First Look Hour | Thursday 25 September | 10-11
Collector’s Preview | Thursday 25 September | 11-9
Friday 26 September | 11-9
Saturday 27 September | 11-7
Sunday 28 September | 11-5
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Jess Quinn creates surreal worlds, filled with colour and pattern, that mix the magical and the mundane. She weaves together memories and real events with fictional characters and places. Jess takes inspiration from art history and explores the role of women in art creating a unique vision of the world.
"I am not afraid to use colour and pattern and often employ an abundance of both'
Vivid, surreal worlds - portaits and narrative paintings in oil on canvas, acrylic on canvas and gouache on paper.
The Artist
2023
gouache on paper
30 x 21cm
Playful and expressive abstract paintings celebrating everyday acts of love. Using repetition, hidden layers of colour, fragments and erasures Jess explores the complex mental, physical and emotional loads that are involved in raising a family and keeping connected.
'What makes a good abstract painting? It has something to do with believing it is necessary rather than willed, that it is meaningful even if you can't put it into words. Jess Blandford's work has these qualities, as well as fleshy, sensual colours and brushstrokes, reminiscent of Willem de Kooning.' - Jonathan Jones Art Critic for the Guardian.
Creeping Shoulds
2024
oil & acrylic on linen
28 x 22cm
£880
'Early morning, wandering in my local landscape, I notice small seasonal shifts and variations; the quiet beauty in natural commonplace things, rarely celebrated. My paintings are inspired by what I see around me, the transient and the temporary: the form of a tree, the lines of stems, the intricacies of birds in flight, and how they enchant the space around.'
Inspired by the landscape surrounding her Cambridgeshire studio and the Lincolnshire fens of her childhood Melanie finds remarkable beauty in the familiar. Using a combination of traditional and modern methods Melanie creates striking, contemplative landscapes reflecting the transience of nature and memory.
Hawthorn Variations III
2024
oil & acrylic on canvas
110 x 95cm
£4,750
Laura’s work is a hybrid of painting and sculpture. Her focus is minimalist, geometric abstraction exploring architectural form and colour. The sleek, even coloured surfaces are painted delicately so that they are free of gestural brush strokes and fields of saturated clean-edged colour appear to float on the surface of the wall.
"My aim is always to express an idea as simply and as elegantly as possible. To strip everything back to only what is necessary to communicate that idea. My work is primarily an exploration of balance, of positive and negative space, of presence and absence."
Necessary Limits - Raspberry
2024
interior paint on board,
43 x 33cm
£990
William has dedicated his life to the visual arts variously as Teacher, Critic, Curator and Author - and always as Painter. Fot the last 25 years he has focused on still-lives.
Each 'a little world, a tiny city, a paradigm and parallel reality to be explored in the imagination and realised in the act of painting'.
William works in natural light on fast surfaces using a muted colour palette. A regular cast of characters appear in his work often alongside ephemeral wildflowers. The painting and composition can change radically during the process of reconciling space, form and light onto the two dimensional surface of the canvas so the finished image is not always quite what it seems to be.
Iris
2025, oil on board
40 x 22cm
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William has dedicated his life to the visual arts variously as Teacher, Critic, Curator and Author - and always as Painter. Fot the last 25 years he has focused on still-lives.
Each 'a little world, a tiny city, a paradigm and parallel reality to be explored in the imagination and realised in the act of painting'.
William works in natural light on fast surfaces using a muted colour palette. A regular cast of characters appear in his work often alongside ephemeral wildflowers. The painting and composition can change radically during the process of reconciling space, form and light onto the two dimensional surface of the canvas so the finished image is not always quite what it seems to be.
Brixton Rose
2024, oil on board
30 x 21cm
£990
Ilona explores themes of dominance and submission, power and vulnerability in instinctive, sweeping brushtrokes across aluminium, glass and resin board. Deliciously glossy and sensuous, her paintings are an exercise in both spontaneity and restraint - the narrative hinted at, the colour palette limited, the figures poised on the cusp, compelling and intense.
The Bride
2023
oil and resin on wood board
50 x 40cm
PREVIEW WORK ONLINE FROM TUESDAY 16 SEPTEMBER
An instinctive and masterly colourist whether working in oil, watercolour, gouache, pastel or ink. Her subjects were landscapes and interiors which she could simplify to the point of abstraction whilst delighting in ornament, pattern and decoration. Inspired by her extensive travels she has been described as a ‘Neo-romantic impressionist, with a touch of Bloomsbury at its best’ and a ‘latter-day fauve, unselfconscious in her debt to Matisse.'
Greek Landscape
c1985
gouache on paper
51 x 62cmcm
Daniel's work celebrates the urban environment, from vast panoramas to intimate studies of the city. Composed in his signature vivid colour palette and exploring the boundary between abstraction and figuration.
'He finds in the modest familiar view, quite often scruffy and down at heel, so much that is remarkable and beautiful'
William Packer - Art Critic.
Thames Twilight
2025, oil on canvas
61x 71cm
Striking, stylised collage and monoprint inspired by classical art and antiquity.
‘My pictures are perhaps not collages in the conventional sense. I think of them also as paintings.'
Clare prepares her own papers, painting pattern and creating texture then cutting and tearing to produce the final image.
Summer Solstice
2024
collage and monoprint on paper
47x 56.5cm
Henry explores the language of paint investigating the threshold between abstraction and representation.
A seed of inspiration will kick things off - a colour, a shape, a gesture, a memory - then the journey begins. He’ll often return to a work, painting over, adding, re-working. Over time expressive rhythms of colour and form emerge and repeat.
‘I want to make forms that feel familiar but are unnameable, forms that feel as though we might recognise them but are not “actual things”.’
Squash
2025
acrylic on wood
30 x 23cm
