Connect 24 // Catalogue

To purchase artwork or enquire, email: connect24exhibition@gmail.com

More Info

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

Joe Thomas

Change at Canada Water

Size:35x30cm

Price:£95

Original drawing was created on the Windrush Line capturing the change and movement as people board, change, connect, or just stand directly in front of the artist wearing a backpack.
One of two original pieces of passengers on the Windrush Line drawn on my daily commutes in and out of town.

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.

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.

Frank Gambino

Juno (2024)

Size:15cm x 21cm

Price:NFS

Colour pencil figure drawing

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.

Roger Whitenan

Valentina II

Size:30 x 40cm

Price:£65

1 of 2 mounted prints of life model Valentina_olivieri

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.

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.

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…

Kong Pei Yen

Through Snow and Stars

Size:A5

Price:£30

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.

Helen Kelly

Wolf Looking for Food

Size:A5

Price:£10

Pencil drawing. I was drawn to the eyes concentrating on looking for food.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Fionnuala Gibson

Elements

Size:12x19cm

Price:£175

Acrylic on paper.

Tina Crawford

6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon

Size:89x93cm

Price:

Drawing on the pop culture trope that every person is connected to the actor Kevin Bacon in 6 moves – 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon.

Kevin Bacon is at the centre of the universe…. Let’s hear it for the boy!

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.

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.

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(two)

Size:21x15cm

Price:£10

Second of two pieces, see previous piece, butterflies one.

Rod Kitson

Hugh

Size:30x30cm

Price:£400

Connecting on a deeper level this year, understanding that by sharing our experiences we help one another.

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.

sean tye

Dancing Roots

Size:51x42cm

Price:£3,650

The roots are connected together by the vibrations the vibrations they emit

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.’

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

Roger Whitenan

Allessio

Size:50x70cm

Price:£150

Mixed media portrait using charcoal and condensed inks

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.

Alex

The Moon

Size:33x45cm

Price:£100

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.

Lukas Nosek

She turned away from me

Size:33x45cm

Price:£150

Sharde Rose Angel during Adrian’s Thursday life drawing session. I used Molotow and Posca 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.

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.

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.

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.

Katie Page

Orange Spiky Hoody

Size:60x50x30cm

Price:NFS

Shirley Cheung

Guardian of The Marine Forest 2

Size:27x22cm

Price:NFS

Wood engraving print. Festive card 2, 2024.

Sarah Betts

Ursula

Size:61x51cm

Price:£220

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.

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.

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…

Frank Gambino

Juno (2023)

Size:30cm x 42cm

Price:£500

Chalk pastel figure drawing

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Peter Kelly

Torso

Size:50x70cm

Price:£170

Semi abstract male form – digital painting from life. Digital print. A2.

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.

Shayley Staunton Aderigbe

Self Portrait

Size:50x80cm

Price:NFS

charcoal and chalk on paper

Kong Pei Yen

Warm and Toasty

Size:A6

Price:£15

Glitter print

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!

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.

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.

Precious Sodipo

Light and Shadow

Size:50x50cm

Price:NFS

a multi layered piece exploring the theme light and shadow, she bacame interested by he subtle ight and shade caused by clouds and their movement in the sky.

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.

Jonathan Chan

Anastasia

Size:35x35cm

Price:£200

A portrait of Anastasia painted on a bathroom tile, featuring her trademark sticking-out-pinkie.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kong Pei Yen

Even If We Are Worlds Apart

Size:A6

Price:£15

Glitter print

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.

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.

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’.

Michael Riddle

Clear Vision

Size:24x30cm

Price:£400

The subject of the painting, my friend Rod Kitson, and I originally connected at a time when we were concentrating on portraiture. Over time we found that we also shared a passion for painting through using imagination & life experiences, work we hadn’t really shared but which we both often found more fulfilling. Following a particularly inspiring & open conversation, about why we found this so important, our shared enthusiasm & experiences made the way forward appear clearer.

