K. M. Graham

The next Artist You Need To Know is K. M. Graham (1913–2008). K. M. (Kathleen Margaret) Graham was a Canadian artist who worked primarily in abstraction who began to paint at the age of 50: her colourful patterned works – executed primarily in paint – were...

Kurt Schwitters

The next Artist You Need To Know is Kurt Schwitters (1887 – 1948). Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters was a German artist but he spent the latter part of his life in exile from his country due to the rise of fascism in Germany. The latter labelled him as a...

Edward Burra

The next Artist You Need To Know is Edward Burra (1905 – 1976). Burra was an English painter (often in watercolour), draughtsman, set and costume designer, and printmaker. Some of his best known works are his depictions of the urban ‘underworld’ of the...

Bridget Riley

The next Artist You Need To Know is Bridget Riley. Riley is an English painter known for her Op Art paintings that are immediately recognizable and that both enthrall and discombobulate the viewer. A groundbreaking artist in post WW II Britain, Riley’s bold...

Scott Sawtell

The next Artist You Need To Know is Scott Sawtell. Sawtell is a Canadian artist, teacher and curator who currently lives and makes his work in Newmarket, Ontario. For more than two decades Sawtell has been a prolific artist, whose work often straddles abstraction and...