Blair Sharpe

Our latest Artist You Need To Know is someone who passed two years ago, but their legacy as an artist and teacher is still very vital. Blair Sharpe (1954 – 2019) stated this his “principal concern as an artist is in painting, which I continue to find a...

Suzy O’Mullane

Our latest artist you need to know is a painter who has a very distinctive and recognizable style, but often incorporates references to numerous past artists (Paula Rego and Käthe Kollwitz, among others) who also employ the figure, and narrative scenes, with a...

Ruth Thorne-Thomsen

With the proliferation of new digital techniques in lens based media, one of the interesting responses to this is not just a full embrace of the new mediums, but also a renewed interest in historical and ‘traditional’ methods of photography. Our latest Artist You Need...

Gordon Rayner

Our next Artist You Need To Know is someone who “was criticized by some for being always unpredictable [but] he had many ideas and too much curiosity to rest in one place.” (from here) Gordon Rayner’s practice was varied and vigorous, as seen in his many series that...

Claude Breeze aka cHebert

Our latest Artist You Need To Know may be known to you already, alternately as Claude Breeze but also as cHebert (a name he’s employed since 1998). He is primarily known as a figurative painter, creating images and scenes that have qualities that are both evocative...