Part 1: Artists In Depth

With the announcement of our collaboration with Abigail Ahern, here’s a closer look at 6 of the 9 artists selected by Abigail to feature in her curation.

Coming from an academic background in landscape architecture, Timothy Betton is concerned with the geometries, lines, and light interferences that echo in the natural world. His abstract paintings are an experiment in structure – the beauty of inevitable distortions, and the new dimensionalities that can arise.

Serein by Timothy Betton

Divum by Timothy Betton

For Howl Hubbard, it’s the ephemerality of light and shadow that leads her to work on small paintings that pack an intensely luminous punch. Windows and interior spaces are depicted as portals of reflective calm, with spiritual overtones hidden in their glow.

Storm’s Eye VI by Howl Hubbard

On Anchoring by Howl Hubbard

Katie Rhys Jones’s pieces similarly explore the mapping of ‘place’ in paint. Bold colour and mosaic-like forms betray her aim to capture how the human eye imposes divisions onto a scene in order to understand it. Working with spatial unity and disunity, her paintings are truly intoxicating to look at.

Oil Spill 3 by Katie Rhys Jones

Oil Spill 2 by Katie Rhys Jones

“Where does one object end and the other begin?” is what Dominika Prinzova asks with her work. It’s the only suggestion of narration that interests her to nevertheless create deeply storied works with mere suggestions of forms, faces, and landscapes. There’s an exciting unspokeness to her figures that ultimately intrigue the viewer to come closer.

Upside Down II by Dominika Prinzova

Upside Down III by Dominika Prinzova

Spanish artist Carlos San Milan strikes a lucid balance between the figurative and abstract in his work. More than just painting his surroundings and objects, he affords each scene a subtle lived-in quality that takes viewers on a journey of discovery – of a new home, a new landscape, or a new perspective. He’s been exhibited globally, and is one of New Blood Art Masters.

Messy Room #2 (Nocturne) by Carlos San Millan

Interior #185 (Blue Armchair) by Carlos San Millan

Lastly, Martyna Wolanin creates personal scenes of life between the UK and Poland. Capturing and the small moments, up close her paintings appreciate the small intricacies of paint. Each palette knife stroke has solidifies its own history, and from afar they combine to form a moving and meaningful scene of life.

At the Beach by Martyna Wolanin