A.K.

Take out the mind

Size:50x40cm

Price:£85

oil on canvas

Sometimes we have to empty our minds of everything inside to get a chance to think well.

Diane WIlliamson

'Still Life of Teapot & Fruit'

Size:32x42cm

Price:£40

It is a still Life of a teapot, a jar and fruit painted in acrylic inspired by a painting by Gauguin

Still Life of Teapot & Fruit by Diane WIlliamson

Barbara Andrews

Hands

Size:42x30cm

Price:£5

I like hands – where would you be without them! I made this collage piece from various magazines and newspapers at the Rainbow Arts group, which meets every week in Surrey Quays.

Dm

'Internal landscape 2020'

Size:48x32in

Price:$2,500

Internal landscape as a mode of escapism: these scenes come to me when life is most challenging and when I feel the most raw. Channeling feminine energy and my Native heritage, I find peace by putting to surface the places where my mind wanders when reality is difficult to face. It reignites focus and makes clear what was blurred by stress. I worked on this slowly throughout 2020, and it is the only internal landscape I have created this year. Acrylic on plywood.
@little.animal.artspace

Susan Bryan

Kathleen Cleaver in a moment of contemplation

Size:42x59cm

Price:£150

This is a rare photo of her She was the wife of Eldridge Cleaver…. She became an Activist and Professor at Ivy league University in America…. In the image she is taking a break during an Eastern bloc conference in the 1970s….. Timely in 2020 civil rights global events…. What strikes.. Is the expression of disdain? Boredom? Frustration….. Behind every great man…. Mmmm

Georgiana FG

'Performance Theatre'

Size:23x33cm

Price:£95

Done at London Drawing.com’s zoom class- entitled performance theatre. The model constantly added and subtracted the look!

Erick Mota

The Boy In The Pandemic

Size:18x24in

Price:$2,600

This oil painting was done during the pandemic, and inspired from Paul Cézanne’s “The Boy In The Red Vest” from 1890. Cézanne did 4 versions of this painting using the same model in all 4 paintings. The boy in this pose, is similar to the one currently in NYC’s MOMA. I wanted to provide a different perspective of Cézanne’s work while depicting modern and crazy times we are currently in.

Frances Marriott

'Cardboard Gramaphone'

Size:60x60x50cm

Price:£55

This gramophone was inspired by a ‘spin art’ kit that I made with a young boy I was working with during ‘Covid catch-up’ tutoring.

I created the mechanism out of an old hand-held fan, with the idea of making a turn table for the ‘Boxed In’ project here at the shop. The old school speaker was a collaborative idea with Rod Kitson. It eventually
became a chromatic piece of kitch Covid memorabilia celebrating escapism and fantasy.

Cardboard Gramaphone by Frances Marriott

Louise Alexander

Before

Size:29x34cm

Price:£120

This pastel pencil portrait is a celebration of Margaret and her vibrant hair before she started chemotherapy. Here Margaret is stepping into uncertainty, with determination and lust for life. A year on, the cancer is in remission and her hair is growing back in short tight silver curls.

Per Anton Risan

'Dansa in i ån (dance into the stream)'

Size:50x70cm

Price:£172

Dansa in i ån – came about on my inward lockdown journey retracing my early childhood growing up in north of Sweden.
Re-visiting happy memories of short but intense summers at my fathers country cottage, running down fields after fields of never ending adventures awaiting just around the corner…
is there a lake just there?

After the turmoil of the constant big brother instructions during the lockdown, my safe haven was inwards and re-living past memories. By trying to recall and somehow recreating them on my canvas was an exiting journey that I will take on moving forward also in my continued art journey exploration. Just like I did as a young boy on those fields.

Dansa in i ån (dance into the stream) by Per Anton Risan

Michael Riddle

Girl with a yin yang earring

Size:20x25cm

Price:£200

This began life as one of a series of portraits and has been painted over several times before it evolved into this version. The painting was started before lockdown but the surreal experience of lockdown influenced the direction the painting went in. This is an oil painting on a cradled wooden panel.

Jo Holdsworth

'A Bridge Too Far'

Size:50x50cm

Price:£850

When lockdown first happened and we weren’t allowed to travel I was unable to go out and about to take photos. I had been asked potentially to work on some commissioned paintings of East London and I therefore approached Jon Paul Ladd, a fabulous photographer who I knew had captured some of the areas I was interested in painting. Jon kindly allowed me to use some of his amazing photographs to paint from and this oil on canvas painting ‘A Bridge too Far’ was the first of these works. The painting captures a bridge seen from a walkway within Westfield Stratford City shopping centre, a view which seemed even more poignant to paint in lockdown given that the shops and shopping centres were now all shut. It shows people on their own or in small groups, enjoying the sunshine as they walk over the bridge, with their striking long shadows and a feeling of camaraderie. Like many of my paintings in lockdown there is a nostalgia and wistfulness about the work as I dream of happier times ahead.

Frank Gambino

Xian

Size:A3

Price:NFS

That bleached out zoom session looked great to me.

Clive

'Red Glow'

Size:40x50cm

Price:£110

Red Glow catches the warm reds, hot pinks and contrasting dark purples that arrived when model Sylvanna sat for a lifedrawing session. Simply drawn with loose flowing watercolour capturing the shadows and highlights. The piece captures the calm but intense atmosphere of the moment.

Florence Goodhand-Tait

Travelling in 2020

Size:A4

Price:£40

Drawing of Lilian D’Mello, a model based in India, done via zoom. This drawing was done while I was isolating for two weeks because my housemate tested positive for COVID 19. I joined this Camberwell Life Drawing zoom session to find that not only was the model in India, but participants had joined the session from all over the world too. I felt this was the closest thing I’d done to travelling in a year where travelling seemed impossible. Lilian’s meditative pose here also reminds me of my lockdown experience of trying to keep calm through self care and yoga.

James Bland

'Study'

Size:25x35cm

Price:£600

An oil study for a larger painting.

Reyhaneh

Power

Size:33x46cm

Price:£80

pastel on paper

The horse has power and confidence.

This artist is a member of New Art Studio, a unique project based in Islington that provides a therapeutic studio space for asylum seekers and refugees. www.newartstudio.org.uk

Nik Hb

'The inside of me sees the outside of you'

Size:76x60cm

Price:£1,200

“The Inside Of Me Sees The Outside Of You”, Oil on canvas, July 2020. This maybe one person all tangled up with other bodies that may or may not be other versions of themself. The lack of social interaction during lockdown has caused varying degrees of isolation, and so in this work I have tried to show how people might be feeling interconnected as in an unreal montage rather than at a specific meeting or location.

The inside of me sees the outside of you by Nik Hb

Georgiana FG

Dreaming of Africa under a Vervaine Tree

Size:54x39cm

Price:£110

Pastel on grey paper- a friend gave me the dry verveine leaves- and we used to spend time together in Africa- and I thought of my pottery elephants from Ardmore studios- who have the most incredibly imaginative and wonderful work- who also do alot to support people with Aids in Africa.

Wilfrid Wood

'Bella 1'

Size:

Price:£100

Drawing using Chinagraph crayon

Julio Calderon

A Stable for a King

Size:60x30x50cm

Price:NFS

I’m a volunteer helper at Southwark Helping Hands group. We encourage the members who have learning difficulties to take an interest in various activities. My inspiration for this exhibit came when we did a club nature walk around Stave Hill paths. We collected leaves and twigs and it was decided to make a nativity stable seeing as it was coming up for Christmas.

Wilfrid Wood

'Watermelon Eater'

Size:A4

Price:£175

Drypoint print.

Pam Frost

Brief Encounters

Size:A3

Price:NFS

‘In drawing nothing is better than the first attempt’..l used the brief window of freedom in late summer to enjoy the company of friends, drink wine, and do some life drawing. I used borrowed chalks, struggled with the light and did not try very hard yet I managed to capture the solidity and sensuous nature of the model. I felt quite proud, maybe the wine helped…

Big Sepz

'Hummingbird'

Size:20x20cm

Price:£35

Acrylic on canvas

This artist is the son of a member of New Art Studio, a unique project based in Islington that provides a therapeutic studio space for asylum seekers and refugees. www.newartstudio.org.uk

James O’Hara

Four Tatiana

Size:12x12in

Price:£85

Drawing from an online Zoom portrait session in October 2020. The model is Tatiana.

Megane Souchet

'Hands and Jumper'

Size:22x30cm

Price:£130

Used to paint portraits and models from life, this year challenged me to explore new subjects. With unlimited time at home, I paint with oil and at a slow pace, self portraits and captures of my body, deepening the relationship with myself.

Frances Marriott

Lockdown: View From My Balcony

Size:50x60cm

Price:£200

I painted this from my balcony seat, overlooking the estate where I live. I didn’t really want to paint an honest description, more of a hopeful and colourful interpretation of a bleak and monotonous view. The more I sat outside the more fantastical it appeared to me. I used many layers and responded to light and perspective over many days. I decided not to worry about the final outcome.

Gary Bricklebank

'Louise'

Size:50x50cm

Price:£200

Ink on Canvas

Louise is the person I have spent the most time with in 2020. She never fails to inspire me.

Cat Coulter

Wash Before Eating

Size:45x62cm

Price:£120

Chip forks and Ice-cream spoons representing the shoals of rubbish dumped on beaches as soon as lockdown was eased.

Anna Walsh

'Emissaries of Hope and Possibility'

Size:50x40cm

Price:£200

This handcoloured digital print is based on Victorian era board games, which were used to promote the propaganda and acceptable behavior of the day. The images in the ovals, which make up the route for the game, depict various stories that appeared on social media and the news, fake and real, of wildlife taking over during the pandemic in areas usually full of humans.
The title comes from a New York Times article about animals re-wilding our cities on social media. There were also several articles doing the rounds about whether many of these stories were fake or real, and if it mattered. They were spreading feelings of hope during a desperate time, and many gave glimpses of what a post-covid world could look like if we took the lessons on board.
I had come across these Victorian games before the pandemic began, and loved the visual language and social messages. I knew I needed to make use of them in my work. All I needed was a topic. Hey presto, pandemic and lockdown hits.

Emissaries of Hope and Possibility by Anna Walsh

Wilfrid Wood

Monoprint 2

Size:A4

Price:£175

Monoprint head

Anna Walsh

'Zoonotic Viral Spillover - A Novel Virus Game.'

Size:50x40cm

Price:£200

This hand coloured print is based on Victorian era board games, which were used to promote and explain the propaganda and acceptable behavior of the day.
In this ‘game’ a theory of how new viruses end up infecting humans, when they had previously been circulating harmlessly among bats, is explained. Deforestation makes way for intensive farming for global demand for cheap food, leading to bats leaving their home and setting up near humans. They pass the virus to domestic animals that are even closer to humans, or those exploited and packed in in unnatural environments, like wet markets. These animals in turn may pass it to humans. The heart of this problem seems to be an exploitation of the natural world and its resources mainly to satisfy the greed of consumerist societies.
Reading up about the potential to release ‘mindboggling numbers of viruses’ if we continue along the path we are heading, really hit home, and how urgent it is to rethink our relationship with the natural world

Zoonotic Viral Spillover - A Novel Virus Game. by Anna Walsh

Pam Frost

Zombie Matt

Size:A4

Price:NFS

Like an undertaker in full mourning at a child’s birthday party, Matt Handcock casts a shadow of misery and unwelcome gloom all around him. Originally I just tried to capture his likeness but could not resist making him into a zombie. Petulant, officious and absurdly over promoted any record of life in 2020 must surely note Matt’s malign influence.

Andrea Santi

'Self-Portrait during lockdown'

Size:30x30cm

Price:£1,400

The drawing was made with graphite and water-soluble graphite on a wooden, gessoed panel.
This self-portrait is a very intimate representation of myself I made during the first lockdown. The global situation really had a massive impact on my mental health and, due to the confinement, I developed anxiety and sleep disorders. With this self-portrait, I tried to represent all the struggle I was experiencing, in a very delicate and intimate way.