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.

Cat Coulter

Aerial Swifts (part one)

Size:33x45cm

Price:£250

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.

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.

Fanni Csepeli

'Disjointed union'

Size:10x30cm

Price:£399

‘Disjointed union’
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.

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.

Dimena Djamba

Self portrait

Size:60x90cm

Price:NFS

self portrait, including cultural patterns linked to her ow identity.

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.

Hüseyin Aslan

Selfie

Size:33x45cm

Price:£95

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kong Pei Yen

Autumn Island Adventures

Size:A6

Price:£15

Glitter print

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Carl Butterworth

Morgan

Size:29x43cm

Price:NFS

A pencil drawing of London life model Morgan.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Katie Page

Yellow Spiky Raincoat

Size:100x40x30cm

Price:NFS

Georgi Dinkov

Personal Investigation of Human Form

Size:25x15x50cm

Price:NFS

wire, modroc, paper mache and spray paint. part of a personal investigation exploring sculpture of the human form.

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.

Alice Fordyce

Octopus on Chair

Size:40x48x90cm

Price:£250

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.

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.

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.

Sapphire Morrison

Love and Kisses

Size:70x60x10cm

Price:NFS

textiles. Love and Kisses – an exploration of the feeling of being in love.

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).

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.

Roger Whitenan

Valentina I

Size:30 x 40cm

Price:£65

1 of 2 Mounted prints of life model Valentina_Olivieri

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.

Hakob Muradyan

Viviane

Size:45x51cm

Price:NFS

Oil on canvas, painted from four sessions sitting from life with Viviane.

Colin Andress

Light Me Up

Size:35x30cm

Price:£150

This final piece was my most recent project at The Art Academy under the guidance of Frederic Morris RE. It’s based on a beautiful self-portrait reference photograph by artist and model Stephanie Fox Lawrence (@stephanie_herself), exemplifying how social media such as Instagram enable connections and collaborations between artists and models around the world.

The piece had a difficult genesis, with some processes not turning out as planned, and I had to adapt and negotiate with the image as the project developed. The end result has something of the look of a charcoal drawing in a print, which I find rather pleasing.

“Printmaking is fun because it takes a perfectly simple process like drawing and makes it as complicated and error-prone as possible.” – George Bodmer

Zinc plate etching, aquatint (modified with burnisher and roulette) and drypoint printed on Fabriano paper. Artist’s proof, signed and dated. Image size 23 x 16 cm.

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.

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.

Joseph Thomas

Surrey Quays

Size:35x30cm

Price:£95

Original drawing capturing the changing faces and poses of commuters on the Windrush Line.
Drawn live, these sketches are part of the artist’s daily practice, capturing moments with which many of connect but very few celebrate.

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.

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.

Leticia Garcia

Andrew

Size:A4

Price:£150

2 Title: BRIBING ANDREW – (A4) Charcoal pencil on tan toned paper / £150
I drew Andrew in one of the first sessions at Southbank Portraits. New to the collective, I got hooked on the energy of this talented group of artists. And inspired – and envious, I must confess : ) – by Andrew’s speed in oil painting. I wonder if one day he would teach me

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dimena Djamba

A Walk in the Park

Size:33x45cm

Price:NFS

acrylic on paper

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sophia Quazi

A dreamy colour scheme

Size:A3

Price:£150

This is a recent life drawing from regularly attending life drawing sessions at Isolation Arts since 2021. I have been consistently attending once every other week. As a result, I’ve got to know the regulars and become more confident about my work. I am no longer fussed about the outcome but more about the process and the journey. My style has really grown and developed as I’ve seen other people’s work in the session and have been influenced by either their mediums or style. My style, though me, is also an amalgamation of people I have interacted with in the class. It’s a connection between myself, the model, the class and fellow drawers.

Reyhaneh Ismaili

Spanish Bird

Size:33x45cm

Price:£180

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.

