Connect 24 // Catalogue
To purchase artwork or enquire, email: connect24exhibition@gmail.com
Tim Jones
Untitled
Size:600mm x 500mm
Price:£360
Untitled, Photo Etching, Printed on Hahnemühle Bamboo 265 paper, Print size 210x148mm, frame size 600mm x 500mm, £360 (No. 1 of 10 edition)
Tim Jones is an artist, printmaker, and photographer whose work explores the boundaries of reality and questions how we fit into the world we’ve created. Specializing in Intaglio photo etching, he creates pieces that delve into personal expression and the sense of disconnection he feels in an often alien world. By focusing on overlooked, everyday objects—fragments of reality that many pass by unnoticed—he reveals hidden layers and invites viewers to see beyond surface appearances. Through these works, Tim seeks not only to connect with his surroundings but also to discover the ‘real’ within himself. His art challenges viewers to question their own perceptions, offering a chance to see both the world—and themselves—with renewed awareness.
Annabelle volpi
Infinity
Size:33x45cm
Price:£225
This painting was created by intuition using a palette knife. The turquoise colour is an expression of our connection to water and to the throat chakra which is about speaking your truth. The orange colour refers to the sacral chakra and creativity. Together they symbolise the urge to express yourself through creativity.
Diana Sandetskaya
Wildfires (V)
Size:30x45cm
Price:£650
This is an oil painting from the series of paintings “Wildfires”. Images of trees on fire, branches and trunks lit up by the light of the flames in the darkness of the night, silhouettes of the trees disappearing in the smoke bringing to mind only about looming environmental crisis, but also wars, destruction and violence, pain, fear and despair which seem to be infesting the news and affecting lives of so many people. I wanted to paint some of the wildfire scenes as collective images reminding us about worrying prospects of seeing more and more landscapes like this in the future and the pressing need to connect with our humanity, our planet and nature that we have been taking for granted for too long.
Katie Page
Green, White, and Silver Spiky Raincoat
Size:80x40x30cm
Price:NFS
Tamara Krawiec
self portrait
Size:20x30cm
Price:NFS
Oil on canvas.
Annabelle Volpi
Expressive flowers
Size:44x54cm
Price:£295
Expressive flowers is an acrylic painting full of texture and movement. The flowers are connected to the heart centre and are ready to bloom, full of emotions. They are surrounded by gold which symbolises spirituality.
Mihaela Petkova // Misha
Fragmentation
Size:32x42cm
Price:NFS
‘Fragmentation’ was inspired by the innate yearning for connection we experience in different forms. While we have conscious control over wanting to connect with others and with with our surroundings, our minds establish connections irrespective of our will. At times these could take a chaotic patterns and create links, where there are not meant to be any, leading to a disturbance to the cohesion of our thoughts and to a disconnection from who we perceive ourselves to be.
The collage comprises of scanned fineliner drawings, words and phrases taken out of the artist’s sketchbook. Unfinished as works of their own, these are brought together to create an image of the journeys our brain takes us on at times.
Annabelle Volpi
Gone With the Wind
Size:54x54cm
Price:£450
Longing to be by sea, in need of blue, of movement and texture. This is why this painting was born. The dynamic brushstrokes in the painting symbolise the ever-changing nature of life, the connection to water and movement. The flowing water and swirling clouds suggest a sense of movement and vitality, reflecting the constant evolution of our experiences and surroundings. The choice of lively and fluid strokes conveys a deeper message about the evolving aspects of life, inviting viewers to contemplate the beauty and impermanence of existence and to enjoy the present moments.
Ellie Letchford
Finding Beauty in the Most Ordinary Things 04
Size:30x50cm
Price:£120
Description: I’ve always found beauty in the ordinary. As a child, I spent countless hours creating all sorts of objects and pieces. Growing up with dyslexia, I channeled my energy into creative pursuits. From modeling, dancing, to acting as an extra in a Sam Mendes movie, I’ve always sought artistic expression.
Even during my five-year stint at a hardware store—a far cry from my dreams—I discovered a new appreciation for the mundane. By looking closer, I found beauty in the most ordinary things.
Today, I’m a maker of things, a photographer, a dancer, a student of the human form. This series of photographs are a celebration of the artist’s spirit, their raw, unfiltered essence captured in a single frame. The freedom of movement through dance and artistic expression.
Lewis Hier Thomas
What Lies Beneath
Size:42x52cm
Price:£225
This portrayal of physical masculinity oozes sensuality, from the blue jeans – which of course were pinned into the collective consciousness of society as a defining symbol of male sex appeal following Levi’s 501 laundrette commercial in 1985 – through to the simple tank top with a ribbed fabric quality which allows it to morph to the shape of the body upon which it is situated. The space between the jeans and the tank top, lifted part way up by the model’s hands, gives us a clear impression of what lies beneath, but leaves us wanting more. The thick application of paint for the clothing contrasts with the less dense painting of the skin, drawing our eyes towards the skin and allowing us to easily trace both the fluid contours and rigid geometric shapes of the strongly defined male form. A connection with other, a connection with self.
Michael Thebridge
The Art of Letting Go
Size:24 x 30cm
Price:£200
Mixed media on paper.
This illustrative artwork, explores ideas of inner conflict, over thinking, and encourages self-reflection and letting go. I often feel paralyzed by over-thinking and mindful practices and my art helps me move on from these moments.
Moon
Lightning
Size:20x20cm
Price:£95
Moon’s life has been an incredible journey through some of the darkest, most challenging and treacherous places on earth.
Art has been her way to survive.
Born during a bombing raid, date unknown, in an unknown place. During the war in which an unknown number of her people died. Moon does what she can. For whom she can. Her way through this life is to do her best to manage the trauma from her younger years and share the love and passion she has for her new life. And her art.
And she knows how to create art and performance from nothing. In her heart she will always be a street performer and uses the tools she gained from this period of her life to reach out and into the lives she wishes to connect with.
Raph Seymour
Milk
Size:43x43cm
Price:£30
This piece is a drypoint that I coloured with gouache. It is based on a lifedrawing that I drew at the Southbank Portrait sessions. As it takes me longer than the alloted time to draw a whole face the result was a composite of the different people posing, an amalgam of the people gathered that day. All convening to connect and draw.
Yucen Liu
Sit
Size:42x60cm
Price:NFS
Digital painting; The inspiration from a lifedrawing session. The body is not just a single form but a collection of marks, layered and intertwined, shaping and reshaping. Each stroke connects and disconnects, leaving behind traces that seem both permanent and fleeting. When you sit, what holds you? Is it the weight of your own body, the fabric beneath you, or the invisible presence of something more?
Sitting creates a moment of pause, a point of contact with the world. The shape of the figure emerges, yet it feels incomplete, as though still forming. What kind of traces do we leave behind, and how do they shape what remains of us? Is the act of sitting an anchor, or does it reveal the body’s fragility, its impermanence?
Kong Pei Yen
Through Snow and Stars
Size:A5
Price:£30
Kong Pei Yen
Tranquility
Size:A5
Price:£30
Cliff Barden
Morgan
Size:430 x 310 mm
Price:NFS
Morgan.
Photographic Giclée print.
I was a professional photographer for all of my working life. Covid led me to retire but this year I decided to buy a new camera and start taking photos again. The shoot with Morgan was one of my first with the new kit.
Limited Edition Designs – Priya Pancholi
In the moment
Size:40x20cm
Price:£250
In the Moment
This piece captures a beautiful warming sunset moment in Napoli.
I had been through a few life changes and decided to go on my first ever solo trip abroad.
This is the moment where I felt an overwhelming emotion of happiness and immense gratitude to be there. In that moment, just me and the ocean and the warmth of the sunset, I knew that I am going to be ok and have an exciting new chapter ahead of me. That’s the moment.
Using acrylic paints, the waves gently creates a ripple reflection of the summery Italian sky with bold and intense colours.
– one off design
– acrylic painting using different techniques
– 100% Cotton, Acid-Free canvas
Daniel Smalling-Bennett
Face Of My Ancestors
Size:30x40cm
Price:£550
The artwork Face of My Ancestor is a powerful exploration of identity, heritage, and the complex relationship between the past and the present. Through a striking juxtaposition of imagery, the piece invites viewers to contemplate the enduring influence of ancestry and culture, particularly within the context of the African diaspora. The composition featuring a female portrait on the left side of the board, and an African mask on the right embodies the duality of the my heritage and the ongoing dialogue between traditional African spirituality and contemporary life. At the time of painting I saw this work as a social commentary on the cultural dissonance younger generations have today, becoming out of touch with their origins, forgetting who they are fundamentally and where they come from.
Sophie Exton-Woodford
Got Your Back (Painted)
Size:20x30cm
Price:£180
An image created following the fire service involvement to assist the NHS during Covid-19.
Acrylic on canvas, created during the Covid-19 pandemic. Painted piece created, alongside a pen and ink image, which was gifted to the local hospital following the artists involvement assisting NHS staff in the Intensive Care Unit.
angelika eichler
Cosmic Crush
Size:29x23cm
Price:£150
Imagine my First Ancestors were a stellar couple in the sky: a ball of fire kinetically electrically charged. Part of a vast Eternal Family of Stars.
Lukas Nosek
Lying Red
Size:31x42
Price:£150
Yishu during Adrian’s Wednesday life drawing session at Topolski Studio. I used Molotow and Posca acrylic markers on paper. I like that it is a very uncompromising way of drawing, each line stays on the paper and has an impact on the final piece. I like lifedrawing because it teaches me how to approach the naked human body without being sexualised by global culture. It is an opportunity to meet the other person in a clear and calm but also intimate environment.
Colin Andress
Susan in a Ribbed Sweater
Size:40x32cm
Price:£250
Susan is a model I’ve drawn many times in life and portrait classes, but I always struggled to get her likeness. I find younger women are the most difficult models to draw accurately, without the angularity of men’s faces or the wrinkles and creases of an older face that provide more landmarks to navigate by.
She kindly allowed me to take her photograph to work from out of class, and after many hours of struggle I finally managed to pin her down.
Charcoal, Conté and pastels on tan Strathmore paper. Image size A4.
Sayed Hashumi
House on Fire
Size:33x40cm
Price:£110
Art helps me share my experiences, the feelings that I can’t put into words. People tell me that the landscapes in my art are often dark. I have so many memories of being in the dark, not knowing if I would survive the journey. I was 16 when I left Afghanistan. It was an unforgettable experience. I still get pain in my feet from walking and crossing borders, especially in the winter. All the places that I have seen still appear in my dreams and nightmares.
Natalia Boyarintseva
A look inside. Embrace.
Size:40x30cm & 40x50cm
Price:NFS
A mother and her child share a unique life cord that connects them during the first nine months of life. However, even when this cord is cut, the bond between them remains unbroken.
Rad Mila
Concrete and Wild
Size:65x42cm
Price:£400
A moment of unexpected connection between the urban and the natural, a delicate balance between human-made structures and the wildlife that finds its way within them.
Michael Thebridge
Light
Size:24x30cm
Price:£200
Mixed media on Paper
This artwork depicts a moment of inspiration. Bright order and light cascading into the figure’s mind, she is fully connected to the present.