Self-Portrait during lockdown by Andrea Santi

Gordon Stewart

Man with Beard and Hat

Size:32x23cm

Price:£75

Portrait of a friend based on sketches and a photo at a socially distanced afternoon tea in his and his wife’s garden opposite Eltham Palace on a pouring wet October day. I’m not sure how much protection from the rain or indeed the virus was provided by his sun hat. Painted in Battersea in November 2020. Acrylics on A4 paper. One of several works submitted to the exhibition.

Jo Holdsworth

'Lost in the City'

Size:50x50cm

Price:£850

I have always painted people in transitional places like squares and railway stations on their way to new destinations or off out to meet friends. Being in the city during lockdown has felt strikingly different, with empty pavements and far fewer people in places that are usually bustling with crowds. This recent oil on canvas painting ‘Lost in the City’ intends to reflect the feeling that many of us have had during this pandemic of being slightly lost in some way and longing to feel safe and secure once again. It shows small groups of people wondering aimlessly in a vast city. Yet many of my paintings like this one also carry a message of hope for the future and the power of shared experience – the power that you are not alone in this world but are bound together with others in the face of adversity and from which you will hopefully emerge stronger.

Paul Hensman

The Cutty Sark

Size:50x40cm

Price:£40

I’m a young man with learning difficulties. I go to a club called Southwark Helping Hands. We do different activities there and I always choose painting. We did a group visit to Greenwich which is where I got my idea of painting the Cutty Sark.

Vanya Marinova

'Coronavirus: Victoria Station Interchange'

Size:33.3x28.2cm

Price:£180

I am a key worker and the painting portrays me on one of my essential journeys during the first lockdown. I wasn’t directly afraid by the empty spaces, but it looked mega surreal. I would think of The Specials’ “Ghost Town” often…

Coronavirus: Victoria Station Interchange by Vanya Marinova

Clive

Aspects of Life

Size:45x50cm

Price:£110

A twisting swirling mass of colours and shapes based on the human form but not constrained to it. Arms, legs, shoulder float free with reds, blues, greens and purples. Aspects of Life draws from an ongoing collaboration with life model Safire.

David Gollancz

'Crossed'

Size:36x46cm

Price:£150

Acrylic on canvas. Painted on back of unfinished abstract by the late Oliver Gollancz. Proceeds of sale less submission fee and commission to Sightsavers UK (https://www.sightsavers.org/)

Princess Palacol

Midnight Drive

Size:40x50cm

Price:£100

This acrylic painting on canvas was done after restrictions were eased. I’ve always enjoyed night drives with a good playlist. Something that I haven’t done in a while.

Stefan Nedelcu

'Caesar no1 (King) - 2020'

Size:64x64

Price:£700

Acrylic painting on primed Fabriano paper.
First of my French Bulldog series, which I started at the beginning of 2020 year Lockdown. I love this subject because he’s such a character and through my paintings I want to show him in different lights and moods as he’s been a big part of my life, that is before year 2020 when he’s been taken away from me. This is a reminder that he once was here.

Caesar no1 (King) - 2020 by Stefan Nedelcu

Shirley Cheung

Fire Fox

Size:24x30cm

Price:£150

Neera Nigam

'Be your own kind of beautiful'

Size:50x50cm

Price:£250

‘Be your own kind of beautiful’
Beauty lies not in your colour but the way you carry colours with you.
These magnificently hand crafted necklaces and jewellery fills this lady with life and make her look even more beautiful and colourful.
This lady has been brought to life with Neera’s craftsmanship on a 20×30 inch canvas with Oil Colours.
@neeras.art

Be your own kind of beautiful by Neera Nigam

Evelyn Jajechnyk

Petrikivka (Small)

Size:20x18cm

Price:NFS

During lockdown my daughter and I took part in an online art workshop. This was run by the Ukranian History and Education Centre in New Jersey, USA. We learnt about a style of Ukranian painting called ‘Petrikivka’. My husband was Ukranian and this was a great celebration of his culture.

Wilfrid Wood

'Bella 2'

Size:

Price:£100

Drawing using Chinagraph crayon

Warren K. Bradley

Untitled back

Size:22x28cm

Price:$300

The Covid lockdown forced a number of artists, (who were used to working with live models), to start creating digitally. Instead of a real person posing in one’s studio, we would draw from images on a computer – this created new & different challenges.
Chalk pastel, India ink (drawn with a stick), on paper. 8.5×11”

Eri Kikkawa

'The Brightest Star'

Size:40x50cm

Price:NFS

During the pandemic, I’ve had to cope with negative feelings such as anxieties or disappointments, as everyone has had to.
The experiences, where I felt beloved, where the world looked beautiful to me, or where I found something I can be really passionate about, has helped me to relish everyday under lots of restrictions. I explored ways of expressions and how my picture could resonate with viewers’ emotions and similar experiences.
I painted landscapes, which used to be familiar to me, fragmentally to represent that, even if memories fade over time, our past experiences have shaped who we are now and perhaps they enable us to bring to others and to the world things no one else can.
I also got inspirations from “Sirius” because of these two ideas; Sirius is the brightest star in Earth’s night sky and starts make their own lights. As Sirius shines brightly in dark winter nights, I was making a wish during painting that every one of us will survive the pandemic without giving up hope.

Wilfrid Wood

Monoprint 1

Size:A4

Price:£175

Monoprint head

A.M.Y.

'Waiting and Hoping'

Size:25x19cm

Price:£45

Pen on paper

Is the sun rising or setting? It is black because I don’t know what will happen for me, if the answer is yes, the sun will rise and colour will fill the page.

This artist is a member of New Art Studio, a unique project based in Islington that provides a therapeutic studio space for asylum seekers and refugees. www.newartstudio.org.uk

Sayed Hashumi

Brave Heart

Size:44x54cm

Price:NFS

Pastel on paper

If you’re an honest leader, if you love your country and want to help people and protect them, you will face many dangers and threats to your life, your family. You can compare this situation with ancient times, you had to face this same fate if you stood up for truth and against slavery.

This artist is a member of New Art Studio, a unique project based in Islington that provides a therapeutic studio space for asylum seekers and refugees. www.newartstudio.org.uk

Patricia Gutierrez

'Alices'

Size:41x31cm

Price:£100

Digital collage. Created during the first lockdown, the piece refers to a the new, strange experiences seem to be lived trough a looking glass.

Kasper Pincis

Exercise 34

Size:21x30cm

Price:£850

Photocopier on paper, mounted on panels and hinged with book cloth tape. This piece was being made for a solo exhibition that was due to open a couple of days before the first lockdown was announced, and is currently still postponed. I’ve recently been thinking of repeated photocopies as some kind of sedimentary layers or growth rings, so here I’ve taken a comprehension exercise from a typewriting textbook, blown it up to 141% and copied it into the same sheet of paper 141 times. I also like the idea of burying information under itself, and using an excess of information to create obscurity.

Cindy Glover

'Escape from Lockdown'

Size:32x42cm

Price:NFS

Craft -cross stitch. Staying close to my son.
In December 2019 my son went cycling around New Zealand for a couple of months ….12 months later he is still there! I sewed this picture as a way of keeping in touch with him during lockdown.

James O’Hara

Iro

Size:32x32cm

Price:£85

iPad drawing from a zoom session with Candid Arts life model Iro Costello.

Anna Niman

'Here We Go Again'

Size:30x40cm

Price:£85

‘Here We Go Again’ is a piece drawn at the start of the second Lockdown in London, this time using ink on plain heavyweight paper. Revisiting the reflections in ‘Reflect Lockdown’ in another self portrait, this time with diminished materials (no more watercolour paper and a plea for more) and marking a new wave of anticipation. This is a high quality archival giclee print, printed on Hahnemuhle German Etching, 21x29cm (same size as original), signed with the number of edition. The framed print is £85, whilst unframed prints are available for £40.

Mary Gordon-Smith

Pattern World

Size:46x56cm

Price:£100

Acrylic painting on canvas. A collaboration between mother and daughter. I painted the pattern in black and white last year, inspired by a bark cloth pattern in the Pacific exhibition at the British Museum. I love the thought of far distant lands and communities. My painting was strong and graphic but lacking something. My daughter was out of work at the beginning of lockdown and suggested that she colour it in. Yes! The result is something a bit wonderful we think.

Ned Handzic

'Klaus'

Size:15x20cm

Price:NFS

‘Everything that can be digitised will be digitised’
Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Well aware that crises are rarely allowed to ‘go to waste’, I became interested in what broader agendas might be bundled with responses to the virus.
One of the most interesting, detailed and unmistakably technocratic visions is laid out on the WEF site, titled the “Great Reset”.
https://www.weforum.org/great-reset

Vera Jajechnyk

Going 'Dark' but the Show must go on!

Size:30x40cm

Price:Donations

A celebration of West End Theatre and a thought for all the people in the industry who have been without work. The show must go on!
A donation to buy this will go to The Show Must Go On charity.

Poppy Hollis

'BLUE STAIRWAY, CHEFCHAOUEN 2019'

Size:210x297mm

Price:£59

For those who missed travel this year, I curated a mix of images from some of my favourite places that I hope might make Christmas gifts for frustrated travellers or so that you can have your own slice of some beautiful corners of the world. The collection of images were put together during lockdown. All photographs are sold unframed and their size is 210mm x 297mm. Images are open edition prints, a certificate of authenticity is provided and my images are printed on to Hahnemühle Pearl 285 gsm paper a Giclée print with an archival lifespan of up to 200 years. There are five images submitted into this years Class Of 2020 exhibition and they are as follows: “High Flying Birds, Jaipur 2017”, “Pelican Bar, Jamaica 2019”, “Dusk, Santorini 2011”, “Blue Stairway, Chefchaouen 2019”,
“Sunflowers, Alberobello 2019”

BLUE STAIRWAY, CHEFCHAOUEN 2019 by Poppy Hollis

Helen Jacobus

John

Size:A5

Price:£20

Zoom portrait in pencil on paper.

Violet Redmond

'Where I would like to be'

Size:24.5 x 18cm

Price:NFS

After the loss I’ve had this year, this picture was a place to escape to. I painted this picture at the Rainbow Arts group in Surrey Quays, where I meet weekly with friends, which has helped us get through this difficult time. Thank God for the art class!

Where I would like to be by Violet Redmond

Amal Mirajkar

Lost in the Spiral Arms of Galaxies

Size:100x50x4cm

Price:€4200

please specify that 5% will be given to charity.”Lost In The Spiral Arms Of Galaxies” is based on my dreams are embraced by the arms of galaxies.
This painting was made during the lockdown which didn’t lock me down to achieve my goal and this is shown through my painting.

Evangeline Armstrong

'Kensal Rise'

Size:A4

Price:£100

From the collection “Lines Meet”, a series of drawings from London streets
in lockdown.

Susan M Wallis

THe Conversation

Size:25x35cm

Price:£250

Oil painting on canvas. With my life drawing class closed in the pub function room, I decided to put it to use as a large studio. Reflecting on the closure of hospitality I was inspired by the memories of pub conversations over a pint. The current lack of social interaction and how as people we thrive on each others company and shared experiences. Tales are told and opinions exchanged. Celebrations, jubilations, reflections and commiserations, all marked in time spent within the pub community. The pub is woven within our cultural heritage, each one with their own unique ‘family’.
As I painted in the empty function room, I could feel the atmospheric revelry, hear the chatter, the corks popping, and the laughter. In amongst the throng two men intense in conversation, oblivious to all. This brings me to this painting, ‘The Conversation’. This just one of my responses to our national heritage, the pub!