Holly Dyas

Drawing of a Terraced House

Size:35x45cm

Price:£50

A pen and pencil drawing of a terraced building in north London completed en plein air.

The drawing is an exploration of the relationship between art, architecture and urban design. It also represents an individual journey into the word ‘artist’ and the complexities of self-identification.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

Zoe Clark

Varosha

Size:32×44cm

Price:£425

Study of facial expression light and shadow, in charcoal.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Tamara Krawiec

self portrait

Size:20x30cm

Price:NFS

Oil on canvas.

Don Greenwood

Made in Taiwan

Size:10x8in

Price:£150

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.

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.

Rawdon Sherwood

Tube Scribble Northern Line

Size:29.7x42cm(A3)

Price:£40

I sketch people who sit opposite me on the Bus, Train or tube, not left or right, I cannot choose. The scribble lasts as long as the sitting, one stop or several until they or I get off, sometimes I may just sketch the hair, face shape, glasses or beard and no more. I’m not allowed to enhance the image after the “sitting” has ended. Scribbles usually take 4 – 6 minutes (2-3 stops on the tube). The scribbles are done on my phone using my finger as a stylus, people usually think I’m playing a game on my phone.

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.

Daniele Urania

Portrait of Actress Anne Hathaway

Size:29.7x41.3cm

Price:£99

Tribute to actress Anne Hathaway.

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.

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.

Jamie Zubairi

Manny

Size:50cm x 35cm

Price:£230

Charcoal drawing of friend and collaborator Manny, with whom many connections have been made.

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.

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.

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

Moon

The Key

Size:20x20cm

Price:£96

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.

James Christie

Lucid Cycle

Size:54x43cm

Price:£145

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.

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.

Fionnuala Gibson

Artefacts I

Size:18 x 27cm

Price:£175

Acrylic & pen on paper.

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 Artist

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.

sean tye

Rainbow Tree

Size:51x41cm

Price:NFS

The blossoms represent the connectivity of life

Ally Mwaugali

Green Planet

Size:42x30cm

Price:£65

James O’Hara

Shoka 2

Size:40x40cm

Price:£100

Digital drawing of life model Shoka.

Vera Jajechnyk

Kibo - From the Highest Mountain of Hope

Size:A4

Price:NFS

Inspired by the Japanese print exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery – Yoshida.

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.

angelika

The Man Who Sold The World

Size:33x24cm

Price:£50

My Shadow: a megalomaniac coward

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

Sayed Hashumi

Far From the City

Size:45x63cm

Price:£250

Beoley Woods

Size:38x45cm

Price:NFS

This is a mixed media piece based on an area in my hometown. I took several photographs and began working, trying to capture more of how my memory of the place felt rather than a like-for-like representation of what was in those photos.

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.

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.

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.

Jamie Zubairi

Matt

Size:35cm x 45cm

Price:£300

Charcoal drawing of West End actor Matthew Gent by Jamie Zubairi

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.

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.

Kusam Bedi

Fish Walking

Size:30cm x 30cm

Price:£165

Collage using found paper on acrylic painted background.

Francoise Drown

Trees 2

Size:A4

Price:NFS

I painted trees at the Rainbow Arts class I attend in Surrey Quays every Thursday.

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.

Wil Jones

Dave Bautista x Jigglypuff

Size:35x45cm

Price:£99

Ballpoint pen and markers on paper, A3.

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.

Kong Pei Yen

Tranquility

Size:A5

Price:£30

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.

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.

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!”

Katie Page

Green, White, and Silver Spiky Raincoat

Size:80x40x30cm

Price:NFS

Federica Magistrali

Chand's portrait

Size:45x65cm

Price:£100

Portrait made with colorful markers on A3 paper.

This is a portrait of my friend who is a puppeteer. He is very playful and always smiles.

While he posed for this drawing, I was trying as much as possible to connect to his personality.