Mark Doherty
Dead - Bear (our beloved stray cat)
Size:92x60cm
Price:£400
I was ‘keeping a vigil’ over our beloved adopted stray cat Bear, stroking his head as he drew his last breath. A message from Rod came through with the invitation to be part of this exhibition. A short time later Bear died peacefully. Now departed to the cat afterlife, I sketched his furry remains, and from this produced this mixed media artwork.
It seemed to fit the brief of ‘connection’. The unconditional love a human can feel for the ‘stray’ that one day walks into your life and creates such a strong bond.
Mixed media: charcoal, ink, airfix paint, cold leaf, tape
Andrea G Artz
Albertina Through the Looking Glass
Size:23x32cm
Price:NFS
Dutch Girl after Vermeer, Japanese Water-based Woodcut on Awagami Kozo Murakumo Inkjet Paper, 24 x 30 cm, Edition of 1/5, 2024.
It’s all about connections while traveling and the random people you meet on your journeys. I took this photograph of a girl on the train to Amsterdam in 2017. She became part of the site-specific installation “Farewells” which is about the journey in all its aspects. The bending and folding of cut-out photographic prints into three-dimensional sculptures exaggerate the physique and posture of the travelers. The title was inspired by Boccioni’s work States of Mind: Those Who Go, Those Who Stay, and Farewells. Ultimately in 2024, I printed the photograph of the girl by combining Giclee print and the original Japanese woodcut. She always reminded me of Vermeer’s women deeply lost in thought and that is why I chose this colour palette.
Evelyn Elizabeth Jajechnyk
A Bridge to You
Size:A3
Price:NFS
In memory of Eve from Rainbow Arts Club, this celebrates many years of being a member of this wonderful group who bring colour into your life.
Daniele Urania
Portrait of Actress Anne Hathaway
Size:29.7x41.3cm
Price:£99
Tribute to actress Anne Hathaway.
Fanni Csepeli
This Too Shall Pass
Size:90x40cm
Price:£599
Mixed media on canvas. This artwork reflects on the transient nature of emotion—whether joyful or sorrowful—and the inevitability of change. The organic wave-like shape symbolizes life’s constant flow, much like the endless rhythm of ocean waves. Layers of paint represent the accumulation of experiences over time, with even the darkest hues allowing vibrant colors to emerge, signifying hope and resilience. The irregular spikes of vibrant, rectangular forms capture the unpredictable moments of happiness, surprise, and unforeseen events that punctuate our lives.
The piece serves as a reminder that, no matter how challenging or blissful life may feel at any given moment, everything is temporary—this too shall pass. The three interconnected pieces function as a whole, with their disjointed connections mirroring the rhythm of life itself, where moments of harmony and disruption coexist.
Maki Doi
Whirlwind of Souls
Size:53x43cm
Price:£300
Maki’s artworks burst vitality, a dynamic symphony of human form and movement brought to life through minimalist calligraphic lines. The figures that captured in fluid, intertwining gestures, embodies a dance of unrestrained joy, radiating a profound sense of freedom and connection. The compositions strike a delicate balance between harmonious chaos and collective energy, allowing each figure to breathe and pulse with life.
Colin Andress
What Are You Thinking?
Size:40x32cm
Price:£350
A nude study pastel painting done from a bought reference photograph. I was struck by the model’s pensive expression. In life class I often wonder what goes through the models’ minds as they pose patiently for us to draw them. All different, no doubt. The collaborative relationship between artist and model is a connection I am continuing to explore.
This was the first piece of art I made for its own sake, rather than as an exercise for a class. I enjoyed the interesting effect of the iridescent pastel on parts of the figure.
Charcoal, pastel pencils and soft pastels on dark grey Stifflex pastel paper. Image size A4.
sean tye
Rainbow Tree
Size:51x41cm
Price:NFS
The blossoms represent the connectivity of life
Tim Jones
Untitled
Size:600mm x 500mm
Price:£360
Untitled, Photo Etching, Printed on Hahnemühle Bamboo 265 paper, Print size 210x148mm, frame size 600mm x 500mm, £360 (No. 1 of 10 edition)
Tim Jones is an artist, printmaker, and photographer whose work explores the boundaries of reality and questions how we fit into the world we’ve created. Specializing in Intaglio photo etching, he creates pieces that delve into personal expression and the sense of disconnection he feels in an often alien world. By focusing on overlooked, everyday objects—fragments of reality that many pass by unnoticed—he reveals hidden layers and invites viewers to see beyond surface appearances. Through these works, Tim seeks not only to connect with his surroundings but also to discover the ‘real’ within himself. His art challenges viewers to question their own perceptions, offering a chance to see both the world—and themselves—with renewed awareness.
Anna-Maria Amato
A Tearful Rose
Size:40x50cm
Price:£158
Oil painting on canvas board. The first concept I got really interested in when doing art growing up, was that eyes are a window to the soul. Here the soul is gently leaking. In my current work-mainly writing-I am exploring internal gaps or spaces which we feed with elements of our life. Some years ago a did a pencil drawing with a similar concept with the tears being puppeteered by a hand. Here the woman is connecting with the viewer through her gaze. She owns her tears, her beauty, her soul and her connection to sadness as it turns to joy.
Dan Whiteson
I Do Not Count The Time
Size:50x55cm
Price:£420
‘I Do Not Count The Time’ (2023) is an original acrylic painting from the ‘Disintegration of the Physical’ series; an ongoing body of work in which I attempt to visualise the impact of digital media on our physical existence and how we connect to the world around us. We have never been more ‘connected’, and yet with our noses buried in our phones we have never been more unaware of our surroundings; of the beauty in the everyday and in one another. Targeted adverts; algorithms designed to show you images that you are all to happy to idly consume; the pressure to share & to compare; these insidious, disruptive and addictive trends have only served to divide and distract. Groups of friends or families sitting silently at restaurant tables as they each scroll their way through instantly forgettable snapshots of other peoples lives.
I have always pictured this assault on our consciousness as a kind of death by a thousand cuts, endlessly pulling us away from the here and now and from what truly feeds the soul: human connection; physical touch; shared experience. My work seeks to portray this through an almost surgical deconstruction of the human form. Limbs become inorganic; geometric shapes wrestling with the beauty of the body and threatening to overwhelm it. Vast swathes of the figure vanish into thin air as we inhabit space and time less and less.
The process of creating these paintings is an antidote to my own struggles with phone addiction. The concentration, focus and intention required to create them by hand provide me a sense of connection to the present that is increasingly hard to find in contemporary society. With the ever-lengthening shadow of AI hanging over our daily rituals and interactions, it feels more important than ever that we maintain and celebrate creative practise, and it’s unmatched ability to nourish the soul; to heighten the connection to ourselves, others and the world around us.
Kong Pei Yen
Even If We Are Worlds Apart
Size:A6
Price:£15
Glitter print
Lewis Hier Thomas
The Landscape of the Back
Size:34x34cm
Price:£450
I used conté crayon, graphite and charcoal, to carefully place bocks of colours which highlight both the rigidity and fluidity of the male form.
Dan Whiteson
David
Size:67x50cm
Price:£550 framed
‘David’ (2024) is an original ink drawing and papercut from the ‘Disintegration of the Physical’ series; an ongoing body of work in which I attempt to visualise the impact of digital media on our physical existence and how we connect to the world around us. We have never been more ‘connected’, and yet with our noses buried in our phones we have never been more unaware of our surroundings; of the beauty in the everyday and in one another. Targeted adverts; algorithms designed to show you images that you are all to happy to idly consume; the pressure to share & to compare; these insidious, disruptive and addictive trends have only served to divide and distract. Groups of friends or families sitting silently at restaurant tables as they each scroll their way through instantly forgettable snapshots of other peoples lives.
I have always pictured this assault on our consciousness as a kind of death by a thousand cuts, endlessly pulling us away from the here and now and from what truly feeds the soul: human connection; physical touch; shared experience. My work seeks to portray this through an almost surgical deconstruction of the human form. Limbs become inorganic; geometric shapes wrestling with the beauty of the body and threatening to overwhelm it. Vast swathes of the figure vanish into thin air as we inhabit space and time less and less.
Papercuts like ‘David’ are a new direction for my practise; after years of making drawings and paintings exploring the idea of ‘Disintegration’ of the self, it felt as if the surfaces of my work were inhibiting the purity of the idea. By cutting them away, and allowing for the images I create to actually inhabit space as objects, it breathed new life into the project and is opening up many exciting new possibilities.
Sally Mohamed
Freedom
Size:30x25cm
Price:£200
Unleash the strength of the phoenix and soar to the sky.
Trust in yourself, freedom is the key to fly.
Clive
Crouch
Size:35x45cm
Price:£120
Crouch is a watercolour work created from an online session where a small group of artists from all over the world work together. This session has allowed a fun, creative set of connections to be created. The relaxed atmosphere had allowed me to created some enjoyable work, including this colourful engaging work.
Kasper Pincis
Fragment Piece
Size:27x21cm
Price:£1,100
‘Fragment Piece’, a typewritten monoprint on paper.
I’ve recently been inspired by archaeology and the relationship between text and textile. I’m also interested in the way the pattern can continue outside of the frame, and points to something larger than itself…
Nick Richards
Connect Yourself!
Size:30x25cm
Price:£200
Oil on board.
The subject connects with the viewer via a gimlet eye and a quizzical gaze. You may recognise Tweedy the Clown or be reminded of a different encounter, another occasion. Putting words into his mouth – “Connect Yourself!”
Anon
Personal Identity
Size:50x40cm
Price:NFS
graphic design an exploration of personal identity and relecting those closest to him.
Hakob Muradyan
Viviane
Size:45x51cm
Price:NFS
Oil on canvas, painted from four sessions sitting from life with Viviane.
angelika eichler
A.I. Be Watching You
Size:24x18cm
Price:£100
Super Surveillance for Suspicious Minds. Well, is A.I. a threat? A technological competitor? A man-made God Concept?
This piece makes me think i am never alone, but, who or what, pray tell, is with me? And what is possible with higher consciousness? Are we on an evolutionary cliff ready to jump and the net will appear? Could be dystopian or?
Dan Whiteson
Sarita
Size:54x44cm
Price:£180/£200
‘Sarita’ (2021) is an original ink drawing from the ‘Disintegration of the Physical’ series; an ongoing body of work in which I attempt to visualise the impact of digital media on our physical existence and how we connect to the world around us. We have never been more ‘connected’, and yet with our noses buried in our phones we have never been more unaware of our surroundings; of the beauty in the everyday and in one another. Targeted adverts; algorithms designed to show you images that you are all to happy to idly consume; the pressure to share & to compare; these insidious, disruptive and addictive trends have only served to divide and distract. Groups of friends or families sitting silently at restaurant tables as they each scroll their way through instantly forgettable snapshots of other peoples lives.
I have always pictured this assault on our consciousness as a kind of death by a thousand cuts, endlessly pulling us away from the here and now and from what truly feeds the soul: human connection; physical touch; shared experience. My work seeks to portray this through an almost surgical deconstruction of the human form. Limbs become inorganic; geometric shapes wrestling with the beauty of the body and threatening to overwhelm it. Vast swathes of the figure vanish into thin air as we inhabit space and time less and less.
Susan Wallis
In Her Own World
Size:63x53cm
Price:£600
This painting was inspired by my mother and the various stages of a her disappearing. Reflecting on the loss of connection with the advance of dementia. The constantly changing person you learn to embrace and the grief for the person you’ve had to let go.