Pam Frost

'Tory Pin Up'

Size:A4

Price:NFS

Multi millionaire, ex Goldman Sachs, voted for cuts to public services, similar voice to Tony Blair – sexy Rishi’s ex boss at Goldman Sachs described him as ‘too nice to win in the dirty world of politics’.. Anyone like to place bets on that?

Pat Mynott

Homage to Lowry

Size:65x65cm

Price:NFS

Art galleries closed. Art classes/studios closed. Therefore – art at home with materials at hand (paint not compatible with home décor). I used newspapers, magazines and embroidery materials to pay homage to artists I admire. Newsprint, Pritt stick, and black felt tip pen. I feel that by imitating the work of Lowry and Rousseau, I have gained insight into their style and personalities.

david knapp

'Autumn'

Size:21x30cm

Price:£20

It’s the first mist and frost of the winter, but later there will be hot buttered crumpets with Rosie in the inglenook. This is a mixed-media piece, made from acrylic paint, crayon and pencil on paper.

Janet McNish

Discernment

Size:A5

Price:£70

Her expression shows she’s realising something…
Inspired by our model Aga. Painted during our “Moustache Portraits Drawing Group” moved online during the first Lockdown.
Drawing A5. Pastels and Graphite on Mixed Media Paper. In a black A4 frame with white mount.

Anna Niman

'Inertia 3'

Size:40x50

Price:£120

Inertia 3: The Inertia series is in 4 parts, with originals in watercolour and some additionally in ink and pencil wet media. This is a limited edition of 50 high quality archival giclee prints, printed on Aquarelle Rag, 24×30 (same size as originals), signed with the number of edition. The framed print is £120, whilst unframed prints are available for £60.

The originals were a personal interpreted response to live modelled session on Zoom with Safire and Sirens, during the middle of the second lockdown. A rare opportunity for artistic relief from the monotony of Lockdown.

Tracey Downing

Moems in Mind

Size:17.5x17.5cm

Price:£22

Moems in Mind is a book of poetry and paintings made in response to Lockdown 1 in May 2020. I am primarily a painter but during lockdown I began writing down poetic responses to my thoughts. My book contains Moems that are thoughtful and at times humorous. I was mindful of the situation of others whilst writing; especially NHS staff and those who had little chance to stay home whilst the rest of us were being urged to. Moems is my word for a moment in time captured or on a bad day, a cross between a Moan and a Poem. I chose just 22 for my first book but am still writing and recently have begun writing Moems in response to my paintings which is fascinating and helps me make sense of work which invariably begins intuitively and sits between abstraction and representation.

Pam Walker

'Tree-age'

Size:30x30cm

Price:£110

Acrylic on canvas. This emerged through various processes into a tree landscape . Lockdown has enabled me to focus on trees in their many guises. This particular painting depicts trees painted onto toilet rolls … unsurprisingly it didn’t work as a sculpture. Remembering the significance of toilet rolls at the beginning of all this…. I liked the idea of toilet roll forest .

Kelly Wood

Toys in a Toy Box

Size:40x20x30cm

Price:£50

I am a volunteer at Southwark Helping Hands club. My passion is sewing and making things that make people happy. I chose to make toys at club where the members who have learning difficulties take part mainly in the stuffing of the animals that I sew. They have great fun watching the pieces take shape.

Solomon Grace

'Classic Dutch still life in the modern world'

Size:50x40cm

Price:£80

Oil on canvas

Art takes on different forms, but it is eternal.

This artist is a member of New Art Studio, a unique project based in Islington that provides a therapeutic studio space for asylum seekers and refugees. www.newartstudio.org.uk

Classic Dutch still life in the modern world by Solomon Grace

Alina Marinchenko

Lovely Megan

Size:30.5x21cm

Price:£50

Megan‘s surname rhymes with „sparkle“ – this is what I see in this person and tried to paint on paper.

Satomi Takayama

'Mother and Daughter'

Size:36.5x31.5cm

Price:£180

I moved down from London to Cornwall as soon as the lockdown was over in June, to get inspired for my painting. I was staying with a Cornish family and this is the painting of them which I created there. During the three and half month stay they have given me a different aspect of how to live the moment. They always made me laugh and were making a joke out of the whole thing, which made me even forget that we were in the difficult times. I grew up with my Japanese family who has a serious personality without much laugh. Spending time with them meant a lot to me. They certainly became unforgettable memories.

Nick Richards

Portrait of Bela

Size:28x33cm

Price:£300

Portrait in oils painted from life, alla prima in one session, of Bela

Sophia Boursot

'Donkey II'

Size:50x50cm

Price:£85

This is an acrylic painting on canvas of a donkey, one of a total series of four. I think it was shortly after the main lockdown, but they were painted around the time there was a lot of talk about donkey sanctuaries and being led by donkeys. Painting them helped me feel a little calmer about the craziness of 2020. They are a bit of fun, away from my other work, but nevertheless in my style of painting: working in many layers, with texture, blending and blurring lines.
These are all unframed, but the edges are painted if you would like to hang unframed.
Price includes delivery to mainland UK.

Rachel Wyatt

Isolating in the Bedroom

Size:44x54cm

Price:

Isolating in the bedroom is a self-portrait painted in the same room that’s depicted, while the artist was isolating after testing positive for COVID-19. The soft colours that contrast between the light in the room and the dark hallway illustrate the barrier between the bedroom and the outside, and the isolation of the subject.

The subject is both exposed and covered up, in her use of a face-mask. This accentuates the power of the mask as the only necessary clothing to stay safe, and in this case protect others. The viewer’s gaze is drawn to the surgical mask and antibacterial spray as iconic objects that highlight the strangeness of our time and inspire caution.

Isolating in the bedroom is an autobiographical painting that shows honestly the artist’s experience of self-isolation.

Andrea Gewessler

'Whimsical I'

Size:186x150cm

Price:£350

Whimsical I, inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Spring lockdown. An alternate reality, full of colour, a refuge from the big issues in the world to which we need to return eventually but only after our mind and soul has rested. Artist quality acrylic on Fabriano paper. Unframed. Pick up and delivery within 5 miles from SE20, outside the congestion charging area free. Delivery further out in Kent and South London possible but will be charged.

Janine Hall

Untitled (Red/Grey)

Size:70x100cm

Price:NFS

Acrylic paint and graphite on paper, November 2020. The start of a series of work – a conversation between graphite and paint or drawing and painting. Inspired by Rothko’s grey and brown paintings on paper and Robert Ryman’s white paintings. Work was completed during the 2nd Lockdown

Marie Ericsson

'Halong Bay'

Size:32x23cm

Price:£70

Acrylic painting. This was done recently during the second lockdown. It’s a place in S.E. Asia and exudes such a feeling of peace I think. I wanted to feel some peace myself so thought of painting this place which is full of tranquillity.

Erick Mota

Lost iPhone

Size:20x20in

Price:$2,400

This oil painting represents the fun a group of monkeys would have if they found an iPhone and took a selfie.
I did this painting in 2020 right before the pandemic and just wanted to portray my love of monkeys in a fun composition.

Helen Jacobus

'Morgan'

Size:30x40cm

Price:£25

A quick sketch of model, circus and movement artist Morgan Barbour from a recording of a dynamic poses session on Zoom during lockdown restrictions. A year ago, I would never have imagined that it would have been possible to draw people remotely. It’s happened out of necessity and is resulting in a different kind of art.
Drawing on paper, November 2020.

Pato Gainza

Mask (mascaras)

Size:48x36cm

Price:£223

Mask Series are paintings made of charcoals and acrylics.
I work around the human face representation.
When painting, some intentions are manifest, but I always look for or occur events, those ungraspable, something of the “third sense” named by Roland Barthes, that open or unfold the accidental, the spontaneous.
I have been working on Mask Series for the last ten years and these three drawings were made during the lockdown.

Janet Dunning

'Mirror Mirror'

Size:23x24cm

Price:£60

I have a 1950s powder compact which is beautifully made and lovely to hold. So I decided to draw it including the face and hand. We had much more time in lockdown to gaze at smaller things. Dipping pen with watercolour ink.

Bernard Victor

Sunset

Size:50x40cm

Price:£80

A semi-absract on a deep canvas of a sunset

Kaiying Cai

'Another Smoking Scene'

Size:36x28cm

Price:£60

Watercolour on paper
Daily activity during lockdown: smoking
I am a painter currently studying Fine Art at Falmouth university. I keep my practice open to a range of media but mainly focus on oil paint and Watercolour. Most of my works are figurative because I like to investigate people and painting people is my way to show my love and interest.
I always find smoking scenes fascinating, both in films and real life. I want to capture this beautiful moment of smoke spreading through space. I have done a few studies of people smoking using Watercolour and this is my latest piece.
If you like my work and want to see more please check out my Instagram @cora_ou
And I’m taking commission.

Gordon Stewart

Trees on Clapham Common

Size:40x32cm

Price:£75

Trees on Clapham Common. Based on a photo taken on a walk in November 2020 to the butcher’s for necessary food and some wholly unnecessary luxuries, during the Second Lockdown. Painted in Battersea a few days later. Acrylics on A4 paper. One of a series of works submitted to the exhibition.

S.K.

'Spinning winning wheel'

Size:46x33cm

Price:£80

pencil on paper

Just running running, never stops. There are ups and downs, but it keeps going, not broken, not stoppping. A winner, surviving, till now.

This artist is a member of New Art Studio, a unique project based in Islington that provides a therapeutic studio space for asylum seekers and refugees.
www.newartstudio.org.uk

Sally Eldars

Amal

Size:77 x 42 x 12cm

Price:

Found drawers, old baby shoes, nails and house paint
Amal is part of a series of ongoing work which I started during lockdown, commenting of the plight of refugee children and the refugee crises.
So many obstacles child refugees face out of no fault of their own, but in-spite of that may have aspirations, dreams and hopes for a better future.
Amal, is an Arabic girls name meaning Hope.
Embroidered in green (the colour of hope) on the found baby shoe, which is stepping on and crushing any obstacles in their way. The only way to survive the horrible conditions in refugee camps is to have hope of a better future.

Tim Stocks

'Minamoto Yoritomo – first dictator of Japan'

Size:40x50cm

Price:£300

Minamoto Yoritomo – first dictator of Japan by Tim Stocks

Jenny Lea

Hot Sauce

Size:7x9in

Price:£45

Oil painting on paper, made during the lockdown when I didn’t have any aesthetic fruit or veg and was really scraping the barrel of what to paint, so thought I would make use of the tiny tobacco bottle that’s been in the back of the cupboard for years!

Warren K. Bradley

'Mama Africa'

Size:22x28cm

Price:$300

Constantly emerging, (since no one knows me). Using various mediums & whatever style suits at the moment of inspiration, I’m exploring themes of race, sexuality, finance, life & death!
Got your attention now?!?!

“Mama Africa” gouache, oil pastel & collage on paper. 8.5×11”
@wkbbrat

Bec Dennison

Colour / Sea Study II

Size:26x20cm

Price:NFS

Pencil on 300gsm Hot Pressed Watercolour paper.

Created during lockdown 2.0, this piece started off as a study to help improve my perception and use of colour. I worked on it between other projects and as it progressed, it developed into something deeper – I felt like I was looking through a little window whenever I worked on the piece and it gave some relief to the chaos outside.

Bernd Reichert

'Study of a female portrait'

Size:30x30cm

Price:£270

Acrylics on canvas.
During the first confinement in spring this year, I did a number of paintings on a smaller scale. The idea was to use this period of reduced social contacts to try out different ways to handle the paint. Maybe a way to deal with the uncertainty by introducing different scenarios into painting. Who would have expected that at the end of the year this situation hasn’t changed but actually worsening. Now we are in the second lockdown and so there is more opportunity for experimentation.

Study of a female portrait by Bernd Reichert

Ashley Allen

Picasso

Size:25x25cm

Price:£200

A contemporary portrait of Pablo Picasso, painted in oil on panel – framed.

