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.
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
The Comfort of a Daily Routine 2025
To Capture and Release 2024
In Another Dream 2025
We Waited for a Sign 2025 Watercolour on paper
I Remember A Silence 2025 Watercolour on paper
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.
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
Thinking of You 2025
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’ p aintings r eveal the hand of a consummate a rtist. Dr awn fr om l ife a nd ma de i n t he fl eeting momen ts of observation, his works elevate the or dinary int o quiet soc ial c ommentary. Though not overtly didact ic, his attentive eye encour ages us t o r econsider our o wn per ceptions. As H elen C ixous wr ote, what higher aim can an artist ha ve than t o captur e the ‘living of lif e’? Few succeed, but Mar ks, through h is deft use of col our, f orm, a nd con fident brush work—recalling Edward Hopper and R oger Hil ton—captures something deepl y human in his solitary figures.”
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.
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.
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.
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
solvent transfer,
thread, and found materials on cotton 146 x 79 cm £4800 inc VAT
e.T8005A12881238 [Hawksbill Turtle] 2020
Acrylic, solvent transfer,
thread, and found materials on cotton 154 x 80 cm £4800 inc VAT
Joana Galego
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
It’s Late and We Keep Playing 2024
Mending a Head 2021
Mending a Limb 2025
Many Warnings, None Considered 2025
Counting Treasures 2025
Kate Malone
“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.
Crystalline-glazed stoneware 77 x 33 x 34 cm
19.5 x 20.5 x 18.5 cm
£6500 inc VAT
20.5 x 17 x 19.5 cm
£6200 inc VAT
19.5 x 44 x 16 cm £9500 inc VAT
Crystalline-glazed stoneware
33 x 31 x 23 cm
£13200 inc VAT
stoneware 103 x 72 cm £30000 inc VAT
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.
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.
£14400 inc VAT
Oil, charcoal, oil stick, pastel and collage on canvas
295 x 110 cm
£10800 inc VAT
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
my back to the world Interior with Elisabeth
Magnum Opus III 2024
Watercolour and gouche
Plans start on the desk at the top of the stairs 2025
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
VAT
Kiss the Ground 1 2024
130 x 159 cm
£14400 inc VAT
Desire and Longing 29 2025
VAT
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
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