Derek Mason
Nasim
Size:32x44cm
Price:£95
Recently I’ve been going to life drawing sessions on a regular basis after a break of many years from making visual art. I look for a balance between finding a likeness and keeping the energy of a quick drawing, using just enough line to portray the subject or imply form. When I draw, I usually start with loose lines and like how these later show the process of searching and exploration. I really enjoyed drawing Nasim, who is always very expressive in her poses.
Isobel Burnie-Keats
Veins of Connection
Size:10x10cm
Price:£25
This ceramic sculpture was created using the delicate impression of a real leaf pressed into clay, capturing the intricate vein patterns and textures of nature. The rich green glaze, with its organic variations, enhances the natural form, emphasizing the beauty and complexity of interconnected pathways. Part of a larger series of leaf sculptures, this piece explores themes of connection, growth, and the quiet strength found in nature’s details. It invites viewers to reflect on the networks that sustain life and link us all.
sean tye
Dancing Roots
Size:51x42cm
Price:£3,650
The roots are connected together by the vibrations the vibrations they emit
Ting Hua Huang
WE LUV CUPPING
Size:30x21cm
Price:£50
A digital artwork inspired by the traditional Chinese therapy of ‘Cupping’, symbolizing the bridge between this ancient healing practice and the modern generation.
Ina Lee
Clean
Size:30x42cm
Price:£80
This piece reflects my deep connection with nature and the special place the sea holds in my heart. For me, the ocean is where I find rest, grounding, and a sense of awe for the beauty around us. Inspired by my trips to islands, I returned to London filled with the colors and serenity of the ocean, immediately diving into this work in January. Drawing it at the start of the year gave it a deeper meaning—a symbol of a clean, fresh start and the endless possibilities ahead.
James O’Hara
Shoka.
Size:20x20cm
Price:£50
Life models are amazing and talented. You don’t know them, never spoken to them but there is some sort of connection, a compelling feeling that you have to draw them. This is one of my favourite models Shoka.
Jamie Zubairi
Manny
Size:50cm x 35cm
Price:£230
Charcoal drawing of friend and collaborator Manny, with whom many connections have been made.
Jean Joseph
Walking Through Time
Size:51x51cm
Price:NFS
‘Walking Through Time’ revisits the route, I took years ago, observing the activities along the canal and the towpath, between Paddington Basin to Camden Town, as well as appreciating its industrial history. The branch of the Grand Union Canal and the Regents Canal meet in Paddington, West London, thereafter flowing through the city to its confluence in Limehouse in the east, and into the Tidal Thames. The barges that once transported coal, ice, timber and other goods, now mostly house those who live on the water and those who work in floating offices and other businesses, such as restaurants – including a Camden-based Chinese restaurant, a theatre, also the puppet theatre and the leisurely boat trips enjoyed by both Londoners and tourists. What has changed and what remains the same, and what is in flux?
Sylvietta
Free Gaza Circus
Size:31x41cm
Price:£200
The acrobats of Gaza flying high,
The sand rises into the air and falls lightly on the smiles of children’s faces with stolen childhoods.
Mix media collage.
Ellie Letchford
Finding Beauty in the Most Ordinary Things
Size:30x50cm
Price:£120
I’ve always found beauty in the ordinary. As a child, I spent countless hours creating all sorts of objects and pieces. Growing up with dyslexia, I channeled my energy into creative pursuits. From modeling, dancing, to acting as an extra in a Sam Mendes movie, I’ve always sought artistic expression.
Even during my five-year stint at a hardware store—a far cry from my dreams—I discovered a new appreciation for the mundane. By looking closer, I found beauty in the most ordinary things.
Today, I’m a maker of things, a photographer, a dancer, a student of the human form. This series of photographs are a celebration of the artist’s spirit, their raw, unfiltered essence captured in a single frame. The freedom of movement through dance and artistic expression.
Katie Page
Orange Spiky Hoody
Size:60x50x30cm
Price:NFS
Don Greenwood
Made in Taiwan
Size:10x8in
Price:£150
Made in Taiwan, Made in Taiwan. these are a pair made from ‘double exposures’ of some of my travel photos while I am staying in Tainan which is the oldest city in Taiwan. At the moment the skies are full of modern fighter jets exercising for defence in pairs and the ancient temples are full of visitors seeking devine guidance (using pairs of wooden moon blocks or ‘jiaobe)’. it is a stunningly beautiful place and I don’t think I ever want to leave. In the 1980’s when I was young everything in the UK was labelled ‘Made in Taiwan’. So now I have ‘Made something in Taiwan’ as part of this exhibition.
Lexie Bailey
Complexities of Female Body Image
Size:25x35cm
Price:NFS
mixed media and acrylic mixed media piece exploring the complexities of female body image.
Emily Grenville-Grey
Vulnerable
Size:42x30cm
Price:£25
A3 4 layer risograph, open edition
Vulnerable is part of a series of prints called ‘Sweet Nothings’ aiming to share thoughtful prompts.
“We can all feel when someone comes with an open heart” was written at the start of a fruitful new friendship which provided reflection on the power of authentic reciprocation and sharing. A true connection.
An original Sweet Nothing called ‘Touch’ has been submitted for showing.
Unframed, provided supported with greyboard in a cellophane sleeve
Zeinab Saa
Disconnection
Size:17.8x14cm
Price:£120
Isolation breads disconnection, 2023.
Sylvietta
What’s Going On?
Size:42x32cm
Price:£150
Capturing the Chaos of Loss. Amidst the debris, a haunting silence speaks volumes. Witness the raw emotions as people grapple with shattered lives. In the center, a little girl’s gaze echoes the unspoken question: ‘What’s Going On?’
Mix-media collage on cardboard
32×42 cm
Victoria Murrain
Keith and I
Size:29.7x42cm
Price:
Dan Whiteson
Adrian
Size:62x45cm
Price:£240/£270 framed
‘Adrian’ (2024) is an original ink drawing from the ‘Disintegration of the Physical’ series; an ongoing body of work in which I attempt to visualise the impact of digital media on our physical existence and how we connect to the world around us. We have never been more ‘connected’, and yet with our noses buried in our phones we have never been more unaware of our surroundings; of the beauty in the everyday and in one another. Targeted adverts; algorithms designed to show you images that you are all to happy to idly consume; the pressure to share & to compare; these insidious, disruptive and addictive trends have only served to divide and distract. Groups of friends or families sitting silently at restaurant tables as they each scroll their way through instantly forgettable snapshots of other peoples lives.
I have always pictured this assault on our consciousness as a kind of death by a thousand cuts, endlessly pulling us away from the here and now and from what truly feeds the soul: human connection; physical touch; shared experience. My work seeks to portray this through an almost surgical deconstruction of the human form. Limbs become inorganic; geometric shapes wrestling with the beauty of the body and threatening to overwhelm it. Vast swathes of the figure vanish into thin air as we inhabit space and time less and less.
The process of creating these drawings is an antidote to my own struggles with phone addiction. The concentration, focus and intention required to create them by hand provide me a sense of connection to the present that is increasingly hard to find in contemporary society. With the ever-lengthening shadow of AI hanging over our daily rituals and interactions, it feels more important than ever that we maintain and celebrate creative practise, and it’s unmatched ability to nourish the soul; to heighten the connection to ourselves, others and the world around us.
Pamela Frost
Laughing all the way to the bank
Size:A4
Price:NFS
The royals are collectively worth £20 billion plus, got me thinking about famous robberies, this has to be the cleverest ever, happening right under our noses and we can rest assured there will be no jail time.
Linda Chapman
Drawn Light
Size:40 x 40 cm
Price:£395
As an abstract photographic artist I use only reflections, natural light and refraction to create a completely different view of an ordinary scene.
I see it as the closest description of what is inside of me, seeing the ordinary as extraordinary.
Annabelle Volpi
Happiness
Size:33x45
Price:£225
This tree is a celebration of life and your being. It resonates with positive energy, and is connected to spirituality and ancient wisdom. The white flowers are made of paper whist the red leaves symbolise joy and happiness.
Callia Drinkwater
Held by Water II
Size:A5
Price:£20
This is part of three acrylic paintings: the local pool here in Southwark, kayaking in the ocean, and the pool at my family home in Auckland. Kayaking in New Zealand was always a key part of summer traditions, so when the sun reared its head in London I headed to Little Venice for a paddle about. This unconventional London activity allowed me to connect with friends in a novel way, sharing an activity that I enjoy and reminds me of home.
Linda Chapman
In My Eye
Size:40 x 40 cm
Price:£395
My desire is to show some magical realism with my photographs.These places, buildings, details are all real but when seen together with the natural elements of light and reflection, it blurs the line a little, between fantasy and reality. No matter what you see, there is always a crossroads of interpretation. This is how I often view things, often interpreting everyday scenes or objects into complex stories, full of colour and abstract detail.
My work has become more abstract recently as I like to imagine I can connect with more people as they interpret my work in their own way, finding their own feelings and therefore in a way connecting with mine.
Mehmet Arslan
Who is the Enemy
Size:44x62cm
Price:£250
I was interested in painting as a child and in my teenage years. This painting evolved into cartoons after college and I still draw them today. I have participated in many solo and group exhibitions and received several awards in competitions. Because of my cartoons, I was tried in court several times and sentenced. And because of this, I had to flee to England to avoid being imprisoned and to be able to make art in a free environment. Engraving (etching) and screen printing are some of the styles that I do, but they require a larger space and more tools than other arts, so I still haven’t had the opportunity to do these in England. I find working with children and young people very important. I’ve been to UK 5 years. I built a small workshop in the garden of our house, consisting only of discarded doors. And I intend to continue my art studies there. Art is a method to endear and colour the world, life and relationships
Cat Coulter
Aerial Swifts (part two)
Size:33x45cm
Price:£250
Aerial* Swifts (parts one and two) are two cyanotype photograms, which suggest flying* swifts by using a storm-damaged TV aerial* and a little bit of word-play.
They have travelled south for the winter to connect with The Art of Isolation, their South London artistic home, where the welcome is generous and it is always a joy to return!
Mark Yates
FRONTIER
Size:430x604mm
Price:£230
Frontier – In search for with the above and beyond to find the unknown. The relation with pushing to the extreme, connecting to more within this world. Conquering the wild frontiers ahead.
Yohannes Medfu
Judith and the Golden Shoes
Size:17x12in
Price:£250
The work is oil on canvas, based on a story of an ancient queen. A young deacon of a famous church with a golden curtain loved young Judith. However, she challenged him to bring her a golden shoes as a gift to even think about talking to him. The deacon cut a piece of the curtain of the church secretly, made the shoes with it and gave it to Judith. When the authorities found out about it, she was severely punished. Afterwards she rebelled, organised an army, defeated the rulers and became queen.
Ondrej Rypacek
Body 4
Size:30x40cm
Price:£450
Oil on linen, thick impasto painting. The writhing of the flesh and smoothness of the skin. Art is about connecting souls.
Andreia
Reptilian Muse
Size:46X46cm
Price:£1020
Artist Statement:
My work merges surrealism, cultural symbolism, and the natural world to create vivid, thought-provoking compositions that challenge perceptions of identity, spirituality, and the environment. This piece, a striking portrait of a lizard adorned with a halo and wrapped in a richly detailed shawl, draws inspiration from iconic imagery and merges it with an exploration of animalistic and human identity. The shawl’s intricate patterns and text, referencing “Frida,” evoke connections to cultural icons, paying homage to the strength, resilience, and spirit of artists and figures who transcend time and tradition.
