found downstairs at 9 Albemarle Street, is a dedicated gallery presenting artwork which resonates with the company’s ethos of creativity, individuality, and curiosity. A full programme of exhibitions will see Paul Smith Space change periodically throughout the year, each time introducing an exciting new array of work.

For all art enquiries please contact: art@paulsmith.co.uk Katie Heller Art & Exhibitions Manager Paul Smith 9 Albemarle Street London W1S 4BL +44 (0)7553 352 959 +44 (0) 207 493 4565 katie.heller@paulsmith.co.uk

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