Helen Kelly

'Beach Scene'

Size:24x18cm

Price:£10

My granddaughter inspired me to paint this lovely coastal scene. It reminded me of some of the places I’ve been on holiday over the years, Devon and Cornwall are some of my favourites. Painted in watercolours.

Mariame Lindell

A Teapot with a Difference

Size:Teapot sized

Price:£50

A cardboard teapot created in between lockdowns as part of the ‘Boxed In’ art project. An everyday household item created in cardboard. I enjoyed translating the teapot’s usual spherical and smooth form through the means of the cardboard’s rough and flat consistency.

Janet McNish

'Kind Visitor'

Size:A4

Price:£150

Pastel drawing on Craft Paper. Since surviving a major accident in January 2020, I’ve been unable to walk or see properly. In great physical pain – yet with gratitude in my heart, I drew this portrait in over 9 hours.
Inspired by Josie’s visit and others who have kindly supported my recovery journey. Let’s be mindful that love and kindness are still abundant even in difficult times. Where there’s life there is hope.

Jessica Sheehan

Doom and Gloom

Size:A3

Price:£95

Ballpoint pen on 250gsm paper
Made during the very quiet evenings in lockdown round 2.

Sarah Tille

'New Beginnings'

Size:34.5x46.5cm

Price:£100

A chalk, charcoal and pastel portrait study. Created during lockdown number 1 as part of a 100 day challenge to draw portraits every day. This piece’s is really trying to capture that feeling of hope and looking forward to brighter days.

Brahim

North African

Size:33x46cm

Price:NFS

oil painting

North African traditional dress of a man from Algeria in the 19th century.

This artist is a member of New Art Studio, a unique project based in Islington that provides a therapeutic studio space for asylum seekers and refugees.
www.newartstudio.org.uk

Alice Frecknall

'Self Portrait, April 2020'

Size:5x10cm

Price:£75

Pencil crayon on brown paper.

This self portrait was drawn in mid-April, during the first lockdown of the pandemic. It was intended to be a full head-and-shoulders portrait but the moment I put my pencils down, I hated it. The subject looked so sad. I placed it in a drawer, where it sat for the next few months. Approaching the second lockdown, at the end of October, I rediscovered it whilst looking for something else. It still felt sad and I still didn’t like it, but I was taken with this small section. There was a softness and movement to the pencil that I hadn’t noticed before, that offered something unexpected and quite beautiful. In the midst of a year that feels relentlessly hard, surrounded by loud and frightening news headlines, here was a small glimpse of quiet feeling. It’s been the little things that have seen me through this year so far – the phone call from a friend, smile from a stranger – those small glimpses of beauty and connection breaking through all the sadness.

Self Portrait, April 2020 by Alice Frecknall

William Fricker

Redriff Road Lifting Bridge

Size:52x42cm

Price:£300

Redriff Road Lifting Bridge. Surrey Quays. Oil on panel. August 2020

Phil Bartle

'Girl with Shiny Boots'

Size:18x26in

Price:£475

Blood donors social distance waiting in the shade opposite the West end donors centre during the unusually warm spring weather of the first lockdown (fortunately masks weren’t mandatory 1st time around!)

Mary Bowen

Still life with Horse

Size:35x30cm

Price:£200

Oil on canvas

Grace Rawcliffe

'Rainbow Rona'

Size:A4

Price:£65

Pastels on paper

Farley Lobban

Jane

Size:30.5x40.6cm

Price:£100

Oil paints on canvas, it was inspired by one of my online zoom session, in Augusta 2020
# drawing each other

Lesley Clifford

'Dumpster Doodles'

Size:30x30cm

Price:£80

Watercolour painting with white and black inks. Based on a photograph taken by me which was taken after lockdown, but inspired by my walks capturing random textural details of the streets and objects around me. It is a much-enlarged section of texture from a skip (dumpster) and is as accurate a depiction as I could make. It has become abstracted by its isolation and focus but it originated in banal reality. The colours were all present as dents, scrapes, cracks and scratches revealing past layers of paintwork, in addition to paint from walls and machinery that it had been scraped against.

Tina Crawford

I'm Actually a Dancer

Size:30x40cm

Price:NFS

During lockdown I had an ambulance trip to A&E with bad chest pains, Beth was the nurse doing my ECGs – she was joyous! She loves her job but is actually a dancer. Thank you Beth.
Free embroidery on cotton & face mask

Ian Fulcher

'OrnitholoSEE - 2021 'Worldwide Edition' Calendar'

Size:150x210mm

Price:£10

Are you thinking about making ANY plans next year?
Now you can, using the OrnitholoSEE 2021 Worldwide Edition wall calendar! Taken from ‘OrnitholoSEE’ – my ongoing series of bright & bold bird illustrations

Featuring 12 brand new illustrations of eye-catching birds hailing from all over the world.

It’s A5 (21 cm x 14.8cm) when closed – 42 cm when opened out flat/hung on the wall, with plenty of space for marking down your important dates.

Professionally printed and spiral bound on 250gsm stock. Design & illustration by Ian Fulcher.
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OrnitholoSEE - 2021 'Worldwide Edition' Calendar by Ian Fulcher

Tim Daly

Mirjam, 2020

Size:43x33cm

Price:£90

Mirjam modelling in Glasgow morning sunlight, online lifedrawing, charcoal and soft pastel.

Anna Maria Amato

'Playing Freedom'

Size:41x61cm

Price:£90

Dance and movement brings the energy we have in our body and life and tells the world we are here. Playing chess. Playing life. We stand still. We move. We are here and we must keep dancing.

Alex

Gazelle

Size:40x50cm

Price:£55

Acrylic on canvas

The gazelle is beautiful, not agressive. Gentle.

This artist is a member of New Art Studio, a unique project based in Islington that provides a therapeutic studio space for asylum seekers and refugees. www.newartstudio.org.uk

Alina Marinchenko

'Cosy Time'

Size:31x31cm

Price:NFS

This the longest project I have ever had. I started making first stitches more than 10 years ago and finished only in 2020 – the year when we stared to spend time most of the time at home, trying to find comfort in nice, warm, lulling things.

Greg Harris

Random Portrait

Size:40x50cm

Price:£180

A portrait of a random person. Roughly an amalgamation of the various models from my mum’s Peruvian Connection spring/summer catalogue.

Ruth Fildes

'Suit Yourself'

Size:58x45cm

Price:NFS

A collection of self-portrait drawings on a deck of playing cards – one completed during each week of 2020 and it’s still going!

Anna Niman

Reflect Lockdown

Size:40x50cm

Price:£115/£60

’Reflect Lockdown’ is a watercolour self portrait originally, one of many made during our first Lockdown 2020 isolation; reflecting the infinite fluctuations, distortions and expressions I shared with in my isolated company. This is a limited edition of 50 high quality archival giclee prints, printed on Aquarelle Rag , 24x30cm (same size as original), signed with the number of edition. The framed print is £115, whilst unframed prints are available for £60.

John Pipal

'Corvid 19'

Size:40x40cm

Price:£250

I recently became fixated on the idea of the group name for the Crow family of birds (CORVID) and the COVID virus. So what was Corvid 19…. the nineteenth crow in a flock settling on the roof of a large building?
But wait, this is a big family of quite familiar and some unfamiliar birds. Some very exotic and others very much part of british culture – magpie, raven, jay, jackdaw and rook. So there was well over 19 types of Corvid. So then I started to put them together. Each in drawn pencil then ink from an internet image and painted in acrylics on paper. And
also numbered so that 19 was an old friend – the carrion crow – Britain’s crow – Corvid 19.

Gavin Nicholls

Rushy Portrait

Size:40x50cm

Price:NFS

Rushy Portrait, oil on canvas board. After lockdown and restrictions were eased, Shai (Rushy) and another PT Carlos (whose portrait I’ll hopefully be painting soon) arranged a bootcamp in the park. This created a much needed group activity during a really tough year where many had been isolated. New friendships were made during this time and it was such an important contribution to the community. Definitely Class of 2020! I’m aiming to continue a series of portraits in this style.

Tina Crawford

'Truth Twisters'

Size:45x15cm

Price:NFS

Free embroidery on cotton

Frances Marriott

Naomi

Size:30x42cm

Price:NFS

15 minute Portrait done over zoom with the ‘Quarantine Art Club’ meet up. Model Naomi sat and I reworked the initial pose to great something decadent and rich, influenced by Austrian artists that I had seen on a trip before lockdown.

Dominic Lopez

'3 Bears'

Size:60.96 x 91.44

Price:$6,977

The painting was made during lockdown and showcases the lack of equanimity in our society predicated on the story of three bears and Goldilocks.

The great paradox
Three bears and Goldilocks
“All animals are equal
But some are more equal than others”
Tragedy for our mothers
“We must be cruel to be kind”
Serpentine.
Shakespearean, prevailing philosophy epicurean

I’ll be much more
Than just yours
Musical chairs, state of affairs
Bitcoin transfers, Nakamoto
Is it real?
No-Go.
Dutch tulip bulb market bubble
Asking for trouble

The real money heist
Is the moment you look away
Pointe shoes weightless in the air
Ballet.
Hike up your tutu
And say thank you
Take it slow, Skull of a Skeleton
With a Burning Cigarette, Van Gough
@Dlogotu

Aggie Kubara

That's Ed Ruscha.

Size:40x50cm

Price:NFS

Giclee print / Buff clay portrait, monochrome photography.

A short anecdote and the sentence uttered by Russell Tovey during Sky Arts TV show, Portrait Artist Of The Week live session becomes an inspiration to capture the ambivalent emotion and create this portrait of Russell Tovey.
It raises my further questions about Identity, Artistic Creation and Individuality.

Pato Gainza

'Mask (mascaras)'

Size:46x33cm

Price:£223

Mask Series are paintings made of charcoals and acrylics.
I work around the human face representation.
When painting, some intentions are manifest, but I always look for or occur events, those ungraspable, something of the “third sense” named by Roland Barthes, that open or unfold the accidental, the spontaneous.
I have been working on Mask Series for the last ten years and these three drawings were made during the lockdown.

Andrew Barrington

Thursday night outside St John

Size:22x30.6

Price:£50

Thursday night outside St John – Pen and charcoal hand drawing. Print

Reminiscing over pre-lockdown days, a typical scene outside St Johns restaurant in Clerkenwell, London. This is intended to portray a Thursday evening in winter. Thursdays nights have a nice feel to them. Work the next day somehow maintains a comforting feeling of routine, whilst the closeness of the weekend brings an acceptability to go and have a few drinks, without the organised pressure or larger crowds of a Friday. This is one of many similar scenes I would pass on my normal cycle commute, an aspect of office life that I have missed whilst working from home. It reminds me how we could spontaneously drop in for a drink somewhere on the way home, something that no longer happens but hopefully will one day not too far away.

I was inspired to produce this during the deepest depths of the first lockdown, simply because this was the sort of scene I wanted to see. It offered comfort and familiarity

Tom Ledger

'Sebastiao'

Size:2xA3

Price:NFS

I used to attend one or two art classes a week in London, then I had two kids and moved to Birmingham – not a complaint! – and that went down to zero. The Zoom classes that started up during lockdown enabled me to start drawing and painting again, and reconnect with old friends. These pieces are of professional dancer & capoeira expert Sebastiao who was posing live from Brazil.
@tomrledger

Mark Lovelace

Portrait of Tammy Weiss

Size:33x45cm

Price:£50

Watercolour Portrait of Tammy Weiss from one of my weekly Sunday afternoon online portrait sessions with Shoal of Art. Made on Sunday 29th November 2020 during the second lockdown.

Yomi Majekodunmi

'Malcolm X'

Size:15x12in

Price:£75

Yomi Majekodunmi is a British artist living in Caldwell New Jersey. This is a print of Malcolm X.