Description of the Artwork:
This painting features a large, detailed portrait of a lizard with a golden halo, symbolizing a blend of the sacred and the earthly. The figure is draped in a vibrant shawl reminiscent of traditional textiles, adorned with floral motifs and insc
Lukas Nosek
The Core Is Not In the Centre
Size:52x72cm
Price:NFS
Acrylic liners on paper.
The image of a man searching for his own centre. Centre could reveal our fundamental value, from which the value of everything else is derived. But it is difficult to find out what it is because we are actually a mystery to ourselves.
Ned Handzic
Flash Memory
Size:50x60cm
Price:POA - available as any-size print
“Now draw with your non-dominant hand, without looking.”
Exercises at ‘The Drawing Marathon’, RDS 2021.
Pastels on newsprint.
Peter Kelly
Torso
Size:50x70cm
Price:£170
Semi abstract male form – digital painting from life. Digital print. A2.
Yvonne Liggett
The Funeral
Size:90x122cm
Price:NFS
Part of a series of paintings and photography that explore the different stages of Grief in this painting I was processing my Mother’s funeral and trying to make sense of the huge flood of memories and emotion that bombarded my mind simultaneously.
Savannah Wallace
Self Portrait
Size:20x20cm
Price:NFS
oil on canvas. Self Portrait – part of a personal investigation exploring the range of emotions felt in young people
Reyhaneh Ismaili
Woman, Life, Freedom
Size:33x45cm
Price:£200
Art making helps me express my desire for women’s freedom.
My inspiration comes directly from women. My art can imagine their freedom and self-expression.
WOMEN can be confident in their multiple expressions. I am interested in showing the many ways women can blossom. Without fear, women can look smart, sexy, emotional, and beautiful. Women can also be vulnerable, dignified, and defiant.
Through art the expression of other, more difficult parts of ourselves has just as much value. Women also have ambition, can feel under pressure, can be horrible or troubled as well as desirable.
Women in Iran are struggling with their basic human rights. I’m an activist for every woman’s right to live a life free from patriarchal, religious, or governmental discrimination.
John Williams
Untitled
Size:40 x 53cm
Price:£175
Seated nude drawn in graphite and pencil on A3 acid free cartridge paper at the Art of Isolation studio sessions.
Alicia Ulloa
Exploration of Personal Collections
Size:(5 Various) 15x10cm approx.
Price:NFS
An exploration of personal collections, the drawings represent stamps to symbolise collections, each drawing represents a collection she or her mother keeps at home.
Mick McNicholas
Living Embodiment of Frida Kahlo
Size:34x39cm
Price:£645
Painted over several sessions from life, on Zoom. Model was in Sydney Australia, I was in my studio in the U.K. Oil on Canvas Board.
IG: @mick_mcnicholas
Shirley Cheung
Guardian of The Marine Forest 2
Size:27x22cm
Price:NFS
Wood engraving print. Festive card 2, 2024.
Anthony Mulroy
Comfortably Numb – Hannah
Size:A3
Price:NFS
Life drawing sketches from Covent Garden life drawing November 2024.Media charcoal pencil, pen and coulour pencil. Model is Hannah.I call it comfortably Numb as Pink Floyd was playing and models seem to be meditating. Colour also as models were behind a big lit up Christmas tree.Life drawing helps me to switch for a couple of hours and go into another world.
Instergram information @Libertinesketchbook
Anthony Mulroy
Comfortably Numb – Anji
Size:A3
Price:NFS
Life drawing sketches from Covent Garden life drawing November 2024. Media charcoal pencil, pen and coulour pencil. Model is Anji.i call it comfortably Numb as pink Floyd was playing and models seem to be meditating. Colour also as models were behind a big lit up Christmas tree.Life drawing helps me to switch for a couple of hours and go into another world.
Instergram information @Libertinesketchbook
Stephen Passmore
Orogeny
Size:53x43cm
Price:£130 framed(£80 unframed)
Signed, limited edition print on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper of ‘Orogeny’. The original painting made using acrylic paints applied with pallet knife. The forming of the mountains feel like theatre, framed with a backdrop of a visceral, thick, colourful sky and the forests and characters emerge and flicker in the foreground all witness to deep time. Our connection to the world is fleeting, often overwhelming. I find mountain landscapes calming to be in yet violent to imagine the processes and timescales of mountains forming, of orogeny. This work features as the front cover for the poetry and essay collection Convulsing() by Scott Williams. Limited edition run of 30 prints.
Leticia Garcia
Stephanie
Size:A3
Price:£200
3 Title: STEPHANIE – (A3) Charcoal and white pastel on grey paper / £200
An essential part of being an artist is your community. Not just our fellow artists, but also galleries, patrons, teachers, and especially models who generously gift us with their poses week in week out. Doing the life-drawing rounds in London you tend to draw the same model several times over the years, and naturally strong bonds are built.
I have 4 drawings of Stephanie from just one session in Aug’23. I would love to draw her again soon wherever she is.
Ned Handzic
Andrew at The Barbican
Size:A4
Price:NFS
Andrew Lim’s oil paintings of poses as short as 1 minute are legendary on London’s life drawing circuit. As regulars of the informal Sunday Southbank Portrait Session we’ve sat for the group many times. This is my favourite graphite version of Andrew so far.
DEBBIE TEARLE
STRATUM
Size:30x20cm
Price:£270
This textile piece has been made using the sustainable materials of earth pigment and soya milk binder.
The stitches describe the landscape and represent the layers within the . This is one of two pieces I have submitted to this show.
For me this has been a new direction in my work that I’ve been developing over several months and deepens my connection to the natural environment, deep time and human histories.
Gbolobo Fasuyi
Urban Fusion
Size:60x80x20cm
Price:NFS
Textiles, 3d paint and decofoil – mixed media. Urban Fusion – exploring the fabric of urban communities and the contrast with a more rural community once lived.
S.K.
Breaking barriers 2
Size:33x45
Price:£180
The most important thing for me is my mental health. I only create art when I feel. When I am going through something mentally and if I am affected mentally and emotionally.
Sylvietta
What's Going On?
Size:32x42cm
Price:£150
Capturing the Chaos of Loss. Amidst the debris, a haunting silence speaks volumes. Witness the raw emotions as people grapple with shattered lives. In the center, a little girl’s gaze echoes the unspoken question: ‘What’s Going On?’
Mix-media collage on cardboard
32×42 cm
Linda Chapman
Window Garden
Size:40x40cm
Price:£395
My desire is to show some magical realism. These places, buildings, details are all real but when seen together with the natural elements of light and reflection, it blurs the line a little, between fantasy and reality. No matter what you see, there is always a crossroads of interpretation. This is how I often view things, often interpreting everyday scenes or objects into complex stories, full of colour and abstract detail.
My work has become more abstract recently as I like to imagine I can connect with more people as they interpret my work in their own way, finding their own feelings and therefore in a way connecting with mine.
Yvonne Liggett
Conversation and Consolation
Size:73x97cm
Price:NFS
This painting was a response to grief and loss and how when connections with nature are made it is like the most loving and accepting friendship, a sanctuary of calm where you can reflect and heal and it is always there for you. This work is a new departure and I drew from great Artists of the past that I have felt connected with emotionally in response to their subject, their textural application and colour. I wanted to convey a place that is spiritual and beautiful like a Mothers embrace.
It is Oil on Canvas with some oil pastel detail. This is a stand alone piece in terms of style but it does form part of a body of work I have been making over the past 3 Years. It was made in response to my Mother’s death and the complicated and challenging journey grief takes you on.
Colin Andress
Girl with Red Hair (Georgie)
Size:56x45cm
Price:£650
Over the past two years I have been connecting with my creativity by taking classes in drawing, painting and printmaking. This is my first exhibition, and I am submitting five pieces to the show.
This is a portrait of fashion model Georgie Hobday, drawn from a photograph found online. It was done as an exercise in the trois crayons technique, using only sanguine, white and black. I was particularly pleased with the effect of her blue eyes, achieved through simultaneous contrast.
Conté pencils and crayons on orange-brown Clairefontaine Ingres pastel paper. Image size 40 x 30 cm.
Hüseyin Aslan
Money
Size:33x45cm
Price:£95
I was born in Turkey. I started drawing cartoons at a young age and my cartoons were published in many national and local newspapers and magazines. I try to write poetry along with cartoons, I have two books called Water Heart and Civil Lines. I believe that art and literature are a universal language and that they change and beautify the world.
Emily Grenville-Grey
Touch
Size:25x19cm
Price:£50
Typewriter text on sweet packet.
Part of a series called ‘Sweet Nothings’ that enables the sharing of small screams. Expanded from typewritten originals to risographs and to screen prints in larger editions, each original is made of an edition of 10.
This is an evolving body of work aiming to share sentiments that might be helpful in the connection and empathy of the wider unconscious collective.
Raph Seymour
Inside
Size:53 x 43 cm
Price:£40
This piece is a drypoint print I have coloured with gouache. It is based from a life drawing. Whilst similar stylistically to my other work submitted, this piece was more about isolation. The idea was someone alone by a window, the curtain conjoins with the head and a pot plant rests on her shoulder. It contrasts to the story of connection from my other piece.
Rod Kitson
Hugh
Size:30x30cm
Price:£400
Connecting on a deeper level this year, understanding that by sharing our experiences we help one another.
Annabelle volpi
The Treasures of Your Soul
Size:34x46cm
Price:£225
Helen Jacobus
Federica
Size:21x28cm
Price:£95
This is a recent pencil drawing made in a weekly Sunday afternoon portrait drawing group on the South Bank, London, where about 35-40 artists get together and draw each other for 15 mins. Sometimes members of the public offer to sit for us. I had never seen the sitter, Frederica, before, but in the six hours that I was drawing people’s faces one afternoon (about 10-15 drawings), this was the only drawing that I felt “worked.” What is the connection between the artist and their model? Why do some portraits reflect the sitter, “better” than others? Does sitting for an ensemble of artists in a public space create a different kind of connection between the sitter and the artists? Certainly, it is much less personal. In some ways this can give the person who poses the freedom to express themselves in any way they want. The anonymous atmosphere of the Sunday portrait group may produce a different kind of model performance than sitting for a one artist, or for a small group, in a studio, or in a class. In this case, I don’t think Frederica saw my drawing in the enormous, echoey space of the Royal Festival Hall. So our connection was one-sided.
Chris Edwards
Through a Caterpillar's Eye
Size:30x30cm
Price:£50
“Look, look and see the connection between you and me, delve down within yourself and observe the small.”
Silk tissue paper burnt with joss stick. Quilted into circles and formed to make a larger piece.
Mengyuan Tong
Mutable Traces
Size:56x56cm
Price:£400
Mutable Traces, 2023, oil paints and charcoal on canvas.
In this painting, I seek to redefine the traces of decay within the context of heritage, challenging and expanding the traditional understanding of heritage. In traditional heritage preservation, traces of decay are often criticized. However, I view them as akin to the fingerprints of monuments, signifying their distinctive existence and narrating their unique story.