I believe in the power of colour and have used it symbolically in this image to capture and celebrate my friend’s joyful side.

My wish for everyone is not to lose that colourful side even in our darkest moments.

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.

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…

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.

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

Roger Whitenan

Felina

Size:40x30cm

Price:£65

Ink wash and charcoal on watercolour paper inspired by the elegant modelling of Felinaonyx

Francoise Drown

Trees

Size:A4

Price:NFS

I painted trees at the Rainbow Arts class I attend in Surrey Quays every Thursday.

Anon

Personal Identity

Size:50x40cm

Price:NFS

graphic design an exploration of personal identity and relecting those closest to him.

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.

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.

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.

Angela Bulatovic

'Las' Frias

Size:21x30cm

Price:NFS

This piece differs to what I usually create, I have an innate curiosity for meeting and understanding people and so, naturally, others tend to be the subject of my work. This is one of three landscapes that I painted following a road trip around the north of Spain. Rather than focusing on a human subject, the piece encapsulates my own journey. Learning a new language unlocked the doors to meeting a whole array of people which would otherwise be hidden behind a language barrier. This small Spanish village (Frías) is like most others in the region, the beauty is in its simplicity- with little more than a church, school and bakery. The sum of these small villages amounts to a country with a rich culture, which I’ve had the privilege of discovering through language and connecting with locals. Learning Spanish came with it’s ups and downs, which I hope is reflected in the title of the piece.

Zeinab Saa

Disconnection

Size:17.8x14cm

Price:£120

Isolation breads disconnection, 2023.

A.T.

Untitled

Size:33x45cm

Price:£200

I have grown a lot in myself through painting. At New Art Studio, I can make any picture and I am using painting to explore and connect my inner world with myself here and now.

Currently, painting makes me feel light. Painting is one of the most helpful things for my mental wellbeing. Sometimes I like working with both hands to feel the texture of the materials, which I find very relaxing. Painting gives me different feelings and emotions that are hard to express in words. A sense of happiness, achievement, and a confidence boost are some of the feelings that l get whenever l delve into the creative process of painting. New Art Studio gives me the opportunity to identify my own feelings.

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.

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.

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.

Derek Mason

Maria

Size:32x44cm

Price:NFS

I began regular life drawing about three years ago as a way of properly reconnecting with making visual art after a break of many years. Last year I decided to try portraiture, as a way pushing personal boundaries and to overcome a fear of ‘getting it wrong’ because the face often seems to be the most fundamental representation of a person.

This portrait of Maria was completed in an evening session and felt like a breakthrough work. The process was helped by the model having such a strong and deeply characterful look.

After a long career as a counsellor and therapist, drawing feels like another way of responding to a person. I find working with a model can be a mediative and immersive process, offering the challenge to evoke our need to connect, our separateness, our strength and fragility.

Ellie Odurny

One More Sunrise

Size:30x40cm

Price:£200

The most important connections in life for me are with people and nature. This painting depicts the sunrise after the last night at a small festival I went to earlier this summer. The last few people were still winding down in the woods, everyone else was asleep in their tents. I paused for a moment to take in the peace and beauty of this last sunrise before we all made our way back to the real world.

Liz Parr

Ed

Size:300H x 150 x 120

Price:£2,700

Sculptural head. Originally modelled in clay. Foundry-cast in bronze and mounted on stone.
The expression is pensive, introspective: perhaps the suggestion is one of internal connection.
This isn’t actually a portait of a specific person.
I used to work from life but nowadays I ofen just invent heads as I work.

Jessica Sheehan

Lucia with bottle

Size:40x50cm

Price:£700

2023. Oil on stretched canvas. 40 x 50 cm (framed)

Part of my “Pop Plastics” series.