Princess Palacol

Escape

Size:50x40cm

Price:£140

Janine Hall

'Untitled (Red/Yellow)'

Size:70x100cm

Price:NFS

Acrylic and graphite on paper, November 2020. The start of a series of work – a conversation between graphite and paint or drawing and painting. Inspired by Rothko’s grey and brown paintings on paper and Robert Ryman’s white paintings. Work was completed during the 2nd Lockdown

Charlie Butler

Robot

Size:125x80x60cm

Price:£75

I wanted to build a robot because it is something really difficult to make. It was a challenge. I used cardboard first, then got support on it to build it up, before I covered it in tin foil. The arms are made of bottles with black paint inside them. It was made at Rod’s Boxed In project in Surrey Quays over two weeks in September.

Sylvie Pipal

'The Deer'

Size:7x7cm

Price:£5

oil pastel on canvas

Tracey Downing

Bun in the Oven

Size:34x34cm

Price:£150

My work sits between abstraction and representation. I finished this painting after lockdown 1. With cancelled Art Fairs and exhibitions I found myself reworking this painting and the other I’ve submitted called ‘Round the Bend’. For ‘Bun in the Oven’ I was thinking about confinement and containment which lockdown felt like, along with a preoccupation with online grocery shopping and cooking. I started writing poetry during lockdown and enjoy working with words and images. I have also submitted my Poetry book “Moems in Mind’ which I wrote in lockdown. I’ve recently begun writing poems in response to my painting which have helped elicit their meaning to me.

Theres a bun in the oven
That wants to get out
But the door is shut
So it screams and shouts
The temperature rises, up it goes
Better move fast or it might explode

Gail Seres-Woolfson

'Green House Landscape'

Size:30x40cm

Price:£275

Green House Landscape is a mixed media collage I made during the first lockdown. It combines newspaper print dominated by Covid reporting, and fragments of my own photography of parts of the city I could no longer reach in person. My art practice explores the rhythms and movement of the urban landscape and how we engage with the constantly shifting spaces, structures and environment around us. The title Green House Landscape has multiple connotations; I associate the colour green with Covid and disease on account of the green lurgy emoji, but also the title refers to the healing landscape of lockdown with fewer people and pollutants in it, and also to a landscape with the masses confined to their houses and gardens. I began this collage during an online art course I taught during lockdown to connect together creative minds and encourage and support each other through these strange times.

Green House Landscape by Gail Seres-Woolfson

Susan M Wallis

The Shiraz Girls

Size:25x35cm

Price:£250

Oil painting on canvas. Created in my new studio and empty function room above our closed pub. Once alive with joviality and celebration and joyous creativty from the muse and the artist. On the last session before lockdown two girls came to see the response to the life drawing. Eager to participate at the next session but it wasn’t to be. The Shiraz Girls is reminiscent of the social importance of the pub in society. It’s more than a drink it’s a family.

Sophia Boursot

'Donkey I'

Size:50x50cm

Price:£85

This is an acrylic painting on canvas of a donkey, one of a total series of four. I think it was shortly after the main lockdown, but they were painted around the time there was a lot of talk about donkey sanctuaries and being led by donkeys. Painting them helped me feel a little calmer about the craziness of 2020. They are a bit of fun, away from my other work, but nevertheless in my style of painting: working in many layers, with texture, blending and blurring lines.
These are all unframed, but the edges are painted if you would like to hang unframed.
Price includes delivery to mainland UK.

Beverlyn Lopez

Endurances during hard times

Size:80x30cm

Price:NFS

Endurances is a mural size painting on canvas by Beverlyn Lopez
completed in December 2019. The painting uses grey, white and black. Size 30x80cm 12x31in
It can be view as an abstract imagery; seeing it from your own perspective. From the painter’s analyses; it is about sailing throughout the raging tide of life difficulties, staying focus not giving up until you reach the shore or better days ahead . Faith in God will carry you through it.

Artist: Beverlyn Lopez
Subject: Endurance, faith hope and courage
Narrative Art
Art form painting

Erick Mota

'The Devil Is A Liar'

Size:18x24in

Price:$2,600

This oil painting represents the desires we have and how the devil tries to interfere, while speaking out of character and telling us lies. The face of the devil does not deserve to be seen in detail and therefore looks as if it was wiped out. The light around him represents the Holy Spirit taking over and winning the internal battle we all face.
I made this piece last year, but after the tough 2020 we all faced, in which some faced doubt, extreme hardship, and uncertainty, this piece seemed relevant to end this year.

John Pipal

Study Bedroom

Size:35x30cm

Price:NFS

spring sunlight creates interesting shadows and splashes of light on a tabletop. painting in acrylics on paper. made during the first lockdown.

David Riley

'(To Walk) In Astral Fields'

Size:70x70cm

Price:NFS

On deep reflection developed during 2020 by reaching into a teenage memory. That loss of innocence and coming of age. Fluid consciousness at that point and in that space in time when the subject was then most familiar to me.
Imaged in photographic process.

(To Walk) In Astral Fields by David Riley

Reyhaneh

Flower

Size:46x33cm

Price:£80

Acrylic on paper

Painting a flower gives a sense of freedom of expression out of anxiety and feeling constrained.

This artist is a member of New Art Studio, a unique project based in Islington that provides a therapeutic studio space for asylum seekers and refugees. www.newartstudio.org.uk

Shirley Cheung

'One for Courage'

Size:40x40cm

Price:£250

Chris Ashworth

Abstract Shards

Size:34x44cm

Price:£80

Inspired by concept of broken glass, different colours, overlapping, underlapping.
Black frame , oil on canvas panel

Nidhi Mehan

'Drink Responsibly'

Size:24.5x30.5cm

Price:£65

Oil on canvas board created during the first lockdown.

Poppy Hollis

PELICAN BAR, JAMAICA 2019

Size:210x297mm

Price:£59

For those who missed travel this year, I curated a mix of images from some of my favourite places that I hope might make Christmas gifts for frustrated travellers or so that you can have your own slice of some beautiful corners of the world. The collection of images were put together during lockdown. All photographs are sold unframed and their size is 210mm x 297mm. Images are open edition prints, a certificate of authenticity is provided and my images are printed on to Hahnemühle Pearl 285 gsm paper a Giclée print with an archival lifespan of up to 200 years. There are five images submitted into this years Class Of 2020 exhibition and they are as follows: “High Flying Birds, Jaipur 2017”, “Pelican Bar, Jamaica 2019”, “Dusk, Santorini 2011”, “Blue Stairway, Chefchaouen 2019”,
“Sunflowers, Alberobello 2019”

Sophie Hinds

'Poppy'

Size:34x44cm

Price:NFS

This painting is one of three I’m submitting Poppy, Rose and Lily. Poppy was the very first painting I worked on over lockdown, so is a special painting to me for that reason.

After many years commissioning and advising photographers and illustrators with their work as part of my my job, Lockdown kick started my passion for painting flowers…

It’s been a journey picking up the paintbrush again, and being in a much different world now to when I first came to London as a budding illustrator/designer many years ago, I lost my way with painting, though the necessity of work but thrived in a creative industry and helping other artists.

The slow down of lockdown, spending time in my garden and remembering my love for Georgia O Keefe (who inspired me as a schoolgirl to take up art in the first place) has led to my rediscovery of art and colour and to set up a business to sell prints of my paintings. I haven’t looked back since.

Sarah Tille

Perseverance

Size:34.5x46.5cm

Price:£80

A chalk and pastel portrait created during the first lock down in March. At the time it was all about mentally psyching yourself up for what was to come next – take a deep breath, dig in and on we go. I think it sums up not only lockdown 1 but certainly lockdown 2.

Greg Harris

'Celebrity Internet Friends'

Size:40x60cm

Price:£200

A portrait in Oil paints of French Canadian Actress Charlotte Lebon, who I entrapped into sharing my work on her official Instagram page by making a portrait and tagging her in a shameless exercise in self-promotion. For me it my quintessential work of 2020, being the product of the boredom and general loss of touch with reality associated with the lockdown and subsequent weirdness of these pandemic-ey times.

Celebrity Internet Friends by Greg Harris

Ruth Fildes

Indignation

Size:20x20cm

Price:£200

This is a self portrait painting which was made at the very start of the first lockdown when I was feeling rather angry and upset. The work uses a photograph which really did capture a true and pivotal moment in which I felt somewhat out of control.

David

'Explosion of colours to brighten up your day'

Size:40x50cm

Price:£80

mixed media on canvas

Everything is happening at once.

This artist is a member of New Art Studio, a unique project based in Islington that provides a therapeutic studio space for asylum seekers and refugees. www.newartstudio.org.uk

Explosion of colours to brighten up your day by David

Chris Ashworth

Village Elder,Atitlan,Guatemala

Size:28x36cm

Price:£75

Oil on canvas, painted from photo having visited Guatemala in February. Her hat is a long strip of red rope like material wound round and round to indicate the Atitlan Lake formed from an ancient volcano. She was the village elder of one of the villages surrounding the lake. Avery strong personality

Mary Bowen

'Tree, Wimbledon Common'

Size:20x16cm

Price:£100

Oil on canvas

Tim Stocks

President Trump Number 45

Size:50x40cm

Price:£350

it is a drawing on linen canvass and it features President Trump outside the whitehouse walking with the famous views behind and around him.a powerful portrait of a much loved president who got the most votes of any Republican candidate in history of us politics.it also features great colours and has a abstract look to the piece.all drawn using my eyes with pro marker pen on linen canvass.

Rod Kitson

'Pigeon'

Size:A3

Price:£45

In 2020 I aimed to go beyond representation by ‘upgrading’ old life drawings on paper, which I treated with varnish before adding indian ink and oil paints.
The exterior imagery was inspired by memory, imagination and references to mythology, the metaphysical world and spirituality.
From the originals, I made editions of 5 giclee prints, 297x420mm on heavy paper.

Sarah Victoria Spence

Behind Closed doors: portraits of vice #3

Size:30x40cm

Price:£145

Acrylic paint, encaustic, paper collage on canvas.
Made November 2020 during the second lockdown. What do we do behind closed doors to entertain us …… our secret vices are more prevalent, good or bad, the human coping mechanism finds a way to survive. Number 3 of 3

Per Anton Risan

'Falling, fallen, falled'

Size:50x50cm

Price:£138

Falling, fallen, felled was created out of the angst of lockdown, returning to old work, re-working, over-painting and exploring the inward journey of isolation and the formation of solid voids.
Islands surrounded by icy distance.

The coolnes of the colours used in this painting also reflect my inner return to the Arctic Swedish tundra where I grew up, seeking refuge amongst the snow heaps of warmth in the cool landscape.

Falling, fallen, falled by Per Anton Risan

James O’Hara

Daryl with someone else's eyes

Size:12x12in

Price:£85

Drawing from an online Zoom portrait session in November 2020. The model is Daryl Hembrough with someone else’s eyes

Cindy Glover

'Same Storm - different boats'

Size:40x30cm

Price:NFS

Water colour painting , some said with covid “we are all in the same boat” -we are not ! some are are in very different boats. Made during lockdown.

Same Storm - different boats by Cindy Glover

Cat Coulter

Undercurrent of Nos Sea

Size:45x62cm

Price:£120

The ‘nos’ (nitrous oxide) canisters used in this piece were collected before Covid-19 arrived. I found far fewer of them lying around during lockdown, but many more again once restrictions were eased. Where did they all go during this time?
Being underwater makes me feel kind of claustrophobic, which may be why I have made so many underwater pieces during lockdown?

Jacqui Hamer

'Sleepyhead#3'

Size:20x26cm

Price:NFS

Oil on aluminium.Painted during lockdown.Part of an on-going series.