Monuments in the former Yugoslav region, following the dissolution of Yugoslavia, have come to represent the things “unwilling to be remembered.”(Jan Kempenaers) The surfaces of these monuments bear traces of decay, mould, graffiti, and more.
Fingerprint, as a symbol of uniqueness and temporality in the works, undergoes changes in shape and depth over time while retaining its individuality.
Paul Shinn
Artistic Connection (Yilin)
Size:24x33cm
Price:NFS
Life drawing has been a big part of my art practice in recent years. I find it to be a very mindful exercise and when I’m drawing, I’m so connected with looking at the model and the act of drawing that my brain doesn’t have time to wander.
This piece is a digital print of a drawing I produced during a class run by Freeform Life Drawing in Stoke Newington at the beginning of November this year. The model was Yilin, who I’ve drawn quite a few times before. This was a 40 minute pose where the exercise was to use just colour pencils, building the image up from light colours and redrawing over your picture with darker colours. As somebody who normally draws quite quickly and can often fit in two drawings during a 40 minute pose, this was a different experience as I spent the whole of the time on this one drawing. It’s an exercise I would like to return to again when faced with longer poses in the future.
Fahima Amin
Sailboat At Sea
Size:50x50cm
Price:£120
oh, to be on a sailboat adrift at sea. unburdened and free.
Chris Wilcox
0001CAD-Y-O
Size:29x24x15cm
Price:£250
Dimena Djamba
A Walk in the Park
Size:33x45cm
Price:NFS
acrylic on paper
Anna-Maria Amato
The Stretch of Potential
Size:21x29cm
Price:£80
Pencil drawing with pastels and pen. The woman depicted in the acrobatic position is an embodiment of the potential of practise, the strength of repetition, and the beauty of power. The hair is blooming into shapes from deep sea natural forms. I made the piece while considering the connection between femininity, power and feeling at home in our physicality. The piece is framed in a white wooden frame.
Janine Hall
Alter Ego
Size:45x40cm
Price:NFS
‘Alter Ego’ describes the fleeting moment when shadow and light have connected to form two faces in a self portrait…
Nedim Handzic
Yohannes at The Barbican
Size:21x29.7cm
Price:NFS
Yohannes is a graphic novelist and longtime drawing pal from across London’s art meetups. His large scale ink drawings inspire at regular Sunday portrait sessions where he often volunteers for 15-minute poses.
Having recently looked into head anatomy, I became aware of how much information is in a profile and can be hinted at with just a few lines. An LED light showed ‘zygomatic bones’, ‘temporal lines’, ‘frontal processes of the maxilla’ and more. This is one of a series of profiles of Yohannes I enjoyed as a learning process among artists.
Graphite on paper.
Beautifully So
This Child Is You
Size:40x45cm
Price:NFS
We have all been there. Carried by someone – and then catching that first glimpse of all that lies beyond.
Ned Handzic
Sarah at The Barbican
Size:A4
Price:NFS
Occasionally known as ‘Renaissance Sarah’ for her poses in group portrait sessions, Sarah does inspiring charcoal drawings and full paintings in life drawing sessions.
For this profile I’d forgotten my glasses and the LED light we were trying out at the Barbican was behind the sitter. I relaxed and focused on the outline and a few shadows for a unique drawing that feels a lot like Sarah.
Betty Hicks
The Beach and the City
Size:30x50x40cm
Price:NFS
diorama, mixed media. exploration of the theme urban and rural, betty was intereted in the contrast of her two lives, one by the beach with her mother an the other living in the big city with her father.
Jason Hawkridge
Time Travels
Size:62x45cm
Price:£330
1/1 Unique print. 5 colour mono / silk screen print. Inspired by Japanese calligraphy and time travel through portals.
Elena Oliinyk
Past Lives
Size:29.7x42cm
Price:£100
In the past couple of years, I have started to use illustrations as a therapy tool. Whenever I find a new hyperfixation, I work through the obsession by drawing it. When an event, story, piece of news, media, or art touches me, I get obsessed. And that is precisely what happened to me after watching Past Lives by Celine Song.
Being an immigrant myself and leaving my hometime at quite a young age, I instantly connected to the story of Nora, an American-Korean writer, who is now too American to truly connect with her Korean side and too Korean ever to be fully American.
I, too, dream in a language a loved one cannot understand. Will I ever be truly British? Or will I ever stop being Ukrainian?
Cat Coulter
Aerial Swifts (part one)
Size:33x45cm
Price:£250
Aerial* Swifts (parts one and two) are two cyanotype photograms, which suggest flying* swifts by using a storm-damaged TV aerial* and a little bit of word-play.
They have travelled south for the winter to connect with The Art of Isolation, their South London artistic home, where the welcome is generous and it is always a joy to return!
Sapphire Morrison
Love and Kisses
Size:70x60x10cm
Price:NFS
textiles. Love and Kisses – an exploration of the feeling of being in love.
Roger Brackin
Model Natsumi - London 2024
Size:A3
Price:£100
Roger Brackin is an artist specialising in capturing the female form in live sessions.
This picture is an ink fine liner and watercolour rendition of model Natsumi, drawn live in London, 2024 – 10 minute pose.
Yvonne Liggett
Conversation and Consolation
Size:73x97cm
Price:NFS
Oil on Canvas how friendship and connections offer much comfort at tines of grief. This is part of a series.
Masi
Woman, Life, Freedom
Size:43x54cm
Price:£200
I started painting back in my country and couldn’t continue when I came here until I joined New Art Studio in 2018 and have been back doing art ever since. To me, painting is like mindfulness and meditation. I don’t think of anything when painting and I feel lost in the colours.
akeichleR (aka A. Kathke)
Blue Skies Ahead
Size:50x19cm
Price:NFS
Connecting to Humanity through personal interpretation of Christianity that the current „West“ is made of.
This androgynous figure marks the shared experience of any given Human Being feeling Pain with the hopes of one day, after repentance, having learned a meaningful purpose in suffering by becoming immortal, thus sharing a place in the Harmony of the Mysterium that is ultimately
TRUE ART.
Yas! GOD IS ART at its perfect channeling.
When an artist can converse, so to speak, through an audience through artistic expression, in whichever form, that is a Shared Cosmic Connection. This Life then is an Eternal Sacred Symphony – a Balance amongst colour, dark and light, touch, taste, scent, tune with beats as well as cacophony, a constant sentient heartbeat, stillness, and invisible vibrations on a higher frequency presented as a precise mathematical expression:
The Great Paradoxically Humiliating yet Beautiful and Joyful Joke that binds us all together. Amen.
Ally Mwaugali
Green Planet
Size:42x30cm
Price:£65
I was born in Tanzania and didn’t know I could do art. I thought I wasn’t good
enough to do art, but I was wrong because everyone can do anything, but only if
you put in effort and are ready to learn from mistakes. I like to do landscape art
because nature is important to our lives, and we depend on each other. I believe art
can be used as therapy and to calm ourselves down.
Mandy Marimooto
Peace and Serenity
Size:40x50x40cm
Price:NFS
paper, textiles, wire, mixed media. an exploration of peace and serentity, butterflies deict calmness in a busy and chaotic world.
Precious Sodipo
Celebration, Culture and Nature
Size:60x60x120cm
Price:NFS
fashion fabrics, tie dye and embroidery. a textiles piece depicting a traditional nigerian celebration outfit fused with her own inspiration looking deeper into culture and nature.
Arbi
Home
Size:33x24cm
Price:£65
I feel really good at making art at the studio and drawing helps me relax.
I come here to survive as there is so much pressure in this country. The art studio helps me forget these troubles and when I’m there, I can talk to people and tell them everything.
I draw whatever I feel like, mountains and flowers and towers …
Connell McMenamin
Svetlani
Size:23x23cm
Price:£200
Part of a 100 portrait series, in this painting (completed in oils), I’m connecting to my intuition in regards to the brush work, but also in the colours used. I’m interested in how one can elevate a portrait beyond a mere recording of the sitter to something that is compelling as an image in and of itself. I’m also connecting to the materiality of the paint. Realism is impressive, but holds limited interest for me, I want my paintings to look like paintings and I see visible mark making as a way for the viewer to see and connect to the hand of the artist.
Diana Sandetskaya
Wildfires (IV)
Size:28x23cm
Price:£500
This is an oil painting from the series of paintings “Wildfires”. Images of trees on fire, branches and trunks lit up by the light of the flames in the darkness of the night, silhouettes of the trees disappearing in the smoke bringing to mind only about looming environmental crisis, but also wars, destruction and violence, pain, fear and despair which seem to be infesting the news and affecting lives of so many people. I wanted to paint some of the wildfire scenes as collective images reminding us about worrying prospects of seeing more and more landscapes like this in the future and the pressing need to connect with our humanity, our planet and nature that we have been taking for granted for too long.
Verona Mock
Black Dog
Size:A4
Price:NFS
An illustustration of a man pulling a large Black Dog as a metaphor for the depression we all sometimes suffer.
Kong Pei Yen
Warm and Toasty
Size:A6
Price:£15
Glitter print
Adam Cornish
Rubicon II
Size:40x40cm
Price:£165
Construction in hessian, acrylic and wood on canvas.
Chris Pinto
graphic design
Size:40x60cm
Price:NFS
part of a personal investigation into Identity, chris made portaits of his friends exploring their heritage through cultural patterns.
Michael Riddle
Clear Vision
Size:24x30cm
Price:£400
Vanya Marinova
Supernova
Size:55x55cm
Price:£500
I did this painting as part of an art contest some time ago, in which we had 1 song out of 5 to choose from, to come up with an artwork based on our impressions from the music. I chose Pink Floyd’s “The Great Gig in the Sky” anthem from the iconic “Dark Side of the Moon” album released in March 1973 (I was born 2 months later!). The vocals of Clare Torry tell volumes there – I felt grief and loss, and pain, but there was also stregth and beauty, even triumph. The painting process was instinctive and fast, and I felt very liberated afterwards.
Sally Mohamed
Looking Forward
Size:30x40cm
Price:£100
In the journey of self-discovery, you’re often overwhelmed by countless questions and uncertainties as you strive to understand everything around you and connect with the universe. When clarity finally emerges, it marks a pivotal turning point for your future self.
Roger Brackin
Hafa in Extreme Pose
Size:32x32cm
Price:£60
Roger B is an artist specialising in the female form.
This picture is an ink fine liner and watercolour rendition on plain paper of model Hafa in an extreme pose, drawn live in London 2024 (10 minute pose).
angelika
The Man Who Sold The World
Size:33x24cm
Price:£50
My Shadow: a megalomaniac coward
Loretta Hopewell
Peckham Lillies
Size:30x38cm
Price:NFS
Painting in Peckham Rye of pond. Part of a series of studies. Oil studies are being used to move forward to create textured pieces.
Rawdon Sherwood
Tube Scribbles
Size:21x30cm
Price:NFS
Video of tube portraits sketched on the Tube, Bus and DLR on my phone using my finger as a stylus
Portraits are of people who sit opposite me, they take between 4 and 8 minutes. When the person or I get up to leave the portrait stops no enhancing the images.
The videos are compressed and speeded up lasting 40-60 seconds.
Helen Jacobus
Steve
Size:38 x 30 cm
Price:
Watercolour drawing of art model Steve Ritter. It was actually painted at Rod Kitson’s life drawing class in 2023. But it remains my favourite portrait. I am practising portrait and life drawing several times a week. The artist connects to their model when they draw them. Another portrait, in pencil, Frederica, drawn more recently, is in this show, and reflects my artistic journey.