“Buying water can be an overwhelming exercise. Presented to us in dizzying amounts of mass-produced packaging, companies try to diversify the humble H2O via all manner of strategies. One I have seen more commonly in recent years, in both the single-use and reusable markets, is the water bottle as a status symbol. In my piece, I present the water bottle in a traditional atelier-style painting. This indicates its luxury status; however, its pop art style reminds us that ultimately, this is a common item.”

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 …

Mehmet Arslan

Who is the real tightrope walker?

Size:33x45cm

Price:£200

Annabelle Volpi

Sunny leaves

Size:60x60cm

Price:£550

This autumn I have been fascinated by birch trees and the beautiful warm colours of the leaves. Each morning I woke up and saw them outside of my window, and I felt very grateful for their beauty. It brightened my day and I felt connected to abundance of beauty and nature around me.

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.

Annabel Stockman

Hand Made 2

Size:30x30x50cm

Price:NFS

Hand made from pre-existing, accumulated family stuff.

My parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles used the keys for a safe, an AA box on the motorway, a front door, a car, a kitchen window, an old jewellery box, a big silver till, a bureau.

The sundial reminds me that the earth turns, and I forget. Night and Day, the Sun, the Moon, weeks, months, seasons. They turn; I forget.

Family keys and restrung glass drops throw light on the sundial made in my aunt’s discarded Victorian sewing box, using bone fish counters from Georgian parlour games, a bone eidelweiss, a compass which came free with petrol, an un-used paintbrush and Chinese gold papers for burning for the ancestors.

A small spider now works everyday, day after day, building her web in the warmth above the source of the light.

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.

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.

Mike Thebridge

The Overthinker

Size:30x40cm

Price:£600

Inspired by Rodins classic, ‘The Thinker’ this piece looks at a problem of the modern age. Often I feel paralyzed by thought and overthinking often holds me back 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.

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.

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.

Annabelle volpi

The Treasures of Your Soul

Size:34x46cm

Price:£225

This painting is an invitation to connect to the deepest parts of yourself where your inner gifts are buried so that you can share them with the world.

In the depth of the ocean where your soul lives you will find a treasure if you are brave enough to look. It is a mystical and magical place which can be reached once you have navigated the levels of consciousness on your spiritual journey.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ellie Letchford

Finding Beauty in the Most Ordinary Things 05

Size:30x50cm

Price:£120

Fionnuala Gibson

Artefacts II

Size:19x28cm

Price:£175

Acrylic & pen on paper.

Kusam Bedi

Shadow of Time

Size:20x18cm

Price:£300

Collage using found paper and vintage photograph in box frame.

Aisha Palumbo

Fusion of Brazilian Living

Size:40x50cm

Price:NFS

acrylic and pencil on paper. a fusion of a Brazilian heritage with city living.

Diana Sandetskaya

Wildfires (IV)

Size:28x23cm

Price:£500

Reyhaneh Ismaili

Woman, Life, Freedom

Size:33x45cm

Price:£200

Sylvietta

What’s Going On?

Size:42x32cm

Price:£150

Shayley Staunton Aderigbe

Family and Connection

Size:50x60cm

Price:NFS

pencil and mixed media on paper

Chris Wilcox

0001CAD-Y-O

Size:29x24x15cm

Price:£250

To some the mask has come to imply deceit; ‘hiding the truth’; concealing your identity. However, masks are also a vicar/conduit. In wearing a mask, the person connects with and then embodies the spirit/being the mask represents.

0001CAD-Y-O is the first of a series of masks I am creating from paper/card waste.

Francesca Huszagh

Bella

Size:10x8in + song

Price:NFS

Me and my dog Bella in the photograph and a song I made which has her barks in it so we’re singing together. If put in the real life show I would have the photograph printed and a QR code to play the song 🙂

Yvonne Liggett

Trancending Time

Size:114x86cm

Price:£150

This work is part of a series that look at connections with life, how we interact with our memories, thoughts and physical space. In the work the merging of reflection shadows and the physical space seem to suggest past, present and future.

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.