First Look Hour | Thursday 24 September | 10-11
Collector’s Preview | Thursday 24 September | 11-9
Friday 25 September | 11-9
Saturday 26 September | 11-7
Sunday 27 September | 11-5
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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.
Incorrigibly Plural
2026
oil & acrylic on linen
50 x 50cm / 53 x 53cm framed
£1,760
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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 30 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.
Tea Bowl (New Hall)
2026, oil on card
27.5 x 26cm
£1,595
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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.
Juliet (detail)
2026
oil on aluminium
50 x 40cm
£1,760
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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.
Chelsea Bridge
2026, oil on canvas
61 x 71cm
£3,300
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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."
Coupled 004
2026
interior paint on board
16 x 21cm
£550
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