E.E.
Smile is Coming
Size:50x40cm
Price:£250
I am a poet and artist from Egypt. Some of my poems were based on my paintings. I am also influenced by songs. I am a member of the art studio and I draw and paint. I have performed my poems and paintings in numerous places including the Union Chapel, Amnesty International and the South Bank Centre. I run a creative art space at Akwaaba. I am currently writing a story about a lioness in London, which includes some paintings.
Ellie Letchford
Finding Beauty in the Most Ordinary Things 05
Size:30x50cm
Price:£120
Description: I’ve always found beauty in the ordinary. As a child, I spent countless hours creating all sorts of objects and pieces. Growing up with dyslexia, I channeled my energy into creative pursuits. From modeling, dancing, to acting as an extra in a Sam Mendes movie, I’ve always sought artistic expression.
Even during my five-year stint at a hardware store—a far cry from my dreams—I discovered a new appreciation for the mundane. By looking closer, I found beauty in the most ordinary things.
Today, I’m a maker of things, a photographer, a dancer, a student of the human form. This series of photographs are a celebration of the artist’s spirit, their raw, unfiltered essence captured in a single frame. The freedom of movement through dance and artistic expression.
Hywel Pratley
Rod
Size:30x40cm
Price:£1100
A lifesize portrait of Rod Kitson, Artist and founder of Connect 24 and Isolation Arts. I was lucky enough to sit for Rod’s extraordinary series of painted portraits which is when we agreed to make this exchange. Apart from enjoying his unique face and sartorial elegance, I (we) learned a lot about the human condition while chatting. A wonderful connection made with a very loving man. I sculpt my portraits in clay and cast in plaster, resin and / or bronze. My studio is in Ravenscourt Park, West London.
DEBBIE TEARLE
DAIR
Size:23x28cm
Price:£250
This textile piece has been made using the sustainable materials of earth pigment and soya milk binder.
These stitches using various green threads reference the marks made by ancient Celts. They used an alphabet called “Ogham” alphabet which used the Celtic name for different types of trees for each letter of their alphabet.
This letter is “Dair” meaning oak. It is the seventh letter of the alphabet. It represents strength, stability and endurance.
So in this piece there is a forest of oak trees. I’ve tried to show them at different stages of growth through the colours and length of thread.
I love languages, symbols and their meanings. I hope it adds another layer of complexity to my work. This is one of two pieces I have submitted to this show.
For me this has been a new direction in my work that I’ve been developing over several months and deepens my connection to the natural environment, deep time and human histories.
Clive
Sitting Still
Size:35x45cm
Price:£120
| Sitting still is a watercolour and dip pen piece created at a life drawing session. There is a real fellowship amongst life drawers. We come together to draw and often stay to discuss the drawing session, the art, and creative live in general. This piece was fun to create and also allowed me to meet a new model. |
Yvonne Liggett
Tabitha
Size:54x44cm
Price:NFS
This is part of a series of paintings I have made that include my children. I am looking at how a we try to connect with each other but can never really know what or how another person is thinking. I was drawn to the intensity of the gaze and what possible thoughts could lie behind it.
Philip Hewson
A Study of Alex
Size:40x40cm
Price:£330
| Oil on paper laid on board. A study of Alex. This painting came about almost by accident. Alex was sitting for me for my painting of “Prometheus Chained” – a series of work examining masculinity through the lens of Greek Myths retold in a domestic setting – this patterned sofa. This painting represents the special connection between artist and model that can transform work from the mundane, and is vital to my practice. |
Jonathan Chan
Anastasia
Size:35x35cm
Price:£200
A portrait of Anastasia painted on a bathroom tile, featuring her trademark sticking-out-pinkie.
Alan Rutherford
You Are Not Alone
Size:50x30cm
Price:£160
This sculptural relief work is inspired by Baltic folk art that I encountered during a visit to Latvia in 2018. The piece has a homestead feel to it and resembles something that was traditionally crafted and hung on the wall. In a world where social media makes us feel ever more and more isolated, the work seeks to counter this feeling and remind us that there are always lines and connections between all of us.
Yohannes Medfu
Stil Life with Mangoes
Size:40x50cm
Price:£300
Oil painting on canvas board. Still life with mango fruits, traditional pot and water jar.
Mark Yates
GENICS
Size:150x225mm
Price:£220
GENICS – A unifier, bonding creating relationships in a future scape. Understanding needs – combining and conforming to create better futures.
Mirham
Reader and Cat
Size:18x13cm
Price:NFS
I enjoyed working with the thick red-black paint – creating almost a gap in the painting – where the two figures, wrapped up in their own thoughts are being pulled together by gravity; the uneasy alliance of a sinking couch.
Lisa Biles
Numb skull
Size:42x30in
Price:£120
In my work I tackle mental health including addictive personality. In this image I manually use pen ink dots to create the heaviness of negative thoughts and the weight ion the brain it causes.
I recently started this Style of work due to the stress and circumstances over the year.
I do not plan out what the image will be until it occurs as the end product.
If you are interested, in this style and you would like to contact me via email: mslisabiles@gmail.com
Derek Mason
Maria
Size:32x44cm
Price:NFS
Callia Drinkwater
Held by Water III
Size:A5
Price:£20
This is part of three acrylic paintings: the local pool here in Southwark, kayaking in the ocean, and the pool at my family home in Auckland. This pool is my father’s eternal project, and I love to hear each phase of the process year-on-year. From the Spring-time reveal of a wasteland of dried leaves on the tiles, to chlorinated experiments once a green hue has taken ahold of the water. While many things change at home, the battle with nature to keep this highly artificial ecosystem afloat remains consistent.
Jamie Zubairi
Matt
Size:35cm x 45cm
Price:£300
Charcoal drawing of West End actor Matthew Gent by Jamie Zubairi
Pam Frost
The Red Bourgeoisie
Size:21x30cm
Price:NFS
Angela Raynor – Minister for Levelling Herself Up, inspired by the expenses scandal at the beginning of the new Labour administration.
Lim Orion
Loop
Size:15x20cm
Price:NFS
Watercolour, Inks, Acrylics, Pens
My mum lives on the edge of the Cornish moors in an old miners cottage – when I go there, it’s a long journey and every hour out of the city drops a weight from me. Every day I’m there, I walk a big expanse of open fields and ruined quarries where the lichen is ferociously spiky, and the trees are gnarled and cling determinedly to the land from exposure to the elements. I like to walk hard, sweat on purpose and get soaked through with rain like I am cleaning my soul with effort! Sometimes I don’t see another person for hours, and sometimes I get a strong feeling that there are ominous spirits that flare up – irked by my presence on a particular patch – a sudden howling wind will whip me! ‘Okay, okay’ I say ‘Im going!!’
After a particularly difficult breakup where I lost myself a bit, I walked for almost a whole day. A huge loop of a walk that ended me back at my starting point but feeling deeply shifted. It was so comforting to feel that return to myself, and reminded me that my relationship was an adventure. So even though I felt like I was all the way back at the start of a journey, it’s more like a spiral – always going deeper as we circle back round!
I painted this spooky sweaty walk, peacefully and happily at dusk when I got home. My mum had a fire going, and we set up the Mah Jong to play after dinner. Returning to my roots, and my feeling of home – I felt so content to have found my way back.
Don Greenwood
Made in Taiwan
Size:10x8in
Price:£150
Made in Taiwan, Made in Taiwan. these are a pair made from ‘double exposures’ of some of my travel photos while I am staying in Tainan which is the oldest city in Taiwan. At the moment the skies are full of modern fighter jets exercising for defence in pairs and the ancient temples are full of visitors seeking devine guidance (using pairs of wooden moon blocks or ‘jiaobe)’. it is a stunningly beautiful place and I don’t think I ever want to leave. In the 1980’s when I was young everything in the UK was labelled ‘Made in Taiwan’. So now I have ‘Made something in Taiwan’ as part of this exhibition.
Masi
Peace
Size:54x43cm
Price:£200
I started painting back in my country and couldn’t continue when I came here until I joined New Art Studio in 2018 and have been back doing art ever since. To me, painting is like mindfulness and meditation. I don’t think of anything when painting and I feel lost in the colours.
Carl Butterworth
Morgan
Size:29x43cm
Price:NFS
A pencil drawing of London life model Morgan.
Hasan Bölücek
We were in somewhere
Size:27x34cm
Price:£100
Hasan was born in Turkey and has been living and practicing his art in London for about 15 years. He loves telling stories by illustrating and painting. Most of the stories and the characters of his art work are inspired by drag queens and many different queer individuals.
‘Power of the telling stories is helping me feel strong and being part of colourful and peaceful life. Painting and illustrating brings me peace and offers me a place to meditate on lights, colours and patterns of the world.’
Timothy James Andrews
Shield Of Athena Colour Tests
Size:A4 / A3
Price:£55-£75
Award winning Artist commonly known as Tim takes his inspiration from architectural English as well as Italian baroque styling being heavily influenced by Donatella & Gianni Versace. The work displayed is influenced by the early work of Damien Hurst showing control and power over colour as well as form. Colour test pieces in acrylics were prepared in various base colours on canvas board or stretched canvases with the central design for the Shield of Athena project sprayed with Montana Gold acrylics.
John Whitfield
Nature No. 1
Size:39x29cm
Price:£120
Inkjet print. Nature No 1. Found objects on scratched steel surface. From a 5×4 black and white negative. Part of a series of images with found objects.
JL
Blooming
Size:50x40cm
Price:£200
When I focus on drawing, I feel myself calming. If I think too much, I cannot draw.
When I see something that I am interested in, I copy it and when I’m drawing these things, they give me pleasure. Normally I use pencils. Sometime I use paints.
Helen Kelly
Wolf Looking for Food
Size:A5
Price:£10
Pencil drawing. I was drawn to the eyes concentrating on looking for food.
S.K.
Breaking barriers 1
Size:33x45cm
Price:£180
The most important thing for me is my mental health. I only create art when I feel. When I am going through something mentally and if I am affected mentally and emotionally.
Rod Kitson
Me Painting Dom at the Other Art Fair
Size:7x5cm
Price:NFS
An instamatic camera image snapped while I was painting my best mate Dom at the Other Art Fair.* Over the four days of the fair on Brick Lane I painted 10 portraits for my Where Are We Now series, which now numbers more than 500 (one of which, ‘Hugh’, also appears at Connect 24), each done in a two hour sitting as depicted here.
Painting live at the fair was an amazing experience, one of the best of my life. And this is a memento of that time and the enduring friendship with Dom.
*I am embarrassed to say I did not keep a record of the person who took the picture.
Therresha Rowe
The Yam Harvest
Size:50x60cm
Price:£500
This is my cousin Delva, who is a farmer in Southern Trelawny, Jamaica, packing yams to sell in Kingston. Her photograph brought me back to the rural life I had left behind as a child.
The yams create a symbolistic illusion of Delva sorting through wooden prosthetic limbs, which could eventually go to someone who needs them.
One of my family members in Jamaica had their leg amputated almost four years ago due to hypertension. The sale of this painting would go towards purchasing a prosthetic for Everine.