Rod Kitson

The Oak

Size:A3

Price:£45

In 2020 I aimed to go beyond representation by ‘upgrading’ old life drawings on paper, which I treated with varnish before adding indian ink and oil paints.
The exterior imagery was inspired by memory, imagination and references to mythology, the metaphysical world and spirituality.
From the originals, I made editions of 5 giclee prints, 297x420mm on heavy paper.

A.K.

'Calm Face'

Size:46x33cm

Price:£80

Watercolour on paper

Despite the fact that black is full of stress, this face is in complete calm.

Lesley Clifford

Spectrum

Size:20x25cm

Price:£40

Photograph taken on mobile phone camera and processed on Instagram. Taken after lockdown on a long-awaited trip to the beach at Botany Bay, Kent. During lockdown I have taken pictures of details around my home during my daily exercise, and have shared them on Instagram. My eye is drawn towards areas of decay or where layers of history have begun to emerge. I found these details on a shipping container left on the beach and exposed to the rigorous saltwater and sand erosion. The way the rainbow graffiti has begun to show through after being covered over resonates with the perseverance of hope and longing during our collective confinement.

Rosie Woods

'Lighthouse at the Beach'

Size:31x39cm

Price:£130

This was painted in N.Ireland where I was locked down. Painted while sitting at the beach within the 5km we could travel to, during the first strict lockdown. I thought the seagulls looked relieved to have human company again, hoping for a stray chip no doubt. There’s a sense of urgency about this series, as this was done during our ‘allocated exercise’ time.

Allan Midcalf

Light at the End of the Tunnel

Size:48x58cm

Price:£248

In the first lockdown I started cycling, going out three days a week. I am lucky to have access to open country roads. Out one day, my route took me to a tunnel under the A1, the tunnel was full of rainwater and dark, riding through I could see the light at the end, and this inspired me to paint this ‘lockdown’ painting. A plus for me is I have lost 2 Stone also.
Oil on canvas, framed.

Ned Handzic

'Fran 2.0'

Size:A3

Price:NFS

A portrait of Fran, a friend, artist and author of the term ‘Frandemic’. This was one of the rare in-person sketch sessions of 2020, and a memorable unguarded pose.

Alicia Martin

Shibori & Batik: Wearable Art Pieces.

Size:XL

Price:£25

AliciaMartinStudio is a Textile Design studio continuing the use of traditional craft skills; Shibori and Batik, a traditional dyeing technique which results in rich patterns. I explore unconventional ways to create wearable art pieces, taking inspiration from the latest GenZ fashion crazes of Tie Dye. The artisanal handcrafted quality of the process means that each piece is unique. I make my garments in hand batches, exploring with different resist materials each time. Each batch represents a different chapter as I develop the unconventional dying processes each time, whether it be with a new recipe or a new pattern, made by manipulating the fabric.

James O’Hara

'Yellow Man'

Size:30x40cm

Price:£85

iPad drawing from artist of the week session. Started out as Melanie Blatt and ended up…

Jonathan Chan

Wall

Size:25x36cm

Price:£270

Painted in the midst of the first lockdown, this is a representation of my mood at the time – I was feeling rather low both personally and creatively. Painting this self portrait, and subsequently sharing it on social media for anyone who could relate was a really cathartic experience.

James O’Hara

'Trixie'

Size:30x40cm

Price:£85

Drawing from an online Zoom portrait session in October 2020. The model is Trixie.

Annabel Stockman

Repair 4

Size:21x21x9cm

Price:NFS

Porcelain bowl, glass beads, glass foreshore sherds, glue. November 2020.
The porcelain bowl belonged to my grandmother in the 1920’s. I inherited it broken. My son accumulated beads for his jewellery-making passion when he was little. Both things have lingered in my care separately, out of sight in shapeless states. During Lockdown One I repaired a broken antique porcelain bowl with Thames 1600’s foreshore pottery sherds. Someone saw the bowl and told me about Kintsugi – ‘golden repair’- the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery.
In Lockdown Two I look at this repair with a different understanding. I used to draw everyday many years ago, but this is more interesting for me now; to re-use and combine the forgotten to make a new, viable thing.

Vanya Marinova

'Margate Impressions'

Size:40x40cm

Price:£250

This is a plein air painting meant to “document” my trip to Margate – this, after the lockdown. I think this is so far my most heroic piece done in situ: I wrestled with wind, sand, high tide, hen-sized seagulls and flies. I’m so glad I went all the way, it felt very fulfilling!

Janet McNish

Hopeful Smile

Size:A4

Price:£100

Where there’s life there is hope.

I survived a major car accident in January 2020 from which I’m still recovering. Although the pandemic has been challenging, and 3 significant people in my life have died. I have experienced a peace that transcends all understanding, it guards my heart and my mind…

As long as you are breathing-in any difficult situation, there is a possibility that things can get better. Never ever give up on yourself.
You are stronger and more resilient than you think.

David Gollancz

'Checked'

Size:36x48cm

Price:£150

Acrylic on canvas, unfinished abstract by the artist’s late father Oliver Gollancz on other side.
Proceeds of sale, net of submission fee and commission, will be donated to Sightsavers (https://www.sightsavers.org/)

Jessica Sheehan

Trash Mermaids: Best friends

Size:16x12in

Price:£255 (prints £35)

It is estimated that 80% of marine pollution comes from the land. Abandoned or discarded fishing gear is also a major problem because this trash can entangle, injure, maim, and drown marine wildlife (IUCN, 2020).

Mermaids may avoid coming into contact with the human world, but that doesn’t stop us from having an impact. Our mythology around mermaids now needs to adapt, to reflect how they would live in the sea we are shaping around them.

This is the third pin-up style watercolour I completed in this series just before lockdown hit in March. I do hope the mermaids have been spared from this virus!

Debbie Lerner

'Untitled'

Size:45x45cm

Price:NFS

During the second lockdown I just needed an image that I looked at and felt hopeful again, after many iterations on similar themes, this appeared.

Andrea Arnold

A Sinistra

Size:27.4x42cm

Price:NFS

I have been working with images of the hand as an expression of the fragility of the body and a reflection on the weight of the city. Late in 2019 I began looking at this in terms of the hand supporting or pushing against a wall, a soft body in a hard system. During lockdown I started developing these paintings further before playing with some of them in photoshop and “A Sinistra” grew organically from those sessions.

I originally intended to develop images that I would then use as ideas to develop further paintings but with so many submissions being online this year that would result in creating a painting based on a digital collage only to photograph it for an online exhibition…
So I have discovered a new medium – the Digital Collage.

The title comes from the Latin for left handed, which has given us our word for sinister. It called to me as a way of expressing the dis-quiet that can lie below the surface of the city or perhaps dis-quiet generally.
@rgb20twenty

Jesus + Rod, Harry & Axel

'Hulk'

Size:8x6ft

Price:NFS

Hulk was made as part of the Boxed In project at Surrey Quays. It was designed by Jesus (10) and was built with help from Rod before being painted by Harry and Axel – a real team effort!

Jacqui Hamer

Copy of ‘Mother with a Child on her Arm’ by Kathe Kollwitz

Size:23.5x18.5cm

Price:£130

Oil on board copy of an etching by Kathe Kollwitz.Painted during lockdown for a weekly Instagram challenge set by Laura Smith to copy a favourite piece of art in a set limited time..Really enjoyed these exercises and found them really useful.

Princess Palacol

'Fendi Cat'

Size:30x40cm

Price:£100

Sarah Victoria Spence

Behind Closed doors: portraits of vice #1

Size:30x40cm

Price:£145

Acrylic paint, encaustic, paper collage on canvas.
Made November 2020 during the second lockdown. What do we do behind closed doors to entertain ourselves ….. our secret vices are more prevalent; good or bad, the human coping mechanism finds a way to survive. Number 1 of 3

Frances Marriott

'Sick As Your Secrets'

Size:50x50cm

Price:£55

This quote is one used in addiction recovery and I really like it. It made me think of rule breaking making us ‘sick’ in a pandemic along with the bottling up of our problems through a lack of social connectivity. I made an ink blot test (Rorschach) as a global signifier of psychiatry and as a tribute to the true crime documentaries I have been watching with my boyfriend during lockdown. The mini UV Pen and torch hanging alongside is for anyone to add their secrets anonymously.

Sick As Your Secrets by Frances Marriott

Don Greenwood

Blue Malta

Size:50x70cm

Price:£275

Giclee print from Zoom online life drawing and photograph from 2020 travels to Malta.

Sayed Hashumi

'Waiting to Fly'

Size:44x54cm

Price:NFS

pastel on paper

This artist is a member of New Art Studio, a unique project based in Islington that provides a therapeutic studio space for asylum seekers and refugees. www.newartstudio.org.uk

Annie McGrath

Covid Christmas

Size:8x10in

Price:£120

This is an acrylic painting on wood, and I think speaks for itself… It’s a nativity scene inspired by the pandemic. If it sells, I will be donating 20% to NHS Charities Together, supporting NHS staff and volunteers caring for COVID-19 patients. I have also made a series of Covid Christmas cards based on this design (A6, £2.25 per card, sold in packs of x5) raising money for the same cause.

Georgiana FG

'Morning Tree'

Size:23x33cm

Price:£80

I have seen this tree every sunny morning- casting a longer and longer shadow contrasting with such strong
autumn colours

M Yeo

Untitled

Size:32x44cm

Price:£75

Image was created in the window between lockdowns, in the late summer of 2020. The transition of drawing ‘real life’ people to referencing via online galleries and videos was a difficult one. I missed the energy of the figure in front of me; the subtle movements; the vividness of the shapes and lines. When classes started again in September, it was refreshing and satisfying to once again be able to draw in person. This was a personal favourite pose as I love the suggestion of contemplation. Classes sadly retreated into lockdown with the rest of us, but the joy of those few weeks of freedom still resides within me.

Allison Merkle

'I am a little mixed up'

Size:43x18.5

Price:$150

This piece is hand embroidered on linen. This piece was made during lockdown in an effort to express the lack of control that I was feeling at the time over just about every aspect of my life. I believe that our limbs are equally as emotive as our faces and love to explore the ways in which complex emotion can be conveyed through our hands.

I am a little mixed up by Allison Merkle

Sophie Hinds

Rose

Size:34x44cm

Price:NFS

(This painting is for submission with my previous Poppy painting)

Vanya Marinova

'Stepping Out'

Size:30x30cm

Price:£210

Year 2020, whenever I am concerned, was about looking deeper within, without fear or judgement. This self portrait shows me releasing the old and the outdated. And joyously taking my power back. Leaving the Matrix, like a friend put it, when she saw the picture.

Adam Dube

House Plant

Size:40x50cm

Price:$300

Dazeyface is a public art project focused on the cross section of street art & streetwear. Primarily working with vintage garments as media for original artwork, but also in traditional media.
The ‘House Plant’ background is inspired by a vintage Thurrock RFC Halbro rugby shirt, painted in fluorescent acrylic gouache as a nod to the rugby shirt’s recurring prominence in street culture.
The flower wears a mirrored mask to reflect how politicizing a thing that keeps us safe can make it so controversial.
‘House Plant’ was made in the short window of time between restrictions being eased & reinstated. Plants and home gardens have become a necessary distraction and source of joy for many in 2020. This piece is a reminder to find happiness where you can, and to wear a f****ng mask

Chris Ashworth

'Princess of Wales Pond, Blackheath'

Size:33x33cm

Price:£90

Oil on canvas with white frame, view of the pond and woman feeding birds in spring

Princess of Wales Pond, Blackheath by Chris Ashworth

Chris Ratcliffe

Old Kent Road Alligator Park

Size:34x24cm

Price:£100/£50

This is part of a series of screenprints made throughout 2020 investigating my interest in the contrast between my daily observations of real life contrasted with the idealised images and events sold to us by through Instagram, lifestyle blogs and property developers.

