11th August 2024 | Featured Artist
Please can you tell us about your artistic practice? I use mostly oil paint, graphite and sometimes gouache if oils are impractical. I know that I love painting, how it makes me look at things differently, but I don’t yet feel that certain of my practice, and I don’t... 
17th February 2023 | Art & Artists
Born in 1958, Julian Le Bas is a Sussex-based artist whose limpid paintings and robust charcoal drawings re-awaken a sense of our own physical embodiment, and emotional involvement, in the natural world. Le Bas’ paintings and drawings are moving visible equivalents... 
6th July 2022 | Art & Artists
Please can you tell us about your artistic practice? My practice is completely experimental. The studio is set up to respond to anything I want to paint, large or small. The only constant is drawing, which is how all my ideas are generated. The experimental method... 15th February 2019 | Featured Artist, Art & Artists
We interview Frances Mann ahead of a solo show ‘Late Paintings’ An exhibition of rarely seen late works by British painter, Sargy Mann. Curated by Chantal Joffe RA, a former pupil of Mann, the exhibition charts his journey towards his remarkable late... 19th June 2018 | Art & Artists, Featured Artist
Can you tell us about your artistic practice? I paint, mostly in oil, and draw in graphite and ink. Recently I did some paintings in acrylic gouache. The search for an essential form is a thread that runs through all of my work. I look for a schema that is revealed... 
20th September 2017 | Art & Artists, Featured Artist
Can you tell us about your artistic practice? I am a painter usually using oil on canvas, sometimes watercolour. What art education have you had? I went to the Slade School of Fine Art at the age of 18 to undertake a BA Honours which was a four year course. I then... 14th May 2017 | Art & Artists, Featured Artist
Where did you grow up and does this affect your work? When I was young my family lived in various places in Surrey. As children we were able to roam around the countryside. I only realised recently that I’d spent a lot of my childhood on the north Downs and... 
13th April 2017 | Art & Artists, Featured Artist
Please can you tell us about your artistic practice? I’m a contemporary figurative painter, with a strong naturalistic foundation based on working from observation, paired with a filtered sense of expression and abstraction. I’m interested in the acknowledgement of... 16th November 2015 | Featured Artist
Please can you tell us about your artistic practice? My work is largely figurative. It has a narrative quality. My early career was in illustration which I greatly enjoyed. I am a story teller at heart. In my painting I try to convey a sense or essence of my subjects,... 
7th February 2016 | Art & Artists, Featured Artist
Please can you tell us about your artistic practice? I paint and draw from the figure and landscape and always from direct observation of the subject. My concern is to surprise myself, discover underlying structure, stretch my knowledge of visual language and try to... 16th November 2016 | Art & Artists, Featured Artist
Can you describe your studio practice? Leon Kossoff when asked to describe the paintings of Frank Auerbach talked about drawing as that thing which always engaged and drove Frank’s work. He then said something which remains strong in my mind everyday when I... 6th October 2016 | Art & Artists, Featured Artist
Where are you from and how does this affect your work? I grew up in New York City, and that has had a profound impact upon my work. I had access to outstanding museums and I was exposed to a lot of visual art, both traditional and experimental, and that left a lasting... 27th July 2016 | Art & Artists, Featured Artist
‘It’s a big NOISY world, so I make small, quiet paintings’ Where are you from and how does this affect your work? I was born and raised in a small Canadian praire town, Kamsack, Saskatchewan. I spent the first 6 years of my life on a farm and enjoyed the... 14th September 2015 | Featured Artist
Please can you tell us about your artistic practice? I paint directly from life, and sometimes go to great lengths to set up my scene with my models outdoors. Although I have a studio, lately I’ve become more of a nomadic painter, keeping almost everything that... 14th September 2016 | Art & Artists, Featured Artist
Please can you tell us about your artistic practice? I am a figurative painter and I predominantly work from life. My practice revolves around plein air landscape painting, painting directly from the figure in the life room and working from my studio which is based in... 17th July 2015 | Featured Artist
Please can you tell us about your artistic practice? As a painter I relate to nature and my surroundings, be it a familiar or unfamiliar landscape. Drawing is the key and the starting point for my practice. I begin from an image, a drawing or something taken from... 2nd June 2015 | Featured Artist
Where were you born/brought up and how has this affected your painting? I was born in Havana, Cuba in 1957. I lived in the island till I turned thirteen as a matter of fact; my birthday was during the travelling process. I left there part of my dearest family... 4th May 2015 | Featured Artist
We launch our featured artist series by talking to Australian born, Brooklyn residing artist Fran O’Neill, to find out about her practise, why she moved to NYC, and who her influences are. Please can you tell us about your artistic practise? The ability to...