Everine is a retired farmer who resides up a steep hill where he used to farm, in the region of Stoney Hill, Jamaica. He lives on his own and relies on his surrounding neighbours for assistance on a daily basis.
After his leg was amputated he wasn’t offered any care plan or any form of financial assistance to improve his quality of life.
He is like many other persons who have lost their limbs from either diabetes, hypertension or from serving in the armed forces. One in eight Jamaicans suffer from diabetes and four out of every 10 Jamaicans who suffer with either diabetes or hypertension are unaware of their health status. Some of these people who have lost limbs live in locations where they are far away from clinics, pharmacies or supermarkets, making it harder for them to help themselves in some way.
The older these people get the harder life is for them. Some of them are forgotten about, either by the system or by their families, as people don’t see them as some are unable to leave the house unaided or without assistance. Everine has mentioned that losing your limbs can have a detrimental effect on your mental health, it can make you believe people treat you differently in a negative way. My aim in life, is to help those who cannot help themselves. I would like to continue selling some of my paintings to help charities, to help other people.
angelika eichler
Snip from the Hip
Size:33x24cm
Price:£100
Exploring Storytelling. Myth Making is part of the human condition. This piece is a story put to drawing. What if a God first created a Woman? And what if a piece of her were taken to create a Man? That’s just to Begin…
Mike Thebridge
The Overthinker
Size:30x40cm
Price:£600
Jane Pickersgill
Modernist Crash (Couture Drawing 9)
Size:50x50cm
Price:£400
Part of the series Couture Drawing begun in 2020 which challenges materiality and function, looking at what happens when processes & materials from different disciplines collide. It investigates the inter-connectednessof two sides of my practice and relates to my former career as a fashion designer.
Callia Drinkwwater
Held by Water I
Size:A5
Price:£20
This is part of three acrylic paintings: the local pool here in Southwark, kayaking in the ocean, and the pool at my family home in Auckland. Since moving to London, the pool in Southwark has been an important place of familiarity and community for me. Being enveloped in the water provides a sense of quiet in a sometimes overwhelming city. This routine has helped me regain a sense of connection with myself.
Alan Rutherford
Drawing From Sound - Ayrshire 01
Size:27x20cm
Price:£150
Part of a series of 10 works made between 2021 and 2023 as part of the British Council’s ‘Connections through Culture’ between Scotland and China. The process involved listening to sound recordings of the sea whilst wearing a blindfold and drawing in response to the sounds. The source recording was made on. a beach in Ayrshire. Similar works were created by listening to recordings from beaches in China.
Pat Mynott
Rye Lane
Size:46x59cm
Price:£75
My regular route to Rye Lane Station. Dirty, smelly, graffitied but to me it means warm, bustling, & PECKHAM.
Roger Whitenan
Valentina II
Size:30 x 40cm
Price:£65
1 of 2 mounted prints of life model Valentina_olivieri
Cliff Barden
Ziggi at Tanner Street.
Size:430 x 310 mm
Price:£285
Life drawing of Ziggi. Pencil on paper.
Ziggi posed at a life drawing group I organise and inspired me to create one of my best drawings of the year.
Roger Whitenan
Valentina I
Size:30 x 40cm
Price:£65
1 of 2 Mounted prints of life model Valentina_Olivieri
Paul Shinn
Music Connection (Mui Zyu)
Size:24x33cm
Price:£100
I drew this piece after attending a gig by the artist Mui Zyu at King’s Place in London this Halloween. It was an intimate venue with the music and visuals being projected in the background creating a real sense of connection with all the other people there. We were here, experiencing this moment together.
I made some sketches during the gig and then created this piece using marker pens, colour pencil and a brush pen later at home. It’s similar in style to my other work, but I experimented with the colour mixing to try and capture the feel of the projection behind the singer.
Lukas Nosek
Resting Blue Purple
Size:70x50cm
Price:£240
Laurie during Thursday’s life drawing session at London Drawing. I used Molotow acrylic liners on A2 paper. I like that it is a very uncompromising way of drawing, each line stays on the paper and has an impact on the final piece. I like lifedrawing because it teaches me how to approach the naked human body without being sexualised by global culture. It is an opportunity to meet the other person in a clear and calm but also intimate environment.
Anna Niman
Beyond Confines (S-R)
Size:40x50cm
Price:£250
Created during a life drawing session I ran in 2024 with S-R. I have a history in dance and often work with some very talented dancers and performers. S-R is a ballet dancer and I find her sheer presence transcends the confines of the space she poses in. Working directly and gesturally in this medium has allowed an element of exploration of this, as the figure, form and shapes fragment into marks and drips off the page.
Fanni Csepeli
'Serendipity'
Size:16x21cm
Price:£POA
‘Serendipity’
mixed media on canvas
The piece captures the all-encompassing moment of clarity that follows an epiphany; when endless swirling thoughts finally settle into understanding.
Jocelyn Leigh
Brain Cotal Fossil
Size:28x28cm
Price:£48
This work is part of a series in white pan in black paper, not in the show, inspired by my background in Earth Sciences. Reconnecting with my studies I have extended the sketches in my palaeontology workbook into a series.
Savannah Wallace
Looking Through
Size:33x45cm
Price:NFS
acrylic on paper – exploring the theme of ‘looking through’
Francoise Drown
Trees 2
Size:A4
Price:NFS
I painted trees at the Rainbow Arts class I attend in Surrey Quays every Thursday.
Alice Fordyce
Octopus on Chair
Size:40x48x90cm
Price:£250
Shayley Staunton Aderigbe
Self Portrait
Size:50x80cm
Price:NFS
charcoal and chalk on paper
Kusam Bedi
Shadow of Time
Size:20x18cm
Price:£300
Collage using found paper and vintage photograph in box frame.
Anthony Mulroy
Comfortably Numb – Hannah II
Size:A3
Price:NFS
Life drawing sketches from Covent Garden life drawing November 2024. Media charcoal pencil, pen and coulour pencil. Model is Hannah. I call it comfortably Numb as pink Floyd was playing and models seem to be meditating. Colour also as models were behind a big lit up Christmas tree. Life drawing helps me to switch for a couple of hours and go into another world.
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Alex
The Moon
Size:33x45cm
Price:£100
I paint a lot of animals and nature. I like mountains and rivers, the sea and the forests.
I study colour and drawing is important to me because I am quiet in myself. l used to use
pencils before but I use acrylics now and I want to try oil painting. I once tried watercolour
but that medium is maybe not good for me and now I just use acrylics. I used to do wood
carving a long time ago. I could demonstrate this art form if I had the tools.
Katrina Jade Nellist
Butterflies(one)
Size:22x15cm
Price:£10
Watercolour of a butterfly swarm. Part of a series of works – butterflies one and two, and a larger catalog of my work on insects.
Connections – The idea behind this piece was to abstract the butterfly swarm to the degree it was almost unrecognizable, seen from far away. This represents how we see our connections with each other, and with nature.
Note – there is a small scribble in black ink on this piece. If i have time i will try and find a way to remove it or lessen it’s visibility.
Piece will be likely mounted.
A.K.
strong mountain
Size:30x40cm
Price:£100
I am from Iran. I started painting when I was a child. My favourite material for painting is
oils – they provide my favourite colours. I use acrylic, watercolour and coloured pencils. I
love Nature and animals, and most of my paintings are about this.
Mehmet Arslan
Who is the real tightrope walker?
Size:33x45cm
Price:£200
I was interested in painting as a child and in my teenage years. This painting evolved into cartoons after college and I still draw them today. I have participated in many solo and group exhibitions and received several awards in competitions. Because of my cartoons, I was tried in court several times and sentenced. And because of this, I had to flee to England to avoid being imprisoned and to be able to make art in a free environment. Engraving (etching) and screen printing are some of the styles that I do, but they require a larger space and more tools than other arts, so I still haven’t had the opportunity to do these in England. I find working with children and young people very important. I’ve been to UK 5 years. I built a small workshop in the garden of our house, consisting only of discarded doors. And I intend to continue my art studies there. Art is a method to endear and colour the world, life and relationships
Joao Costa
graphic design and animation
Size:40x60cm
Price:NFS
graphic design and animation. Inspired by japan and the audiovisual movement, he wanted to create a video game character from his beloved cat as a samurai warrior.
Marios Rotsa
Joker, Egon, Connect
Size:24x30com
Price:£250
Figurative art / fan art, after Egon Schiele.
Mixed media (coloured pencil, water colour, gouache and ink) on tan toned paper, mounted on ply board.
Inspired by the film ‘Joker’.
Connell McMenamin
Sofia - orange and blue
Size:23x23cm
Price:£200
This is painting made in oils on a canvas panel. Painted from imagination with a view of connecting more closely with my intuition and trusting myself to paint without over thinking or over rendering. I was also connecting with the materiality of the paint, allowing myself to explore mark making in a playful way.
Katrina Jade Nellist
Butterflies(two)
Size:21x15cm
Price:£10
Second of two pieces, see previous piece, butterflies one.
Nel Burke
Divine Dentistry
Size:30x42cm
Price:£250
A collage made from two elements – a black and white book page image of an old painting, combined with a colour illustration of the most up to the minute dental surgery equipment taken from a 1950s/60s weekly magazine for children called ‘Understanding Science’. I made this in 2021. It’s not part of a series but I was working on collages which connect two separate images. It’s inspired by my own dental experiences as a child. I dreaded the overhead drill which made a horrible grinding.
Rawdon Sherwood
Tube Scribble Northern Line
Size:29.7x42cm(A3)
Price:£40
Jonathan Chan
Betty With Sunflowers
Size:53x63cm
Price:NFS
Betty is a friend, who has the gentlest and kindest demeanour. Slightly shy during the sitting, she looked down and played with her fingers as we chatted.
Her yellow dress is matched by at the sunflowers I bought to reflect her sunny disposition.
Lukas Nosek
Poison Green
Size:53x43cm
Price:£120
Claudio during Saturday’s life drawing session at Art of Isolation. I used Molotow acrylic liners on A3 paper. I like that it is a very uncompromising way of drawing, each line stays on the paper and has an impact on the final piece. I like lifedrawing because it teaches me how to approach the naked human body without being sexualised by global culture. It is an opportunity to meet the other person in a clear and calm but also intimate environment.
Mary Gordon-Smith
Sirens
Size:30x40cm
Price:£50
| Growing up on the Isle of Sheppey in the 1960s and 70s I was fascinated by the glamour of Vogue magazines, and learned much of my drawing skill from copying and dressing figures I found there. The obsession by some for designer handbags however has passed me by. What’s in them? This is a pastiche of a Louise Vuitton advert with the Sirens beckoning. Still fascinating after 50 years. Print taken from original watercolour. |
Vera Jajechnyk
Kibo - From the Highest Mountain of Hope
Size:A4
Price:NFS
Inspired by the Japanese print exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery – Yoshida.
Fanni Csepeli
Disjointed Union
Size:30x10cm
Price:£399
Mixed media on canvas. The piece explores the idea that certain aspects of life only reveal their full meaning when viewed as a whole. Just as the individual pieces of this artwork come together to form a unified composition, life’s experiences—though seemingly disjointed in the moment—ultimately make sense when seen from a broader perspective. This piece reminds us that every experience happens for a reason, and only with time and reflection do we understand the connections that shape our journey.