In January 2020 plans were proposed for a new housing development on the site of the former Old Kent Road Gas Works. Alongside a £230 million housing and offices scheme the developers proposed plans to create London’s first ‘alligator park’ inside one of the Victorian gasholders. After outcry from residents and animal welfare groups, these plans were abandoned in September 2020 and this print documents this extraordinary proposal.

4 colour screen print on Fabriano 5 Cotton paper. Edition of 5.

Framed size – 34cm x 24cm. Unframed print size – 23cm x 17.5cm.

Fionnuala Gibson

'Beyond the front door'

Size:21x30cm

Price:NFS

‘Beyond the front door’.
Acrylic on paper.
Painted during lockdown in April 2020.

Whilst we are all experiencing the unimaginable world of lockdown and an uncertain future, I was inspired to capture the restrictive outlook from my front door. The view is painted both in focus and distortion, symbolising the reality of confinement and the lure of the outside world.

Beyond the front door by Fionnuala Gibson

Louise Anscomb

The Carnival

Size:31x41cm

Price:£25

The carnival represents a ‘pot’ of imagery banked over a two day period. The imagery spans everything from faces, masks, bodies and landscapes and is an accumulation of everyday experience: from what I see on the street below, on the woodland walks I take, from the books and magazines I gather through to screenshots and pictures taken of moments in film. Delving into the pot I create imagined scenes, moments and characters.

Drawn with brush and Indian ink directly onto the page, The Carnival was made over a period of a month and represents a place that we can all go to, regardless of what we look like, where we are from and what we do. Everyone is welcome here.

Alan Rutherford

'The Resetting of the World and the Re-emergence of the Past'

Size:21x30cm

Price:£60

In 2020 during lockdown, I had a sense of the world resetting itself. I imagined ancient tribes being re-born and mythical creatures that once inhabited ancient forests coming to life and re-claiming their ancient spaces and places. Images and legends of the past were once again re-appearing, inhabiting the cleansed natural world that was now unburdened and emancipated from our damaging creations of modernity. The junk from our world lays suppressed and buried beneath their feet, as they wander across the soft forest floors. Well for a little while, at least. Medium: Graphite drawing on paper.

The Resetting of the World and the Re-emergence of the Past by Alan Rutherford

Rebecca Tucker

I'm dreaming of...a place in the sun 002

Size:335x335mm

Price:£130

Painted after the first lock down in 2020, in a period of time when travel was still impossible, holidays were cancelled and the population of urban cities like London could only dream of coastal holidays in the sun. Inspired by images and sketches from a trip to the Scilly Isles before lock down, the subject matter references the desire to travel that was denied to everyone through 2020.

Navigating a journey between abstract and representational work, and part of a series of paintings that utilise the idea of negative space, these pieces depict a subject defined by a drawn white line. Close up the paintings are all about the layers, and brush marks, and colour, with the negative space as shapes in the foreground, but as you move back from close inspection then the paint reforms as something more referential.

A duo of paintings drawn from images of Tresco Abbey Gardens, using the outline of palm trees and subtropical foliage.

Acrylic on cradled board.

Cat Coulter

'The Least We Owe the NHS'

Size:74x74cm

Price:£300

What do we owe the NHS? Immense gratitude and all the PPE they need. And cash. Lots of cash. 10% of sale price will go to NHS Charities Together.
This work is part of a series of pieces I made during lockdown using single-use plastics and PPE.

Warren K. Bradley

Ceremonies in Dark Old Men II

Size:22x28cm

Price:$300

During the Covid19 lockdown, I started an online art challenge (30faces_30days), where we would draw each day from a different photographed image. These are two pieces from that project.
“Ceremonies in Dark Old Men II” refers to a theater piece from the 70’s. Never saw it (too young), but loved the title.
Pencil w/India ink on paper. 8.5×11”
@wkbbrat

Ned Handzic

'Peter 2.0'

Size:A3

Price:NFS

Peter was one of the first sitters I got to draw in 15-minute Zoom poses in April 2020.
I’d entered the original into the ‘Art of Isolation’ exhibition of July 2020, and was excited to see him back in this foreshortened pose in November.
I spent the first few minutes of this pose looking for the identical ‘sanguine dry’ leads as the original. The result was a rushed, unfinished work, and one of the most enjoyable.

Anne Fontenoy

Cactus on Black

Size:21x18cm

Price:£80

Colour pencil and oil pastel drawing on black Somerset paper. I drew the original pencil sketch in July 2020 just after Lockdown 1, for an Instagram #tinycatchallenge hosted by @tiny.cat.gallery (a cardboard box gallery manned by tiny plastic cats). It was set by @prpaints, to draw a favourite plant without looking at the paper until the drawing was finished. This was for a drop-in Instagram workshop during his show at the gallery.

As well as being a visual artist, I create handsewn clothes, especially wedding dresses. Due to COVID19 cancelled weddings I’ve not had as many orders for these as usual since the spring. So along with some remote and online orders, I’ve also created various new artworks.

At the start of the year I had in mind to buy some of this black paper. I bought some in July, not quite sure what for, until it seemed to me that a black background for this work would echo the making of a “blind sketch” as well as the stark era we are immersed in during 2020.

Jim Collett

'Lauca National Park, Chile'

Size:40x20cm

Price:£30 (edition of 5)

Lino reduction print on paper 12”x4”
Limited edition of 5, includes 16″x8″ mount, backboard and clear bag
This was created a month before lockdown, when I was starting to explore lino printing techniques. The experience making this piece led me to create further prints during lockdown, which I exhibited and sold at the Art of Isolation exhibition in the summer of 2020.

Lauca National Park, Chile by Jim Collett

Ana Lyn

LOCKDOWN

Size:24x36

Price:$500

“LOCKDOWN”
24×36 acrylic paint on canvas
@quirkyart.ana

Sylvie Pipal

'The Rainy Day'

Size:7x7cm

Price:£5

oil pastel on canvas

Tracey Downing

Round the Bend

Size:34x34cm

Price:£150

My work sits between abstraction and representation. The starting point for my work which is intuitive, considers thought, memory and the objects around me which hold significance. This painting evolved into something more symbolic and the title came later. I reworked this painting, finishing it after lockdown 1. There seemed something both comic and tragic in my thinking around this painting, concerned with the feeling of relentless frustration and anxiety due to the pandemic. I started writing poetry during lockdown 1 and am submitting this painting along with another titled ‘Bun in the Oven’ and my Poetry book “Moems in Mind’. I’ve recently begun writing poems in response to my painting which have helped elicit their meaning to me.

I think I’m going round the bend
and wonder will it ever end
Not the bend but all the rest
The things that put me to the test
I think I’m going round the bend
and wonder
will it ever end…

Rod Kitson

'Harvest'

Size:A3

Price:£45

In 2020 I aimed to go beyond representation by ‘upgrading’ old life drawings on paper, which I treated with varnish before adding indian ink and oil paints.
The exterior imagery was inspired by memory, imagination and references to mythology, the metaphysical world and spirituality.
From the originals, I made editions of 5 giclee prints, 297x420mm on heavy paper.

Gordon Stewart

St. Michael's, Hernhill

Size:32x23cm

Price:£75

St. Michael’s Church, Hernhill in Kent. Painted in Battersea in November 2020 from sketches and a photo in April 2020 on a country walk from our house in Whitstable during the first lockdown. One of a series of paintings I am doing of locked down Kent churches, a sad memory of our deprivation of freedom. Acrylics on A4 paper. One of several works I am submitting to the exhibition.

Sophie Hinds

'Lily'

Size:34x44cm

Price:NFS

(this is being submitted with Poppy and Rose already submited)

Rod Kitson

After the Harvest

Size:A3

Price:£45

In 2020 I aimed to go beyond representation by ‘upgrading’ old life drawings on paper, which I treated with varnish before adding indian ink and oil paints.
The exterior imagery was inspired by memory, imagination and references to mythology, the metaphysical world and spirituality.
From the originals, I made editions of 5 giclee prints, 297x420mm on heavy paper.

Isaku Gotoh

'Talking to Themselves'

Size:290x100x56mm

Price:£500

Resin Sculpture
Lockdown has afford, or forced, many of us into a more introspective mode of being, While extended isolation can be difficult to bear, a quieter way of going can also offer solace and peace.
Talking to Themselves, expressing a delicate fragility in its suspended, translucent form, draws a balance between the poles of solitude and loneliness, two ends of the same circumstance. It is at once resigned, and in repose; remote, but familiar. It is a quiet piece for an unusual time.
(photo displayed above is of the piece in progress)

Charlie Butler

Window Bear

Size:40x50cm

Price:£25

First I drew out a template then I used glass paints to draw over it. Then I painted it after. Painting on perspex was something something different to try, it’s great to use. This was made at Rod’s Boxed In project in Surrey Quays, which I visited most Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays before the second lockdown.

Kevin Dolan

'Blow the Wind Southerly'

Size:50.5x38.5cm

Price:£250

This is a digital print: part of my Slate Islands Collection: paintings inspired by trips to the Inner Hebrides islands of Easdale and Seil, off the North West coast of Scotland. Extending my formal experiments with the shape of the Island of Easdale and remembering the strong winds that blow across the rock, bending the trees. Even the white houses are not safe from nature’s power. The title refers to a traditional English folk song from Northumberland. It tells of a woman desperately hoping for a southerly wind to blow her lover back home over the sea to her. Given the extraordinary times we live in, it seems an appropriate image of hope and longing set against the power of the natural world.

Poppy Hollis

SUNFLOWERS, ALBEROBELLO 2019

Size:210x297mm

Price:£59

For those who missed travel this year, I curated a mix of images from some of my favourite places that I hope might make Christmas gifts for frustrated travellers or so that you can have your own slice of some beautiful corners of the world. The collection of images were put together during lockdown. All photographs are sold unframed and their size is 210mm x 297mm. Images are open edition prints, a certificate of authenticity is provided and my images are printed on to Hahnemühle Pearl 285 gsm paper a Giclée print with an archival lifespan of up to 200 years. There are five images submitted into this years Class Of 2020 exhibition and they are as follows: “High Flying Birds, Jaipur 2017”, “Pelican Bar, Jamaica 2019”, “Dusk, Santorini 2011”, “Blue Stairway, Chefchaouen 2019”,
“Sunflowers, Alberobello 2019”

Chris Ashworth

'Norfolk Coastal Walk'

Size:46x56cm

Price:£140

Oil on canvas unframed, walk along coast in spring
Made in lockdown

Sally Eldars

Life in Tatters

Size:80x40x12cm

Price:NFS

Sculpture
(found drawer, found kid’s shoe, plastic netting and house paint)
Part of a series of work responding to the plight or child refugees and the refugee crises.

Helen Jacobus

'Turning Red'

Size:30x40cm

Price:£25

At the end of each year I buy a pointsettia. I love the vibrant reds of the top leaves and find the transformation from the deep green leaves quite magical. This year, the plant symbolises a year of drastic change, and the beautiful redness, a sign of optimism ahead.
Watercolour on paper, November 2020.

Rebecca Tucker

I'm dreaming of...a place in the sun

Size:335x335mm

Price:£130

Painted after the first lock down in 2020, in a period of time when travel was still impossible, holidays were cancelled and the population of urban cities like London could only dream of coastal holidays in the sun. Inspired by images and sketches from a trip to the Scilly Isles before lock down, the subject matter references the desire to travel that was denied to everyone through 2020.

Navigating a journey between abstract and representational work, and part of a series of paintings that utilise the idea of negative space, these pieces depict a subject defined by a drawn white line. Close up the paintings are all about the layers, and brush marks, and colour, with the negative space as shapes in the foreground, but as you move back from close inspection then the paint reforms as something more referential.

A duo of paintings drawn from images of Tresco Abbey Gardens, using the outline of palm trees and subtropical foliage.

Acrylic on cradled board

Evangeline Armstrong

'Trellick Tower'

Size:A4

Price:£100

From the collection “Lines Meet”, a series of drawings from London streets
in lockdown.

Sean Coates

The Pregnant Twins

Size:34x29cm

Price:£200

Two Bulgarian men stood rather conspicuously on the ‘Golden Sands’ Of Varna.
An image from a series of works titled ”Why are you here?”
Holidays seem like a distant memory for many with the rise of Covid 19.

Paul Hensman

'Fishing Boat at Hastings'

Size:50x40cm

Price:£40

We did a club weekend away to Hastings with Southwark Helping Hands group, and while the others in my group looked around the shops, I sat at the beach and did my painting.

Fishing Boat at Hastings by Paul Hensman

Sophia Boursot

Donkey IV

Size:50x50cm

Price:£85

This is an acrylic painting on canvas of a donkey, one of a total series of four. I think it was shortly after the main lockdown, but they were painted around the time there was a lot of talk about donkey sanctuaries and being led by donkeys. Painting them helped me feel a little calmer about the craziness of 2020. They are a bit of fun, away from my other work, but nevertheless in my style of painting: working in many layers, with texture, blending and blurring lines.
These are all unframed, but the edges are painted if you would like to hang unframed.
Price includes delivery to mainland UK.

Creative Connections Group

'Cat'

Size:20.8x27cm

Price:£30

During the first lockdown a group of us gathered online one evening each week for our Creative Connection art sessions. Following an exercise on collaboration, we decided to make a piece of art together. The work was mailed from one artist to the next, each responding creatively by adding their own elements before sending it on. The result reflects the fun we that had making it, despite not being able to physically come together. The Creative Connections Group consisted of:
Kate Mulcahy
Rory Chadbourne
Patricia Gutierrez
Gail Seres-Woolfson
Peter Martin
The work is mixed media, including acrylic paint and collage. Proceeds from the sale will go to charity.

Stefan Nedelcu

Caesar no2 (Gold) - 2020

Size:50x60cm

Price:£550

Acrylic painting on primed Fabriano paper.
Second of my French Bulldog series, which I started at the beginning of 2020 year Lockdown. I love this subject because he’s such a character and through my paintings I want to show him in different lights and moods as he’s been a big part of my life, that is before year 2020 when he’s been taken away from me. This is a reminder that he once was here.

Marie Ericsson

'Where I would Rather Be'

Size:23x32cm

Price:£70

I did this acrylic painting in the summer after the first lockdown. It had been a stressful time and I couldn’t travel so made up this tropical island and imagined I was there.

Where I would Rather Be by Marie Ericsson

Eri Kikkawa

Connect

Size:35x45cm

Price:£30

The year of 2020 has made me realise the importance of human connection because of the Covid pandemic and lots of political, social incidents, which reminds us of division, conflict and isolation. I got an inspiration from a concept in intercultural communication, the field I used to major in, that understanding different others means understanding different ways individuals look at the world. Even though we can’t understand completely about others, trying to put ourselves in someone’s shoes can be the fist step to make the society more coherent and enable us to live together.
I’m expressing the pleasure and warmth of human connection, as the world looks beautiful as a result of harmony of everything. Every part of the picture, including the galaxy or the plants, is inspired by British nature that moved me, being a Japanese person living in the UK. Encounters with diverse views enable us to look at the world from various perspectives and live more creatively and interestingly.

Ruth Helen Smith

'Localism'

Size:70x70cm

Price:£570

In this coronavirus crisis, where I live the smaller local food businesses have come to the fore: the local family-run dairy has been inundated with orders, the smaller farms and small holdings have been selling goods at their gates, people with chickens have been supplying a steady flow of eggs, and despite the pubs being closed, the local breweries have been busy making and delivering beer as though they were milkmen. I have been inspired by the community spirit this has instilled and have personally noticed a greater respect for and joy in the things that I consume. I am convinced that an awareness of where things come from and how they are made is key to us starting to love and cherish our planet a little more. While it doesn’t solve the huge issues we face regarding climate change and the ecological disaster, perhaps the bigger hurdle is a change of mentality.

Bec Dennison

Soda Head - SS20 Pink

Size:30x42cm

Price:£55

This is one of my Soda Heads – Pop coloured fragments representing the layers, fizz and chaos of our mental landscape.

I needed to do something to calm the noise at the start of lockdown so I started drawing over existing Risograph prints I made of the Soda Heads a while back.

Lockdown initiated the work and also dictated the mediums – I had to use whatever I had in the studio. Stay at Home. Don’t buy stuff you don’t need.

Drawing, writing over, adding colours and erasing details of the print felt cathartic and constructive while everything else felt stressful and out of control. The text “When Will I See You Again?” is scrawled unintelligibly in the background.

It’s a question (accompanied by the chorus from the song of the same name) that has been stuck on repeat in my head since lockdown began. Like Covid, I wish it would go away.

Cat Coulter

'Pristine Chapel (Let Us Spray)'

Size:45x62cm

Price:£120

Does exactly what it says on the hand-sanitiser bottle. Part of a series made during lockdown using single use plastics and PPE.

Pristine Chapel (Let Us Spray) by Cat Coulter

Grace Rawcliffe

Rainbow Rona

Size:A4

Price:£55

Pastels on paper

Pam Frost

'Squealer'

Size:A4

Price:NFS

A persuasive speaker, Gove uses language to make others disbelieve what they have seen with their own eyes and to believe the lies he tells them. The picture is my response to the creeping assault on how freedoms and my feelings of despair that there are always people who see the role of a Covid Marshall as a career development opportunity.

Kate Cahill Vansuch

To the Teachers!

Size:11x7.5in

Price:£40

To the Teachers! is mixed media artwork on paper. I am a middle school nurse and I have witnessed all the hard work that has gone into being a teacher this year. I’ve also seen the other side of it as a parent of a middle schooler. This piece depicts the split teaching that has occurred with students being virtual and in person.

Roger Whiteman

'Janique, the RealRedHead and Elena'

Size:30cm high

Price:£90 (£250 set)

Zoom has brought us multi camera angles of life models. This lockdown artwork progresses my line work into 3D form and reflects different camera angles in the reflected shadows of a single object.
@Rogerwhiteman2157

Janique, the RealRedHead and Elena by Roger Whiteman

Georgiana FG

Nasim

Size:23x33cm

Price:£80

Conte drawing of Nasim done at Hester Berry’s portrait class on Zoom.

Gordon Stewart

'The Dali House, Port Lligat'

Size:32x44cm

Price:£130

The Dali House in Port Lligat in Catalonia. Based on sketches and a photo in September 2019, when we were still free people. My first painting in 2020 – painted Battersea in January 2020. Acrylics on A3 paper. One of several paintings submitted to the exhibition.

The Dali House, Port Lligat by Gordon Stewart

Pat Mynott

Homage to Rousseau

Size:50x40cm

Price:£100

Art galleries closed. Art classes/studios closed. Therefore – art at home with materials at hand (paint not compatible with home décor). I used newspapers, magazines and embroidery materials to pay homage to artists I admire. This is also a homage to my cat who has been my main companion, made with magazines and Pritt stick.

Paul Shinn

'Marquise'

Size:22.5x31.5cm

Price:£50

I found it difficult to create anything during the first few weeks of lockdown. The uncertainty of the situation and adjusting to working from home seemed to zap me of my creativity. One thing I found very helpful in overcoming this creative block was taking part in a regular online life drawing class via Zoom. There’s something very meditative about sitting and drawing with a group of people for a few hours, a couple of times a week, which I found beneficial for my mental health.

I feel like out of all the drawings I’ve produced during these sessions, this pose of model Marquise Retters sat calmly among his houseplants perfectly summed up that sense of tranquility, and finding your own respite from the intensity of 2020.

This was a 15 minute pose, drawn with a brush pen on paper, and coloured with marker pens.

Mariame Lindell

Jonny NYC

Size:32x44.5cm

Price:NFS

A two-tones acrylic paint portrait made during the second lockdown.

Brahim

'Diver'

Size:39x31cm

Price:£95

Acrylic on paper

looking to the future, how things might be.

This artist is a member of New Art Studio, a unique project based in Islington that provides a therapeutic studio space for refugees and asylum seekers.
www.newartstudio.org.uk

Doreen Turner

Dream Time

Size:34x26cm

Price:NFS

It is a watercolour picture, inspired by Gauguin. Even though it is very colourful (I love colour) there is something tranquil about it – which I have experienced in 2020.

Gavin Nicholls

'Self Portrait 2020'

Size:40x50cm

Price:NFS

Self Portrait September 2020. Oil on canvas board. This is the latest self portrait I’ve created this year and the one I’m most happy with. It was painted in September 2020. The concept behind this was dark to light which is how I feel about the progression of the year as we learn and question more about what is going on. During the first lockdown I was also able to spend so much more time practising so I feel my painting technique improved greatly which I feel is reflected in this portrait.

Amal Mirajkar

Tokubetsu no (means special)

Size:20x30,30x25,26x35cm

Price:€1,000

“Tokubetsu no” is based on the feeling of expressions like being special, happy, and the joy of colours in the darkness of this pandemic is shown on the canvas

Sylvia Difino

'Popcorn Art 2020'

Size:30x50cm box

Price:£3 each

Popcorn Art
These are portraits that I’ve made with the “ Draw each other” art group run By John Pipal and Mark Lovelace, during this year 2020 or “ year of the COVID”.
I’ve called this box “ Pop Corn Art “ because I want to sell the pieces at the price of a popcorn bag ( well London popcorn price) to be consumed and passed from the artist to the people that want to have it, and for me to have the money back to buy some more art supplies and do some more Art.
PS: the first 48 get a pack of popcorn as well!

Rosie Woods

Lighthouse at Morning Light

Size:39x31cm

Price:£130

This was painted in N.Ireland where I was locked down. Painted while sitting at the desolate beach within the 5km we could travel to, during the first strict lockdown. I thought the seagulls looked relieved to have human company again, hoping for a stray chip no doubt. There’s a sense of urgency about this series, as this was done during our ‘allocated exercise’ time.

John Williams

'Portrait of a Zoom Stranger'

Size:35x26cm

Price:£75

This is part of a series of on line Zoom portraits, this has very much been a journey for me, not only learning portraiture but learning to draw from a screen. This portrait is one I particularly like as it has an ethereal quality to it with the sitter appearing to emerge form the either which I feel is very in keeping with the modern social distanced way it was created.

Portrait of a Zoom Stranger by John Williams

Susan M Wallis

Cheers!

Size:50x75cm

Price:£350

Acrylic painting on canvas. Created with frustration at the lack of clarity and support from the government, during the constant knee jerk changes every few days. Having invested heavily and worked extremely hard caring for our customers welfare, it seemed we were indeed thrown to the wolves. Many will be lost forever, the British Pub is an institution and plays an important part in our communities heritage and culture. This painting is a tongue in cheek reflection some of the hospitality sector.
@susanmwallisart

E.E.

'Woman in Peace'

Size:40x50cm

Price:£55

pen and acrylic on canvas

Through the lockdown we search for peace. For me, peace is my mum. I miss my mum.

This artist is a member of New Art Studio, a unique project based in Islington that provides a therapeutic studio space for asylum seekers and refugees. www.newartstudio.org.uk

Layla Mohamed

Living Art

Size:297x420mm

Price:£100

Ink drawing of Francoise – Conceptual Performance Contortionist. Drawn from life, from ‘Living Art’ – a weekly online drawing session, on 13th October 2020.

Ned Handzic

'Shirley'

Size:10x5cm

Price:NFS

Shirley is a friend I met at the first “Draw Each Other” Wednesday portrait session at Victoria Park.

Nine years on in July 2020, Shirley sits for 15 minutes in a Zoom version of the event. The sitter is kind and alert, it feels like we’re back at the Royal Inn and a late arrival is looking for a chair out of frame.