Sayed Hashumi
Far From the City
Size:45x63cm
Price:£250
Art helps me share my experiences, the feelings that I can’t put into words. People tell me that the landscapes in my art are often dark. I have so many memories of being in the dark, not knowing if I would survive the journey. I was 16 when I left Afghanistan. It was an unforgettable experience. I still get pain in my feet from walking and crossing borders, especially in the winter. All the places that I have seen still appear in my dreams and nightmares.
Ned Handzic
Margaret at Southbank
Size:A4
Price:NFS
An intrigued passerby, Margaret asked if she could join a regular Sunday portrait session in the public area of the Royal Festival Hall.
I was aware she might be recovering from an injury, adding to the feeling of a delicate and stoic pose. Was the sitter winning her battles I wondered.
The natural light on the east side of the RFH made the eyes quite bright. Having recently looked into head anatomy I was emphasising any hint of underlying bone structures or sharp features.
Graphite on paper.
Colin Andress
The Cunning Artificer (Portrait of Bernard Pearson, Sculptor & Raconteur)
Size:35x30cm
Price:£150
Alongside my work in drawing, painting and my favourite medium pastels, I am drawn to printmaking, enjoying the engaging connection between scientific and artistic processes. This piece was made as a project for a course on etching at The Art Academy in London taught by Frederic Morris RE.
It depicts my dear friend Bernard, artist and card-carrying old rogue, dubbed ‘The Cunning Artificer’ by the late Sir Terry Pratchett, and was based on a photograph by Steeljam. Bernard was very proud of his new hat.
Zinc plate etching and aquatint printed on Fabriano paper. Artist’s proof, signed and dated. Image size 20 x 15 cm.
James FitzGerald
Fiddler's Elbow, Camden
Size:38x38cm
Price:£120
The Fiddler’s Elbow in Camden is one of London’s top indie music venues – a vital but endangered part of the city’s culture that connects people. In 2024, journalist and painter James FitzGerald (@james.edward.fitzgerald) celebrated some of these vibrant hangouts with a series of mixed-media compositions that combine oil and acrylic paint, ink and collage.
Brooke Murphy
Portrait of My Teacher
Size:30x30cm
Price:NFS
Oil-on-wood portrait of my teacher, this was one of my first portraits led by the artist Rod Kitson, I am very proud of the piece.
Roger Whitenan
Allessio
Size:50x70cm
Price:£150
Mixed media portrait using charcoal and condensed inks
Adam Cornish
Untimely Melody
Size:40x40cm
Price:£165
Construction in hessian, acrylic and wood on canvas.
P.E.
Facing the enemy
Size:33x45cm
Price:£105
I love animals and nature. In my family, we have a strong female tradition of helping others and healing powers. I spent my youth in the mountains and in the jungle. I miss the landscape of my country, which often appears in dreams and my art.
sean tye
Techno City Lights
Size:51x41cm
Price:£390
The outline of the buildings and light it generates represents the connections of people living inside.
Hüseyin Aslan
Selfie
Size:33x45cm
Price:£95
I was born in Turkey. I started drawing cartoons at a young age and my cartoons were published in many national and local newspapers and magazines. I try to write poetry along with cartoons, I have two books called Water Heart and Civil Lines. I believe that art and literature are a universal language and that they change and beautify the world.
Phoenix Fry
Düsseldorf
Size:65x50cm
Price:£80
A collage made of painted paper and the inside of an Amazon food delivery bag. I was in Düsseldorf and came across a lake which had such a calm and eerie atmosphere. The colours were amazing.
Su Bonfanti
Drift
Size:50x21x10cm
Price:NFS
This felt emerged from a rubbing of a seam in a concrete floor made as part of an annual textile workshop. I have worked with this tutor for more than 20 years and her mentorship and encouragement were instrumental in me deciding to do an MA at art school, which opened a whole new chapter of my life.
She has decided to retire from teaching and I have just returned from her last ever workshop. This piece reminds me of all the learning, the support, the conversations and the friendships that have emerged from working over an extended time in a group with other artists.
In terms of the making, it was an experiment mark making with fibre and with basic seed stitches, to see how much I could evoke with minimal means.
Shirley Cheung
Guardian of The Marine Forest 1
Size:22x27cm
Price:NFS
Wood engraving print. Festive card 1, 2024.
Loretta Hopewell
Peckham Rye Waterlilies
Size:50x50cm
Price:£320
Daily lockdown walks round Peckham Rye revealed a small murky pond. Over the months and years, it transformed to reveal hidden waterlilies. Not the Monet beauties but still, bursts of colour against the depths of mud. I have tried many times to capture the layers of colour using washes of transparent paint. Then add the pops of flat colour that appear on the pads. Progress for me is when my painting changes in different light. Surface fresh water has fascinated me throughout my life. It’s been a change to express the beauty I see outside the human form. Many watery pictures are evolving in my work space including some with humans…
Philip Bartle
Regents Canal Islington Tunnel
Size:49x39cm
Price:£240
Summer watercolour sketch of the Regents canal at the Islington end of the 960 yard tunnel that connects the canal to near King’s Cross. I like painting watercolour where there’s a nice view and a good spot to sit and enjoy it.
Yvonne Liggett
Conversation and Consolation
Size:73x97cm
Price:NFS
Part of My Grief series this painting looks at how connections with friends help us navigate difficult times and difficult memories. The animals represent the different personalities off people. Oil paint on canvas.
Leticia Garcia
Maria
Size:10x10in
Price:NFS
PEOPLE is one of my biggest inspirations in art making.
I try to catch their emotions, their stories, their character and transfer them on paper, board, canvas or clay. I believe that every face tells a story, and we can read it like a book. I create works that celebrate the idea of psychological and emotional connection and being human.
1 Title: MARIA – (10×10 inch) graphite pencil on tan toned paper / Not for sale
I draw my beautiful niece Maria while on the plane coming back to London last Christmas. True connections are never affected by distance, but I still felt compelled to create this memento that captured that curious brightness in her eyes, her beauty, and goddess presence. She might love me even more now.
Philip Hewson
The Bronze Prince (Diptyque)
Size:43x30cm
Price:£240
This work represents two views of a Hellenistic bronze in the Museo Massimo in Rome. Since prehistory mankind has represented ideas of self and the world through the timeless medium of the human form. The two views of the hyper-masculine, exaggerated form “Hellenistic Prince” create a dialogue between the historical aspects of masculinity and male representation; strength, nobility and power and a modern reading of voyeuristic desire.
Sarah Betts
Ursula
Size:61x51cm
Price:£225
This painting of Ursula was made from life over the course of a few weekends. It is part of a recent development in my practice of longer paintings focusing on working collaboratively with the model to create a composition which reflects a shared artistic vision. It aims to speak through body language as much as through the formal attributes of colour, line and tone and to capture something of the character of each model. I am particularly interested in combining a disarmingly “traditional” approach to representation with stark geometric compositions, and undeniably contemporary models. Inserting, almost by stealth, the real and everyday, the quirky or surprising into the established genre of nude figure painting.
My sessions with Ursula were characterised by countless entertaining anecdotes, to musings on modelling and body language, and endless laughter. We also discovered a shared dislike of the portrayal of women Henry James novels.
Ally Mwaugali
Sea are important to our life
Size:40x30cm
Price:£85
I was born in Tanzania and didn’t know I could do art. I thought I wasn’t good
enough to do art, but I was wrong because everyone can do anything, but only if
you put in effort and are ready to learn from mistakes. I like to do landscape art
because nature is important to our lives, and we depend on each other. I believe art
can be used as therapy and to calm ourselves down.
Tina Crawford
6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon
Size:89x93cm
Price:
Philip Hewson
A Study of Alex (model in the studio)
Size:43x30cm
Price:£80
The practice of the artist working with life models can be complex and wonderful. Sometimes the artist has a detailed image of the finished work for the model to embody; at other times working with the model as they move in the studio creates new ideas and possibilities. This painting captures a moment between formal poses, the model resting and gathering their thoughts but comfortable in the creative environment created between them and the artist; the connection captured in a rapid sketch.
Aisha Palumbo
Fusion of Brazilian Living
Size:40x50cm
Price:NFS
acrylic and pencil on paper. a fusion of a Brazilian heritage with city living.
Roger Whitenan
Felina
Size:40x30cm
Price:£65
Ink wash and charcoal on watercolour paper inspired by the elegant modelling of Felinaonyx
Lewis Hier Thomas
Shadows Tell Our Stories
Size:42x52cm
Price:£395
I chose to portray the male body by painting only the shadows cast upon the skin of the model, offering the viewer the opportunity to interpret the elements of the form which are left incomplete… For me, the title “Shadows Tell Our Stories” introduces a personal undercurrent into the piece as it reflects my relationship with mental health and the role our personal ‘shadows’ – to borrow a Jungian term – play within the ways in which we perceive ourselves.
Abigail Weston
Fragility
Size:40x240cm
Price:NFS
Fragility is a reflection on my lived experience of pregnancy loss. Through its creation, ripping and destruction, the work allowed me to connect with my feelings of immense sadness and reflect on the seeming fragility of my lost pregnancy.
Sally Eldars
Nowhere To Run To
Size:30x45cm
Price:NFS
Old small suitcase (my mum’s suitcase from the 1960’s), knitted plastic bags and packaging, video tap, and red rope.
Timothy James Andrews
Shield Of Athena Colour Tests
Size:A4
Price:£55-£75
Award winning Artist commonly known as Tim takes his inspiration from architectural English as well as Italian baroque styling being heavily influenced by Donatella & Gianni Versace. The work displayed is influenced by the early work of Damien Hurst showing control and power over colour as well as form. Colour test pieces in acrylics were prepared in various base colours on canvas board or stretched canvases with the central design for the Shield of Athena project sprayed with Montana Gold acrylics.
Michael Thebridge
Grow Towards The Light
Size:40x50cm
Price:£350
Mixed media on Paper. This piece is about personal growth, connecting to the journey you are on and embracing change. The figure is made up of a collection of styles and fragments, each medium is like a different language describing another facet of our lives and journies.
Mike Thebridge
The Overthinker ii
Size:30x40cm
Price:£600
Inspired by Rodin’s classic, ‘The Thinker’ this piece looks at a problem of the modern age. I often feel paralyzed by thought and overthinking, which frequently stops me from feeling connected to the present moment and other people, taking me away. So this piece is a reminder to be mindful of our thoughts. let them go and reconnect with our present.
Lim Orion
Vulnerability
Size:8x12cm
Price:£20
I feel like some part of me is always moving, and so when I sat for a portrait with Rod, it felt good to fidget on paper! Just a tiny boogie with a pencil on the page in the rhythm of our chat – I love how a great conversation can feel like music! Patterns, momentum, inspiration, resonance, tension, surprise! And the contrasting quiet spaces of listening that give the marks meaning.
We talked about art that comes from a dreaming, subconscious, unplanned place – it feels freer, almost only possible by releasing something – more thrilling but more exposed!
It’s just a small doodle – but it’s a soft-bellied connection to a unique moment, and a deep connection between people – both can only be found when you open up!
Cristian Sammut
Cave painting
Size:60×40cm
Price:NFS
This artwork represents an instictive way of painting using an automatic process of simultanious representation and abstraction as if it was a primordial cave painting. Though depicting an air b n b encounter and using everyday coffee.
Acrylic and coffee on canvas.